Hillmanns#20 1923 Rockaway, Lake George and Brooklyn

THE  HILLMANNS OF BROOKLYN

CHAPTER 20

1923 

This week we join the Hillmanns at Rockaway, Lake George and Brooklyn

. Marian and Herman. Marian is 13. Start singing "Yes, we have no Bananas” that was a hit song this year.

Herman and Rose
In 1923 The Cotton Club opened in Harlem.

We're in Lake George. In 1923 the Klu Klux Klan burned the town of Rosewood, Florida

At the start of the year it was 7,000 german marks to the dollar inflation took it to 4.2 trillion marks to the dollar, by the end of the year the currency was abolished

Indian Well
Time Magazine was launched

King Tut’s Burial Chamber was opened in Egypt in 1923 

April 26, 1923 Albert Duke of York married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 

Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as president following the death of Warren Harding in August

In Lakehurst, NJ, the first American airship, the USS Shenandoah, took to the sky.

In 1923 the Hillmanns enjoyed a motor boat race at Lake George. In Munich, Adolf Hitler led the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Bavarian government; police and troops crushed the attempt the next day 

In 1923 the worlds first domestic refrigerator was sold in Sweden. That's kind of interestingt, isn't it? Sweden is a cold nation. I guess they missed it in the Summer and wanted the cold storage in their homes.

Roger's Slide

Roger's Slide Gazebo

The worlds first portable radio was developed in the US 

1923 Births: Bob Dole, Charleton Heston, Chuck Yeager, Ed McMahon, Aaron Spelling, James Arness, Henry Kissinger, Estelle Getty, and Bob Barker.

Split Rock

Steamer

I think we are looking at a group of Siegeles (Rose's family)

Croquet

Tennis

Does anyone know where this viewing tower is?

How about this waterfall? Hillmanns albums come out on Tuesdays. Next week we go to Manhattan and play with the Kenmore Gang