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

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About the Rush joke - considering it's 1981: Moving Pictures?

Yahtzee!

 

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Bret Favre on draft day, 1991.

Some overly excited kids from a software catalog, 1991.

The sultry Monica Bellucci in a photo shoot from 1991.

Nirvana's Dave Grohl opening a Kinder Surprise Egg, backstage, 1991.

"Super Models" Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell by Ellen von Unwerth, 1991.

Designer Gianni Versace with Cindy Crawford, Niki Taylor, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christenson and Linda Evangelista, 1991.

Halloween, Minnesota, 1991.

1991 Apple Computer cofounder Steve Wozniak (middle) and John Sculley, CEO (right), playing Game Boy.

From Mad Magazine, 1991. Artist: Sam Viviano, Writer: Frank Jacobs. (I actually remember buying this issue, dated January of that year.)

Victor and the vanquished - decapitated T-55 in the Gulf while oil fields burn in the background, 1991.

 

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The Marvel Trading Cards from 1991 that covered the various equipment and paraphernalia of the Marvel stable of super heroes at the time.

 

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George Mendonsa the man in one of the most iconic photos of the 20th century named "The Kiss" has passed away.

 

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Less than 24 hours later

 

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Less than 24 hours later

To be fair, she did say later that he didn't ask permission. Seems like something you oughta do.

 

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Just some average middle American high schoolers in 1976.

New York City on July 4, 1976.

David Prowse who was the on set performer of Darth Vader and Sir Alec Guinness rehearse their famous lightsaber duel for STAR WARS in 1976.

Director Joe Johnston (THE ROCKETEER, CAPTAIN AMERICA) in his custom Darth Vader costume and SFX artist John Dykstra at a 1976 ILM Halloween party.

Bowie during his Thin White Duke phase, on stage, 1976.

An ad for "Glad Rags" from 1976.

The SS Sansinena had discharged all tanks of crude oil and was taking on ballast and fuel when she exploded. A thick layer of hydrocarbon vapor sat on the deck due to improper venting and a unknown ignition source caused it to explode. The ships heavy covering was secured with rivets. The blast blew out the 1 pound rivets through the air. The midship section was blown out of the water and landed 200 yards away on top of a guard shack. The security officer was never found. 6 were killed and 50 hospitalized. The blast was so extreme that windows shattered over a mile away. Length-804 ft Beam-104 ft Draft- 42 ft The midship ship section that was sent 200 yards was 500 ft long. December 17, 1976.

SS Sansinena - Wikipedia

Photographer Bob Gruen poses Debbie Harry of Blondie fame in a "wrecked" car on 6th Ave. and 50th St. in NYC, September, 1976.

Disneyland Space Mountain Construction c.1976.

Jodie Foster, Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, Cannes, 1976.

 

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6 June 1944: A Canadian soldier stands at the head of a group of German prisoners of war, including two officers, on Juno Beach, Normandy.

July 1944: United States Army trucks and jeeps drive through the ruins of Saint-Lo.

6 June 1944: A Canadian soldier directs traffic in Bernières-sur-Mer. 14,000 Canadian soldiers had landed at nearby Juno Beach.

12 June 1944: A group of American soldiers stand in the village of Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, which was liberated by paratroopers of the 501st and 506th Regiments of the 101st Airborne Division.

1944: A French armoured column passing through Sainte-Mère-Église receives a warm welcome from its inhabitants.

6 June 1944: Troops of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division land at Juno Beach on the outskirts of Bernières-sur-Mer on D-day.

6 June 1944: Royal Marine Commandos of Headquarters, 4th Special Service Brigade, make their way from LCI(S) (Landing Craft Infantry Small) onto 'Nan Red' Beach at Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer.

June 1944: American craft of all styles pictured at Omaha Beach, Normandy, during the first stages of the Allied invasion.

May 1944: Ammunition stored in the town square of Moreton-in-Marsh shortly before D-day.

June 1944: Boats full of US troops wait to leave Weymouth to take part in Operation Overlord.

 

[C. Lee]

In 1934, Clyde Barrow of the notorious duo Bonnie & Clyde and fan of the Ford V8 sent Henry Ford a letter thanking him for making great getaway cars.

The letter reads:

Tulsa, Okla
10th April

Mr. Henry Ford
Detroit Mich.

Dear Sir: –

While I still have got breath in my lungs I will tell you what a dandy car you make. I have drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with one. For sustained speed and freedom from trouble the Ford has got ever other car skinned and even if my business hasen’t been strickly legal it don’t hurt anything to tell you what a fine car you got in the V8 –

Yours truly
Clyde Champion Barrow

Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde =

They were killed from a hail of gunshots from 6 police officers (4 from Texas, 2 from Louisiana) working together because part of B&C's standard practices was to hit banks close to a state's border so that they could quickly cross state lines and stop pursuit from the police. The police figured where they believed they would show up (close the home of one of their crew's father) set up an ambush and waited for them show. When they appeared, the police opened fire immediately and according to reports fired around 130 rounds. According to the coroner, there were 17 entrance wounds of Clyde and 26 on Bonnie with several head wounds each.

Pictures of their car.

 

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Photographs taken of arriving immigrants at Ellis Island, New York, circa 1900 to 1907.

Sami children from Sweden.

German man.

Indian boy.

Guadeloupean woman.

Italian woman.

Cossack man from Russia.

Danish Man.

Romanian Man.

Alsace Lorraine girl.

Algerian man.

 

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Showing off, 1977.

Waiting in line for Star Wars, 1977.

The Runaways, 1977.

South Korean President Moon Jae-In. serving in his country's Special forces (1975-1977).

On the streets of Milan, Italy, 1977.

Machining a Space Shuttle Main Engine injector in 1977.

Surf photographer Dan Merkel shooting in 1977.

Dolly Parton in 1977.

Ad for Apple computer, 1977.

Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford, 1977.

 

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Liam Neeson, 1983.

July 1983 - U.S. Marine peacekeepers run past the wreck of a Sherman tank in Lebanon.

Mother of a Marine killed in the Beirut bombing cries on the shoulder of President Ronald Reagan, 1983.

Harrison Ford looks into the camera strapped to a makeshift mine cart rig on the 1983 set of TEMPLE OF DOOM.

Henry Rollins, 1983.

Sigourney Weaver, 1983.

Gaming, 1983 style.

Robert Downey Jr. and Sarah Jessica Parker, 1983.

Sharon Stone, 1983.

82nd Airborne Division soldiers, Grenada, 1983.

Some kids hanging out... Oh, also Keanu Reeves on the right there, 1983.

 

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BTS of the making of RETURN OF THE JEDI, 1982-1983.

 

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Arnold Schwarzenegger With His Stunt Double Peter Kent On The Set Of Commando, 1985.

Rowan Atkinson and Christian Bale in 1985.

Sigourney Weaver looking to camera between takes on Aliens in 1985, London.

A mother holds their child up to a mirror for the first time, 1985.

A fisherman takes in the view overlooking Elephant Island, Antarctica, 1985.

Soviet army radio operator, 1985.

The Cure, 1985.

Cover of PLAYBOY, November, 1985.

And... As turnabout is fair play, the October cover of PLAYGIRL.

Warhol vs Basquiat exhibition poster, 1985.

 

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Gaming, 1983 style.

Nice setup. Must have cost a fortune at the time.

 

[C. Lee]

on January 18th, 1968, Eartha Kitt stood in a room full of white women at The Women Doers Luncheon, GOT IN LADYBIRD JOHNSON’S FACE, and told her that the government was sending the best of the youth off to be shot and killed and, in not so many words, that THAT was the reason the youth were rebelling. She ALSO stopped President Johnson after he made a statement claiming that mothers should be responsible for stopping their kids from becoming criminals and asked about “the parents who have to go to work, for instance, who can’t spend time with their children as they should”. It was brushed off by LBJ who only mentioned the funding for day care centers put in place by the recently passed Social Security bill, and then more or less said that the women at that luncheon should figure it out for themselves.

She was blacklisted, but she defended every word she said that day.

 

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Natalie Portman by Regan Cameron for British Vogue, August 1999.

Jessie Pinkman (Aaron Paul) from Breaking Bad in a Corn Pops commercial (1999)

Nickelodeon Magazine - June-July 1999.

April 1999 issue of Rolling Stone.

A young Jason Momoa on Baywatch - 1999.

Daft Punk, sans the masks, Musik magazine, 1999.

MAD Magazine asks, "How should we kill Pikachu ?" (From the October, 1999 issue. The winner ? Death by blender).

Lauryn Hill won five Grammys, a record for a female artist, with the first hip-hop recording to be named an album of the year, ''The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,'' at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium in 1999.

October 8, 1999 cover of the New York Daily News.

 

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Eazy-E Skateboarding in Venice Beach, 1989.

Marvel's Unused Nightmare on Elm Street Comic Art 1989.

A young tank crewman behind a sniper in University Square - Romanian Revolution, 1989.

Fighting Ceausescu and eating Baklava, Romania 1989.

Nirvana, Al's Bar in Los Angeles, 1989.

A rainy day in Paris, 1989.

Toronto Downtown 1989 vs 2016.

Sneaking a kiss through the Berlin Wall. ~1989.

What an American High School radio DJ booth looked like in 1989.

 

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Navy Master Chief Carl Brashear. He overcame many challenges to be the first African American deep sea diver and Master diver in the Navy's history.

 

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Yuki Kato Morgan photographed with her dog in 1912. She was the wife of George Denison Morgan (nephew of JP Morgan) and a former geisha.

George Denison Morgan's return from Japan in 1904 ruffled more than a few feathers. American eyes were watching as newspapers around the country reported on the arrival of Yuki Kato, also known as Morgan O-Yuki, and her introduction into high society. "My wife will be initiated into society as far as she cares to go," George Denison Morgan said to reporters after their arrival. But her reception by the upper crust of high society, was not what he had hoped. "She entered it upon sandaled feet and in a purple kimono, a daughter of Buddha, smoking cigarettes," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and many other papers around the country reported. Other reports included that she refused to wear western clothing or that when she did, it was ill-fitting; that she refused to learn English and spoke French, poorly. Her religious beliefs were scrutinized, as the Morgan family were staunch pillars of the Episcopalian church in the city. "I can't see why George thought it necessary to bring that girl to this country," his stepmother, Sarah Mifflin Morgan, told the press. "She isn't pretty; she isn't attractive. She doesn't speak English and the marriage doesn't appeal to me as romantic. We are anything but pleased." George Denison Morgan was the rogue son of J.P. Morgan's sister, Sarah Spencer Morgan (who died in 1896) and her husband, George Hale Morgan (a seventh cousin from the non-financial side of the family). Raised in New York and at his parents summer home, Ventfort Hall, he failed to fall in line like his cousins and two siblings. He was described as the Morgan who "went to Yale University without getting a degree; got engaged without getting married and worked at his uncle's banking house without becoming a businessman." Talk of romantic escapades in Lenox and New York and the canceled engagement (due to the discovery of an ongoing affair) were a few of the reasons that led to George Denison Morgan's overseas tour that led him to first visit Japan in 1900. He would first meet Yuki Kato in a Kyoto tea house in 1902. "Yuki Kato was in love and engaged to a young Japanese law student. She really wasn't interested in George. George was in love with her. She was quite famous — probably the most famous geisha in her time." But Yuki Kato came around. The young law student, with her financial support, graduated from college. Betraying her, he then married another woman. She reached out to Morgan via a self-addressed envelope he had left for her. He returned, bought out her contract with the geisha house at a cost of 40,000 yen ($20,000) and married her. In doing so, Yuki Kato, lost her Japanese citizenship. When it became clear that New York society would not accept Yuki Kato, save for George's sister, the couple settled in Paris. There they remained until George's unexpected death in 1915 (in the arms of another woman in Barcelona). His will called for his fortune of $400,000 to go to his wife, but the will's executors questioned if she had right to the funds. In 1924, it was determined that, although she was the rightful heir, she would inherit nothing as the bulk of the fortune was used to pay off debts and bequeaths. But Yuki Kato did not live a life of destitution. Her sister-in-law supported her prior to and after World War II. She returned to Japan in 1938, where she lived under constant surveillance as a suspected spy for the United States. Following the war, a Japanese musical about her life as a geisha and bride-in-exile, resurrected her fame.

 

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The inauguration of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, 1886.

Execution by cannon, in Shiraz, Iran, Mid-Late 1800s.

27th Aug 1896, Britain conquered the Zanzibar Sultanate. The war lasted just 40 mins & is the shortest war in history.

Sally Halterman, the first woman granted a license to operate a motorcycle in Washington, D.C., 1937.

Targa the elephant disembarks from a train in the Bronx, 1963.

Mobile Record Store, Jamaica, 1973.

 

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Out and about around Los Angeles, California through the 1960's.

 

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1941 - Coast Guard “training” a Great Dane.

Due to the size and weight of a Great Dane the United States Military in World War II wanted to train the dogs to be like the German Shepherd‘s currently being used with great success. The training program was so unsuccessful that it drove a dog training Sergeant to tears. When he repeatedly tried to get a Great Dane to jump over an obstacle, the playful Great Dane would run up to the obstacle, grab the entire structure in his teeth and then bring it back to the Sergeant and place it at his feet wanting to play. It was shortly after that the United States Military gave up training Great Danes for war.

 

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Tower Bridge, London, under construction, 1889.

The six-year-old Brooklyn Bridge, 1889.

Eiffel Tower under construction, Paris, 1889.

Dôme Central at the 1889 Paris World Fair view from the first floor of the Eiffel Tower.

Inside the Galerie des Machines. Look at the seats in the bottom left to see the building scale.

Deadwood City Hall in what is now South Dakota, 1889.

Nintendo's first office in 1889
This photograph was taken in 1889, when Nintendo was founded as a hanafuda card company, and published by a French publisher.

The swimming pool at Henry Flagler's Hotel Alcazar in St. Augustine, Florida, Worlds largest pool in 1889.

 

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Famous Irish explorer Tom Crean and sled dog pups circa 1890.

Tom Crean (explorer) - Wikipedia

Stockholm Telephone Tower, 1890.

Wounded Knee Massacre, Dec. 29th, 1890.

On December 29th 1890 the US killed approximately 300 Native Americans that they were attempting to disarm and relocate. What started the fight is still slightly debated but the common theory is that during the disarming of the Native Americans a rifle was discharged and then a massacre commenced. Many women and children as well as unarmed men were murdered. Some killed were women and children that were hunted down as far out as 2 miles away from the initial fight. They were hunted and gunned down as they fled.

US Civilians were hired to dig a mass grave. The commander of the US cavalry troop involved in this massacre was later promoted to Major General.

Rainy London street, circa 1890.

Picture said to be of Empress Myeongseong (Queen Min) of Korea, 1890.

Walking along 42nd street,New York City, Circa 1890.

Bandit's Roost, 59½ Mulberry Street, Manhattan, New York City, circa 1890. A spot known for it's congregations of various criminals on the island.

Late 19th-century New York City was a magnet for the world’s immigrants, and the vast majority of them found not streets paved with gold but nearly subhuman squalor. While polite society turned a blind eye, brave reporters like the Danish-born Jacob Riis documented this shame of the Gilded Age. Riis did this by venturing into the city’s most ominous neighborhoods with his blinding magnesium flash powder lights, capturing the casual crime, grinding poverty and frightful overcrowding. Most famous of these was Riis’ image of a Lower East Side street gang, which conveys the danger that lurked around every bend. Such work became the basis of his revelatory book How the Other Half Lives, which forced Americans to confront what they had long ignored and galvanized reformers like the young New York politician Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote to the photographer, “I have read your book, and I have come to help.” Riis’ work was instrumental in bringing about New York State’s landmark Tenement House Act of 1901, which improved conditions for the poor. And his crusading approach and direct, confrontational style ushered in the age of documentary and muckraking photojournalism.

George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera, taking a selfie ca. 1890.

Exterior of a Toronto Hotel circa 1890.