Pulp Action from the Wild West through the Dirty 30s and More.
“Again we bring you a story of Adventure with a man named Rocky Jordan, proprietor of the Cafe Tambourine which stands in a narrow street off of Cairo’s native quarter within sight of the Mosque Sultan Hassan, The Cafe Tambourine crowded with forgotten men from the world’s waterfront, alive with the babble of many languages.”
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Broadcast Advertising began in 1929 as the industries first Trade Magazine. Starting with their May 1931 issue, their covers featured fantastic Art Deco illustrations. (see below)
Continue reading “Broadcast Advertising 1929-1932”Two bunnies listening to their favorite Easter radio program
Modern Mechanix, March, 1934. Cover art by George Rozen (1895-1974)
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By night, a racket-buster, bringing justice to a crime-ridden metropolis.
Continue reading “Our GREAT Hero, Before They Told The Green Hornet to Buzz Off (1965)”Head of WXYZ Responsible for Putting Program on Air
Little Over a Year Old, Show Is Now One of Most Popular of Its Kind in City.
Illustrated sleeve featuring Superman, Flash Gordon, Green Hornet’s Black Beauty, Mandrake the Magician, The Shadow and The Lone Ranger. Original transcription disks were 16″ and were pressed at 16-2/3 RPM records, a speed used almost exclusively for spoken word content, particularly the “talking books” used by the visually impaired. For this reason, the inclusion of this speed was required on phonographs in some countries for many years.
The Maccabees Building – A $2,500,000 building in the Art Center of Detroit Michigan, dedicated July 23, 1927, was the first important office building in this section. Continue reading “WXYZ: Home of the Green Hornet”
