re: Pictures from days gone by....

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no idea who she is…

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Carol L. Andrews, shoplifting and suspicion of being a prostitute. The latter offense looks pretty ill-defined.

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Retarded was a clinical term until some jackass decided it was offensive.

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that's mentally challenged

I remember those NFL pencil sets. I had some as a kid.

We had a pencil vending machine at school and I never got the Chargers pencil I wanted

70s office fashion

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Here is a dramatic photographic record of the pride and dignity of the colored family in the Jim Crowe era. These people demonstrated a strength of spirit, personal pride, and dignity no longer available in most of our communities. A demonstration of personal pride was the driving force beneath most of the pictures. This was a time when, although subject to persecution, these people wanted to show the world the that they too could accomplish much and live with pride and dignity. "He documented the everyday life of those communities and took photographs that showed the subjects as dignified and ennobled citizens." LINK

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I see one of the 8 down-voters (as of this reply) on this post said he did so because no examples of the pictures were posted. Fair enough.

Sadly though, most of the others were because of the topic being pictures of “colored” folks and adding a pejorative context to the “nostalgia” they get seeing pictures of Sambos and Dixie branded gas stations, which of course are
overwhelmingly updated. I can imagine it would have only been worse if pictures were posted.

It’s pretty sad, because the pictures themselves, the story of the janitor/delivery man/amateur photographer who took them, and the 17 year old high school student in 1965 who bought the old glass negatives to practice making prints is pretty interesting.

I never did sharpen any of my NFL pencils because I only wanted to write with the Miami Dolphins one and at the same time I didn't want to use it up. So they all stayed pristine and ended up in the back of a drawer forgotten until I assume my mom either used them or threw them away when I left home for college.