Hillmanns 21. 1924. Manhattan and Brooklyn

The Hillmanns of Brooklyn

Chapter 21

1924

Manhattan and Brooklyn

We join the Hillmanns as they enjoy the year 1924. Marian is a freshman at Erasmus

As is always the case, while the Hillmanns of Brooklyn enjoyed their lives major news events were happening. In January 10, 1924 the British submarine L-34 sank in the English Channel; 43 are killed. Here we have the beautiful Marian with her mother, Rose,in Manhattan.

Marian is 14.  This picture was taken in Coney Island.

Elsewhere in 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb confess to murdering their 14-year-old cousin "in the interest of science." Clarence Darrow is defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of the death sentence. Who would have thought this type of thing was going on 1924?

Ira Gershwin , George Gershwin and Irvine Berlin dominate the music industry and Rhapsody in Blue is played for the very first time in New York City at Aeolian Hall.  I wonder what Marian was holding up to her ear in 1924 in Coney Island.

Another hit song is "Show Me the Way To Go Home"

New York's Computer Tabulating Recording Company is re-organized and will now be known as International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)

Marian was a freshman at Erasmus High School in 1923-24. Her group of friends called themselves the Kenmore Gang.

While the Kenmore gang played in Brooklyn, MGM was founded in California.

Mercedes Benz is founded by the merger of Daimler and Benz

The first regular airmail services start in the USA.

Two U.S. Army planes complete the first round-the-world flight in 175 days.

Ellis Island closes as an immigration entry point to the US. I am sure the majority of these girls' ancestors passed through Ellis Island.

King Tut’s sarcophagus was found in Egypt.

In 1924, Calvin Coolidge Jr., the 16 year old son of the President died. Three months earlier he got a blister on his toe after a tennis game. He developed blood poisoning in the blister. It killed him. Makes you appreciate antibiotics.

1924 saw New York City's first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November 27th If the Hillmanns attended. They didn't keep pictures.

Jimmy Carter, Lee Iacocca, Doris Day, Marlon Brando, Don Knotts, and Lauren Bacall were born in 1924.

I don't know the occasion but it seems that when dressed as a colonist Marian required lipstick.

Dance as though no one is watching.

 Marian liked to take photos, here we have her father, Herman, reading the paper. Perhaps he was reading of the death of Lenin.

This pciture reminds me of Marian's German heritage, I'm thinking Heidi.

Hillmanns albums come out on Tuesdays, next Tuesday we will enjoy the Canoe Place Inn

Weight Loss 2016. Week 8. Lessons Learned: Snacks and Fru Fru Drinks

When I lost 110 pounds I ate and trained like an athlete.  After that I was looking for normal and did not maintain my strict regimen.  I don’t want to maintain that strict regimen.  Eating and exercising like clockwork and limiting social appearances is not fun.  But being thin is fun.  I am trying to learn how to do the fun things I enjoy and look rockin’ hot doing it.  It’s a journey.

I had no weigh outs this week, only one weigh in.  Three weeks from tomorrow I plan to have a weigh out every Monday/Tuesday.  I plan to enter enough competitions they roll back to back. 

Last Wednesday I had court in Broward County in the morning.  At 1:30 I set off for court in West Palm Beach.  At 6 I went to a charity event where I was supposed to join a friend, except she wasn’t there.  I sat next to a really nice guy.  He was big and on a diet.  He ordered chicken wings and gave me some.  He also insisted on giving me his chair, men, take note.  I sure am glad that guy gave me wings because the event was so packed I never saw a waiter the rest of the night.  I have never left a restaurant so hungry.  I ate when I came home, too much.

Thursday I was going down the elevator after work with a young, small female attorney.  She always hauls a really large insulated lunch box, the size of a small cooler.  I asked what she packed, lunch and two snacks.  I asked what she brought, a sandwich for lunch, cookies and fritos for snacks.  I asked if she ate breakfast.  She does, cereal, milk and a banana.  She likes to eat the same thing every day.  I would weigh 300 pounds if I ate like this tiny female.  But I went home that night and, once again, ate too much for dinner.  I knew why.  It was because I ate a salad with chicken for lunch at about noon.  I was ravenous at dinner.  I need snacks.  They keep me from eating too much for dinner.

On Friday night I went out with my friend Nancy, who is an elite Yelper.  What does that mean?  Nancy writes a lot of review for Yelp.  People like Nancy’s reviews.  She won an award last year.

Nancy was going to a Yelp karaoke event.  She wanted to take me.  I am a good singer.  There were a lot of good singers that night.

Prior to karaoke Nancy made a dinner reservation at a nice restaurant.  We were four.  I was the only non-elite Yelper.  I saw, and liked, how elite Yelpers eat.  We ordered quite a few appetizers.  We all ate a little.  I was very proud of my eating.  I had a good time.  I woke up in the morning feeling oh-so-terrible.  I cannot remember the last morning I woke up feeling so badly, gastrointestinal.  What could it be?  I didn’t eat too much. 

I think I know.  I had two signature cocktails in that fancy restaurant, girly drinks. 

The karaoke event was at a coffee house.  I drank two kombuchas (fermented tea).  A Yelper purchased and handed me a glass of red wine.  I hadn’t asked for it.  I drank it.  I also drank iced coffee (no sugar).  The signature cocktails were drank between 7-8.  I left the coffee house at midnight.  I believe I felt so sick because of the high concentration of sugar in the two signature cocktails.  I think there may have also been sugar in the kombucha.  I sometimes buy kombucha at the grocery store.  It is not high in sugar.  But at the grocery store drinks are labeled, this is not the case in restaurants.  It makes restaurants dangerous. 

I gained a significant amount of weight overnight and felt sick for a couple days.  That’s what happens when you go from pretty clean eating, or at least nearly sugar-free eating to sugar eating, gastrointestinal pain. 

I used to not drink.  But then I started hanging out with my friend, Davilicious.  He likes to drink.  I found I can drink with Davilicious and still lose weight.  But we’re not making coconut mojitos and acai caipirinhas at his house.

I was talking to a very nice lawyer about weight loss ahead of Wednesday’s hearing.  He expressed his calories-in/calories-out philosophy.  I respectfully disagree.  Someone complained on DietBet she ate shrimp scampi and gained 4 lbs in one meal.  For me, sugar is dangerous as all get out.  

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