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

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Before he played Morpheus Lawrence Fishburn was Cowboy Curtis on Pee-Wee's Playhouse, 1986.

A man rides a whites-only bus in Durban in protest of South African apartheid policies (1986).

Spike Lee, the director of She’s Gotta Have It, poses at the Greenwich Village Theater in New York on Sept. 28, 1986

Twisted tracks at Lázaro Cárdenas on Mexico’s Pacific attest an earthquake’s ground-wrenching power, National Geographic, May 1986.-

Funnyman John Candy from a 1986 Muppets Magazine issue.

Keshia Knight Pulliam as Rudy Huxtable on ‘The Cosby Show’ episode “Theo’s Holiday” (1986)

Melanie Griffith in Something Wild, 1986.

Singer George Michaels circa 1986.

Lunch of combine harvesters drivers on a collective farm named after Krupskaya, Cherkasy region, Ukraine, 1986.

 

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Charles Bronson And Danny Trejo On The Set Of Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)

Detective Comics 583 cover by Mike Mignola (1987)

A man protesting against a Maryland sodomy law (Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington, D.C., October 11, 1987)

Run-DMC, Davy D and The Beastie Boys in Manhattan, 1987.

Lisa Bonet escapes from the family sitcom to appear in Angel Heart, 1987.

Pope John Paul II holding mass at Dodger Stadium in 1987.

Tony Hawk and his father Frank Hawk, 1987.

Protestors clash with police during a demonstration in Seol, South Korea, 1987.

 

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June 4th 2019 marked the 15th anniversary of the Killdozer's rampage through Granby Colorado.
Sit down kids and let me tell you a tale, about a reasonable man driven to do unreasonable things.
Marvin Heemeyer was a man who owned a muffler shop in Granby Colorado. The city council ordained to approve the construction of a concrete factory in the lot across from Marvin's shop. In the process this blocked the only access road to the muffler shop. Marvin petitioned to stop the construction to no avail. Petitioned to construct a new access road, and even bought the heavy machinery to do so himself. Denied.
The concrete factory went up in disregard to the ramifications on Marvin's business. To add insult to injury, the factory construction disconnected the muffler shop from the city sewage lines. An indifferent city government then chose to fine Marvin for this.
His business and livelihood were in ruin. Rather than lie down and die, Marvin chose to fight back. Over the course of a year and a half Marvin secretly outfitted the bulldozer he bought to save his business with three inch thick steel and concrete armor, camera systems guarded with bulletproof glass.
On June 4th 2004 Marvin Heemeyer lowered the armored shell over top of himself, entombing himself inside the Killdozer to make his last stand.
He burst forth from the walls of his muffler shop and straight into the concrete factory that ruined his business. Over the course of the next several hours Marvin drove his Killdozer through 13 buildings owned by those officials that had wronged him, including the city council building itself.
Swat teams swarmed the dozer, but it proved immune to small arms fire and even explosives. Another piece of heavy machinery was even brought out to fight the Killdozer, but it too fell to the dozers righteous fury.
In the end, Marvin's Killdozer became trapped in one of the buildings it was built to destroy. Marvin chose to take his life, the only life he took that day.
Today we celebrate Killdozer day and Marvin Heemeyer, the last great American folk hero. A man driven to the brink who chose to fight back against an indifferent system.
From notes left behind after his passing:
"I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things."
When injustice becomes the law, resistance becomes duty

 

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Meet Hazel Ying Lee who served with the Women Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs) in World War II. She was the first Chinese-American woman to fly for the U.S. military. Hazel broke all stereotypes that she faced growing up, and went on to be a critical part of the war effort. Hazel delivered aircraft that would then be shipped to European and Pacific war fronts. She was described by her fellow pilots as “calm and fearless.”

 

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7 second video delay for a Richard Pryor show, NBC 1975

 

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Tokyo 1978

 

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Pop Singer Rick Astley meeting Princess Diana, 1988

December 21, 1988 A bomb explodes on Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland, killing all 259 persons on board and 11 on the ground, in what became known as the Lockerbie bombing. In 2001, Libyan intelligence officer Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was jailed for life after being found guilty of 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing. He was the only person convicted for the attack. In August 2009, he was released by the Scottish Government on compassionate grounds after being diagnosed with prostate cancer and died in 2012. In 2003, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing and paid compensation to the families of the victims, although he maintained that he had never given the order for the attack.

Johnny Depp 1988.

Whitney Houston Live in 1988.

Staples Corner, North London, 28 October 1988.

The brakes on these two locomotives were left off- some say intentionally by a disgruntled railway employee- leading them to roll forward and crash through a barrier onto the North Circular road. Luckily this occurred during the early hours of the morning and nobody was hurt.

August of 1988, Mike Tyson beat up boxer Mitch Green on the streets of Harlem.

How it started:

How it ended:

Cast of the sitcom Roseanne, 1988.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

June 4th 2019 marked the 15th anniversary of the Killdozer's rampage through Granby Colorado.
Sit down kids and let me tell you a tale, about a reasonable man driven to do unreasonable things.
Marvin Heemeyer was a man who owned a muffler shop in Granby Colorado. The city council ordained to approve the construction of a concrete factory in the lot across from Marvin's shop. In the process this blocked the only access road to the muffler shop. Marvin petitioned to stop the construction to no avail. Petitioned to construct a new access road, and even bought the heavy machinery to do so himself. Denied.
The concrete factory went up in disregard to the ramifications on Marvin's business. To add insult to injury, the factory construction disconnected the muffler shop from the city sewage lines. An indifferent city government then chose to fine Marvin for this.
His business and livelihood were in ruin. Rather than lie down and die, Marvin chose to fight back. Over the course of a year and a half Marvin secretly outfitted the bulldozer he bought to save his business with three inch thick steel and concrete armor, camera systems guarded with bulletproof glass.
On June 4th 2004 Marvin Heemeyer lowered the armored shell over top of himself, entombing himself inside the Killdozer to make his last stand.
He burst forth from the walls of his muffler shop and straight into the concrete factory that ruined his business. Over the course of the next several hours Marvin drove his Killdozer through 13 buildings owned by those officials that had wronged him, including the city council building itself.
Swat teams swarmed the dozer, but it proved immune to small arms fire and even explosives. Another piece of heavy machinery was even brought out to fight the Killdozer, but it too fell to the dozers righteous fury.
In the end, Marvin's Killdozer became trapped in one of the buildings it was built to destroy. Marvin chose to take his life, the only life he took that day.
Today we celebrate Killdozer day and Marvin Heemeyer, the last great American folk hero. A man driven to the brink who chose to fight back against an indifferent system.
From notes left behind after his passing:
"I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things."
When injustice becomes the law, resistance becomes duty

 

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Bloom County from 1988. Everything old is new again.

Winona Ryder, Jodie Foster, and Julia Roberts, 1989.

Mother helping her son through a tough level in Super Mario Land on Gameboy from 1989.

Prince photographed by Frank Griffin performing during the Lovesexy Tour at Rainbow Hall in Nagoya, Japan. February 7, 1989.

Zico and Pelé (Sebastião Marinho, 1989)

Michelle Pfeiffer, The Fabulous Baker Boys, 1989




Marisa Tomei photographed by Stephen Salmieri, 1989.

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

 

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Shakira, 1990.

Ralph Foody on the set of “Angels With Filthy Souls,” the fictional gangster movie seen in Home Alone. 1990.

Mission District, 20th street, San Francisco, 1990.

Future Speaker Of The House Nancy Pelosi and classic Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor testifying before the U.S. House for the purpose of increased HIV AIDS research funding March 1990.

Box cover for the direct to video Captain America movie from 1990.

Bernie Sanders, 1990.

(This one is for @Sawyer )


David Lynch at Cannes Film Festival, May, 1990.

 

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A picture of Santiago de Chile with the Andes Mountains in the background in Chile, 1930.

Passenger cabin from a commercial airplane, 1930.

Marlene Dietrich in a photo by Eugene Robert Richee, 1930, publicity for the film Morocco.

Acting great Jimmy Stewart outside his father's hardware store in Pennsylvania, 1930.

George Burchett tattooing a client in London, 1930.


George 'Professor' Burchett (also styled the 'King of Tattooists') was born George Burchett-Davis on 23 August 1872 in the English seaside town of Brighton, East Sussex and became one of the most famous tattoo artists in the world. George Burchett - Wikipedia

On the street, Peoria, IL 1930.

In 1930 the Indiana Bell building was rotated 90°. Over a month, the 22-million-pound structure was moved 15 inch/hr... all while 600 employees still worked there. There was no interruption to gas, heat, electricity, water, sewage, or the telephone service they provided. No one inside felt it move.

 

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Winona Ryder for Rolling Stone Magazine, 1991.

Protesters in Albania‘s capital, Tirana, toppled an enormous statue of the nation’s long-time dictator (1991)

Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix in LA, 1991.

 

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Boris Karloff in the make-up chair for his part as Frankensteins Monster 1931.

Karloff in his finished costume.

Colorized photo of a meeting of Charlie Chaplin and Mohatma Ghandi, Sept. 22, 1931.

Zeppelin Columbia over Empire State Building 1931 • Photo by Journal American.-

Theater in Kentucky showing Dracula, 1931.

3 women on horseback, place unknown, 1931.

 

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Cast of TNG at LeVar Burton's wedding in 1992.

At the arcade, 1992.

The chaos and carnage of the break up of Yugoslavia caught on camera, Sarajevo, 1992.

https://www.reddit.com/user/TJH48932

 

[3rdstone]

A touch of old school Hollywood classy actresses:

Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn backstage at the 28th Academy Awards, 1956.

 

[Brutikus]

This is the only picture ever taken of Concorde flying at Mach2, 1,350 mph. It was taken from a Royal Air Force Tornado, which rendezvoused with Concorde briefly to the south of Ireland. Although the Tornado could match (and even exceed) Concorde's cruising speed it could only do so for a matter of minutes due to the enormous rate of fuel consumption. After racing to catch Concorde and struggling to keep up, the Tornado broke off the rendezvous after just four minutes, while Concorde cruised serenely on to JFK.

 

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The band Warrant, 1993.

Comedians Pauly Shore and Chris Rock backstage at the 1993 MTV Movie Awards.

Drew Barrymore, 1993 Ph. Firooz Zahedi.

Original box art for the game DOOM, 1993.

Young Conan gets a hickey from Josephine Wiggs of The Breeders, 1993:






Whitney Houston, 1993.

DC Comics' Batman: Legends Of The Dark Knight, from April of 1993. Some things have stayed consistent in American society for a few decades now and police shooting people of color and facing little to no consequences is apparently one of them.

 

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Experimental Italian aircraft with hollow, barrel-shaped body (Stipa-Caproni, 1932)






Boris Karloff, THE MUMMY (1932)

From Modern Mechanics, February 1932.

Vivien Leigh at age 19 with her banjolele c.1932

Part of the organ at Royal Albert Hall, 1932.

Parisian French lesbian couple at the club Le Monocle, 1932 by Brassaï (Gyula Halász)

 

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Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon and Chris Farley, Woodstock 1994.

Farley & Spade 1994.

The final time Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing were together in 1994.

Tom Cruise in the makeup chair as Lestat de Lioncourt behind the scenes of Interview with the Vampire, 1994.

Princess Diana’s iconic ‘revenge’ dress, worn the night Prince Charles publicly admitted to being unfaithful to her, 1994.

Eartha Kitt, Cafe Carlyle, 1994.

Woman sitting on 1994 Harley Davidson Sportster.

 

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Lockheed Martin employee Sally Wadsworth working on the fuselage of a P-38 Lightning in California, 1944.

 

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Lockheed Martin employee Sally Wadsworth working on the fuselage of a P-38 Lightning in California, 1944.

I find these color pictures taken as part of the war effort of the 1940's to be so interesting.

The clarity and color make some seem like they could have been taken today and even things like hairstyles and what not don't change how very much these folk were so much like us today.

 

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In the absence of adequate armor, a Sherman crew requests additional protection from the Lord prior to the D-Day landings in June 1944:





U.S. paratroopers before take off, June 6, 1944.

Allied forces mobilize their beach head operations, June 6, 1944, Normandy.

American troops begin their push into occupied France after braving the landing zones of Normandy, June 6, 1944.

Because... A lot of folks' grandpas were OG ANTIFA.

 

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New York. December 5, 1933. "Rockefeller Center and RCA Building from 515 Madison Avenue." Digital image recovered from released emulsion layer of the original 5x7 acetate negative. Gottscho-Schleisner photo credit.

Celebrating the end of Prohibition, 1933.

French Wine Merchants from the Bercy Wine Market Hall celebrate the end of prohibition in the U.S. 1933.

Reichstag Fire 1933.

The Reichstag fire was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Hitler's government stated that Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was the culprit, and it attributed the fire to communist agitators. A German court decided later that year that Van der Lubbe had acted alone, as he had claimed. The day after the fire, the Reichstag Fire Decree was passed. The Nazi Party used the fire as a pretext to claim that communists were plotting against the German government, which made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.

Roller skating in the roof of the Roosevelt Hotel, 1933.

 

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Cast of the sitcom Roseanne, 1988.

I'm on season 7 now. I finished season 1 in a day, that's how much I got into it. So weird seeing everyone so young in that picture. Also first Becky is best Becky.