Lewguitar
Old Know It All
This is an old photo from the 40's.. Actually a shotgun wedding photo if you can believe it. That's my aunt holding the shotgun.
Coal miners before they all packed up and headed north to settle in Detroit...which is where I was born.
We visited the ones who didn't make the move when i was about 10.
Really poor...altho those who moved to Detroit did quite well for themselves eventually.
They weren't stupid. Just very poor.
I remember visiting my Uncle Joe with my dad in the 50's.
Uncle Joe was dying. Black lung.
When we walked up to his little house the thing I remember is a Kellogg Corn Flakes box sewn with wire over a big hole in the screen door.
Coal miners before they all packed up and headed north to settle in Detroit...which is where I was born.
We visited the ones who didn't make the move when i was about 10.
Really poor...altho those who moved to Detroit did quite well for themselves eventually.
They weren't stupid. Just very poor.
I remember visiting my Uncle Joe with my dad in the 50's.
Uncle Joe was dying. Black lung.
When we walked up to his little house the thing I remember is a Kellogg Corn Flakes box sewn with wire over a big hole in the screen door.
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