One Hundred Years Ago

[WhiteCrow]

Thanks for posting that, Walks!  I'm a lifelong Cubs fan, but I didn't have time to do baseball research this week. 

I never made it to Tiger Stadium, but saw it on TV many times and definitely sympathize with you.  That was a wonderful old ballpark!

Wrigley Family vacation properties are on  Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
The Lake has a 20 mile shore line walking trail around the whole Lake.  It's very close to where I live. Been past the Wrigley Family compound a few times while walking the lake trail..Very cool walk .. Get to see all the 'old money' Chicago Mansion's front yards.. with beautiful Lake Geneva as a backdrop. While walking the trail can't help but invision what their lives were like. Sailing and privately owned steam boats on the lake.. 100 years ago!

http://www.lakegenevaestates.com/top-10-mansions-2/wrigley-estate/

Miraculously, tourists can see the mansions up close from a footpath used by the Potawatomi and honored by early lakefront landowners.

Today, the rich and poor alike have the right of way on a 2-foot strip around the lake, and they can ogle all they like.


https://youtu.be/EHoMjcSNJUc

I'm such an 'era' romantic Goof Ball, I dream of owning a turn of the century 'era' small steam boat and touring the vacation lakes of Northern US and Cottage area lakes of southern Ontario.

[K_Dubb]

From the Seattle Star today:





The Cobb Building is known for its decorative Indian heads:

[K_Dubb]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, April 17, 1916.

That sounds like quite a funeral.  I wonder if the Professor sang in the choir.

[Rix Gins]

Wrigley Family vacation properties are on  Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
The Lake has a 20 mile shore line walking trail around the whole Lake.  It's very close to where I live. Been past the Wrigley Family compound a few times while walking the lake trail..Very cool walk .. Get to see all the 'old money' Chicago Mansion's front yards.. with beautiful Lake Geneva as a backdrop. While walking the trail can't help but invision what their lives were like. Sailing and privately owned steam boats on the lake.. 100 years ago!

http://www.lakegenevaestates.com/top-10-mansions-2/wrigley-estate/

Miraculously, tourists can see the mansions up close from a footpath used by the Potawatomi and honored by early lakefront landowners.

Today, the rich and poor alike have the right of way on a 2-foot strip around the lake, and they can ogle all they like.


https://youtu.be/EHoMjcSNJUc

I'm such an 'era' romantic Goof Ball, I dream of owning a turn of the century 'era' small steam boat and touring the vacation lakes of Northern US and Cottage area lakes of southern Ontario.

You are a lucky man indeed, WC, to be living in such a beautiful area.  I would love to walk that path, and yes, I would be envisioning the past too.  That was a cool realty video...myself, I'm not really into boating all that much, so I will pass on making an offer of 2 and a hall million $s for the mansion.  (I bet the owners would have gone for it.)  PS, you sounded great on the show last night.

[Rix Gins]

That sounds like quite a funeral.  I wonder if the Professor sang in the choir.

Haha, I was wondering the same!

[K_Dubb]

Hey, the French had them, too:



He looks oddly like a friend of mine; it's eerie.

Edit:  upon googling the last name, he may be Belgian, or Flemish, to be more specific.

[gabrielle]

Our update on the situation at Verdun and elsewhere.....

[gabrielle]

This description of General Joffre comes from the Encyclopedia Britannica:

Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joffre, (born Jan. 12, 1852, Rivesaltes, Fr.â€"died Jan. 3, 1931, Paris), commander in chief (1914â€"16) of the French armies on the Western Front in World War I, who won fame as “the Victor of the Marne.”

After graduating from the École Polytechnique, he took part as a subaltern in the siege of Paris (1870â€"71) and later served in Indochina, West Africa, and Madagascar. Promoted to general of division in 1905, he was appointed chief of the French general staff in 1911 and thereby commander in chief in the event of war. Joffre was responsible for the French Army’s calamitous plan of campaign with which it began operations in 1914 against Germany, calling for mass attacks across the Franco-German frontier. The plan’s futility became apparent when a massive German encircling movement through Belgium caught Joffre and the rest of the French high command unawares and threatened to outflank the Allied forces and capture Paris. Once convinced of the developing German threat on the French left flank, Joffre shifted his forces and created a new French army, the 6th, under his direct authority, to counter the threat of German envelopment. In this moment of supreme trial his best qualities came to the fore; his imperturbability, force of character, and courage saved the situation. Constantly threatened by greatly superior German forces wheeling in a great northern arc on Paris, the French retreated steadily until their left flank was fighting just outside the city by September 5. Joffre then issued the order that on September 6 launched the Allied counterstroke, the first of the battles of the Marne. The encounter resulted in the partial repulse of the German advance and the ruin of German hopes for a swift victory on the Western Front.

By the end of 1914 the Western Front had settled into the heavily entrenched lines that existed until 1918. Throughout 1915 the French armies under Joffre attempted to burst through the German positions at ruinous cost, and failed. Joffre’s prestige began to wane, and the evident lack of French preparation for the German attack on Verdun in 1916, for which he was held responsible, prepared his downfall. After being stripped of the power of direct command, Joffre resigned on Dec. 26, 1916, and the same day was created a marshal of France. His Mémoires, in two volumes, were published in 1932.

[WhiteCrow]

Our update on the situation at Verdun and elsewhere.....

Couldn't imagine reading a headline with 400,000 casualties today. In just one battle

[WhiteCrow]

You are a lucky man indeed, WC, to be living in such a beautiful area.  I would love to walk that path, and yes, I would be envisioning the past too.  That was a cool realty video...myself, I'm not really into boating all that much, so I will pass on making an offer of 2 and a hall million $s for the mansion.  (I bet the owners would have gone for it.)  PS, you sounded great on the show last night.

Thanks about show.. Never know how my  humor translates.

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, April 18, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Chicago Day Book, April 18, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, April 18, 1916.

[K_Dubb]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, April 18, 1916.

Wow, why on earth would they have trucked in (I assume) baked items from California?  I'm glad to know they had freshly baked pastries.  All those pictures of old West towns seem to have bakeries.

Old-style holdup, too!  It was still the wild west.

Interesting reminder that most of the swimsuits of the era were wool.  Wool is said to insulate even when wet, but I think the real reason is that it was the only stretchy fabric available prior to modern synthetics.  They were not all about modesty back then.

[albrecht]

Everett True, April 18, 1916.

More on the financial "boy wonder" Butler R. Storke:
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1916/05/03/page/3/article/butler-storke-taken-in-denver
http://tinyurl.com/juqno8r

[Rix Gins]

More on the financial "boy wonder" Butler R. Storke:
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1916/05/03/page/3/article/butler-storke-taken-in-denver
http://tinyurl.com/juqno8r

Thanks for additional info on this character.  I definitely wouldn't want to buy a parachute from him, haha.  Boy wonder descriptions of him everywhere but nowhere have I been able to learn his age.  Legal problems back in 1913, so I wonder if he was 18, 19 or early twenties at the time?   

[Rix Gins]

Wow, why on earth would they have trucked in (I assume) baked items from California?  I'm glad to know they had freshly baked pastries.  All those pictures of old West towns seem to have bakeries.

Old-style holdup, too!  It was still the wild west.

Interesting reminder that most of the swimsuits of the era were wool.  Wool is said to insulate even when wet, but I think the real reason is that it was the only stretchy fabric available prior to modern synthetics.  They were not all about modesty back then.

Once again, communiqués from the past have fallen tantalizingly short of details.  I wish the baker had let us know exactly what type of pastries he had for sale.  Do maple bars go that far back?

Nice photo, K.  What was that you said about wool? 

[Rix Gins]

San Francisco's great earthquake of 1906 occurred exactly 110 years ago.  The Tonopah Daily Bonanza made note of the event, but for them it was the tenth anniversary of the quake.

[Rix Gins]

And here is an astonishing video that will take you back to that time and place.  I wont tell you how far off in time the quake was...watch it till the end and you will find out.

https://youtu.be/8Q5Nur642BU

[Walks_At_Night]

And here is an astonishing video that will take you back to that time and place.  I wont tell you how far off in time the quake was...watch it till the end and you will find out.

https://youtu.be/8Q5Nur642BU

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The old ZZ top dude at about 11:10 is my favorite

[Rix Gins]

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The old ZZ top dude at about 11:10 is my favorite

LOL, 'They come runnin' just as fast as they can
'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.'

I was strangely drawn to the morose young lady at the very end of the tracks...also towards the end of the film.

[Walks_At_Night]

LOL, 'They come runnin' just as fast as they can
'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.'

I was strangely drawn to the morose young lady at the very end of the tracks...also towards the end of the film.

Definitely kind of has a Wicked Witch of the West in Kansas look about her does she not?

[albrecht]

And here is an astonishing video that will take you back to that time and place.  I wont tell you how far off in time the quake was...watch it till the end and you will find out.

Wow. I love how the traffic was so disorganized, though I didn't see any accidents. Trolleys, jaywalkers, horse-drawn automobiles and buses, and cars going everywhere, apparently crossing at will. Crazy. Awesome stuff and then the before&after!

[Walks_At_Night]

Wow. I love how the traffic was so disorganized, though I didn't see any accidents. Trolleys, jaywalkers, horse-drawn automobiles and buses, and cars going everywhere, apparently crossing at will. Crazy. Awesome stuff and then the before&after!

Wasn't that nuts? 

[albrecht]

Wasn't that nuts?

It is like Mexico or some Asian countries (where there is still a mix of technologies on the road) and no, apparently order. But it was an amazing film and so glad that it was found and restored. Not a hundred years ago but I like when old films are discovered. Like this amazing find.
http://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2014/10/film-of-the-washington-senators-winning-the-1924-world-series-found/

[Walks_At_Night]

April 18th, 1916 was a good day for the 3rd batt of His Majesty's Canadian Rifles.  The diary update was short but very sweet!

Tuesday, April 18, 1916
Location: POPERINGHE
Entry: Baths. Parades â€" Pay and Muster. Weather â€" unsettled.

Bath and a payday behind the lines in Flanders.  I hope they got to relax a bit.

[Rix Gins]

Definitely kind of has a Wicked Witch of the West in Kansas look about her does she not?

Haha, Now that I've cleaned my glasses, that lady does have kind of a Margaret Hamilton look to her.  And how about the dapper dude in the lower right hand corner at the 10:51 mark.  He was so lost in thought that he nearly ran into the streetcar that was doing the filming.  Had to pull himself back at the last second.

[albrecht]

Haha, Now that I've cleaned my glasses, that lady does have kind of a Margaret Hamilton look to her.  And how about the dapper dude in the lower right hand corner at the 10:51 mark.  He was so lost in thought that he nearly ran into the streetcar that was doing the filming.  Had to pull himself back at the last second.

History repeats itself. At least here in the Austin, TX area we've had a great increase in auto-pedestrian and bicycle deaths. Now we even have all kinds of publicity campaigns, street changes, etc. But, basically, and I'm not politically-correct so I warn you: it is people on cellphones, people with ear-buds not paying attention, illegals and immigrants used to crossing where-ever (seriously, just walk across or wait in turn lanes or in the middle of streets- and major highways,) poorly designed cross-walks, homeless beggars, and even "militant" bikers. And, dare-I-say-it, electric cars that are almost silent. Also, switching around "timed" street lights and all the construction and inattentive people on commutes. And the rains.

[K_Dubb]

Once again, communiqués from the past have fallen tantalizingly short of details.  I wish the baker had let us know exactly what type of pastries he had for sale.  Do maple bars go that far back?

Nice photo, K.  What was that you said about wool?

I'm not sure about maple bars, but the names of a couple of species of donut (pershings, bismarks) make me think the genus as we know it today dates to this period.  But the bakery's name suggests true Viennoiserie, that pinnacle of the baking arts.

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, April 19, 1916.