These Library of Congress photos blogged by The Denver Post are a great depiction (and worth another novel) of the America Vladimir and Vera emigrated to as world war was raining down from Berlin: http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/

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