Thursday, August 21, 2025

Today -100: August 21, 1925: A seat, not a strap


Trying again to defang NYC Mayor Hylan’s main issue, Jimmy Walker says he is not only in favor of the 5¢ car fare, but “I’m for the five-cent fare with a seat, and not for the five-cent fare with a strap.”

Musical... Comedy? ... of the Day -100:


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2 comments:

  1. I wonder if the musical comedy version was every actually produced? I can't find any trace of it in Google. Also, I'm sure you noticed that none other than the great Professor Ferdinando Cazzimali discovered that the human brain emits radio waves which can be received and played on a radio. Somehow this guy continued his career into the 1950's, taken seriously and everything.

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  2. That's nothing. Next month we'll see discussion at the International Spiritualist Congress of radios that can receive the brain waves of ghosts.

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