The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

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[Fletch]

Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, July 3, 1931, with the giant Junkers G.38 airliner in the background.

I speak some German, but I don't know who was supposed to be fahrting Mercedes-Benz. (It means "he/she drives" or else "a trip.")

You could sit in the nose or wings and see straight ahead, like a bomber crewman.

 

[Rogera]

Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, July 3, 1931, with the giant Junkers G.38 airliner in the background.

I speak some German, but I don't know who was supposed to be fahrting Mercedes-Benz. (It means "he/she drives" or else "a trip.")

You could sit in the nose or wings and see straight ahead, like a bomber crewman.

I remember one funny quote from my High School German teacher concerning the gender of different German words and all German words ending in "fahrt". They all take the feminine article die therefore "all Fahrts are female"! Then of course one of the quicker students in class bursted out "and all females are Fahrts"...

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

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[Fletch]

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June 22, 1938: "...a right to the body, a left upper to the jaw...and Schmeling's down!!" And down he stayed. And a nation rejoiced.

At the weigh-in: the Black Hussar 193, the Brown Bomber 198 3/4.

 

[Fletch]

Siren

Ethel Merman visits the cruiser USS Pensacola and presents Capt. Alfred Howe with a pet goat. February 6, 1930.
(Attention seadogs: This was the day of Pensacola's commissioning in New York. In February. Why is everyone in whites???)

 

[Fletch]

June 19, 1927. Municipal Commissioner Larsson of Stockholm, Sweden, center, with officials of the newly opened aerodrome at Stettin, Germany. Plane is an Albatros L.73. (Stettin has been Szczeczin, Poland, since 1945.)

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

River Walk of Carl Schurz Park
André Kertész (American (born Hungary), Budapest 1894–1985 New York)




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[Fletch]

I promise this is the last pic to do with airplanes for awhile. The white-suited man is Dutch Schildhauer, Do X world tour copilot, talking to NBC on arrival in New York Aug. 27, 1931.

 

[Fletch]

Sports fans, February 28, 1933.

 

[Fletch]

Lawrence Gray, star of the MGM film Children of Pleasure, 1930.
The lid might easily be one of Simonds' current line.

 

[carouselvic]

 

[RBH]

1930s Carnival....

 

[alanfgag]

Thanks for all these great photos.

Victor, I have that hat. Just need to find the vest and chaps to go with.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

A carte de visite designed by G. H. Watkins in the late 1850s or early 1860s for Anthony Trollope (born 24 April 1815; died 6 December 1882); in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London


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[carouselvic]

George

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Show People
MGM, 1928.


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[Johnny J]

Show People
MGM, 1928.

Wonderful suit fabric!

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

More Show People.


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