Anita Page is shown utilizing her combination “cop spotter” and make up mirror. She claimed it “saved tickets as well as shiny noses.” She is sitting in her 1929 Isotta Fraschini Roadster. (March 19, 1929)
Tag: 1929
Pathe’ Christmas
Jennette Loff & Carole Lombard in a publicity still for Pathe’ Christmas, 1929.
Nancy Carroll, Halloween
Pin-up photo of actress Nancy Carroll dressed as a black cat, celebrating Halloween, 1929
Weltfahrt, August 7 – September 4, 1929
On September 4th, 1929, Graf Zeppelin completed an around-the-world voyage (“Weltfahrt”) covering 21,2500 miles in five legs from Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen to Tokyo, Tokyo to Los Angeles, Los Angeles to Lakehurst, and then Lakehurt to Friedrichshafen again.
10 years from now…
The Daily Tribune, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, July 17, 1929
Say Cheese…
LAPD detectives posing with their weapons: Thompson submachine gun [Tommy Gun], Browning Automatic Rifle [BAR], and a Colt Official Police .38 Special Double Action Revolver
Photo credit: LA Times, 1929
Cabin #7, Aug 1, 1929
Round trip ticket aboard the LZ 129 Graf Zeppelin, from Lakehurst NJ, August 1st, 1929
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Three-Wheeled Pleasure Car, 1929
English Driver Invents This Novel Three – Wheeled Pleasure Car
Constructed on the principle of a motorcycle, this three-wheeled automobile shown below attains a speed of 70 m.p.h. It was built in Kingston, England, by A. Graham, famous race driver. The circular doors are detachable for use during warm weather. Plenty of room is afforded in the driver’s compartment. The windshield is built in the body of the car. Driven from the lone rear wheel by a motorcycle engine, the car is steered from the front. A similar racing car is being planned.
Pep Stories, Apr, 1929
Tarzan at the Earth’s Core, 1929
Serial run of Tarzan at the Earths Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs in Blue Book September 1929 – March 1930
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