Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Vintage Christmas Photos Part VI: Books on Wheels


In 1949, the city of Los Angeles outfitted 4 large vans with 4,000 books each and sent them into housing developments, shopping centers, parks and schools in low income areas. Each van made twenty-eight 1-3 hour stops a week and between the 4 vans, 250,000 books were checked out per year.

These photographs were taken in 1955 by Joe Friezer, showing the vans fully decorated for Christmas.

2 comments:

  1. Ha! These photos are great. Book mobiles rock.

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  2. That's a really fun alternative to decking the halls...that is wonderful! Are there still book moblies, I wonder? Happy Day--Happy Thanksiving :o) ((HUGS))

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