1930s
Strongest Hair Ever
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 28, 2013 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Air Travel and Airlines, 1930s, Hair and Hairstyling
Tarzan and the Rocky Gorge
No soundtrack, but it's still better than 90% of current Hollywood productions.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 07, 2013 -
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Category: Amateurs and Fans, Movies, Books, 1930s
Canary sent via carrier pigeon
The first ever pigeon "piggy-back" flight, carrying a live cargo, a canary, twenty miles from Elizabeth, N.J. to New York. Must have been a bizarre experience for the canary. San Jose News - Mar 23, 1939
Posted By: Alex - Wed Nov 06, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, 1930s
Mystery Gadget 19
What? Why? How?
The answer is here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 06, 2013 -
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Category: Technology, 1930s
Crazy Pygmy—Hilarious Dancing
What day is not brightened by the inexplicable and thoughtlessly ridiculed antics of a small person?
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 01, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Ethnic Groupings, Human Marvels, 1930s, Dance
Harry Rogers, The Fire Clown
Original article here.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 30, 2013 -
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Category: Clowns, PSA’s, 1920s, 1930s
Undersea Kingdom
Find the answer by watching Undersea Kingdom!
Wikipedia entry.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 26, 2013 -
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Category: Movies, 1930s
Raise Giant Frogs
During the 1930s and 40s, there was good money to be made by raising giant frogs, as evidenced by the number of ads promoting this income opportunity.The plan was to buy the booklet "A Future in Frogs." Start growing the giant frogs. Sell them to the American Frog Canning Co. Then count all your money!
The booklet "A Future in Frogs" seems to have entirely disappeared. I can't find any copies used or in libraries. The world has lost a literary classic.
Modern Mechanix - Jan 1936
Los Angeles Times - June 21, 1936
Chicago Tribune - Dec 4, 1940
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 26, 2013 -
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Category: Animals, Advertising, 1930s
Voiceless man learns to sing
After losing his larynx and windpipe to cancer, Herman Schulenberg created a new windpipe for himself by ramming a white-hot ice pick through his flesh. Then he learned to sing through this opening by "closing the windpipe's artificial opening with his index finger and manipulating his neck with his other fingers" in order to "direct the air through the passage in such manner as to get a variety of tones."Finally, he gave a singing performance before a group of 50 doctors at a meeting of the Milwaukee Oto-Ophthalmic Society. That would have been a strange concert to attend. From the San Antonio Express - March 3, 1935.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 22, 2013 -
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Category: Music, 1930s
Taxidermied Frog Orchestra
I came across this ad in Boys' Life - Oct 1935. Then I realized that Paul had already posted a version of the ad two years ago. But I decided to post this version anyway, since it shows the Taxidermied Frog Orchestra. I wonder how many kids actually went ahead and made one of these.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 19, 2013 -
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Category: Hobbies and DIY, Taxidermy, 1930s
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