The actual audio isn't finished since we got an extension, but here's the graphic I'm putting together for it. Blending interests, I'm doing my required 475 podcast as if it's an Evergreen podcast from 1927.
Fun was more important than historical accuracy – it's more like how we like to imagine 1927. However, all the stories and much of the text* is authentically from February 1927 issues of the Evergreen.
Why 1927? Because it was the oldest book in the archives room that I could reach without difficulty.
The actual 1927 Evergreen staff looks like kind of a dour bunch, though the women had awesome names: Theda Lomax, Lyla Appel, Georgia Grimes, Lucille Weatherstone.
*UPDATE: I want to specifically mention that the Lucky Strike advertisement is entirely authentic, and not meant to glorify smoking. Those who know me, especially from the Evergreen, know how I feel about that. The logo does look cool in the graphic, though, and some weeks it seems like Lucky Strike cigarettes were entirely responsible for the financial health of this newspaper. Cigarettes and men's suits dominated printed Evergreen ads back then, and there were always a bunch for typewriters at the beginning of a semester.
2 comments:
Outstanding. Pretty much in every way. And I've had a link to your blog for like a week. It's listed under "Lisa likes history."
Keep up the good work.
The Lucky Strike logo is not only awesome because it fueled Nazi-killing. It was designed by Raymond Loewy, perhaps the greatest American industrial designer of the 20th century.
He also did the Shell logo, the 1950s Coke bottle, the Hoover logo, iconic Greyhound busses and countless other iconic logos. Tack on a hefty list of appliances and industrial machines and also the interior of Skylab.
As a secret train nerd, I must also point out that he did a whole bunch of streamlined trains like the GG1 electric locomotive (still in use today) as well as the Baldwin Sharknose, which I think was the first streamlined diesel locomotive.
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