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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 1, 2018 22:59:46 GMT
ZolotoyRetriever The Wall Street bombing occurred at 12:01 pm on September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another eight died later of wounds sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the total number of injured was in the hundreds. The bombing was never solved, although investigators and historians believe the Wall Street bombing was carried out by Galleanists (Italian anarchists), a group responsible for a series of bombings the previous year. The attack was related to postwar social unrest, labor struggles, and anti-capitalist agitation in the United States. The Wall Street bomb killed more people than the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times, which was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to that point. The death toll was exceeded in the Bath School disaster in 1927. Wiki Link for more |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 1, 2018 23:03:41 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 1, 2018 23:08:11 GMT
Doghouse6 puleeeeeze we're TRYing to have a serious discussion here  <fixed bayonets> <chuckle> <guffaw> <snort>
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 2, 2018 4:55:14 GMT
Old movies that feature a scene of a lumber mill will invariably have one of these in the picture somewhere: called a Wigwam Burner, they were tall, conical metal towers with a mesh grate on top, and a conveyor belt that carried wood scraps, chips, bark, sawdust etc. into the unit for burning. They've pretty much been outlawed by EPA clean air rules, or lumber mills have found other ways to recycle the wood chips, such as using them in particle boards and whatnot.
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I used to see those all the time when I'd travel around with my parents. I vividly remember driving by one at night, and the top of it had an eerie orange glow from the hot fire burning inside. Pretty cool sight. But man, they were real smoke bombs. Not hard to see why they were banned.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 2, 2018 7:53:16 GMT
Many times in classic films you'll see early electric refrigerators which were designed with the condenser coils sitting on top of the unit, rather than tucked away somewhere out of sight, as in modern ones.
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Post by london777 on Aug 3, 2018 2:14:14 GMT
Corner newsagent who sold single cigarettes from an opened packet. Or do they still? (I am a lifelong non-smoker so I would not know).
The old guy who arrived on a bicycle to light the street gas lamps with a (something) on the end of a long pole.
Neighbors racing out of their houses after the horse-drawn milk or coal carts had passed to shovel up any horse-dung for their roses.
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 3, 2018 2:22:48 GMT
Corner newsagent who sold single cigarettes from an opened packet. Or do they still? (I am a lifelong non-smoker so I would not know). Still exist. They're called "looseys", as in "loose cigarettes". |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 3, 2018 3:35:06 GMT
Neighbors racing out of their houses after the horse-drawn milk or coal carts had passed to shovel up any horse-dung for their roses. |
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Post by london777 on Aug 3, 2018 3:47:12 GMT
They're called "looseys", as in "loose cigarettes". I have a movie in my collection called Loosies (2011). Is that the same word? I assume it refers to odd people "on the loose" in the city in the small hours but I have never been sure. It is a slack title for a slack, unstructured film. |
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Post by london777 on Aug 3, 2018 3:50:42 GMT
Neighbors racing out of their houses after the horse-drawn milk or coal carts had passed to shovel up any horse-dung for their roses. You will be able to see it when they film my life story. I use to earn a thrupenny bit if I got there first. Last honest money I ever earned. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 3, 2018 3:59:09 GMT
Oil Lamp on the table used to light the house and not just as a quaint decoration.  |
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Post by london777 on Aug 3, 2018 4:04:47 GMT
Oil Lamp on the table used to light the house and not just as a quaint decoration. Very common practice where I live because of the frequent power cuts. For decoration we use lava lamps. Note the unobnoxious kid in the background. He was a nice kid. What was she doing in this scene? Washing, cutting, delousing? |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 3, 2018 4:07:23 GMT
Little kids not so brainwashed by thoughts of "stranger danger" that they are afraid to speak to a stranger even when a parent is holding their hand. Luckily this particular boy spoke to the stranger in his midst and kept an eye on what he was doing.   |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 3, 2018 4:12:38 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 3, 2018 4:23:17 GMT
Wood burning cook stove rather like this one:  seen in many a movie but cannot locate a screenshot (yet) |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 3, 2018 5:11:18 GMT
"Pot bellied stove" seen here behind "teen-idol" with non-electric guitar -- all old technology.  |
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Post by teleadm on Aug 3, 2018 16:56:00 GMT
I don't know what you called it in your countries, but we called "The War of the Ants". Nowdays we have access to to world 24 hours a day, but in older 1950s movies if someone had fallen asleep in front of the television set, it was:  Nowday there is always some chanel showing something 24 hours a day. |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 3, 2018 19:32:42 GMT
I don't know what you called it in your countries, but we called "The War of the Ants". Nowdays we have access to to world 24 hours a day, but in older 1950s movies if someone had fallen asleep in front of the television set, it was: Nowday there is always some chanel showing something 24 hours a day.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 3, 2018 19:45:03 GMT
Occasionally in classic films, depending on the period being depicted, you can see the use of ice box refrigerators, which predate the early electric models I mentioned earlier. And, of course, sometimes you will see the ice man delivering the huge blocks of ice to houses - often via a horse-drawn cart. Here's an interesting article that uncovers the mysteries of ice box refrigeration quite nicely:
www.searshomes.org/index.php/tag/how-did-iceboxes-work/
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 3, 2018 19:58:54 GMT
in the UK we used to get these
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