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How 1925 press dismissed the Klan at peak power

Boing Boing·Ellsworth Toohey·4 months ago

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In September 1925, a month after some 30,000 hooded Klansmen paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in the largest Klan rally in Washington's history, the satirical weekly Judge declared the Ku Klux…

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Fade to black: inside the US’s abandoned movie theatres

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Fade to black: inside the US’s abandoned movie theatres

the Guardian·4 months ago

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Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre have travelled across the US to document the once-grand movie theatres of the 20th century that now lie abandoned

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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang gave a pastor's Egypt trip the pulp treatment in 1922

Boing Boing·Ellsworth Toohey·5 months ago

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Captain Billy's Whiz Bang was a humor magazine launched in 1919 by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett, a WWI veteran from Minnesota. Named for the artillery shells he'd heard in…

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