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
Marion Zioncheck, Bipolar Congressman
Congressman Marion Zioncheck , America ' s crazy MP , is in gaol at Washington after having been accused of standing on his landlady and hurling bottles and a typewriter through the windows of his wrecked Washington apartment uttering wild cries all the time . The incident occurred at the end of a whirlwind honeymoon tour . Mr . Zioncheck has just returned to America with his bride from the turbulent South American island of Porto Rico , which they were requested to leave after figuring in a series of " incidents." On one occasion the Congressman pelted passers-by with coconuts from his balcony . Then the couple arrived back in Washington they were soon involved in the dispute with the landlady , Mrs . Benjamin Young , who told the ambulance men that "Zioncheck ruined my home , called me vile names and stood on me " . It is now stated that Zioncheck intends to run for the US Vice - presidency .
Read the whole sad story--ending in suicide--here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 08, 2019 -
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Category: Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Death, Government, Officials, 1930s, Mental Health and Insanity
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 23
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 04, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Surrealism, 1930s, Russia
Mystery Illustration 86
What is the nature of the fabric of this gown?
The answer is here.
And beyond the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 27, 2019 -
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Category: Fashion, 1930s
Velvet-Lined Bathtub
Back in 1936, interior decorators predicted a popular future for velvet-lined bathtubs.I can only imagine they would have been a nightmare to clean.
Pottsville Republican and Herald - Dec 4, 1936
Emery County Progress - Nov 27, 1936
Update: Thanks to our knowledgeable readers, Floormaster Squeeze and KDP, for pointing out that Steve Martin had a line in one of his routines about buying a fur-lined sink. I found the clip on YouTube (audio only, unfortunately). The fur-lined sink reference occurs less than a minute in.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 13, 2019 -
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Category: Bathrooms, Baths, Showers and Other Cleansing Methods, 1930s
Glen Falls Sequence
Creator's Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 13, 2019 -
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Category: Art, Surrealism, Stop-motion Animation, 1930s
Asbestos-Clad, Fireworks-Laden Boxers
Original is here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 12, 2019 -
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Category: Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Death, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Explosives, Foreign Customs, 1930s
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