Top Posts & Pages
-
Recent Posts
- Friday Five – Number One Hundred Ninety One November 22, 2024
- Mr Mambo Week November 21, 2024
- Orange Ricotta Cookies November 18, 2024
- Looking up at Jefferson Square November 17, 2024
- Caturday November 16, 2024
Archives
Subscribe via Email
-
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy Pages
Sites of Interest
Tags
- 9th Street
- 1980s
- analog
- antique photograph
- baking
- Cartoon
- cartoons
- cat
- CO2 Comics
- collage
- comic
- comic book
- comics
- digital illustration
- Drawer Cards
- early 20th Century
- feline
- Friday Five
- ginger cats
- glass negative
- Halloween
- horror
- humor
- Illustration
- Joe Williams
- John B Capewell
- monster
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
- Philadelphia College of Art
- photography
- Photoshop
- Plywood
- Plywood the Cat
- Sketch
- sketchbook
- South Philly
- The Capewell Glass Negative Collection
- Tina Garceau
- USA
- vintage
- vintage photos
- Westville
- Willceau
Tag Archives: 1938
The Martians are Coming!
As a treat for Halloween, here is a presentation of Orson Welles’ notorious radio drama originally broadcast on October 30, 1938. Click on the arrow below to play the program. Happy Halloween!
Posted in Halloween, Holiday, Mystery Matinee
Tagged 1938, Archive, Martian, Orson Welles, radio, War of the Worlds
Leave a comment
The Hurricane of 1938 – Sunday Matinee
A few years back I watched a fascinating PBS documentary about the Hurricane of 1938 that destroyed huge portions of New England. At the time, there was no radar or any of the early warning and tracking systems we have … Continue reading
Posted in Blast from the Past, Movie Matinee
Tagged 1938, hurricane, Irene, New England, newsreel, WPA
Leave a comment