1930s
Every Night I Bring Her Frankfurter Sandwiches
More info here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 21, 2020 -
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Category: Food, Humor, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Music, 1930s
Elm Farm Ollie Day
Feb. 18 is Elm Farm Ollie Day, commemorating the first flight in a plane by a cow. An article posted over at rootsweb.ancestry.com tells us that Elm Farm Ollie (aka Sunnymede Ollie, Nellie Jay, or Sky Queen) is remembered each year at the dairy festival in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin:
A 1930 news-wire story provided details about the historic flight:
Claude M. Sterling, of Parks Air college, will pilot Sunnymede Ollie, Guernsey from Bismarck, Missouri, over the city in a tri-motored Ford.
The cow will be fed and milked and the milk parachuted down in paper containers. A quart of milk will be presented to Colonel Lindbergh when he arrives.
Weighing more than 1000 pounds, the cow will be flown to demonstrate the ability of aircraft. Scientific data will be collected on her behavior.
-The Evening Tribune (Albert Lea, Minn.) - Feb. 18, 1930.
More info at wikipedia and mustardmuseum.com.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Feb 18, 2020 -
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Category: Animals, Farming, Air Travel and Airlines, 1930s
Goth researcher
This researcher looks strangely out-of-place in the 1930s. He looks more like a singer in a 1980's goth band.
Minneapolis Star Tribune - May 11, 1930
For example, he could easily have been a member of Bauhaus.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 15, 2020 -
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Category: 1930s
Wasp Face
In 1933, Miss Winifred Mondeau found on her property a wasp’s nest that resembled a human face.
Newport News Daily Press - July 6, 1933
Some googling reveals that there’s a minor genre of wasp (and hornet) nests that resemble faces. The one below, for example, was found in the yard of Brenda Montgomery in 2017. Though it's not as good as the one from 1933.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 08, 2020 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, 1930s, Pareidolia
Odd Ducks: Unusual Aircraft from the Movietone Collection, 1921-1934
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jan 21, 2020 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Inventions, Air Travel and Airlines, 1920s, 1930s
Breaking Up Housekeeping
Article source.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 12, 2020 -
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Category: Architecture, Domestic, Divorce, Interior Decorating, 1930s
A Queer Ferry
I would call this an aerial tramway for cars. Seems it would have been much easier just to build a bridge!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 27, 2019 -
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Category: Engineering and Construction, Motor Vehicles, Technology, 1930s
Juvenile Offender
Throw the book at her!Source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 21, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Crime, Toys, Children, 1930s, Postal Services
Branding Babies
The 1930s-era solution to the problem of babies getting mixed up in hospitals was to temporarily brand newborns with a UV-ray lamp. The procedure was said to be painless, though it was terrible PR to describe it as 'branding'.
Pittsburgh Press - Sep 25, 1938
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Sep 14, 1930
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 27, 2019 -
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Category: Babies, 1930s
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 24
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 26, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, 1930s, Genitals
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