Labor Day Weekend, 1952 (Redux)
by Paula Bosse
Waiting for the fun to start… (photo: Dallas Public Library)
by Paula Bosse
Happy Labor Day! Back in 2020 I wrote a post called “Labor Day Weekend, Union Bus Depot — 1952.” I really enjoyed writing that one, and I loved the main photo in it. It turns out that the photo I’m using in this post was taken only a couple of minutes before the one I used four years ago. I discovered this photo a few weeks ago and have been waiting for Labor Day to roll around. Which it has now done.
On August 31, 1952, Dallas photographer Denny Hayes took several photos of travelers waiting to be whisked away to someplace else. (With luck, someplace cooler.) These photos were taken at the Union Bus Depot in the Interurban Building. Let’s zoom in on this great people-packed photo.
Everyone and everything pales in comparison to the young woman walking toward the camera. In her left hand she holds a box camera. She’s ready to take fun photos, if she ever gets out of that station.
(If the man above looked any more like Harvey Korman, he’d be Harvey Korman.)
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If you have the day off, I hope you enjoy it. And if you’re traveling somewhere, I hope you get there quickly!
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Sources & Notes
Photo by Denny Hayes, from the Hayes Collection, Dallas Public Library, Dallas History and Archives; Call Number: PA76-1/11420-002.
See the companion post, “Labor Day Weekend, Union Bus Depot — 1952,” and see how many people made it into both photos.
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Flashback : Dallas 
Of course, that’s a September 1952 edition of Modern Screen magazine with Ava Gardner on the cover…
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