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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

one of the Good subs was called 100YearsAgo, people post HQ scans of old newspapers and photos from today in 1923. it's very fascinating seeing how language changed / didn't change, the attitudes around politics, women, prohibition, the minimum wage, etc

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Whoops, I ment here

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found this one to be particularly interesting. Based Jule Cantwell and Helen Unger was right on with "lots" - it remains quiet popular!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I also like that they list Helen's profession as "home girl ", which has since become a slang term itself, the original use being more or less extinct 😁

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Curious what that profession actually is, is it a wife/"homemaker"? Or a paid profession that I couldn't find on Google? I really tried to find that phrasing but in my defense I'm drunk and also Google sucks nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I would guess she is simply a girl who hasn't left home yet?

Today she would probably be a student, but she isn't studying anything. Maybe she plans to become a housewife rather than train for a career, as that was a viable "career path" in those days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think maybe a kind of servant that work around the house as in when a fancy lady would say "You must be exhausted from all that fox trotting! I'll have the girl run you a bath" 🤷

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a good idea for a lemmy community. Maybe I'll set one up for that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I just set up a reposter bot

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok actually, I just wrote a bot that reposts pictures from the subreddit to a Lemmy community, so you can still have them in your feed :-D

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