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"Red Caps did not go to college to learn how to be Red Caps. Their problem is a racial one. To the white, a job toting luggage is a poor way to eke out an existence. To the black, red capping is one of the 'big' fields open. The white man who works as a porter can do nothing else, as a rule; the Negro almost invariably can do something else but can't get it to do."

Dorie Miller was an African-American hero during the Second World War, click here if you would like to read about him.

"Woman is learning the same things that are taught to her brother; scientific theories destructive of the faith she imbued at home."

The women are not doing their duty - they are giving too much time to outside interests - they are degenerating! Women smoking! Women drinking! Women preferring adventures and amusement to caring for families! The flapper - the short skirt - the lack of corsets..."

Click here to read the review of a novel that dealt the feminist discomfort with Christianity.

Earl, as Vice-President of Design at General Motors, conceived of so many design elements that are associated with the era: tail-fins, wrap-around windshields and two-tone paint styling. In this article, written when he was at the top of his game, Harley Earl tells his readers what is involved in automobile design:

"Shakespeare has told us 'neither a borrower nor a lender be'. An automobile stylist must be both. He must borrow his ideas from the creatures and creations of nature which are all about him..."

"50 percent of the buildings in New York from 10 to 20 stories and 60 percent of those over 20 stories are located between 14th and 59th streets."

"There are 10 buildings in the country taller than 500 feet, and five others are in the course of construction. The highest is the Woolworth building, whose 792 feet has not been surpassed in sixteen years. This mantle of supremacy will pass this year to the Chrysler Building, which will rise 809 feet above the sidewalk..."

The article also presents statistical data concerning the number of tall buildings that could be found throughout the 1920s United States.

"Show people will never forget the year 1944. Thousands of men and women from the legitimate theater were overseas in uniform -actors and actresses, writers, scene designers, stage hands - and all looked back in wonderment at what war had done to the business... Letters and newspapers from home told the story. On Broadway even bad shows were packing them in..."

Click Here to Read an Article About KKK Activity in New York City

Which Hollywood actors received draft deferments?

Hollywood history begins with four men: Jesse Lasky, Sam Goldwyn, Cecil B. DeMille, Dustin Farnum and a silent film called "The Squaw Man"...

The YANK correspondent, Sanderson Vanderbilt, characterized Gotham as being "overcrowded" (in 1945 the population was believed to be 1,902,000; as opposed to the number today: 8,143,197) and I'm sure we can all assume that today's New Yorkers tend to feel that their fore-bearers did not know the meaning of the word.

New York was the home base of Yank Magazine and this article presents a young man's view of that town and the differences that he can recall when he remembers it's pre-war glory (Sanderson tended to feel that the city looked a bit "down-at-the-heel").

Click here if you would like to read an article about the celebrations in New York the day World War Two ended.
Read a VANITY FAIR article about New York during W.W. I-

"New York is full of waiters, Chinese, American, Congo, French, Italian and German waiters, Jewish and Christian waiters, Vegetarian and Greek waiters, many good waiters, many bad waiters."

Click here to read an article by Benny Goodman concerning the arrival of Swing on Park Ave.