Monday, February 12, 2024

Wonderful old pictures

 A boy and two big lobsters that have just been caught on the New Jersey Coast, 1916.        pictures-you-don't-see-in-the-history-books

 1945: The Mona Lisa painting can finally be opened again after it had been hidden from German troops in 1939.      pictures-you-don't-see-in-the-history-books

 Longacre Square, New York, 1903, one year before it was named Times Square. That happened because New York Times moved their headquarters there.       pictures-you-don't-see-in-the-history-books

 Imperial Airlines airplane, 1936.       It doesn’t look very safe, right?      pictures-you-don't-see-in-the-history-books

 April  15, 1912, a Titanic survival boat meets with a rescue ship.      

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 A priest praying over the victims of the Titanic, 1912.      

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 France, 1959. Kids playing with the guillotine.   And they say that today’s video games are violent!      

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 Bruce Lee and his master, 1958.      

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 Enjoying a meal in the car while getting cooled air piped in the car. This is a drive-in restaurant, in Texas, 1957.      

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 MGM opening credits in the making, 928         Yes, that’s how they did it!      

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 Hitler and Speer looking at the Schwerer Gustav, the biggest gun ever used in battle.       

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 Transporting a 5 MB hard drive seemed like a serious job back in 1956.       

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 This is how they tested shoes back in 1937.      

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First Wimbledon as an international tournament, 1883.      

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 Coca-Cola being introduced to France, 1950.      

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Human-sized chess with actual soldiers, Russia, 1924.      

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Oil Crisis, 1973. People are having picnics on the deserted highways.       

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Old interesting PICTURES 

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Her Majesty and Prince Phil – same brooch, same pearls, same love.   

 We see many old photos, but this set is really special  

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Hans Christian Anderson   

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Winston Churchill, 1895   

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Mahatma Gandhi dancing   

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Sophia Loren   

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Albert Einstein   

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Paul Gaugin   

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Vincent van Gogh   

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John Wayne, 1930 (aged 23)   

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Elizabeth Taylor... this could have been X rated.  

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Alfred Hitchcock, 1920’s   

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Paul Newman, served in the Pacific in WW2  

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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow  

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Confederate general Robert E Lee.  Did you know that when Lee joined the confederacy, his farm was taken and later became Arlington National Cemetery?  

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William, Diana, Harry   

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 Edgar Allan Poe poses with Abraham Lincoln in Mathew Brady’s Washington ,D.C. studio, 1849   

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 Ernest Hemingway as an American Red Cross volunteer during World War I, 1918   image

Mark Twain, aged 15, 1850   

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Mother Teresa,      What a find...!!!

 

 

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