Episode #23: 1929 Timeline Twist & The Evangelista Occult Murders of Detroit (Rock City)

5/1/2024: On today’s episode, Valerie covers the Exposición Iberoamericana de 1929 of Seville, Spain, the detailed recipe notes of an Afternoon Tea Menu spy that infiltrated Schraffts in NYC, the patriotic chicken, Victory Maid, and her record-breaking egg laying year due to Ful-O-Pep Dry Mash chicken feed, and a problematic and hopefully forgotten holiday in the 1929 Timeline Twist. Amy Jo’s tells the story of The Evangelista Occult Murders - an unsolved murder of real estate mogul, healer, herbalist, astrologist, and occult leader Benny Evangelista and his family, detailing the writing of HIS BOOK, with possibly the longest title ever presented on the podcast, and including his strangely crafty basement altar, the bungled crime scene, and theories on whodunit (ha!).

Cover Photo: Benjamin Evangelista and Family

1. Poster for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929, held in Sevilla, Spain

2. Ceramic provincial alcoves and benches at Plaza de España

3. Schrafft's Stores Afternoon Tea Menu (Annotated)

4. Through 1950, the ingredients for 7UP included lithium citrate, a mood-enhancer, 1930s

5. Ful-O-Pep Dry Mash for chickens ad, Everybody’s Poultry, January 1929, page 2.

6. Vintage 1929 Thanksgiving Postcard, Dinner Table, Thinking of You Today

7. Kianti Ecolove playing washtub bass. From a public domain image photographed by Jesse Looming http://www.muse4life.com/

8. Pink Lady cocktail, Liquor.com / Tim Nusog

9. An older Benny

10. The Oldest History of the World, by Bennie Evangelist

11. KISS Detroit Rock City

12. Young Benny Evangelista and wife wife and child

13. Elton John, Benny and the Jets

14. Police in 1929, removing papier-mâché gods from the basement of Benny Evangelista.

15. The Black Hand were known for extortion, but do not seem to be linked to the Evangelista murders (RootOfAllLight / CC BY-SA 4.0)
    

Sources/Photo Sources

Timeline Twist Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Academy_Awards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Trunk_Express

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibero-American_Exposition_of_1929

https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/schraffts1929b149.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good-Bye_to_All_That

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Products_introduced_in_1929

https://www.drugtopics.com/view/just-facts-look-pharmacy-circa-1929

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377281/

https://uselessinformation.org/1929-ful-o-pep-dry-mash/

https://montclairlocal.news/2024/03/montclair-art-museum-postcard/

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1072135995/vintage-1929-thanksgiving-postcard

https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/1928

Timeline Twist Photo Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibero-American_Exposition_of_1929#/media/File:Plaza_Espa%C3%B1a_2.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibero-American_Exposition_of_1929#/media/File:Expo_sevilla_1929_poster.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallelujah_(film)#/media/File:Hallelujah_(1929_ad_sheet).jpg

https://montclairlocal.news/2024/03/montclair-art-museum-postcard/

https://uselessinformation.org/1929-ful-o-pep-dry-mash/

https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/schraffts1929b149.jpg

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintageads/comments/gx5u5y/through_1950_the_ingredients_for_7up_included/#lightbox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washtub_bass#/media/File:Washtub-bass-Kianti-Ecolove.png

https://www.liquor.com/pink-lady-cocktail-recipe-5217012

The Evangelista Occult Murders of Detroit (Rock City) Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hand_(extortion) 

https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/evangelista

https://www.reddit.com/r/oldschoolcreepy/comments/o3xrsz/police_in_1929_removing_papierm%C3%A2ch%C3%A9_gods_from_the/

https://www.historicmysteries.com/major-crimes/evangelista-murder/24942/

https://detroithistorypodcast.com/podcast/evangelista-occult-murders/

https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/season-3-episode-6-the-evangelista-occult-murders/id1323921118?i=1000482784772

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Evangelista-116

https://the-line-up.com/benny-evangelist-murders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920s_in_organized_crime#1929

The Evangelista Occult Murders of Detroit (Rock City) Photo Sources:

https://www.historicmysteries.com/major-crimes/evangelista-murder/24942/

https://www.reddit.com/r/oldschoolcreepy/comments/o3xrsz/police_in_1929_removing_papierm%C3%A2ch%C3%A9_gods_from_the/#lightbox

https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/evangelista

https://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/a/ad/Evangelista-116.jpg

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95008079/bennie-evangelista/photo

https://the-line-up.com/benny-evangelist-murders

https://www.discogs.com/release/4364767-Kiss-Detroit-Rock-City-Beth

https://www.amazon.com/Oldest-History-World-Benny-Evangelist/dp/1588985679

https://www.stereogum.com/2043645/the-number-ones-elton-johns-bennie-and-the-jets/columns/the-number-ones/