Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

[Story]

Brutal child-killing teen meets a shocking end after killing girls
17 y.o. Eddie Haight dies in electric chair after killing Helen and Margaret Lynch in 1942
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/jus...o-teen-killer-article-1.1207541#ixzz2DbmqZieP

1944 Justice Story: Polly Adler's 17 arrests put modern madams to shame
'Queen of Tarts' came long before the Happy Hooker and Mayflower, Manhattan madams

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/jus...-madams-shame-article-1.1038883#ixzz2Dbp2Wzcc


Queen of Trapeze star known for aerial striptease act murdered in 1934 for $2.75
She made it to the big city on a bizarre trapeze -- but was murdered in Indiana over a couple bucks

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...led-home-farm-article-1.1143710#ixzz2DbprbGxL

Evil 'little Anna' faces Sing Sing's electric chair for 1932 murder of her husband
Offered to pay two killers $800 from his life insurance settlement

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...urder-husband-article-1.1052810#ixzz2Dbq5O6ts

 

[St. Louis]

Radium.

 

[jamespowers]

Brutal child-killing teen meets a shocking end after killing girls
17 y.o. Eddie Haight dies in electric chair after killing Helen and Margaret Lynch in 1942
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/jus...o-teen-killer-article-1.1207541#ixzz2DbmqZieP

1944 Justice Story: Polly Adler's 17 arrests put modern madams to shame
'Queen of Tarts' came long before the Happy Hooker and Mayflower, Manhattan madams

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/jus...-madams-shame-article-1.1038883#ixzz2Dbp2Wzcc


Queen of Trapeze star known for aerial striptease act murdered in 1934 for $2.75
She made it to the big city on a bizarre trapeze -- but was murdered in Indiana over a couple bucks

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...led-home-farm-article-1.1143710#ixzz2DbprbGxL

Evil 'little Anna' faces Sing Sing's electric chair for 1932 murder of her husband
Offered to pay two killers $800 from his life insurance settlement

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...urder-husband-article-1.1052810#ixzz2Dbq5O6ts

You notice that thoise things are not great actions. However, you notice how they were dealt with swiftly and decisively. They were gone within a short time. If it were today, they would hqave hung around for decades appealing their decisions and wasting taxpayer money.
So not too cool action but cool consequences.

 

[Talbot]

DDOOUUBBLLE BBRRIIMM HHAATT

Diplopia Hat

What is the advantage to a double brim?

 

[Atomic Age]

[video=youtube;qvHUxgpPcEo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qvHUxgpPcEo[/video]

I don't get it....whats the problem here?

Doug

 

[Stearmen]

I don't get it....whats the problem here?

Doug

I find that nothing calms a colicky baby faster, then letting them hang onto a broom stick while dangling over the edge of an eight story building!

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

An people where upset with Mr. Jackson doing it.

 

[missjo]

Jacky Coogan, same hotel, few decades earlier
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...n,_Jacky_Coogan_auf_dem_Balkon_des_Adlons.jpg

 

[Story]

Alot to be said about the monsters that have always walked among us, but have quickly been forgotten.

There was once a California town that was named Wineville, in honor of its primary crop, the grape.

But in 1928, something so awful happened there that it wiped the name off the map. It was a series of child killings that will forever be known as the “Wineville chicken coop murders.” As many as 20 boys may have died there at the hands of sadistic sex maniac Gordon Stewart Northcott, 21. Newspapers dubbed him the “ape man” because of the thick black hair all over his body.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/jus...-horror-1920s-article-1.1229595#ixzz2L8ZYyWiZ

 

[CONELRAD]

Animal cruelty in Circus in the past was just too sad for words :frown: in some instances it still is nowadays :frown:


I don't like the way animals were treated in the past.


For that reason only I would not like to live in the past.

Of course it's true that circuses mistreated (and continue to mistreat) animals, but I don't think that the general populace actually condoned cruelty towards animals, I just don't think they put them on the same pedestal that we do today, such as taking your dog or cat for a bath and a pedicure, but rather that they treated them as animals, let them do their own thing. I don't think that animal cruelty was frowned upon quite as much as today, but I also don't think it was appreciated. And there's plenty of animals being mistreated today, as well.

Radium.

Radium is cool... but hazardous. Most of the danger is for the painter, rather than the user, as far as I know. And I believe a sealed watch or clock should pose no threat to anyone, as long as it isn't opened.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Radium is cool... but hazardous. Most of the danger is for the painter, rather than the user, as far as I know. And I believe a sealed watch or clock should pose no threat to anyone, as long as it isn't opened.

Which probably explains why sellers of vintage Russian watches also sell radiation detectors.

 

[3fingers]

Which probably explains why sellers of vintage Russian watches also sell radiation detectors.

There was a documentary about these girls a few years back. Every one of them died young as I recall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

 

[CONELRAD]

There was a documentary about these girls a few years back. Every one of them died young as I recall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls

They had a segment about the radium girls on that "Dark Matters" show on the Science Channel, too.

Which probably explains why sellers of vintage Russian watches also sell radiation detectors.

Did Russians use radium? I've got a couple Vostoks, but neither of them are old enough have radium dials, and I'm not sure if I've ever actually seen a Russian watch with radium paint. And while we're on the topic, here's a video I made to show of the radioactivity of a radium watch (actually I just made it to test the microphone on my video camera):

[video=youtube;Lmre78eye_Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmre78eye_Q[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Vostok watches should be safe as they were made from 1965 to the present and do not use radium as the lume. It's the vintage ones from the '50s such as this mammoth Zlatoust Diver Watch that has radium.

 

[Sprinkles]

Promethium was also used in luminous paint. While it is still radioactive, I believe it is nevertheless much safer than radium.

 

[David Conwill]

Women had a far defter touch than men with the soldering iron, and were better able to manipulate their hands in the cramped spaces on an electronic chassis

I certainly believe this. I'm totally ham fisted, but my wife is very good at this type of thing. You should see her gap points on an old distributor.

 

[David Conwill]

I'm actually doing an experiment with only cooking the kinds of food they ate back then, in the same amounts too. I'll report back on how it goes. I'm surprised how well it echoes what people say when they tell us to eat 'greener' and more ecologically sustainable.

You might enjoy reading Food of a Younger Land. It's a summary of an abandoned WPA project documenting American regional eating habits in the late-1930s and early-1940s.

 

[Story]

Moving this thread back to the Golden Era

In devastating detail, an excerpt from a controversial new book reveals how the big studios, desperate to protect German business, let Nazis censor scripts, remove credits from Jews, get movies stopped and even force one MGM executive to divorce his Jewish wife.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-hollywood-helped-hitler-595684

 

[LizzieMaine]

Somebody obviously forgot to send that memo to Jack Warner.

 

[jamespowers]

Somebody obviously forgot to send that memo to Jack Warner.

And his brothers.