Making The Movies Behave
When Hollywood refused to tone down the violence and sex in movies, Americans began censoring them — and learned how difficult the job could be.
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Tag Archives: 1930s
Classic Covers: How Labor Has Changed
You don’t often see a coachman these days, or a blacksmith. In honor of Labor Day, we invite you to think of other professions that have ceased to exist as you enjoy yesterday’s labors as shown on our covers.
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Classic Covers: August Cool-Down
Is there any relief from this heat? Yes! It’s August, and the dog days of summer are upon us, but we found delightful covers from 1912 to 1955 showing ways to get wet and cool down. We wouldn’t recommend all of them.
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The Rise, Fall, and Rise of the Recording Industry
America’s tinkerers and entrepreneurs took a business machine and turned it into a billion-dollar entertainment industry.
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A Friend of Her Parents
A short story by Alice Duer Miller.
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The Bashing of Bullwinkle
Norman Reilly Raine, screenwriter for the 1938 epic film The Adventures of Robin Hood, authored the Post’s ever-popular Tugboat Annie series. This short story is the first time Bullwinkle makes an appearance, and the confrontation is memorable.
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America’s Century of Oil Problems
This week, we review a century of articles about the oil industry, and explore America’s long, troubled relationship with its chief energy supplier.
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“I’m Going To Step Inside Where I Cannot See It”
If you look closely at this famous photograph, now 73 years old, you can see one era end and another begin.
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Post Boys and Girls – 74 Years Later
We recently ran a piece on Post News Boys (and Girls) – those ambitious youngsters who pounded the pavement in years past to sell subscriptions to The Saturday Evening Post. And we’re delighted to report that we keep hearing from more!
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The Art of the Post
When it came to The Saturday Evening Post, George Horace Lorimer had it covered.
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The Spenders
“‘How much cash and credit of the United States Government has been spent since March 4, 1933?’ I finally asked a very high-placed official. He answered calmly enough: ‘I do not know. I do not suppose anybody knows.’” The discussion was quoted in the editorial The Spenders from the August 8, 1936 issue of The ... More
