Fox Valley youth during World War II, looking all mature as get out, but then don't they usually in these old photos? Maybe it's the clothes, maybe it's the world they'd lived through. Heck, it wasn't so many years before that kids of these ages would be denied school as they had to go to work in factories and farms to help make ends meet. Undoubtedly, many fathers and other male relatives of these kids were off serving in the military or at least doing their part in defense industries, and likely their mothers might have been working too. Contrast the maturity etched on their faces with the more carefree existence of kids ten and twenty years later, when America was awash in the post-war boom and childhood and adolescence came in a purer form.
And does anyone know what "Congo Bongo" is?
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