In the 1930s he was. Now he’s dead.
Not that I’m certain the poodle was a “he.” It’s too furry to see.
Via.
Is that Hervé Villechaize riding on the boat with all that bare-chested beefcake in the 1930s?
Photo circa mid-30s; via bondman2 @ eBay.
Invented in 1931; via Nationaal Archief.
Gas war resistant pram. England, Hextable, 1938.
One wheel motor cycle, 1931:
One wheel motorcycle (invented by Italian M. Goventosa de Udine). Maximum speed: 150 kilometers per hour ( 93 Mph).
Motorcycles: the New Imperial (also called: the Blue Prince). Three man eating smoked sausages after finishing a 25.000 km. test drive. The Netherlands, Gorsel, 1931.
But it’s waiters wearing masks for Mardi Gras in a restaurant in Bayern; München, Germany, 1933.
When I read the caption for this photo in A Review of the Educational Motion Picture “The Way To A Man’s Heart”, my first thought was, “Oh, please, let her first name be Ethel!” because I completely fell in love with that name in On Golden Pond. (The fabulous Katharine Hepburn played the fabulously named Ethel Thayer.) But no. Sadly, Miss Thayer’s first name wasn’t Ethel; it was Phoebe.