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Majestic Vaudeville billboard, 1914, in Houston at the corner of Main and Texas.
Charlie Chaplin makes his film debut in "Making a Living." (February)
President Woodrow Wilson orders troops to take military action against Mexico following the Tampico Incident. (April)
Mother's Day is recognized as a national holiday in the U.S. (May)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated, unofficially beginning World War I. (June)
Babe Ruth makes his debut with the Boston Red Sox. (July)
The Panama Canal is inaugurated. (August)
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is established. (September)
The Federal Reserve opens (November)
(Check out the photos..awesome)
http://www.sfgate.com/life/article/American-life-in-1914-How-we-lived-a-century-ago-5075997.php
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)The chickens from our Imperial meddling were just coming home to roost, The global forces of community had been jailed and executed here, and a generation of poor young men were snatched from their homes and sent to die in the Old World to distract the rest of us from what was going on.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)An American Marine sharpshooter aims a 1903 Springfield rifle at opponents during the American intervention in the Mexican Revolution in Vera Cruz, Mexico in 1914. Photo: Time Life Pictures, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)oneshooter
(8,614 posts)That way he won't sound so ignorant when he speaks.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)F. Kafka
(70 posts)And wonderful pics, too.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)American industrialist Henry Ford and inventor Thomas Edison, seated in the back, are seen on one of Ford's automobiles at an unknown location in Florida in this 1914 photo. The man on the left is unidentified.
Photo: AP
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)George Burns, left, and Art Fletcher leap and stretch during spring training drills for the New York Giants in Marlin, Texas on March 14, 1914. Photo: Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images
An aerial view shows Wrigley Field in Chicago. Wrigley Field opened April 23, 1914 as the home of the Chicago Cubs. Photo: MLB Photos, MLB Photos Via Getty Images
Johnny Evers, captain and second baseman for the Boston Braves, goes over the ground rules at Fenway Park with Ira Thomas, Athletics captain and the umpiring crew before the start of game three of the 1914 World Series on October 12th. Photo: Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images
That airplane looks too modern for 1914
Brother Buzz
(36,440 posts)First produced in 1925
Drew2510
(70 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,440 posts)Drew2510
(70 posts)Downloaded the pic and enlarged it. Darn old eyes!!
Brother Buzz
(36,440 posts)The curved concrete bleachers (and famous scoreboard), today's configuration, was constructed in 1937.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)The photo info says: Wrigley Field opened April 23, 1914. I think they were pointing out that in 1914 the stadium opened and that was the earliest shot of it they could find. But, good catch!
Drew2510
(70 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Maybe?
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Swept off her feet...
Legendary ballroom dancer Vernon Castle lifts his wife and partner Irene as they dance before a large mirror in a dance studio in New York in 1914. Photo: FPG, Getty Images
note>> I was kinda hoping I would see something like this..
ananda
(28,865 posts)I looked at everyone. They are all so great and many of them
capture truly historical moments, including women's suffrage,
child labor, the union movement, types of cars and planes,
and most interesting, Byrd Winters, who I think was in on the
murder of her 9yo stepdaughter, Catherine, though the case
was supposedly never resolved after charges were dropped.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Reputed gangster James Franche and a policeman a walk toward an automobile parked along the street in Chicago, 1914. Franche, nicknamed, Duffy the Goat, confessed to murdering Isaac Henagow in the Roy Jones Cafe, located at 2037 South Wabash Ave. in the Near South Side area of Chicago. From the Chicago Daily News collection. Photo: Chicago History Museum, Getty Images
teach1st
(5,935 posts)A group of people examine the ruins of the Ludlow colony in Colorado. Built as a temporary shelter for striking coal miners and their families, it was attacked by militiamen and company detectives who shot and burned to death eighteen people including eleven children, the youngest of whom was only three months old. Photo: MPI, Getty Images
teach1st
(5,935 posts)The Ludlow Massacre was a watershed moment in American labor relations. Historian Howard Zinn described the Ludlow Massacre as "the culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history".[3] Congress responded to public outcry by directing the House Committee on Mines and Mining to investigate the incident.[4] Its report, published in 1915, was influential in promoting child labor laws and an eight-hour work day.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss flies a modified version of Samuel Langley's 'Aerodrome' over Kenka Lake, New York. Photo: Hulton Archive, Getty Images
Bet you never saw this before!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)This did not fail to get my attention. This is an EV
Noted electrical engineer Charles Steinmetz in his 1914 Detroit Electric, with grandchildren (left to right) Midge, Billy and Joe, and his adopted son, Joseph Hayden in this undated photograph. (Union College archives)
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)was taken from the Union College archives...in Schenectady New York, and a city that houses a huge General Electric plant.
Jessy169
(602 posts).. how few overweight people there were back in 1914. In fact, looking back at my high school year books (1970 - 1973), I find out of thousands of students only a few overweight. The implications are clear. Between "then" and "now", the food that we consume as a nation has led to increased weight gain and unhealthy populace. That, and perhaps the amount of television and/or video game activity we engage in. I have seen DU discussions where people are claiming that the overweight epidemic in America is due to genetic reasons, but I'm not so sure about that.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Dressing Up to an Ideal Photo: Buyenlarge, Getty Images
Kaleva
(36,307 posts)robertpaulsen
(8,632 posts)Not American, but some excellent shots of Paris 100 years ago, including the original Moulin Rouge!
Fascinating Color Photos of 1914 Paris
By Caroline Stanley on Nov 21, 2012 3:30pm
A boy pushes an overloaded cart through a picturesque city square. A soldier with a wooden leg stands next to a cannon, his uniform covered with medals. A group of young performers in period costume assemble around a statue. Then theres this shot of the original Moulin Rouge, an architectural gem of the Belle Époque that would be destroyed in a fire the following year. Unearthed by Retronaut, these color photos of Paris back 1914 are not only lovely to look at, theyre incredibly narrative, like a visual prompt for the kind of stories that Hemingway would write about the city in the decade to come. If you need an escape from the impending holiday drama, or youd just like travel over a hundred years back in time, click through our slideshow now!
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MORE...
http://flavorwire.com/348800/fascinating-color-photos-of-1914-paris/view-all/
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Aw that's it. Golden Gate Park!
Edited to say..That photo of yours looks like Solvang, California. If you have never been there, google photos of it!
robertpaulsen
(8,632 posts)My wife and I enjoyed a wonderful cream-puff pastry there, as well as a great wine tasting at Byron in nearby Los Olivos.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)tasting salt water taffy I have ever eaten, other than on the board walk in Atlantic city.
yesphan
(1,588 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)SF GATE, AKA the San Francisco Chronicle, always has some great features. A paper that once
had the great
yesphan
(1,588 posts)in the Bay Area. Like you, I am a long time Raiders fan and as such, the last 11 years have been a little frustrating.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Talking to former Raider big Jeff Barnes...
My neck hurts from looking up at him, while chatting...
madokie
(51,076 posts)My Dad was born in 1897, died in 1979
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)All of this intrigued me, like that video of Market Street in San Francisco before the 1906 earthquake, or the World's Fair after that.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Amazing study!
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Society women wearing sandwich boards to publicize a talk at Cooper Union by the governors of the states that have granted the vote to women. Photo: Paul Thompson, Getty Images
I think I would fight to get out of wearing those outfits!
treestar
(82,383 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Hard to believe he would have been 100 this year.
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)She was, at that time, the most powerful ship afloat.
She is still afloat, as a museum ship.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=uss+texas&id=62D4EEFE039EBA86AB21AB089E7EAFC2068E5BE3&FORM=IQFRBA#view=detail&id=62D4EEFE039EBA86AB21AB089E7EAFC2068E5BE3&selectedIndex=0
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)I was once invited to go aboard the wooden decks of the USS Missouri. Biggest guns I ever saw...
Brother Buzz
(36,440 posts)The 16-inch on the left of your photo is now on display in the Marin headlands.
http://www.nps.gov/goga/historyculture/new-gun.htm
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)But of course you don't mean this one..
oneshooter
(8,614 posts)Packerowner740
(676 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)The San Francisco Chronicle.. I thought it was great someone pulled them all together for a nice photo essay.
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)just when and why did that happen, anyway?
ananda
(28,865 posts)They're so trippy.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)"Its not the Years, its the millage"
flamingdem
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