One Hundred Years Ago

[Rix Gins]

Dick's Diary for June 13, 1916.
http://www.willisfleming.org.uk/dicksdiary/entries/1916/06/tuesday-13-june-1916.html

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, June 14, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, June 14, 1916.

[WhiteCrow]

Fruity Drinks, Smokes and Polish girls......  Here I sit fighting with crappy software.  Damn.   

Unfortunately Wroclaw's military museum was closed today. Went to an art/cultural museum instead..they had a great exhibition on Communist era women's fashions. The girls really liked the butterfly blouse.. circa mid 1960s.  I liked the polkadot dresses... a lot!

Tomorrow going to Auschwitz...

[K_Dubb]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, June 14, 1916.

Nice, another event that has us wishing for a time machine:  the historical floats briefly rousting the boys out of the saloons, the Lady Liberty contest (surely these should be revived!) the dancing...  The only thing that gives me pause is my impression that the gospel of barbecue has yet to be promulgated.

[Rix Gins]

Nice, another event that has us wishing for a time machine:  the historical floats briefly rousting the boys out of the saloons, the Lady Liberty contest (surely these should be revived!) the dancing...  The only thing that gives me pause is my impression that the gospel of barbecue has yet to be promulgated.

Remember this photo we were looking at back in February?  It shows a parade in Tonopah with marching band and a dressed up lady in the wagon at the right.  We were wondering who she was supposed to be.

http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,9331.msg713081.html#msg713081

Guess it's safe to say that she is Miss Lady Liberty for 1908.

[Rix Gins]

Dick's Diary entry for June 14, 1916.
http://www.willisfleming.org.uk/dicksdiary/entries/1916/06/wednesday-14-june-1916.html


                         

[K_Dubb]

Remember this photo we were looking at back in February?  It shows a parade in Tonopah with marching band and a dressed up lady in the wagon at the right.  We were wondering who she was supposed to be.

http://bellgab.com/index.php/topic,9331.msg713081.html#msg713081

Guess it's safe to say that she is Miss Lady Liberty for 1908.

Yes, good memory!  I believe I've seen a photo of the 1916 float somewhere, too; will look for it on the day.

[K_Dubb]

It's late, but it's good to see how the centenary was marked.  Here they are, beneath the bridge under which that ass Beatty's ships sailed, watching an old biplane, some dazzle-painted old ship, and the Royal Marine Band, with their queer British sonority where the trumpets try to sound as much like clarinets as they can:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMTqIeRjZz8

The best song is Heart of Oak at 26:40, a great song which avows that "heart of oak are our ships, jolly tars are our men" and ends with the rousing refrain about how "we'll thump them and thump them again and again" or some such nonsense.

Cool to see that big band negotiating the narrow streets of what looks like a small seaside town at the end, though I'm sad they didn't give us all of Voice of the Guns.  The trombone countermelody would have sounded great echoing off the stones.

[Rix Gins]

Re: The Battle of Jutland Centenary.  That was cool.  I felt like I was standing right there.  Thanks, K.

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, June 15, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, June 15, 1916.

[WhiteCrow]

The Battle of Breslau .. while on our way to Auschwitz stopped at the Sovet/Russian military cemetery.


The last picture below is a sculpture that depicts the civilian population emerging from their underground hiding places.

Info copied from Wikipedia:

Casualties and losses
approximately 60,000 soldiers   

The Battle of Breslau, also known as the Siege of Breslau, was a three-month-long siege of the city of Breslau in Lower Silesia, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), lasting to the end of World War II in Europe. From 13 February 1945 to 6 May 1945, German troops in Breslau were besieged by the Soviet forces which encircled the city as part of the Lower Silesian Offensive Operation. The German garrison's surrender on 6 May was followed by the surrender of all German forces two days after the battle.

The city was besieged as part of the Lower Silesian Offensive Operation on February 13, 1945, by the 6th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front commanded by Marshal Ivan Koniev, and the encirclement of Breslau was completed the following day. The 1st Ukrainian Front forces besieged the city with the 22nd and 74th Rifle Corps, and the 77th Fortified Region, as well as other smaller units. Even approximate estimates vary greatly concerning the number of German troops trapped in Breslau. Some sources claim that there were as many as 150,000 defenders, some 80,000 and some 50,000.[citation needed] The Siege of Breslau consisted of destructive house-to-house street fighting. The city was bombarded to ruin by artillery of the Soviet 6th Army, as well as the Soviet 2nd Air Army and the Soviet 18th Air Army,[citation needed] and the destruction caused by the German defenders.[6]

On 15 February, the German Luftwaffe started an airlift to the besieged garrison. For 76 days, until 1 May, the Luftwaffe made more than 2000 sorties with supplies and food. More than 1,638 short tons (1,486 t) of supplies were delivered. On 22 February, the 6th Army occupied three suburbs of Breslau, and during the next day, the 6th Army troops were in the southern precincts of the city itself. By 31 March there was heavy artillery fire into the north, south, and west of Breslau suburbs. On 4 May the clergy of Breslau â€" Pastor Hornig, Dr. Konrad, Bishop Ferche, and Canon Kramer â€" demanded that Niehoff surrender the town. Hanke ordered Niehoff not to have any further dealings with the clergy.

Local German communists called for an end to the resistance of the city in flyers. In a pamphlet titled the "Freiheits-Kämpfer" (English: Freedom fighter) it called for an end to the fighting and told the local population "not to be afraid of the Red Army who came as liberators". Seventeen of the members of the resistance group were executed on Gauleiter Hanke's orders.

[WhiteCrow]

Auschwitz

[Rix Gins]

Dick's Diary entry for June 15, 1916.  (Plus a biographical sketch of General Herbert Lawrence.)
http://www.willisfleming.org.uk/dicksdiary/entries/1916/06/thursday-15-june-1916.html

http://heritagearchives.rbs.com/people/list/herbert-lawrence.html

[Rix Gins]

It might have been exactly 100 years ago but Elsie Baker sings about To-day.  (I like Elsie's voice.)

http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/700002904/B-17866-To-day


            Elsie Baker (Wikimedia)

[K_Dubb]

Everett True, June 15, 1916.

Ha, so Everett is a pipe smoker!  Meerschaums are supposed to be the ultimate in flavor-neutral smoking, but one of mine retains the flowery almond scent of a strange British-style blend I smoked in it years ago.

Also, nice Arts-and-Crafts-style lamp.  Too bad it wound up on his head!

[K_Dubb]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, June 15, 1916.

That sounds like it will be quite an extravaganza.  I wonder what song the Professor sang or played.  A popular songbook I have from that time begins with Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.  You never hear that any more; I'll imagine that was it.

The  heartbreaking gold story is destined, I fear, to join the rest of the innumerable lost-mine tales of the west -- something about the floating desert rat makes it seem a little ephemeral.  But what a cool picture, right out of an old postcard!

[K_Dubb]

It might have been exactly 100 years ago but Elsie Baker sings about To-day.  (I like Elsie's voice.)

http://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/700002904/B-17866-To-day


            Elsie Baker (Wikimedia)

I like contraltos, too.  Interesting how they pitched it so low as to take her almost into danger territory.  Reminds me a little of Kate Smith.

[gabrielle]

Your war news update:

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, June 16, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Chicago Day Book, June 16, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, June 16, 1916.

[K_Dubb]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, June 16, 1916.

The juvenile delinquents wander about in the desert with burro teams?  Was that the equivalent of hot-rodding?

Kalsomine is a whitewash -- I had to look it up.

And what is with the dance notice?  Can it have to do with objectionable forms of dancing to be permitted, from which the good lady wishes to distance herself?

[Rix Gins]

Dick's Diary entry for June 16, 1916.
http://www.willisfleming.org.uk/dicksdiary/entries/1916/06/friday-16-june-1916.html

[Rix Gins]

The juvenile delinquents wander about in the desert with burro teams?  Was that the equivalent of hot-rodding?

Kalsomine is a whitewash -- I had to look it up.

And what is with the dance notice?  Can it have to do with objectionable forms of dancing to be permitted, from which the good lady wishes to distance herself?

I wonder.  I found the Airdome dance ad but saw no mention of the woman's name. Perhaps it was a handbill type ad, nailed to poles or plastered on walls?

[K_Dubb]

I wonder.  I found the Airdome dance ad but saw no mention of the woman's name. Perhaps it was a handbill type ad, nailed to poles or plastered on walls?

Ha more likely she was on the decorating committee and they went with a color scheme that opposed her principles.

[Walks_At_Night]

Some neat photo's from June 16, 1916 taken of the  Emergency Services Corps which championed the importance of military preparedness for women.

[Rix Gins]

Neat pics, Walks.  I especially like Lucy the trumpet player.  (At the right, second photo down.)

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, June 17, 1916.