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December 1940. Radford, Virginia. "Hercules Powder Plant employee going upstairs. Mrs. Pritchard's boardinghouse. Eighteen men board here." One of the gents last seen here. Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
If this was 1960, would this gent have been auditioning for the lead in Hitchcock's 'Psycho'?
Some years ago, I spent a night in New Orleans at the Kentucky Hotel (or maybe the Hotel Kentucky) in a room illuminated by just such a single bare light bulb. It was the sort of establishment where one sleeps with one eye open.
"Please extinguish all smoking materials until you've showered, and don't dry your asbestos boxers on the windowsills."
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