1930s
Potato Candy
Which recipe do you prefer? In either case, be sure to whip some up for St. Patrick's Day--or anytime you want tuber-based sweets!Source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 31, 2018 -
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Category: Candy, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #380
Original ad from Radio Mirror for September 1937.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 24, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, 1930s
Mystery Illustration 75
What does this 1939 statue symbolize?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Tue Aug 21, 2018 -
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Category: Statues and Monuments, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #376
A quick hit of sugar at bedtime will send those kiddies straight to slumberland!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 25, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Children, Soda, Pop, Soft Drinks and other Non-Alcoholic Beverages, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #373
Somehow, anti-knock engine supplement conflated with performing saintly miracles.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jul 07, 2018 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Motor Vehicles, Religion, 1930s
New mask for seasickness
Dr. Richmond Goulden of the liner Lady Nelson models the latest in seasickness-prevention technology, 1939.The pipe adds a nice touch.
Baltimore Evening Sun - Jan 4, 1939
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 06, 2018 -
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Category: Inventions, Medicine, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #372
Sentient cigarette fulfills its duties as matchmaker, despite dying an excruciating fiery death.
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 30, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Business, Advertising, Tobacco and Smoking, 1930s
Mirabelle Muller, Thirteen-Year-Old Lady Godiva
I suppose this is somewhat in our line of "Oddball Beauty Queens."Mirabelle Muller, the 13 year old schoolgirl, rode on a white horse as 'Lady Godiva' in the Carnival Fete procession at Teddington, Middlesex. Mirabelle was asked to leave her convent school after she had been chosen as Godiva.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 22, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Fairs, Amusement Parks, and Resorts, Public Indecency, 1930s
Wedding with lie detector
A lie detector used at the 1932 wedding of Harriet Berger and Vaclav Rund determined that their love was true.Vaclav and Harriet were still together in 1940, according to the census. So, score one for the lie detector. I haven't been able to trace their marriage any later than that. Though a V.R. Rund of the correct location and birth year died in 1989.
(Some media sources listed the bridegroom's name as Vaclaw Hund, but I think 'Rund' was his correct name, given the census data.)
Albuquerque Journal - June 14, 1932
Sioux Falls Argus-Leader - June 1, 1932
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 04, 2018 -
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Category: Psychology, 1930s, Weddings
The Palace of Depression
Article here.
Wikipedia page here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 02, 2018 -
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Category: Architecture, Eccentrics, Outsider Art, 1930s
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