Photos From History Thread

[High-Test]

A few pics of the B-24s my grandfather flew. My Dad and Uncle could never get the story straight on whether my grandfather flew bombs or cargo with themselves or each other. Turns out, he flew electronic warfare equipment.

 

[Downhill Dino]

Since it's the 70th of the Hiroshima bombing, I looked at some pictures.

 

[catamount39]

Let us as a world remember that event and hope that we never use those weapons of unbelievable destruction again.

 

[Liquid]

This Drostesque photograph of three gentleman taking a photograph of themselves is often posted online as an example of, if you'll pardon the horrible word, "selfies before selfies were popular". An example of Older Than They Think.

It was actually taken at the 1904 National Eisteddfod, the Welsh cultural festival, in Rhyl, Denbighshire. The fate of the photograph the three men are taking is not known.

 

[W3H5]

There's something quite beautiful about that photo. I can't put my finger on it, but it's there in heaps.

Also, it appears to be 4 gentlemen unless the furthest most has a really long arm.

 

[Liquid]

A fantastic find: America In Colour, 1939-1943

Around 60 excellent quality photos.

 

[Heldenzeit]

1920's selfie.

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visiting bomb damaged streets in the East End of London on the 18th of October 1940.

 

[TVR27]

Riga.

 

[The87Dodge]

The USS Arizona being bombed by the Japanese at Pear Harbor in 1941.

 

[gnomefromnome]

Early days of Anchorage, Ak

destroying liquor June 30,1917

July 4, 1915

City Express taxi

 

[Apok]

Partisan forces in the center of my town (Kranj) after German forces started retreating from Yugoslavia to Austria.
The building on the left is a school from 1810. I went to this same school from 2010 to 2014

The city itself is built on a hill where two rivers meet.

Not sure what year that image is from, but nowadays it's overgrown with bushes and the neat looking stairs are no longer usable. The entrance at the bottom leads to a WWII era shelter. Nowadays it's used every year for a wine-tasting event as well as boring tours where you learn about history instead of wine. Lame.

That is a water tower that's still in use. The fields are now all covered with houses.

The oldest house in our town. I don't remember the exact number, but it's over 500 years old. It was built as a tollhouse. It's now a bar and looks a bit better than in that picture. Only a bit though.

Postcard from the 70's. Parking isn't allowed there anymore.

IBI textile factory. It's about a minute's walk away from my house. The place is now available for rent and several small businesses have sprung up including a microbrewery.


Sorry about the slight thread hijacking and making this post all about my town.

 

[Cowboy]

Just some old time pics from around the state.

 

[Nico_Ble99]

The Koloss von Prora (Coloss of Prora), in Prora (Rügen, Germany). I was there on vacation back in 2012, parts of it are a museum now. Seriously, that thing is massive.
More info can be found about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prora

* I know, the pictures might not be that historical, but the building itself and the history behind it surely are.

 

[Liquid]

In case anyone missed it, here's the aftermath of the Chinese munitions explosion:

 

[mister dog]

Not historic

 

[catamount39]

Have to admit it will be historic though...

 

[PeterJB]

Technically it is since it's in the past...

 

[Liquid]

Pepsi Concorde

Concorde was painted in anti-flash white by all four of its operators due to the extreme temperatures its skin would experience at supersonic speeds. The exception to this was this brief 1996 promotional agreement by Air France and Pepsi. The use of blue paint meant that this aircraft flew with restrictions; the aircraft was not allowed to maintain mach 2 for more than twenty minutes and the wings had to remain white.

 

[CinnamonOD]

Not actually photos, but I found some Mexican WWII propaganda while exploring the internet

"The Mexican homeland defended by their sons"

"On your spots"

"Liberty does not sink: There's always a voice that defends it and an arm that saves it"

This is a reference to the events that led Mexico to join WWII

 

[Beerz]

Found these randomly in an article while surfing teh interwebz (they're all from Amsterdam):
Click on each for a bigger version.

1949

1957

1910

1937

1965

1989, RHCP performing in Dam Square

1968, Red Light District

 

[TheCracker]

Is the guy in the first picture a wizard?

 

[Beerz]

Is the guy in the first picture a wizard?

I wondered what that stick was too. Maybe back then it was a thing to carry a small stick with you.

Or maybe he's an actual wizard and the strong wind we see was caused by his wand.

 

[catamount39]

I wondered what that stick was too. Maybe back then it was a thing to carry a small stick with you.

Or maybe he's an actual wizard and the strong wind we see was caused by his wand.

Maybe he was under a magical influence...like...alcohol.

 

[Liquid]

Winter Of 1932

So cold that Niagra Falls froze.

 

[Ellis]

Few random ones

Afghanistan in the 70's vs now

Kurt Cobain...with a cat

Filming of the MGM Lion in the 1920's

Sharon Tate (whom of which for one reason or another I have tattooed on my arm) at the Cannes film festival - 1968

 

[Liquid]

@spencemat

5 photos per post, no need to post more than once. Edit button is your friend.

 

[spencemat]

New post with proper number of photos:

Being from Parkersburg this caught my attention-Uptowner Inn sign at night-the Inn has been closed since 1983 via Parkersburg a Vintage Portrait

To mark the tenth anniversary of Katrina, New Orleans Superdome after the hurricane 2005

Women march for the right to vote October 1915

More vintage Parkersburg area-Wig Bickel with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans circa 1940s. The Bickel house is still standing while the land around it is now a housing development.

Stock photo of the Lusitania in New York Harbor. The ship would become one of the most infamous casualties of World War One in 1915.

 

[spencemat]

Photos from fifty years ago(!)

The Beatles at Shea Stadium, Aug. 15 1965

Bob Dylan at the Newport Jazz and Folk Festival July 25 1965

Surface of Mars, Mariner 4, July 14 1965

Sons and daughters of diplomats swing at the White House, June 17 1965

Civil rights march in Chicago featuring Martin Luther King Jr., July 26 1965

 

[Liquid]

Space Shuttle Carrier, 1978

In American Airlines livery.

 

[Heldenzeit]

Hitler declaring war on USA at the Kroll Opera house. Dec 11, 1941.