1930s family tuning in..
..to Judy Garland's"Somewhere over the Rainbow" from the new movie Wizard of Oz, premiered August 12, 1939.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~1930s2/Time/1939/39_rainbow.mov (listen!)
..After a long day at the factory.
http://www.hodgsonhouses.com/images/Hodgson%20Factory%202.jpg
Right around Christmas...
Montgomery Ward's 1st edition of Rudolph 1939
..at home with some guests..
(Dated 1937. No other information, except in those days every one of those bulbs consumed 9 watts!)www.papatedsplace.com/Christmas1930s.html
..reflecting on a pretty tough year... kikoshouse.blogspot.com/2008_12_01_archive.html
..but with a little encouragement..
(F.D.R. conducting a "fireside chat")
www.library.cornell.edu/.../ref/amst124am.html
Remembered some good times..
(poster for New York WorldsFair)
..saw some great films...
(Scene from Gone with the Wind, premiered December 15)
And then the man came to dinner....
(1930's wheelchair, similar to Whiteside's)
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