The Fabulous Fanny Brice
Fania Borach, born in New York City on October 29, 1891. If the name Fania Borach is not familar, many will remember her as Fanny Brice. The Broadway show and movie Funny Girl starring Barbra Streisand was loosely based on her career. Brice is known for two songs she performed during the 1920s. “My Man” [...]
Vaudeville Becomes Less Vulgar
Vaudeville was a style of entertainment popular in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries that took the form of a series of separate, unrelated acts. The performance could include all or some of the following; musicians, dancers, comedians, animal acts, magicians, impersonators, acrobats, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, or [...]
Everyone’s Mom – Barbara Billingsley
Barbara Billingsley, who is best remembered as the Mom to Wally and ‘Beaver’ Cleaver in the TV series Leave it to Beaver, was born on December 22, 1915. She passed away on October 16, 2010 at the age of 94. She was born Barbara Lillian Combes in Los Angeles, California and married her first husband [...]
National Park Service
It was on August 25, 1916 that President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill, National Park Service Organic Act, that created the National Park Service. The agency mission as defined in the bill was “to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife therein, and to provide for the enjoyment of the same [...]
Hitler’s Henchmen
Adolf Eichmann (March 19, 1906 – June 1, 1962) He was the Jewish expert and headed the Gestapo Department IV B4 for Jewish Affairs. He traveled throughout German rule lands coordinating the “Final Solution” that oversaw the extermination process. Escaped from an American internment camp taking refuse in Argentina until he was abducted by the [...]
Chance Leads the Cubs
The Chicago Cubs. A team that everyone loves, but one that seems to be jinxed. There has been many stories over the years on why the Cubs are jinxed and maybe the jinx came from Frank Chance leaving the team. In the first few years of the 20th Century the Chicago Cubs were one of [...]
Tanya Tucker
Tanya Tucker seems to have been around forever, she had her first hit record on 1972, but on October 10 2008 she just celebrates her 50th birthday. She was born on October 10, 1958 in Seminole Texas. The young Tanya Tucker appeared in a bit part in the film Jeremiah Johnson. It was while the [...]
The Fire Was Not Started by a Cow
October 8, 1871 was a Sunday morning when a fire started around a small barn behind 137 DeKoven Street. The barn was owned by Patrick and Catherine O’Leary. By the time that the fire was under control, three days later on October 10th, a great part of the City of Chicago was destroyed. Chicago Republican [...]
Abbott and Costello – Comedy Team from Vaudeville to Television
William (Bud) Abbott was born in Asbury Park, NJ, October 2, 1895 and died April 24, 1974 in Woodland Hills, California. Lou Costello (Louis Francis Cristillo) was born in Paterson, NJ, March 6, 1906 and died March 3, 1959 in East Los Angeles, California. They first began to work together in 1935 at the Eltinge [...]
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