Eighty years ago today, the May 3, 1943, issue of Life magazine showed a few of the 18,000,000 victory gardens that had taken the place of lawns, fields, and even prison yards. Shown above are the “pretty bare-legged girls” of the Jane Addams High School in Portland, Oregon. The school, whose students were being “educated in house-wifey virtues,” replaced the school’s smooth green lawn with this garden, whose produce would be used in the school cafeteria, nursery school, and “practice house.”