Saturday afternoon street scene in Welch, West Virginia circa 1945. Photo by Russell Lee. Note that “Born for Trouble” was a re-release of “Murder in the Big House” from 1942.
Saturday afternoon street scene in Welch, West Virginia circa 1945. Photo by Russell Lee. Note that “Born for Trouble” was a re-release of “Murder in the Big House” from 1942.
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[Source ](https://catalog.archives.gov/id/541004)from the National Archives.
Wiki on [Murder in_the Big House/Born for Trouble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_in_the_Big_House)
Interesting amount of diversity in the street.
That’s much more of a bustling downtown than I realized small towns ever had.