JMFlanigan : photos : Pago Pago c. 1948 by Dr. Jim Harris
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My dad was eight at the time of this photo. I can say first hand now, that the landscape has changed since then. No more Fale's made from natural resources. Now they have concrete slabs with tin roofs and pre-fab columns. Talk about what a difference a day makes; what a difference 60 years, a couple of hurricanes, and improved transportation makes! I remember my dad reminiscing about sandy beaches as white and soft as salt; referring of course, to the all too familiar iodonized table salt that middle America has become so fond of. I can see now what he meant. He really was born in a grass shack.
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