25 years ago today
25 years ago today
25 years ago today Looking backward through the years for contrasts and similarities: Revolution in Cuba, upheaval, crowds in streets, and Batista makes headlines, as a rebel leader! Man with gun carried on shoulders of people in crowd. At the opening of the Vatican's first radio station, Pope Pius XI and inventor Guglielmo Marconi speak. Fashions - hats, dresses, and the daring pointed shoes [high heels, some "strappy"] of '33 are highlighted - as is the form of the femme fatale at a Coney Island beauty contest. Bathing beauties, with a woman taking their measurements (right there in front of everybody!] Winner with trophy. Commuters had their troubles aggravated when a local ordinance barred kissing the wife good-bye at the station-it tied up traffic! Men [husbands, apparently] kiss women [wives] goodbye as wives sit in cars. Men run to catch train. Sign: Bronxville. Traffic cops.