![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](../../../wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State, 1920s")
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Thank you to Graham Hastings
Retronautic WTF IV
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Cawston Ostrich farm was in Los Angeles at the turn of the century. Pasadena, I think, to be exact. They went out of business when ostrich feathers ceased to be a fashionable accessory, but up until then it was a big tourist attraction, complete with ostrich rides and races. Much fun!
I love the llama! I wonder how they got the balloon boy down?
The guy with the TV-glasses is Hugo Gernsbach demonstrating for Life Magazine.
No. 8 is Mr. “Herbert” Televox; one of the world’s first robots and one of the very few built largely out of cardboard.
See http://davidszondy.com/future/robot/televox.htm