WHAT YEAR DID IT HAPPEN
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generall, there isn’t a particular date on the site that I looked on. It looks like they were here before Adam & Eve…….I’ll try to give you a date I remember. One was 1300, but then they were talking about earlier so I was very confused? 😕
Volkswagon was founded in 1937 by the German Auto Association. They were first sold in the United States in 1949. By 1973, total production was over 16 million.
My ex & I had a ’66 VW. That was my favorite car.
While on radio, were Amos & Andy black or white?
regarding the Abacus: the earliest date I had was 3000 b.c. so learned something new from Lucky 🙂
Last Post by Georgie: While on radio, were Amos & Andy black or white?They were black. Alvin Childress (Amos), Tim Moore (Kingfish) and Spencer Williams Jr. (Andy) were three of the finest comics of all time.
What year did long-distance dialing begin in the U.S?
hmmm. another Amos and Andy. Freeman Gosden (Amos)and CharleCorrell (Andy) Caucasians, were radio’s first mega-stars. Between 1929 and 1931.
The Amos and Andy I referred to, had an almost thirty year history as a highly successful radio show originating on WMAQ in Chicago on March 19,1928.
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What year did long-distance dialing begin in the U.S? 🙂generall, I’m gonna have to look that up regarding Moore & Childress doing radio. But you had it right about Gosden & Correll. 😀
Now, the only thing I could find on long distance was that it started in 1892 at a special phone that would take calls from New York to Chicago. The first customer-connected phone call was made in 1951.
Right you are about the long distance 🙂
I prob. have my info mixed up {checking back} on the radio show and which Amos and Andy did what and when. I googled Amos and Andy then scrolled down and clicked on Amos and Andy Television Radio Show. check it out.
I know the two I referred to did do radio but may not be the first.
your turn for a question 🙂RICHARD SPECK, 1966
It sounds like a recurring nightmare: an armed male intruder breaks into a women’s dorm and with a gun and a butcher’s knife, binds and gags all the residents. Then one by one, he kills them cruelly and with great brutality. All of that happened in Chicago on the night of July 14, 1966, in a dormitory that housed eight nurses who worked at the South Chicago Community Hospital. The perpetrator was Richard Speck, then 24, a drifter born in Illinois, raised in Texas, wandering from petty crime to petty crime and bar to bar. At the age of 19, he had the words “Born to Raise Hell” tattooed on his arm. His victims were all eulogized as saints, people who had committed their lives to helping others. He would be positively identified by one of his intended targets, Corazon Amurao, who survived the attack by hiding under a bed. Speck knew there were eight women in the dorm; he did not know that a friend was also staying over that night. So Amurao survived as the guest was led to slaughter. The jury found Speck guilty after a mere 49 minutes of deliberation and he was sentenced to the electric chair. In 1972, however, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the death sentence unconstitutional. Resentenced to hundreds of years in prison, Speck died in 1991. No one claimed his body, which was cremated and the ashes scattered to the wind.
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