re: Pictures from days gone by....

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paying with a check.

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writing a check for a brand new car, eat it whippersnappers

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A Stuckey's today is a scary place.

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To wit: US Hwy 49S at I-59 in the Hub City.

Damn Land Mass, you sketchy.

In the 1950s, the communist German Democratic Republic (GDR) – that part of Germany which had been the Soviet Occupation Zone in the post World War Two division of Germany – was threatening to bleed dry, as one in six people fled, usually in search of work under West Germany’s economic miracle (but in some cases fleeing political or religious persecution).
The GDR desperately wanted to halt this so-called ‘brain-drain’, so in August 1961 the East German communists were given the go-ahead by Moscow to close the border and build a physical barrier.

The Berlin Wall turned the usual function of walls – to keep people out – on its head; this wall was solely to keep its citizens in.

The Berlin Wall was not one wall, but two. Measuring 155 kilometres (96 miles) long and four metres (13 feet) tall, these walls were separated by a heavily guarded, mined corridor of land known as the ‘death strip’.

It was under the constant surveillance of armed East German border guards who were authorized to shoot anyone attempting to escape into West Berlin. By 1989, the Wall was lined with 302 watchtowers. More than 100 people died trying to cross the Berlin Wall over the course of its 28-year history.

The Berlin Wall’s smooth surface became beloved of western graffiti artists who fought running battles with border guards’ whitewashings.

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The Berlin Wall turned the usual function of walls – to keep people out – on its head; this wall was solely to keep its citizens in.

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Prison walls are supposed to keep people out?

Hmmmm….

Die Mauer at the Brandenburg Gate:

Dean Jefferies - 1950's

Servicemen had the opportunity to visit Betty Grable on the set of SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES (1942).

Bessie Love