SINCE scientists, after years of earnest and competent research, have been unable to detect one clear sign of manlike life on Mars, an amazing theory is now being presented to explain why the red planet may be inhabited by a race of beavers. It is a fascinating story of evolution. Continue reading “Martian Beavers?”
Tag: 1930
Anita Page, Christmas, 1930
A Midocean City
A Future City Anchored in Midocean
Fascinating Dream of the French Engineer Foenquinos to Float a New All-Steel Atlantis Midway Between Europe and America in the Gulf Stream — A Haven and Paradise to Be Eighth Wonder of the World.
The Marseilles engineer proposes to build his floating city on an immense steel ring, in the center of which will be an enclosed harbor that may be entered by passing under on of the four towers.
Don’t Forget to Turn Your Clock Back!
Scene from Cecil B. DeMille’s Madam Satan, 1930
Spaghetti With Al Capone, 1930
“Mr. Alphonse Capone” Is Host At Good-Will Spaghetti Dinner
Identity of Guests at Palm Island Estate Carefully Guarded Secret.
Evening Star, Washington DC, May 29, 1930.
Capone was released from a Philadelphia prison three months prior on March 17, 1930 after serving nine months of a one year sentence for carrying a concealed weapon. Continue reading “Spaghetti With Al Capone, 1930”
NYC Skyline, 1880-1930
NEW YORK SKYLINE NOW AND FIFTY YEARS AGO
Nearly half a century lies between the two views of New York City’s skyline shown in the pictures above. The two photographs were taken from the same point — a tower of the famous Brooklyn Bridge. The upper one was made only the other day and the lower one is over forty-seven years old.
Architects, engineers, and modern machinery seem literally to have raised Manhattan Island out of the waters surrounding it. In the lower view, Brooklyn Bridge, opened in 1883, was just being built. Note how the buildings at that time seemed to crouch low on the island, only here and there an occasional church, spire throwing itself defiantly skyward.
In the upper view the buildings have fairly freed themselves from the land and apparently have become decidedly air-minded. In the immediate foreground is the office building at 120 Wall Street. Looming gigantic behind it is the Bank of Manhattan Company building, and far to the right of it appears the famous Woolworth Tower.
Still farther to the right, and beyond the Manhattan end of Brooklyn Bridge, is the Municipal Building. Note how the present height of the buildings almost completely obscures the distant west shore of the Hudson River, which in the lower picture is plainly visible across Manhattan.
December 1930, Popular Science
Tour De France, 1930
Learco Guerra and Alfredo Binda, 1930 Tour de France
The ascent of the Pyrenees during the Tour de France.
Wireless Private Phone, 1930
A view of what communications could look like in the future.
I Challenge…
L.W. Witry Tractor Patent, 1930
