Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, May 1922 · page 2 of 68
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #33 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **not a cartoon or satire** but rather a **1922 resort advertisement** for Breezy Point Lodge in Minnesota. "Whiz Bang Bill" was the fictional mascot/spokesperson used by *Whiz Bang* magazine to announce commercial sponsors and their products. The ad promotes a vacation destination emphasizing nature escape—fishing for bass and pike, hunting, bathing, sports (golf, tennis, trap shooting), and entertainment (dancing, aeroplane rides). The illustration shows guests engaged in outdoor recreation. The reference to an "aeroplane" is notable as passenger aviation was still novel in 1922. The lodge appeals to urban dwellers seeking respite in Minnesota's northern wilderness. This is essentially a paid advertisement disguised as editorial content, using the magazine's popular character to lend credibility and draw reader attention.
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Breezy Point Lodge at Pequot "Queen Summer Resort of the Northern Pines of Minnesota". Whiz Bang Bill Announces Opening of the 1922 Season BREEZY POINT LODGE Get close to nature! Surrounded by health-giving pine trees and facing on a white sandy beach of a clear water lake, Breezy Point Lodge offers to the crowded city folk a comfortable haven in the northern woods of Minnesota. Fill your lungs with the invigorating balm of the Pine forest and cast your fly at the greatest of all sport fish—the black bass or throw out your trolling line from one of our boats and feel the exhilaration of a fight with a Great Northern pike or pick- erel. The best bass fishing lake to be found anywhere. Fine sandy beach for bathing, with pier, water slide, diving floats and surf boards, boating of all kinds, trap shooting, tennis courts, indoor baseball diamond, saddle horses, golf course in construction, passenger carrying aeroplane, large new log con- structed club house for dancing. You may hunt the wily partridge, prairie chicken, wild ducks and geese in season. Big Pelican Lake is noted for the un- usually large variety of wild northern ducks, and its natural wild game “Passes.” A new well appointed cafe in connection. For further information write to W. H. FAWCETT, Owner Pequot or Robbinsdale, Minn.