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  1. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I ran this through the inflation calculator and it appears this equates to a deficit of $45.3 billion. Compare that with an estimated current deficit of $134 billion.
  2. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    It was around this time a plane carrying the plans for Case Yellow including the invasion of the Low Countries crashed in then-neutral territory. I wonder if this was the plane.
  3. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    The cheaper Packards were more in La Salle/Buick territory. A lot of people argue this cannibalized the prestige of the more-expensive cars. Cadillac tried to avoid this by introducing the La Salle brand and Packard attempted, quite belatedly, to spin off the junior-series cars into a separate...
  4. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Still true. Those "cheap" Packards were excellent cars, though.
  5. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Hey, I know where that is!
  7. David Conwill

    Old gas stations

    Last Thursday, Shorpy treated us to a new shot from John Vachon, showing a Standard station in Dubuque, Iowa, in April 1940:
  8. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    You know, as someone who regularly smoke roasts a pork shoulder, I don't think I could ever refer to one as a "smoked butt." All I can think of is an overflowing ashtray.
  9. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Well, they certainly succeeded in that particular goal.
  10. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Poor woman was 80 in 1939. Maybe instead of asking her to stop, somebody should have helped her out?
  11. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Yikes. Makes it sound like the guy in the car chased her for a bit!
  13. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Not to mention the cabbies with tire irons and wrenches, I suppose.
  14. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Boy, Sanguno looks pretty rough for 25. Of course, the article indicates he's been in trouble with the law since at least age 16.
  15. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    My guess would be they were German planes since Germany and the Soviet Union were still honoring the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact at this point in the war.
  16. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    On this day in 1941 the parade in Red Square will continue directly to the front, not far from Moscow, where the troops will go into action in a desperate attempt to prevent the city from falling.
  17. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Are there...or were there in 1939...a lot of Druids in Flatbush?
  19. David Conwill

    Old gas stations

    Volkswagen Karmann Ghia, which was itself inspired by a '50s Chrysler dream car...called the D'Elegance, if I recall correctly. Edit: Ah, DH66 beat me to it.
  20. David Conwill

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Indeed!
  21. David Conwill

    Old gas stations

    He also endorses Standard gasoline.
  22. David Conwill

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    They filled in the canal in 1925, so it can't be any newer than that.
  23. David Conwill

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Ah! Look! State Street at Erie Boulevard (former route of the Erie Canal) in Schenectady looking south. The distinctive theatre building on the other side of the canal still stands.

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