Photos From History Thread

[TexRex]

Chicago Rat Hole, circa January 2024

 

[Liquid]

 

[TexRex]

Françoise Hardy with James Garner on the set of John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix, circa 1966

 

[Liquid]

Kaiser Wilhelm II & Winston Churchill (1906)

Inspecting military manoeuvers in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland).

 

[Liquid]

Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Coronation Street (1964)

 

[Liquid]

First Mobile Phone Picture (1997)

Waiting around for his wife to give birth, Philippe Kahn wrote some code on his laptop for his mobile then attached a digital camera to the phone. He captured his daughter's very first moments in a landmark occasion. Three years later in 2000, he had refined his prototype and Sharp was the first company to sell a mobile phone with a built-in camera.

 

[W3H5]

I know, I know, it’s a video. But it’s older than me.



Who knew people had been recording dash cam footage 40 years ago!?

I bet your dad/mum owned at least one of those motors from the 80’s.

 

[666666]

I bet your dad/mum owned at least one of those motors from the 80’s.

Not only my parents but me as well bought my first car in 1984 , a Hillman Avenger for £250 , then i bought a mk2 Ford Secort 1.3 Ghia (CBX858V) .

 

[W3H5]

Not only my parents but me as well bought my first car in 1984 , a Hillman Avenger for £250 , then i bought a mk2 Ford Secort 1.3 Ghia (CBX858V) .

My Ma had a Fiesta XR2 with the pepper pot wheels. After the Cortina of course. Traded in for a Chevette 3 door, then 5 door. I think it’s a Gemini elsewhere in the world.

I surely remember the “Rattler” - my grandfather’s MK2 Escort estate with a 1.6 pinto. We journeyed from London to Devon at about 55mph and I sat in the back on the luggage and demanded that my Bad album (5 track cassette) was played the whole 8 hour journey.

Nobody on that journey will ever forget the lyrics to P.Y.T lol.

 

[MatskiMonk]

My oldest car was an '83 (BMW 635CSi), bought it in about 2002 though. Also had an '83 520i as well.

 

[TRLWNC7396]

I keep thinking "Why are they not wrecking?" Then I remember this is England, where everything is backward.

 

[W3H5]

East London, Dagenham c.1983.

My maternal family before I existed.

Left to right - my dad, eldest aunt sitting, mum in the middle, aunt with my cousin John and my grandad with a rare cigarette (he was a pipe smoker). My youngest aunt was behind the camera. And my nan was in the kitchen making (probably) the worst meal anyone in London had eaten that day.

 

[Liquid]

First Untethered Spacewalk (1984)

 

[Liquid]

de Havilland Comet Protype (1949)

The world's first commercial jet plane with the rectangular windows that would play a part to three hull losses in the space of a year, forever dooming the Comet's reputation.