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50 Must-See Historical Images That Reveal The Curious Realities Of The Past
Interview With Expert
Looking at a historical picture is kind of like entering a time machine. Each image transports us to a moment that captures the essence of bygone eras. They provide us insights into the events, people, and cultures from the past.
And the Facebook page called ‘Cool Old Pic of the Day Club’ is known for sharing photographs spanning different eras. They include a wide range of subjects like classic advertisements, fascinating portraits, intriguing landscapes and more.
Ready to look at some impressive photos from the past? Maybe they'll give you a fresh perspective into history and how it shaped our world. Continue scrolling to broaden your mental horizons.
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#1
E. Lilian Todd, Self-Taught Inventor Considered To Be The First Woman In The World To Design And Build Her Own Aircraft, 1909
DRMAGDN 1 year ago
Take my upvote. I was literally going to write that. So freaking cool.
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Bored something 1 year ago
I am amazed she didn't make it fly through sheer force of will with that expression.
María Hermida 1 year ago
I love these pictures where you see such a prim and proper Victorian lady doing something totally "unladylike". Never trust appearances!!! 😂😂😂
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
Sadly not really. It made a 20ft hop. It's power to weight ratio was too low for sustained flight.
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Donna P Sisk 1 year ago
There are many women who are very smart. And some will not let people know.
Senjo Krane 1 year ago
so what's this myth about women being downtrodden??? ;) She looks like a tough cookie though.
Valek Fermiga 1 year ago
It is just an amazing picture - wasn't even aware of her existence....
We got in touch with Toby Binder, a renowned photographer, who documents the lives of teenagers in global conflict zones. He kindly agreed to share his professional insights regarding this topic.
"I believe documentary photography has a lot of power to change things in a positive way," Binder, who also shares his works on Instagram, told Bored Panda.
"By depicting reality, I can draw attention to the everyday lives of people with whom the viewer of my photos has little intersection and thus arouse empathy and understanding. It can therefore be a unifying medium that can create more cohesion in society that is drifting further and further apart at the moment.”
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#2
Life Is What You Make It
Constantin George-Florin 1 year ago
A dog and a toddler - the purest souls. Only difference is the dog's soul remains the same throughout it's life, loving unconditionally and asking for so little in return. We really don't deserve dogs.
Binder is interested in topics of post-war and crisis situations as well as in the daily lives of people. "Even before but especially in times of AI, the power of documentary photography is the truth, the honesty, the soul. Getting there often takes perseverance and time."
He doesn't see this as a challenge, however, because the photographer loves working like this. That being said, Binder believes there needs to be more appreciation for it. "Editors today often want to know exactly what stories will be like or individual pictures look like before they even give an assignment. The chances of discovering things, looking and documenting what is really happening on site has become pretty much more difficult for some time.”
#3
Engineer Karen Leadlay Working On The Analog Computers In The Space Division Of General Dynamics, 1964
Knitting Panda 1 year ago
I remember wiring circuit boards in 1973 in high school. I don't know why we learned this skill. We never used it. Not one tech job ever.
P R 1 year ago
Even if one doesn't use some skill or knowledge in one's job, the info and exposure is usually useful in other aspects of life.
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David 1 year ago
Think about how with modern stuff they try to build multiple components on the same chip so they can limit the "wire" travel of the signal to a few nanometers. I know there are many other differences but the massive difference in scale is pretty mind boggling.
Nitka Tsar 1 year ago
I think it looks like they colored a black and white photograph
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pep Ito 1 year ago
That type of cable would not work in this situation. Those wires you see is the computer programming
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pep Ito 1 year ago (edited)
Those wires you see is the computer programming
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Binder has a deep passion for historical photographs. “Of course the iconographic shots that everyone associates with certain events, but also photos that may have seemed significant at the time they were taken but have great power today.”
#4
Julia Child Makes Spaghetti With Mr. Rogers, 1974
David 1 year ago
He was good at doing 'friendly face'. She could be scooping out a cat litter box and he would still have that smile as he watched her do it.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago (edited)
My favorite is the episode of Mr. Rogers with Tony Hawk. Yeah that was a thing back in the 80s.
María Hermida 1 year ago (edited)
I've never seen this show, but I've read about it. I wish there were something similar now for kids, instead of letting TikTok "educate" them.
Rosecrucian Roeth 1 year ago
Chef Ramsay would have given them hell for spilling the food around the bowl ! Of course he would have been given a time out, no doubt:)
Karen Klinck Klinck 1 year ago
I wonder if she was drunk on that show, too. She added cooking sherry to just about everything--including herself. I don't know how many times she actually tilted her head to drink and fell over, but they tell stories about it.
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Never Stop Learning 1 year ago
He would come home everyday and put his "play" shoes on and changed out of his dress jacket and into a sweater. EVERY SINGLE sweater had been knitted by his MOTHER!! That's true love!!
Reflecting on his journey, Binder shares, "For a long time, all I wanted to do with my own photography was to capture a certain moment in the present in the strongest possible image and I didn't think about the historical context that much. But since I always try to stay in touch with the communities I work with, it was only much later that I realized the significance of time! ”
“I recently reconnected with people I photographed 20 years ago. Through their description of the serious changes in this neighborhood, I also became really aware of the historical significance of photos I take.”
This goes on to show how photography captures not just the present, but also the ever-changing narratives of communities and the world around them.
#5
The Rocket Express, A Monorail That Carried Kids Around The Toy Department 8th Floor At The John Wanamaker Department Store In Center City, Philadelphia, 1950s
Ali Sherlock 1 year ago
We hs somrthing similar in Brisbane Australia, it was a dragon ride at the floor of the myers shopping centre. LOVED riding it everytime we went into town. ot sad when I was too big/teenager to ride it anymore
F 1 year ago
I was terrified of that ride. Never rode on it. Such a shame that shopping centre has gone downhill so much. It was great when it opened.
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Ell Bee 1 year ago
We had a monorail like this in the middle of Midtown Plaza in Rochester, NY in the 60's. At Christmas time it drove around the giant Christmas tree and Santa and his elves and Magic Mountain. Most of the department stores had moving Christmas displays in their streetside windows. It was truly magical.
2WheelTravlr 1 year ago
We had one in Portland Oregon, the Meier and Frank department store had an absolutely wonderful Santa Land, and this was part of it. I guess there were more than 20 of these around the US, the rail, wheel assemblies, and drive mechanisms were made by a company who specialized in conveyor systems for farm use, Louden Machinery Company in Fairfield, Iowa.
#6
Children Cross A River Using Pulleys On Their Way To School In The Outskirts Of Modena, Italy, 1959, Technically Uphill Both Ways
Nika the Great 1 year ago (edited)
What is it with this post and pics of unique/fun transportation methods across rivers lol
Luke 1 year ago
So our parents and grandparents weren’t actually lying about them having to cross rivers etc while going to school
Never Stop Learning 1 year ago
Can anyone help me with how you make a link red so someone can just click on it and see it?
#7
Hollywood Boys Choir, 1973. From Top Left Kent Mccord, Martin Milner, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ed Asner, Glenn Ford, Red Foxx, Jack Carter, Ernest Borgnine, John Wayne And Howard Cosell
Daniel Atkins 1 year ago
Many of these guys had such unique voices makes it hard to imagine them in a choir.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
Had a friend who became a successful operatic tenor- HUGE voice. But when he sang in our group - just controlled it- blended- and made everybody sound better. Real art, and control.
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GlamourGhoul 1 year ago
Omg what I wouldn’t give to hear Charles Nelson Riley singing with Cosell, and John Wayne! I’m actually surprised CNR could stand to be in the same room as John Wayne…
Alicia M 1 year ago (edited)
A lot of you probably know this, but if you don't, Earnest Borgnine (standing on the far right) is the voice of Mermaid Man from SpongeBob.
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
It was for a Rowan and Martin TV special- Sept. 1973- "Rowan and Martin present RCA's opening night".
R Dennis 1 year ago
Very young or very sheltered? (Upvote to counter a dumb downvote.)
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Sent The Crumb-Snatcher To Gramma's! A Postman With A Baby In His Mailbag When It Was Possible And Legal To Send Children Through The U.S. Postal Service, 1913
Chickens are fluffy 1 year ago
Did they take care of the baby while delivering them? I have so many questions
Legendbird 1 year ago
I read somewhere that they took very good care of the kids and it was seen as kinda sweet that they trusted the mail carriers so much as they where often good friends with the families sending the child. Mayhaps I'm wrong though and am spreading misinformation. Oh well.
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Presumably the Post Office took more care than Fed Ex and didn't just chuck the kid over the fence
Heir of Durin 1 year ago
Interesting. This might help those who are as curious as I am! https://www.history.com/news/mailing-children-post-office
Nimitz 1 year ago
So apparently this is a staged photo. The first few years of the postal service it was technically legal and there are a handful of documented cases. However, once the Postmaster General heard about it, specifically about kids being allowed on postal trains, a violation of regulations, it was banned in 1915. In one case, a child was mailed over 1000 km, a severe infraction that resulted in the local Postmaster being fired.
Mustafa Kiziroğlu 1 year ago
I heard this before but just don't get it. How long takes the road? Who feeds the kid? Who wipes the âss?
Say No to Downvoting 1 year ago
Read the link someone posted above. It was a rarity and was literally just taking them the grandmas in the next town, that sort of thing.
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ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
...when it was possible to send children in the mail? ...jumps down this rabbit hole, see ya later
#9
5 Megabyte Hard Drive Being Shipped Out, Ibm, 1956
Buzz Anderson 1 year ago
I worked for Apple in 1980 and a Ten Megabyte Corvus hard drive cost five thousand dollars and we couldn't keep them in stock for companies that wanted the Apple II+ with the extra storage. It was about 15 inches by 18 inches if memory serves me.
Nicthalon 1 year ago (edited)
By the late 80s, a teenager (me) could reasonably afford a 30MB RLL hard drive. I would have looked at you like you suddenly grew two extra heads if you'd told me then that by the time I was 50, I'd have a watch with more than 1000x that much memory.
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Bexxperience 1 year ago
And even back then, I bet someone said "5 megabytes? I don't think we'll ever fill that up anytime soon!"
Nicthalon 1 year ago (edited)
Around 1990, I upgraded my PC with my first hard drive. 30MB. I also thought I'd never fill it. Then the internet was born and I discovered online porn...
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michael Chock 1 year ago
50,000 of these and you could have the same storage as a good cell phone
ANGEL ENRIQUE BAZALDUA LINARES 1 year ago
Nice, one pic, one big pic could be stored in that hard dirve...
Bridget Connors 1 year ago
A whole 5 megabyte hard drive? They'll NEVER use all of that memory! 😂
Niels Boehm 1 year ago
Well, yeah, storage density increased a lot between back then and today. Now we can easily have a million times as much storage for home use that we can hold in our hands.
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Linda Robinett 1 year ago
My hard disk in this not very large computer I am using to type this in is 2 Terabytes!
Unlike modern cameras, which have automatic settings and are easier to use, photographers whose images we see on pages like ‘Cool Old Pic of the Day Club’ were required to manually adjust these settings for every shot. While digital cameras can adjust exposure in real-time, earlier photographers had to wait until the film was developed in order to see the results.
#10
Riding The Broughton Lumber Flume, Hood River Junction On The Columbia River At The Washington/Oregon Border
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
Came to say this. It’s where I live and I used to work for Hawaii Nature & Trails.
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A 1932 American Bantam That Was Used For Ferry Service Over The Pudding River In Oregon
The operator removed the tires and placed rubber bands on the rims for traction. Three cables were strung, two for the wheels and the third attached through the top of the car for stability. It was said that one gallon of gas was enough for 1500 trips across the 120 foot span
Bubba Jones 1 year ago
Dang, I read that as Batman at first so now I'm bummed. Also sad there is zero pudding.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
American Bantam was the company that also invented the Jeep BTW. They were good at thinking outside the box.
María Hermida 1 year ago
And very unsafe. Humanity survived, though, so I guess it was not that bad.
Load More Replies... cerinamroth 1 year ago
I don't know why but I hear an Australian voice in my head saying "She'll be right, mate!"
Hope-Diana 1 year ago
For those curious, the Pudding River is near Canby and Aurora, Oregon. It only looks like Pudding when it floods, which it does every few years. Its less than an hour S.S.E. of Portland.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
Nope. I'd go around. Definitely wouldn't be splashing around under a 2000+lbs car.
#12
Roland, A 4,000 Pound Elephant Seal, Getting A Snow Bath From His Handler At The Berlin Zoo, 1930s
Cosmikid 1 year ago
"You do realize, human... my brain is twice the size of yours... a little lower, please...
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Their brains are actually a bit smaller than ours
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People lie carbs dont 1 year ago
Wow ! I hadn’t realized how big elephant seals could get ! I thought they could weigh a ton , but for some reason , didn’t realize they were as massive as THAT!
Also traditional film cameras had a limited number of exposures meaning they couldn’t store hundreds of photos like a smartphone. Photographers had to be selective about what they wanted to capture as these rolls typically contained anywhere from 12 to 36 frames.
#13
Civil War Veteran Jacob Miller (Company K 9th Indiana Vol. Inf) Was Shot In The Forehead On Sept.19th, 1863 At Brock Field At Chickamauga And Left For Dead
He lived with an open bullet wound for many years, with the last pieces of lead dropping out 31 years after he was first shot
Nathaniel (He/Him) Cis Het. 1 year ago
He needs the whistling like he needs a hole in the head.
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Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
Curious if they intentionally left the wound open? I would imagine that it would have closed over the years, or at least tried to close up, as best it could around the bullet? 🤔
Russell Tilling 1 year ago
He looks kinda sad. Is that cos he's having his photo taken, cos his looks have gone & he can't get a girlfriend, or cos of all those that died?...
Beachbum 1 year ago
Because cameras were slow and he’d have to sit there with a stupid grin on his face fir 5 min before the camera recorded the entire shot, otherwise it would have been blurry
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Nojo They/Them 1 year ago
And so the Courier, who had cheated death in the cemetery outside Goodsprings, cheated death once again, and the Mojave Wasteland was forever changed
People lie carbs dont 1 year ago
So is the lord who created it! What a blessing to have survived that AND to not have had severe injury and debilitating limitations! Yes, totally agree with you on that!! Wow !! That’s like beyond against the odds that anyone would survive that type of injury, especially in a time without the medical advances of what we have now! This just completely blew my mind ( and omgness, I genuinely don’t mean that in any sick humor type of attempt , either .. I know it sounds sort of icky in relation to the topic , but sincerely , it threw me off just seeing it! )
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#14
What Will They Think Of Next? Bell Telephone’s Picturephone, 1964
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
And in the 21st century, all of us would rather text than even talk much less talk face to face.
Giraffy Window 1 year ago
Because we're way too available through our portable communication devices. We get too burnt out from always being reachable because it interferes with what we're trying to get done at any given time.
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PFD 1 year ago
Apparently after initial displays at the World's Fair and Expo67, 3 of them were put into commercial operation. They were located in NYC, Chicago and Washington and you could pay to use them. $16-$27 for a 3-minute call (up to a couple hundred bucks in today's money). It was not a roaring commercial success!
Cynthia Chaney 1 year ago
I remember those early days when Disneyland first opened.
Load More Replies... Cydney Golden 1 year ago
I used this at the NY World's Fair when I was ten. It seemed magical!
Richard Graham 1 year ago
From the lyrics to "T'AIN'T NO SIN TO TAKE OFF YOUR SKIN AND DANCE AROUND IN YOUR BONES" by Walter Donaldson and Edgar Leslie (1929) - - No more singin' in the bathtub; With those television phones; T'ain't no sin to take off your skin; And dance around in your bones;
#15
1915 Eruption Of Mt Lassen As Seen From Red Bluff, California
Amanda Rose 1 year ago
I hadn't heard of this so I looked it up. On May 22, 1915, a powerful explosive eruption at Lassen Peak devastated nearby areas, and spread volcanic ash as far as 280 mi (450 km) to the east. This explosion was the most powerful in a series of eruptions from 1914 through 1917. Lassen Peak and Mount St. Helens in Washington were the only two volcanoes in the contiguous United States to erupt during the 20th century.
Annie Bieber 1 year ago
I live 17 miles from the base of Mt Lassen, thought I was safe if it erupted again, looked at the Pyroclastic Flow Chart...that's a big Nope...comes right thru the front door and out the dining room slider heading for Anderson...🤣🤣
Cosmikid 1 year ago
Them California volcanoes DO this, every once in a while- Shasta's about due, I hear...
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
No they don't. The Lassen Peak, California eruption in 1914-1917 was the only California eruption since the US began.
Load More Replies... Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
Wow, I'd not heard of this one. Now, Mt. St. Helens... I have stories about that one, some are mine and some from other people.
Mary Tonningsen 1 year ago
I remember my grandparents telling me about this. To this day, there are still chunks of lava rock in the Chico, CA area (about 90 miles away) out in the places where the land remains undeveloped.
#16
USS Los Angeles Airship Lands On The USS Saratoga, January 1928
William Dennett 1 year ago
Little-known fact: Cats are descendants of the airship!
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that would have been cool to see. The Saratoga is a little bit smaller than the carriers I served on but not that much smaller. Over 1000 feet long - that airship is massive up close. Once or twice I got to see something abnormal (as in a plane not really made for carriers) land but nothing anywhere near that large.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
RIP She was used for target practice at Bikini Atoll. Damn shame for such a ship that made it through the whole war in one piece.
Load More Replies... Cosmikid 1 year ago
multiple companies still work at it, but mostly with hope, money, and ignoring their own equations.....
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People lie carbs dont 1 year ago
DANG!!!!! And pilots who fly commercially get all proud when they land without a couple of bumps when they touch down … whoever landed THAT thing had massive bragging rights hahaha
Janet Floyd 1 year ago
My dad and brother were both on the Saratoga (at different times), lord I didn't know it was THAT old!
#17
Ellie Mae & Ms. Hathaway Getting Ready For A Dip In The Cement Pond, 1962
Verena 1 year ago
For all like me who have no idea, Google produced this explanation: "In the 1960's TV show The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 1962-1971), the character of Jethro Bodine referred to the swimming pool at the mansion as the “cement pond”."
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Heartbreaking to think that there are people out there who haven't seen at least thirty episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies. It is the acme of human culture
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Carole G. 1 year ago
I just saw that episode the other night. Show is on MeTV, 9 pm, Monday - Friday.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I like that channel for the MASH reruns they show. :)
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Pamelot 1 year ago (edited)
I actually met Nancy Kulp, "Ms. Hathaway", at 2am at an emergency vet. clinic in St. Petersburg Florida in early 70's. She looks exactly the same as portrayed on show. She is very tall. I can't remember why she brought her very small pet in @2am. I was working there.
#18
Women Assembling The Beatles' ''rubber Soul'' Album At The Hayes Vinyl Factory, 1965
Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago (edited)
Lol the 2 women in front: Oh dearie ME, the music these kids listen to nowadays... Why, when I was their age, I was listening to music from 1913, etc. These kids today wouldn't know good, proper music if it bit them on the nose! These lyrics are just daft! Daft and nonsense, I tell you! Daft and nonsense AND HOW."
DRMAGDN 1 year ago
So it took The Beatles a while for even their record label to catch on to their success. After many hits their manager had to actually yell at the US label to support them. Once they caught on they all wore moptop Beatles wigs in the office and answered the phones "home of the Beatles" from there on out.
Once clicked, the picture couldn’t be printed at home or at any shop, the film had to go through a series of chemical processes in order to develop the latent image.
Capturing images in the 19th and 20th centuries required patience and a willingness to accept the unpredictability of film photography. Back then each frame was precious and valuable.
#19
50,000 Book Kerfuffle, Lorain Public Library, Lorain, Ohio, 1971
Cosmikid 1 year ago
the books on the end are spilled, but the rest look like they're still on their shelves; just leaning-
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Nika the Great 1 year ago
“Kerfuffle” is my favorite word. Puts a smile on my face to say it :)
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Today it would take at least a year, the librarian would file for disability because of stress, caused by the traumatic event. Health and safety would call a meeting to deicide who should investigate. Lawyers would descend to try a sue the shelf manufacturers. etc etc.
María Hermida 1 year ago
Just as well it didn't catch anybody below that. I don't think it was as funny as you see in comedies. Not funny at all.
#20
Empire State Building Window Washer, 1936
Jeff DeTore 1 year ago
I am a union glass installer in Boston. You can see my work in many areas simply by looking at the skyline. Swing staging. It's just another day. Maybe this old picture will give some insight for people so they show more respect for those of us that make this world comfortable for them to live in... this country is horrible when it comes to respect for tradesman and women
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The Original Bruno 1 year ago
Come on, Lovey! I'll catch you, Morticia! (No? He looks like Gomez Addams?)
#21
Ming The Panda Photographing Bert Hardy’s Son, Mike, At London Zoo, December 1938
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
Not to be confused with the famous Ming Ming who was an obsession of mine when I was younger. In my early 20s I got to meet her in London after many failed tries at planning a visit to Wo Long. She died at 34 in 2011, making her the worlds oldest living Giant Panda. You should look her up online. She was fascinating. Well, at least to me.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
No, it staged. Pandas are notorious for staging photos
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Trophy Husband 1 year ago
The things we parents will do in order to get our kids to smile for the picture.
People lie carbs dont 1 year ago
I feel sorry for animals in captivity, so I can’t say I enjoy this one.. I just try and think that hopefully, at least some of the animals who wouldn’t have otherwise, survived at least get to have the ability to live, I just hope they’d be cared for and not miserable in doing so.
ANGEL ENRIQUE BAZALDUA LINARES 1 year ago
Finaly, pets wiil know how to earn their food... Besides circus animals of course
#22
Building Empire State Building, 1930, The Entire Building Went Up In Just Over A Year, Under Budget (At $40 Million) And Well Ahead Of Schedule
Octavia Hansen 1 year ago
In 1945, a B-25 crashed into the Empire State Building, 79th floor. Interesting photos for that, too.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
My grandfather worked very close to the Empire State, and brought my mother and uncles to see the aftermath of this crash. Mom also remembers going to see the capsized SS Normandie by the Hudson River docks
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Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Built by underpaid immigrant labourers after depression era union busting by the rich, forced to work without safety equipment. "Officially" only five fell to their deaths, unofficially in the dozens. https://www.citysignal.com/the-dark-history-of-the-empire-state-building/
The Cat 1 year ago
After the Depression era or at the very beginning of it? Didn't the Great Depression start in 1929? Also, what safety equipment was available and designed at the times? (Actually curious, have you seen car seats from back then?) Certainly nothing close to what we have today. I wonder if they were forced to work without it or if it didn't exist. Underpaid workers accepted the terms of their employment, including pay and safety issues. Also, at that time, the majority of immigrants were Italians and Irish, just a fun fact. Your article was very interesting, I saw where they mentioned that worker deaths were rumored to be in the hundreds, but the majority of the confirmed deaths are suicides according to your article.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
No bro, it's not the red tape, it's the property prices these days. You want to demo half a block in downtown Manhattan and build a skyscraper, you are completely free to do that but the land is worth more than whatever you can build there.
Load More Replies... Rahb in Oz 1 year ago
"The Entire Building Went Up In Just Over A Year, Under Budget ... And Well Ahead Of Schedule". Possibly the last building to ever achieve that!
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
A giant building took 1 year to complete AND under budget??... meanwhile in Nevada it takes 5 years to fix a 3 mile stretch of freeway and goes over budget......
#23
Properly Equipped Bike, Check. All The Neighborhood Girls To Show Off To, Check. Close Adult Supervision, Check. Knowing Life Doesn't Get Any Better Than This, Priceless
David 1 year ago
I wonder if he cleared. It looks like the last person laying down isn't going to have any children but you really can't tell in a still shot because he may not have reached his peak height.
Angel 1 year ago
The best part is dad watching them from the steps of the house smoking a cigarette and just waiting to see which kid gets injured first in the inevitable disaster
MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
This was my childhood. All the adults sitting around smoking and bullshitting. No idea what my cousins and I are getting up to until someone gets hurt badly enough that we have to tell an adult (if it's minor, you keep it a secret, or they'll make you stop whatever it was you were doing).
Load More Replies... Edward Tucker 1 year ago
Five girls sitting, five boys on the ground, one unattached showoff on the bike. That's me.
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Summertime
Nicthalon 1 year ago (edited)
It was also more dangerous. I have a cousin whose wife probably wishes every day that safety had been a bigger concern in her youth, since she's been paraplegic since the sled she was on, being dragged on a snowy dirt road by a pickup, went off the road into a tree over 35 years ago.
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les 1 year ago
fun fact, the car they are sitting on is one of 52 ever made. look up tucker, the first guy to take on the big 3 car makers and they screwed him over for building a safer car and bankrupted the guy
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
Well, "safer" if you count expecting the front seat passenger to have time to climb into the space under the dash. History has really overplayed the revolutionary nature of the Tucker
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Kim Landfather 1 year ago
Riding in the back of a pickup, drinking from a garden hose, running barefoot down the street, riding a bike or horse without a helmet, eating candy by the fistfuls and yet I’m still alive and kicking. Today’s kids know nothing about have a wicked good time, aside from their phones and computers.
Julia Mckinney 1 year ago
Boy, you are lucky that the hose you were drinking from didn't get water from a river heavy industry had poured pollutants into; you hadn't bounced out of the back of a truck; you hadn't hit your head falling off a horse. Kids these days have our examples of what not to do including smoking, and drinking while driving. Unfortunately there are lots of new things to endanger them.
Load More Replies... Bonny Saxon 1 year ago
Honey, did you give the kids baths while I was away? Yes, dear, I sure did.
Willem Andries Oosterhof 1 year ago
On the back of a Tucker no less!! One of the rarest cars there are. No more than 51 built, 48 surviving.
So such images not only give us a peek into history, they also show the dedication and hard work of those involved in capturing them. They document significant moments in time and enrich our understanding of the world around us.
Continue scrolling to look at some rich pictures from the past. Feel free to immerse yourself in the visual narratives of yesteryears with more historic pictures and rare moments from the past. Let us know which one you find the most fascinating.
#25
CBS Employee Barry Manilow In The File Room, 1965
JBo 1 year ago
He played piano for Bette Midler at the Continental gay bathhouse.
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Farm Boy At Pop Stand, General Store In Lamoille, Iowa, Arthur Rothstein, 1939
Reminded me of the old ad from there: "Nesbitt's soda pop pop", the sound of popping your cheek with your finger
Susan Bosse 1 year ago
Until I was in high school, there was an old store in Nashville, AR, where my dad grew up that had coke coolers like these. We went every time we visited my grandmother. Walking in from a hot summer day and grabbing an ice cold bottled drink...there was not much better than that. Old wood floor that creaked when you walked. Aisles filled to the brim with candies and oil and cleaner and everything a general store had. The same man owned it from when my dad was a tyke. It's gone now but we still have the memories.
Maureen 1 year ago
https://livingthedreamland.com/property/the-bixby-country-store-iron-missouri/43747/
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Lee Henderson 1 year ago
My father bought a mom and pop in 1954. When I was a child, he had the water-filled coca cola boxes out front. When he remodeled inthe '70s, he let them rot. I can imagine what they would be worth today....
Sharon Hahn 1 year ago
Our candy shop sold penny candy and 5 cent candy bars, all kinds of tobacco stuff, ice cream cones with the ice cream box cut into 3 slices to fit the rectangular cone, and a soda cooler that was filled with ice water to keep the soda cold. Little bottles brought back gave you 2 cents and big A-treat bottles gave you 5 cents. They had an old wooden floor and light bulb lights in the ceiling. We used to go there for candy before crossing the street to the movie theater that charged 25 cents for a double header, cartoons, and news reels.
Christine Wild 1 year ago
You’re still isn’t anything as cold and delicious as a soda from one of those cold cases.
#27
Famous Italian-American Chef Ettore Boiardi (1897-1985)
Better-known by the anglicized version of his name, Hector Boyardee, who was famous for his namesake brand of food products, “Chef Boyardee. That's a one a spicy meatball
Knitting Panda 1 year ago
That wasn't one spicy meatball! The spicy meatball was from an Alka Seltzer commercial. Shame on you!
Amanda Rose 1 year ago
Even though I know it isn't the best thing ever, the ravioli has a nostalgia factor for me to the point where up until recently I would occasionally get a can for lunch.
MrsFettesVette 1 year ago
Same, I grew up eating my Italian Nana's food but when I'm sick I want canned ravioli.
Load More Replies... Mike F 1 year ago
I'll bet the stuff on that plate tasted a bunch better than the stuff in the cans now.
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Apparently, before he came up with the stuff we can still buy in supermarkets, he cooked food, too
Steve Hall 1 year ago
My kids grew up on that stuff and loved it. I think it is the most disgusting thing ever put in a can.
People lie carbs dont 1 year ago
I’d have wanted to try it fresh and not from a can with all the preserves and chemicals that give it that bad canned taste!
#28
4.5 Megabytes Of Data In 62,500 Punched Cards, 1955
Little Wonder 1 year ago
Mum was a punch card puncher. We used to have stacks of used and reject ones to draw on.
Mike F 1 year ago
And making Christmas wreaths? We did when we got our hands on the rejects.
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Cosmikid 1 year ago
I'm not telling you I learned programming on a keypunch IBM. Nope, not telling you.
Mike D 1 year ago
With an IBM 360/370 I used cards while learning Assembler, COBOL, and JCL. Carried around boxes of 1,000-card programs due each week.
Load More Replies... Knitting Panda 1 year ago
I started with those at the beginning of my career in the late 1970s, but within 4 years we had gone through floppy disks, mini disks to data entry screens. The 80s rocked.
michele mbennett101044@yahoo.c 1 year ago
I was a card puncher for the Port of Stockton in 1962. Punched a card for every single item off loaded from ships! Hundreds of thousands of cards! Paid top dollar per hour for that time period, a whopping $1.50 an hour.
Laura Williams 1 year ago
My grandmother worked for time, life Inc. She was there during punch cards, reel to reel all the way to first desktop computers. So much history.
Robin Roper 1 year ago
About a month ago, a guy handed me a punch card from a local university (as of last night both women's and men's teams advanced to the NCAA Final 4) on which he had written his name and phone number - he had worked in the computing department for many years and said they were throwing away a million of these so he took them home. He's been using them ever since as scratch and note paper. It was a great trip down memory lane.
#29
Twenty Mule Team Drawn Farm Combine, Walla Walla County, Washington, 1941 Americana
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
OH MY GOD! My dad has this as a painting. It's one of his most prized possessions. Also Walla Walla, Washington, the town so nice they named it twice! I'm from that little corner of the PNW.
Joanne Earle 1 year ago
20 mule team....now I have the theme from 'Death Valley Days' stuck in my head! haha
#30
Downtown Los Angeles In 1901, Then 2001
Hope-Diana 1 year ago
They don't know what they got til its gone...🎵 That really is a whole lot of concrete! It's amazing it grew so much faster than the other cities on the west coast. Seattle, Portland and San Fran all had an earlier start but none grew like L.A.!
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Don't you wish you could just sweep it all aside and make it like it was before in 1901?
Geraniaceae 44 1 year ago
When I was a kid, there was no fence around one of the pits. You could poke your finger in the bubbling tar.
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PattyK 1 year ago
Wrong. The La Brea Tar Pits are still there (in Hancock Park).
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#31
How To Avoid Overbooking, Airline Reservations, 1945
David 1 year ago
They care about it now - they do it on purpose to avoid empty seats. :) But I know what you meant.
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 year ago
In 1961, Evelyn Berezin built the information system for United Airlines that allowed instant updates of available seats via computer, instead of doing it by phone as all other airlines still did. In eleven years of its use, there were zero failures. Naturally, her name (like most women's names) has been removed from the history books, along with other accomplishments like inventing the word processor. [ https://www.invent.org/inductees/evelyn-berezin ]
Angie 1 year ago
Sooooooo we just gonna pass right by the fact that it's "Flites" & NOT "Flights". ALRIGHTY THEN
#32
Wilbur Wright Flies Around The Statue Of Liberty, 1909
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
The reason it took a couple of bike mechanics is because they were the first ones to realize that like a bicycle, an airplane is inherently unstable. Everyone else before them was trying to make something inherently stable like a boat. Lots of dihedral in the wings but that makes turns difficult to impossible and crosswinds downright dangerous. The Wright Fliers were built with very slight anhedral wings that made all the difference.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
plus they were actively tunable - didn't work that well- but it worked-
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Christine Wild 1 year ago
In the 1960s are used to be a game show called I’ve got a secret. When are the guests on the show his secret was that he was one of the first Air Force pilots and taught to fly by one of the Wright brothers.
#33
Shemp Howard 25, And Moe Howard 22, Performing On Stage As Howard And Howard In Vaudeville, 1919
Max Fox 1 year ago
Moe, as in Moe of the Three Stooges. Jews were very well represented in Vaudeville, which was why there were so many in comedy in Hollywood. The Marx Brothers, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, and many other started in vaudeville.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
Shemp was one of the Stooges, before they were the Three...
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Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
I've never heard of the name Shemp before, so I decided to look into it and apparently Shemp, was a nickname of sorts, for Sam. Their mother had a very thick Litvak accent and her pronunciation of Sam, sounded more like Shemp.
Susan Schlee 1 year ago
This was before he was in a car accident- it messed up his face a bit. After that, he never drove a car again.
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Lee Henderson 1 year ago
In the 1960s, when Moe was still alive, he would do commercials telling kids not to do eye pokes or hit each other with hammers.
Lotekguy 1 year ago
There was an official Stooges Fan Club back then when their old shorts were a staple of daytime kids' programming. You'd join by mail, and receive a certificate of membership that included promising not to do any of their shtick to others.
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Shenp was underrated when it came to the Three Stooges. Joe Besser was terrible though.
Der Kommissar 1 year ago
don't forget Curly Joe , who was just as unfunny as Besser
Load More Replies... Joanne Earle 1 year ago
Was never a fan of the Three Stooges. That kind of 'humor' isn't my cuppa tea.
People lie carbs dont 1 year ago
Me neither. Uhhh. Couldn’t sit through it.
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#34
Barbara Eden And Chuck Yeager During Yeager's Cameo Appearance On I Dream Of Jeannie, 1965
Max Fox 1 year ago
Makes sense, since the male lead of the series was an astronaut. The actor was Larry hagman who later became even more famous when he played J. R. Ewing in "Dallas".
Apatheist Account2 1 year ago
Always remember Larry Hagman's comment on the Wogan chat show: "The answers to the three questions I get asked most are: yes, Barbara Eden does have a navel; yes, she is as beautiful off stage as she is on; and no, I never did..."
Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
Lol she's granting him his wish. (I loved I Dream of Jeannie"..... Or was it "Genie"? I can't remember for s**t. Wtf....
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Never Heard Of Personal Space Buddyyy?
Full of Giggles 1 year ago
My husband and I have three rescue roos. One of the roos didn’t want to go back in the barn one night and fought my husband. Roo claw cut my husband’s arm clean to the bone. His arm had to be surgically repaired. Now, anytime someone asks if they can pet one of the roos, my husband shows them his arm.
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Casey Payne 1 year ago
They should display the footage of people getting their butts kicked when they get too close to the wildlife at the entrance of parks and zoos as a warning to future tourists. Demonstration works so much better than plain text.
#36
Stonehenge Repair Around 1919
Adrian 1 year ago
Never knew this and I used to live nearby. I thought it had stood the same way for thousands of years.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
most of it did- some lintels came down and were put back.
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Lotekguy 1 year ago
Once they translated the Druidic instructions, they discovered their ancient methods made this easier than assembling the Ikea bookcase in the office.
Load More Replies... ANGEL ENRIQUE BAZALDUA LINARES 1 year ago
Neolítico people we're technological advanced, they already have cranes...
David Fitts, Sr. 1 year ago
Interestingly, they discovered, carved underneath one of the lintel stones, the word Timex.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
They got rid of the 5000 year old cranes a few years later and everybody forgot how Stonehenge was built
#37
A Women Demonstrates A Futuristic Typewriter Chair Complete With Headphones And A Light, Paris, 1972
Sunny Boy 1 year ago
that would be a great modern-day setup if you could swap out the typewriters w/ computers or other typewriters
Full of Giggles 1 year ago
You mean like a tablet connected to a gaming chair?
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El Dee 1 year ago
This is a nice relaxed position, excellent for posture and would work well today for office workers. This is something we have known for DECADES and yet offices have chairs just as expensive but much worse for the hips and backs of the workers. All this for ONE reason - managers take one look and think anyone sitting like this must be 'lazy'
Stan Chung 1 year ago
Sitting up straight is the worst advice I ever gotten. Only took a month or so before I got a bad back. Went back to leaning like in photo and the pain went away.
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#38
Martin Joe Laurello, The Only Man With A Revolving Head Appeared In Sam Wagner's Freak Show On Coney Island, 1938
Reputedly, He Could Rotate His Head 180 Degrees. The Human Owl He Was Called
Eric Brown 1 year ago
Snotty beamed me twice last night...It was wonderful.
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Stormblessed 1 year ago (edited)
Meanwhile me, hardly rotating my head 90 degrees... (Edit: Typo)
#39
Riding
Alicia M 1 year ago (edited)
I've been on something like this. The mountain is only a few feet below her, but bc of the angle, it looks terrifying.
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Heather Brady-Connor 1 year ago
That would be a HELL NOPE for me. Makes my stomach turn just looking at it.
Mary Sutherland 1 year ago
I have a picture of my dad holding me (a toddler) on his lap on a chairlift similar to this near Vancouver. The picture was from the 1950s.
#40
Kirk Douglas Using A Pole To Lift His Sons, Joel And Michael While Training For His Famous One-Armed Pushups, 1955
Ansi 1 year ago
Wrong. Kirk Douglas made his one-armed pushup at the oscar in 1996 when he was 79 years old. Jack Palance also did a one-armed pushup but in 1992 aged 72.
Load More Replies... Raymond Horton 1 year ago
I lost respect for him after reading that Natalie Wood wrote that Douglas raped her, three times, when she was 15.
Janet Floyd 1 year ago
Yeah, I wish I hadn't heard that, more wishing he hadn't done that, had such a crush on him, even though he was old enough to be my grandpa.
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#41
A Seal Puts On A Show By Balancing A Doll Before Young Viewers At A Performance Of The Krone Circus In Aachen, Germany, 1961
Upstaged75 1 year ago
True. Although Australian fur seals have visible ears. I learned that here on BP. :)
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ANGEL ENRIQUE BAZALDUA LINARES 1 year ago
The seal: her daiper looks strange... and full, and heavy... Oh, oh..
People lie carbs dont 1 year ago
Poor dude.. having to be some circus act just to survive and eat… I hope it wasn’t treated horribly… I doubt it was having a happy existence, even if it wasn’t being harshly trained… I do think aquatic mammals would be able to do whatever they were trained to do with some element of ease/ quick learning & hopefully would’ve been rewarded and not treated badly, but I just don’t like seeing animals made to do tricks for human amusement.
#42
A Family In Their Trailer Home At Glenn L. Martin Trailer Village, A Farm Security Administration Housing Project In Middle River, Maryland,1943
Amanda Rose 1 year ago
It would be interesting to see how this might be colorized. I can see some wood paneling that would probably be bringing in a bit of warmth to the space.
Jim Van Dyne 1 year ago
This was very likely war housing for factory workers during WWII, we had one in our town that was made up of camping style trailers like the ones FEMA used after hurricane. These were set up in a camp and families coming into town for the war work woul live in them while actual apartments were being built. They'd move into the apartments and new people would move into the trailers which were under the auspices of the Farm Administration.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
The tiny house people could help. This family needs some custom builds.
Heather Brady-Connor 1 year ago
Later, The Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Company constructed Aero Acres (a community of houses) for their aircraft factory employees. All the streets are named for parts of an airplane and a few for important people. It is in Middle River, Maryland.
#43
What Do We Want? When Do We Want It?? 1932
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
A lot of people were surprised when prohibition kicked in because most people didn't consider beer to be booze. 3%-5% beer was just a beverage before then. Kids drank it. Hell in Russia, they still serve Kvas with dinner to kids.
I_imagine_even_worse_w***s 1 year ago
I believe this changed last year where Russia now class beer as alcohol. But ya, amazing that up until recently it was classed as food!!
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The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
Prohibition was widely thought to be a class-based law. Lots of people thought it would apply only to the lower classes since that’s for whom it was created. Many people were shocked when they found out it applied to them.
Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago
Happens all the time. One could fill a very thick book with instances of this
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Kissy Nuggett 1 year ago
Yeah because disarming law abiding citizens has worked so well in the past for other countries. Our founding fathers put that in there to protect us from morons who think self protection is bad.
Load More Replies... ANGEL ENRIQUE BAZALDUA LINARES 1 year ago
Their wives: i'll give you ybeer when you go Home...
Linda Robinett 1 year ago
The original idea for prohibition was just to ban spirits. The Germans wanted their beer and the Italians their wine.
#44
Santa Claus Rides A Motorbike With A Sidecar Down Oxford Street In London, 1949
geezeronthehill 1 year ago
I suspect his robes were green, not Coca-Cola trademark red.
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Patricia Bryan 1 year ago
Exactly my reaction..I was fifteen months old so wouldn't have noticed....
#45
Golf Ball Collector, 1920
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
Wouldn't be bad if that cage came down JUST a bit further. Like mid-thigh
People lie carbs dont 1 year ago
Hahaha ! Looks like something they should’ve had in happy Gilmore 😂
Cybele Spanjaard 1 year ago (edited)
Love it... zonk and jingle twang as the golf ball lands on the cage unless it hits his limbs ..ouchies
Doc “Dr Rotwang” Rotwang 1 year ago
"Pretty impressive, Mister Stark, but I bet you'll agree it's missing something."
#46
Yeah, This Oughta Help. Santa And Two Clowns Visiting Children In Hospital During The 1950's
Mike F 1 year ago
This way predates the era when clowns were made up to instill terror.
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
"Can't sleep, clown will eat me...can't sleep, clown will eat me..."
Sharon Hahn 1 year ago
I used to read those comic books. I'd be rich if my mother didn't throw them away!
Load More Replies... Kim Landfather 1 year ago
This looks like the opening scene from a terrifying horror movie called…I don’t know…Horror Hospital.
Cat Chat 1 year ago
Clowns have never really scared me (and I am a huge horror fan). But that clown having that huge head piece mask instead of the usual clown face paint looks freaking scary.
Sharon Hahn 1 year ago
Used to dress like a clown for Halloween and take the kids trick or treating. Soon as I read "It" I couldn't bear to see clowns ever again.
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Steve Hall 1 year ago
That would either scare you to death or give you the strength to run for your life.
#47
Millworker's Children Eating Watermelon On Porch Of Rented House. Six Miles North Of Roxboro, Person County, North Carolina, 1939. Dorthea Lange
Say No to Downvoting 1 year ago
That’s why you eat it on the back porch - so you can have a seed spitting competition with your friend.
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Kelly H. Wilder 1 year ago
Dorothea Lange's work is quite profound. Her images speak from an oh-so-different time yet never lose a pixel's worth of meaning.
ANGEL ENRIQUE BAZALDUA LINARES 1 year ago
As my cheapskate ex-boss usted to say at the company's christmas barbecue: first, let them full with watermelon, the serve the roast...
altredhead 1 year ago
My mom was born in roxboro 1927. Not her , but my grandfather worked at a mill in town.
Cosmikid 1 year ago
lol- nope, they were spitting seeds at each other constantly.....
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#48
Lumberjacks Shaving With An Ax, 30s
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay! I sleep all night, and I work all day! On Wednesdays I go shopping, and have buttered scones for tea!
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
This picture was taken just before King Gillette invented the safety axe
Khall Khall 1 year ago
Can almost guarantee this is a stunt. There's no reason for an axe to be razor sharp. It just wears it out faster. About sharp enough to cut paper is how sharp you need it. It'll stay that sharp a lot longer, survive contact with knots, dirt, etc longer and be less likely to go all the way through your leg.
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
It looks terrifying but the man being shaved looks quite relaxed. That impresses me no end.
#49
Motorcycle Racer Roland Free Lies Horizontally On His Bike As He Breaks The World Speed Record On Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats On September 13, 1948
PFD 1 year ago
You joke, but he did! Apparently he'd designed special safety clothing, but ended up not using it because it ripped off his body when he reached 147 mph / 237 km/h.
Load More Replies... Octavia Hansen 1 year ago
Too much air drag when wearing clothes? How about a little sun burn to go with that speed record?
Chickens are fluffy 1 year ago
Love by the salt flats, you literally have to shower right after being in them or else you'll have salt everywhere, it's like sand, but worse. I can't imagine how much salt is on him
ANGEL ENRIQUE BAZALDUA LINARES 1 year ago
I forgot to ask how to stop... Now i'll wait until it runs out of gas...
#50
Howard Hughes Test Flying A Radio Controlled Scale Model Of The Spruce Goose In California, C.1947
Or: testing pic of the Convair Tradewind XPB5y-1 radio control model at Lindbergh field, San diego. Take your pick, whatever floats your boat!
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago (edited)
(pointing gun) “I said: Get. In.
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Sky Render 1 year ago
It's amazing, huh? Well worth the trip to McMinnville, OR!
Load More Replies... Cosmikid 1 year ago
Not the Spruce Goose, pretty sure, PB5y, yes; I grew up with PBYs and PBMs.
Kate 1 year ago
... Why not the Spruce Goose? Sure looks like a miniature of it.
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#51
The Stroll That Started It All, 1960
Shaunn Munn 1 year ago
Well now, take down your fishing pole And meet me at the fishing hole We may not get a bite all day But don't you rush away What a great place to rest your bones And mighty fine for skipping stones You'll feel fresh as a lemonade A-settin' in the shade Whether it's hot Whether it's cool Oh, what a spot For whistling like a fool What a fine day to take a stroll And wind up by the fishing hole I can't think of a better way To pass the time of day We'll have no need to call the roll When we get to the fishing hole There'll be you, me and old dog, Trey To do the time away If we don't hook a perch or bass We'll cool our toes in dewy grass Or else pull up a weed to chaw And maybe sit and jaw *Andy Griffith theme song
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
The Andy Griffith show. Opening has father and son coming back from a fishing trip, with a whistled song in the background 👍
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Cosmikid 1 year ago
The Andy Griffith Show. That's "Opie", the little kid- now known as Ron Howard; huge director...
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Jona Thiessen 1 year ago
I still believe all of life's lessons can be learned on The Andy Griffith Show.
#52
Kenneth Hunter Doing Some Mid-Air Mechanical Checkups During The Hunter Brothers' Record Breaking 23-Day-Long Flight Without Landing
Over the 23 days, food and fuel were delivered to them periodically by another airplane, 1930
Nathaniel (He/Him) Cis Het. 1 year ago
Nice to tell us about the fuel and the food but I am more concerned with the toilet situation.
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza...
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Hold My Root Beer
David 1 year ago
I've done this in large (tractor tire) innertubes. But not often because it seems fun (kind of is) but reality involves dizzy and a lot spills
RabidChild 1 year ago
My grandparents had a tube from a semi for us to roll in - down the hill right into the lake.
Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
I've done this, but in a much wider tire. This just looks painful, even if you were able to hang on. Might as well just had used a hula-hoop.
#54
Radio-Delivered Newspaper Machine, Missouri, 1938
Nathaniel (He/Him) Cis Het. 1 year ago
Slightly related note. The fax machine was invented before the telephone.
Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago (edited)
What. The. Hell?!?! Now how did THAT work? All I can think of is a fax machine but there's zero way in hell this is a FAX machine. Those came out in the 1980s! EDIT: OMG!!!! WHAT?! "fax" machines DID EXIST BACK THEN?! How were ppl back then that smart to figure out this stuff?! This is so cool! Here's a Smithsonian link https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/print-the-news-right-in-your-home-68822637/
Ace 1 year ago
Err yes, it's a fax machine. You spent longer typing that than it would have taken to confirm that fax machines had been around for decades at that point.
Load More Replies... David 1 year ago
So basically a fax machine. I hadn't seen this but I recall reading the first fax machines were many years before I would have thought. This seems like the same general idea since they are passing photos over a wire and something is printing them out. That must have seemed pretty magical back in the 1930s
Donald Crocker, Jr. 1 year ago
Just seems weird that it had pics too when dot matrix didn't come out until 1957.
Cosmikid 1 year ago (edited)
There is, in fact, more than one known methodology for removing feline integument; at last count at least 18.
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#55
Loading Southern Pacific's Specially Designed Vert-A-Pac Railroad Cars With The Mighty Chevy Vega, Lordstown, Ohio, 1974
Cosmikid 1 year ago (edited)
I can't imagine this didn't wreak havoc with every fluid in the car... "Why is there wiper fluid in my engine oil?"
David Paterson 1 year ago (edited)
I love this system of parking cars. You could get three times as many cars parked on the same stretch of road. No more hunting for a free space that doesn't exist. Better designed cars to keep liquids in place, I hope.
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#56
Finally! 1967
#57
Don't Remember Wearing The Cap But Do Remember Having To Sit In The Corner And Then Writing The Same Thing A Hundred Times On The Blackboard
Oh yeah, and then cleaning the erasers
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 1 year ago
My principal made me do that and then locked me in a supply closet after beating me with a paddle. That was in the 80s. Whenever I hear MAGA I think of him.
María Hermida 1 year ago
I grew up in the 70's and, had a teacher lifted a finger against any os us, the parents would have skinned them alive.
Load More Replies... Shaunn Munn 1 year ago
Cleaning erasers was a coveted job. I never got to do that because of my mediocre scholarship.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
2 will be Zood. Poor kid. I'm glad that accepted education techniques have generally moved on.
Lee Henderson 1 year ago
It happened to me. I have done a lot of d***s since 1975 but have turned out ok. (born 1960)
#58
Densely Packed Traffic Travelling Southbound On The Pasadena Freeway
Mark Rudolph 1 year ago
And just to pinpoint the date more closely, the newest car that I can positively identify is from 1958.
Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
Yet, we still haven't found a way to make the traffic flow any better in LA. We may have found a way but it hasn't been utilized or successful.
Kate 1 year ago
You know that freeway has barely changed, right? There are still stop signs at the 10-foot-long on ramps, and... I think maybe there's one more lane. We haven't even tried to improve anything.
Load More Replies... Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
LOLLLLL all the cars look exactly the same! I cannnnnt even.! 🤣 🤣 🤣 "Dear, I need to step out and go across the street and take a Wizz.... I'll be right back." 5 hrs later finds his car. 🤣
Kate 1 year ago
That would make sense if there had ever been any infrastructure improvements there.
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Ironing Hair, 1964
Granny's Thoughts 1 year ago
I burned my arm. From the iron tip I had a cute triangle scar for ages.
Little Wonder 1 year ago
So did my mum, and she also once singed an inch of hair off the end! Didn't stop her doing it though lol
Load More Replies... Debby Keir 1 year ago
Thought they actually did it between sheets of greaseproof paper to avoid burning.
Rebekah Fuentes 1 year ago
Always thought it was so cool in movies when they did this. Especially in Cry-Baby.
Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
I remember ironing my hair, with a clothes iron, as recently as, in the 90s. Before this became popular, women would use large cans and roll them to straighten their hair.
#60
Workmen Laying Wooden Water Pipeline East Of Lewsiton, Idaho, 1891
El Dee 1 year ago
Wooden? We'd have been using clay pipes for smaller bore and brick built for larger. So why wood??
Roland C. 1 year ago
Availability of materials, perhaps. Or the mayor owned a lumberyard?
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Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
A similar pipeline made of redwood was constructed in 1919 and ran almost 29 miles from the Verde River to Phoenix Arizona.
les 1 year ago
no, they have all died since 1891 or else they would be at least 160 years old
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Before Hogs, Oxen Did Sturgis, 1880s
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
This was pre-statehood; bottom corner says "Sturgis, DT" (Dakota territory)
RabidChild 1 year ago
Long before Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin rode in and put Sturgis on the map.
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A Transit Worker Retrieves A 1965 Ford Mustang From The Subway Tracks After A Woman's Accidental Entry At 40th Street Portal, Philadelphia, 1965
Sunny Boy 1 year ago
There might've been a ramp/road that descended into the tunnel. San Francisco has some of those, which are pretty open.
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Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago (edited)
Ugh, I can hear them as I type: Why did they give women drivers licenses anyway? Women shouldn't have to drive anywhere. It's what her husband/boyfriend/older brother is for, see? N'yar N'yar N'yar." (the n'yars said in the old fashioned "Ohhhh, a WISE guy, Eh?" accent/tone 🤣)
Roland C. 1 year ago
Ever see the 20 minute video of the woman trying to back out of a parking spot? The man who decides to help her does it in 5 seconds. That's why we have the jokes.
Load More Replies... Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
This lady is part of the reason why women are known to be bad drivers. Since I got my drivers license, I've had to fight to prove that not all women are bad drivers. It's been a constant battle, everytime I feel like I have accomplished or proven that not all ladies fit this stereotype, some woman, who got her drivers license out of a Cracker Jack box, comes along and erases all the work I've put in. The struggle is real...
#63
Portable Sweat Box, 1942
Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
When rubber was rationed during WWII, causing a shortage in girdles, amongst many other things, the Reduce-O-Matic was supposed to help women shed those pounds.
Anyone-for-tea? 1 year ago (edited)
I have an infrared sauna blanket that’s not too dissimilar!
#64
Glad They Don't Allow This Type Of Fun Anymore What With The Broken Necks All The Time
Granny's Thoughts 1 year ago
Nobody has fun like we did back then. Skinned knees were no big deal.
Mike F 1 year ago
Your biggest fear was getting a splinter. Moms were merciless when they dug those out!
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Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
I honestly can't recall any broken neck stories, though this was obvs before we even knew computers existed lol. We had playground stuff like this at my elementary school when I was there from 1979 - 85. It was amazing being able to be a kid and not have helicopter parents crying at every tiny cut, gash, broken bone, etc lol. We simply played as kids. Today, they're so over protected. Let kids PLAY.
B K 1 year ago
It’s funny we grew up in that environment and loved it , but now we have created the helicopter parents , become the helicopter parents . For some reason we don’t want our kids having the fun we did .
Load More Replies... Shark Lady 1 year ago
Our local playground was deemed unsafe so lots of fundraising happened to build us a new and much safer area. First weekend it was opened there were 15 broken collarbones, 7 broken arms and one person broke their leg. I remember it so well because I broke my collarbone.
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Kangaroo Jumps Rebound Shoes, 1935. Back In The '70s I Could Run Faster And Jump Higher With My Pf Flyers... At Least That's What They Said
#67
Admiral Richard Byrd’s Antarctic Snow Cruiser Passes Through Traffic And Onlookers On Its Trek From Chicago To Boston
Before halting for the night in Framingham, Massachusetts, on November 12, 1939. Traffic was snarled for 20 miles in a jam that involved 70,000 automobiles
Gustav Gallifrey 1 year ago
I understand that it's still in the Antarctic, buried in snow and ice, but has been spotted a few times over the decades.
Kate 1 year ago
It's probably on the ocean floor. Pieces of the camp were spotted sticking out the side of an iceberg a few years ago.
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Crossing The Yuba River On Donner Summit June 4, 1911
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A Boy Stands Near A Pissoir, One Of The Many Outdoor Urinals Installed On The Streets Of Paris Starting In The Mid-19th Century
At their peak, Paris' pissoirs numbered more than 1,000. Circa 1865
Bailey 1 year ago
They did, however the ladies toilets were in small enclosed buildings
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Aileen Grist 1 year ago
mens knickers at that time were crotchless and with their skirts down to the floor, well, they just went when needed in a gutter. At least that's what happened in England according to a book I read
Mermeow Overlord (they/she) 1 year ago
Yes, trans men should be allowed to use the men's washrooms.
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This Is How It's Done Son
Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
Shortly after this photo was taken, the modern dirt bike was born.
#71
Before Elon Musk, 1948
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Electric vehicles dated back to 1910. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Electric_Truck
#72
Orchestra Members Dressed In 'Michelin Man' Costumes Open The Inaugural Radio Show Of 'The Michelin Hour'. April 17, 1928
David 1 year ago
It's difficult to imagine them sounding their best with those clunky costumes on.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
It was radio - publicity picture before the 'concert' - no one would see.
Load More Replies... Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
"When a problem comes along You must whip it Before the cream sits out too long You must whip it..."
#73
No Elevator? No Problem
Marie BellaDonna 1 year ago
When I was in high school, a classmate had a very similar wagon, perhaps passed down from an older family member. She called it 'The Blueberry', lol.
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Balancing Act On Chimney Of 22 Story Building In NYC, 1920s
cerinamroth 1 year ago
Just shows people didn't need TikTok to do ridiculous challenges, but thankfully fewer people were inspired by pictures like this!
#75
With A Landmark Around Every Corner And A Picture Perfect View Atop Every Hill, San Francisco Might Be The World's Most Picturesque City
Taylor & Pine street, San Francisco, 1952
Nika the Great 1 year ago
San Francisco is my favorite city. The man made and natural beauty combined ❤️❤️❤️
Lee 1 year ago
From what I've seen from videos online, it doesn't look all that nice- people living in tents and walking around drugged out their skulls.
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GlamourGhoul 1 year ago
Way to not make yourself sound like a conservative idiot LPT! Congrats big guy! You definitely don’t come across as a card carrying red hat, red pill, blue lives type with that comment!! /s
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11th Avenue, New York, C1910, Lots Going On Here
#77
Garment Workers Leave The Factories For Noon Hour, Seventh Avenue And West 28th Street, New York, 1936
#78
Big Daddy Don Garlits Got Right To Work On Putting The Engine Behind The Driver After He Got Out Of The Hospital, Amazing No One Thought Of Doing That 'Til This, 1970
Knitting Panda 1 year ago (edited)
I remember him. Great Lakes Dragaway. Union Grove Wisconsin. I never saw him, but I heard the ads on the radio all the time.
les 1 year ago
he's not dead, he has a museum in florida dedicated to his and others early drag racing exploits
Load More Replies... Justin Tyme 1 year ago
Three people were injured in that race. Don Garlits lost part of his right foot and his left leg was broken in five places. A spectator named Tim Ditt was hit by a piece of the clutch. It cut through his arm almost completely detaching it. His arm was reattached at the hospital, and he recovered well after months of physical therapy. The other driver (Richard Tharp) suffered serious burns when his engine exploded.
Cathy Jo Baker 1 year ago
One of these days I'm going to visit his museum of drag racing in northern Florida! I drive by it every time I go to North Palm Beach!
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Of course yanks wouldn't think of doing what Formula 1 (1958), LeMans (1963) and road car makers (1962) had been doing for years.
#79
Memorial Day Weekend Traffic Jam, New York City, 1949
Nonna_SoF 1 year ago
It's NYC, the cars there barely obey the laws of physics, let alone human laws or common sense.
Load More Replies... Guess Undheit 1 year ago
A gas sniffers whine and claim "b-b-b-b-b-bicycles are the problem!!!"
Kaedyn Walsh 1 year ago
Those brave gals walking through that tangle of cars..... I'd be so scared to get ran over. Did this place not have stop signals, signs or a human StopGo person to help?!
Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
Looks very similar to Memorial Day weekend traffic, heading to Cape Cod.
#80
Turkeys Pardoned From The Thanksgiving Table Were Told They Would Live Their Lives Out In Luxury, Three Oaks, Michigan, 1909
Idgafwyt AllDat'N'ABagOfChips 1 year ago
Were the pardoned turkeys told they would live this luxurious life or was the general public told this? Maybe some wealthy person put up some money to save the turkeys and then this guy has a photoshoot with them. Just in case Mr.&Mrs. Moneybags decided to follow up, they have photographic evidence to show that their $ was well spent and said turkeys are living their best lives.🤣 side note- if this is evidence of living a luxurious life, I don't think I want it, anymore.
Octavia Hansen 1 year ago
Turkey fortune cookie: You will soon be surrounded by friends . . . and cranberries!
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Marykay Klim 1 year ago
This was a really interesting set of pics, most of which I haven't seen before. Now that's surprising! Well done!
Francie Traschen 1 year ago
Were there no black or latino or native american people back then???
Marykay Klim 1 year ago
This was a really interesting set of pics, most of which I haven't seen before. Now that's surprising! Well done!
Francie Traschen 1 year ago
Were there no black or latino or native american people back then???
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