1 (OP): Aliquippa, Pennsylvania 1941


2: Ambridge, Pennsylvania 1941


3: Clinton, Indiana 1940


4: Fort Belvoir, Virginia 1942

Photos from Library of Congress.

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    27 days ago

    Photo taken 10 seconds before that one of the cop smashing up pinball machines with a sledgehammer because they had been banned under anti-gambling laws. Pinball makers would eventually successfully argue that they were a game of skill, rather than chance.

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      26 days ago

      Germany had those laws until so late that video arcades were never a thing here. Now there’re shitty little casinos everywhere and slot machines in bars

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      26 days ago

      I really hope at least one of those authoritarian fucks took a piece of flying debris to the eye.