Being sharp in 1941

[mr monty]

 

[benjamin831]

Originally Posted by pandamonium

Man, this guy must have been in the poor house, then.

Why are you so worked up?

It Chicago's south side...the region has been poor since the very beginning.

 

[ZON_JR]

Originally Posted by benjamin831

Why are you so worked up?

It Chicago's south side...the region has been poor since the very beginning.

Are you kidding? First of all, it isn't a region. It's a big part of the city and a collection of neighborhoods. Parts of the South Side--Hyde Park, the South Shore, the Midway, are very desirable areas. It did not start out as slums. A whole bunch of blacks didn't come up from the South and say, let's build us a slum! There was available cheap housing on the South Side and that's where the migrants tended to settle. Chicago's benevolent City Fathers tried to make sure they could never live where it would cost them more money, or where there might be better housing, better schools, etc.

 

[B1FF]

Originally Posted by Ataturk

What's up with the kid in the center's hair?

All of them. Shaved - badly - to give the appearance of a higher forehead?

 

[lasbar]

Originally Posted by pandamonium

Yes, and we can tell they're poorer kids because...?

If you do suggest I have made that comment purely on racial profiling , you couldn't be more wrong .
They look like a group of working class kids wearing their sunday's clothes .
Their colours is irrelevant.

First the geographical location suggests a poor district of the windy city.
Second: 1941: I could be wrong but after the thirties, massive unemployment , the essor or boom of the black middle class was not yet really a social reality, especially in that part of Chicago.
Third: The clothes look like sunday's clothes and are not very fitted ,most likely transfered from one brother to the other .
It was very common for poorer people , like my family did in the Pyrenees, to take pictures on sundays to show off their best clothes.
The way they pose is also far more relaxed than the more austere and conservative pose of the middle class kids on their pictures.

 

[Lovellum]

Originally Posted by EdenResident

Little kid on the left had his shirt collar OUTSIDE OF THE JACKET!!!!! Isn't that like the #1 sin on SF?

They are like children, they know not what they do.

 

[AlanC]

It's on the cover of Nicholas Lemann's book The Promised Land published in the early '90s:

 

[Ahab]

Originally Posted by EdenResident

Little kid on the left had his shirt collar OUTSIDE OF THE JACKET!!!!! Isn't that like the #1 sin on SF?
I am sure he was properly flamed and promptly foofed when he posted this pic on his forum.