#1939 World&039;s Fair

[ajl1963]

Weekend Finds - A Close to 2022

Weekend Finds – A Close to 2022

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Revelations of secular make-believe from a child’s playground in Brooklyn

Richard Wagner Munich. Faithful reproduction of a painting by Franz Hanfstaengl, 1871/Public domain. Make-belief is not just the province of kids but is also fulsomely practiced by adults. Lacking a satisfactory answer to the origins of unique human cultures, some 19th-century atheists made up beautiful, romantic, elaborate mythologies about the original Nobel Savages. The Christian element of…

[restauranthistorian]

Famous in its day: Le Pavillon

Famous in its day: Le Pavillon

Alternative headings for this post could be Former Busboy Becomes Famous Restaurateur, Best Mid-Century French Restaurant in the U.S., or The Restaurant that Set the Standard for Fine Dining. In other words, everyone who has known or researched Le Pavillon agrees that it produced this country’s finest French cuisine for most of its 22 years under Henri Soulé. It’s also significant that…

[wandering-jana]

Flushing Meadows: The Remnants of Two World's Fairs in Queens, New York

Flushing Meadows: The Remnants of Two World’s Fairs in Queens, New York

A filthy dump turned into a place where people from all over the world came together to celebrate humanity and the future. (more…)

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Book Review: We Came Here to Shine - Historical Fiction Takes Readers to the 1939 World's Fair

Book Review: We Came Here to Shine – Historical Fiction Takes Readers to the 1939 World’s Fair

We Came Here to Shine By Susie Orman Schnall

Vivi Holden and Maxine (Max) Roth are two different women on very different paths in life. Little did they know that they would become best friends amidst the awe and wonder of the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City.

Max is a fledgling writer trying to make her way in a man’s world. The summer internship she covets is working for the New York Times.…

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Cold War - The Atomic Bomb And The UN - 1948 - Past Daily Reference Room

Cold War – The Atomic Bomb And The UN – 1948 – Past Daily Reference Room

The Cold War – rallies, saber rattling, postures and above all, fear. https://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Chicago-Univ.-Roundtable-1948.mp3

Atomic Energy And The UN – NBC Radio – Chicago University Round Table – October 24, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection –

Atomic Energy; for good or for extermination – that was the big question hovering over the world in 1948. The Soviet Union

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Review: Doctor Fate #13

Review: Doctor Fate #13

Doctor Fate #13. Paul Levitz- Writer, Ibrahim Moustafa- Artist, Lee Loughridge- Colorist. Rebirth comes to Doctor Fate! Oh, what’s that you say, Doctor Fate isn’t a Rebirth title? Well, you could’ve fooled me! From the Tony Harris cover which is evocative a DC series about another Golden Age hero- Starman. Doctor Fate #13 reframes the series and character of Khalid Nassour in terms of content as…

[ajl1963]

Weekend Treasures - June 2024

[nycreligion]

Revelations of secular make-believe from a child’s playground in Brooklyn

Richard Wagner Munich. Faithful reproduction of a painting by Franz Hanfstaengl, 1871/Public domain. Make-belief is not just the province of kids but is also fulsomely practiced by adults. Lacking a satisfactory answer to the origins of unique human cultures, some 19th-century atheists made up beautiful, romantic, elaborate mythologies about the original Nobel Savages. The Christian element of…

[writeknit]

Book Review: Murder, She Encountered - Fun and Informative Historical Cozy Mystery

Book Review: Murder, She Encountered – Fun and Informative Historical Cozy Mystery

Murder, She Encountered By Peg Cochran

Elizabeth Adams, is a woman before her time. She is a crime photographer at the Daily Trumpet in New York City and works closely with veteran crime reporter Ralph Kaminsky. Today no one would blink an eye at a woman photographer, but in 1939 that is virtually unheard of. She is a career woman when almost all women married and stayed home to raise children.

T…

[hyperrealcartography]

Mysteries of the Queens Boulevard Subway

Mysteries of the Queens Boulevard Subway

The Queens Boulevard Subway was built as part of the vast Independent City-Owned and Operated Subway, the IND, conceived by then Mayor John F. Hylan in 1922. At the time Queens was still very rural but the building of the elevated subways, today’s N/Q and 7 trains, had brought explosive growth to the once sleepy farm communities of Newtown, Woodside, Elmhurst and Corona. Queens Boulevard itself…

[ajl1963]

Chase ‘n Fiesta

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Deco Doings - January, 2023

Deco Doings – January, 2023

Winter by William Welsh, 1931. Image from Pinterest. Happy New Year from Driving For Deco Let’s take a look at some events to start your year in the deco way!   Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art American Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918-1939 (In Person Event)      Saturday, July 9, 2022 – Sunday, January 8, 2023 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Missouri.   Art Deco…

[ajl1963]

Deco Doings - February, 2023

Winter by William Welsh, 1931. Image from Pinterest. New York Adventure Club Italian Futurism, Part II: Embracing Modern Sport, Flight, & War (On Line Event)      Friday, February 3, 2023 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (EST)   New York Adventure Club The Golden Age of Luxury Ocean Liners (On Line Event)      Tuesday, February 7, 2023 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM (EST)   Chicago Art Deco Society Feeding the Art Deco…

[ajl1963]

Deco Doings - March, 2024

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Deco Doings - January, 2024

Winter by William Welsh, 1931. Image from Pinterest. Here is a list of events to start off 2024 in a very “Deco way”. Poster House Art Deco: Commercializing the Avant-Garde (In Person Event)      Thursday, September 28, 2023 – Sunday, February 25, 2023, Poster House, 119 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY   New York Adventure Club WPA Murals of the New Deal, Part 1: American Regionalism (Online…