One Hundred Years Ago

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., December 11, 1920. 

[Rix Gins]

December 11, 1920.  Public Domain

[K_Dubb]

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., December 11, 1920. 

Trying to imagine a 1920 stag party with a band from the big city.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57nPJq7NGdA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfWtwowDdh8

with the band formed in Chicago in 1916 suggests a Middle-Eastern vogue, maybe shimmy dancers (a 1920s version of belly dancing, first introduced in 1917) and comedians telling dirty jokes?

[Ciardelo]

Trying to imagine a 1920 stag party with a band from the big city.

with the band formed in Chicago in 1916 suggests a Middle-Eastern vogue, maybe shimmy dancers (a 1920s version of belly dancing, first introduced in 1917) and comedians telling dirty jokes?

Hm...that doesn't look like a negro jazz band...

[K_Dubb]

Hm...that doesn't look like a negro jazz band...

Yeah that is a funny story  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/was-first-jazz-recording-made-group-white-guys-180962246/

[Ciardelo]

Yeah that is a funny story  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/was-first-jazz-recording-made-group-white-guys-180962246/

Ha ha

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., December 13, 1920.

[Rix Gins]

December 13, 1920.  Public Domain

[Rix Gins]

From the Seattle Municipal Archives (https://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/)
Yesler Way near Second Avenue, Seattle, Washington.  Photo taken on December 13, 1920.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

[Ciardelo]

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., December 13, 1920.

*GASP*

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., December 14, 1920. 

[Rix Gins]

December 14, 1920.  Public Domain

[Rix Gins]

https://youtu.be/fabJTQBnrz4

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., December 15, 1920.

[Ciardelo]

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., December 15, 1920.

aw...it must have been love after all.

[WOTR]

Can you imagine the smell of that dog? Sauerkraut? Don't get me wrong- I enjoy some home made kraut occasionally, but a dog? All the time?

[Rix Gins]

Can you imagine the smell of that dog? Sauerkraut? Don't get me wrong- I enjoy some home made kraut occasionally, but a dog? All the time?

Hard to think a dog would like sauerkraut to begin with.  Now the sausages, or knockwursts that usually go with it, I can see any dog liking those.

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., December 16, 1920.

[WOTR]

aw...it must have been love after all.

I suppose the threat of jail was more successful than any shotgun?

[Rix Gins]

December 15, & 16, 1920.  Public Domain

[Ciardelo]

I suppose the threat of jail was more successful than any shotgun?

I know that's right!

[albrecht]

Can you imagine the smell of that dog? Sauerkraut? Don't get me wrong- I enjoy some home made kraut occasionally, but a dog? All the time?

I like sauerkraut but I've never heard of a dog eating it. I've seen a dog eat an ear of corn but I think that was mainly for the butter. It was amusing the owner held it and the dog ate it just as a person might. But sauerkraut? Strange.

People were tough back then. Fall off a 150foot smokestack and live?

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., December 17, 1920.

[Rix Gins]

December 17, 1920.  Public Domain

[K_Dubb]

Haha.  "Only his hairdresser knows for sure." 

[Rix Gins]

Haha.  "Only his hairdresser knows for sure."

Haha.  When I'd go to wrestling matches as a kid, I'd see an occasional blond wrestler in the ring.  I was too young to realize that they were dyeing their hair.  They were mighty, blonde gods to me.

[Rix Gins]

From the Library of Congress.  The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union., December 18, 1920. 

[Rix Gins]

December 18, 1920.  Public Domain

[pate]

I like sauerkraut but I've never heard of a dog eating it. I've seen a dog eat an ear of corn but I think that was mainly for the butter. It was amusing the owner held it and the dog ate it just as a person might. But sauerkraut? Strange.

People were tough back then. Fall off a 150foot smokestack and live?

Maybe it was sauerkraut left over from the recipe I use sometimes:  #10 can sauerkraut + a few pounds of pork ribs;  put the ribs in a deep pan, dump sauerkraut on top, throw in the oven for several hours at 300-350F.  (You can add apples, onions and other delicious stuff to include herbs and spices to that)...  Sort of a braised ribs, you usually end up with WAY more sauerkraut (plus apples, onions etc) than you really need for the ribs:  but it would be kraut soaked in delicious pig-fat (lardy!) that a dog would probably love.

Nautical Shore.

-p

[Rix Gins]

December 19, 1920.  Public Domain