New Year’s Day 1929: Which Way the Future?
The huge crowd gathered in Times Square on December 31, 1928, did not know that the “New Era” of eternal good times, proclaimed by...
The Lindberghs’ Summer Excursion Part 1
By 1931 Charles Lindbergh had acquired the aura of the world’s greatest aviator and hero. He had also acquired a young wife, and one...
Tragic Tale of the Normandie Part 1: Smoke Across the Skyline
Admiral Adolphus Andrews, commander of the U.S. Navy’s Third Naval District, sat behind his desk at 90 Church Street in Manhattan; had he the...
The Dark Days of 1942
Both December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001 are forever wrapped in infamy. But the relatively quick reaction of overwhelming military force displayed in...
Broadcasting from the Bottom of the World
A collapsible organ, a piano, and a man who could do “double tremolos on the harmonica.” If you guessed a 1930s evening by the...
The Middle of an Era
Sometimes the best place to start is in the middle. By the Spring of 1937, half of this fascinating era had already unfolded and...
POW Exposition
Lieutenant Colonel Ross Greening and his fellow ex-prisoners of war were crushed. They had collected 56 crates of American ingenuity–POW handicraft–while waiting at their...
D-Day USA
In the early hours of Tuesday, June 6, 1944, in New York City’s Times Square, a group of cab drivers, a cop on the...
Triple Teamed
World War Two on the home front produced some strange sights: teenagers driving old jalopies on their rims because of tire rationing, children pulling...
Five Seconds in Miami
Guiseppe Zangara's stomach "always hurt." The 33 year-old Italian immigrant bricklayer held and lost numerous jobs from New Jersey to California following his 1923...