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

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Angela Davis during an interview with Associated Press reporters Edith Lederer and Jeannine Yoemans at Santa Clara County jail, Palo Alto, 1971.

Women at the bus stop, Chicago, 1971.

Hugh Hefner, Arthur C Clarke, and Shel Silverstein sitting next to each other for a 1971 group photo of authors who had contributed to Playboy magazine.

Officers from NYPD's 48th Precinct, 1971.

A rainy night in Amsterdam, 1971.

1971 McDonald's Ad.

Electric typewriter ad, 1971.

Some of the big music hits from 1971:

 

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Miss Iraq at the 1972 Miss Universe Pageant.

The Jackson 5 perform on Soul Train, 1972.

ABBA's Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog circa 1972.

The crew, cast and extras from the 1972 film Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes mingle with the rest of campus life at U.C. Irvine. The grounds of the university were taken advantage of by the production for their "futuristic" look.

Palestinian terrorists brutally murdered 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team in the Olympic village at the 1972 Munich Games, here one of the masked gunman is seen on a balcony.

Munich massacre - Wikipedia

Eating fresh oysters, somewhere on the the bayou, 1972.

The muscical hits of 1972:

 

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David Bowie & The Spiders From Mars – Tour of Japan,1973, Flyer.

Leonid BREZHNEV, Soviet leader, on a State Visit to West Germany with Chancellor Willy BRANDT & Mrs Ruth BRANDT. May 1973, Bonn.

Three young men sunbathe on a green Ford Mustang on Daytona Beach, 1973.

Vietnamese Widow Cries, 1973.

View from the skies as a shot taken by one parachutist captures another, 1973.

September 11 means something else in Chile. Pictures from the 9/11/73
coup against the democratically elected government which was in fact backed by the United States.

The 1973 Chilean coup d'état was the overthrow of the socialist President of Chile Salvador Allende by the army and national police. It followed an extended period of social unrest and political tension between the opposition-controlled Congress of Chile and the socialist President Salvador Allende, as well as economic warfare ordered by US President Richard Nixon.

The military deposed Allende's Popular Unity government and later established a junta that suspended all political activity in Chile and repressed left-wing movements, especially communist and socialist parties and the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR). Allende's appointed army chief, Augusto Pinochet, rose to supreme power within a year of the coup and formally assumed power in late 1974. The Nixon administration, which had worked to create the conditions for the coup, promptly recognized the junta government and supported it in consolidating power.

During the air raids and ground attacks that preceded the coup, Allende gave his final speech, vowing to stay in the presidential palace and refusing offers of safe passage should he choose exile over confrontation. Direct witness accounts of Allende's death agree that he killed himself in the palace.

Before the coup, Chile had been hailed as a beacon of democracy and political stability for decades, a period in which the rest of South America had been plagued by military juntas and caudillismo. The collapse of Chilean democracy ended a succession of democratic governments in Chile, which had held democratic elections since 1932. Historian Peter Winn characterised the 1973 coup as one of the most violent events in the history of Chile. A weak insurgent movement against the Pinochet regime was maintained inside Chile by elements sympathetic to the former Allende government. An internationally supported plebiscite in 1988 held under the auspices of the military dictatorship was followed by a peaceful transition to an elected civilian government.

The hits of 1973:

 

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Muhammad Ali during the weigh-in process before his second boxing match with Joe Frazier, Jan. 23, 1974.

John Lennon and his son visit the set of Happy Days, 1974.

Phil Read ~ MV Agusta 500GP ~ 1974 Czech 500cc Grand Prix.

At the gas pump, 1974.

Miners Line Up to Go Into the Elevator Shaft at the Virginia-Pocahontas Coal Company Mine #4 near Richlands, Virginia, 1974.

The New York Daily News, from August of 1974.

Sly Stone & Kathy Silva on their wedding day in 1974. The invitations said "Wear something gold".

The music of 1974:

 

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TV's The Jeffersons on the cover of Jet in March 1975.

The Runaways (Joan Jett, Jackie Fox, Lita Ford) at the influential club CBGB's, Manhattan, NYC, August 2, 1975 Photo Richard E. Aaron.

William Guest, Eddie Patten, Jimmie Walker, Gladys Knight appear on the “The Gladys Knight and the Pips Show” (1975).

Queen in Japan, 1975.

From some publication back in 1975, a day in the life of The Nature Boy, wrasslin's own Ric Flair.

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Joe “The Godfather” Anthony with Rush during the Canadian trio’s 1975 debut trip to San Antonio where they performed at Randy’s Rodeo. Rush went on to worldwide superstardom and never forgot to credit Joe for being an early supporter. (photo courtesy Al Rendon). Of course Joe’s early endorsement of Rush is perhaps his greatest claim to fame (go ask Geddy Lee … and his banker). Thanks to early spins from Joe, this enduring best-selling Canadian band — for all practical purposes — actually catapulted out of San Antonio, some 1,500 miles from home. Keep in mind that this countdown to stardom took place back when tape-trading and word-of-mouth were “the Internet” of the day. In other words, the odds of Rush becoming millionaires by way of Alamo City were more complicated than a Neil Peart drum solo. Distant early warning? Indeed.

Model, actress and singer Grace Jones by Francis Giacobetti from Lui Magazine, Feb. of 1975.

On the sidewalks of New York City, 1975. Photography by Joel Meyerowitz.

This is the first photo of Venus’s surface, from Oct 20, 1975.

The music hits of 1975:

 

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Charles Custer, dead at 91, with wife Irene Custer took photos capturing a time capsule of Route 66, Americana

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The photos shot by Charles and Irene Custer might be the closest many of us will ever get to time travel. Developed again for the first time in almost 70 years, they capture images of smalltown stores, diners, barbershops and beauty parlors on historic Route 66 and other roads. It’s an America of honky-tonks and hair pomades, where coffee cost a nickel, a hot dog set you back 15 cents, and the jukebox was ready to play your favorite song.

Their pictures, taken with an Agfa box camera, are panoramic and dioramic, so detailed that even the linoleum floors reveal secrets. You can see dusty bootprints, each discarded straw at the soda fountain, the individual hairs on barbershop floors.

Route 66 expert and author Michael Wallis likens the photography of Charles and irene Custer to “commercial archaeology.” Charles and Irene Custer’s photos of smalltown, postwar America are so well-lit and composed that they’re like “Hollywood stage sets,” said Richard Cahan, a former Sun-Times picture editor and author of photo books.




Irene and Charles Custer on a honeymoon stop in Corpus Christi, Texas. A relative doodled on the picture.

What the Custers captured across America in the 1950's:

 

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Inside a café, Mound Bayou 1976 by Alex Webb.

Emergency landing of the Yak-40 in Osokorky near Kyiv Ukraine on June 2, 1976.On the flight to Zhuliany airport, a Soviet liner Yak-40, aircraft number USSR-87541, the Lithuanian Aeroflot Civil Aviation Authority operating a Kaunas-Kyiv flight, was forced to land to the swampy area of Osokorky. There was no casualties.

Sophia Loren photographed by Helmut Newton, ca. 1976.

Theatrical poster for Carrie, 1976.

Theatrical poster for Rocky, 1976.

The exterior of the average subway car in service with the MTA of New York City in 1976.

Lynda Carter signing autographs in her Wonder Woman costume, 1976.

Robert De Niro on the set of Taxi Driver, 1976.

The music hits of 1976:

 

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Here You Come Again Dolly Parton RCA Victor Records/USA (1977) Photo by Ed Caraeff.

Sunday best... Two kids in pinstripes at the Easter Parade, NYC, 1977.

The "get" for Christmas of 1977.

Jason Alexander as he was at Livingston High School, NJ, 1977.

Brad Pitt, 1977.

Thurman Munson celebrates with George Steinbrenner in the locker room, 1977.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hugh Hefner, and Wilt Chamberlain at the Playboy mansion in 1977.

Exterior Shot of CBGB, 1977.

A release by 20th Century Fox in regards to bootleg Star Wars merch from 1977.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose documentary film “Pumping Iron” is to be presented at the Cannes Film Festival, is showing off his body for an appreciative beach audience in Cannes, France, May 20, 1977. (AP Photo)

The music hits of 1977:

 

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Korean Shop owners and workers defending their stores during the LA Riots.

 

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Akira Kurosawa and Francis Ford Coppola, 1978.

Pics from a Sex Pistols show in Tulsa 1978, as well as signs of protest to their performance from across the street from the venue.

The Jonestown Massacre, November 18, 1978.


A grisly scene from both on high and upon the Earth as well. On 11/18/78 the so called Jonestown Massacre took place. Followers of the charismatic populist preacher Jim Jones en masse took poisoned drinks at the behest of their spiritual leader.

A total of 909 members of People's Cult died of cyanide poisoning and 2 by gunshot in Jonestown, Guyana. It was the largest such event in modern history and resulted in the largest single loss of American civilian life in a deliberate act until the events of September 11, 2001.

Jim Jones was a charismatic churchman who established the Peoples Temple, a Christian sect, in Indianapolis in the 1950s. He preached against racism, and his integrated congregation attracted many African Americans. In 1965, he moved the group to Northern California, settling in Ukiah and after 1971 in San Francisco.

Back in Jonestown, Jones commanded everyone to gather in the main pavilion and commit what he termed a "revolutionary act." The youngest members of the Peoples Temple were the first to die, as parents and nurses used syringes to drop a potent mix of cyanide, sedatives and powdered fruit juice into children's throats. Adults then lined up to drink the poison-laced concoction while armed guards surrounded the pavilion.

More than 400 unclaimed bodies from the Jonestown tragedy are buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Oakland, California, where many of Jim Jones' followers were from.

Jean-Claude Van Damme at the European amateur championship in bodybuilding, 1978.

Eartha Kitt with an actor from her Broadway musical "Timbuktu!" in 1978.

Sid Vicious Holds a Knife to Nancy Spungen's throat At Johnny Rotten’s House In 1978.

Sid Vicious - Wikipedia

The music hits of 1978:

 

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Cover for Fantastic Films Magazine, September of 1979 showcasing Alien.

1979 Carrie Fisher napping on the set of “The Empire Strikes Back".

One sheet for the 1979 film adaptation of The Wh0's Quadrophenia.

Blondie’s Debbie Harry whets her whistle with a brewski on the video shoot for ‘Heart of Glass’ (1979).

Madonna, modeling, 1979.

In 1979 and on his way to fame and acclaim, Robin Williams became the first ever male cheerleader for the Denver Broncos football team. Anything for a laugh.

Future American President Barrack Obama, 1979.

The music hits of 1979:

 

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A story of Audie Murphy (the most decorated combat soldier in American history, earning every commendation the army could bestow by the time he was 20, including the Medal of Honor. He was also awarded France's and Belgium's highest decorations)...he was 5' 5" and slight of build.

On the night of December 10, 1946....when Audie was driving north from Dallas along U.S. 75 toward McKinney, he was almost relieved of his car by a hitchhiker.

It was raining hard and Audie noticed a large man (6'2", 190 pounds) "limping along the highway." Playing the part of a good Samaritan, Murphy offered the bedraggled walker a ride. "After I had driven about a mile," Audie related, "the man suddenly jammed something into my ribs, slapped me across the mouth and said, "I'm the boss now. If you won't talk this .45 will. I can use this car." After riding several miles further, the passenger ordered Audie to stop at a roadside gas station, took the keys to the car, and ordered Murphy "to slide along the seat and get out on his side of the car." "The man's left hand," related Audie, "hidden under an old army blouse that the hitchhiker had been wearing, was still jammed into my ribs." As Audie started to ease along the seat he decided to make a fight for the gun. He grabbed the man's hand, found he had no gun and "struck him a blow that tumbled him from the car onto the filling station drive." According to the owner of the gas station, a ten minute fist fight took place with Audie getting much the best of it and finally knocking the man out. The State Police were called and, by coincidence, Audie's good friend Everett Brandon was one of the officers who soon arrived on the scene. The bleeding and badly beaten assailant was arrested and, according to the Fort Worth Star Telegram, placed in the Collin County jail in McKinney.

Murphy hardly looks ruffled.

 

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This 1942 photo was taken in a staging area at the Buick assembly plant in Flint, Michigan that had been quickly converted from automotive to radial engine assembly.

 

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Barbara Res, pictured in 1980, helping construct the Trump Tower.

Rocking vocalist Pat Benatar, 1980.

Aboard an American school bus for children on Halloween, 1980.

Catching a smoke in a phone booth, NYC, 1980.

The group that would go on to be known as Texas' own Pantera in 1980.

Having a blast on the Salt River, Arizona, 1980.

Weird Al Yankovic Doing His Radio Show on KCPR around 1980.

Campaign button for Ronald Reagan's 1980 bid for the American presidency.

Ronald Reagan as Time Magazine's Man Of The Year, 1980, from the edition cover dated January, 1981.

Some of the music hits of 1980:

 

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Bernadette Peters as Betty Boop on Saturday Night Live, 1981.

Rainn Wilson, Shorecrest High School, freshman year, 1981.

Prince of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne with guitarist Randy Rhoads 1981.

Travelers on a North Yorkshire Scooter trip stop to take a pic, 1981.

British soldier and little girl eye each other up during 'The Troubles' in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1981.

A passage from Dean Koontz's 1981 book Eyes Of Darkness.

1981 electronics advertisement for the Atari 800XL Computer.

Cover and some of the interior contents for the fan " 'zine" X-Men Chronichles, from July 1981.

Some of the music hits of 1981.

 

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A story of Audie Murphy (the most decorated combat soldier in American history, earning every commendation the army could bestow by the time he was 20, including the Medal of Honor. He was also awarded France's and Belgium's highest decorations)...he was 5' 5" and slight of build.

On the night of December 10, 1946....when Audie was driving north from Dallas along U.S. 75 toward McKinney, he was almost relieved of his car by a hitchhiker.

It was raining hard and Audie noticed a large man (6'2", 190 pounds) "limping along the highway." Playing the part of a good Samaritan, Murphy offered the bedraggled walker a ride. "After I had driven about a mile," Audie related, "the man suddenly jammed something into my ribs, slapped me across the mouth and said, "I'm the boss now. If you won't talk this .45 will. I can use this car." After riding several miles further, the passenger ordered Audie to stop at a roadside gas station, took the keys to the car, and ordered Murphy "to slide along the seat and get out on his side of the car." "The man's left hand," related Audie, "hidden under an old army blouse that the hitchhiker had been wearing, was still jammed into my ribs." As Audie started to ease along the seat he decided to make a fight for the gun. He grabbed the man's hand, found he had no gun and "struck him a blow that tumbled him from the car onto the filling station drive." According to the owner of the gas station, a ten minute fist fight took place with Audie getting much the best of it and finally knocking the man out. The State Police were called and, by coincidence, Audie's good friend Everett Brandon was one of the officers who soon arrived on the scene. The bleeding and badly beaten assailant was arrested and, according to the Fort Worth Star Telegram, placed in the Collin County jail in McKinney.

Murphy hardly looks ruffled.

Wow.

Guy must have been either stupid or desperate. This was 1946, and while Murphy would become even better known later due to his film career, I mean... This dude really didn't recognize a dude that had won the CMH during the war period... Which ended the previous year?

As you say... Play stupid games...

 

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Steven Spielberg with the young cast members of both E.T. and Poltergeist, Summer of 1982.

Rollerskating in Central Park, 1982.

People were easily impressed by video game graphics in 1982.

Seiko B&W TV Watch TR02-01 (1982, Japan)

Commadore 64 ad, 1982.

The beginning of Gamer humor, 1982.

Hustler Magazine "tastefully" reports on the AIDS (then called GRID, Gay Related Immunodeficiency ) virus, 1982.

British forces march towards their next objective during the Falklands War between Argentina and the U.K., 1982.

Falklands War - Wikipedia

Some of the music hits of 1982:

 

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U.S. soldier patrolling past a fashion shoot in post American invasion Grenada, 1983.

United States invasion of Grenada - Wikipedia

A Gay Pride event, Paris, 1983. Photo by Jearld Moldenhauer.

A British crowd looks on during a performance by David Bowie, 1983.

1983 TV Guide ad for Bea Arthur's 'Amanda's' tv series (an American version of the British show Fawlty Towers). The show was short lived with the first episode airing on Feb 10, 1983 and the last episode airing on May 26, 1983.

Space Shuttle Challenger on launch pad is struck by lightning, August 1983.

The Great One, Wayne Gretzky, 1983.

1983 Omaha tribe pow-wow, Macy, Nebraska.

Punks on King Road, London, 1983.

NYC 1983 Ninth Ave at 34 Street.

 

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from the 1918 Influenza (aka Spanish Flu) epidemic

1937 flu epidemic

 

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Eddie Murphy at the premiere of Purple Rain, 1984.

Knight Rider sticker album, 1984.

Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward (1984) - Album Cover.

Whoopie Goldberg Circa 1984.

Cutting edge Pop Artist Keith Haring, 1984.

Keith Haring - Wikipedia

Freddy and the boys on the set of the I Want To Break Free music video, 1984.

The posters for the films of 1984:

Some of the music hits of 1984:

 

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Michelle Pfeiffer on the set of the Richard Donner film Ladyhawke (1985).

Alumns of the so-called "Brat Pack" of 1980's Hollywood, the cast of St. Elmo's Fire takes a group photo in 1985.

Busker plays sax on the NYC subway, 1985.

Theatrical poster for the cult film Fright Night, from 1985. Fright Night is one of the films with a following from the era whose noteriety is based on the changing ways films were starting to be distributed. Not a big screen success, certainly no blockbuster, Fright Night found it's audience on VHS rental and premium cable channels like HBO.

Manute Bol and Spud Webb, 1985.

Jordan trading card for 1985.

Phil Collins talks with a crew member on the set of Miam Vice, 1985.

A Woman and Her Daughter at Salinas Street Bus Stop, Syracuse, NY, 1985.

November '85 cover for Bop Magazine.

The dance floor of the famed Paladium night club in NYC with a backdrop painted by Keith Haring, 1985.

Some of the music hits of 1985:

 

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Cover of Life Magazine from August of 1986.

Chernobyl, 10 days after the catastrophe, 1986.

A family of punks at the 60th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II outside Buckingham Palace - 1986.

What a mashup... Beastie Boys, Run DMC, Rick Rubin and Slayer, 1986.

Terry Jones of Monty Python takes a trip to meet some other madmen on the set of Labyrinth, 1986.

Gold mine, Serra Pelada, Brazil, 1986 - by Sebastião Salgado.
The largest nugget weighed unearthed he weighed 15 lbs. In 1986 at the time of these pictures the unsolved murders per month ranged between 60-80.

Turns out... They were right.

Some of the music hits of 1986:

 

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The Osbournes in 1987.

It's 1987... And the Cabbage Patch craze is in full swing.

DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince released their debut album Rock The House March 19, 1987.

Tab cola and a brand new Sony Walkman... It don't get more 1987 than this.

Package art for the first Metal Gear game released in 1987.

The wordsmith and the mix master, Eric B. and Rakim, 1987.

Doug Collins on the sidelines during a 1987 Chicago Bulls game. (Yes... That's Phil Jackson in the back.)

British Airways Concorde does a flyby at Abbotsford Airshow August 1987. In some of the photos you can spot a) Mount Baker and b) and SR-71 parked on the tarmac.

Some of the music hits of 1987:

 

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President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev on Red Square in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral, May 31, 1988, with interpreter Pavel Palazhchenko to the right. Just out of the picture is U.S. Navy lieutenant commander Woody Lee, carrying the “football” briefcase with U.S. nuclear war plan options and launch codes for missiles targeting Red Square.

I own this particular issue of the Marvel humor comic What The--?! from 1988.
Here the Marvel guys poke some fun at "the Distinguished Competition". Of further note, the art is by Todd McFarlane, who at the time was doing the final chapters of Batman: Year Two.

Ric Ocasek, Pia Zadora & John Waters On the set of Hairspray, 1988.

Soninke women painting a wall in Mauritania, 1988.

Box art for the PC Game Wasteland, from 1988.

Ad for the game Double Dragon II, 1988.

Cover art for Blades Of Steel, a hockey game from 1988.

Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Fest 1988 flyer.

Tom Hanks on the set of Big, 1988.

Some of the music hits of 1988:

 

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Tanks on the street of Bucharest during the 1989 revolution.

Protestors including Keith Haring march to condemn the New York City government’s handing of the AIDS crisis. 1989.

American soldiers during the Panama invasion that desposed Manuel Noriega, 1989.

Eric B & Rakim On 14th Street in New York City, circa 1989. Photo by Michael Ochs.

If you look closely you'll just be able to make out Shaq in his 1989 high school basketball team photo.

Axel and Eigil Axgil, the first same-sex couple in the world to receive legal recognition and rights under a national law. Copenhagen, Denmark. Oct. 1, 1989.

Micael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and friend on the set of Back To The Future II, 1989.

A theater marquee circa 1989.

Duane Kearns Puryear holding his own AIDS panel at ‘Display on Ellipse’ in Washington, D.C., 1989.

NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt - Wikipedia

In 1989, around 1/6th of Hong Kong's Population Marched in Support of Chinese Students at Tiananmen Square.

Some of the music hits of 1989: