"1930s" Blogs & Blog Posts

Here are some fantastically fun bicycle designs in Chicago from 1939. Watch people ride around on them in the middle of traffic, sans helmet.  The footage shows a double-decker bike, a super tall bike, a two-story bike with a sewing table in the mid...

The best 1930s fonts encapsulate the ups and downs of this tumultuous decade. With any of these fonts, you can capture this era perfectly.

This wonderful electronic music was created using an optical synthesizer called a Variophone, which was invented in the 1930s.  Variophones were photoelectric instruments. These instruments use sound waves that have been cut onto cardboard disks. Bo...

In "Ha Ha Ha" (1934), a classic episode of the Fleischer Brothers' Betty Boop cartoon series, we learn about the joys of laughing gas. When Koko the Clown gets a cavity from eating too many sweets, Betty must put on her dentist hat and give him t...

Put on your warmest Nordic turtleneck, whip yourself up a hot buttered rum, and warm your feet by the fire—you’ve had a long day on the slopes and the lodge’s evening festivities are about to begin!Read more...

See here, we’ve got a pretty young woman in a swimsuit we’d like to display to her best advantage. What’ll we do? Oh, obviously—we’ll perch her on the diving board.Read more...

Beginning in the mid 1930s, government-funded photographers fanned out across the country to document America. And now, thanks to a spiffy new database, you can browse these frankly amazing photos county by county. Look up your hometown! Read more...