Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

[AtomicEraTom]

Oh yeah. I've wanted a '96 Fleetwood for a few years now. I got it on the cheap, too, which makes me like it even more.

So I take it, you like the car?

 

[Lincsong]

Oh yeah. I've wanted a '96 Fleetwood for a few years now. I got it on the cheap, too, which makes me like it even more.

How many miles?

 

[AtomicEraTom]

160,xxx when I bought it, 162,xxx now. Performs just as good as my Grand Marquis, which hasn't even rolled the odometer, yet.

How many miles?

 

[Story]

This seems like the best thread for this : File under "Sordid"

 

[LizzieMaine]

Pfft, the Snyder-Gray Case was more sordid than that.

 

[Undertow]

Boy, those were both sordid. I don't want to say they were "good" reads, but thanks for the articles anyway.

 

[Story]

Pfft, the Snyder-Gray Case was more sordid than that.

Ah, com'n Lizzie - the only way the Dumbbell case can hope to catch up is if there was a Lovecraftian twist to it, like if they didn't make a solid line of salt in the basement (although Gray's clandestine deathchair photo is solidly worth 1/2 point). Longergan's got a quasi-incestuous homosexual relationship slathered over the murder and that's worth a triple-word score on anyone's Scrabble board.

 

[hatophile]

This seems like the best thread for this : File under "Sordid"

So, the killer was Mr Lonergan in the bedroom with the candlestick.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Okey then, how about theHall-Mills Case? An overstimulated Episcopal priest (the first time in the history of the English language that phrase has ever been written), a panting choir soprano, a Pig Woman, and Jenny the Mule. How can anything possibly be more sordid than that?

 

[Story]

Needs more witches and Ouija boards

 

[dhermann1]

Wow. I've been familiar with the Ruth Snyder photo for a long time. Never knew the story. That image is one of the most horrifying I've ever seen. The whole business is just ghastly.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I have a run of the New York Daily Mirror from the time of the Snyder-Gray trial, and it was a trash wallow of the first order. Day after day the sob sisters tried desperately to make Ruthie out to be a sympathetic figure, but they were in way over their heads on this one. The best thing about the case is that it pushed Peaches and Daddy off the front page.

 

[Story]

Hindenburg mystery solved after 76 years

Scientists believe that a series of events sparked by static electricity lead to the 1937 explosion

The dream was a fleet of hydrogen-filled airships criss-crossing the globe, silvered hulls shining in the sunlight. And for a while the fantasy became reality, For the Hindenburg was the Concorde of its day – able to cross the Atlantic in about three days, twice as fast as going by sea.

With nearly 100 on board, the 245m airship was preparing to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on 6 May 1937, when the age of airship travel ended. In front of horrified onlookers, the Hindenburg exploded and plunged to the ground in flames. Thirty-five of those on board died.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hindenburg-mystery-solved-after-76-years-8517996.html

 

[MikeBravo]

Hindenburg mystery solved after 76 years

Scientists believe that a series of events sparked by static electricity lead to the 1937 explosion




http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hindenburg-mystery-solved-after-76-years-8517996.html

The (actual) dream was a fleet of helium-filled airships criss-crossing the globe, silvered hulls shining in the sunlight. The US government wouldn't let the Nazis have the helium.

Instead of being tragic it would have been hilarious with everyone talking in a funny high voice.

 

[MikeBravo]

Hindenburg mystery solved after 76 years

Scientists believe that a series of events sparked by static electricity lead to the 1937 explosion

The dream was a fleet of hydrogen-filled airships criss-crossing the globe, silvered hulls shining in the sunlight. And for a while the fantasy became reality, For the Hindenburg was the Concorde of its day – able to cross the Atlantic in about three days, twice as fast as going by sea.

With nearly 100 on board, the 245m airship was preparing to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on 6 May 1937, when the age of airship travel ended. In front of horrified onlookers, the Hindenburg exploded and plunged to the ground in flames. Thirty-five of those on board died.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hindenburg-mystery-solved-after-76-years-8517996.html

The (actual) dream was a fleet of helium-filled airships criss-crossing the globe, silvered hulls shining in the sunlight. The US government wouldn't let the Nazis have the helium.

Instead of being tragic it would have been hilarious with everyone talking in a funny high voice.

 

[John in Covina]

The (actual) dream was a fleet of helium-filled airships criss-crossing the globe, silvered hulls shining in the sunlight. The US government wouldn't let the Nazis have the helium.

Instead of being tragic it would have been hilarious with everyone talking in a funny high voice.

The technology actualy remains viable but the fear associated with the navy crashes and the spectacular Hindenberg incident makes the public and various business executives too gun shy to embrace te idea of lighter than air vehicles. There are some designs for heavy lift that are supposed to be an improvement on using helicopters for transport of large heavy items. i have watch a helicopter delieve and help install a huge roof top air conditioner for a giant warehouse. just imagine a blimp doing the same.

 

[jamespowers]

The technology actualy remains viable but the fear associated with the navy crashes and the spectacular Hindenberg incident makes the public and various business executives too gun shy to embrace te idea of lighter than air vehicles. There are some designs for heavy lift that are supposed to be an improvement on using helicopters for transport of large heavy items. i have watch a helicopter delieve and help install a huge roof top air conditioner for a giant warehouse. just imagine a blimp doing the same.

Hindenberg Air Conditioner Transport.

 

[LizzieMaine]

A very persistent myth is that the death of the Hindenburg was broadcast live -- it was not. Announcer Herbert Morrison of station WLS in Chicago traveled to New Jersey to make a recording of the zeppelin's arrival for later broadcast: although the major radio networks prohibited the use of recordings on the air at the time, local stations did not have such a prohibition and commonly used recordings for many purposes. The arrival of the Hindenburg had been covered live by NBC almost exactly a year earlier, in May 1936, but since then its arrivals and departures had become a rather routine event and no longer warranted such coverage.

When, on the famous recording, you hear Morrisson babbling "get this, Charlie! get this Charlie!," he's talking to Charlie Niehlsen, the WLS engineer who operated the recording equipment. When you hear the audio skip right at the point where Morrison yells "It burst into flame!" you're hearing the precise moment when the shock wave from the explosion hit Morrison's position and bounced the recording stylus from the disc. Niehlsen had the presence of mind to gently lower the recording head back into position -- had he not done so, the rest of the recording wouldn't have been made.

Morrison and Neihlsen flew back to Chicago that night with the discs, and the following day excerpts were broadcast over NBC -- the first instance in which the network had made an exception to its ban against recordings.

It's very common today to hear Morrison's description whenever newsreel footage of the explosion is shown, but no newsreel actually used the recording in their original releases -- when you see and hear it shown thus today, it's all post production.

 

[David Conwill]

Really interesting, Lizzie!

 

[jamespowers]

A very persistent myth is that the death of the Hindenburg was broadcast live -- it was not. Announcer Herbert Morrison of station WLS in Chicago traveled to New Jersey to make a recording of the zeppelin's arrival for later broadcast: although the major radio networks prohibited the use of recordings on the air at the time, local stations did not have such a prohibition and commonly used recordings for many purposes. The arrival of the Hindenburg had been covered live by NBC almost exactly a year earlier, in May 1936, but since then its arrivals and departures had become a rather routine event and no longer warranted such coverage.

When, on the famous recording, you hear Morrisson babbling "get this, Charlie! get this Charlie!," he's talking to Charlie Niehlsen, the WLS engineer who operated the recording equipment. When you hear the audio skip right at the point where Morrison yells "It burst into flame!" you're hearing the precise moment when the shock wave from the explosion hit Morrison's position and bounced the recording stylus from the disc. Niehlsen had the presence of mind to gently lower the recording head back into position -- had he not done so, the rest of the recording wouldn't have been made.

Morrison and Neihlsen flew back to Chicago that night with the discs, and the following day excerpts were broadcast over NBC -- the first instance in which the network had made an exception to its ban against recordings.

It's very common today to hear Morrison's description whenever newsreel footage of the explosion is shown, but no newsreel actually used the recording in their original releases -- when you see and hear it shown thus today, it's all post production.

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