#1928 - 1931

[prohibitionpirates]

United States Coast Guard Cutter Porter (CG-7) circa 1924-30. This was formerly the U.S. Navy Tucker-class destroyer USS Porter (DD-59), one of 25 ex-Navy destroyers turned over to the Coast Guard in 1924 to enforce Prohibition and battle rumrunners. During her Coast Guard service, Porter captured the rum-running vessel Conseulo II (the former Louise) off the coast of Long Island. The destroyer was returned to the Navy in 1933 but scrapped in 1934 without being recommissioned.

[ahasamehdi]

My happiness is singing music and writing.

Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life. Don’t laugh just listen my sing 🎤 Which thing will make me happy It has many different designs. But I would like to give an example from stressful emotions, frustrations, boredom of life. I want to tell you two examples. All these emotions disappear when I listen to music and writing And I’ll sing an emotional song Music relaxes me…

[automotiveamerican]

How the 1928-1931 Ford Model A started the entire auto restoration hobby - David Conwill @Hemmings

How the 1928-1931 Ford Model A started the entire auto restoration hobby – David Conwill @Hemmings

It’s the car that put a wrench in many a young enthusiast’s hands Like a lot of things, auto restoration has antecedents in the pre-World War II era, but is most strongly associated with the postwar period. Brass car enthusiasts were already preserving and fixing those machines by the late ‘30s, but the first thing that most would recognize as the hobby/industry of today really springs out of…

[vintagedreamsofsennett]

The tiny (4'8", 98 pounds) but energetic Pollard spent five years at Sennett off-and-on from 1927-32. She starred or co-starred in the "Sennett Girl" comedies, and had a couple of starring roles in later Sennett talkie shorts.

Daphne was born in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, and was on stage by age six with Pollard's Lilliputians Opera Company — the group of touring child performers from which she and Snub Pollard derived their stage names (and of which Billy Bevan was also a member). Daphne toured the world as "prima donna" of the Pollard troupe, which she joined when she was eight years old. She came to America in 1901 when the troupe moved its home base to Seattle, Washington, and Daphne later found work with the San Francisco Opera Company. Pollard made her Broadway debut in 1908 in "Mr. Hamlet of Broadway" starring Eddie Foy, and spent several years with the Keith Albee vaudeville circuit, which included stints at the Palace in New York. After appearing in "The Passing Show of 1915" at New York's Winter Garden, she starred at the London Hippodrome in 1917 and at the Folies Bergère in Paris in 1918 — then returned to the Winter Garden in 1923 for "The Greenwich Village Follies." Though she is said to have come to Sennett at the recommendation of fellow Pollard alumnus Alf Goulding, Daphne herself has said that Sennett had unsuccessfully attempted to hire in 1915. Pollard also starred in shorts for Vitaphone (1928), RKO Pathé (1930), Universal (1931), and did some supporting work at Hal Roach studios — playing Oliver Hardy's wife in a couple of films (most notably Thicker Than Water). She also starred with Shemp Howard in Vitaphone shorts in 1934-35. Pollard's feature appearances include Hit of the Show (FBO 1928), The Sky Hawk (Fox 1929), Swing High (M-G-M 1930), Bonnie Scotland (Roach-M-G-M 1935), Our Relations (Roach-M-G-M 1936), The Dancing Masters (20th 1943) and Kid Dynamite (Mon 1943).

She married newspaper editor (and later stockbroker) Ellington S. Bunch in Seattle in 1911; he widowed her in 1959. She died as Daphne Bunch at 87 in Hollywood, and is interred at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills.

-Walker, B.E., 2010, Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, p.538

[taquela16]

Oldest Things

Daily writing promptWhat’s the oldest things you’re wearing today?View all responses ~ My Life As A Mom

[elarea]

Sportivo Maldonado F. C.

Se ha diseñado y añadido a la Galería de banderas y escudos de clubes desaparecidos la bandera del Sportivo Maldonado Football Club, La entidad fue fundada el 02.09.1928 y tenía su sede en Camino Maldonado 1595.

Gracias a Gabriel Ladetto Porrini podemos saber que el club completó diecisiete temporadas A.U.F. Arrancó en 1931 en la Extra. pasó a Intermedia y tras 20 años de inactividad militó en la Extra B de 1961 a 1966 siendo su última actuación la de la temporada 1968, en la que integró la Divisional de ascenso a la Extra.

[hotvintagepoll]

What are some screwball comedy pairings you wish had been a thing? Can definitely be gay ones :)

Okay finally!

One of the reasons I made this blog in the first place is that few things bring me as much blinding rage as imagining the movies we could have gotten, if old Hollywood had stopped being racist/homophobic/anti-everyone for ten fucking seconds. There were so many talented hotties working through our tournament era who only got cameo spots or no-budget movies! for no reason beyond white supremacy! there were so many stories that didn't get told because heaven forbid we acknowledge gay people! If this blog has a mission statement, a big chunk of it would be about highlighting all the amazing hotties who never got what they deserved in their heyday.

So! Let's tear Louis B. Mayer a new one and make some better movies.

Diamond Eyes (1946)

Harold Nicholas, the bored but fabulous son of a Manhattan millionaire, decides to take himself off on a transatlantic cruise to recover from the boredoms of socialites, constant martinis, and west side glamor. When working girl Rita Hayworth snags him into a fake dating scheme to throw off a jealous ex (Cesar Romero), he doesn't mean to fall in love with his false fiancé—or to set the ex up with his scheming accountant (Tyrone Power).

To the Tune of Millions (1945)

Ann Miller and Lena Horne are conwomen besties who use a fake dance act to get into casinos, which they then promptly rob. Unfortunately, an over-enthusiastic talent agent (Gene Kelly) sees the act and thinks they're legitimate, hiring them on the spot as the lead number in a newly opened but already failing musicale review. Who can they hustle at a theater that's barely bringing in a dime? The two ex-cons fall in love with show business, Kelly and Horne smooch at the grand finale, and Miller has an intense will-they-or-won't-they sparring relationship with the hot stage manager (Ethel Waters—and they will).

Untitled Three's-a-Crowd Film (1942)

Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Ronald Colman are running interference on a corrupt justice system while trying to keep up the act that they are all simply cohabitating in a shared AirBnB and definitely not falling in love with each other. Wait. This is actually The Talk of the Town. This movie actually exists and does veer this hard into polyamorous romance.

Tomatoes and Toast (1928)

Anna May Wong and Greta Garbo eat sandwiches for three hours. It's riveting.

One Soul, Two Bodies (1948)

Farley Granger and Vincent Price star as Alexander the Great and Hephaestion in this sword-and-sandals period piece. Though clearly made on a studio backlot with a budget of $3, the dashing romance grounds the chariot races and cardboard sword battle sequences.

Grand Central Station (1931)

Interconnected narratives of Josephine Baker, Joan Blondell, Dolores del Río, and Fredric March all vying for the last seat on the 5:45 train out to Poughkeepsie. When they realize they're jostling to sit next to the same sugar daddy who's been stringing all of them along, the four decide to unionize. Pre-code thrills; the four-in-a-bunk Pullman car scene remains notable for a reason.

I have more but I think I've gone a bit delirious.

[frostedmagnolias]

Wine Velvet Dinner Gown with Gold Braid Embroidery

c. 1928-1931

by American designer Natacha Rambova

Phoenix Art Museum

[petaltexturedskies]

Anaïs Nin, in a diary entry dated 7 September 1928 featured in The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. IV 1927-1931

[shisasan]

April 25, 1928 Journals of Anais Nin 1927-1931  [volume 4]

[vintage-london-images]

Here we have a selection of colour photographs of Piccadilly Circus from the 1950s 60s and 70s.

Piccadilly Circus connects to Piccadilly, a thoroughfare whose name first appeared in 1626 as Piccadilly Hall, named after a house belonging to Robert Baker, a tailor famous for selling piccadills or piccadillies, a term used for various kinds of popular collars of the time. The street was known as Portugal Street in 1692 in honour of Catherine of Braganza, the queen consort of King Charles II but was known as Piccadilly by at least 1743. Piccadilly Circus was created in 1819, at the junction with Regent Street, which was then being built under the planning of John Nash on the site of a house and garden belonging to a Lady Hutton, the intersection was then known as Regent Circus South (just as Oxford Circus was known as Regent Circus North) and it did not begin to be known officially as Piccadilly Circus until the mid 1880's with the rebuilding of the Regent Street Quadrant and the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue. In the same period the circus lost its circular form.

The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain or Eros at Piccadilly Circus was erected in 1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. It was removed from the Circus twice and moved from the centre once. The first time was in the mid 1920s, so that Charles Holden's new tube station could be built directly below it. The fountain returned in 1931. During the Second World War, the fountain was removed for the second time and replaced by advertising hoardings. It was returned again in 1948. When the Circus underwent reconstruction work in the late 1980s, the entire fountain was moved from the centre of the junction at the beginning of Shaftesbury Avenue to its present position at the southwestern corner.

Piccadilly Circus tube station was opened on 10th March 1906, on the Bakerloo line, and on the Piccadilly line in December of that year. In 1928, the station was extensively rebuilt to handle an increase in traffic. The junction's first electric advertisements appeared in 1910, and from 1923 electric billboards were set up on the facade of the London Pavilion. Electric street lamps interestingly however did not replace the gas ones until 1932. The circus became a one-way roundabout on 19th July 1926 and traffic lights were first installed on 3rd August of that year.

[ahasamehdi]

An emergency of houses.

Create an emergency preparedness plan. Prepare an emergency plan Creating an emergency plan for example Plan for emergencies in the house The residence is something that everyone in the family must take care of. Before leaving the house to go to work, check the order every time you go out of the house. When inspecting and checking to make sure that nothing unusual happens or not forgetting,…

[automotiveamerican]

Model A Ford Accident Damage Repair - @AstraWerke

As a fellow Model A owner I follow Adrian Straub’s Astra-Werke YouTube channel. Adrian recently had some bad luck and was involved in an accident. The amount of damage for what appears to be a minor impact is quite surprising. Yes, of course, the angle of impact and other factors tend to dictate these things. However, as Adrian states in the video, older cars seem stronger. In reality, they are…

[thefugitivesaint]

Ralph Barton (1891-1931), ''Droll Stories'' by Honoré de Balzac, 1928 Source

[taquela16]

Leader or Follower

Daily writing promptAre you a leader or a follower?View all responses ~ My Life As A Mom

[elarea]

Uruguay Club

Gracias al aporte de Agustín Montemuiño y sumando material gráfico para Atilio Software, se ha diseñado el escudo del desaparecido Uruguay Club.

Agustín nos comenta que el Club Uruguayo de Football jugó en la Extra de 1920 hasta 1922, en 1924 pasó a la disidente Federación Uruguaya en donde compitió hasta 1926. Luego el club se fusionó con Uruguay Onward y compitió como Uruguay Club en la Primera División en 1927, 1928 y luego en Intermedia y Segunda División para dejar de competir en 1931, acumulando cinco temporadas de competencia oficial A.U.F.