Books by Amor Towles

Joe Louis becomes heavy weight champion The zipper gains ascendancy over the button in men’s pants as Lana Turner popularizes “the sweater girl” look Minetta Tavern opens on MacDougal Street

First washateria in the US Polarized sunglasses and sunblock first marketed “Modern Times” with Charlie Chaplin Spanish Civil War begins

Penguin publishes first paperback (Andre Maurois’s Ariel) United Auto Workers (UAW) forms and immediately organizes strikes Monopoly introduced by Parker Brothers Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Chanel #5 advertised actively in New York Donald Duck appears in his first film New York premier of Anything Goes by Cole Porter

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers appear in first of ten films. Billie Holiday’s recording debut (at age 18, with Benny Goodman) United States v. One Book Called Ulysses finds Joyce’s novel is not pornographic

“Room in New York” by Edward Hopper “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” debuts, the first science fiction program on radio Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley The Dow Jones reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, bottoming out at 41.2

Cab Calloway’s orchestra replaces Duke Ellington’s at the Cotton Club Ziegfield Follies closes Al Capone indicted Pair-o-Dice, the first Las Vegas casino, opens for business

Chrysler Building completed Fortune magazine launched by Henry Luce Snickers launched by Mars The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett