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Miscellaneous => Off-Topic & Testing => Topic started by: Shadowmuse Blown on March 18, 2024, 10:32:36 AM
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There’s something about looking at an old photo—it’s like getting a glimpse through time at an era that was very different than our own. My favorite time is the turn of the 20th century give or take a quarter century—when complex machines were just beginning to become every day things along side the more traditional way of doing things. The pictures you post don’t have to be city-scapes: any pic from that time period is fine.
To start things off I came across this fascinating city scape of Manhattan in 1924 looking along East Broadway with the Municipal & Woolworth buildings dominating the skyline. It was taken from the Manhattan Bridge.
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An American Civil War photo by Matthew Brady of the aftermath of a battle. :'(
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Friggin' almost 50% tax!? And WE think we're bad off... :o
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Friggin' almost 50% tax!? And WE think we're bad off... :o
It really depends in which State you are in. Nowadays, if you are in Laughlin, Nevada, which is in the Colorado river bordering Arizona, it is smart to go to Bullhead City in Arizona since gasoline is $0.25 cents a gallon cheaper in Arizona than Nevada and gasoline is about one Dollar a gallon less in Las Vegas than where my brother lives in the Los Angeles area. When I worked at an ESSO station back in 1972, it was $0.23 a gallon and I had old codgers telling me/complaining, that back when they were young, gasoline in Texas was 5 cents or so a gallon. It's called inflation, guys. :(
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A terrible tragedy of World War 2 was the destruction of many iconic buildings such as St Michaels cathedral after a German bombing run. >:(
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"I've been working on the railroad, ..." :)
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Taken in Freeport, Illinois. :)
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I love the bow tie
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Newsboys at Greeley Square, NYC, May 1903. Colorized, of course.
Love the Coke advert.
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Love the Coke advert.
Me too. Of all I've heard about old time Coke, I've never seen that they made claims like that. :)
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How about the inside of a food store in the mid 1930's.
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Before World War 1. :)
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How about the inside of a food store in the mid 1930's.
That looks like a brick of money in his hand. I guess the store was doing pretty well. :)
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Used to walk past that spot everyday on the way to college—80 years later.
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How about a Douglas O-38B painted up in 44th National Guard Air Recon colors. Would have been based out of the northern NJ area.
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From 1927, sitting on ice on a warm day at a golf course. ;D
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From 100 or so years ago. :)
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From 100 or so years ago. :)
Just one thing to say about this:
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Village of Allemant, France. :'(
November 1918
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At a toy factory. :)
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Early 1920's fashion, skirts got shorter a few years later. :)
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From the 1920's.
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That’s great, Goob!
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There is no traffic control in that photo. What a mess. :P
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Painting by William Oliver from the Victorian era. :)
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There is no traffic control in that photo. What a mess. :P
There should be a policeman directing traffic, but if there is, no one can see him! :P
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Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade 1934–first appearance of Micky Mouse. Okay, but what the fuh is that round-headed weird thing with the long nose in front of Micky? Scary is what is.
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And here I thought it was a coffin with a window at first glance. LOL. Cool pic, Goob!
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And here I thought it was a coffin with a window at first glance. LOL. Cool pic, Goob!
Just like you, I found it to be a weird looking coffin but then I read the title of it, and it makes me wonder if anything like that could come back. I doubt it. ;) ;D
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From 100 years ago or so. :)
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This photo is from the aftermath of the single bloodiest day in American history, the Battle of Antietam in the state of Maryland. :(
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That's a really old fashion Segway. ;) ;D
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From the 1890's, Victorian Era fashion models. :)
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World War 1 gas masks. :(
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Mercédès Jellinek, daughter of automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek, and the namesake for Mercedes-Benz automobiles, 1900.
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Mercédès Jellinek, daughter of automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek, and the namesake for Mercedes-Benz automobiles, 1900.
Neat picture, and a neat piece of trivia too, goob. I never knew where the name came from before.
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A colorized photo. In those days, they did it by hand. :)
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Rural life in Victorian England. :)
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A British blacksmith removing the leg irons off a slave, 1907
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Madison Square cab stand, NYC circa 1900
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Photo from the Denver Public Library, Cowboy in the year 1880. :)
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Broadway and Fifth ave, New York City 1905
I never knew New York had cable cars before. :)
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Not the biggest or the newest BUT perhaps the most iconic and famous bridge of the world, which was truly fantastic for the time, The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. From a 1890 photo. :)
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This is years after the legendary cattle drives from Texas to Dodge City, Kansas, since by the early 20th century, there were plenty of railroads in Texas and you didn't have to go to Dodge City. As a matter of fact, Texas has more railroad mileage than any other State in the Union. :)
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1930's fashions before World War 2. :)
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Broadway and Fifth ave, New York City 1905
I never knew New York had cable cars before. :)
Neither did I. Apparently, they were even used over the Brooklyn Bridge
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Times Square, circa 1905 taken atop the Times building
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Making shoes/boots 100+ years ago. :)
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I thought this was interesting, the 23rd St, Broadway and 5th Ave interchange before the Flatiron Building was built in 1902.
This picture is from 1890
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This is from before World War 1. :)
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This is from before World War 1. :)
Looks like they set it up in someone's living room! :)
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Times Square, circa 1905 taken atop the Times building
Okay, reverse angle, obviously taken from the ground. Circa 1908. The same hotel seen in the lower left of the previous pic is at the right behind the Astor Theater. I believe it’s Astor’s hotel, as well.
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The French Market Inn in New Orleans at 509 Decatur Street. The place is still there and the trolleys you see on the right side of the photo still run, even though they are much newer now. At this time, New Orleans was by far the biggest and most important city in the South because it is on the Mississippi river and Gulf of Mexico, and it was the main port. At the time, only New York City had a bigger port. Times have changed since.
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Very old fashion word processors. ;D
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Got them thar new fancy four digit phone number listed. But no headlights.
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Skoda 305mm model 1911 German siege howitzer. Since the Napoleonic era, the single biggest cause of deaths in the battlefield is artillery. Think that is old fashioned? In the present Russia-Ukraine war, that is very true. :(
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New York City 1899
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Baltimore Harbor 1900. :)
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It... has masts in the middle of the runway...? ??? ??? ???
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It... has masts in the middle of the runway...? ??? ??? ???
They were removable when they launched and landed aircraft. The Langley was a training and experimental ship. It was nicknamed the covered wagon.
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I’d love to see the mechanism for bringing the planes up from below.
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The building of NYC’s first subway line just after the turn of the last century.
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I’d love to see the mechanism for bringing the planes up from below.
The Langley did not have elevators and she didn't steam too far from port. Her aircraft were stored on deck and were removed and loaded by crane on pier. In wartime, she was used as a transport but was not allowed to engage the enemy. She was scrapped immediately after World War 2.
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1930's New York Central Streamliner locomotive. Pretty cool looking. :)
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I’d love to see the mechanism for bringing the planes up from below.
The Langley did not have elevators and she didn't steam too far from port. Her aircraft were stored on deck and were removed and loaded by crane on pier. In wartime, she was used as a transport but was not allowed to engage the enemy. She was scrapped immediately after World War 2.
Interesting. Thanks solvegas!
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The building of NYC’s first subway line just after the turn of the last century.
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Neat. They're really stylish. I didn't even know Boeing ran an airline in the past, I just knew it as an airplane manufacturer.
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Neat. They're really stylish. I didn't even know Boeing ran an airline in the past, I just knew it as an airplane manufacturer.
United Airlines was a division of Boeing but eventually the U.S. government forced it to sell it off.
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Old West saloon from the 1880's. :)
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Brooklyn Bridge 1913
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To this day, I have no idea how they got on and off those things safely. :o
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I bet even bad booze tasted like nectar that day. :)
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Times Square 1928
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At a shop. :)
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This photo was taken in a Paris neighborhood in the 1920's.
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It amazing how fast bars could open up when Prohibition ended...it's like they were already there.... ;)
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This is a Punt Gun, used for duck hunting. You'd sneak to a pond where a bunch of ducks were on the water, fire this which would launch a lot of rounds simultaneously, and you could kill dozens of ducks at the same time and then you could eat lots of ducks.
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Each gets to fill a bucket for their daily rum ration? LOL!
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This looks like an illustration, but it’s a colorized photo. A view of Norte-Dame in Paris, 1900
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Each gets to fill a bucket for their daily rum ration? LOL!
I thought the same thing! They're either incredible drinkers, or that rum's a lot weaker than modern stuff.
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Each gets to fill a bucket for their daily rum ration? LOL!
I thought the same thing! They're either incredible drinkers, or that rum's a lot weaker than modern stuff.
Gotta remember that is Grog and not straight rum. Grog is usually Rum mixed with water at 50/50 or even more towards the 1 part Run to 4 parts water side. The chances of getting truely **92** were probably slim.
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Each gets to fill a bucket for their daily rum ration? LOL!
I thought the same thing! They're either incredible drinkers, or that rum's a lot weaker than modern stuff.
Gotta remember that is Grog and not straight rum. Grog is usually Rum mixed with water at 50/50 or even more towards the 1 part Run to 4 parts water side. The chances of getting truely **92** were probably slim.
Thanks for the info, vf! I never knew Grog wasn't just another name for rum before.
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The USS Constitution getting refurbished in 1895. She is still in commission as of now and it is the oldest afloat ship in the world to this day. :)
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The USS Constitution getting refurbished in 1895. She is still in commission as of now and it is the oldest afloat ship in the world to this day. :)
A good time for it to be done. They would be able to get workers who may have worked on wooden ships, and be familiar with the techniques. That would be pretty difficult nowadays, I would think.
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The USS Constitution getting refurbished in 1895. She is still in commission as of now and it is the oldest afloat ship in the world to this day. :)
A good time for it to be done. They would be able to get workers who may have worked on wooden ships, and be familiar with the techniques. That would be pretty difficult nowadays, I would think.
The USS Constitution was last overhauled from 1992 to 1995 where she had much of her hull replaced with new oak frames. The US Navy has a 350-acre oak forest in Indiana where they grow oak trees to replace the hull frame and planks in order to keep her not only afloat, but in commission. She is in the Charleston Navy Yard in Boston where they have a drydock and the machinery to cut the wood and make the sails and to keep her in good shape. :)
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From the Los Angeles Times archives, Memorial Day commemoration in 1903 and you can see the US flag had 46 stars and some of the Veterans were wearing Civil War uniforms.
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NYC banana docks circa 1900
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Early car racing. :)
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Indian peasant woman during the British empire in the 1900's.
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From 1890, members of the U.S. 7th Cavalry, the regiment in which George Custer led at the battle of the Big Horn in 1876 and was defeated.
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Building the 6th Ave subway in NYC circa 1927
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Building the 6th Ave subway in NYC circa 1927
I will never complain about traffic snarls due to construction again. Can you imagine what a nightmare it must have been to get anywhere around that, let alone live or work in buildings close to it? :o :o
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Building the 6th Ave subway in NYC circa 1927
I will never complain about traffic snarls due to construction again. Can you imagine what a nightmare it must have been to get anywhere around that, let alone live or work in buildings close to it? :o :o
LOL, I hear ya. It’s a fucking mess! I showed that to Charade and said exactly that. Can you imagine living in those buildings at the time? Holy shit.
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HMS Dreadnought (Fear Nothing) commissioned in 1906, was a revolutionary ship which was the first all big gun warship, consisting of ten 12-inch guns in five turrets, first ship to be powered with oil powered steam turbines which made it the fastest in the world at the time. She was the pride of First Sea Lord Sir John "Jackie" Fisher who was responsible for her construction in 1905 and she is the only battleship to have ever sunk a submarine when in in World War 1 she rammed the German Submarine U-29. She was scrapped on May 9, 1921. There is still a Dreadnought type battleship in existence, the USS Texas (BB-35) which is the only warship which served in World War 1 and World War 2, and she is being refurbished as a museum ship.
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Fashionable in the 1900's. :)
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I like this one a lot, especially the little “to let” sign on the left instead of a “for rent” sign. I know the British use that term, I wonder if it’s also a closer translation to the term in Italian. Dunno.
All the signs seem to be in English as all the immigrants in those days strove to “fit in” and be as American as possible. With today’s mindset it seems immigrants try to use their native languages more.
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1941 - Second Avenue at 104th Street, Manhattan. This looked to me to be a shot taken in the 20s until I saw the newer vehicle toward the rear left.
All the El lines were taken down in Manhattan, replaced by bus or subway lines. Only the outer boroughs had them by the 60s, I believe.
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Samurai late 1800`s
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Samurai late 1800`s
It's always puzzled me how Japanese people in old pictures seem to have much darker skin in general, than modern Japanese.
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Samurai late 1800`s
It's always puzzled me how Japanese people in old pictures seem to have much darker skin in general, than modern Japanese.
In those days, a majority of people were rural and did agriculture, so people were darker since they were exposed to the Sun more. Even Europeans and white Americans were like that in old photos.
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An elderly couple pose for a picture...
This photograph was taken by traveling photographer Albert J. Ewing, ca. 1896-1912. Like most of Ewing's work, it was likely taken in southeastern Ohio or central West Virginia..
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From 1917, a US Cavalry unit of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, just prior to the USA entering World War 1.
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Union Field Artillery during the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia, during the American Civil War.
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Thank God those logs are there to keep people from driving over the edge! So safe now! :)
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Central Park 1933
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That's a great picture, showing the park as it was, along with so many awesome looking buildings in the surround. :)
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Central Park 1933
That's a great picture, showing the park as it was, along with so many awesome looking buildings in the surround. :)
Yeah, I agree.
Here’s another very different view of Central Park in the 30s. This time with a Hooverville in the foreground.
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Central Park 1933
That's a great picture, showing the park as it was, along with so many awesome looking buildings in the surround. :)
Yeah, I agree.
Here’s another very different view of Central Park in the 30s. This time with a Hooverville in the foreground.
What a difference, between the affluence in the background and the grinding poverty in the foreground. Is that Hooverville actually in Central Park? I never knew the city allowed people to squat there.
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I'd like to see a current Harley with pedals! Those motorcycle club members would rupture themselves! ;D ;D ;D
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Central Park 1933
That's a great picture, showing the park as it was, along with so many awesome looking buildings in the surround. :)
Yeah, I agree.
Here’s another very different view of Central Park in the 30s. This time with a Hooverville in the foreground.
What a difference, between the affluence in the background and the grinding poverty in the foreground. Is that Hooverville actually in Central Park? I never knew the city allowed people to squat there.
Absolutely. You can Google it. I imagine the city cleaned them up, eventually, but I don’t know when that was.
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Students crossing the street in Phoenix, AZ 1940
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FIAT (FIX IT AGAIN TONY ;D) car factory.
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1912 NYC on 5th Ave. South of 36th Street
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This colorized photo is from the era that Wyatt Earp was the lawman in Dodge City, and the biggest and most important boulevard/street in town is named after him. Do visit the town. :)
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This looks like early 20s, don’t ya think? I’m not too sure what cars used alcohol for in those days. Technically, one could run an engine on alcohol, but I don’t recall that being a big thing in the early days. Anyone know?
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This colorized photo is from the era that Wyatt Earp was the lawman in Dodge City, and the biggest and most important boulevard/street in town is named after him. Do visit the town. :)
I don’t understand. Earp had an important street named after him, but this street is not the one you’re talking about? It says Front St.
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This colorized photo is from the era that Wyatt Earp was the lawman in Dodge City, and the biggest and most important boulevard/street in town is named after him. Do visit the town. :)
I don’t understand. Earp had an important street named after him, but this street is not the one you’re talking about? It says Front St.
That was the original name for the street, but the name was changed in 1930 after Wyatt Earp died in 1929.
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The Birger Gang, Southern Illinois bootleggers, pose with guns, 1924.
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A real photo of the Long Branch saloon in Dodge City, Kansas, from 1875. :)
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About 27 years ago, I visited the gravesite of William Bonney, aka Billy the K1d, at Fort Sumner in New Mexico. He only lived to age 21 when he died in 1881. He is credited with 9 to 21 murders.
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Canadian Club whisky seized and poured out in 1925 during Prohibition. :P :(
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Flat Iron Building circa maybe 1910 to 1915, would be my guess. Madison Square Park is on the left.
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Paris Opera house in 1905. :)
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Today, I saw the 1970 movie starring George C. Scott as Patton.
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Back in the 1930's when he was Army Chief of Staff. :)
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Today, I saw the 1970 movie starring George C. Scott as Patton.
That’s a great movie!
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NYC, 1905, Mott Street
I wonder what the deal was with the white carriage.
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NYC, 1905, Mott Street
I wonder what the deal was with the white carriage.
Just a guess, but judging from the crosses, it's the carriage of a high ranking church official. That, or a hearse, but I've never heard of white hearses before.
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NYC, 1905, Mott Street
I wonder what the deal was with the white carriage.
Just a guess, but judging from the crosses, it's the carriage of a high ranking church official. That, or a hearse, but I've never heard of white hearses before.
I was thinking maybe an extravagant wedding. There IS a church down the street
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From 1911, a man standing by a weird machine. ???
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In 1882, Queen Victoria of the British Empire, which gave us the expression of "The Victorian Era." :)
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Times Square, Broadway and 42nd St.
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This 1877 photograph shows a family living a nomadic life in London.
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Riverside Drive, NYC, 1925
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What I've always found fascinating about the fashion of that era was how flamboyant women's hats were. :)
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Hawaiian King David Kalakaua and Queen Esther Kapiolani with their retainers, on the lawn of Iolani Palace. 1888
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Trinity Church in Manhattan is still there. :)
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Corner of B’way & 50th—1913.
None of the buildings remain today. I’m told that De Dion Automobiles was once the world’s largest automobile manufacturer.
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Canal Street in New Orleans. In those day, New Orleans was the biggest and wealthiest city in the American South thanks to the Mississippi river and its port on the Gulf of Mexico. Time has passed since and cities like Houston, Dallas, Atlanta and Miami are more important and bigger. Yup, Texas and Florida were part of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
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Yup, Texas and Florida were part of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Did anyone not know that?
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Considered a big tractor in the 1930's, nowadays it would be a small one.
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This reminds me when last month I returned home after seeing my stepsister and after visiting Dodge City, Kansas, I took Highway 54 to Tucumcari, New Mexico and crossed into the Oklahoma panhandle through the Texas panhandle and into New Mexico and there were several oilfields and a bunch of pumps extracting oil from the area. No, they didn't have those derricks like in the photo but looking at the pumps, you could tell they were old and have probably been extracting oil for many years.
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Race riots during the 1919 Spanish flu pandemic. :'(
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A Douglass O-38B from the New Jersey based 44th National Guard Air Observation corp, photo taken sometime around 1932-1933.
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One of the most consequential presidents of the USA. Born on October 27, 1858, and died on January 6, 1919, he was the 26th President of the USA.
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Great pic, Goob. The oil wells are amazing! I was also struck by how much the car changed during the 30s—from the narrow bodied, separate fenders and running boards of the 20s look to a much bulkier vehicle mostly integrated and, basically, the cars of the 40s look. That one car at the lower right, with the outside spare, looks like an early 30s model with the others dating later in the decade. Great stuff!
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This reminds me when last month I returned home after seeing my stepsister and after visiting Dodge City, Kansas, I took Highway 54 to Tucumcari, New Mexico and crossed into the Oklahoma panhandle through the Texas panhandle and into New Mexico and there were several oilfields and a bunch of pumps extracting oil from the area. No, they didn't have those derricks like in the photo but looking at the pumps, you could tell they were old and have probably been extracting oil for many years.
While visiting Fargo a couple of years back, we took a trip to see Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. It was a fairly long trip, but aside from seeing a lot of sunflowers and other crops along the way we saw tons of oil pumps—all relatively recent in comparison to the ones you saw in Oklahoma or Texas.
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A farm in Notodden, Telemark, Norway, circa 1880s. Colorized, of course.
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From the NY Historical Society, Penn Station 1910
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Las Vegas in 1930. It was a small town whose main building at the time was the Union Pacific railroad station which is now by the Union Plaza hotel and casino in downtown.
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A Canadian ship ran aground in Alaska in 1910. :P
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A Canadian ship ran aground in Alaska in 1910. :P
I was curious about this one, as it seemed weird for the ship to be totally out of the water like that. Turns out, it ran aground on those rocks at peak high tide, and the picture was taken at lowest low tide. What's neat is that it was successfully salvaged and went on to sail some more.
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On this day in 1872, Anna Swan of Nova Scotia married Martin Van Buren Bates.
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On this day in 1872, Anna Swan of Nova Scotia married Martin Van Buren Bates.
Both were 7-foot-11-inches
She gave birth to two of the biggest babies ever recorded but both died very quickly. The first one was a girl that weighed 18 pounds, or 8.16 Kilos, and died at birth and the second one was a boy, the biggest ever recorded at 22 pounds or 10 kilos and only lived 11 hours. :'(
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This was in 1917.
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New York City during the Great Blizzard of 1888.
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From 1916, one of the biggest battles ever. :(
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From 1916, one of the biggest battles ever. :(
Most of those guys were probably dead within minutes of that picture being taken. :'(
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In 1908, the Great White fleet arrives in San Pedro, California for a port visit. Sent by President Theodore Roosevelt from Norfolk, Virginia, it made a worldwide cruise to show, especially to the European powers, that there was a new great power that they should respect. At the time, the most powerful Navy was the British Royal Navy. :)
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You’d think a bell or whistle would be enough to wake people up.
By the time I went to college in NYC in the 80s, The High Line had been abandoned for decades. A friend and I would walk below it and wonder what it had been for. Many of the lines ran directly into warehouses. The idea of turning it into a park was crazy and genius at the same time.
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You’d think a bell or whistle would be enough to wake people up.
By the time I went to college in NYC in the 80s, The High Line had been abandoned for decades. A friend and I would walk below it and wonder what it had been for. Many of the lines ran directly into warehouses. The idea of turning it into a park was crazy and genius at the same time.
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It wasn't just crazy and genius, it was by far the cheapest way to utilize it. It would have cost a lot of money to demolish it.
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Unfortunately, she was sunk by the Japanese on May of 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea not too far from Australia. :(
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You’d think a bell or whistle would be enough to wake people up.
By the time I went to college in NYC in the 80s, The High Line had been abandoned for decades. A friend and I would walk below it and wonder what it had been for. Many of the lines ran directly into warehouses. The idea of turning it into a park was crazy and genius at the same time.
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I agree, what an awesome way to turn an eyesore into a benefit! :)
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Harry Houdini preparing to be chained and locked up in a box & lowered into the East River 1912
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Photo taken in 1895.
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One of America's greatest musical composers who wrote iconic songs like White Christmas, God Bless America, Easter Parade, Cheek to Cheek and 1500 more. They were Hollywood, Broadway, Ragtime hits and winners of Academy Awards and more. Born in Imperial Russia on May 11, 1888, as Israel Beilin, and died on September 22, 1989, in New York City. He served in the U.S. Army from 1918 to 1919 and was a Sargeant when he was honorably discharged. His songs and music he stated were made to "Reach the heart of the average American who are the real soul of the country."
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Grand Central Station under construction 1911
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Precursor to Google Maps
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Precursor to Google Maps
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Precursor to Google Maps
I wonder if that means that, just out of photo to the left, there's some guy pulling a bonehead move to get pictured? ;)
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A colorized photo of Theodore Roosevelt as Commanding Officer of the First Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, aka Rough Riders, during the 1898 Spanish-American War. At age 42 in 1901, he became the 26th President of the USA after the assassination of President William McKinley and he remains the youngest USA President ever. :)
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1918 - The Grand Central Viaduct under construction. This basically wrapped Park Avenue around the terminal. Not sure how traffic on Park Avenue was dealt with prior to the viaduct (why a duck? Why a no chicken?) as the terminal had sat in that spot in one form or another for many decades prior.
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1918 - The Grand Central Viaduct under construction. This basically wrapped Park Avenue around the terminal. Not sure how traffic on Park Avenue was dealt with prior to the viaduct (why a duck? Why a no chicken?) as the terminal had sat in that spot in one form or another for many decades prior.
Cripes, traffic must have been nuts before the viaduct, and while it was being built it must have been a nightmare. :o
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Small town in Texas settled by Germans called Merkel where my mother's side of the family is from. :)
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1918 - The Grand Central Viaduct under construction. This basically wrapped Park Avenue around the terminal. Not sure how traffic on Park Avenue was dealt with prior to the viaduct (why a duck? Why a no chicken?) as the terminal had sat in that spot in one form or another for many decades prior.
Cripes, traffic must have been nuts before the viaduct, and while it was being built it must have been a nightmare. :o
The trains for Grand Central came down a corridor where Park Avenue is today. Eventually, they covered over the tracks and built the Avenue over them—with a fairly wide park running down the center. So, I have to Google it because this was done in the 1800s and that viaduct wasn’t built till the 20th century. So, for thirty years it would seem there was no direct connection between Park Avenue north of the terminal and Fourth Avenue (eventually renamed Park Ave) south of the terminal. Huh.
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1918 - The Grand Central Viaduct under construction. This basically wrapped Park Avenue around the terminal. Not sure how traffic on Park Avenue was dealt with prior to the viaduct (why a duck? Why a no chicken?) as the terminal had sat in that spot in one form or another for many decades prior.
Cripes, traffic must have been nuts before the viaduct, and while it was being built it must have been a nightmare. :o
The trains for Grand Central came down a corridor where Park Avenue is today. Eventually, they covered over the tracks and built the Avenue over them—with a fairly wide park running down the center. So, I have to Google it because this was done in the 1800s and that viaduct wasn’t built till the 20th century. So, for thirty years it would seem there was no direct connection between Park Avenue north of the terminal and Fourth Avenue (eventually renamed Park Ave) south of the terminal. Huh.
That's really neat, Shadowmuse. I never knew railway tracks went under Park Avenue before. :o :)
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The photo didn't give much information about itself, it is a 1905 Duryea automobile but no specific location.
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The photo didn't give much information about itself, it is a 1905 Duryea automobile but no specific location.
The muddy car is an REO Mountaineer that did an endurance run from New York to San Francisco and back in 1906.
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-reo-mountaineer-endurance-run-from.html
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1930's San Francisco Union Square. :)
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Pumping gas 1920s style. I love the tanker truck in the background.
From what I understand, gas pumps had those glass containers at the top (under the Standard Motor Gasoline sign) so that customers could see the gas before it was pumped into their car.
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From the Gilded age, or what I learned in school, which was called the Gay 90's, aka 1890s, a photo of cowboys/vaqueros in Arizona. In those days back in the 1970's, Gay didn't mean homosexual, it meant happy. :)
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23rd Street and Broadway in 1898. :)
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23rd Street and Broadway in 1898. :)
Wow, I used to walk by that intersection every day on the way to college. Looks like we are looking east. That clock, I believe, is still at the southwest corner of Madison Square Park. The Flat Iron Building is unseen to our right.
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Imagine how this looked from their point of view. Just the immensity of the ship before them as they entered the nose.
To think that they originally designed the Empire State Building to have a mooring mast replete with a gangway for passengers to embark/disembark. Even if the winds up there weren’t crazy, can you imagine walking a gangway, like this one, over 102 floors in the sky? No thanks.
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23rd Street and Broadway in 1898. :)
Wow, I used to walk by that intersection every day on the way to college. Looks like we are looking east. That clock, I believe, is still at the southwest corner of Madison Square Park. The Flat Iron Building is unseen to our right.
Always neat to get commentary from someone who knows the area personally as it currently is. Neat that the clock is still there, that's kinda amazing. Over 126 years old, does it still operate, do you know?
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Imagine how this looked from their point of view. Just the immensity of the ship before them as they entered the nose.
To think that they originally designed the Empire State Building to have a mooring mast replete with a gangway for passengers to embark/disembark. Even if the winds up there weren’t crazy, can you imagine walking a gangway, like this one, over 102 floors in the sky? No thanks.
There's a piece in the documentary sections of Peter Jackson's "King Kong", where they actually do a personal visit to the top of the Empire State Building, and yeah, I was pretty impressed with how windy it was. Peter Jackson and some of his personal crew signed the inside of the top cone, and went out on the roof where the antennas come out, scary as hell.
So, I agree with you 100%, there's no way in hell I'd be walking a gangplank at that kind of height, especially how shaky it would be as well. :o :o :o
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23rd Street and Broadway in 1898. :)
Wow, I used to walk by that intersection every day on the way to college. Looks like we are looking east. That clock, I believe, is still at the southwest corner of Madison Square Park. The Flat Iron Building is unseen to our right.
Always neat to get commentary from someone who knows the area personally as it currently is. Neat that the clock is still there, that's kinda amazing. Over 126 years old, does it still operate, do you know?
Hah! I’m an idiot and totally screwed up where that clock was! LOL! The picture is actually looking north on 5th Ave (it’s a three way intersection with B’way and 23rd Street). The park is on our right across 23rd street. The Flat Iron Building is probably directly on our right (still unseen in the pic, of course). For some reason my menory said that that clock was on the same side of B’way as the Park, but it’s not. I have no idea if it still works and don’t recall if I noticed even 40 years ago. But, I wouldn’t have been walking on the clock’s side of the street. I would walk down B’way from Penn station and then make a left onto 23rd street. My school was several blocks east of the Park.
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That’s cool. From back in the day where small localities had three or four digit phone numbers.
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That’s cool. From back in the day where small localities had three or four digit phone numbers.
And people actually developed friendly relationships with their telephone operators. :)
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Built between 1888 and 1895, she was sent to Havana, Cuba, in February of 1898, to protect American citizens due to the Cuban war of independence from Spain. On the evening of February 15, 1898, an explosion, which most likely came from the ammunition storage compartment, sank the ship and this caused a war between the United States and Spain since the Americans thought that the Spaniards had launched a mine to it. Most of the crew died and after the Spanish-American war, the United States defeated Spain and it got the Spanish colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam. To this day the USA still has the territories of Puerto Rico and Guam. If you visit the Arlington National cemetery near Washington DC, the mast of the Maine is there, or at least it was when I visited Arlington back in 1997.
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You know, for the time, women's clothing at the time required assistance to put on due to the multiple layers of clothing and how difficult they were to put on unassisted.
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On May 6, 1937, a disaster that still reverberates to this time and reason that airships don't use hydrogen as a lift gas to this day, the Hindenburg disaster. :(
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Beachwear from 120 years ago. :)
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Hong Kong in 1904. :)
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Detroit 100 years ago well before it turned into today's shithole.
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Horrible facial wounds from World War 1 of British veterans. :(
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First Carrier
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That's the USS Langley CV-1, which was converted from the Collier Jupiter. :)
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!930's fashions. :)
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The lady on the left looks like Rowan Atkinson's ancestor. :)
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Seattle in the 1900's. :)
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You can tell it is in England since they are on the wrong side of the road. ;) ;D
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That photo was scandalous in those days. ;D
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They look like fun ;D
They are probably upset with having to wear the hats.
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The lady on the left looks like Rowan Atkinson's ancestor. :)
LOL!
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1904, Daytona Beach, Florida.
Colorized.
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Amsterdam, 5pm on 7/8/1893, just after a gas balloon has ascended.
Colorized.
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Amsterdam, 5pm on 7/8/1893, just after a gas balloon has ascended.
Colorized.
That's so neat in so many ways. Showing the cutting edge of technology at the time, the daredevil nature of the early creators of that technology, some awesome architecture, and I wonder what kind of conveyance runs on those tracks? Also, that's a great colorization. There's more I'm sure I'll see with more viewings. I'm saving this one, Shadowmuse, it's just that neat. :)
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Manhattan bridge under construction and it opened to traffic in 1909. :)
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USS Texas (BB-35) in 1938. She was commissioned on March 12, 1914, and decommissioned in 1948 and then Texas legislature paid to have her as a museum ship near Houston and she is the only ship in the world that served in World War1 and World War 2 which still survives to this day.
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:(One of the rare photographs taken on an Arab slave ship, 1882.
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A truly radical warship for its era, The HMS Dreadnought in 1906 was the first all big gum battleship which used oil for fuel and had a steam turbine propulsion engine which made her the fastest ship that year. She caused the naval arms race which was one of the causes of World War 1.
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Long Acre Square, Broadway & 45th Street, NYC. What would eventually be called Times Square.
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Long Acre Square, Broadway & 45th Street, NYC. What would eventually be called Times Square.
Do you know if the street was dirt at that point, or there's just so much horse p00p it looks like it? ???
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A 1910 photo of the Hotel Pontchartrain in Detroit. :)
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Long Acre Square, Broadway & 45th Street, NYC. What would eventually be called Times Square.
Do you know if the street was dirt at that point, or there's just so much horse p00p it looks like it? ???
I’ve been trying to figure that out. I can’t imagine that it was simply dirt. Wouldn’t it be all heavily rutted if it were? And can they just lay trolly tracks in dirt without rail road ties? That’s confused me, too, ‘cause it sure looks like dirt. I don’t see a cobblestone in sight. Perhaps it is just dirt and has been heavily compacted? Dunno.
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There are people on top of one of the POWER POLES. :o :o :o
I guess some people will do anything to get a good view! :)
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There are people on top of one of the POWER POLES. :o :o :o
I guess some people will do anything to get a good view! :)
Yes, and they can suffer a lot if they are not careful. Every year on New Year's eve here in Vegas, The Strip, aka Las Vegas boulevard, gets crowded with 300,000 people or so and there are always mostly dr8nk idiots that climb traffic lights or light poles to get a better view of the fireworks which are launched from the roof of the casinos, and every year we have one fool that will fall off and die when his head hits the pavement. Several more fall off and they hurt other people. The cops are constantly trying to prevent such actions, but they can be overwhelmed by the huge crowd. :P
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1913 electric trolley on Congress Avenue in Austin Texas and you can see the single largest state capitol of the USA in the background. :)
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Where? Is that the US Capitol?
When?
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Samuel Longhorn Clemens in 1906
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Where? Is that the US Capitol?
When?
Yes. It's Washington D.C. The year is 1896 and it is a parade of the GAR (Grand Army Republic). They are veterans of the Union army of the Civil war.
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From 1911. :)
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From 1911. :)
That looks like Wall Street.
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NYC 1939
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Farmers in the 1880's. :)
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Both of my parents lived during the Great Depression of the 1930's and my mother lived in West Texas during the Dust bowl time period and so they had a different attitude about life. :(
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Nice pic!
That is, of course, Grand Army Plaza in the foreground and Central Park stretching off to the left.
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The second of the Tennesse class Battleships, commissioned in 1921, here she is transiting the South Pacific in 1936. She was hit by two Japanese torpedoes during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, a date which is of infamy.
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The second of the Tennesse class Battleships, commissioned in 1921, here she is transiting the South Pacific in 1936. She was hit by two Japanese torpedoes during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, a date which is of infamy.
Damme, that's a lot of guns! :o :o
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I love this pic of 5th Avenue’s original traffic lights. I’m a little confused by this one, tho, as it didn’t seem to have been placed at an intersection. The other intersections in Manhattan were coordinated by traffic cops. Imagine directing traffic at 2am in a winter storm.
Manhattan was just as busy in 1923 as it is a hundred and one years later.
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I love this pic of 5th Avenue’s original traffic lights. I’m a little confused by this one, tho, as it didn’t seem to have been placed at an intersection. The other intersections in Manhattan were coordinated by traffic cops. Imagine directing traffic at 2am in a winter storm.
Manhattan was just as busy in 1923 as it is a hundred and one years later.
Man, those are some crowded busses! I wonder if the traffic light is to stop traffic for pedestrians to cross?
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Man honors his grandfather with this photo of the 1930's. I thought that toy the Hula Hoop came out in the 1950's. This one is made of metal, not plastic like the Wahmo! version. :)
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From the 1920's, the decade my parents were born, Flappers dancing the Charleston. I remember my maternal grandma would dance it once in a while when I was young back in the 1960's. :)
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In 1906, the San Andreas fault caused the San Francisco earthquake, and this is the aftermath. :(
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World War 1 Trench warfare. What amazes me right now is that in present day Ukraine War, the Russians are using the same tactics that they did in World War 1, and they have suffered over 670,000 dead and wounded since February of 2022. :o
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It's cold outside in 1900's New York. :)
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German Battleship Graff Spree in 1938. :)
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From 1915 until 1938, the United States Marine Corps was involved in the Caribbean and Central America which was called the Banana Wars, and the Marine Corps was called the State Department Army in which the State Department had the Navy Department, at the order of the Presidents of the time, to bring local groups of people attacking the United Fruit Company assets in the area at the time. To this day in that part of the world, the Marine Corps is still considered the Boogey Man that you use to scare the local children. The Marines Corps developed tactics and equipment which came in handy against the Japanese in World War 2.
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I was there about 7 years ago, now, I believe. We stayed in a hotel there during our trip to see Mount Rushmore. Place looks a bit nicer these days. :P
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Flat Iron Building, 1916, NYC
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Iron hull sailing training ship over 100 years ago. :)
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Flat Iron Building, 1916, NYC
Very atmospheric. :)
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This colorized by hand photo is from the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871 at the Battle of Sedan, where the Prussians crushed the French and it led to the formal establishment of the German Empire when Prussia became the top dog of the German people and Kingdoms like Bavaria joined the Empire. It also led to Germany adding the French province of Alsace Lorianne and this was one of the causes of Worl War 1 (1914-1918) and to the alliance of two countries that had many wars against each other for centuries, England and France, because they both feared a unified Germany.
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Savanah, Georgia, 1900. :)
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Any better info on when that was taken and where in Monroe county?
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Any better info on when that was taken and where in Monroe county?
From what I found it was from the Rochester & Sodus Bay Railroad, here is another one of their trolley cars that looks to be the same model but not sure if it's the exact same one.
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Photo taken during the Spanish-American War of 1898 where this man became a legend of the war as he was the Commanding Officer of the United States Volunteer Cavalry known as The Roughriders. Before that he was the assistant Secretary of the Navy and after the war, he became Vice-President under William McKinley and later on McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became the 26th President of the USA. If you've ever had a Teddy Bear toy, it was named after Teddy Roosevelt when during a hunting event, he saw a bear that was injured and did not shoot it and showed some mercy toward it. If you ever go to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, he is one of the four Presidents of the monument along with Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. :)
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The Mexican Revolution from 1910 to 1921 overthrew Dictator President Porfirio Diaz and this colorized photo shows two important revolutionaries, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.
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On June 15, 1918, the U.S. Marine Corps went from a minor part of the Navy department to a major part of the USA Armed forces when they defeated a larger German force in Belleau Wood and they rescued a French force flank from the Germans and to this day, part of the dress uniform of Marines is a blue ribbon which was given by France to the US Marines.
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Photo from 1862 where these pioneers were attacked by the Dakota people and later on the US Army fought back. This was during the Civil War and the USA government saw the Dakota as De Facto allies of the Confederacy and after the Civil War, the Dakota people were punished severely. Nowadays, we would see this as unjustified but from that time, it was the right thing to do. The time and situation of any event can be perilous depending on how people see it.
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Herald Square, NYC, 1903.
Note Macy*s department store on the left, where it still is today.
Colorized, of course
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Herald Square, NYC, 1903.
Note Macy*s department store on the left, where it still is today.
Colorized, of course
Thanksgiving parade is coming soon. :)
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University of Oklahoma vs. University of Kansas football game in Norman, OK – November 12, 1927
🏈 OU beat KU and the final score was 26–7
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The first US Navy submarine was the USS Holland, SS-1, Commissioned on October 12, 1900, and scrapped in1912. She wasn't very good. The first USA submersible was The Turtle, from the Revolutionary war. :)
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The Hoover/Boulder Dam was built from 1931 to 1935, and this photo is from 1933.
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Herald Square, NYC, 1903.
Note Macy*s department store on the left, where it still is today.
Colorized, of course
Thanksgiving parade is coming soon. :)
That made me curious as to when the first parade actually was. Turns out those people would have to wait another 21 years as the first Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade was in 1924. Kinda scary looking, if you ask me.
That means this year’s parade is the 100th parade!
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Herald Square, NYC, 1903.
Note Macy*s department store on the left, where it still is today.
Colorized, of course
Thanksgiving parade is coming soon. :)
That made me curious as to when the first parade actually was. Turns out those people would have to wait another 21 years as the first Macy*s Thanksgiving Day Parade was in 1924. Kinda scary looking, if you ask me.
That means this year’s parade is the 100th parade!
It sure grew a lot bigger than that, later! :)
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On November 20, 1910, the Mexican Revolution officially started. It's called a revolution, but it really also was another civil war in Mexico.
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Washington Square, NYC, 1894
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From the 1890's, colorized. :)
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From the 1890's, colorized. :)
Sorry to say but it's not an old photo, it was shot in 2022 by Kiselev Andrey Valerevich in a vintage style but it's new. Here is another from the same shoot of close to 20 photo's.
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From the 1890's, colorized. :)
Sorry to say but it's not an old photo, it was shot in 2022 by Kiselev Andrey Valerevich in a vintage style but it's new. Here is another from the same shoot of close to 20 photo's.
When I searched for old photos, the source, Bing, stated it was 1890's photos and so I believed it. >:(
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From the 1920's. :)
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From the 1890's, colorized. :)
Sorry to say but it's not an old photo, it was shot in 2022 by Kiselev Andrey Valerevich in a vintage style but it's new. Here is another from the same shoot of close to 20 photo's.
When I searched for old photos, the source, Bing, stated it was 1890's photos and so I believed it. >:(
We keep telling you to change search engines. How about Google?
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Huh, this picture was taken 2 years after the great quake. I'm amazed what good shape all the houses are in, construction or repair must have been done in super quick time.
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World War 1 distributing packs to the men after the battle Rheims, France. They must be Scottish soldiers.
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This is Margaret Bourne-White, a photojournalist with apparently no fear of heights. I know I posted a pic of her popping out of one of those chrome eagles on the Chrysler Building in one of the off-topic threads a while back, but can’t find it. Speaking of the Chrysler Building, there it is in the background. This is 1935.
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This is Margaret Bourne-White, a photojournalist with apparently no fear of heights. I know I posted a pic of her popping out of one of those chrome eagles on the Chrysler Building in one of the off-topic threads a while back, but can’t find it. Speaking of the Chrysler Building, there it is in the background. This is 1935.
That picture gives me the willies just looking at it. She must have had nerves of steel. :o
Oh, and congrats on passing the 30K mark in posts, Cris! :)
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This is Margaret Bourne-White, a photojournalist with apparently no fear of heights. I know I posted a pic of her popping out of one of those chrome eagles on the Chrysler Building in one of the off-topic threads a while back, but can’t find it. Speaking of the Chrysler Building, there it is in the background. This is 1935.
That picture gives me the willies just looking at it. She must have had nerves of steel. :o
Oh, and congrats on passing the 30K mark in posts, Cris! :)
Thanks. I had no idea as I usually post from my phone and I don’t see that information.
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Hey, let’s make a balloon with a two headed troll that wants to bludgeon kids!
Looks like mid thirties based on the cars. Times Square
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
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Hey, let’s make a balloon with a two headed troll that wants to bludgeon kids!
Looks like mid thirties based on the cars. Times Square
Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
Yeah, back in those days, the grotesque and the violent were a lot more socially acceptable, eh? Remember the old Krazy Kat cartoons? Think someone getting a brick to the head would pass muster nowadays? Yet back when I was a kid, when I first saw them, I thought they were pretty funny.
Oh, and you and Charade have a great Thanksgiving too, Cris! :)
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^Thanks Max, hope yours was great.
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^Thanks Max, hope yours was great.
Yup, though mine was back in October. ;)
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A forthcoming parade on New Years Day, The Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, California was first started in 1890, and it was a way to advertise Real Estate sales in the area at the time. This is from the 1900's. :)
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Try living in 1890's America and see if you could survive. ???
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If any woman nowadays complains about fashion difficulty, compared to the 1910's, it is easy. :)
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From the 1920's-1930's Banana wars. ::) :P
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^Thanks Max, hope yours was great.
Yup, though mine was back in October. ;)
I just saw this! D’oh! Stupid American syndrome.
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Not sure if I posted this before.
Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin at the premiere of his film “City Lights” in 1931.
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Photo of a car factory where women were welding since the men had been sent to France to fight the Germans.
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Not sure if I posted this before.
Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin at the premiere of his film “City Lights” in 1931.
Wow, I never knew they met! Two great minds, in totally different fields. Really nice pic too, Cris. :)
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Built in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and commissioned October 17, 2016, the Pennsylvania class Battleship USS Arizona BB-39, is here in New York at the time. Unfortunately, she was sunk by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor and that initiated the active participation of the USA in World War 2.
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Not sure if I posted this before.
Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin at the premiere of his film “City Lights” in 1931.
Wow, I never knew they met! Two great minds, in totally different fields. Really nice pic too, Cris. :)
Yeah, really interesting, isn’t it? Also of interest is that City Lights was a silent film for all intents and purposes. He had synchronized music and sound effects, but preferred to have the dialog on intertitles—the printed dialog shown between live takes. He had started the script just after the The Jazz Singer had come out, but didn’t think talkies would last and didn’t like them. Part of the problem for him was that his Little Tramp character was so well suited to mine and pathos.
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Not sure if I posted this before.
Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin at the premiere of his film “City Lights” in 1931.
Wow, I never knew they met! Two great minds, in totally different fields. Really nice pic too, Cris. :)
Yeah, really interesting, isn’t it? Also of interest is that City Lights was a silent film for all intents and purposes. He had synchronized music and sound effects, but preferred to have the dialog on intertitles—the printed dialog shown between live takes. He had started the script just after the The Jazz Singer had come out, but didn’t think talkies would last and didn’t like them. Part of the problem for him was that his Little Tramp character was so well suited to mine and pathos.
It's really sad that people are so attracted to the new. In my opinion, silent films had become just as good to watch as sound films, some even better. I think they could have co-existed as equally valid art forms, if people weren't so willing to throw away the old for the new.
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Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin at the premiere of his film “City Lights” in 1931.
Wow, I never knew they met! Two great minds, in totally different fields. Really nice pic too, Cris. :)
Yeah, really interesting, isn’t it? Also of interest is that City Lights was a silent film for all intents and purposes. He had synchronized music and sound effects, but preferred to have the dialog on intertitles—the printed dialog shown between live takes. He had started the script just after the The Jazz Singer had come out, but didn’t think talkies would last and didn’t like them. Part of the problem for him was that his Little Tramp character was so well suited to mine and pathos.
It's really sad that people are so attracted to the new. In my opinion, silent films had become just as good to watch as sound films, some even better. I think they could have co-existed as equally valid art forms, if people weren't so willing to throw away the old for the new.
Personally, I find intertitles really annoying, but they hadn’t really figured out how to superimpose text on the live action yet, I guess.
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Of the three in the front row, Clara Bow in the middle was a silent movie film star back in the 1920's. :)
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Lafayette St, NYC, 1910
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Before they were renamed the Green Bay Packers. :)
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HMS Ark Royal back in the 1930's in the Mediterranean.
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Park Avenue near 51st Street, 1922
In 1927, the median park was narrowed to allow a for an additional lane of cars in each direction
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In 1890, Army hosted Navy at West Point for the first Army - Navy football game. Some say the Dallas Cowboys are America's team, but the real American teams are the Service Academies. :)
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Park Avenue near 51st Street, 1922
In 1927, the median park was narrowed to allow a for an additional lane of cars in each direction
That was a beautiful avenue. I'm kind of surprised there are no street vendors in the park areas. :)
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From the 1900's. Two days till Christmas. :)
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From the New England part of the USA, 1900's photo. :)
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Fort Worth, Texas in 1920. :)
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Billy Durant Buick. :)
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New Years Day eve/day celebration in the 1930's. ;D
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From the 19th century Victorian era. :)
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An HMS Dreadnought class ship, from 1907, HMS Bellerophon. :)
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I wouldn't have recognized that as Teddy Roosevelt. I would have thought it was a certain short tempered Canadian if Logan actually existed....
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Park Avenue near 51st Street, 1922
In 1927, the median park was narrowed to allow a for an additional lane of cars in each direction
Shame that median doesn't exists anymore. Cities should could use more spaces like that...
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This is what Broadway in New York City looked like at night in 1911. :)
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I've been to Promontory Point in Utah where the first transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869 after six years of hard labor. In 1862, the USA Congress passed the Homestead Act and Abraham Lincoln signed it and then Lincoln thought it would be good to build a railroad from the East coast to the West coast, New York City to San Francisco and the legislation passed since the Southern States. aka the Confederacy, could not interfere due to the Civil War and the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad companies built it using Irish labor and Chinese labor respectively to do it.
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In 1891, workmen in Idaho were engaged in the demanding task of laying a wooden water pipeline, an essential project in the development of infrastructure for the region
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Back in the 1920's, my grandmother was a flapper which was very daring in the little town of Merkel, Texas, back in those days. No, she's not in this old photo. :)
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In 1891, workmen in Idaho were engaged in the demanding task of laying a wooden water pipeline, an essential project in the development of infrastructure for the region
I had no idea they used to build them like that! Quite the project, I'm surprised they worked well.
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Akron Ohio is where the Hall of Fame is located. :)
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My paternal grandfather was born in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico in 1896. This is where he was baptized. :)
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Started by Stephen Austin in 1823 to protect settlers from the Comanches and officially organized in 1835, after the Texas war of Independence in 1835-1836, they became a law enforcement institution which is still in present day Texas. This photo is from 1892. Texas Rangers. :)
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A Bullfight in the Bull ring in Mexico City in the 1900's. When I lived in Mexico City back in the 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's, this event still occurred on Saturday, and it was on TV, and it was one of the things the old colonial power of Spain left in Mexico as part of the culture. It's still done but it's not a big deal as it was then.
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That's a busy port! :o
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That's a busy port! :o
That's part of the New York city port area in New York and New Jersey. :)
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An old John Deere tractor of the 1920's. :)
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A 1920's flapper that was a little scandalous for the time. :)
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Ford Model T roadster. The Model T was the vehicle which transformed Ford into a giant company. :)
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100+ years ago, because it was at the Mississippi river delta in Louisiana, it was the biggest and most important city in the American South. :)
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No mans land Western Front 1916
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Taking a photograph from the Crysler building back when it had just opened in 1930. :)
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That's a busy port! :o
That's part of the New York city port area in New York and New Jersey. :)
Yes, but it’s actually in Jersey City according to the filename. Today, you would see Battery Park City and One World Trade Center across the river.
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Taking a photograph from the Crysler building back when it had just opened in 1930. :)
Ah, sol has posted the other photo that Cris mentioned. I guess it was five years between the two pictures
This is Margaret Bourne-White, a photojournalist with apparently no fear of heights. I know I posted a pic of her popping out of one of those chrome eagles on the Chrysler Building in one of the off-topic threads a while back, but can’t find it. Speaking of the Chrysler Building, there it is in the background. This is 1935.
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Taking a photograph from the Crysler building back when it had just opened in 1930. :)
Ah, sol has posted the other photo that Cris mentioned. I guess it was five years between the two pictures
This is Margaret Bourne-White, a photojournalist with apparently no fear of heights. I know I posted a pic of her popping out of one of those chrome eagles on the Chrysler Building in one of the off-topic threads a while back, but can’t find it. Speaking of the Chrysler Building, there it is in the background. This is 1935.
I had no idea he had posted anything like that earlier. ???
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Taking a photograph from the Crysler building back when it had just opened in 1930. :)
Ah, sol has posted the other photo that Cris mentioned. I guess it was five years between the two pictures
This is Margaret Bourne-White, a photojournalist with apparently no fear of heights. I know I posted a pic of her popping out of one of those chrome eagles on the Chrysler Building in one of the off-topic threads a while back, but can’t find it. Speaking of the Chrysler Building, there it is in the background. This is 1935.
I had no idea he had posted anything like that earlier. ???
I looked back and couldn’t find it. He was probably thinking of another thread, who knows? Glad you posted it ‘cause it’s neat to compare the two pix.
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Taking a photograph from the Crysler building back when it had just opened in 1930. :)
Ah, sol has posted the other photo that Cris mentioned. I guess it was five years between the two pictures
This is Margaret Bourne-White, a photojournalist with apparently no fear of heights. I know I posted a pic of her popping out of one of those chrome eagles on the Chrysler Building in one of the off-topic threads a while back, but can’t find it. Speaking of the Chrysler Building, there it is in the background. This is 1935.
I had no idea he had posted anything like that earlier. ???
I looked back and couldn’t find it. He was probably thinking of another thread, who knows? Glad you posted it ‘cause it’s neat to compare the two pix.
I'm glad you are OK with it. :)
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Traffic ticket 100 years ago. :)
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Times Square 1912
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A photo from the longest battle of World War 1, the Battle of Verdun. :'(
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A photo from the longest battle of World War 1, the Battle of Verdun. :'(
That was taken by one gutsy/crazy photographer. Unlike the soldiers, he's right out in the line of fire. :o
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Broad Street in 1890 after a snow storm (obviously). Not an automobile in sight.
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Broad Street in 1890 after a snow storm (obviously). Not an automobile in sight.
Did a hell of a good job at clearing the sidewalks, though!
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Future President Teddy Roosevelt while he was in North Dakota. :)
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100+ years ago or so, no one cared about logging Redwood trees in California at the time because there were no tree huggers at the time. Still happens, but it is done in privately held properties, and it is not as extensive as it was then.
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Man, there's got to be a story behind that one, though I doubt we'll ever find out what it is. ???
Still, I've got to wonder how a car got into a subway tunnel. :o
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Man, there's got to be a story behind that one, though I doubt we'll ever find out what it is. ???
Still, I've got to wonder how a car got into a subway tunnel. :o
That was in Chicago, and it was not in subway section of the transit train. :(
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Las Vegas Fremont street in downtown back in 1935. :)
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Man, there's got to be a story behind that one, though I doubt we'll ever find out what it is. ???
Still, I've got to wonder how a car got into a subway tunnel. :o
That was in Chicago, and it was not in subway section of the transit train. :(
Ah, under an elevated train track, eh? The picture's so dark I didn't realize it was outdoors.
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When photography was a new technology. :)
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Top speed of the tank then was 10 MPH at best. :)
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My maternal grandmother was a 1920's flapper, which actually scandalized her family at the time. I have a photo of her that my mother had, and I found after my mom died and it had written below it "Family isn't happy about her dress". ;D No, this isn't the photo.
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From the 1900's. :)
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USS Texas, BB-35, a New York class Battleship commissioned in 1914, and she was the only battleship that served in World War 1 and World War 2 which is still afloat as a Museum ship near Galveston, Texas. This photo is from the 1920's. :)
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From the Daily Mail British newspaper. :)
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If you saw the TV show Gunsmoke, it was set in Dodge City, Kansas back in the 1870's and 1880's and this is what that town looked like then. :)
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It had a coal fired steam plant and sails just in case the steam plant failed. It was used as a Navy training ship. :)
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A lot of the photos had brats in them, but at least this one didn't. :)
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From 140 years ago, more or less. :)
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Old Irish mother and son in Ireland in 1895.
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Kit Carson was born on December 24, 1809 and died on May 23, 1868. He was a legendary frontiersman and Mountain Man and served as a General in the Civil War. There is a town called Carson City in Nevada which is the Capital City of the state. He is buried in Taos, New Mexico.
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This is the Opera House of Paris, France in the 1880's. :)
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Built during World War 1. :)
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You would have to be wearing a lot of winter clothing to ride that motorcycle. :o
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!920's women's fashions. :)
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From 1910 until 1923, the Mexican Revolution/civil war occurred, and several millions of Mexicans died. Here are Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.
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Don't want to be taking any sharp turns with that load up top! ;D
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Don't want to be taking any sharp turns with that load up top! ;D
That does look pretty stupid. ;D
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Don't want to be taking any sharp turns with that load up top! ;D
That does look pretty stupid. ;D
We know better now, but back then?
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This is from the 1840's. :o That is very old photography. :)
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U.S. 3rd Cavalry in the 1880's. :)
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This photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt oldest daughter from 1903 when she was 18 years old, her name was Alice Roosevelt also nicknamed Princess Alice at the time, and in 1903 she went onboard a US Navy submarine, not deployed, which was in Newport, Rhode Island, and became the first female ever to be on a submarine. Remember, her father was President of the USA, and he satisfied her curiosity in that manner. In 1960, when she was 75 years old, she helped commission the submarine USS Theodore Roosevelt, SSBN-600, by breaking the champagne bottle on its hull, which was part of the USS George Washington, SSBN-598, class of the Polaris nuclear ballistic missile boats. I served from 1979 until 1981 on the USS Robert E. Lee, SSBN -601 which was decommissioned in 1982 due to it being obsolete by then.
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This was considered downright pornographic and scandalous in the 1900's. ::)
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From a silent movie of 1925, The Tower of Lies. :)
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Throughout the ages, Dogs have been good soldiers. :)
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From the 1900's. :)
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Certainly, no bikinis then. ;D
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Certainly, no bikinis then. ;D
I suspect not much skin cancer either ;)
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Certainly, no bikinis then. ;D
I suspect not much skin cancer either ;)
At the time, being dark skinned/tanned was considered vulgar, inappropriate and "nice" girls didn't get tanned. It was a totally different era. :P
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Silent movie era actress Maude Fealy. :)
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First Marathon in the USA photo. :)
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I've never been to London. :)
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About 120 years ago in Washington D.C. :)
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Barcelona, Spain, 1900's. :)
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Rural Midwest farm life early 20th century. :)
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This is a photo of the USS Monitor, which was the first Iron ship of the US Navy during the Civil War and first ship in the world with a turret gun. :)
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From the 1890's, US Marines wearing ceremonial Sun helmets. :)
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There is a photo restoration shop not far from where I live, this one is from the 1890's. :)
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Later on, he would become President of the USA. :)
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Anna Jarvis was responsible for starting Mother's Day. :)
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German Battleship from the early 1900's. :)
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Early 1900's Manhattan. :)
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High technology 130+ years ago. :)
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In 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright invented the first true aircraft which changed the world enormously. :)
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Hong Kong in 1905. :)
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A Memorial Day parade of 1911 in San Diego, California. :)
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From 1936, the Douglas DC-3. So well-built that there are still some flying to this day. :)
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Silent movie era stunt. :o
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A French WW1 aircraft. :)
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This was in London, England. :)
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From the 1920's, the decade my parents were born. :)
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Women used to wear amazing hats in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. :o :)
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Women used to wear amazing hats in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. :o :)
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Women used to wear amazing hats in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. :o :)
If you follow the very first post of this thread, you will know you have done the wrong thing here. :(
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Dancing at D.C. :)
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Union Soldiers **94** coffee during the American Civil War. :)
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Union Soldiers dr1nking coffee during the American Civil War. :)
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New York City in the 1910's. :)
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Miami Beach in the 1910's. :)
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There was no professional American Football at this time. The NFL started in 1920. :)
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Crazy stunt by U.S. Army soldiers in the 1920's. :o ;D
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I wonder how many of them were captured German weapons. ???
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Back in the 1920's and 1930's, Dance Marathons were popular as people were hoping to win some money, perhaps be hired by Hollywood studios and improve their lives.
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Compact camera for the time. :)
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!900's New Orleans. :)
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Three non-typical guys.???
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World War 1 British battleship. :)
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What's even funnier, is that a photograph took an exposure time of 20-60 seconds to take in the 1860s. That's no spur of the moment pose, he actually WANTED to look that silly! ;D
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Turn of the century 4th pf July celebration. :) When I hear that term, I associate it with early 1900's. :)
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1920's fashion. :)
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Didn't say which city. ??? :)
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He looks more like a merchant marine rather than a military sailor. :)
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From the 1900's. :(
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In the Australian Outback before World War 1. :)
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Huh, I've seen that kinda photo taken before, by teams of some sort. Indicates they've done a clean sweep in a series.
Dunno if that's why this photo is like that, but it's a guess.
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From the U.S. Naval Institute, I've been a member since 1986, I saw this photo of Navy Corpsmen taking care of U.S. Marines in the battle of Verdun, France in April of 2018 and I thought it could belong here. The US Navy Department consists of the Navy and the Marine Corps and Navy Corpsmen are the Marines medics.
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From the 1890's in Cumberland County. :)
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From the 1900's.
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Rare photo from the 1850's. :o
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Hopefully they didn't fall off the edge. ???
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Yeah, quite the intense stare he's got.
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For many years, the most popular Southerner in the Southern states of the USA. :)
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I find it curious that in today's war in Ukraine, the Russians are using the same tactics as World War 1. ??? :P
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I drink their delicious product to this day. ;D
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The original photo was cleared up. :)
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1920's streetcar. :)
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At the time, Abraham Lincoln was the tallest President of the USA ever and to his right is Allan Pinkerton, a spy and to his left a politician called John McClemand. :)
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Ejnar Mikkelsen, a Danish Explorer, Photographed in 1912 After Surviving Two and a Half Years Stranded in Greenland’
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MaxBigfoot might find this interesting. :)
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From the 1920's, US Sailors marching in Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba. :)
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You could buy this as a kit to play with 120 years ago. :)
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You could buy this as a kit to play with 120 years ago. :)
Only 66 years between The Right Brothers and Neil Armstrong.
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You could buy this as a kit to play with 120 years ago. :)
Only 66 years between The Right Brothers and Neil Armstrong.
Yeah, that was amazing progress. :)
BTW, that's the wrong right, it's Wright. ;)
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Got this from the Naval Institute publication about the first flight from California to Hawaii where this Navy float plane failed and it was lost at sea for 10 days and they were rescued but they almost starved to death in 1925. :(
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From the 1890's. :)
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Maiden Lane 1891 NYC. :)
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Victorian era glamorous photo. :)
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1882 Labor Day parade in New York City which at one time was a great manufacturing city and this was the first Labor Day parade in the USA done on May 1.
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From 1903. :)
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The war that fully killed off the Spanish Empire and turned the USA into a global power back in 1898. This war later helped make Theodore Roosevelt into a big political American icon. :)
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Regardless, the soldiers were happy to move away from the trenches. :P
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Mexican Revolution was from 1910 to 1921. :(
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Damn! :o
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Present day ghost town that used to have cattle drives 140 years ago.:)
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Sexy for the time. :)
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American Civil War era milliners. :)
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They look like they could be oil cans! :o
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In World War 1, George S. Patton became the first commander of a tank squad in the U.S. Army and since he was a cavalry officer, he used horse like tactics. Later in World War 2, he became the 3rd Army commander and the one USA General of World War 2 that was most feared by the Germans.
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How to use deer antlers in the 1880's. ;)
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!880's San Francisco. :)
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in 1938, this was the Sam Houston hall in Houston, Texas. Sam Houston is considered the founding father of Texas. :)
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Not a photo, but a painting done of the USS Constitution done in the 1830's and it is the oldest commissioned warship in the world. Today is the US NAVY 250th year anniversary.
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The source stated this was a 19th century Russian photo taken by a British photographer. :)
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From the 1920's, circus elephant. :)