One Hundred Years Ago

[K_Dubb]

A couple of Tonopah photographs I came across looking for the Airdome.  This one is undated but the cars look about right:



Note the lights hung across the street.  I wonder what the occasion was.

Some people we may meet, since this is 1916:

Photograph of Bert Hilliker tending bar in Cottage Caberet [sic], Tonopah, Nevada, 1916. Owners Dutch and Curly Parker. This belongs to Emma Holler Sr. (1975)..Emma's Stepdad Mr. Hilliker was a prizefighter. Rode the rails with Jack Dempsey & other, had training gym in Yerington, Nevada. Donated property to city for swimming pool for school. He went by another name when fighter-Kid ?. Donated to Dr. Herz by Bill and Emma Holler Sr.

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, April 29. 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Day Book, April 29, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, April 29, 1916.

[gabrielle]

Walks, excellent post.  I want one of those vertical 8 super fine cars.  They look awesome. 

[gabrielle]

I don't know if you guys have already seen this pic, or the article, but it may help with the quandary about the airdome.


This picture of the airdome is dated 1906.  It comes from the Pahrum Valley Times, 2009.  http://archive.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2009/Dec-30-Wed-2009/news/33397436.html

[K_Dubb]

I don't know if you guys have already seen this pic, or the article, but it may help with the quandary about the airdome.


This picture of the airdome is dated 1906.  It comes from the Pahrum Valley Times, 2009.  http://archive.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2009/Dec-30-Wed-2009/news/33397436.html

Thanks, Gabrielle, that Bryan Ave. address given puts it at the block currently occupied by the (small) Catholic church:



There's room for a big building there, assuming the lane in the back preserves some of the original dimension.  Compare to the Convention Center site on Brougher (blue), which is much smaller:



I gave the hypothetical new Airdome the Hoagie-imaging-panel treatment:

[K_Dubb]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, April 29, 1916.

Wow, some sad stories!  I hope Verzan was left-handed.  I wonder what happened to Indian Andy.  He probably lived in a place like this:



Here's the Professor's solo:

http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/recordings/detail/id/8286/

[K_Dubb]

Here's an undated colorized postcard showing the hypothetical new Airdome painted red.  I don't see the Mizpah, so maybe that red building is what was on the site before the new Airdome was built?  The big dark building further up Brougher seems to have lost that tall front portion.



Here's a photo from the UNLV collection showing yet another building on the Brougher Ave. site.  It's dated only 1900-1925.  Maybe this is what replaced the Airdome after the 1921 fire and was later turned into the Convention Center:





Alternatively, if the red building predates the new Airdome, maybe this is really it?

[K_Dubb]

This article from after the Airdome fire in 1921 suggests that it was arson:



Now I wonder what the "Big Ship" was!

I learned a couple other things googling:  "our" Airdome was estimated to seat 2250, and the Professor was Santa Claus at the Airdome last Christmas.  He rises daily in my esteem.

Edit:  that was easy!

[K_Dubb]

It looks like that red building, my hypothetical new Airdome, precedes even the Bank Building, so it's way too early.



And this postcard from Ebay, postmarked 1938, appears to show the most recent candidate building with the porch removed:



So we again have no pictures of our Airdome.

[Rix Gins]

So we again have no pictures of our Airdome.

Please keep at it, K.  Your photos make me want to experience that dry desert clime. 

[K_Dubb]

Please keep at it, K.  Your photos make me want to experience that dry desert clime.

Ha, if you go, you have to visit that museum to see if they have any pictures!

I learned a few more things:

It was originally set to open May 1, 1915, with dancing under the stars -- so no roof:



There were a couple delays:





due to weather:



It had a state-of-the-art movie projector:



It was closed for roofing and stage construction in the fall of 1915:



But still no picture!

[Walks_At_Night]

On April 29th, 1916 13,000 troops of the British Empire surrendered and ended the siege of Kut in Basara of Mesopotamia.
Ottoman forces under Khalil Pasha had laid siege for five months and had successfully repulsed several relief efforts by
the British.   The final relief effort was actually Russian -  General Baratov was leading a force of over 20,000 Cossacks from
Persia when he learned of the surrender. 

The British General in charge at Kut was named Townshend and he did not have a good reputation.  Over 70% of the UK troops
and 50% of the Indian troops would die in captivity.  Townshend would be imprisoned on the island of Heybeliada in relative
comfort.  Supposedly Townshend was accused of "being 'amused' by the plight of the men he had deserted, as if he had pulled
off some clever trick."

The defeat at Kut was a humiliation but the British would bounce back with competent leadership.  Stanley Maude was placed in
command and with in a year he had captured Baghdad.

Khalil Pasha


Major General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend


General Nikolai Nikolaevich Baratoff - in the White Hat


Lieutenant-General Sir Stanley Maude



Ottomans on the move


British POWs


Indian POW


Maude enters Baghdad

[Walks_At_Night]

On April 30th, 1916 Officer Frederick Wright of the Honolulu Police Department succumbed to injuries
he sustained in a motor cycle accident:

Officer Frederick Wright succumbed to injuries sustained four days earlier when his police motorcycle was struck by a speeding mail truck at the intersection of King Street and Maunakea Street.

He was transported to Queen's Hospital where he remained until passing away. The officer riding in the motorcycle's sidecar survived the crash.

[gabrielle]

While it is hard to imagine, the Canadian troops continued to fight in the craters at St. Eloi well into the month of April.  News of the horrible battle at St. Eloi reached home when soldiers returned for their furlough.

[Rix Gins]

The Sunday Telegram, April 30, 1916.

[K_Dubb]

The Sunday Telegram, April 30, 1916.

Those policemen in PA showed considerable restraint!

I remember reading in a history of Nome, AK that chloroform robberies were an epidemic in the first year or so of the gold rush.  Thieves would open a window the little tent-cabins built on the beach and reach in with a rag.  I don't think an expert anaesthetist is required.

[K_Dubb]

Well it's not what we want, but I found this postcard on Ebay showing a different view of the old Airdome:

[gabrielle]

I need a time machine.  I so much would enjoy going to see one of these motion pictures.  It is hard to choose which one would be best.

[gabrielle]

Well it's not what we want, but I found this postcard on Ebay showing a different view of the old Airdome:

I think you've done it K....very good.  I can visualize it now. I  think I can even hear the music.

[Rix Gins]

I need a time machine.  I so much would enjoy going to see one of these motion pictures.  It is hard to choose which one would be best.

Here are the keys to the 100 Years Ago time machine.  Enjoy the show!

[gabrielle]

Here are the keys to the 100 Years Ago time machine.  Enjoy the show!

Thank Rix.  Please tell me it doesn't run on fossil fuel.

[Rix Gins]

Thank Rix.  Please tell me it doesn't run on fossil fuel.

Not to worry.  It's run by a complicated array of magnets that were machined a couple thousand years in the future. Quite the green machine.  lol

[gabrielle]

Now that I have the time machine, I off to the motion picture show.  I am thinking of wearing the blue one. 

[Rix Gins]

Now that I have the time machine, I off to the motion picture show.  I am thinking of wearing the blue one.

Good choice. I really like that hat.

[gabrielle]

Good choice. I really like that hat.

LOL.  Thanks...I won't ask the fatal question:  Does this dress make me look fat?

[WhiteCrow]

LOL.  Thanks...I won't ask the fatal question: Does this dress make me look fat?

Does this dress make me look fat?

No not at all Dear... glad to see the "Big" Bustle is back in style.


The bustle had completely disappeared by 1905, as the long corset of the early 20th century was now successful in shaping the body.

[Walks_At_Night]

Now that I have the time machine, I off to the motion picture show.  I am thinking of wearing the blue one.

Gabrielle,

Now that Rix has coughed up the keys to the time machine perhaps you would like to use it to play a
little game that K Dubb, Rix and myself played a while back.  The rules are found in this post:

http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,9331.msg676893.html#msg676893


And yes, the blue dress is the only choice for Spring!

[gabrielle]

Gabrielle,

Now that Rix has coughed up the keys to the time machine perhaps you would like to use it to play a
little game that K Dubb, Rix and myself played a while back.  The rules are found in this post:

http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,9331.msg676893.html#msg676893


And yes, the blue dress is the only choice for Spring!

Oh my.   This is going to take some consideration. St Eloi will not be my first choice, that I can tell you.