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Were Americans always smiling? These pictures from before WW2 seem to indicate otherwise. http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-c
by bluishgreen 16y ago
Were Americans always smiling? These pictures from before WW2 seem to indicate otherwise.
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/2363/ http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-ame...
It might be because they were in a depression, but look at picture 13, that situation almost calls for a smile. So the most likely scenario seems to be the smiling is a relatively new cultural thing.
- obiterdictum 16y agoI'll throw in an unsubstantiated hypothesis that this happened with popularization of Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People".
- harshpotatoes 16y agoAs a continuation on the idea that they were in a depression, but also remember that picture 13 is located in Oklahoma and a mere six years earlier they were probably experiencing the dust bowl.