"Nothing's changed (except the clothes)!
"Nothing's changed (except the clothes)! Vintage photos from the Christmas travel rush in 1941 show chaos in an overcrowded bus station long before the days of jumbo jets and high-speed trains. These black-and-white snapshots show passengers racing through the Greyhound Bus Terminal in Washington, DC. They were taken by Office of War Information photographer John Collier just weeks after the Pearl Harbour attack. There are no orderly queues to board buses, but anxious passengers are wearing suits, dresses, hats and fur coats." More incredible photos via Daily Mail at http://goo.gl/20YSvq.
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My mother worked for Greyhound during the war in Cincinnati. She said many people would call and ask, "what time does the bus leave out?" and she'd reply, "what is your destination?" Their response was often simply, "down home."
ReplyDeleteIf you ever worked with the public Mike Martin this line of conversation would sound less charming and folksy typical of a time in history, and more everyday here we go again. It always amazed me, even today on the internet, the way some will show a picture and believe everyone will know what was just read by the poster, and the picture speaks for itself.
ReplyDeleteJust like baby's crying in the night. Some things never change.
Margaret Siemers - I pumped gas on the weekends in San Angelo, TX and sold women's shoes for six weekends in Columbia, MD back in '72. Howzat for working with the public?
ReplyDeleteRe my mother's experience, it was a very common thing for folks who'd become part of the Appalachian diaspora starting in the 1920s to make their way north to Cincinnati, Dayton, Detroit, etc. and grammar like "leave out" and presumptuous answers like "back home" were understood as symptoms of homesickness. Here, Porter Wagoner will explain: https://youtu.be/FRA6XvQgbi8
No CC Mike Martin But I get the point you were making. And I agree that being homesick would do that to a person.
ReplyDeleteI guess I was trying to make a point for today's writers and posters when I commented on your words. (Just got done watching a stink being cleared out in another place over misunderstands and wordless posts.)
That being, people just don't think about what the picture means when they put it out there.