He spent much of his youth playing old time music for friends and dances, earning a living as a farmhand into the 1920s.

It features a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old " Northern loop " track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains.

The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made practical in the late 1920s with the perfection of the Audion amplifier tube and the introduction of the Vitaphone system.

In maintaining old equipment, unobtainium refers to replacement parts that are no longer made, such as parts for reel-to-reel audio-tape recorders, or rare vacuum tubes that cost more than the equipment they are fitted to ( especially true of certain vacuum tubes, such as the 1L6, used almost exclusively in American battery-powered shortwave radios or the WD-11 used in certain early 1920s radios ).

In the mid and late 1920s Oliver's band transformed into a hybrid of the old New Orleans-style jazz band and the nationally popular larger dance band, and in 1926 was christened " King Oliver and His Dixie Syncopators ".

Beginning in the 1920s, the automobile provided faster and easier access to areas of natural beauty and old military roads into Jackson Hole over Teton and Togwotee Passes were improved to accommodate the increased vehicle traffic.

Raeder used his old college Magnus von Levetzow, who worked as Adolf Hitler's naval adviser in the late 1920s and early 1930s to leak Reichsmarine material to the Nazis out of hope that this might win the Nazis over to navalism.

Gay Bear in the old gay village from 1920s at Nollendorfplatz, Berlin.

It is old folklore that in the late 19th century and early 1920s, people would cut chunks of ice out of the rivers in the wintertime, cover them with sawdust, and refrigerate their meat through the warm seasons.

Franklin Street, looking north past the old Hillsborough County Courthouse, Tampa c. 1910s – 1920s

In the 1920s, the latest of these office buildings was razed to make way for a new courthouse ; the old building was acquired by the State of Indiana and preserved as the first state capitol building.

The meeting's declared purpose was to organise the defence of Protestant areas against anticipated Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) activity, in the manner of the old Ulster Protestant Association after the partition of Ireland in the early 1920s.

The Top-of-the-World was a dance hall started in the 1920s along the old highway east of the Pinal Ranch.

* The commercial historic district in the heart of the old town contains important examples of architecture from the period of the Florida land boom of the 1920s.

Williamson is home to The Candler Field Museum, established to recreate the old Atlanta airport as it existed in the 1920s and 1930s.

The school was relocated to this location from an area around the old Screven fire department in the early 1920s.

The first brick home in town was the Pollock / Martin House, which dates from the 1920s, as does the old Bernice Jail.

Comden and Green provided the story and screenplay ; the songs were old 1920s hits by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown.

The old Coolidge store, run by John Calvin Coolidge, Sr., the President's father, housed the post office in the 1920s.

In the 1920s, the Daughters of the American Revolution placed statues called the Madonna of the Trail from coast to coast, marking the path of the old National Road and the Santa Fe Trail.

Author Bob Beale has recorded that the tallest trees in the Black Spur Range now measure about but — due to major bushfires in the 1920s and 30s — are less than 80 years old and have been growing consistently at the rate of about one metre a year.

In the early 1920s, when the old rodeo rules allowing two handed riding were being phased out and replaced with the newer rule of riding with one hand in the rigging and one hand in the air, Earl Bascom invented, designed and made rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging.

Leroy Grumman and others worked for the Loening Aircraft Engineering Corporation in the 1920s, but when it was bought by Keystone Aircraft Corporation and the operations moved from New York City to Bristol, Pennsylvania, Grumman and his partners ( Edmund Ward Poor, William Schwendler, Jake Swirbul, and Clint Towl ) started their own company in an old Cox-Klemin Aircraft Co. factory in Baldwin on Long Island, New York.

Wealthy oil magnate and wilderness enthusiast Waite Phillips amassed a large part of the old land grant in the 1920s, totaling over.

Castoriadis later said of this period that "... the main audience of the group and of the journal was formed by groups of the old, radical left: Bordigists, council communists, some anarchists and some offspring of the German " left " of the 1920s "

Henry Ford helped build a large truck and tractor plant ( GAZ ) in the late 1920s, sending along engineers and mechanics, including future labour leader Walter Reuther.

Because of the growing importance of truck farming, these roads and others were built to facilitate the transportation of produce to local markets throughout the 1920s.

Perhaps first known for the Alma Springs Sanitarium, built and promoted in the 1880s by millionaire lumberman and capitalist Ammi Willard Wright, it achieved its greatest prominence nationally in the 1910s and 1920s as home of the Republic Motor Truck Company, briefly the largest exclusive truck manufacturer in the world. In 1953 Alma became the first place that high-octane gas, 96 octane, was produced.

Irrigation methods introduced to the area in the 1920s brought in truck farming and the citrus fruit industry.

By the late 1920s, Delaunay-Belleville had lost its prestige, and converted to truck and military vehicle production.

Henry Ford helped build a large truck and tractor plant ( GAZ ) in the late 1920s in Nizhny Novgorod, Soviet Union, sending along engineers and mechanics, including Reuther.

His mother was Lorna Jean ( née Gilchrist ), a waitress of Scots-Irish and French ancestry, and his father was Stanley Chong, a Chinese truck driver who emigrated to Canada from Guangdong province, China in the 1920s, where he first lived with his aunt in Vancouver.

After low-priced automobiles became available in the 1920s, the motorcycle sidecar demand dropped and in 1924, Flxible turned to production of funeral cars ( hearses ), and ambulances, which were primarily manufactured on Buick chassis, but also occasionally on Studebaker, Cadillac and REO chassis, and intercity buses, initially ( 1930s and early ' 40s ) built on GMC truck chassis, and powered with Buick Straight 8 engines.

The station was regularly used by the photographer J. Bottomley in the 1920s, who would arrive with his photographic caravan loaded on a truck, and recorded life in the district.

In the early 1920s, Gerstenslager changed from production of buggies, surreys and wagons to van bodies and special truck bodies.

Car, truck and bus usage increased as the State of New Jersey built roads in the 1920s and 30s next to the railroads going from Camden to the shore, cutting into profits.

The typical rat rod is a late 1920s through late 1950s coupe or roadster, but sometimes a truck or sedan.

The " A " frame chassis design was believed to have been influenced by the design of an American truck used in the Longbridge factory in the early 1920s.

At the turn of the Industrial Age through the 1920s, families could more often afford things such as electric trains, wind up toys ( typically boats or cars ) and the increasingly valuable tin toy soldiers.

Pachinko machines were first built during the 1920s as a children's toy called the, based on and named after the American " Corinthian bagatelle ".

Beginning in the 1920s Wyandotte was a major source of toy production, with the All Metal Products Company founded in 1920 and located in Wyandotte on Sycamore Street between 14th and 15th streets.

From the 1920s until the 1950s the company, under the name " Wyandotte Toys ", was the nation's largest manufacturer of toy guns and pistols, producing a wide variety of pop guns, clicker pistols, dart guns, cap guns and a variety of plastic pistols.

It was expanded by Cowen, who in the 1920s convinced the owners of large department stores to incorporate elaborate train setups, which he provided, around their large Christmas tree displays, hoping to increase demand among small boys for toy trains as Christmas gifts.

The increased number of manufacturers seemed to give legitimacy to Lionel's gauge, and because the boom of the 1920s made large toy trains affordable, Standard Gauge had its heyday in the mid-1920s only to virtually disappear during the Great Depression.

In the 1920s several bookstores, department stores, and toy stores were selling Bonzo merchandise.

During the 1920s and 1930s it became the biggest toy manufacturer in Britain and produced three of the most popular lines of toys in the twentieth century: Meccano, Hornby Model Railways and Dinky Toys.