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  • Billups Neon Crossing Signal
    History "STOP – DEATH – STOP" a gloriously excessive 1930s railroad crossing signal Ellsworth Toohey
  • The Bride!
    film "The Bride!" brings supernatural twist to Bonnie and Clyde formula Séamus Bellamy
  • Vintage Weird Here are some fantastically fun bicycle designs in Chicago from 1939 Popkin
  • eighties New Order's 'Blue Monday' but played on 1930s instruments Rusty Blazenhoff
  • electronic music Electronic music from the 1930s: Prelude by Rachmaninov Popkin
  • 1930s Ha Ha Ha is an episode of Betty Boop from 1934 about getting stoned at the dentist Popkin
  • alcohol Secret gadget to bust prohibition-era speakeasies Mark Frauenfelder
  • Robert Wadlow, the tallest person in recorded history Public domain (via Wikipedia)
    History Robert Wadlow stood 8 feet 11 inches tall and refused to be a sideshow act Ellsworth Toohey
  • John Frum gathering area in Vanuatu
    religion A cargo cult in Vanuatu has been waiting for an American named John Frum since the 1930s Ellsworth Toohey
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    History 1936 exposé: How Chicago's charity rackets worked Ellsworth Toohey
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota (Sean Pavone/shutterstock.com)
    guns in a lake Guns discovered in Minneapolis lake reveal unusual move by police in 1927 Jason Weisberger
  • Tunnel Rock, Sequoia National Park, USA/Depositphotos
    History Workers routed a highway through this boulder rather than blast it Popkin
  • nyc This 1930s children's book on city planning is a delight Gail Sherman
  • Quacky, by Jim Woodring
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    puzzles Four students solved a geometry puzzle by pretending squares were resistors Ellsworth Toohey
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    art Monkey Jesus painter Cecilia Giménez dead at 94 Rob Beschizza
  • Mondrian's 1930 canvas
    public domain Works entering the U.S. public domain in 2026 Rob Beschizza

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