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Hey there, fellas. How about some good news for a change?
We're pleased to announce that unHappy Hour! will be a part of RetróPolis Valencia next April, on the 25th. How about you come pay us a visit? 😳 👉️ 👈️
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July 29, 1925 — Giving up an $8 job to become a bootlegger was grounds for divorce #100yearsagotoday . The divorce column was long, detailed and daily. #retropolis
July 19, 1925 — Don’t worry, folks! A USC study done #100yearsagotoday showed that a college education didn’t steer women away from marriage! #retropolis
July 18, 1925 - A new trend in bootlegging was discovered beneath a Maryland cabin’s trap door #100yearsagotoday — underground stills. The culprit? A former Baltimore cop. #retropolis
July 17, 1925 — That name, though! A hero story #100yearsagotoday honored a girl who saved a dozen head of cattle when the Virginia barn caught fire, common during these hot summers when tightly packed wheat spontaneously combusted. #retropolis
July 16, 1925 - Those of us who had to square dance in grammar school may blame Henry Ford’s anti-Semitic campaign against what he called “Jewish Jazz — Moron Music” #100yearsagotoday . Ford built stages to hold lessons in traditional dances as the rest of America did the Charleston. #retropolis
🧵He was an Italian immigrant who worked as a translator, immigrant smuggler and mining company nurse before his most notorious scheme. While a nurse, a co-worker he didn’t know personally was severely burned in an accident and he donated 122 square inches of his own skin to her. #retropolis
July 9, 1925 — Women were a part of “hobo culture” #100yearsagotoday. Some dressed like men to find work among other itinerant workers. Others worked as cooks and cleaners at “hobo jungles”, the encampments where folks riding the rails stopped over. #Retropolis
July 7, 1925 — Masked bandits who held up the D.C. taxicab office #100yearsagotoday proved that the nation’s capital was no longer immune to this nationwide crime wave familiar in other cities. Residents asked police to guard against bandits instead of chasing bootleggers. #retropolis
June 26, 1925 - Pet monkeys were fashionable #100YearsAgoToday. Still, it was a little random to see a matter-of -fact, monkey attack in Georgetown, questioning the boy’s behavior over the monkey’s running a monk. Also funny that the monkey hideout is now a new, boutique ice cream shop. #retropolis
🧵…charging up to $150 (about $2,700 today) to see them. He sold them to P.T. Barnum, who displayed them as “cannibals” in his circus, for a small fortune. That’s the money Gardenshire used to eventually build this small town. #retropolis
June 23, 1925 — An investigative story found conditions in Arlington County jail were deplorable #100yearsagotoday ; overcrowding, 50 people in a space meant for 27, vermin, stench and a single wash basin. It was routine for someone held on a traffic violation to spend the night there. #retropolis
June 18, 1925 - News of the first national spelling bee #100yearsagotoday had America spelling “gladiolus” and celebrating Frank Neuhauser, the Kentucky “son of a laborer”who won with that word. #retropolis
June 17, 1925 — All DC public schools graduated at once #100yearsagotoday. The paper listed every student. High school enrollment was booming, America’s largest spike ever and some schools had such huge classes, ceremonies had to be held in corridors and multiple classrooms. #Retropolis
June 13, 1925 - Two Navy nurses faced court martial #100yearsago for smuggling booze on a ship from Cuba. Equal treatment, the Navy said, no special treatment because of their gender. #retropolis
June 12, 1925 — D.C. was scorching #100yearsagotoday and officials tried to find ways to help the people who couldn’t afford to summer in cooler places survive. Kids always played in fountains, but it was finally declared legal in 1925. #retropolis
June 10, 1925 — The cruel efficiency of D.C.’s traffic cops was also ruthless #100yearsagotoday. Rear Admiral Nicholson, Civil War vet and former commander of the Asiatic fleet, got hit with a ticket for parking without burning a fender lamp, a weird law meant to illuminate parked cars. #retropolis
June 8, 1925 - It was common for city parks to be filled with people - families, singles, kids, elders - sleeping to escape hot apartments at night #100yearsago. DC tried to ban this, fearing it would encourage “vagrants”. #retropolis
🧵where thousands of people cooled off every day — when faced with the prospect of adding a facility for Black swimmers, who were left with the more dangerous waters of the Potomac and Anacostia rivers. Now, all of DC understood the deadliness of what that meant. #retropolis
June 4, 1925 — A heat wave hit differently #100yearsagotoday. Without AC, federal buildings had to send workers home, the city feared water shortages, police officers were allowed to “unbutton their blouses”and health officials told people to “get plenty of sleep and avoid worry.” #retropolis
May 29, 1925 - Tom Lee got a hero’s welcome from President Coolidge #100yearsagotoday. Lee was rowing his skiff on the Mississippi River near Memphis when a steamer capsized. Lee couldn’t swim, but saved 32 people from drowning in the cold river. A park in Memphis was named for him. #retropolis
May 28, 1925 - When booze was illegal #100yearsagotoday, a third of American doctors handed out whiskey prescriptions, which had some government oversight, including watermarked forms. The American Medical Association lobbied Congress to make it easier. #retropolis #prohibition #medicinalpurposes
May 27, 1925 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture had a problem casting their films #100yearsagotoday. Employees had no idea how to act like farmers, farmers froze in front of the camera…time to call in a professional. Hello, Hollywood. #Retropolis
🧵Griffin was exonerated in at least three murders of suspected bootleggers before and after the Slade shooting. All of the victims were Black. #retropolis
May 23, 1925 — The Post was not above cheesecake photos #100yearsagotoday. Women swimming at the Wardman Park Hotel made the feature photo essay. Meanwhile, one of the hotel’s busboys slipped one of his poems to a publisher dining inside. His name was Langston Hughes. #retropolis #langstonhughes
🧵…of Nathan Hale, whose purported last words, “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country,” were reported by a British Captain at Hale’s hanging. #retropolis #nathanhale #regrets #history
🧵write his memoir, Halls of the Mighty, which was panned by at least one historian for its lighthearted anecdotes and sunny view of life in the Halls of power. #retropolis
to use their money to right inequity. His contributions benefit most of us today. Besides libraries and universities, Carnegie’s fortune has funded the discovery of insulin, the dismantling of nuclear weapons, the creation of Pell Grants and Sesame Street. #retropolis #philanthropy #carnegie
May 16, 1925 - President Coolidge refused to use the military in the war on booze #100yearsagotoday, despite pressure from the “ultra-drys” to chase rum runners. Almost 50 years later, Nixon sicced the military to fight drugs and more than $1 trillion has been spent on that war since. #retropolis
May 10, 1925 - A high school teacher was charged with violating the Butler Act by teaching evolution in Tennessee #100yearsagotoday. The ACLU represented J. T. Scopes in a huge trial, but lost. The act prohibiting teachers from challenging the Book of Genesis stood until 1967. #retropolis 🧵
