Thursday, July 14, 2011

What impact did these 5 things have on the world in the 1930's?

With the exception of Shirley Temple and Steamboat Willie, who's original name was Mortimer Mouse and became the famous Mickey Mouse, none have had any lasting impact on anything. Disney's front man Mickey is iconic and generates a lot of revenue but he's just a pop icon to be honest. Ms. Temple served as ambassador to England for many years and is fondly remembered by millions. Bonny and Clyde are legendary but were just common thugs and other than a movie or two to entertain folks they were just rift-raft that today would hardly cause a stir or might be a simple one day story on CNN. Poor Amelia was truly and literally a lost soul. It was atime when America looked to heros and she stepped up and filled that role. Her own navigator quit before the final flight because she crashed on takeoff in Hawaii and he felt she was a poor pilot. What is rarely told is that she never flew alone and every leg of her journeys had already been flown, just not together. She is more famous for her last unsucessful flight than anything else. She couldn't find the island even though there were spotter boats in the area, she had little knowledge of radio use and no real navigational skills. War of the Worlds caused quite a stir and is hyped to no end but wasn't a nationwide broadcast so had no real impact on America. It did usher in a generation of suspense radio and eventually movies and tv shows. Each of these is surely part of the fabric of America and have stood the test of time as stories but individually, other than the two mentioned at first, neither is all that impressive if you study the true story.

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