Month: November 2018
Cheese Please, 1935
Cheese Shop, Manhattan, 1935
Thrilling Detective, Oct, 1937
Dames Don’t Care! 1937
Advance Premier, 1966
Hooverville, Central Park, NYC, 1931-32
A “Hooverville” was a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the USA. Named after President Herbert Hoover, who was blamed for the economic collapse. During the 1930s there were hundreds of these slums and hundreds of thousands of people lived in them. One of the Hoovervilles was found in Central Park, New York City where scores of homeless families camped out at the Great Lawn at Central Park, then an empty reservoir. Continue reading “Hooverville, Central Park, NYC, 1931-32”
Weird Tales, March, 1941
Follow Me Quietly, 1949
Tumba del Caracol, Cozumel
Tumba del Caracol is a Mayan building found on the southern end of Cozumel, erected during the post-classic period. There are a couple of legends concerning the buildings. One is that it functioned as a weather alarm, producing a whistle via conch shells that would precede the arrival of a hurricane, The other is that the building was used to send a pillar of smoke into the air so that travelers could find their way back to the island, the later is more believable because of the Maya ruins found at San Gervasio. Those ruins were believed to be the home of some sort of fertility ritual, those ruins are unique to Mayan culture as there are no signs that any human sacrifices had taken place there.
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Iter-Auto, 1930
In car navigation has its roots back in the 1930s when an Italian company invented the Iter-Auto. The Iter-auto was attached to the dashboard and synced up with the car’s speedometer, the device would use routes printed on long paper scrolls. Besides the route you were taking, the maps would also feature info on hotels, garages, diners and the like.
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