Posted by Bruce Berman
Mother and daughters selling Krispie Kream donuts, 106 degrees, Portales, NM -June 2010
©Bruce Berman
The thing is, there was nobody on the streets of the town of 11,000 people.
Nobody.
But there really didn’t seem to be a need for any. This was more like a Mother/Daughters event, something to do together. and, maybe, raise money for the local high school Cheer Team.
Obviously, with mothers and daughters fund raising with luxury donuts, times in portales were, well, not like the near starvation nothing-to-cheer-about level that Lee encoutered on his tours of eastern New Mexico (see below).
Mother and kids in improvised shelter, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, 1936, by © Russell Lee.
Tags: 1930’s Photography, New Mexico, Russell Lee, Small Town America, U.S.60