Great photo set of LA from the 1950s from LAist.
http://laist.com/2016/09/01/amateur_photographer_charles_w_cush.php#photo-25
Marked for future reference.
However, just one word set off a ripple of alarms, cowbells, and racing firetruck engines...in my head.
"vanishing"
She used it in this sentence, "The Chicago Business took 14,500 images between 1938 and 1969, capturing a vanishing America. [emphasis mine]
I don't know if that was intentional and/or added by an editor, but I instantly get a sense of someone who is in love with an idyllic image of 1950s America, back when America Was Already Sooo Great, if you catch my drift.
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