# What ONE name comes immediately to mind when you hear "1930's"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 9, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900 "2014-02-09T17:35:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/1 "2014-02-09T17:35:00Z")
Okay, let’s level the playing field, people. We’ve been having fun with the 50’s, so let’s move it back a couple decades (which ought to make it so very few of us have vivid personal memories of the time) and try that name game one mo’ time. Be sure to go with your first impression, then list others as you see fit. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/2 "2014-02-09T17:42:05Z")
Indiana Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/3 "2014-02-09T17:45:12Z")
FDR ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/4 "2014-02-09T17:45:41Z")
Adolph Hitler ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/5 "2014-02-09T17:46:38Z")
Herbert Hoover ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/6 "2014-02-09T18:07:58Z")
Edwin Armstrong ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/7 "2014-02-09T18:08:46Z")
Marlene Dietrich ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/8 "2014-02-09T18:10:43Z")
Hitler ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/9 "2014-02-09T18:17:04Z")
Empire State Building If it has to be human, then FDR. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/10 "2014-02-09T18:19:44Z")
another FDR here ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/11 "2014-02-09T18:37:24Z")
[Hoobert Heever](http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/radio/vonzell.asp) ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/12 "2014-02-09T18:45:49Z")
Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/13 "2014-02-09T18:47:15Z")
Dillinger. (HItler? Really? His history runs from the 20s to the 40s and seems firmly locked in the latter.) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/14 "2014-02-09T18:49:06Z")
[Dorothea Lange](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Lange-MigrantMother02.jpg) After her, a slew of musicians. Leadbelly, Cab Calloway, Glenn Miller, etc… Now that I think about it, tho… Orson Welles So, immediate thought goes to a photographer of the Dust Bowl Okies. Giving myself time to think, a giant entertainment figure of radio and cinema. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/15 "2014-02-09T18:52:51Z")
Clark Gable. Then FDR. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/16 "2014-02-09T18:58:38Z")
FDR I tried to think of a celebrity but there are just too many to choose from. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/17 "2014-02-09T19:04:38Z")
Al Capone prohibition and organized crime ---
**Author:** ![Bozuit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@Bozuit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bozuit)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/18 "2014-02-09T19:14:38Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Dillinger. > > (HItler? Really? His history runs from the 20s to the 40s and seems firmly locked in the latter.) Sorry, but another Hitler for me. He took power in the '30s and started the Second World War in the '30s. The '40s was more about the war itself, and the aftermath, than Hitler (for me) and the '20s seem much less important. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/19 "2014-02-09T19:14:55Z")
Bonnie and ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900/20 "2014-02-09T19:17:29Z")
30’s = Great Depression = Herbert Hoover [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-name-comes-immediately-to-mind-when-you-hear-1930s/680900.md?page=2)