John Strausbaugh

By: John Strausbaugh
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  • Award-winning history writer John Strausbaugh tells fascinating stories about the past, bringing fresh perspectives to events and characters great and small.
    © 2024 John Strausbaugh
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  • Girls Gone Wild

    Girls Gone Wild
    Dec 5 2024

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    When Frank Sinatra performed his first live show at the Times Square Paramount Theatre in December 1942, the packed house, estimated at 5,000 girls (in a space with an official capacity of 3,500), exploded in deafening shrieks and screams. Sinatra and his bandleader Benny Goodman were shocked and petrified. The girls drowned out the entire concert. Many wept, and several fainted. The cacophony and pandemonium were as great as at any Elvis or Beatles concert in later years... An excerpt from my book "Victory City."


    #franksinatra #bobbysox #worldwar2 #elvis #beatles
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    5 mins
  • Robert Downey Sr.

    Robert Downey Sr.
    Nov 21 2024

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    Robert Downey, Jr., delivered his first spoken line in a feature-length motion picture at the age of five. He played a puppy in a film called Pound, written and directed by his dad, whose other prodigiously weird films include the scathing satire Putney Swope and the psychedelic Western Greaser’s Palace… Excerpted from my book, The Village.

    #robertdowney #putneyswope #greaser’spalace #undergroundfilm #hollywood #johnstrausbaugh
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    7 mins
  • King Don

    King Don
    Nov 16 2024

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    Al Smith, King Kong, Donald Trump, and the Empire State Building

    #johnstrausbaugh #kingkong #donaldtrump #empirestatebuilding
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    7 mins

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