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During the Second world War, retired baseball greats Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson made an appearance at a charity game at New York's Yankee Stadium. (Of course the climax was Ruth hitting one of Johnson's pitches over the right field fence.)
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Ruth
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Added: 13th May 2008
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
 
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This is the tail end of an excellent Canadian documentary about the defense of Hong Kong in 1941. In December 1941, some 2,000 green Canadian troops were sent to bolster the exotic British outpost against an expected Japanese attack. It was a suicide mission. The Japanese attacked with about 90,000 battle-hardened troops. The heroic defense of Hong Kong lasted about three weeks before the inevitable surrender. Japanese troops brutally murdered wounded hospitalized defenders. Captured Canadian and British troops were shipped to slave labor camps where they existed in horrid conditions for nearly four years. Lest we forget...
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Kong
Canadians
Added: 8th May 2008
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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washing one of the Santa Fe R.R. 5,400-horsepower diesels . . .
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photo
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Fe
Diesel
Added: 8th May 2008
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Posted By: Teresa |
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a woman floating in the water at Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida . . the photo is by fashion photographer Toni Frissell and was published in HARPER'S BAZAAR in December 1947 . . .
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vintage
photo
Weeki
Wachee
Spring
Toni
Frissell
Harper
Added: 8th May 2008
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Posted By: Teresa |
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Want to learn how to dance the jitterbug? Watch this 1944 film called 'Groovie Movie.'
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Jitterbug
film
Added: 7th May 2008
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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Part 2. Recorded in 1949. I'm dying to hear the comments for these!
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Added: 7th May 2008
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Posted By: Old Fart |
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"Two women model Firestone's entrée into the world of fashion: undergarments made with Controlastic, an elastic yarn made of rubber ("Our Most Versatile Vegetable Product," said National Geographic in a February 1940 story). The tire company debuted the rubber product, no longer used in today's stretch fabrics, at the 1939-1940 World's Fair with a promise that it would fulfull 'that very much formfitting desire that is paramount today in so much of women's wear.'"
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Firestone
Models
undergarments
Controlastic
rubber
yarn
Added: 5th May 2008
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Posted By: Teresa |
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A very attractive poster for the 1941 Gary Cooper movie Sergeant York. (I've always thought conscientious objectors should be made to watch this excellent film.)
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York
poster
Added: 3rd May 2008
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Posted By: Lava1964 |
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