El station at Sacramento Blvd at Lake Street. IDOT collection. May 4, 1939
This is in the East Garfield Park neighborhood. It had been a working class, white ethnic community, but white flight occurred in the 1950s and 60s after construction of the I290 extension and public housing projects.
The area looks a little different today.
The Illinois Department of Transportation has a photo collection online. H/T Eric Zorn
Traffic Intersection at Lake Shore Drive and Oak Street, July 12, 1936
Created by the Chicago Park District Traffic Section .
This stretch of roadway is now referred to as the Inner Drive. On the beach side of the Drive, a six-lane highway, the Outer Drive, was subsequently built on fill that extended the beach into what was once the lake.
New York City, 1950's.
Nicoleii Machado, son of the Major and Madame Jose Bina Machado, of the Brazilian Embassy, who will take part in the International Children's Christmas Broadcast which will go over the air from the Shoreham Hotel, D.C. on December 20, 1938. This function is one of the feature broadcasts of the year that comes out of the United States to all the countries of the world. It is arranged by the Greater National Committee in cooperation with the National Broadcasting Company.
Two more below the fold.
Christmas raffle in the streets of Cidra, Puerto Rico. The goat and chicken are the prizes. Photo by Edwin Rosskam.
Christmas dinner in home of Earl Pauley, near Smithfield, Iowa. Dinner consisted of potatoes, cabbage and pie. Photo by Ruseel Lee, Farm Security Administration, 1936.
Photo by Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.
LOC: Rep. Martin Dies, left, Chairman of the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, in a huddle with William C. McCuistion, his Dies star witness, who was recently arrested for New Orleans authorities on a murder charge. Dies has announced that he will personally investigate the charges brought against McCuistion in New Orleans.
Aitkin County, Minnesota. Photo by John Vachon, Farm Security Administration.
Mrs. Howard with can of milk that truck driver is calling for.
Three more photos in this series are below the fold.
Cars lined up in Times Square, New York, for the start of the New York to Paris auto race.
Ralph Coffin jumping his horse over Sylvanus Stokes' Rolls Royce. Photo by Harris and Ewing, 1916.
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