You can see the Formica table tops, tail fins on cars, gigantic household appliances, supermarkets, beehive hairstyles and a thousand and one other visual manifestations of that era! From 1950s maternity clothes, outdoor shopping centers, red-checkered picnic tables, carpet sweeper; roller coasters to a child eating cake batter off of electric mixer blades: it is all included in […]
Month: April 2016
Would you panic if you saw this coming toward? Where could you go?
(I imagine there were many deaths from just breathing this air for so many years.) Where would you go if you saw this coming toward you? Dust bowl refugee from Chickasaw, Oklahoma. Imperial Valley, California. “Black Sunday, 1934, that was the awfullest dust we ever did see” photographer Dorothea Lange Abandoned farm of the […]
Help finally arrives as the Army rides into town on horseback after the earthquake
After the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, help arrived in 1906. This film, made by Thomas A. Edison Company highlights the role of the United States Army in transporting supplies following the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco. The Army’s relief operations headquarters was at their base, the Presidio, outside the burned part of the […]
San Francisco earthquake in 1906 – Three rare films reveal before and immediately after the earthquake.
The filming of major news events was new when the San Francisco earthquake occurred in 1906. These rare films give a glimpse of life before and after the quake. This film was take May 9, 1906, less than a month after the Great Earthquake occurred in April 18, 1906. The location is Market and Mission […]
Isn’t it funny, what the things are that we remember the most?
I remember by Joyce Ray Wheeler “I remember, I remember the house where I was born.” This is the first line of a poem Mrs. Iva Butram had her fourth graders memorize at Rocky Hill School in 1935. Yes, I do remember “the house where I was born.” It stood in the middle of little […]
Can you believe it was once okay to send children through the mail?
I recently ran across an article with the photographs above that stated it was legal to mail children through the mail until 1913. and a reader validated the article somewhat when he wrote a story about traveling with the mailman to his grandparents in “Sand Mountain Memories,” on Alabama Pioneers. I found it hard to […]
Rare film from Paris Exposition in 1900 depicts a moving sidewalk!
The Paris Exposition was a world’s fair held in Paris, France from April 15 to November 12, 1900 and the film below brings the event to life. Thomas Edison Attended It celebrated achievements of the past century and of course Thomas Edison attended. He had only recently invented the mobile motion picture camera and these […]
Dash cam in San Francisco – four days before the 1906 earthquake!
This was filmed amazingly only four days before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Take a trip down Market Street on April 14th, 1906. Talk about a traffic nightmare. Cars were such a new invention there were no lanes or traffic signals. See more of the aftermath of the earthquake Historical books by Donna R. Causey Three […]
Texting or Telegraph, which is faster?
Texting or Telegraph? Which is faster? Texting is a major form of communication today, but is it faster than using the old form of communication, telegraphs? Indiana University put this question to the test in the following video. Which method do you think won, texting or telegraphing? Read more about the invention of the telegraph […]
Stanford University – shows the Memorial arch in 1897 before destroyed by earthquake
Memorial arch was a monument dedicated to a child This is probably the earliest film taken of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. It was made in 1897 taken by Edison Manufacturing Company. The film is was taken at the above University, noted the world over, being the personal gift of the late Senator Leland Stanford. […]