[“Halloween Roller Skating Carnival.” Poster by Martin Weitzman. Federal Art Project, New York, 1936. From the Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, Library of Congress. Click for a larger view.]
I know that M&Ms are reported to be the most sought-after candy this year, but we could find only variety packs, with plain, peanut, and peanut butter varieties. No thank you. We are prepared instead with fifty “fun-size” Milky Ways and Three Musketeers. There’d better be kids showing up.
The WPA Poster Collection resides here.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
A WPA Halloween poster
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I grew up with the sort of roller skates people wore in such non-affluent times. A 1940's knitting magazine around the house showed a boy with such skates and a sail on a stick.
The skates were for hard soled shoes, they used a key to tighten the sides around where the ball of the foot would be. A leather strap buckled around the ankle. The wheels were steel, of course.
Hence the 1970's rock song, "I've got a brand new pair of roller skates, you've got a brand new key..."
Same here. I still remember the weird sensation of using those skates on pebbly sidewalks. No skating in the street in Brooklyn!
Ha! I was poking around the Cavallini website looking at their postcard sets, one of which was national park posters. After going to the WPA poster site, I now know from where the postcards came.
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