1930s Archives - Click Americana

How cats helped create the first iron lung machines for polio victims (1938)

Every year, hundreds of children are suddenly stricken with infantile paralysis (polio). In the past, some lost the use of their breathing muscles and slowly stopped breathing.

New super-locomotive train capable of 100 MPH (1937)

A 16-cylinder streamlined steam super-locomotive capable of whisking 14 standard Pullman cars along at a speed of 100 miles an hour on a level, straight track will make its appearance soon in the railroad world.

Chocolate-peanut cream cake recipe (1939)

Just try this moist-keeping Peanut Cream Cake, rich with Baker's Chocolate Was it you we heard wishing for a summer cake recipe? We know you'll like this one. It's new and exciting -- Peanut Butter frosting on... Read more...

Presenting Miss Shirley Temple in ‘Baby Take a Bow’ (1934)

These tongue-in-cheek ads, presenting child star Shirley Temple as a fashionable Hollywood screen siren with lots of cash, were a humorous way to introduce the 6-year-old girl's new film, "Baby Take a Bow."

Why keep marriage facts a dark secret? (1934)

Why keep marriage facts a dark secret? The belief that a couple taking vows would soon see and understand everything is held a shopworn idea to be abandoned.

Do you know how to kiss? (1937)

Do you know how to kiss? But let Carol Hughes And Lee Dixon show you, anyhow Sure. everybody knows how to kiss -- after a fashion. But there's a right and wrong way, so they say. And because of that Carol Hug... Read more...

Texas officers trap and kill notorious duo Bonnie & Clyde (1934)

Texas officers trap and kill Clyde Barrow & Bonnie Parker Outlaw's Auto Runs into Ambush in Louisiana Pair Are Riddled With Bullets on Highway Near Black Lake Before Their Machine Runs into Embankment ... Read more...

Television unveiled: TV finally a reality (1930)

Television unveiled by Robert Joyce Tasker Imagine a fire... hot, blistering, roaring and raging through a tenement district, impelled on a hurricane of its own making -- the television broadcasting stati... Read more...

Chocolate orange cream pie recipe (1938)

"I got love and kisses for my Chocolate Orange Cream Pie!" "And I owe it all to Aunt Hetty's sharp tongue!" Chocolate orange cream pie dessert recipe Ingredients 3 squares Baker's unsweetened chocolat... Read more...

The Wizard of Oz is here to delight the kids (1939)

The Wizard is here to delight the kids Oldsters, too, should enjoy Dorothy's adventures with the scarecrow, Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion in the Wondrous Land of Oz by Kaspar Monahan "We're off to... Read more...

How Judy Garland’s career began (1942)

Here is a heartfelt -- though dramatized and beautified (and sometimes somewhat inaccurate) -- story of Judy Garland's early life, originally published in 1942. Pocketful 'o songs Listen! You can hear it ... Read more...

Cross the country with these vintage US road maps

Take a look at a more than 20 vintage road maps below, apparently preserved for years in car gloveboxes across the nation!

The perfect woman’s figure (1938)

The perfect 1938 figure must have curves, but it differs from the perfect figure of past decades in relationship of curves to straight lines.

Amelia Earhart feared lost (1937)

AMELIA FEARED LOST Navy ships ordered to begin hunt Plane over 2500-mile Pacific waste Island is goal Tiny spot in Pacific to be landing site Howland Island, Oceania, July 2 - The coast guard cut... Read more...

8 Pecan Fingers cookie recipes

Pecan Fingers, before and after baking and rolling in powdered sugar, are shown here ready to serve for any snack occasion. Delicious with a hot drink, cold drink, with fruit or alone as a crisp nibbler, they ... Read more...

The new contact lenses: Eyeball spectacles (1931)

About five years before plastic was introduced to the contact lens market, glass lenses -- big glass contact lenses that were held in place by your top and bottom eyelids -- were the only alternative to glasses... Read more...

Vintage Coca-Cola Christmas ads, starring Santa (1931-1963)

"My hat's off to to the pause that refreshes" (1931) Old Santa, busiest man in the world, takes time out for the pause that refreshes with ice-cold Coca-Cola. He even knows how to be good to himself. And so he... Read more...

Exposing Hollywood’s Red Menace: Communism (1940)

With hearts and checkbooks the stars responded to the call of humanity -- but an insidious plot lay hidden behind the campaign! By Morton Thompson - Illustrated by C C Beall A chastened Hollywood today is... Read more...

Ginger Rogers for TWA airlines: A bridge across the continent (1936)

"A bridge across the continent." - Ginger Rogers, RKO star Miss Rogers says: "On TWA, you travel with the sort of people you enjoy meeting. And you always reach your destination clean, fresh and rested. T... Read more...

Behind the scenes of The Wizard of Oz movie (1939)

The magic of modern moviemaking at its miracle best breathes life into that beloved classic of childhood By Dixie Willson And so M-G-M's art department was given a script labeled "Wizard of Oz"; a movie s... Read more...

Fantasy in fashion: Costumes from The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Fantasy in fashion The Wizard of Oz & its influence on clothing styles by Gwenn Walters The influences that sway the world of fashion have been many, ranging from the brilliant colors of a Van Gogh m... Read more...

Beauty tips for an ugly duckling (1939)

Photoplay's own Beauty Shop Radio's "Dr. Susan" (Eleanor Phelps) undertakes to remodel an "ugly duckling" -- with results that will help you, too The habit of being beautiful You know that beauty... Read more...

I married a Hollywood movie star (1939)

I married a star by Anonymous Hollywood called it an ideal match. Yet, if I had used the spoonful of brains God gave me, I would never have done what I pitied so many others for doing -- for I have learne... Read more...

Meet Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto (1930)

Because of the discovery made by this young farmer of Kansas, every dictionary in the world will have to be revised. For all time to come, students of astronomy will read that the ninth planet, Pluto, was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh.

Mickey Rooney: His life story at age 18 (1939)

Mickey Rooney, an actor at the age of 11 months, veteran trooper at 10, and screen star at 16, writes his autobiography.

Hearty parties on St Valentine’s Day (1935)

Hearty parties on St Valentine's Day Valentine parties should be pretty things. Sentimental games should be played, hearts should abound in your decorations, and your refreshments should be molded to fit the o... Read more...

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