Photos From History Thread

[TexRex]

Chicago Rat Hole, circa January 2024

 

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[TexRex]

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

 

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Kaiser Wilhelm II & Winston Churchill (1906)

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

 

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Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Coronation Street (1964)

 

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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.

 

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First Untethered Spacewalk (1984)

 

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de Havilland Comet Prototype (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.

 

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Abraham Lincoln (1865)

Two months prior to his assassination.

 

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Czas Apokalipsy

In 1981, as a response to the Solidarity movement in Poland that stood up against the Soviet Union, martial law was declared in Poland. Chris Niedenthal took this photo on the first day of an APC parked in front of the ironically named Moscow Theatre which happened to be showing Apocalypse Now (PL: Czas Apokalipsy - "Time Of The Apocalypse"). The apt title reflected anti-communist sentiment in Poland at that time and become one of the most famous images of 1981-83's martial law in Poland.