Twenty-five Years Ago
Twenty-five Years Ago
Twenty-five Years Ago Twenty-five years ago today, an election year like today, and the great names then are still magical. The 'little flower' Fiorello Laguardia routing Tammany in New York. Al Smith donning the feathered bonnet of the 'happy warrior'. A new gold rush as federal buying pushed prices up, revived the old boom towns of Colorado..And Ohio buzzed with excitement at its own gold strike. Inventors are at their most active, and zaniest. Among them, the 'flying windmill' which never quite got off the ground, the 'flying flapjack', which did, and the dazzling dymaxion car, terrific even by today's standards! Urban street scenes, night, neon signs lit up, crowds outside. Cheering, celebrating crowds. Man shakes hands with various others, talks to camera (no audio). Native American Indian man in full headdress talks with a few Caucasian men in hats. Another Indian man places a feathered headdress on one of the white men; the man smiles, others around him smile and clap. Fairly deserted Western landscape, sparsely populated structures in distance. Man in hat, eyeglasses, and great big mustache using a pickaxe. Man shows off a rock to the camera. Mining activities with various sorts of machinery, equipment. Hand hold a pan with what looks like dirt in it (gold?). Funny flying machine, The Grey Goose, is pushed along on the ground. Another funny aviation invention -- looks kind of like half a flying saucer -- takes off and flies. Funny-looking long automobile with only one rear wheel, driving, spinning around a man on street, parallel parking.