From Out Of The Past... The History In Pictures Thread

[C. Lee]

The above photos show the Regal Cinema in Chicago one afternoon during the spring of 1941 as locals flock to see The Philadelphia Story, starring Katherine Hepburn, James Stewart, and Cary Grant. The shots were made by Farm Security Administration photographer Edwin Rosskam, who had been tasked with documenting life in Chicago's black belt, which is where racist housing practices forced African Americans to live. Most of Rosskam's photos made abundantly clear that the underclass status forced upon blacks by redlining—the utilization of mortgage and insurance practices to hem them into tightly packed areas—led to less than desirable conditions, but many of his shots showed joyous moments and bustling civic life. These images of people decked out for a matinee are examples. They're part of the Office of War Information Collection maintained by the Library of Congress.

 

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One person's misfortune is another's opportunity. This photo shows Miss New Zealand—Moana Manley—passed out during the 1954 Miss Universe Pageant, staged that year in Long Beach, California. Manley fainted during an outdoor photo session. Some accounts say heat exhaustion got her, but it was not especially hot that day—about 72 degrees fahrenheit, or 22 celsius. It was more likely stress. She was, after all, not only the first woman from her country to compete at Miss Universe, but the first woman of Maori descent to win the title of Miss New Zealand. That'll apply a bit of pressure. You'll often see the photo labeled as a 1957 shot, but that's incorrect. There was no representative from New Zealand in the pageant that year. No, the shot is definitely from 1954, and the winner was ultimately Miss U.S.A., Miriam Stevenson.

 

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Great pics Mr. Lee. Thanks for the contribution.

 

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On the streets of New York City, circa 1974-1979.

 

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On the streets of New York City, circa 1974-1979.

Yes... This is Robin Williams who was at Julliard and would often perform on the streets.

 

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Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and Big Brother and The Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service and the Charlatans at 710 Ashbury Street in San Francisco, 1967.

Rodney Dangerfield and Elvis meet while at Las Vegas in 1969.

Wonder Woman Lynda Carter winning Miss World USA 1972 with Bob Hope.

Goldie Hawn and Steven Spielberg roller skating, 1974.

Queen and Heart hanging out backstage at the Checkerdome in St. Louis, 1978.

The Runaways and David Lee Roth, Pasadena, 1978.

Tennis legend Bjorn Borg and Bianca Jagger at Studio 54, 1978.

Joe Namath and Farrah Fawcett on the set of a Noxzema shaving cream commercial in New York City, 1981.

John Belushi with The Go-Go's in 1981.

Michael J. Fox and Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles 1986.

 

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Mel Brooks when he was an army engineer (he found and defused land mines) during WWII in 1945.

The Beatles, 1964. Photograph by Curt Gunther.

Frank Sinatra in rehearsal, 1965. By John Dominis.

Meryl Streep as a cheerleader in 1966.

Jimi Hendrix on stage at a concert in Bakersfield, California, 1968.

The Who 1968.

Paul McCartney pool diving in Jamaica, 1971.

Dwayne Johnson when he was a football player at the University of Miami in 1993.

 

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Jamie Lee Curtis, 1980.

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in 1980.

John Lennon signs an autograph for Mark Chapman - his murderer. December 8, 1980.

Paul Hogan, meeting the Queen. 1980.

David Bowie in Kyoto, Japan 1980.

This is Steve Buscemi as a firefighter with the FDNY in 1980.

Michelle Pfeiffer models in 1980.

John Lydon on American Bandstand, 1980.

David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen in concert, 1980.

Raquel Welch doing a photo shoot in her backyard, 1980.

 

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Teenagers hanging out in West Texas, 1980.

Man Hang Gliding off of Big Sur, California, 1980.

The June 30, 1980 cover of Newsweek.

A Russian soldier plays the accordion for his fellow troops in Afghanistan, 1980.

Samy Grow, who works as a logger to support his family, sits on his front porch. Russellville, Arkansas, December 1980.

May 18, 1980 - Mount St. Helens erupted. Troopers' patrol cars were modified so they could work in the ash.

Traffic jam on the Golden Gate Bridge, 1980.

December 29,
1980, Shuttle Columbia is rolled out from the VAB to Launch Pad 39A for her maiden voyage.

On the subway in Brooklyn, NYC in 1980.

 

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A British soldier lets a young boy look through the sights of his rifle in Belfast, 1981.

Infamous cartel boss Pablo Escobar with his family at Disney World, 1981.

The very proud owner of
Osborne Portable Computer circa 1981.

Prototype American Space Shuttle Enterprise next to the under construction Challenger,
Aug 24, 1981.

A young man passed out on the beach during Spring Break in South Florida, 1981.

A denim cowboy in Greenwich Village, NYC, 1981. Photo by Gene Spatz.

Poster from the 1981 Disney live action film Condorman.

President Ronald Reagan speaking with three former US Presidents, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter, as they eulogize Egyptian President Anwar Sadat following his assassination, October 1981.

Sony Walkman ad from 1981.

Princess Diana and Prince Charles' wedding on July 29, 1981.

 

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The Police in the city of Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan, January 1981.

Tim Curry, 1981.

23 Year Old Madonna in 1981.

Fashion designer Anna Sui in 1981.

Nicolas Cage and Jill Schoelen in 1981.

Diego Maradona & Queen, 1981.

Peter Capaldi and Craig Ferguson as part of "The Dreamboys" in 1981.

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr at Ringo's wedding, 1981.

 

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The Clash at Shea Stadium getting ready to open for The Who in 1982.

Carrie Fisher with a 12-year-old Warwick Davis on the set of Return of the Jedi, 1982.

Diane Lane with her Stains T-shirt, 1982.

Jack Nicholson, Galveston Bay, 1982.

Stevie Nicks during Mirage Tour, 1982.

Steven Spielberg with Drew Barrymore and Heather O’Rourke between filming E.T. and Poltergeist, 1982.

Demi Moore 1982.

Mr. T and Leslie Nielsen looking sharp, 1982.

Dave Lombardo and Jeff Henneman, of Slayer, 1982.

Jerry Garcia and John Kahn playing at the Oregon State Penitentiary on May 5th, 1982 .

 

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Bill and Hillary Clinton leave the polls during the 1982 Arkansas governor's race.

Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray behind the scenes of Tootsie 1982.

Peter O'Toole on the set of My Favorite Year, 1982.

Michael Jordan, 18yrs old in 1982.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on stage, 1982.

Phoebe Cates & Jennifer Jason Leigh promo pics for Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982.

Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving on the set of Yentl in Europe, 1982.

Lemmy at the Reading Rock festival in the UK, 1982.

Sean Young 1982.

Stephen King, on the set of Creepshow, 1982.

 

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United Airlines stewardess in 1970.

Boys looking too sharp in Harlem in 1970.

Young woman skates with kids, Venice Beach, California, 1970.

Father, son, Grandfather and Great Grandfather, photo by Irving Penn, New Guinea, 1970.

Marin County courthouse incident, 1970.

On August 7, 1970, when 17-year-old Jonathan Peter Jackson attempted to negotiate the freedom of the Soledad Brothers (which included his older brother George) by kidnapping Superior Court judge Harold Haley from the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California. The resulting shootout left four men dead, including both Jackson and Judge Haley. Two others were wounded.

Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell trains for a walk on the Moon he would never make, January 16, 1970.

Collision between the British Columbia ferry Queen of Victoria and the Soviet freighter Sergey Yesenin, August 2, 1970.

Two girls biking in San Francisco, Summer of 1970.

An American soldier takes a selfie, somewhere in Vietnam, 1970.

Nusle Bridge in Prague, being load tested by 66 tanks during its construction in 1970.

 

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Sniper Team, Vietnam 1970.

The nation of France tests a hydrogen bomb at Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific on July 3, 1970.

Economy class flying in 1970.

On the streets of Warsaw, Poland, 1970.

The Twin Towers under construction, 1970.

Eastern Airlines reservation center, Miami, 1970.

M42 Twin-Forty “Duster” in action at night against a ground target in Vietnam in 1970.

 

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Janis Joplin, 1970. She would pass on October 4th of that year.

Iggy Pop Playing at a Michigan Highschool 1970.

Pele and British captain Bobby Moore trade jerseys in 1970 as a sign of mutual respect.

Michael Caine with Petra Markham and Dorothy White while filming Get Carter, 1970.

Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart in Central Park, NYC, 1970.

David Bowie relaxes with his guitar on an early trip to LA, 1970.

Vladimir Putin, right, dances with his classmate Elena during a party in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1970.

Arnold Schwarzenegger flexing for two older women on a park bench, 1970.

 

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In the Summer of 1970, French photographer Jack Garofalo was in Harlem, working on the instructions of the magazine Paris Match to document the then current state of the people and streets of the New York City community that has had so much weight and influence in the culture of African Americans. This is a sample of some of his pictures.

 

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A snap shot of the motor vehicle culture of Los Angeles. Some pictures shot on Van Nuys Blvd. in the summer of 1972, by photographer Rick McCloskey.

 

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The great daylight fireball of 1972, an object which skipped across the planet's atmosphere and could be seen in many places across the North American continent. Scarily enough that same object is still in orbit around the sun, one which does cross paths with the Earth and it passed closely to us again in 1997.

1972 Great Daylight Fireball - Wikipedia

Theatrical poster for 1972's Blacula.

The theatrical poster for Dracula A.D. 1972.

The Original 7 Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders in 1972.

President
Nixon learning to use chopsticks during his visit to China, 1972.

John Wojtowicz outside the Chase Manhattan bank he was attempting to rob, August 22, 1972. The event would go on to inspire the film Dog Day Afternoon.


John Wojtowicz - Wikipedia

Marie Louise Cruz AKA
Sacheen Littlefeather at the 1972 Academy Awards.

Sacheen Littlefeather - Wikipedia

Littlefeather represented Brando and his boycott of the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972), as a way to protest the ongoing siege at Wounded Knee and Hollywood and television's misrepresentation of American Indians. Brando had written a 15-page speech for Littlefeather to give at the ceremony, but when the producer met her backstage he threatened to physically remove her or have her arrested if she spoke on stage for more than 60 seconds. Her on-stage comments were therefore improvised. She then went backstage and read the entire speech to the press. In his autobiography My Word Is My Bond, Roger Moore (who presented the award and had recently been announced as the new "James Bond, Agent 007") claims he took the Oscar home with him and kept it in his possession until it was collected by an armed guard sent by the Academy. The incident prompted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to rule out future proxy acceptance of the Academy Awards.

Apollo 16 astronaut, Charles M. Duke, standing on the Moon, April 1972.

 

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Bill Yates was 26 years old the first time he saw Sweetheart Roller Skating. It was autumn of 1972, and after a stint in the U.S. Navy, the Jacksonville, Florida, native was finishing up his final year of college at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He was studying photography. “I had just purchased a medium-format, twin-lens camera, and, as usual, I was out riding around looking for something to shoot,” he says. Sweetheart Roller Skating caught his eye. The Sweetheart was in a distinctly rural area of Hillsborough County called Six Mile Creek, beyond the Palm River east of downtown Tampa. Old Florida was still Old Florida then. Disney World had opened only a year earlier and had barely begun its transformation of Central Florida.

“The owner was just driving up,” he recalls. “‘Mind if I shoot some pics?’ I asked. He said, ‘Sure, but if you want some good ones, come back tonight — this place will be jumpin'.’" He took his Mamiya C330, a Honeywell Strobonar flash, and eight rolls of Tri-X 220 black-and-white film. He shot every roll.


The next weekend, he came back not only with his camera but also proof sheets of his first week’s photographs. He stapled them to the wooden walls of the rink, so his subjects — the teenage habitues of the Sweetheart — could see themselves.

“All of a sudden, I was their newest best friend,” Yates says. “They also saw that I wasn’t compromising them or trying to catch them in moments that were … indelicate, shall we say? Some of them hammed it up for the camera. Some of them were just deadpan. After a while I became like wallpaper. I was there, but I wasn’t. They just went on about their business. Over time, there came a level of trust. I just kind of entered their world, and they knew I was around and gave me full carte blanche.”

 

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A pensive Sophia Loren on the set of Man of La Mancha, 1972.

Pat Riley backing down Phil Jackson in a game in 1972.

Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris and Robert Wall on the set of Way of the Dragon 1972.

Angela Davis speaking at a women’s meeting c. 1972.

Clint Eastwood rides a rare miniature pony on the set of “Joe Kidd”, 1972.

Michael Caine & future wife Shakira Baksa at Heathrow Airport in 1972.

Young Princess Diana with her guinea pig Peanuts - 1972.

Author Joan Didion and her Chevrolet Corvette Stingray , 1972.

Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, Madison Square Garden, 1972.

As you may know, Elton John had a lot of flair back in 1972.

Robert Redfod poses for some shots with his motorcycle/dirtbike sporting his Jeremiah Johnson beard which he was filming at the time in 1972.

Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, 1972.

 

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The 1960 Valdivia earthquake (Spanish: Terremoto de Valdivia) or Great Chilean earthquake (Gran terremoto de Chile) of 22 May is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded. Various studies have placed it at 9.4–9.6 on the moment magnitude scale. It occurred in the afternoon (19:11 GMT, 15:11 local time), and lasted approximately 10 minutes. The resulting tsunami affected southern Chile, Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, eastern New Zealand, southeast Australia and the Aleutian Islands.

The epicenter of this megathrust earthquake was near Lumaco, approximately 570 kilometres (350 mi) south of Santiago, with Valdivia being the most affected city. The tremor caused localised tsunamis that severely battered the Chilean coast, with waves up to 25 metres (82 ft). The main tsunami raced across the Pacific Ocean and devastated Hilo, Hawaii. Waves as high as 10.7 metres (35 ft) were recorded 10,000 kilometres (6,200 mi) from the epicenter, and as far away as Japan and the Philippines.

The death toll and monetary losses arising from this widespread disaster are not certain.Various estimates of the total number of fatalities from the earthquake and tsunamis have been published, ranging between 1,000 and 7,000 killed. Different sources have estimated the monetary cost ranged from US$400 million to 800 million (or $3.31 billion to $6.62 billion today, adjusted for inflation).

Hawaii in the aftermath of the tsunami caused by the earthquake.

Two days later Puyehue volcano erupted, sending tons of ashes into the skies over Chile.

 

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Behind the scenes of Ghostbusters, 1984.

 

[C. Lee]

In May 1892, the French newspaper La Petite Gironde sponsored a unique contest: The first man to travel on stilts the 302 miles from Bordeaux to Bayonne and Biarritz and back would win 1,000 francs.

Sometimes the stilts broke, although they were made of strong ash. The men would then halt for repairs and seize the opportunity of taking a meal–soup and fried eggs, perhaps, with coffee and white wine. … First arrivals at various control-posts were presented with bouquets, laurel wreaths, and more substantial tokens in the shape of free rations and money. Others frankly touted for contributions in the towns, and made a grand thing of it.

Of 69 starters, 32 covered the course in the allotted time of eight and a half days. The prize went to 31-year-old Pierre Deycard, who finished in 4 days 7 hours — after which he was treated to a banquet of 15 courses “and then made to parade the town with a bank note for 1,000 francs pinned on his chest.”