[Barbara]

i just "aquired" an antique stove..GE model.. from 1935 (about the same age as my kitchen cupboards.) The cookbook that came with the stove is "presented by GE Kitchen Institute" and at the bottom, near the price and date/form number has the NRA logo from that time period.
http://www.picturehistory.com/bin/dropshadow.cgi?id=4429

[KriegHund]

Ok, that looks creepily like the nazi eagle.

Not making in relations as far as the policies of the two go, i guess thats why it 35 eh?

[Husker1911]

It's not a National Rifle Association emblem. It stands for something else, I can't say now what it actually is. Something from in the Depression. A google search will probably turn up the actual meaning. You're right, tho. It's quite cool!

[burrhead]

Umm, I'm pretty sure that refers to the National Recovery Act, a program initiated during the depression, not the National Rifle Association.

[Hypnogator]

Barbara,

I don't think that's our NRA emblem. IIRC, it has something to do with the National Recovery Act, or something like that -- part of the New Deal to recover from the depression. I've seen it before, but don't remember the specifics.

Perhaps your stove was made by a WPA project, or something of the sort.

[Barbara]

Nope, you're right..not the NRA.

Dang :(

Still, the stove is cool. :)

Now I need a refrigerator. :)

[Joejojoba111]

The eagle was in use a long time, the swastika was in use a long time, it's only, ever, Nazi when you put the eagle together with a backwards swastika.

http://www.ngw.nl/int/dld/images/duitslan.jpg

[Blackcloud6]

The picture is the symbol of the National Recovery Administration. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Recovery_Administration

[Standing Wolf]

I believe swastikas have been found on prehistoric pottery from both the Mediterranean and south-east Asian areas.

[armedandsafe]

The swastika is also found in SW US Native American iconagraphy.

Pops

[Marnoot]

The swastika is also found in SW US Native American iconagraphy. Yup. My parents have a native-american rug they sometimes keep in the living room. Whenever neighborhood kids are over for the house for whatever reason, they just stare at the swastikas on the rug. I think my parents enjoy freaking them out a few times before telling them swastikas were found a lot of places a long time before the nazis. :p

[hksw]

An interesting tidbit I came across a few years ago. The agency in charge of the National Recovery Act and the National Rifle Association were located in the same building at one time.

[newman32]

Speaking of swastikas and their history, the 45th infantry division used it as their insignia considering they were based in the Southwest. They dropped it as their logo in place of the Thunderbird during WWII.

http://www.m38a1.com/Misc-MV/thunderbirds.htm

[MilsurpShooter]

http://people.sinclair.edu/thomasmartin/knights/index2.htm

http://www.albertlowe.com/genswa.html

[Joe Gunns]

A varient of the wheel of life. Direction of rotation is significant. Imagine four-spoked wheel with flags streaming from the ends of the spokes. Right (dextrogyrate) rotation is positive influence. Left (sinistrogyrate) is negative influence. Europeans did not always pay attention to such subtleties for popular use. Hilter, as an informed occultist, is believed to have known the difference.

[bosshoff]

The swastika is also used in the Hindu religion. I have a friend who is an Indian Hindu, who married a Jewish girl. Even though she was prepped for it, they had to open wedding cards decorated with swastikas! Think of how much that would have sucked for her.

[Barbara]

http://www.albertlowe.com/genswa.html

Hey, I know that guy..and he posts here occasionally.

[MikeHaas]

From a 1962 NRA recruitment letter...

http://nrawinningteam.com/1962/header.jpg

1 YEAR MEMBERSHIP WAS $5.00
2 year was $9.00
3 year (with free gold-filled members button - no hat I guess :-) was $12.50
life was $100.00

http://nrawinningteam.com/1962/brown1.jpg

There was little legislative threat back then, still 6 years from passage of the GCA - the concept of "sane gun legislation" is only mentioned once, and only briefly, on page 2 of the letter. The main reason one joined NRA back then was for the benefits.

More pics of the package at:
http://nrawinningteam.com/1962/

Sure looks different that 2005's!

Mike
http://nrawinningteam.com/
http://ammoguide.com/

P.S. Regarding the opening image - The National Recovery Act (NRA) was enacted by Congress in June 1933 and was one of the measures by which FDR sought to assist the nation's economic recovery during the Great Depression. The NRA sanctioned, supported, and in some cases, enforced an alliance of industries. Antitrust laws were suspended, and companies were required to write industry-wide "codes of fair competition" that effectively fixed prices and wages, established production quotas, and imposed restrictions on entry of other companies into the alliances. The act further called for industrial self-regulation and declared that codes of fair competition—for the protection of consumers, competitors, and employers—were to be drafted for the various industries of the country and were to be subject to public hearings. Employees were given the right to organize and bargain collectively and could not be required, as a condition of employment, to join or refrain from joining a labor organization.

[Sean Cloherty]

Where I grew up there were metalic swastika medallions on the sidewalks in our town. It was a masonary company's logo from the 1920's or so and has the name and adress and specialities on the arm of the symbol.

Betcha they changed the symbol sometime in the late 1930's . . .