Photos From History Thread

[kikie]

What could go wrong getting up close to a frickin’ polar bear?

You'll need a new pair of shoes?

 

[Liquid]

Woman Playing A Harp, Ireland (1910)

 

[Touring Mars]

OK, so not quite on topic, but who remembers these?

I used to have alot of these 'scratch and sniff' stickers in my sticker album as a kid, I think I got them in Canada, and I can still remember the root beer one and the peanut one vividly.

This set is available on Etsy... for £223

 

[Pete05]

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OK, so not quite on topic, but who remembers these?

I used to have alot of these 'scratch and sniff' stickers in my sticker album as a kid, I think I got them in Canada, and I can still remember the root beer one and the peanut one vividly.

This set is available on Etsy... for £223

I do remember them from the late 70s.

My brother had just started school & our house was having the plumbing upgraded at the same time.

Bro was so pleased with himself when he got a scratch & sniff sticker, he had to show our Plumber.

When the Plumber jokingly told him that it smelled like cat's pee, the look my 6-year-old brother gave him was priceless.

Besides how the stickers work, this is the only memory I have of them & something my Bro and I have never forgotten.

 

[Liquid]

 

[gnomefromnome]

 

[TexRex]

I saw three of those in the theater.

 

[kikie]

Wild Bill Hickok

Marilyn Monroe

 

[Touring Mars]

This is a cool, interactive piece on how an army of volunteers located and restored family photographs damaged during the tsunami in Japan in 2011...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/uoo2d6sp5o/japan-photos-tsunami

 

[TRLWNC7396]

That is an amazingly beautiful story!

 

[Touring Mars]

This is almost so unbelievable, I thought it might be fake, but it is real...



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT&T_...ile:Indiana_Bell_Telephone_building,_1930.jpg

Half way through the process

 

[TexRex]

No interruption to the telephone service they provided. That's fascinating.

 

[PeterJB]

So it's a giant Rubik's cube.

 

[Liquid]

Then & Now: Tal-y-llyn, Gwynedd, Wales

1885

2012

 

[W3H5]

Makes for a very interesting spot the difference.

 

[TexRex]

I love photographs of cemetaries. I love cemeteries in general. It's been called morbid, but for me it's all about people's appreciation for loved ones who have passed.

 

[HenrySwanson]

This is almost so unbelievable, I thought it might be fake, but it is real...



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT&T_Building_(Indianapolis)#/media/File:Indiana_Bell_Telephone_building,_1930.jpg


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Half way through the process

Amazing.

Reminds me of the moving of the Chapel in Great Ormond Street Hospital

 

[kikie]

William Harley and Arthur Davidson (1914)

The construction of the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco (1937).

Mt. Rushmore under construction (1939).

Blackfoot Indian Chief being recorded on a phonograph in 1916

 

[TRLWNC7396]

I wonder where the recording of his voice is! Neat!

 

[kikie]

I wonder where the recording of his voice is! Neat!

Indeed, I thought the same thing.


This is the unrestored original photo

Not his voice but still a recording of native Americans.





Historical photos included.




Nice! Moving old photos from history.

 

[Touring Mars]

An internet cookie for anyone who can name all three of these happy people from 1979...

 

[TexRex]

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An internet cookie for anyone who can name all three of these happy people from 1979...

I just cleared my cache, but Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Eric Idle.

 

[Touring Mars]

I just cleared my cache, but Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Eric Idle.

I thought it was Luke and Han with Chewy after a haircut.

 

[TexRex]

I thought it was Luke and Han with Chewy after a haircut.

I got Mark immediately and was able to suss out that it was Harrison whose face was contorted by laughter. I got stuck on Eric so I cheated, searching "mark hamill harrison ford gold record," and kicked myself because I didn't catch who he was.

They look like a couple of college kids and their PoliSci professor.

 

[Touring Mars]

I got Mark immediately and was able to suss out that it was Harrison whose face was contorted by laughter. I got stuck on Eric so I cheated, searching "mark hamill harrison ford gold record," and kicked myself because I didn't catch who he was.

Consider your prize cookie withdrawn!

I got it from Eric Idle's twitter feed, and I recognised HF but not MH immediately.

Apparently, Hamill and Ford rented Eric Idle's apartment while they were filming The Empire Strikes Back while Idle was filming The Life Of Brian. Idle went home one night and they had a party, which also included The Rolling Stones...

 

[TexRex]

Well...I didn't want it anyway!

*weeps softly into glass of milk*

 

[W3H5]

I wouldn’t have got Eric Idle the Han and Luke are quite recognisable I’d say.

 

[daan]

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An internet cookie for anyone who can name all three of these happy people from 1979...

So it's not Barry Gibb, Keith Chegwin and Barry Sheene then?

 

[PeterJB]

I thought it was George Harrison rather than Eric Idle.

 

[W3H5]

I thought it was George Harrison rather than Eric Idle.

My sweet lord, how wrong you were.