Every ten years, the enumeration sheets for the U.S. Census taken 72 years earlier are released into the wild. This means that a snapshot of America in the spring of 1940 is now
online for anyone to explore. Warning: this
will devour your hours!
Of interest to this thread, two recent 1947project time travel blog entries on the
Garden of Allah in Hollywood, and the young
Elizabeth Short, not yet the Black Dahlia of unsolved murder infamy. Posted in hopes that you enjoy.