Tag: 1931
Blue Book, May, 1931
Danger Island, 1931
Portable Radio Hat, 1931
Zeppelin over the Saladin Citadel, 1931
Strange Tales, Sept, 1931
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”
King of the Wild, 1931
American adventurer Richard Grant is falsely accused of murdering an Indian noble and escapes to Africa in search of diamond field and the real culprit.(IMDb)
Dracula’s Brides, 1931
Ghost Ship of the Arctic, 1931-????
S.S. Baychimo in ice.
Captain Cornwell
As we go to press, the S.S. Baychimo is fast in the ice off Franklin Point on the northwest coast of Alaska, not far from Point Barrow, the northernmost tip of the mainland of this continent. She is expected to remain there until the ice goes out late next summer. Continue reading “Ghost Ship of the Arctic, 1931-????”