@[email protected] I hope this is ok even though it’s a video. It seems like the perfect community for it. Totally understand if you delete it.
Anyway…
This is a bizarre short musical film telling Americans what to do in an air raid, obviously made shortly after America entered WWII. I thought it was absolutely fascinating and the sort of bit of history none of us would have known about otherwise, which is why I decided to post it.
It was apparently a song by Tony Pastor and his Orchestra and was also released as a record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPDuBfze5PU
I cannot find much more information about it. Even the Wikipedia page on Tony Pastor is not very helpful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Pastor_(bandleader)
Did you know that cigarettes were part of standard military rations in WWII? Smoking-related illnesses that those cigarettes led to killed far more people than bullets and bombs in the war.
In fact I did.
I saw something last night. About it’s hard to explain to kids today that yes before the 80s everything smelled like cigarettes.
Or something to that effect