A Night At the Movies

Stamped on the back, "MISSION PHOTO SERVICE, 278 Franklin Street, Phone 3571, Monterey, California."  And it's dated, "9/15/41."

The Monterey of today is a town of millionaires, and probably a few billionaires as well.  It's tourists visiting the aquarium and shopping and high end boutiques.  In 1941 Monterey was a working class fishing town, the Monterey of Steinbeck's Cannery Row.

It's hard to know what this gathering was about.  There's a screen and a 16mm movie projector in the background, so they must have been there to watch a film.  The suit wearers have a banker vibe, while the open collar types could be captains in the fishing fleets.  But why were they all gathered to watch a movie?  I wish I knew.

Women With Medals

Do women's clubs still exist?  I always think of them as relics of the 1950's, a time when upper middle class women with a lot of time on their hands got together and worked for the moral betterment of mankind.  Okay, I know that's kind of stereotype, but the question stands.  That kind of woman,who married well and stayed home are a lot less common these days.