04 July 2011

Children at play, 1940

Photo credit Helen Levitt, New York, ~1940.  Via (OvO).

6 comments:

  1. I thought winning a round of "king of the mountain" on a pile of dirt was a triumph as a child...I now know I was not worthy of the title.

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  2. Gee, looks like a desperate escape route gone horribly wrong...

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  3. Looks like they are playing to the camera to me.

    However, we did jump off the back porch of the apartment building when I was a kid just for the heck of it and it was almost as high as those kids are in the photo.

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  4. Looks like fun. Too bad if you let your kids do anything as creative, independent or downright fun today, you'd probably be arrested for neglect or abuse. Thank you Nanny State!

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  5. Looks just like what the kids round here get up to. And I'll bet they got told off for it just the same, too.

    Things aren't so different as people might like to think.

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  6. Oh, the horror! Activities that require excersize, build self confidence and pay zero credits to the capitalists? Must be commies - yep, they're way too thin to be from around here. :-)

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