Photos From History Thread

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@Barra333 Donald, the son, was better known for his water speed records. His dream was to break both water and land speed records in the same year. Having set the land speed record as your photo shows, he took Bluebird K7 to Lake Dumbleyung in Western Australia and on New Year's Eve 1964, with hours to spare, he broke the water speed record at 276mph / 445kph.

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While Henry Segrave is the first person to hold both the land speed record (set in 1929) and the water speed record (1930) at the same time, Donald Campbell is, and probably will be, the only person to set both records in the same calendar year. His land speed record was also the last wheel-driven land speed record.
 

Indeed. I just included that one because I had the photo of the site on my computer.

The current water speed record is held by an Australian, Ken Warby, from 1978 (511km/h). I was under the impression that it would never be broken because it had a huge death rate, but it seems there are still people preparing to break it.
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Following the theme - 'Burt' Monroe at the Salt Flats in the early 60's where he set the sub 1000cc 2 wheel land sped record of 288kph which still stands to this day.
A recent film adaption of his efforts raised his profile and it is my firm belief that his record remains unbroken out of respect.

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The Milwaukee Road had a checkered history, always going in and out of debt and bankruptcies. However it could be said to be the most daring American line in history. While mainly powered by steam, then diesel, the Milwaukee Road's famous "Pacific Coast Extension" (its mainline to the west coast) running through the northern Midwest was almost entirely electrified. For years its famous and brutish boxcabs, mixed in with the passenger motors hauled trains through the Pacific Northwest under wire. In the late 70's the wires finally came down...and not much later the Milwaukee Road ripped up it's entire Pacific Coast Extension...and after that, the Milwaukee Road was purchased by the Canadian Pacific.

The beginning of the Pacific Coast Extension
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A photo from the Deer Lodge, Montana yard in the early 70's. A rotary snow plow sits amongst the "Little Joe's" and a Boxcab which is not long for this world. The Little Joe's were originally built for Russia, but when the Cold War started the order was cancelled, and the Little Joe's were scattered between the Milwakee Road and the Chicago South Shore. Nothing in this photo remains.
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Pipestone pass in the early 70's, and a long freight grinds up grade. The only thing that remains is the ROW (which is probably now a trail) and the old poles which held up the wire. This is actually one of the flatter portions of the line.
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Second class saloon? My kinda place! :)

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Chiang Mai gate, date unknown. One of five gates on the city walls, the place where this photo was taken now seats a Kawasaki dealership. Not the most famous of the gates but the closest to my house. ;)
 
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Muhammad Ali Versus Sonny Liston 1965



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"I'm just going outside and may be some time".



In 1911-1912 a British team led by Robert Falcon Scott attempted to be the first humans to reach the South Pole, the most southerly point on Earth situated on the Antarctic continent. They did in fact reach the Pole (on 17 January 1912), but discovered that the Norwegian explorer Amundsen had beaten them to it. The demoralized five-man British team then began the 895-mile (1,440 km) trek back to their base.

They never made it.

Hampered by worsening weather, poor provisioning, injury and frostbite, the team were destined to die en route. Edgar Evans was the first to die (17 February 1912), apparently as the result of a blow to his head when falling into a crevasse. The four remaining men struggled on, slowed by fierce blizzard conditions. And Oates' severely frostbitten and gangrenous feet and general weakness (possibly aggravated by an old war wound) began to hold them back further, so that they could not keep up the daily distances needed to reach provisions before their rations were exhausted. On 15 March Oates told the others that he could not continue, suggesting that they leave him in his sleeping-bag and go on without him. They refused.



The following night, according to Scott's diary entry, in the early morning of 16 March 1912, Oates said to his colleagues: "I am just going outside and may be some time." Then, without going through the painful exertion of putting on his boots, he stepped outside into a raging blizzard and temperatures of -40.0 °C (-40 °F) to face certain death.

Oates' self-sacrifice did not save his colleagues from a similar fate. Scott, Wilson and Bowers died nine days later, eleven miles short of their next pre-laid food depot that could have saved their lives.

Oates died a bachelor the day before his 32nd birthday, probably still unaware that he had fathered a child with an 11-year-old Scottish girl when he was about 20, a fact that emerged many years later.

His memorable phrase lives on in the English-speaking world both as among the most famous of last words and as the epitome of heroic understatement and allusion.

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James Dean with his Porshe spyder




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"Every man has his breaking point"

1945 The last ritual of the Kamikaze pilots, photo of Kamikaze pilot receiving Saki from his smiling superior and collegues.



Lieutenant Manson, US Navy, battle for the Pacific 1945;

"One man, he was in a forty-millimetre mount (anti aircraft gun) and he had been fighting against quite a number of planes (Kamikaze) that had come in, but we had been hit in his area 2 or 3 times, and all of a sudden, with nobody understanding why, he just yelled out 'it's hot today' and jumped over the side, and that's the last we saw of him...

He stayed with it just as long as he could until he broke, and then that was the end of his fighting.

Every man has his breaking point...".
 
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Jersey Shore, circa mid 1800's. So different from today...
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This is what Asbury Park, New Jersey looks like today. Unfortunately, this is what it now looks like due to Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Improvements have been made, but many parts of this city are still damaged.
 
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Obsolete Jobs Special

Switchboard Operator

"Hello, operator. Give me..."

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Rag & Bone Man

Paying one's way by collecting whatever other households didn't need and either using it or selling it on.

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Ice Cutter

In the days before electrical refrigeration became commonplace, an ice cutter had a valuable job cutting and preparing large blocks of ice to be sold door-to-door by icemen. The blocks would be used for storing and/or curing various perishable foods.

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Knocker Upper

Before alarm clocks a knocker upper's job was to do their rounds and wake up people who had factory work. The job paid few pence a week and was taken either by the elderly or policemen on early patrols. Knocker uppers themselves had knocker uppers to make sure they got up at the right time.

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Lamplighter

Ensuring the gas lamps were lit before nightfall.

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But who made sure the knocker uppers' knocker uppers woke up at the right time? Did they have knocker uppers? :lol:
The knocker uppers' knocker uppers had alarm clocks.
 
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