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The Pan Am Hotel on Midway Island, nicknamed "Gooneyville Lodge", hosted trans-Pacific passengers from about 1935 to...

The Mercedes-Benz T80 was a six-wheeled vehicle built by Mercedes-Benz, developed and designed by Ferdinand Porsche.

Pan American Airways' famous Pan Am Clipper base on Dinner Key in Biscayne Bay, Miami, FL.

Camping 1940s style.

Commander Atilio Gatti's custom built "Jungle Yacht" for the Congo by International Harvester (1937).

Retractable hardtop streamlining - the Dan LaLee car, 1938. http://bit.ly/1FOcq0O via Hemmings Motor News​.

Proposed Schlitz #beer truck by the General Body Company, #1930s. http://bit.ly/1av4pEM Via Hemmings Motor News

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: LIFE's Pic of the Week.

One of the greatest media experiments of the #1930s and #1940s was the faxpaper.

1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III, pictured in London in 2010.

The Union Pacific M-10000 City of Salina and the Burlington Zephyr 9900 Pioneer Zephyr at Kansas City Union Station,...

The coffee grind adjustment dial on the A&P coffee grinder.

#1930s Home #Gym: A treadmill demonstration by swim suit model in high heel #workout footwear. Those were the days!

Charles Laughton wore 6 lbs.

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: Walt Disney follows "Snow White" up with newest animation - "Pinocchio".

Portrait of Pablo Picasso with Yvonne Zervos by Man Ray, #1930s.

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: "Good-bye Mr. Winter." Again, it's that new Nash. http://bit.ly/1AfAE1b

The Green Bay Packers on a flight from Chicago to Cleveland in November 1939.

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: Little Wisconsin Town Produces World's Most Famous Pro Team.

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: Boys are on the run from girls in 201 colleges on Sadie Hawkins Day! http://bit.ly/1zQzysH