Fashions 1929 To 1939

Mike Yawn: The naked truth about fads

With strong media backing, Kelly took his show on the road.  In Houston, for example, he maintained his perch—a ten-inch disc fastened to the top of the pole—for 100 hours.  Subsisting on orange juice and an occasional Old North State cigarette to “calm his nerves,” Kelly finished his act by fighting a local boxer to demonstrate that he “wasn’t weary.” Opposition extended beyond campus administrators.  Boston’s Animal Rescue League threatened to call the law (“Mr. Withington, step away from the goldfish…”), and a state senator sponsored a bill outlawing the fad to “preserve the fish from cruel and wanton consumption.”  Health departments warned of tapeworms, an admonition somewhat undercut by a UCLA professor’s announcement that an adult male could gulp up to 150 goldfish without serious health repercussions. Girls, however, “seemed to welcome and even abet” the boys’ behavior according to Time magazine.  They threw lingerie from their windows, giggled, and then opened their dormitory doors.  In an early hint of the women’s movement, a “carload of squealing girls” turned the tables and raided a boys’ dormitory. Such festivities continued throughout the 1960s, becoming what one magazine called a “spring ritual.”  But as the times grew more tumultuous, panty raids lost their shock value.  Indeed, as young people became increasingly given to protests and riots, panty raids were seen as quaint, the innocent fun of yesteryear.  By the early 1970s, in fact, California Governor Ronald Reagan, responded to the People’s Park riots by lamenting, “How much further do we have to go to realize that this is not just another panty raid?” As it turns out, college students were willing to go a lot further.  In one of the most revealing of the nation’s fads, streaking became a common occurrence during sporting events, public ceremonies, and on college campuses in the 1970s.  The fad even made its way into the political world when a naked man ran through the Hawaii House of Representatives claiming to be the “Streaker of the House.” Perhaps the best known example of streaking, however, came during the 1974 Academy Awards.

Unique 1939 Transparent Pontiac All Set For Auction By RM Auctions ...

, 2011, Courtesy, one of the biggest auctions houses,  RM Auctions . This marvelous Pontiac is said to be first ever transparent car built in the U.S and the car is known be in excellent condition, considering the age of the vehicle. This Pontiac was designed in conjunction with Rohm and Haas and the car was powered by a L-head six-cylinder engine with a three speed manual transmission and four-wheel hydraulic drum brakes.

After the New York World’s Fair, the marvelously built transparent 1929 Pontiac was sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C and was kept as a souvenir at the legendary museum till the year 1947. Later it changed hands with several Pontiac dealers in Pennsylvania and was then bought by Don Barlup of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania after the car was showcased at the Pontiac-Oakland Club International in 1973. This gorgeous vehicle was brought to its final home and its current owner, the son of Leo Gephart, who purchased the car in the year 1979. The word ‘transparent’ fits the car perfectly, as the vehicle depicts every working part and all the interiors of car clearly, due to the Plexiglas. Even after a partial restoration effort, this magnificent Pontiac still retains nearly all its original parts including the U.S. Royal all-white tires and the car some 86 miles recorded on its odometer.

Elegance, the Seeberger brothers and the birth of fashion photography

MOore, Doris Langley, Fashion through Fashion Plates: 1771 - 1970, New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1971. Penn, Irving, Inventive Pans Clothes 1909- 1939, NY, ...

From the crash to the blitz, 1929-1939

Fashion expert Kathleen Cannell reported from Paris : "Fabulous jewels play ... as far back as May 1939 he had told his Chiefs of Staff that he intended to ...

Genre, myth, and convention in the French cinema, 1929-1939

A 1939 article spells out the contradictions involved in the Feuillere transformation ... Female stars have become primarily fashion models, and a principal ...

Personal income, by States, since 1929, a supplement to the Survey of current business

Payrolls of insurance agents and combination offices, in similar fashion, ... Real estate payrolls for 1929 were estimated by extrapolation from 1939 on the ...

British popular films, 1929-1939, the cinema of reassurance

... the evil Dr Grimesby Rylott, depicted in grand fashion by Lyn Harding. ... In the summer, 1929 release, Downstream, a detective takes a job as a bargee ...