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Things happen everywhere, all the time—events big and small, ordinary and extraordinary, that shape our world in ways we often don't notice until the ripple effect spreads all around.
Over the years, the Facebook page 'Historical Pics' has collected an extensive gallery of these moments. From a black-and-white shot of the Iron Curtain to a color snap of a street in the United States during the sixties, each image invites us to come and marvel at history frozen in a single frame.
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#1
Three Former Directors Of The Global Smallpox Eradication Program Read The News That Smallpox Had Been Globally Eradicated, 1980
Robin Roper 4 days ago
Wonder what these heroes would think of the stupidity over vaccines we are seeing today.
Dragon Ashes 2 days ago
They're probably rolling over in their graves. Spinning even.
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Heffalump 4 days ago
TFW you've solved a huge problem for humanity, and now you're unemployed and a world expert in something that is no longer a thing :-|
Jackie Lulu 3 days ago
At the rate we're going, we'll need you back again.
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Merry Grinchmas from Grumpy 4 days ago
Elon wants the chip in your brain so he can control you. The entire plot of Fallout season 2.
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#2
A Newly Born Lamb Snuggles Up To A Sleeping Boy, 1940
Laszlo Larthlanc 3 days ago
You don't k**l sheep in order to get wool. You just shear them. Been happening for millennia. The sheep live on and grow more wool.
Load More Replies...Penelope J. Corfield is professor emeritus of history at Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom. According to her, people working in the field are often asked: What is the use or relevance of studying history? Why on earth does it matter so much what happened long ago?
"The answer is that History is inescapable," Corfield writes, highlighting that the capital letter signals the academic field of study.
"It studies the past and the legacies of the past in the present. ... It connects things through time and encourages its students to take a long view of such connections."
#3
Lost In The Moment At A School Dance, 1950’s
#4
Pope Leo XIV In 1982
Tucker Cahooter 4 days ago
"Nice church you have here. Shame if something were to happen to it, know what I mean?"
Rich Black 1 day ago
during his guest appearance as father guido sarducci, on saturday night live. . .
#5
Mark Twain At Tesla's Lab
To Corfield, all people and peoples are living histories.
"Communities speak languages that are inherited from the past. They live in societies with complex cultures, traditions and religions that have not been created on the spur of the moment," she explains.
"People use technologies that they have not themselves invented. And each individual is born with a personal variant of an inherited genetic template, known as the genome, which has evolved during the entire life-span of the human species."
#6
2 Girls Smile From Their Fantastic Snow Fort, Circa 1910
Rich Black 1 day ago
you may surprised at how cheaply you can get your aging roof replaced. can for a free quote.
#7
Female Workers During A Strike At Citroen, 1930s. Photograph By Willy Ronis
#8
Frida Kahlo Wearing A Suit In Her Family Portrait In 1927. She Was 19 Years Old
Vee Lyons 3 days ago
Really, you have to ask I clocked the woman in a man's suit immediately.
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There's a good reason why you ended up on this list — the linkages between past and present hold the key to understanding the condition of being human.
It might sound like I'm peppering it up, but according to Corfield, that is precisely why History matters. "It is not just 'useful'; it is essential," she says. Being familiar with the flow of time allows us to ground ourselves within it, to find our place.
"The study of the past is essential for 'rooting' people in time. And why should that matter? The answer is that people who feel themselves to be rootless live rootless lives, often causing a lot of damage to themselves and others in the process," the professor explains.
#9
The Original Addam's Family Set Photographed In Colour
Mimi M 4 days ago
I know, it's in my head now too! 'They're creepy and they're kooky, Mysterious and spooky, They're all together ooky, The Addams family!'
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Robert T 3 days ago
The colours were actually chosen for what they would look like in black and white. The actors' makeup was similarly colourful.
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Andy Frobig 3 days ago
I appreciate PBS, but if shows like this "drove" you to it, I pity you
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The Real Winnie The Pooh And Christopher Robin, The Boy And His Bear, Who Inspired The Fantastic Stories!
Chaos Pandas Unite 4 days ago
After ‘Goodbye Christopher robin’ this is kind of heart breaking.
Chippy Chap 3 days ago
The original Winnie the Pooh bear and friends are on display at the New York Public Library. I wonder why they are there instead of the UK.
#11
Polio Victim Gwinn Hinkle On His Porch While His Former Class At Sunshine School Sings Christmas Carols. Published In The News & Leader On December 21, 1952. Springfield, Missouri
Forrest Hobbs 4 days ago
Upvoted the downvote. What's wrong with a bit of sarcastic humour? 🤷
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WookiesMaMa 4 days ago
I wish those stupid parents would look at the history of preventable diseases and vaccinate their children. It's so stupid!
Liz Rutherford 4 days ago
My uncle had polio circa 1951. His left leg is smaller than his right one.
Anne Roberts 3 days ago
My dad had polio before the vaccine was developed. Spent 6 months in the hospital undergoing painful therapy while my mom was home pregnant with 2 of my sister's. They lost everything to pay for his treatment. PLEASE don't let us go back to those days!
Ghostchaplain16 1 day ago
Amen, Anne. One of my mentors spent time in an iron lung and he would weep every time he told the story.
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Image Of Godzilla Power Washed Onto Japanese Dam
Laszlo Larthlanc 3 days ago
Possibly interesting tidbit: In Japan, Godzilla was called Gojira. The word was anglicized for the American market. In Japanese Gojira means "gorilla whale".
WindySwede 3 days ago
Remember that as a kid from Godzilla (1998), from the japanese sailor in the hospital. When the frenshman asks him with a lighter in from of him.
Load More Replies... Much more can be said on history's importance, but you probably get the idea.
And what's cool about the subject is that it's so broad, everyone is bound to find something that speaks to them. "Among professional historians, the prime focus is upon the past/present of the human species, although there are some who are studying the history of climate and/or the environmental history of the globe," Corfield adds.
Indeed, the boundaries between disciplines are never rigid.
#13
Susan Kare, Famous Apple Artist Who Designed Many Of The Fonts, Icons, And Images For Apple, Next, Microsoft, And Ibm. (1980s)
Mel in Georgia 3 days ago
My favorite fact about her work is that she designed the deck of cards for Window 3.0's solitaire game. Who can forget those bouncing cards when you won?! Look her up - she created a ton of recognizable and iconic graphic images!
Ana Clara Rad 1 day ago
She looks like that girl that flips things in a pan by flipping the pan
Russell Bowman 2 days ago
Look at that Apple Mac behind her ... can you imagine programming on that 9 inch screen, 6 Mhz CPU and 128K memory. By the way the initial price was about $2500 in 1984 dollars.
Dragon Ashes 2 days ago
I played games on one of those. She looks like we all did in the early 80s.
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Susan Kare, famous Apple artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, Next, Microsoft, And IBM (1980s).
#14
The Oldest House In Hamburg, Germany In (1898). · It Was Built In 1524, And Demolished On December 8th, 1910, Despite Protests From Locals
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 days ago (edited)
This isn't exactly extremely old in Europe. Nearby where I live in Italy, some buildings still have original walls 2,000 years old.
Forrest Hobbs 4 days ago
Zig Zag Wanderer: hmm. Yes. But 16th century is *fairly* old. Meanwhile: quite a lot of the remaining buildings in Hamburg got demolished 33 years later. The locals were even less happy - what with the prime contractor on the 1943 job being RAF Bomber Command. 😬
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Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 1 day ago
OK, HistoricalPics1 needs to learn how to correctly write headline text.
Rich Black 1 day ago
protests from locals apparently don't override the decisions of the actual owner about whether the building safe to occupy after 4 centuries.
Jan Rosier 2 days ago
In Antwerp, and I am sure in other European cities as well, houses can still be found built against the walls and between butresses of the Cathedral (which now contain pubs and resaurants) and St Jacobs church (two and still occupied)
#15
Bob Ross Without An Afro In The Military Circa 1960
Major Harris 3 days ago
as a drill sergeant- "and i will make you happy little airmen, DO YOU HEAR ME!?"
Laszlo Larthlanc 3 days ago
Happy little hairstyle. (Hey -- I love the man. Just couldn't pass up that opportunity, though.)
Some scoff at history because of all the facts and dates you supposedly need to painstakingly memorize in order to … But the professor says such details provide only a portion of the basic building blocks of History as a field of study. On their own, they have limited meaning.
"Take a specific case. It would be impossible to comprehend 20th-century world history if given nothing but a list of key dates, supplemented by information about (say) population growth rates, economic resources and church attendance," Corfield says. "And even if further evidence were provided, relating to (say) the size of armies, the cost of oil, and comparative literacy levels, this cornucopia of data would still not furnish nearly enough clues to reconstruct a century's worth of world experience."
#16
A Woman In 1903 Having Her First Photograph Taken
#17
Spanish Bride In 1973
#18
Scandinavia's Indigenous Sami People In Norway, 1928
Dave Pearson 3 days ago
There is no almost about it. Even country, every nation, displaced a previous one. No matter the species, there was always something there before. Its why I get annoyed when people point at white people in accusation. Check your history, folks, and then judge.
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Women On An Italian Street, 1951
Major Harris 3 days ago
imagine that only 7 years earlier, that street was probably in shambles due to the ravages of war.
So if having abundant information doesn't automatically mean that people can make sense of the data, what keeps us from getting lost in history?
Mental frameworks. We people need to develop adaptable and critical minds.
"Returning to the case of someone first trying to understand 20th-century world history, the notional list of key dates and facts would need to be framed by reading (say) Eric Hobsbawm's Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century or, better still, by contrasting this study with (say) Mark Mazower's Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century or Bernard Wasserstein's Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in Our Time on 20th-century Europe, and/or Alexander Woodside's Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea and the Hazards of World History or Ramachandra Guha's India after Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy."
In other words, you have to critically examine different views, find new arguments when discussing them, and keep re-evaluating what we know.
And, of course, a picture or two.
#20
Milkman Making His Deliveries After A Night Of Bombing, 1940
Forrest Hobbs 4 days ago
Yeah, I mean yes he was a real milkman delivering milk, but this particular shot was staged for propaganda purposes. Keeping up morale and all that.
Tabitha 3 days ago
Well, even in wartime, life does go on. Not every neighborhood was devastated, and people still needed milk. And their mail and ice for their icebox, and all the other necessities to go on living. Had they completely stopped and given up, then the war would’ve taken a very different turn. You give up, you lose, and the Brits weren’t about to lose to the Nazis. Come hell or high water, they were going to carry on. Have to admire that.
Forrest Hobbs 2 days ago
Tabitha: my parents were alive back then - not sure if they were in London at the precise time of that photo, though (possibly, but possibly also evacuated, depending on the date). Their parents - my grandparents - were - well, two of them were off fighting the war, while the other two were trying to keep things going at home. There wasn't any thought about "carrying on or not". If you're alive, you carry on - what else would anyone do?
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Rebecca O’Donnell 4 days ago (edited)
Kinda like delivering mail in New Orleans after Katrina hit. Took the Post Office about a month to get its act together. Watched the letter carriers trying to deliver to empty houses while walking past destroyed ones. A lot of the carriers, too, lost their homes. I was down there to rescue abandoned pets so I got to see first hand how horrific the devastation was.
S Bow 3 days ago
Thank you for doing that. It breaks my heart when pets get abandoned in disasters. You're an angel and I'm grateful for you.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 1 day ago
Can this be made into a Netflix series? Something like "Watchmen", but set in World War 2 London?
#21
Nikola Tesla In His Laboratory Testing His “Magnifying Transmitter”, (1904)
Taibhse Sealgair 2 days ago
Faked photo. Two different pictures overlaid. Basically a PR photo.
Rich Black 1 day ago
he died broke (true fact). possibly because of unexpected electricity bills from Con-Ed.
#22
Couple On A Subway, New York City, 1946. Photograph By Stanley Kubrick
Andy Frobig 3 days ago
He was a street photographer for several years before he started making movies
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West Berliners Waving To Relatives Over The Berlin Wall, Christmas Day, 1961. Photo By Leon Herschtritt
TotallyNOTAFox 3 days ago (edited)
Nothing screams "success" more than a wall to prevent the own citiziens from fleeing the country
Dave Pearson 3 days ago (edited)
A few stupid humans... Who build a wall like this to control the masses. A few stupid humans with an ideology that was devastating to the populace. A few stupid humans whose need for power and control cost so many lives. A FEW. STUPID. HUMANS.
olaff 422 3 days ago
Jesus. I'm going to use more of your brain than the rest of you, and say potato is talking about the people that built the wall. Settle down.
Dave Pearson 3 days ago (edited)
Absolutely. Totally unwarranted downvoting. I have added a "Few Stupid Himans" comment. Maybe we all should.
Load More Replies... Laszlo Larthlanc 3 days ago (edited)
"A few stupid humans" Perhaps you should add yourself to that list, then.
Dave Pearson 3 days ago
They are absolutely referring to the people who built this. Cool ya jets.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 1 day ago
"don't believe what they tell you. we're not living here in east berlin by choice."
#24
A Photo Of Mount St. Helens Erupting During A Local Baseball Game On May 18, 1980
Major Harris 3 days ago
"and that is strike three and the batter is out. meanwhile mt. helens has just erupted folks so this game just might be called."
#25
Grocery Shopping (1890s) Before Aisles Existed : A Lady Gives The Clerk Her Orders, And He Collects Everything
Srinivasan S 4 days ago (edited)
In India still this concept exists. Most grocery shops work this way. We have supermarkets with ailes. We have supermarkets with ailes and assistants at each aile also.
Andrea Wylie 4 days ago
If we went bacl to this, no more shoplifting.. more jobs for clerks, faster checkout.. LMAO
Merry Grinchmas from Grumpy 4 days ago
Most stores have pay online and pick up but I prefer going in the stores, except Walmart
Load More Replies... Hugo 4 days ago
Still like that in the 1960s. Strange to say, I don't remember having to queue. But one could also phone an order and the groceries would be delivered by a boy on a bicycle.
Starbug 4 days ago
I remember being still like that in the mid 70s when I was a kid. Supermarkets were a rarity!
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LovesBerk 2 days ago (edited)
This is the kind of shop my mother had. She had a delicatessen. Arnotts biscuits in tin boxes. Big cash register. Big set of scales. Her shop was nowhere near this size but she did sell to the local area before supermarkets were a thing. Supermarkets were just starting up then. I think Coles was the first supermarket in our town.
#26
A Little Girl Hands A Posy Of Lilies To A Police Officer On Duty At The Porte Saint-Denis In Paris, Circa 1920
#27
The King Of Norway On A Tram During The Oil Crisis In The 70s. He Was Going Skiing Like A Normal Guy, And Wanted To Pay For A Ticket. The Conductor Didn’t Want To Take His Money
️Rando Panda 4 days ago
Forgive me, but it looks like the young lady next to him is texting about it. My modern brain was interpreting incorrectly.
James Twong 3 days ago
And the British Royal Family feel the need to have a golden coach and numerous massive castles. And one of them definitely isn't a pa*dophile.
Linz Endell 1 day ago
The British Royal Family has precisely zero golden coaches and doesn’t own all that many massive castles but otherwise, yes.
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Ladies Doing Some Mountain Climbing In Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh, Circa (1908)
Tyranamar Seuss 3 days ago
Such b******t that we used to make women dress like this. Many people are fighting for a return to earlier times. This is the kind of b******t we'd have to deal with.
#29
Bruce Lee Playing With His Son Brandon, 1966
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 days ago (edited)
So sad about Brandon. The Crow was one of my favourite films, too 😞
Russell Bowman 2 days ago
Not to be rude, but if you can find the short film "A fistfull of yen" ... a comical dedication to Bruce Lee and Enter the Dragon ... you won't be disappointed
#30
Portrait Of Three Ladies Modelling The Latest Fashion By Jeanne Margaine-Lacroix (C. 1908)
Ben Aziza 4 days ago
Reminds me of that skit with key and peel trying to win the “coolest hat” competition. Jokes aside, the hats are cool and so are the dressed! Just impeccably cool. We should bring those back. Guys can go for the Landsknecht or desert Bedouin attire, Ya know, to access equally imposing headwear!
Lee Gilliland 4 days ago
LaCroix was famous for his elegant, plain lines "emphasizing the natural female figure".
Charlotte Ingle 3 days ago
Natural aside from the right corsets, of course
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Catherine Graves 3 days ago
These fashions were considered scandalous and daring at the time. They were the first fashions in a century to be worn without a corset. Notice how revealing and clingy they are, the contour of the leg showing on the seated woman. Commonly photographed, and exclusively worn by the young and shapely.
#31
Downtown Rotterdam In 1940 After The Debris Had Been Cleared
Norfolk and good 3 days ago
London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Coventry, Hull, Sheffield, Manchester, Bristol, Southampton, Cardiff, Glasgow, Belfast...
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Kirsten Kerkhof 2 days ago
I have a December 1939 magazine article in which the Rotterdam counsel complains about the slums, but they really don’t know where to find the money to clear them all …
#32
Mod In Swinging London, 1967
Margaret H 1 day ago
I used to wear skirts that short - and now I'm a great-grandmother. Times and circumstances sure change! PS. She has much better legs than I ever did.
Tabitha 3 days ago
If you could dig up a picture of yourself wearing it, that would be incredibly cool to see.
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#33
Excavation Of The Sphinx, CA 1850
Lee Gilliland 4 days ago
Which iswhy most of the Sphinx is still intact, including the dream stela.
Major Harris 3 days ago
but this also begs the question, how did the body get so eroded if it had been buried for so long? and the head is out of proportion and is in better condition. that implies that the body was buried and somebody saw the head and re chiseled it.
Ann Hoff 1 day ago
In a delores cannon book it is said that the head was originally of a woman and the pharohs who came later took it off (because they were all men) and made a new head as a man. also, there are supposed to be secrets of the practices they did with crystals under the paws.
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Egyptians to French archeologists supervising the dig :"we had no idea. honestly"
#34
Family Portrait Taken 120 Years Ago, 1905
Kerry Borthwick 3 days ago
Every s***m is sacred, Every s***m is great, If a s***m is wasted, God gets quite irate. 🎤🎤
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Russell Bowman 2 days ago
I wonder what my parents did to fight boredom before the internet... I asked my 18 brothers and sisters and they don't know either.
Tabitha 3 days ago (edited)
No, cousin. You do NOT come to family reunions to look for a date. Why do you think not one of the kids here has two heads?
Load More Replies... Rich Black 1 day ago
we had no indoor plumbing in those days, trevor. we all had to share one outhouse
Ronnie Beaton 2 days ago
The guy with the baby on his lap looks like Jimmy Finlayson, Laurel & Hardy's co-star.
Phantom Phoenix 4 days ago
Pre-television. Home electricity not yet common. Not many options for entertaining activities after sunset...
Nicole Weymann 2 days ago
And not a lot of space, either. The good ole times, all nice and cozy - and then you realize that all those people had to sleep somewhere, too...
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An Ambrotype Portrait Of A British War Veteran And His Wife, Circa 1855. He Is Wearing A Military General Service Medal (Mgsm) With Five Clasps, Indicating That He Fought In Five Battles During The Napoleonic Wars
General Anaesthesia 4 days ago (edited)
And he was 2 when he unhorsed Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo!
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Chich the witch 4 days ago
Someone in the extended family has my GGGgrandfathers Mgsm. ( 7 or 9 clasps iirc) He wasn't at Waterloo for the battle which was a thorn in his side the rest of his life.
Tyranamar Seuss 3 days ago
Any clothing style where you hide a woman's hair is not flattering. It's why all the religious nuts have these "laws" where a married woman can't show her hair. They want women to look as "non-tempting" as possible.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 1 day ago
is that short bustard dead yet? last I heard he was living it up on Elba . . .
#36
Miss Universe Of Yugoslavia, With A Mig-21f, 1968
Rich Black 1 day ago
who says the commies don't get it? this is the Yugoslavian version of playboy
Michael Largey 2 days ago
🎶🎵 "Jet! / With the wind in your hair of a thousand laces / Climb on the back and we'll go for a ride in the sky / And Jet, I thought that the major was a little lady suffragette / Jet! / ..." - Paul McCartney
Russell Bowman 2 days ago
The MiG-21, first flown 1955, was and still is a great aircraft ... stripped of everything it easily topped Mach 2. Many 21's are still in use in Africa to this date. Plus China cloned a copy, the J-7, and still fly them. Oh yeah, and Miss Universe ... wow
#37
This Farmhouse Once Stood In Manhattan Where 84th Street And Broadway Now Cross. (1879)
#38
Central Park During The Great Depression (New York, 1933)
Ann Hoff 1 day ago
If I remembered right the Hoover didn't pay them what was promised from WWI- they had a flu that k****d millions right before that-
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 4 days ago
Zig Zag Wanderer: kids today complain that even with (sometimes multiple) jobs, many of them can't afford housing. Back then in the Great Depression, shanty towns like that existed in the US because lots of people simply couldn't find any sort of paying work.
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In 1991-1993, Eight People Sealed Themselves Inside A Giant Glass-And-Steel “Closed World” In The Arizona Desert To Test Whether Humans Could Live In A Self-Sustaining Habitat, Often Framed Like A Prototype For A Moon/Mars-Style Colony
WookiesMaMa 4 days ago
It was considered a failure but did give scientists a lot of in information for future moon or mars habitats.
Fenouille Fenouille 4 days ago
Hope it didn’t end up like the Stanford experiment.
Load More Replies... Chaos Pandas Unite 4 days ago
They did learn a lot. It’s really fun to visit the prototype miniature one; walking through the different ecological niches is highly entertaining.
Forrest Hobbs 4 days ago
Search term "Biosphere 2" or (in its current incarnation): "University of Arizona Biosphere 2". There are many accounts. It didn't work as hoped, but the results were incredibly useful.
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Telephone Engineer In London, 1925
Day Andie 3 days ago
It's hard to believe he can balance up there with his balls being as big as they must be.
Forrest Hobbs 3 days ago
Day Andie: I once knew a bloke who worked on radar (RDF as it then was) back in WW2. He told me a thing or two about it. Thermite powered soldering iron, anyone? 😬🤣 (no, really - he was quite serious about it and I believed him - if you needed solder-melting heat when you're dangling from a wire 200ft up back then, your choices were limited) Hanging around on wires high up like that was - well, it's what a certain kind of job took, so they found those who could do it. Those who couldn't do it performed other duties. 🤷
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 4 days ago
The UK had various Factories Acts, of which was written in 1910: "No class of manual-working wage-earners, no item in the wage-contract, no age, no s*x, no trade or occupation, is now beyond [their] scope.". So that man's employers probably had an obligation to ensure acceptably safe working conditions - but that'd be by 1925 standards. en DOT wikipedia DOT org\wiki\Factory_Acts#Factory_and_Workshop_Act_1901
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A Debris Of Dishes Found On The Wreck Of The Titanic, 1985
Jeff Hunt 4 days ago
These should be recovered and sold. Grave robbing is a respected profession and has been throughout history.
Lee Gilliland 4 days ago
Some of them have been and I have a set in my dining cabinet as I type.
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conspiracy theorists will now tell us it didn't hit an iceberg. it was scuttled by some politiican.
#42
June, 1966: Women Use Compact Mirrors In Packed Crowd To Catch Sight Of The Queen In London, England
sdorph 4 days ago
The Queen almost always wore bright colours when in public so people could see her more easily
General Anaesthesia 4 days ago (edited)
So they're turning their backs to the Queen? There is the reason she was not amused.
#43
This Enormous Pile Of Holiday Packages At London’s Mount Pleasant Post Office In 1952
#44
A Child's Gas Mask During WWII
WindySwede 3 days ago
*Brendan Fraser, and Rachel Weisz looks at each other*
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Hippopotamuses 4 days ago (edited)
Almost guaranteed to scare the living daylights out of most kids.
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#45
The Gutted Interior Of The White House, May 1950
Kit Black 4 days ago
The white house has been burned, gutted, remodeled, and made over - it's fairly likely that d**n little is left of the original structure.
Lee Gilliland 4 days ago
Actually they left a little area of burned brick evident so you can see the War of 1812 damage.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 4 days ago
This was after Bess Truman put her foot down in the bedroom and it went into the dining room.
Rich Black 1 day ago
this is so much bigger than I'd have guessed. where is lincoln's bedroom?
Andrea Wylie 4 days ago
I imagine years from now there will be a thread like this with pictures of what Trump tried to do.
Kali Chaos 4 days ago
I imagine there will be a thread like this sooner than that.
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#46
Times Square, 1978
nottheactualphoto 3 days ago
They would have been clearing the snow from the streets while it was still falling. The 16 inches had to have been at some non-thoroughfare location. Like Central Park, or a meteorologist's measuring gauge.
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Dorothy Reiser 2 days ago
I remember the blizzard of 78. I was in Ann Arbor. U of M actually closed.
Never Snarky 2 days ago
Lived in Boston at the time. Our side street wasn’t plowed for several days. Lots of exercise walking and shoveling.
MarieL 2 days ago
That photo was taken before the end of the storm. It was real, and the cars parked on the street were plowed in/over and had to be dug out 2-3 days later. Only emergency vehicles could get around. It was very quiet, everywhere.
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#47
Karolina Olsson “Fell Asleep” As A Teenager On A Tiny Swedish Island And, 32 Years Later, Woke Up Remembering Her Life Before It As If It Were The Same Day
Hippopotamuses 4 days ago
The entry on Wikipedia is worth reading. Things may not have been as they appeared.
otiose 4 days ago
Yeah. I'm with the doctor who diagnosed her with hysteria. Because, you know, a female not acting as expected has to be hysterical.
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Wij 4 days ago
Nonsense. Has to be awake for sustenance and hydration. She’d die in three days from lack of water.
Rich Black 1 day ago
"purportedly". she was variously claimed to have been the victim or witchccraft and hysteria. she is also said to have been treated with electroconvulsive shock therapy, to no avail. she allegedly survived for 32 years on 2 glasses of milk a day, provided by her mother. drink your milk, it does a body good!
keyboardtek 3 days ago
The article stated she was given two glasses of water a day. That would be impossible as pouring a liquid into the mouth of an unconscious person would cause them to choke.
#48
Chicago North Line Rail Accident Between Harrison Street And Wabash Avenue On, 1953. Chicago Tribune Historic Photo
#49
Chicago, 1969
Liz Rutherford 4 days ago
My mom lived in Chicago in 1968 and 1969. She was 20 when she moved. She's always said it was the best time of her life. I'm slightly jealous.
LovesBerk 2 days ago
Those years WERE actually the best times to be alive, had we only known it, to be honest.
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unfilteredCigarette73 2 days ago
Chicago, imo, has the greatest architecture in all of the United States
Rich Black 1 day ago
the sears tower. now known as the Willis Tower. In 2007 seven terrorists were arrested in mid-plot trying to blow it up. although they were muslim affiliated, their motives are said to be unclear . . .
#50
An Lcm (Landing Craft Mechanized) Loaded With Troops Shoves Off From The Troop Transport And Heads Toward The Shore At Iwo Jima 6 March 1945
TotallyNOTAFox 3 days ago
I think I would prefer to sit in a LVT(A) during a landing though, these were quite unprotected against anything bigger than a rifle calibre
Historyherstory (old guy) 3 days ago
My uncle piloted those through out the island hopping campaigns in the Pacific.
Russell Bowman 2 days ago
Those LVT and LCVP's were piloted by members of the Coast Guard, mainly boatswains, who had small boat experience. The losses were frightening.
#51
This Italian Woman Curiously Inspecting The Kilt Of A Scottish Soldier. Colosseum, Rome In 1944
Ronnie Beaton 2 days ago
"Is anything worn under your kilt, jock?" "Nay lassie, it's all in perfect working order."
#52
The Lincoln Memorial In Washington, Dc, Photographed In 1917
General Anaesthesia 4 days ago
Next up, the DJ "Heroic Bone Spurs" Trump wing of the Lincoln Memorial.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 4 days ago
Go find an excellent book called "It Came From the Swamp". You'll thank me.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 1 day ago
now you can understand why DC has such oppressive summer weather, and mosquitos.
#53
LED Zeppelin Concert At Oakland Coliseum, 1977
Merry Grinchmas from Grumpy 4 days ago
They kidnapped an underage girl and kept her on the plane until she turned 18
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David Paterson 4 days ago
Black and white photo with neutral density filter. In 1977. Yuk. Colour photo please.
#54
Elvis Presley Is Vaccinated Against Polio While Serving In The Army. Tennessee, 1958
Nicky 4 days ago
Elvis saved so many lives by doing this and encouraging others to do the same.
April Pickett 4 days ago
In the military you didn't have much choice. You got in line and did what they told you to do.
Kit Black 3 days ago
The pic used here isn't Elvis getting the polio vaccine, although it *is* from his military service time. He agreed to receive the vaccine on the Ed Sullivan show to encourage others to get the shot. He wasn't in the military yet.
Load More Replies... Kit Black 4 days ago
The Salk vaccine was a shot, and came out in the middle 50's, so it was the only one available at the time.A couple years later, there was an incident where a batch was defective, causing 11 deaths. The Sabin vaccine was oral, and came out around that same time, 1959 or so, and it rapidly became popular despite tha fact that even made correctly, this one would occasionally revert and cause polio paralysis.
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#55
An Advertisement For Asbestos, 1960s
Zig Zag Wanderer 4 days ago
Absolutely fantastic building material. Until you try to cut it.....
Liz Rutherford 4 days ago
My grandfather worked in the drydocks in San Diego in the waning months of WWII. Asbestos was *everywhere*. He was 21 when he moved out there with my grandma and died of Laryngeal cancer at the age of 48. Grandma, my mom and I all agree(d) that it was this lovely material that caused his cancer. He was diagnosed 3/8/1972 and died 8/31/1972.
#56
Two Youngsters Casually Photographed In Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. (NYC, 1976)
Victor Botha 1 day ago
If not dead already then they most probably have serious COPD. Ask me how I know?? I was probably their age when I started smoking and now I'm paying the price. Don't start kids, it's really not worth it.
#57
People Having A Picnic In The Middle Of A Highway During The 1973 Oil Crisis
#58
Tourists And Their Guides Clambering Up The Rock Slabs Of A Pyramid, Egypt, Circa Late 1800s
David Paterson 4 days ago
At last! It's very difficult to find photos showing the exact height of the stones that the pyramids are made from.
LovesBerk 2 days ago
We are still trying to figure out how exactly they were built. I favour aliens built them.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 1 day ago
i climbed the great pyramid of Giza, and all I have to show for it is this tee shirt . . .
#59
A North Vietnamese Army Officer Laughs At The Peace Symbol Necklace Of A Captured American Soldier, North Vietnam, 1973
Spencer's slave no longer 4 days ago
US Army Specialist Richard Springman was released by the Viet Cong on February 12th 1973 after 3 years as a POW. This photo was taken at the time he was released.
David 2 days ago
Viet Cong was a North Vietnamese backed Rebel Group in the South that barely existed after 1969. This is the NVA, the North Vietnamese Army, a professional army trained by the USSR and armed with the latest Soviet equipment. A highly trained and well equipped army. Do not confuse the two
Load More Replies... Rich Black 1 day ago
you're all capitalist lackeys today. who's laughing now, general Vo Nguyen Giap?
#60
Men Waiting In A Line For The Possibility Of A Job During The Great Depression
Rich Black 1 day ago
the interent has certainly solved this.. you can get rejected by an AI system in 5 seconds without ever having to wait for an annoying in person interview . . .
Zitronella 4 days ago
Not all are the Same...old people often are Not better
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In The 1940s, Men Dressed In Shorts And Cowboy Boots Served Up To Women At A Drive Through In Texas
#62
New York City, 1953. How Quaint!
#63
A Salesman Has His Motorized Roller Skates Refueled. Connecticut, 1961
Paul C. 4 days ago
What, like a petrol engine strapped to your back. Just have a cigarette while you are flying along.
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Mug Shot Of Australian Criminal Sydney Skukerman, Arrested For Having "Obtained Goods From Warehousemen By Falsely Representing That He Is In Business" (1924)
Rich Black 1 day ago
to be fair, Australia IS the worlds largest offshore prison for Brits . . .
#65
Children Pose With Their Snow Fort/Tower Before Going To School. Winter Of 1961, Baltimore Maryland
The Other Guest 3 days ago
It's OK, the one in red has knee socks on. I'm sure she's toasty-warm! /facetiousness
Load More Replies... Rich Black 1 day ago
of course you're going to school. this isn't like today, where they cancel school on a 50% chance of flurries.
#66
The Immortal Ten, A Group Of Militant Abolitionists In Kansas, 1859
Michael Largey 2 days ago
Today certain elements would try to dismiss them with the word "woke".
Rich Black 1 day ago
how did Jerry Garcia time travel back into this picture? Is he their leader?
#67
Rush Hour, New York City, 1909
Margaret H 1 day ago
Imagine trying to keep your hemline out of what was producing that smell!
Load More Replies... Rich Black 1 day ago
at least 3 of those wagons are carrying beer kegs. Tastes great - Less waiting.
#68
Hollywood Boulevard In Los Angeles, Circa 1950
JP Purves 2 days ago
Hollywood Blvd. was decorated/transformed into Santa Claus Lane for Christmas. There was also a parade just before the holidays. I don't know if it's still done today.
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#69
A Woman Paying For Her Groceries With A Check, 1970s
Spencer's slave no longer 4 days ago
Probably because greengrocers, butchers and bakers still existed in the 70s, before supermarkets put them out of business.
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Jen 3 days ago
Obviously a staged photo for an ad or something. Groceries don't just naturally pile up labels out.
Tabitha 3 days ago
And back then, there were people bagging your groceries for you—-and I don’t mean the cashier, but a bag boy (generally a high school or college student working part time). They would also load your groceries into the trunk of your car for you, after you pulled it up in front of the store. Of course, you tipped them for it.
Load More Replies... Liz Rutherford 4 days ago
By the haul, I'm inclined to say she smoked a lil something before she went.
#70
Park Avenue, NYC. 1964
Khavrinen 4 days ago (edited)
Have you seen the well-to-do; Up and down Park Avenue? On that famous thoroughfare; With their noses in the air ...
Nicole Weymann 2 days ago
High hats and arrow collars, white spats and lots of dollars, spending every dime for a wonderful time...
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#71
Fancy Christmas Tree 1960s
The Other Guest 3 days ago
Unstylish by today's standards, but who can deny how happy they look with their holiday decor?
#72
Jefferson Davis Is Inaugurated As President Of The Confederate States Of America, 1861
Rich Black 1 day ago
can you all squeeze in a little closer, to make it look like there's a crowd?
#73
A Group Of City-Slicker Santas Cruising Down The Streets Of New York City In 1969
#74
Disneyland Opening Day, 1955
#75
The Noonans, A Family Of 15 Living In Lawrence, Massachusetts In The 1920s
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 days ago
This could be my mom or dad's family with that many siblings. Because of this, I have SIXTY (60) first cousins.
The Other Guest 3 days ago
I'm guessing the childhood stage of the eldest daughters ended about the time they were 5 years old & had to start helping raise their siblings. But that's only a guess.
alchemilla vulgaris 3 days ago
and couldn't access family planning (because there was hardly any that worked). Get prepared, fore some Countries these times are coming back... and they weren't pretty even then. Just look at the rates of maternal and neonatal deaths.
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 4 days ago
Third from the left looks exactly like me at that age (though not that era)
Ghostchaplain16 1 day ago
Then you were adorable like this little one, Auntriarch.
Load More Replies... Julie Morgan 1 day ago
The Mother is holding a baby after having all those already. Poor woman
#76
Times Square, New York City, 1967
Merry Grinchmas from Grumpy 4 days ago
It was, before the asphalt. NYC built diagonal roads that turned all the squares into triangles. The Brits have Ticklecvunts and Fingeringholes, and Upyerarse lanes, and still cant spell Lester. Whats your point?
Load More Replies... Bored Seb 4 days ago
removing the cars will k**l the vibe. We can not have pedestrians area. All the shop will perish. You're k*****g Time Square
aubergine10003 3 days ago
??? About half of Times Square is now no longer accessible to cars.
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The New York Post Office Decided To “Go Big” To Keep Up With Holiday Demand In 1955
Lady Eowyn 3 days ago
I remember when my address changed from zone 34 to 20834. As soon as I got a rubber stamp made, they changed the zip code to 20817. ZIP stood for Zone Improvement Plan. See photo in next comment.
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#78
Stepping Out In New Shoes, CA. 1940s
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Tucker Cahooter 4 days ago
Kudos to BP for resisting the temptation to include historical pictures from the 21st century
Apatheist 3 days ago
I wonder if people will look at our photos in the same way in 100 years time.
Andy Frobig 3 days ago
Fingers crossed that there will be people in 100 years
Load More Replies... Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 1 day ago
I resent the idea that "historical" includes the '80s! Well, the 70s, too, but realistically they _were_ *gasp* 50 years ago.
Tucker Cahooter 4 days ago
Kudos to BP for resisting the temptation to include historical pictures from the 21st century
Apatheist 3 days ago
I wonder if people will look at our photos in the same way in 100 years time.
Andy Frobig 3 days ago
Fingers crossed that there will be people in 100 years
Load More Replies... Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 1 day ago
I resent the idea that "historical" includes the '80s! Well, the 70s, too, but realistically they _were_ *gasp* 50 years ago.
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