May 18, 1936

[wheelerwoolsey.livejournal.com]

An interesting ad for the Frank Watanabe radio show that appeared in the Portland Oregonian on May 18, 1936:

Comments

[tink-queen.livejournal.com]

Ahh, so it was like a character played by someone pretending to be japanese for the lulz? Or an actual asian playing like a dummy role?

[air-and-angels.livejournal.com]

Pretending to be Japanese. Sad, that.

[tink-queen.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's all kinds of worse.
I get how war usually means villainizing whomever you're at war with, but this is like rubbin' it in.....actuslly, I just realized this is probably not worse than Achmed, the dead Terrorist, so I suppose people thought it was funny.

[air-and-angels.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I'm a teacher and I used to get really fed up with one girl telling me, in gales of laughter at the very thought, that I HAD to watch 'Achmed the Dead Terrorist.' I said no thank you, it sounds really racist. 'Miss! It's not racist! It's FUNNY!'