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SOMETHING BETTER ~ THE RCA VIDEODISC

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Marketed by RCA in the 1980’s.

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FACTORY FIRE KILLED MANY ON THIS DAY IN 1911

How the Deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Shocked a Nation and Led to  Reforms - HISTORY


In one of the darkest moments of America’s industrial history,
the
Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City
burned down, killing 146 workers, on March 25, 1911. The
tragedy led to the development of a series of laws and
regulations that better protected the safety of factory
workers.

The Triangle factory, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris,
was located in the top three floors of the 10-story Asch
Building in downtown Manhattan. It was a sweatshop in
every sense of the word: a cramped space lined with work
stations and packed with poor immigrant workers, mostly
teenaged women who did not speak English. At the time of
the fire, there were four elevators with access to the factory
floors, but only one was fully operational and it could hold
only 12 people at a time. There were two stairways down to
the street, but one was locked from the outside to prevent
theft by the workers and the other opened inward only. The
fire escape was shoddily constructed, and could not support
the weight of more than a few women at a time.

Look back at the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire - New York Daily News

Uncovering the History of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | History|  Smithsonian Magazine

Labor Day: The fight is far from over - Knox TN Today

23-29 Washington Place, site of the Triangle Fire in 1911 | Photo by Flickr user <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sminor/4816116844/">lumierfl</a>
Washington place today, site of the triangle fire, was constructed in 1900. it is currently
KNOWN AS NYU’S BROWN BUILDING.


 

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WESTERN HERO BORN IN PORTLAND

SCVHistory.com LW2196 | Film-Arts | Bob Steele

Bob Steele - [1907-1988] His main career progressed in 1927, when he was  hired by FBO to star in a series of W… | Cowboy films, Old western movies,  Western movies

COWBOY BORN IN PORTLAND, OREGON | PDX RETRO
Bob Steele (Robert Adrian Bradbury)
(January 23, 1907 – December 21, 1988)

Steele was born in Portland, Oregon, into a vaudeville family.

His parents were Robert North Bradbury and the former Nieta
Quinn. He
had a
twin brother, Bill, also an actor.

After years of touring, the family settled in Hollywood in the
late 1910s, where his father soon found work in the movies,
first as an actor, later as a director.

Steele’s career began to take off in 1927, when he was hired
by production company
Film Booking Offices of America to
star in a series of
Westerns. Renamed Bob Steele, he soon
made a name for himself, and in the late 1920s, 1930s and
1940s starred in
B-Westerns for almost every minor film
studio,

Steele is said to have been the inspiration for the character
"Cowboy Bob" in the Dennis The Menace comic strip.

BILLY THE KID'S FIGHTING PALS (1941) by Sam Newfield, Cinefania
  1941

Hidden Valley (1932) - Watch on Tubi or Streaming Online | Reelgood
1936

Bob Steele Western #3
(1950-1952) Fawcett comic books.


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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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Elvis Presley swears in to the U.S. Army, March 24, 1958. (Associated Press photo/Public Domain)

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MADELEINE ALBRIGHT HAS DIED AT 84

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Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (Marie Jana Korbelová)
(May 15, 1937 – March 23, 2022)

WASHINGTON (TND) — Madeleine Albright, America’s first female secretary of state, died Wednesday.

A statement from Albright’s family said she died of cancer and was surrounded by family and friends when she passed.

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