1920s

A Look Into the Past

Speakers on for Paul Whitemans
Orchestra Playing Their 3 Million Seller
and Runner Up Hit in 1923, Three
Oclock in the Morning
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The Wall Street bombing was an incident that occurred at 12:01 p.m. on September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of New York
City. Thirty-eight were killed and 400 people were injured by the blast.
A horse-drawn wagon passed by lunchtime crowds. The wagon then stopped across the street from the headquarters of the J.P.
Morgan bank on the financial districts busiest corner. Inside, 100 pounds of dynamite with 500 pounds of heavy, cast-iron sash
weights exploded in a timer-set detonation, sending the slugs tearing through the air. The horse and wagon were blasted into small
fragment.
.

A small group if Italian

Anarchists were suspected but
were never charged due to lack
of evidence. Their motive was
revenge for the deportation and
jailing of some of their group.

The bombing caused renewed

investigation into the activities
and movement of foreign
radicals, stimulating the
development of the U.S. Justice
Departments General
Intelligence Division of the
Bureau of Investigation
(forerunner of the FBI).

One of the Directors assistants,

a fast-rising young civil servant
named John Hoover, was put in
charge of assembling all
information possible about
radical groups throughout the
United States.

Vintage RV - William Downer Auto Home, Gospel Car No. 1

Washington, D.C., 1921. Whistle Car - A Truck Filled

With Whistle, the Beverage Wrapped in Bottles

Mexico - 1922

Washington Taxi - 1922

Bathing Suit Contest, 1922

Law Officers Destroying a Moonshine Still, Gordon County, GA 1922

Lincoln Memorial Dedication, May 30, 1922

Before Land Was Removed From the Sign

1923 Duesenberg Model A Pace Car at the Indianapolis 500 Note the Original Brick Track

1924 Joy Ride in an International Harvester

Girls Gone Wild 1924

Day After the

June 28, 1924
Loraine, Ohio
Tornado

Toronto Noon Hour - 1924

Saturday Matinee, 1925

Cashmere, Oregon, 1925

This 1925 Model T Ford Sold For $260.00. It Had Sold For $950.00 in 1909.

25 Cent Gas, Washington D.C. - 1926

Early RV

Chicago
Traffic on
Bridge
1927

1927 Camping Trip in a Studebaker

Charles Lindbergh Before Attempting the First Trans-Atlantic Flight

Charles Lindbergh Lands Spirit of St. Louis in Paris on May 21, 1927,
Successfully Completing the First Trans-Atlantic Flight

USS Los Angeles Over Manhattan - 1928

South Street, New York -1928

1928 Picture of 39
Year Old Hitler at
Nazi Party Rally in
Nuremberg. His
Rise to Power
Would Begin After
the Beginning of
the Depression.

Ford Introduces the Model A in 1928

The February 14, 1929 Valentine's Day Massacre was ordered by Al Capone to eliminate competition from
George "Bugs" Moran's North Side Gang because they were encroaching on his territory. Capone delegated the
job to his murderous henchman, "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn and headed to his home in Miami to establish his
alibi. Mcgurn baited the Moran gang with the promise of a shipment of smuggled alcohol at a price too good to
pass up. The delivery was to take place at a garage at 2122 North Clark Street that Moran used to conduct his
business. McGurn distanced himself from the activities of that day by staying away and bringing in hit men from
the Detroit gang to carry out the executions. Moran himself was late getting to the garage and fled when he saw
the executioners, some dressed as police officers, entering the garage. Although he escaped, the damage was
done. Moran lost power and eventually control of the North Side.

Moran's men were lined up

against the wall and the hit
men opened up with two
Thompson submachine
guns, backed up by pistols
and shotguns. Six men died
immediately and one
survived till he got to the
hospital in spite of 22 bullet
wounds, even reviving briefly
before dying. True to the
gangsters' code, though, he
went to his grave without
squealing. "I'm not gonna
talk. Nobody shot me," he
said before expiring.

October 29
1929
Decatur
Evening
Herald

Wall Street, New York City - 1929