yesterwire.comBack to search

On the date

Saturday, March 12, 1927

From the day

Memories from that day

No memories yet. Add yours if you remember this day.

The Headlines

JAPANESE WILL JOIN IN 3-POWER PARLEY; Tokio Accepts Without Reserve, Insuring Naval Conference, Which Will Be Informal. FRANCE AND ITALY MAY AID They Would Not Be Asked to Bind Themselves -- 5-5-4 Ratio Is Talked Of. JAPANESE WILL JOIN IN 3-POWER PARLEY

Read in The New York Times →

Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1927

  • You ain't heard nothin' yet!

Tech Check

Electronic TV (Philo Farnsworth), Jukebox (Automatic) & Iron Lung.

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Time Elapsed

36,245 days ago

(99 years, 110 days)