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Historical photos may be in black and white, but they provide excellent insight into how colorful life was back in the day. Just by looking at them, you already know there is a fascinating backstory waiting to be told.
Here are some examples from the Undiscovered History Twitter account. The name itself should give you a clue of what to expect, but scrolling through the profile should likewise wow you with the rare images you will see.
We’ve compiled some of the best snapshots from the page for your quick history lesson today. Enjoy!
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Earonn - 1 month ago
Incredibly, nobody died from this act of simple kindness. Neither did the economy break down.
Hogrider 1 month ago
Well start u a company and start giving away the product for a cery cheap price
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Peter Bear 1 month ago
Now this is capitalism done correctly. Everyone wins. Unlike the current, late-stage incarnation where everyone loses.
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Spidercat 1 month ago
A woman! Wiring a computer! They'll be in the pubs and wanting to vote before you know it...
Bob Brezniak 1 month ago
Let me fix this "A highly skilled engineer wiring an IBM computer in 1948" There...
Rick Murray 1 month ago
You can tell this is an old photo. She's just doing it. No manuals or diagrams strewn across the floor telling her what to put where.
Antoinette the Red 1 month ago
Obviously a flagrant case of DEI hiring! The photographer, too?! Holy Hell!!!
We take photos to capture a particular moment to look back on. However, it is also a way to document history to educate future generations. Liberal Arts professor Dr. Kathryn Medill summed it up perfectly: Photography fosters connection with the past through imagery, not just through events, but the emotions and experiences of people who lived through them.
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Trip Martin 1 month ago
Don't they store the extra rolls of thread there?
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Marsha Brown 1 month ago
Conditions were terrible for lace makers in the 1920s. Extremely difficult work, uncomfortable physical conditions: notice the hard chairs, no table so they needed to just hold sometimes heavy material, often low lighting; long hours, low pay.
Dave Hunt 1 month ago
They differ according to the area of Brittany they are from - some still to be seen today on special occasions, - a lot of starch needed
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Lee Gilliland 1 month ago
We had a lot of this type of thing - there were also a lot of cat's cradle kinda things. String games, my dad called them.
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Lee Gilliland 1 month ago
Commen when I was in school in the late 50s and early 60s. Rival classes would take each other down.
Before the first camera was invented in 1816, people documented life through written accounts or artistic representations, such as drawings and paintings. As Dr. Medill noted, photography “offered a seemingly objective and immediate way to capture reality” through visual records of events as they happened.
“This ability to document the world visually made photography an invaluable tool for historians, journalists, and social scientists,” she wrote.
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Upstaged75 1 month ago
Wonder how many times he dropped things? I couldn't even do ONE tray while riding a bike!
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Jennik 1 month ago
Yes - "dapper" is absolutely the best word to describe them
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Panda McPandaface 1 month ago
I wish men still dressed as stylishly - they look so smart. I want the hat on the right.
Mari 1 month ago
Yes, I love the stylish clothes not the sweatpants or ripped jeans.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 1 month ago
Yes. If you look at pics from the Victorian age of the outside of buildings, you will see what was termed a "lean line" quite visible about 3 feet above the ground.
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Like all photographs, historical photos have an emotional impact on those who see them. In moments of celebration or despair, these images become powerful enough to connect profoundly with people.
As an example, Dr. Medill used the flag-raising photo at Iwo Jima, an image that signified a pivotal moment in World War II.
“(Such) iconic images not only capture moments of victory but also resonate with the emotions and values of a society, illustrating the courage and resilience of individuals,” she explained.
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Michael Largey 1 month ago
But after a while, one of those ears had to Gogh.
Load More Replies... Earonn - 1 month ago
A pity, imagine what a better life he could have lived, if modern treatments for mental health had been available.
Lotekguy 1 month ago
His painting probably would have suffered from an infusion of mental health.
Load More Replies... But what exactly draws attention to these iconic snapshots? According to photographer Anthony Morganti, it all comes down to the wiring in our brains. In an article for Medium, he mentioned the Gestalt Principles, a set of rules that explain how the human eye organizes visual elements.
Some of the key principles include proximity (grouping objects close to each other), similarity (relating images that are similar in shape, color, or size), continuity (the natural preference to see continuous flows of visual elements), closure (mentally filling gaps to create the perception of a whole object), and figure/ground (separating an object from its background).
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Bryn 1 month ago
In most historical and archival circles, anything past 30 years is considered "historical"
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KatWitch57 1 month ago
Big families = big bridal parties. You didn't dare leave anyone out!
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Spidercat 1 month ago
It had. That doesn't mean everyone used it. Monochrome photography is much better.
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Cee Cee 1 month ago
St Kilda is an archipelago with the island of Hirta being the biggest and settled. The way of life gradually became unsustainable and the 30 or so residents asked to be resettled on the main land. They left with their livestock in 1930. Their dogs were drowned in the bay - terrible thing to do. Now it's a UNESCO World Heritage site famous for the huge colonies of breeding seabirds.
Earonn - 1 month ago
I didn't know about the dogs. How horrible, why, WHY?
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Ace 1 month ago (edited)
Lampposts like that date back to gas lighting and still had cross-pieces to lean the gaslighter's ladder against, making an ideal climbing or swinging attachments. Sadly a lot of them, including the one just outside my childhood home, were replaced with in the 1970s Edit: I should perhaps point out that they had been converted to electric lighting a very long time before that. I suspect the ladder-rest was still useful for changing the bulbs though.
Dave Hunt 1 month ago
Thanks - it had never occurred to me what the cross-pieces were for!
Load More Replies... Puppy Dancing! 1 month ago
By the looks of the car in the background, the cobble street and the lack of traffic, this was early 1900's or late 1800's
“A well-structured image gently guides the viewer’s eye — our brains appreciate that and reward us with a satisfying ‘aha’ feeling when a photo is easy to absorb,” Morganti wrote, adding that we naturally pay extra attention to parts of an image bearing strong contrasts. It could be regions where light and color change abruptly.
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QuincyForrest 1 month ago
Hurts my heart to think of how tough those kids would have had it. I was born in 1954, son of a police officer, Pomona, California. I grew up in a relatively posh life compared to those kids in the photo.
Peter Bear 1 month ago
Hate to break it to you, but pictures just like this are still happening all over the US, boyo.
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realenancy170 1 month ago
I loved this movie when I first saw it as a child around 1965. It was of course the "american version" with Raymond Burr. I didn't see the original Japanese version until about 2015. I still love them both! Go go Godzilla!
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Ace 1 month ago
The girls are named as Josie 6 Bertha 6 and Sophia 10. Search "oyster-shuckers-port-royal-south-carolina" for details
Ghostchaplain16 1 month ago
Thank you, Ace, for adding the dignity of their names! Just look at the aging in their eyes. They've seen too much of life already.
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Janet Sparrow 1 month ago
Pictures of this type of child in this era gives them hollowed out eyes as they deal with the trauma and horror of their lives. It hurts very much to see this.
QuincyForrest 1 month ago
And remember this, whenever we long for "the good old days"; child s***e labor.
Michael Largey 1 month ago (edited)
Guess who's trying to weaken child labor laws? Shucks, I can't imagine.
Ghostchaplain16 1 month ago
To the shame of anyone--everyone--who voted for him.
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Joanne Mendonza-Earle 1 month ago
8 going on 40. :( No childhood whatsoever for kids back then.
Jennik 1 month ago (edited)
I saw this photo on a different site last year and commented that "anyone who goes on about the good old days should consider what it was life for children like this". I was not aware that, apparently, either Trump or the Republican Party was using "bring back the good old days" as a theme in their campaign (I live at the other end of the world and hadn't been following the campaign to that degree of detail). Hundreds of MAGAs took my comment as a deadly insult to their orange god and I received so much vile a.b.u.s.e. [thanks, BP for making me do this stupid edit] I had to turn off comments for that site. Note: a lot of the worst a.b.u.s.e. came from American Conservative "Christians".
DowntownStevieB 1 month ago
That's hard work and the girl on the right has osteomalacia (her tibia bending).
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alchemilla vulgaris 1 month ago
Not an expert, but wouldn't that had make him a Canadian? Which is of course still America, but the comments seem to focus on US only...
Jennik 1 month ago (edited)
Are we sure this description is accurate? It comes from a FB post. America joined WWI in April 1917 and, due to the distance and travel time, were not granted home leave while the war was on (they did receive R&R leave but stayed in Europe). If the photo is from 1917 it's more likely to be an embarkation photo. Censorship at the time had hidden the full horror of the war from most Americans and people may have still considered it a bit of an adventure (the "great adventure" anticipated by British and Colonies soldiers at the beginning of the war).
Andre Paquin 1 month ago
The Great war was from 1914 to 1918 for the real warrior. For he Yanks it was from 1916, to 1918. So, did he desert?
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Panda McPandaface 1 month ago
The theme from Pirates of the Caribbean swells in the background...
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Sara Frazer 1 month ago
I'm so glad women aren't expected to wear corsets anymore. I'm in extreme discomfort when I wear my high-rise jeans and eat a meal 😂
RomanceRadish 1 month ago
Wearing those heavy clothes and corset and hard shoes would be difficult for me.
QuincyForrest 1 month ago
Ain't even be packin' no chem mace. They just knock you down, you try sumpin'.
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Lee Gilliland 1 month ago
Everything stopped. We were at a restaurant in Birmingham and Dad brought the portable radio in with us. The entire restaurant, patrons and staff, came to our table and listened. I will never forget the cheer!
John Dilligaf 1 month ago
was standing with arms folded and left leg crossed over right the "Official K-Mart approved method of standing "
Jessica Cooney 1 month ago
Anyone else notice they were all men? I bet the few female employees were off doing the actual work.
Earonn - 1 month ago
It's apparently the TV department. You don't think they would have let any woman working in there? D**n, in the 1990s my boss had to explain to a customer that I, lowly female though I am, am indeed the TV technician who repaired his TV. Back when that photo was taken thy probably wouldn't have trusted a woman to unpack a TV.
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RomanceRadish 1 month ago
Someone even put forth the effort of cutting the newspaper with a scallop edge like curtains.
Jennik 1 month ago (edited)
Theres a description in one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie) books where the family has moved into a new house or cabin and they cut a piece of paper with scalloped edges to make the shelf for Ma's china shepherdess look prettier. Forgot to add - I recently saw some photos of houses in Auckland, NZ, in the 1960s, that were being documented as part of a slum clearance and they looked pretty much the same as this - including the scalloped newspaper. In the 1960s!
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Ghostchaplain16 1 month ago
In first grade in 1960, I attended a one-room school for grades 1-8. Mosby, Missouri. Population just under 200 people.
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Lee Gilliland 1 month ago
The Falls have an icebridge every winter. They 're very pretty frozen.
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BookFanatic 1 month ago
My grandfather used to enjoy blowing his grandkids' minds by proclaiming "I could get a full meal for myself AND Grandma with $1 and still get change back!"
Lee451 Henderson 1 month ago
I remember the ad where they said "Feed a family of four for under $5.00"
Peter Bear 1 month ago
I love the superlatives here! Tempting, delightful, full-flavor. Makes it sound much more appealing.
monsieur mabel 1 month ago
....in the 70s we'd go to our local taco bell in colorado springs and get a meal for about 75 cents.....add another quarter and it was all about the encheritos !.....
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Paul C. 1 month ago
He did a number of space walks including three on the Gemini 12 mission.
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Marsha Brown 1 month ago
Note the wheel on the left side of the pic, right side of the machine to the operator, with a rope around it, going down and back up. What is outside the frame is the iron rectangular pedal near the floor, on an axle, that the operator had to push down on, one foot forward, one closer to her, to run the sewing machine. One needed excellent eye-hand-foot coordination to work these sewing machines (and the operator could stab her hand with the fast-moving needled if she wasn't coordinated). Nevertheless, it was a huge improvement over hand-sewing.
Never Snarky 1 month ago
I grew up learning to sew on one of these. It really wasn’t difficult to run.
Bryn 1 month ago
Yes, it's Helen Blanchard who invented the zigzag sewing machine
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David Paterson 1 month ago
It was initially nicknamed the "empty state building" because there weren't enough people or businesses to fill the offices.
Bill Swallow 1 month ago
That's how Doc Savage was able to get such a sweetheart deal on an entire upper floor for his headquarters.
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Grace Sssssss 1 month ago
What I think you're seeing here is a photo taken with a very long zoom lens (making the background look bigger and closer than it is), showing Jersey City in the foreground and the Empire State Building in New York City in the background. It's about 9 miles from where the photographer stood, to the Empire State Building. Jersey City is about 5 miles from the photographer. I see something like this every time I drive north on the New Jersey Turnpike. (I live in NJ).
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David Paterson 1 month ago
Delightful. This is only the second photo of Queen Victoria where I've seen her smiling. She destroyed photos of her that showed her smiling. "We are not amused" comes from Queen Victoria.
Norfolk and good 1 month ago (edited)
There's no evidence that Queen Victoria ever said "we are not amused." Not smiling in photographs was normal during Victoria's reign. The long exposure times of cameras back then meant it was difficult to hold a smile without bluring the image, so most people would adopt a neutral expression. Having a photograph taken was also considered a formal and serious event, and smiling was seen as improper. Brits as a whole were very stoic in the 19th century. In the days of no contraception she had nine children, but she hated being pregnant and most likely had PND.
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Upstaged75 1 month ago
My family had that wood-paneled station wagon when I was a kid. Along with 80% of the other families in the US. Ours had rear facing seats in that back area. We loved them.
Pferdchen 1 month ago (edited)
The 1970 Maverick - My first car! I wish I still had it. Sold it to a friend. He took it for a brief drive and it cut out just as he pulled into his driveway. He hopped onto his illegally overpowered CB radio and started cursing me out to his friends. The transmitter was so strong that it bled into the FM radio station that my parents and neighbors were listening to as they played cards, so they heard the entire rant! 🤣
Kelly Scott 1 month ago (edited)
I got a '72 Ford Pinto in 1975 for $2000. It had a ten gallon tank and I could take $5, fill it up, and get change back. In 1983, they were selling small Mazda trucks for $4995. I just missed that sale and ended up getting a brand new Mazda truck for $7000, automatic, 5 miles on the odometer, and a camper shell on the back. And this was one of those paneled camper shells with a light and cabinet in it. I loved that truck.
Lady Eowyn 1 month ago
I got a new '73 Pinto when I graduated high school. I forget how much it cost, but it was a good car. Totaled after 12 years by a reckless driver.
Load More Replies... General Anaesthesia 1 month ago
$2,000 in 1970 adjusted for inflation is about $17,500 in 2025. www(.)minneapolisfed(.)org/about-us/monetary-policy/inflation-calculator
Load More Replies... Kelly Scott 1 month ago
CEO pay to worker pay was probably about 20:1. Today it's 300:1. In favor of the CEO, of course.
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Tim Douglass 1 month ago
It is really impossible to compare these car prices to the prices of cars today. it would be like comparing a 600 square foot post-war tract house to a 3,000 square foot modern mcMansion. They just aren't the same thing. Cars today are built so much better with even the cheapest models having safety features and luxuries not even dreamed of in 1970. Today's cars run better, last longer, and take less maintenance. They have vastly more power, better handling, and brakes that work infinitely better. Aside from arguments about exterior styling, there is absolutely nothing about these cars that is even close to what you get with a cheap car today.
Der Kommissar 1 month ago
You could buy a running used car in the 60s for $100. Mine was a 1960 Ford Starliner
Gabby Ghoul 1 month ago
$2500 in 1969 is roughly equivalent to $22,000 in 2025. Good luck finding a new car for that today.
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NJ P 1 month ago
They would have put kerchiefs over their heads. Never saw anyone out and about in just curlers.
Michael Largey 1 month ago
Common where I lived. Probably depends on location.
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QuincyForrest 1 month ago
Very uncharacteristic to not be wearing a scarf over those rollers. My older sisters would have been rolling their hair in the 60s. They wouldn't have been caught you-know-what outside the house in rollers without something covering their head. Strange photo.
DowntownStevieB 1 month ago
Are the curlers the equivalent to wearing Croc's and PJ's to the store?
Upstaged75 1 month ago (edited)
I sometimes used to drive to work with hot rollers in my hair. But I'd never go in to a store that way!
okpkpkp 1 month ago
My mother came like this to Court when I got a hitchhiking ticket when I was 16. The woman judge was furious. We had to wait until the Court was finished, and then we had to meet her in her "chambers". I got a $65 fine in 1970. I forgot how many weekends I had to do work project since my parents had no interest in paying for it. To top it off, mom was wearing slacks when she needed to be in a dress.
Lee Gilliland 1 month ago
Anybody remember the day a woman in the Johnny Carson show audience in curlers?
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TotallyNOTAFox 1 month ago
Or get rejected only for the same position opening up 2 weeks later over and over again
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Janet Sparrow 1 month ago
You can still see the ruts in the road on the Oregon Trail. Quite amazing really to look at them and realize all the people that went through.
Zig Zag Wanderer 1 month ago
You can still see wheel ruts on the Via Appia - slightly older......
Load More Replies... Bob Brezniak 1 month ago
Unfortunately, soon after they died of dysentery and had to start the game over.
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RedHairedDragon 1 month ago
When I was that age, the question used to be "why not?"
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Khavrinen 1 month ago
"I put in a Slim Whitman tape; My wife put on a brand new hair net; The kids were in the back seat jumpin' up and down; Yellin', "Are we there yet?"; And all of us were joined together in one common thought; As we rolled down the long and winding Interstate in our '53 DeSota; We're gonna see the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota"
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Kid Murray 1 month ago
If you like really old cars, check out Horatio's Drive, a doc about the first person to drive across the US. In a 1903 Winton Touring Car. The doc is fantastic.
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AnnaB 1 month ago (edited)
For some reason this gives me more acrophobia than if the Chrysler building hadn't been in the shot. Maybe a combination of acrophobia and megalophobia.
Gregg Levine 1 month ago
Where the person is, was supposed to be a whirly-bird (helicopter) landing pad. It never worked out,
IORN 1 month ago
Nope, it isn't. This is the angle. 2025-11-26...01cdcd.jpg 
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Pferdchen 1 month ago
Has everybody heard that joke? Little kid #1: I wish I could do that! Little kid #2: Maybe if you petted him first 🤣
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I see pics like this and puts my complaining about having to do the laundry into perspective. lol
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Multa Nocte 1 month ago
""I don't want FOP, damn it, I'm a Dapper Dan Man!""
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Per a Google Lens search: This is Thomas and Vivian Couture Cave. He was out of work as a lumber worker in Oregon in August, 1939, so he and his wife were working alongside migrant workers harvesting beans in the Willamette Valley. They are both 27 years old in this Dorothea Lange photograph. Thomas later served in WWII. EDITED to reflect correction in the name of the woman in the photograph.
Ghostchaplain16 1 month ago
Correction: AI identifies the woman in this photo as Annie Cave, but Annie was Thomas' second wife. The woman in the photo, his first wife, is Vivian Couture Cave.
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Upstaged75 1 month ago
And a typical baby putting dirt in his mouth. Some things never change!
Sean Sean 1 month ago
Children, and babies, having the urge to eat dirt is also a sign of malnutrition.
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Marsha Brown 1 month ago
Probably; I know I've seen that photo before. It may have been taken by one of her colleagues employed by the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA), which was investigating the living conditions of farm workers and their families in Western states during the 1930s, the Depression.
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Peter Bear 1 month ago
From the size of the house, I'd say fairly average middle class, so... 'typical' is probably pretty accurate.
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Kenny Kulbiski 1 month ago
Agreed! I was in a typical 50s family and it wasn't even remotely like that.
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This looks like my old neighborhood in the early 60s. Very middle middle class.
Der Kommissar 1 month ago
Maybe Detroit had a higher standard of living than other cities, due to the huge automobile manufacturing industry based there
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moggiemoo 1 month ago
I would have thought the lack of a runway wouldn't help either.
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With all those planes on the deck - how did they have a length of runway to take off. I know that in the British Navy in WW1 they often had seaplanes which they lowered over the side with a crane, and retrieved the same way - I have photos of that happening from 1917, when my uncle was in the Navy (in HMS Renown)
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Janet Sparrow 1 month ago
I grew up in Philly and we used to do this too on my little street. It was so much fun!
QuincyForrest 1 month ago
Fire hydrants have a non-symmetrical nut on top to open the valve. It takes a special wrench, not available except to fire departments. The hydrants could only be opened (in any normal circumstance) by the fire department. So this was a very special treat.
Marsha Brown 1 month ago
Yeah, and older kids would break them to open them. They'd put a garbage can over the flow of water, directing it upward, so it would spill out in a circle (until the rusted bottom of the metal can would break). On our street in The Bronx, NY around the time of this photo, some kids did that, and the water came out full force, flooding the house on the other side of the street (the only single-family house on the street). The fire dept. came, and had to shut the water to the hydrant to get it shut temporarily. To repair it permanently, the water department told the hundreds of families on the street to collect all the water we could, because the main would be shut off for at least a day to fix it. We filled the bathtub and every pot in the house that wasn't in use, and they did fix it. I was only 4 or 5 years old, so I don't know how much damage the house suffered, or who paid for any necessary repairs. Later, the fire dept. attached sprinkler gadgets, & would come & turn them on.
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Sara Frazer 1 month ago
Are those two boards at the bottom of the door a makeshift baby gate?? 🤔
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Agfox 1 month ago
We had metalwork & woodwork at our high school - boys only. From fading memory, the girls had Home Economics & something else that I can't remember at all
QuincyForrest 1 month ago
Same in my small northern California mountain town, my first wood shop was in seventh grade, 1966-67. No girls in wood or metal shop, not even allowed to be spoken of. And no boys down in Home Economics, cooking, sewing, etc. Why, how GAY could you get? Lawsie, the sexism was horrendous. And we kids just accepted it as the normal way of the world.
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Bill Swallow 1 month ago
And the bare chassis in the foreground just might be a Jeep.
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I briefly did a motor mechanics course at school for a few weeks. We stripped down an engine, but sadly the course wasn't long enough to put it back together. I also did Business Keyboarding with French - which was learning to use an electric typewriter (mainly me getting told off for typing wrong as I'd already been using a computer for 5 or 6 years) and trying to get a French receptionist to put a call through to the right person.
Michael Largey 1 month ago (edited)
No, "Industrial Arts" departments were quite common in high schools back then.
Load More Replies... Gordon Tate 1 month ago
Saw that Ford dealerships are short 20K mechanics across the U.S. Starting pay at $80K.
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Bill Swallow 1 month ago
Tex Avery would have pitched this as "Get one for the Mother-in-Law!"
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Gregg Levine 1 month ago
And it is possible that the first bird wasn't a civilian airliner, but a B29 design. We don't know when the photo was taken.
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Agfox 1 month ago
My last camping experience was around that time. It was a disaster: the first night, our friend left an open box of potatoes alongside his tent & we were all woken in the middle of the night by opossums fighting over them. The next night, his girlfriend needed pads at 1.15am, they were in my locked car. The third morning, the tentpole in the tent my wife & I were using blew over at around 5.45am & fell on my head. My wife & I have never been camping again
Lee Gilliland 1 month ago
That's because you can't scrub weathered wood. It was a sanitary precaution.
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Joanne Mendonza-Earle 1 month ago
My idea of camping is having no minifidge in the hotel room.
QuincyForrest 1 month ago
Brings back the memories. Several family camping trips over the years, pickup truck loaded with all the gear, station wagon following loaded with the rest of the kids and all the luggage. Our tent was heavy green canvas, slept six, lasted for over thirty years before the stitching just gave out to rot.
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Antoinette the Red 1 month ago
Move the decimal point one space to the right and we have today's prices.
Papa 1 month ago
Why was coleslaw so expensive? That's the only difference between the snack box and dinner box, and it increases the price by over 60% (if I did the math right).
Jason Peugeot 1 month ago
No, the dinner box has an additional piece of chicken as well
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Upstaged75 1 month ago (edited)
Old-school and old school mean two different things...but you already know that.
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Robert T 1 month ago
Safer than rockets and at least they have a throttle and an off switch.
Load More Replies... Bill Swallow 1 month ago
What could go wrong? And why do I expect to see Dr. Bunsen Honeydew lurking around somewhere?
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Dave Hunt 1 month ago
60-70 kids - wonder if they had separate classrooms - it was large enough . When I was at Primary school in England 1949 - 1954 (age 5 to 11), there were two classrooms for each year group - and each class had about 50 pupils. two to a metal framed wooden desk. all in rows facing the front One teacher (No Teaching Assistants!) and no specialist teachers, your form teacher taught everything. In our last year we had a smashing teacher who regularly read to us - all sorts of things, which helped develop my lifelong love of books - I'm now 81 and I still read something every day (mostly non-fiction)
Helena 1 month ago
I'm not seeing a steeple or a dome, so maybe doubled as the town hall?
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Pferdchen 1 month ago
Quick! Somebody send this to Sean Duffy (the Trump official who is encouraging people to dress nice and be civil while flying this Thanksgiving).
Arenite 1 month ago
My dad worked for a major airline in the 60’s to the 80’s. When we flew, he wore a suit and tie, Mom was in a dress and heels, and we kids were in our dressy clothes. It’s a shame, how far we have fallen.
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The price for an economy seat from NY to LA in 1965 was the equivalent of $2,000 today. I just paid $195 from Vancouver to Toronto. I was not comfortable and their was no meal but I'll take the cheap bus in the sky over $2,000 any day. This would have been first class so I figure at least $3,000.
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Janet Sparrow 1 month ago
There was a show called Deadwood that was excellent. A real lawless town and how they did things. Superb.
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 1 month ago
Yes, it was based on the real Deadwood, SD.
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Bill Swallow 1 month ago
Edison had many sins and crimes to answer for. But at least he was instrumental in pushing many advances into the public consciousness and helping them gain acceptance, when they might have had trouble getting traction otherwise. Gotta take what bright spots we can find. His greatest value may have been as a frontman.
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Siege Rook 1 month ago
Imagine standing there, looking at all the rings on those trees, realizing how many centuries it took for them to grow to that size, and thinking to yourself, "Yeah, let's fell the entire forest, that's a great idea? What could possibly be the harm?"
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Bored Seb 1 month ago
you should have comment "imagine standing there and earing crack"
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Gregg Levine 1 month ago
And they were putting up footholds for King Kong. So many tourists walk by the building and expect to see the big guy smiling down at them.
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Sarah Suelzle 1 month ago
Yeah...drudgery and starvation will do that to you. 🫤
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Sarah Suelzle 1 month ago
Yeah...drudgery and starvation will do that to you. 🫤
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