Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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The pictures are from the Library of Congress collection of work generated by the Farm Service Administration from 1937 to 1942. They are the starting point for each story. The author contemplates them before adding each new comment. They can be enlarged by clicking on them. A link to the sources is shown nearby.
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the gasoline was different in those days. The way they blended it with the Pennsylvania oil at Shorty's was the favorite of a lot of those cockamamie darededvils who shot back and forth across the great plains on the roads of those days. Ike Eisehower saw him roar by one day down in Abilene, and beleive me, that didn't settle in his mind till he'd led a convoy coats-to-coast.
Arkansas was not friendly with Louisiana down there at the border where the sugar cane syndicate tried to keep the railroad from going across the river. Men died in those times, and sopme waited 3o years to get or give their paybacks. Too bad for Jimmy he was in some little juke joint up the bayou just for overnight when Julius Deguer recognized the bartender as Felix Unsken, and as soon as Felix understood, all hell broke loose and the devil himslef was diving for cover, but Jimmy got there first and saved his skin, but they run over his front wheel gettin away.
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