Friday July 15, 1921. Summer activities.

Texas National Guard, Brig. Gen'l. Wolters Com'd'g., Camp Mabry, 1921 

The Texas National Guard was doing Annual Training at Camp Mabry, which is near Austin.   This unit is obviously a cavalry unit. Texas had two National Guard cavalry regiments in the 20s through the 40s, and this must be part of one of them.

Greek forces retook Afrium Karahissar in eastern Turkey.  The city at that time had a population of over 200,000, about double its current population.  It was, and is, agricultural center which is known for its opium production.  Indeed, its original name, Afrium, simply meant opium.

The USS Florida sank the German torpedo boat V43 as a target.  The HMS Harmodius accidentally rammed the E. Marie Brown, sinking her with the loss of four crewmen.

 Monsignor Atanasia Vicente Sole y Royo

Monsignor Atanasia Vincente Sole y Royo visited Washington, D.C.  I attempted to learn who he was, but was unable, but I get the sense that he was associated with South America in some fashion.  He was clearly important enough to receive an official audience, and he was certainly impressive looking.

Members of Washington's Krazy Kat Klub, were photographed on this day in 1921.

The club was a jazz age institution in Washington D.C. that was Bohemian in the extreme.  It served alcohol during prohibition and was libertine in all senses.  It closed when one of its owners, depicted in the photo below, moved in the late 1920s.

No inside photographs of the club exist.

Places like this fancied themselves on the cutting edge of everything.  In retrospect, they seem pretty superficial.

Also on this day, a photographer took a picture of this house made out of repurposed streetcars.

Repurposing

House made of streetcars, July 15, 1921.