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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Death By Root Beer
A Soda Tax Would Not Have Prevented Henry Koerner’s Death New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn’t like soda and would like to tax people to discourage them from drinking it. But it wasn’t obesity or the root beer itself … Continue reading
Posted in History, New York, Strange Phenomena
Tagged 1892, Accident, New York Times, Root Beer
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Classic Hollywood #11
Before Bardot Was A Sex Symbol (circa 1951) Yes we know Brigitte Bardot is not a Hollywood fixture. She made almost all of her films in Europe but transcended borders as an international sex symbol of the 1950′s and 1960′s. So we can feature her here under the Classic … Continue reading
Posted in Classic Hollywood, Movies, Photography
Tagged Brigitte Bardot, Vanity Fair
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The Things We Do For Love
Boy 16, And Girl 14, Walk Over Twenty Miles Round-Trip During Blizzard With Temperatures Hovering At Zero Degrees To Get Married Valentines Day has come and gone. I know love can drive you to do crazy things, but I can’t recall seeing a story like … Continue reading
Hair Pulling Contest 1940
And They Are Doing This Because? On a hot July day, is there anything more entertaining than a contest featuring beautiful women pulling each others hair? If you agree, then this July 11, 1940 news photograph entitled “Models in Hair … Continue reading
Unbelievable Looney Tunes Cartoon From 1933
You’ll Never See This Cartoon On Saturday Morning Decades before South Park, Warner Bros. put this cartoon out in theaters. Bosko’s Picture Show, from 1933 features this incredible scene. Language warning here – play in front of children at your … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Movies
Tagged 1933, Animation, Cartoon, Entertainment, Friz Freleng, Leon Schlesinger, Warner Bros.
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How Accurate Is Your Non-Fiction Reading?
Checking The Facts In this age of “get the story out there as quickly as possible” it should concern you that what you are reading may not be true, simply because the facts have not been checked. In the February … Continue reading
Old New York In Photos #15
42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, 1928 A street level photograph looking east on 42nd Street towards 5th Avenue on a chilly day in 1928. On the left side of the photograph and just to the right of the twin street … Continue reading
Posted in New York, Old New York In Photos, Photography
Tagged 1928, 42nd Street, Fifth Avenue, Traffic Signals
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Foreign Country Pays 11 Americans $350,000 Who Were There Illegally
Has Protecting Illegals Gone Too Far? Suppose a group of Americans went to China, Mexico or Saudi Arabia and overstayed their welcome by a few months or years. The immigration agents for that country discover their whereabouts, raid the homes … Continue reading →