Photos From History Thread

[Lizard]

what the f is that plane with 6 props?!

ME323.

 

[Beerz]

what the f is that plane with 6 props?!

UGLY AS S###

I see a pattern emerging...

 

[Wiegert]

Blackfoot Indian Chief being recorded on a phonograph in 1916

Some of the recordings can be found here

 

[The87Dodge]

Civil War. Battery M, 2nd US Artillery, Fair Oaks, Virginia circa 1862.

 

[Liquid]

Piccadily Circus, 1939

 

[cmbeal317]

UGLY AS S###

You think the Me 323 is ugly, then I'm sure you'll love the plane below.

Blohm & Voss BV 141

 

[Liquid]

Dresden, 1945

Warsaw, 1945

 

[cmbeal317]

Ypres 1918

 

[gnomefromnome]

March 27, 1964 Good Friday Earthquake, Alaska

 

[Liquid]

Interesting photos but try to limit it to five per post, please.

 

[mister dog]

Ypres 1918

I was eating fries and a burger on that big space in the middle last year.

 

[cmbeal317]

I was eating fries and a burger on that big space in the middle last year.

I was there almost 5 years ago, not having known that the city had been flattened and rebuilt.

It's amazing how well they reconstructed the city.

 

[mister dog]

@cmbeal317 indeed, nice that they didn't choose to construct something new, but tried rebuilding the centre as it was before the best they could. I also happened to stumble in when they were holding the Ypres rally, the cars leave from the market square but unfortunately they were all gone by the time i arrived.

 

[Apok]

Reims 1914.

Two years later, in 1916 the place wasn't looking much better.

Restoration of the cathedral began in 1919.

 

[TheCracker]

Ali knocks out Cleveland Williams at the Houston Astrodome, 1966.

Looks just like a Norman Rockwell illustration to me.

 

[wvmgmidget]

Here's something local: it's taken in downtown Parkersburg,WV (I live just outside of town) during the 1913 flood where it crested at over 58 ft.

 

[Liquid]

Olympic Torch Relay, Berlin 1936

The tradition of taking the flame from Olympia to the site of the games originated with the NSDAP-run games of 1936. The actual initiative came from the mind of German sports administrator Carl Diem but was immediately seized upon by the government as a propaganda dream; Adolf Hitler himself was a firm believer that the Ancient Greeks and their wonderful civilisation were the forerunners to a/the modern Aryan race and that any links to those ancient traditions would strengthen his cause.

The route for the 1936 games was as follows; Olympia - Athens - Thessaloniki (Greece) - Sofia (Bulgaria) - Belgrade (Yugoslavia) - Budapest (Hungary) - Vienna (Austria) - Prague (Czechoslovakia) - Dresen - Berlin (Germany). There were 3,422 torchrunners to complement the 3,422km journey; Siegfried Eifrig was selected for the final kilometre, taking the torch past the statue of Frederick The Great, the 18th century King of Prussia and another Hitler idol. Eifrig was selected because of his Aryan good looks but never belonged to the NSDAP.

 

[W3H5]

John Lennon snapped signing an autograph for a fan on the 8th of December, 1980. Not much later that day Lennon was fatally shot.
This may be one of, if not the last, picture of him alive.

 

[Liquid]

LZ 129 Hindenburg

Rio de Janeiro, 1936

NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey, 1936

One year prior to the disaster, Hindenburg is airborne on approach. ZR3 USS Los Angeles is moored to the ground in the upper right.

NAS Lakehurst New Jersey, 1937

The famous photograph of the disaster unfolding

 

[mister dog]

John Lennon snapped signing an autograph for a fan on the 8th of December, 1980. Not much later that day Lennon was fatally shot.
This may be one of, if not the last, picture of him alive.

That 'fan' you see there is his murderer.

 

[W3H5]

That 'fan' you see there is his murderer.

Creepy. I didn't realise that.

 

[mister dog]

Creepy. I didn't realise that.

Yeah creepy is the right word indeed.

 

[Liquid]

I really like airships and I've been doing a lot of reading on them lately. Some extra information on Hindenburg from my post above.

It was originally designed to be filled with helium, which, of the two main gases used in pre-1937 airships, is inert and non-combustible. The United States had a monopoly on helium supplies; of the planet's known natural helium sources, only those in Texas and New Mexico as mining byproducts were commerically available and helium was rare and expensive. Only US airships were using helium in the 1930s and even then, they were under strict instructions to not dump it and to conserve as much helium as possible. The US refused to sell any to Weimar Germany.

The Hindenburg was then redesigned to accommodate the use of hydrogen gas, one which is very combustible. Germany had never suffered an airship civilian fatality before now and while the dangers of hydrogen airships were known, the expertise and skill of German airship crews meant that many were content to still use hydrogen gas despite the controversey over helium.

If only they were able to get some helium, eh?

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin

First Flight: 1928
Retired: 1937
Scrapped: 1940

The first round the world trip occured in August 1929 when the Graf Zeppelin went from Lakehurst, NJ to Friedrichshafen, Germany then Tokyo, Japan before onwards to Los Angeles, CA and arriving back at Lakehurst after 21 days.

At one point crossing Northern Russia the ship cleared a mountain range with just 150ft to spare.

Berlin, 1928

London, 1930

Flying over Huddersfield vs Arsenal in the 1930 FA Cup final

London, 1930

Same voyage, over St. Paul's

Flying Over The Pyramids Of Giza

 

[Wiegert]

Random Flickr find that aroused my interest.

Kamenné námestie (Stone Square), Bratislava, 1975. "Life behind the Iron Curtain":

For comparison, here's how it looks today.

 

[mister dog]

Random Flickr find that aroused my interest.

Kamenné námestie (Stone Square), Bratislava, 1975. "Life behind the Iron Curtain":

For comparison, here's how it looks today.

What always strikes me is that in street pictures up until the '90's, all the buildings facades look black because of the exhaust fumes from cars.

 

[Liquid]

Very cool photo. I walk down there every night I go out drinking, my flat is literally at the top of that street, the hilariously named "Most SNP".

At least you could get a Tatra behind the Iron Curtain.

 

[catamount39]

It's 1939, and the Royalty is in Canada. Hudson #2850 performs the honorable duty of transporting the Royal Train across Canada on Canadian Pacfic rails. She would do so without fault, granting her entire class the privilege of carrying the Royal embellishment, and the name "Royal Hudson". In this photo the train is roaring through Trail, British Columbia. Note, Canadian Pacific painted their coahes and passenger locos with a dark maroon red and grey, however the Royal Train was dark blue and grey so the 2850 received a special matching paint scheme for the occasion.

There are many CPR Hudson's (including "Empress" #2816...which isn't a Royal Hudson or streamlined but still beautiful) still around, and #2850 is among them.
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Canadian National also had the train in 1939, and it was hauled by their streamlined 4-8-4 #6400. Strangely while CNR helper engines for the train wore the royal colors, #6400 appears to still adorn CNR olive green and gold...and black. Course at the time while Canadian Pacific was/is a private company, Canadian National was at the time run by the Canadian government.

 

[W3H5]

There's a very interesting, if a little low budget, feature length movie called 'Hindenburg' about the day the airship went up in smoke. Worth watching for historical purposes I suppose, seems quite accurate in it's portrayal, but I don't know the full story well enlighten to say for certain.

 

[Liquid]

 

[Lizard]

Wall guns were common early on but that seems a bit late for one.