[Vision2020] What Year Was This Photo Taken?

[Tom Hansen]

The eBay seller from whom I purchased it says 1940.  But, that may be a guess on his/her part.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown



On May 14, 2012, at 12:20, "Rosemary Huskey" <donaldrose at cpcinternet.com> wrote:

> I am guessing sometime in the  late 1940's (except the cars look older).
> The banner across the northern end of the photo - despite all my monkeying
> around with it is almost impossible to read.  I think the middle word is
> Idaho and the first word appears to have four letters.  It might say Keep
> Idaho Green.  I looked up the beginning of the slogan and found this link:
> http://www.idahofirewise.org/safety-prevention/history-of-keep-idaho-green/
> which suggests that the awareness of fire safety was a state wide campaign
> in many places across the nation in the 1940s.  " Since 1946, Keep Idaho
> Green has led the campaign to reduce fires caused by human carelessness
> through its partnership with the Bureau of Land Management, US Forest
> Service, and the Idaho Department of Lands."
> What year was it taken?
> Rose
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> 
> No fair askin' Carl Westberg Jr., although I've been told that's him
> cruisin' Main Street, lookin' to shag some . . . (well, you know).
> 
>