Thursday, July 5, 1934

Went over to Annie's (Ruth's step-grandmother). Down to Joe's for dinner. We went to Mart's for supper. It rained on the way back.

"Bloody Thursday" - San Francisco, CA - July 5, 1934

During the 1934 strike by maritime workers and longshoremen, conflict erupted when the Industrial Association (consisting of employers and business interests) started moving goods from the piers to warehouses -- in an effort to break the strike.

Bloody Thursday refers to July 5, 1934 -- and to the violence that ensued between strikers and their supporters, and the police trying to contain the strike.

As goods began moving, police tried to clear the transportation track of strikers. When the strikers wouldn't budge, police began clubbing them and strikers retaliated by throwing rocks and bricks.

Wednesday, July 5, 1933

I went swimming today with Mrs. Mitchell and Edda Mae. In the evening Gweyn and Pauline and I went swimming.

Sally Rand
Sally Rand (1904–1979) was born Helen Harriet Beck in Hickory County, Missouri.
During the 1920s, she acted on stage and appeared in silent films. Cecil B. DeMille gave
her the name Sally Rand, inspired by a Rand McNally atlas. After the introduction of sound
she became a dancer, known for her ostrich feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance. She
also performed under the name Billie Beck.

In 1936, she purchased The Music Box burlesque hall in San Francisco, which would later
become the Great American Music Hall. She starred in "Sally Rand's Nude Ranch" at the Golden
Gate International Exposition in San Francisco in 1939 and 1940. She continued to appear on stage
doing her fan dance into the 1970s. Sally Rand died in Glendora, California from undisclosed causes.