An interesting perspective.

[cyclingday]

I just got this 1929 Chicago Cycle Supply catalog, and one item caught my eye.

The “Popular Swastika Bell”

Lucky Charm?
Uh, Huh!

 

[catfish]

The image has been around for 100s of years. Long before it was co-opted by a hate group and turned evil. It was used in all kinds of advertising in the USA up to WW 2. Coca-Cola used it. The native Indians used it. Sadly all it means now is hate. Prior to WW 2 there was also a US Army regiment, that used the image on a patch. On their uniforms!

 

[cyclingday]

Like I said.
Interesting perspective.
In 1929, it was a lucky charm.
By 1939 it was death and destruction, on all fronts.
By 1945, 65 million people around the World wouldn’t find it to have been so lucky.

 

[Handle Bar Hoarder]

The image has been around for 100s of years. Long before it was co-opted by a hate group and turned evil. It was used in all kinds of advertising in the USA up to WW 2. Coca-Cola used it. The native Indians used it. Sadly all it means used the image on a patch. ow is hate. Prior to WW 2 there was also a US Army regiment, that used the image on a patch. On their uniforms!

THAT RIGHT

 

[Handle Bar Hoarder]

Like I said.
Interesting perspective.
In 1929, it was a lucky charm.
By 1939 it was death and destruction, on all fronts.
65 million people around the World wouldn’t find it to be so lucky.

AND THAT'S RIGHT TOO

 

[GTs58]

Navel Base San Diego.........

 

[Ricker]

That building shape is a pinwheel, and it is very efficient. Funny that an aerial view can make a building shape obsolete- a view that not many would ever consciously be aware of.

 

[barneyguey]

I read

The image has been around for 100s of years. Long before it was co-opted by a hate group and turned evil. It was used in all kinds of advertising in the USA up to WW 2. Coca-Cola used it. The native Indians used it. Sadly all it means used the image on a patch. ow is hate. Prior to WW 2 there was also a US Army regiment, that used the image on a patch. On their uniforms!

Among other places that symbol was found in the ruins of a buddist temple in Mongolia. I think it may be thousands of years old. I think we should take it back and restore its meaning and not let a racist hate group have it.

 

[barneyguey]

A horse shoe, wish bone, a four leaf clover and some other symbol for luck.

 

[Boris]

Ya'd think one o' them space lasers that's been in the news lately woulda' taken that building out by now.