Felt good enough to go into the office today and on my way home I heard the following bit of information. The state police are strictly enforcing the seatbelt laws and want to make a big public to do about it as we near the first major driving holiday of the year. Because of drivers using seatbelts (the story said) there were only 1250 auto related deaths in Illinois last year, the least amount in 83 years. Wait. What?? In 83 years? So like since 1925? What the hell kind of traffic was on the road in 1925? Horses pulling wagons? I mean seriously, if there were more than 1,250 auto related deaths in 1926, wouldn't that mean that just about every car in Illinois had an auto related death associated with it?? The Scopes Trial was that year. The Chrysler Corporation was FOUNDED that year. The NFL added five teams that year: New York Giants, Detroit Panthers, Providence Steam Roller, a new Canton Bulldogs team, and Pottsville Maroons. It just seemed like an unbelievable statistic to me.
A sad note about Baskin-Robbins. Irvine Robbins passed away at the age of 90. Go grab a cone for poor guy.
4 comments:
cars back then were probably time-bombs just waiting to go off!
Any chance of your actually researching that? Your logic peaks the curiosity.
I actually have tried, el supremo, but I haven't been able to come up with any stats. If anyone knows of good bureau of statistic sites or whatever, let me know!
Haven't you ever seen the Untouchables or a gangster movie or something? There were plenty of cars in 1926. According to this site -- http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/ammem/amrlhtml/inauto.html -- in 1925 there was a car for every six people in the country.
--dJF
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