1920

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1920s

• A Look Into the Past
• Speakers on for Paul Whitemans Orchestra Playing
  Their 3 Million Seller and Runner Up Hit in 1923,
  Three Oclock in the Morning
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The Wall Street bombing was an incident that
occurred at 1201 p.m. on September 16, 1920, in
the Financial District of New York City.
Thirty-eight were killed and 400 people were
injured by the blast.A horse-drawn wagon passed
by lunchtime crowds. The wagon then stopped
across the street from the headquarters of the
J.P. Morgan bank on the financial districts
busiest corner. Inside, 100 pounds of dynamite
with 500 pounds of heavy, cast-iron sash weights
exploded in a timer-set detonation, sending the
slugs tearing through the air. The horse and
wagon were blasted into small fragment..

• A small group if Italian Anarchists were
  suspected but were never charged due to lack of
  evidence. Their motive was revenge for the
  deportation and jailing of some of their group.
• The bombing caused renewed investigation into the
  activities and movement of foreign radicals,
  stimulating the development of the U.S. Justice
  Departments General Intelligence Division of the
  Bureau of Investigation (forerunner of the FBI).
• One of the Directors assistants, a fast-rising
  young civil servant named John Hoover, was put in
  charge of assembling all information possible
  about radical groups throughout the United States.

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Vintage RV - William Downer Auto Home, Gospel Car
No. 1
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Washington, D.C., 1921. Whistle Car - A Truck
Filled With Whistle, the Beverage Wrapped in
Bottles
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Mexico - 1922
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Washington Taxi - 1922
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Bathing Suit Contest, 1922
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Law Officers Destroying a Moonshine Still, Gordon
County, GA 1922
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Lincoln Memorial Dedication, May 30, 1922
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Before Land Was Removed From the Sign
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1923 Duesenberg Model A Pace Car at the
Indianapolis 500 Note the Original Brick Track
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1924 Joy Ride in an International Harvester
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Girls Gone Wild 1924
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Day After the June 28, 1924 Loraine, Ohio Tornado
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Toronto Noon Hour - 1924
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Saturday Matinee, 1925
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Cashmere, Oregon, 1925
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This 1925 Model T Ford Sold For 260.00. It Had
Sold For 950.00 in 1909.
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25 Cent Gas, Washington D.C. - 1926
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Early RV
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Chicago Traffic on Bridge 1927
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1927 Camping Trip in a Studebaker
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Charles Lindbergh Before Attempting the First
Trans-Atlantic Flight
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Charles Lindbergh Lands Spirit of St. Louis in
Paris on May 21, 1927, Successfully Completing
the First Trans-Atlantic Flight
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USS Los Angeles Over Manhattan - 1928
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South Street, New York -1928
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1928 Picture of 39 Year Old Hitler at Nazi Party
Rally in Nuremberg. His Rise to Power Would
Begin After the Beginning of the Depression.
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Ford Introduces the Model A in 1928
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The February 14, 1929 Valentine's Day Massacre
was ordered by Al Capone to eliminate competition
from George "Bugs" Moran's North Side Gang
because they were encroaching on his territory.
Capone delegated the job to his murderous
henchman, "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn and headed to
his home in Miami to establish his alibi. Mcgurn
baited the Moran gang with the promise of a
shipment of smuggled alcohol at a price too good
to pass up. The delivery was to take place at a
garage at 2122 North Clark Street that Moran used
to conduct his business. McGurn distanced
himself from the activities of that day by
staying away and bringing in hit men from the
Detroit gang to carry out the executions. Moran
himself was late getting to the garage and fled
when he saw the executioners, some dressed as
police officers, entering the garage. Although
he escaped, the damage was done. Moran lost
power and eventually control of the North Side.

• Moran's men were lined up against the wall and
  the hit men opened up with two Thompson
  submachine guns, backed up by pistols and
  shotguns. Six men died immediately and one
  survived till he got to the hospital in spite of
  22 bullet wounds, even reviving briefly before
  dying. True to the gangsters' code, though, he
  went to his grave without squealing. "I'm not
  gonna talk. Nobody shot me," he said before
  expiring.

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October 29 1929 Decatur Evening Herald
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Wall Street, New York City - 1929