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| The San Francisco Home Front (Yank Magazine, 1944) San Francisco played an active roll in World War Two and it was the largest port of embarkation, ferrying millions of American soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines off to their unknown fates in the Pacific War. Between 1942 and 1945, the San Francisco population increased by some 150,000 - yet despite the growth, traffic along Market Street was just as heavy as it was before the war. Taxis were fewer and far more dilapidated, trolley car rides were raised to seven cents and despite a government restriction obliging all coffee vendors to charge no more than five cents for each cup, the caffeine-addicted San Franciscans paid twice that amount. U.S.O shows were plentiful throughout San Francisco and with so many of the city's police officer's called up, some parts of the city were patrolled by women. True fans of San Francisco will enjoy this article. Read about the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake...
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| The Great Depression and the Failings of FDR (New Outlook Magazine, 1934) The columnist whose opinions are attached bitterly pointed out that the first year of FDR's administration had marginalized the Congress - and further opined that Roosevelt's rhetoric clearly implied his arrogant conviction that his administration alone was the only alternative to out right revolution, and should therefore to be seen as a mandate of the people. The article lists the numerous failings of FDR's "New Deal". CLICK HERE to read more criticism from FDR's loyal opposition... When W.W. II began and the factories reopened, the reality of having money and full-time employment made so many people giddy with excitement it proved to be too much for them - click here to read about that... |
| The National Press Club During the War (Click Magazine, 1943) Like most capital cities, Washington, D.C. had numerous social clubs set aside for members of the press throughout the decades. A great number of the ones in Washington flopped because they would extend credit to their members when they drank at the bar. The one exception was the National Press Club - they insisted that their reporters and columnists pay-as-they-go. It was this well-observed rule that saved the club from bankruptcy and allowed it to flourish well into the Twenty-first Century. This article recalls what a busy place the NPC was during the war years. Recommended reading: Drunk Before Noon: The Behind-The-Scenes Story of the Washington Press Corps |
| Jihad Against 'The New Look' (See Magazine, 1948) A former fashion model, Bobbie Woodward, was outraged when she awoke that morning in 1947 to find that the hidden hairy hand that decides which direction the fashion winds will blow had given the nod to some snail-eating Frenchman who stood athwart fashion's unspoken promise to continue the skirt hem's march ever-upward. Wasting no time, she quickly marshaled other equally inclined women and formed The Little Below the Knee Clubs, which spread to forty-eight states (as well as Canada) in order to let the fashion establishment know that they would not be forced into wearing this fashion juggernaut known as "The New Look". The attached See Magazine article serves as a photo-essay documenting the collective outrage of these women and their doomed crusade against Christian Dior. One 1947 fashion critic believed that the New Look suffered from "a split personality". Click here to read her review. |
| Shopping from Television (Pathfinder Magazine, 1951) Before there was an HSN or a QVC - before there was an Adam Freeman or a Mary Beth Roe, there was "Your Television Shopper" and "Leave It To The Girls" starring Maggie Johnson and Faye Emerson, respectively. The programs were two of several such shows that aired during the prepubescent days of television broadcasting - and like the shopping shows that came along fifty years later, they, too, moved products off the shelves at a surprising pace. Click here to read how Hollywood costume designer affected popular fashion... |
| Kaiser Wilhelm's Thoughts On Hitler (Ken Magazine, 1938) For the sixth time in his life, Ken Magazine's far-flung correspondent, W. Burkhardt, found himself cast in the roll as guest of the deposed king of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859 - 1941). After exchanging pleasantries, their conversation turned to weightier topics, such as contemporary German politics and it was at that time that Ken's man in Doorn recognized his moment:
"Suddenly, sensing a chance I may never have again, I pose the question":
"Nichts!" Click here to read about the fall of Paris... |
| Witness on Azusa Street (LA Times, 1906) Between 1906 and 1909, the Holy Spirit had come to dwell among the people in Los Angeles. One April day, in a run-down livery stable that was converted to a church, Pastor William Seymore (1870 – 1922) broke out into tongues and so did everyone within earshot. In fact, people blocks away began to speak in tongues and witnessing to all passersby. Within no time, the walls of that "tumble-down shack on Azusa Street" were decorated with the crutches, canes and hearing horns of the recently healed. |
| Consumers Tell it to Detroit (Popular Mechanics, 1954) Attached are the results of a nationwide survey from 1954 indicating what the American automobile consumers were shopping for in cars: • 54% preferred whitewall tires over any other kind • 68% preferred push-button door handles • 59% wanted jet-age hood ornaments • 44% wished that dashboards were loaded with dials and gauges
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| An American Tank in Tunisia (American Magazine, 1943) Here is first-person account of life in an M3 Stuart tank fighting in Tunisia: "We were ordered to hold, and hold we did. But we took a terrible shellacking. We dodged around, spitting at the Germans with our little 37mm gun. Every now and then one of their heavy tank shells or high-velocity 88s would hit one of our light tanks and smash it. The wounded would crawl out, and those who could walk would carry or drag those who couldn't... In the afternoon, when we were finally ordered to withdraw, we had only 9 of 18 tanks left, and some of those were damaged. We took what wounded we could into the tanks and held them in our arms." |
| Killing (Coronet Magazine, 1944) A World War Two article by a young Polish guerrilla who graphically explains what it is like to kill a man, an experience he abhors: "...then all at once he gave a shiver and relaxed, I released my grip and he fell to the ground."
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