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Wrong Way Corrigan
Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan was the man of the hour after he successfully flew from Brooklyn to Ireland in 1938. Although he tried to go through proper channels to obtain permission for the flight, the powers that be deemed his plane unsafe on several occasions and denied his requests. Unwilling to give up on his dream, Corrigan flew out of Brooklyn with a flight plan saying he was heading back to California, but he went straight east toward Ireland instead. After a grueling journey and a safe landing, Corrigan claimed that he made a navigation error and didn't realize he was going the wrong way until he was too far out to return. And that's how he got his nickname, Wrong Way.
I know that there was a huge ticker tape parade for him in NYC and one in Chicago, so I'm assuming that these photos were taken in one of those cities. Does anyone recognize the buildings?
I recently bought a bunch of 35mm negatives at a flea market, expecting them to be your standard photographic fare -- people lined up in front of a house smiling at the camera, a blurry car or two, maybe (if you're lucky) an interesting snap of a street scene or interior. But, this lot was gloriously different.
Every vintage 30's photo is a gorgeous delight, and, after looking at the first couple of scanned images, it was quite obvious that the photographer knew what he/she was doing. There are some great portraits, people working in an office, some great shots of NYC, and, even better, a big group of shots of the New York World's Fair (the most spectacular of them all, in my opinion).
Wrong Way Corrigan
Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan was the man of the hour after he successfully flew from Brooklyn to Ireland in 1938. Although he tried to go through proper channels to obtain permission for the flight, the powers that be deemed his plane unsafe on several occasions and denied his requests. Unwilling to give up on his dream, Corrigan flew out of Brooklyn with a flight plan saying he was heading back to California, but he went straight east toward Ireland instead. After a grueling journey and a safe landing, Corrigan claimed that he made a navigation error and didn't realize he was going the wrong way until he was too far out to return. And that's how he got his nickname, Wrong Way.
I know that there was a huge ticker tape parade for him in NYC and one in Chicago, so I'm assuming that these photos were taken in one of those cities. Does anyone recognize the buildings?
I recently bought a bunch of 35mm negatives at a flea market, expecting them to be your standard photographic fare -- people lined up in front of a house smiling at the camera, a blurry car or two, maybe (if you're lucky) an interesting snap of a street scene or interior. But, this lot was gloriously different.
Every vintage 30's photo is a gorgeous delight, and, after looking at the first couple of scanned images, it was quite obvious that the photographer knew what he/she was doing. There are some great portraits, people working in an office, some great shots of NYC, and, even better, a big group of shots of the New York World's Fair (the most spectacular of them all, in my opinion).