If you walk around Tucumcari, New Mexico, you'll probably come across a sidewalk inscribed like the one above: "WPA 1939." These sidewalks were constructed by the WPA (Works Progress Administration), a New Deal jobs program instituted during the Great Depression.
There were people, back then, who criticized the program as being a worthless program that paid bums to "lean on shovels." But here we have evidence to the contrary, sidewalks installed over 3/4 of a century ago that are still intact, and still in use today. History is all around us - truth too.
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