Lobby Display for November 1995

Norfolk Virginia in the 1940's

The 1940's -- Representative of our "Decades" files, these 1940's photographs are enjoyed by service personnel who were stationed here during World War II, as well as long-time residents. (Click on the image to see an enlarged version of the photograph.)

[IMAGE: service station with No Gas Until Tomorrow sign]

27 August 1941.
Gas rationing.
[IMAGE: children shovel free Bomb Raid Sand]

3 February 1942.
Hampton Blvd at Westover Avenue
"Bomb Raid Sand" available to the public.
[IMAGE: sailors dance in the street]

1945.
VE Day
Granby Street.
[IMAGE: sign in restaurant window]

14 April 1945.
Acropolis Restaurant closed on the day Franklin D. Roosevelt was buried.
[IMAGE: Johnson at meat counter]

19 September 1946.
C. J. Johnson prays over meat shortage.

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