Acme Social Club is started. Acme was one of several elite social and political clubs in San Diego, established around the turn of the 20th century when Black San Diegans began to own more businesses ...
Eugen Sandow, 1910 Sandow had a powerful legacy. Today, winners of Mr. Olympia receive a Sandow statuette: a small sculpture of Sandow himself. ullstein bild via Getty Images Eugen Sandow, undated In ...
Jonesboro, circa 1900: John W. Roy built his dry goods and grocery store in front of the railroad tracks in Nettleton outside Jonesboro. Roy was born in 1856 and died in 1925. Today, Nettleton is part ...