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

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Texas rock pioneer Buddy Holly, 1958.

Families on break, New York. 1958. Photo: Erich Hartmann

Classic Las Vegas -- Fremont Street. 35mm Kodachrome film taken by Woodrow Humphries. circa 1958. The Westerner was open from 1950 to 1962. The Mint and The Boulder Club (with its famous sign) are on the right edge. The marquee above the Nevada Club was a late-'50s addition.

Sears Catalog Women's Spring/Summer Fashion 1958.

Performers Janet Leigh, Ernest Borgnine, Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis from The Vikings, 1958.

The very bleeding edge of 1958 technology, a board from the Vanguard satelite, 1958.





Gloria Talbott and friends from I Married A Monster From Outer Space 1958.

Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd and director William Wyler on the chariot race set for Ben-Hur, Rome, 1958.

Beat writer Jack Kerouac at The Kettle of Fish Bar, Greenwich Village, NYC. 1958.

 

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October 10, 1989 and 70,000 protesters march in Leipzig to demand the legalization of opposition groups and democratic reforms in East Germany (1989).

And the next month... Nov 11, 1989 - Berlin Wall.

Hurricane Hugo makes landfall, September 22, 1989.

Mark Hamill, 1989, on the set of the film Slipstream.

On December 4, 1989, the USCGC Mesquite grounded on the shoal off Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior after, ironically, retrieving the navigational buoy that warned of that very obstacle.

Public portrait of Mao Zedong at Tiananmen defaced with paint by the protestors, during the 1989 Tiananmen Sqaure protests.

Janet Jackson by Guzman, Rhythm Nation 1814 album shoot, 1989.

Cheryl Ladd As Louise Baltimore - Millenium (scifi movie, 1989)

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JJ O'Brien, CHP motor surveys a collapsed Bay Bridge after the earthquake of 1989 that brought it down.

 

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John Coltrane Atlantic Session 1959.

August of 1959 and the U.S. increases by 1.

Sidney Poitier visiting Tony Curtis & Jack Lemmon on the set of Some Like it Hot (1959).

Tibetan serfs celebrate their liberation by burning the leases which previously bound them for life to a landlord's plot. (1959)

A Raisin in the Sun playwright Lorraine Hansberry, 1959. Photo by David Attie.

This was not that long ago really.

Saturday Evening Post from 1959:

Carrie Fisher, 3, with her mother Debbie Reynolds (1959)

Superman Manga from 1959.

Apparently it was created by Tatsuo Yoshida in 1959 who also created Speed Racer.

 

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Jordan, 1988 NBA Dunk Contest.

 

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It was 1990 and this kid was ready to take on all comers in the neighborhood.

In 1990, Air Canada took delivery of its first Airbus A320. It was delivered with ear muffs & scarf.

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He's always been full of **** and always been afraid his house of cards would come tumbling down because he's a liar and a fraud. But he's only successful so long as others are willing to be in on the lies with him.

Barbara Walters is having none of Trump's BS in 1990.





Martin Scorsese and his mother, Joe Pesci, Ray Liotta & Robert De Niro on set of Goodfellas (1990).

Denzel Washington and (baby) John David Washington in New York City circa 1990.

Sherilyn Fenn on the set of the strange cult TV from the mind of David Lynch, Twin Peaks, 1990.

Bjork album, The Juniper Tree, from 1990.

On the morning of 11 April 1986, Brian Keenan was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad. After spending two months in isolation, he was moved to a cell shared with the British journalist John McCarthy. He was kept blindfolded throughout most of his ordeal, and was chained hand and foot when he was taken out of solitary.

The British and American governments at the time had a policy that they would not negotiate with terrorists, and Keenan was considered by some to have been ignored by them. Because he was travelling on both Irish and British passports, the Irish government made numerous diplomatic representations for his release, working closely with the Iranian government. Throughout the kidnap they also provided support to his two sisters, Elaine Spence and Brenda Gillham, who were spearheading the campaign for Brian's release. He was released from captivity to Syrian military forces on 24 August 1990 and was driven to Damascus. There he was handed over by the Syrian Foreign Ministry to the care of Irish Ambassador, Declan Connolly. His sisters were flown by Irish Government executive jet to Damascus to meet him and bring him home to Northern Ireland. He now lives in Dublin.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Keenan_(writer)

WCW PPV poster for their 1990 show Capitol Combat... And yes... Robocop was there:

 

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Well... They had about nine years left to finally figure it out... A pressure suit, designed by Republic Aviation, for extended operations on the moon's surface, 1960.

The Nedelin disaster, a tragic event in the history of the Soviet Russian space program, was a launch pad accident that occurred on 24 October 1960 at Baikonur test range. An explosion occurred when the second stage engine of a prototype USSR R-16 ICBM ignited accidentally killing 75 to 150.





Downtown Cairo, Egypt 1960.

This is 6-year-old Ruby Bridges being escorted by U.S. Marshals to school in 1960. She was the first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South.

October 9, 1960. A most "proper" plane crash in Great Britain.

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A busy day on the streets of Manhattan, NYC, 1960.

Jack Lemmon, Shirley McLaine, Fred MacMurray from the adapted from the Neil Simon stage play film from 1960 The Apartment.

Kirk Douglas, Jean Simmons, & Tony Curtis filming Spartacus, 1960.

Madagascar gains its independence from France in 1960.

Kids attend a YMCA day camp in Georgia, 1960.

 

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Sega Genesis System ad from 1993.

 

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Japan in 1962. Photos by Mykola Kozlovsky, a Ukrainian photographer (1921 — 1996) . The pictures were published by the publishing house Mystetstvo in Ukraine. Mystetstvo means "art". It was a publishing house that specialized on Soviet posters, photo books and post cards. There were also photos about life abroad in other countries.



Machiko Kyō, Japanese movie star.

Tokyo streets.

Entrants in the Miss Tokyo Beauty Pageant.

Caption written on back of photo:

"Hundreds of thousands of people are taking part in numerous rallies and demonstrations to protest the deployment of American imperialist military bases on Japanese territory."

National Noh Theatre actor is getting ready to perform.

"Pushing the bicycle pedals, tired rickshaws pulled carriages with passengers. "

 

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Serbian militiaman takes out a wounded comrade from the battle. Then he went for another and was killed. Vukovar, 1991.

Canadian firefighters seal an oil well in Kuwait after Iraqi sabotage during the Gulf War, 1991.

Jodie Foster on the set of "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)

Nirvana‘s album Nevermind had its world premiere when Boston disk jockey Kurt St. Thomas played the LP from start to finish Aug. 29, 1991.

Aug. 31, 1991 was the first rehearsal of Rage Against The Machine. Sunbirth Studios, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, Ca.

Dolly Parton posing with some soldiers on a USO visit in 1991 to the Persian Gulf. With A-10 Warthog.

Madonna arriving at the Oscars 1991.

The arrival of a US Sikorsky helicopter with relief supplies causes a stampede of famished Kurdish refugees. An eight-year-old girl is trampled to death in the melee. Turkey, 1991.

A pickup truck flees from the pyroclastic flows spewing from the Mt. Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines on June 17, 1991.

 

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A thin TV screen only 4 inches thick with an automatic timing device to record TV programs for later viewing is the wave of the future as shown at the Home Furnishings Market in Chicago, June 21, 1961.

The ever lovin' blue eyed Thing from Fantastic Four #1, 1961.

This picture was taken on April 12, 1961, a few hours after landing. Yuri Gagarin, without his famous smile, realized how miraculously he survived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin

The streets of Soviet era Moscow swell during a parade to honor Yuri Gagarin's return from orbit, 1961.

Broad St., Augusta, GA, circa Dec. of 1961.

Finnish soldiers in Nuclear-Biological-Chemical gear, 1961.

"Peace". Boy in the Congo, 1961.

Bob Dylan played his first live gig in New York City at Gerde’s Folk City, opening for John Lee Hooker (1961)

Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio at Yankees Stadium, 1961.

 

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The original Michelin man - 1926


An Electric Car Being Charged - 1890

 

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David Bowie & Ola Hudson (Slash's mom), 1976.

Walter Matthau and the Bad News Bears 1976.

From Avengers #144 from 1976. Earth's Mightiest Heroes and Marvel's pseudo-JLA are transported across dimensions.

Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, 1976.

Exorcist Lounge, Detroit (1976)

March 30th 1976, the iconic shot of Luke Skywalker watching the twin suns is filmed in Tunisia.

Members of the Rebel Alliance, queuing for their lunch at Elstree Studios in 1976.

Snow falls in San Francisco, 1976.

Kirby and Lee make a cameo, Uncanny X-Men #98 1976.

Bob Marley, 1976.

 

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October 8, 1963. President John F. Kennedy signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union, prohibiting all test detonations of nuclear weapons except underground.

Alice and Ellen Kessler 1963. Born 1936 in Nerchau, Germany, Alice and Ellen Kessler are twins known in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, from the 1950s and 1960s and until today for their singing, dancing, and acting.

A then 41 year old Betty White on a network game show in 1963. Stunning smile.

James Coburn, director John Sturges, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson on the set of The Great Escape (1963).

The Galaxy Being from the first broadcast episode of The Outer Limits, 1963.





Can you believe it? Willie Nelson with a fan, Wichita Falls, TX in 1963.

Martin Luther King jr. on the day of his I Have A Dream speech, August 28th, 1963.

Jerry Lewis and Stella Stevens in a promo photo for the original Nutty Professor, 1963.

George Harrison at the Empire State Building, NYC Sept 1963.

On a rendevous to destiny and tragedy...

November 22, 1963. "Overview of crowds of people waving as President John F. Kennedy and his wife sit in back of limousine during procession through downtown Dallas, Texas; Texas Governor John Connally and his wife ride in the limousine's jump seats." New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress.

 

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Steve Cropper Carlos Santana, Neil Young, Keith Richards, John Fogerty and Jimmy Page, together on January 15, 1992 at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to honor the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Green Day at the Berkeley Square, 12/19/1992.

Kids in Sarajevo play with the detritus of war, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992.

Sara Gilbert and Drew Barrymore in Poison Ivy, 1992.

Future movie star Jason Statham is dancing in the 1992 music video The Shamen - Comin' On.




Cindy Crawford, on set of a 1992 Pepsi commercial.

A car on fire in the streets of L.A. after the accquital of the officers charged in the Rodney King case.

The 1992 Los Angeles riots, sometimes called the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County in April and May 1992. Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a jury acquitted four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) charged with using excessive force in the arrest and beating of Rodney King. This incident had been videotaped and widely shown in television broadcasts.

The rioting took place in several areas in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, as thousands of people rioted over six days after the verdict's announcement but were concentrated in the South Central area. Widespread looting, assault, and arson occurred during the riots, which local police forces had difficulty controlling due to lack of personnel and resources. The situation in the Los Angeles area was resolved only after the California National Guard, United States military, and several federal law enforcement agencies were deployed to assist in ending the violence and unrest.

By the time the riots ended, 63 people had been killed, 2,383 had been injured, more than 12,000 had been arrested, and estimates of property damage were over $1 billion. Koreatown, where the bulk of the rioting in South Central Los Angeles occurred, received disproportionately more damage than surrounding areas. LAPD Chief of Police Daryl Gates, who had already announced his resignation by the time of the riots, was attributed with much of the blame for failure to de-escalate the situation and overall mismanagement

1992 Front Row Promo Derek Jeter.

The Reservoir Dogs, 1992.

 

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The Temptations performing onstage, 1964.

Paul and John in rehearsal for the Ed Sullivan show, the Beatles, 1964.

1964 NME Awards The Beatles, Roy Orbison, Gerry and the Pacemakers.

Martin Luther King Jr., registering African-Americans to vote in Greenwood, Miss. on July 21, 1964. Jim Bourdier/AP

Malcolm X photographs Muhammad Ali after Ali defeated Sonny Liston, 1964.

May 1964 Sports Car Graphic | Ford GT.

Diana Rigg, 26, the new heroine of the television series ‘The Avengers’ today met her leading man at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, 14th December 1964. Photo by Doreen Spooner.

Maye Musk, mom of Elon musk, 1964.

 

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Godzilla 1977 Shogun Warrior Figure.





As a note... I owned one of those Godzillas. Best gift my mother ever gave me. It's still around to, in storage at my mom's place.


Christopher Walken on the set of The Deer Hunter, 1977.

Chris Farely, 1977.

What a DJ's booth looked like in 1977.

The pitch black of the 1977 NYC power outage.

U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardoned nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada (1977).

World class beauty and world class actress Faye Dunaway, Oscar, 1977 Ph. Terry O’Neill.

 

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Betty White and her husband, Allen Ludden, admiring magnolia blossoms at their country home in Westchester NY, 1965.

Listening to copies of The Beatles “Rubber Soul” in the Quality Control room at the EMI pressing plant in London, England, 1965.

A rare sighting of Cousin It’s face shown on the set of The Addams Family, 1965.

Morroco, 1965.

A one year-old Lenny Kravitz with parents, Sy Kravitz and Roxie Roker, in New York (1965).

Rosa Parks sits at the front of a bus following the end of racial segregation by the transit company, circa 1965.

Viet Cong guerillas assemble rockets and shells delivered along the Ho Chi Minh trail, Vietnam, 1965.

Alex Trebek (1965) working for the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Coorperation)

 

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Jack Nicholson and Clint Eastwood at the Academy Awards (March 29, 1993).

Pop legend Cher sitting on a toppled statue of Lenin, Armenia 1993.

Mad Magazine April 1993's Home Alone 2 parody.

SPY magazine cover from 1993.

Bombs go off in the parking area of the World Trade Center in New York, Feb. 26 1993.

There's SO much 1993 in this picture. Chris Farely, RuPaul, Charles Barkley, Spud Webb, and the full line up of Nirvana on SNL.

1993 WRC Safari Rally.

Service mission on the shuttle Endevour in 1993 to the Hubble Space Telescope.

 

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Catholic High School Girls on subway, NYC, 1978.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opened the priesthood to “all worthy men” ending 148-years of exclusion for black men (1978)

Print ad for the line up of NBC's' Saturday Morning Fever (1978).

Brooke Shields and Debbie Harry at Studio 54 (1978)

The Troubles. On the streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland 1978.

Shovelheads everywhere!!! Sturgis 1978.

Future and past POTUS. Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter, 1978.

1978 Sears Catalog.

During the off season. Daytona Beach Florida, 1978.

The Dead Boys with Divine and The Neon Women 1978.

 

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Jim Brown and Lee Marvin, "The Dirty Dozen" (1966).

Wilson Pickett and Jimi Hendrix, 1966.

Sharon Tate photographed by Orlando Suero (1966)

Jimi Hendrix in Ringo Starr’s apartment at 34 Montagu Square, in Marylebone, London, 1966.

Chicago Airport phone calls, 1966 - Mario Carnicelli.

A man experiences irony as his car, laden with used tires, has a flat tire, Houston, Texas, March 1966. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.-

Pinewood Studios, 1966. Sean Connery and Yul Brynner, flanked by footballers Jimmy Greaves and Bobby Moore.

Woody Strode in The Professionals (1966)

Sailors and pilots of the USS Constellation sunbathing off the sides of the flight deck, 1966, Gulf of Tonkin.

 

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They did it differently in the East back then I guess? Gas station on Brovarsky Prospect in Kyiv, Ukraine, 1979.

October 11, 1979 and Pope John Paul II joined Jimmy Carter, becoming the first pontiff to visit the White House.

Erin Gray as Colonel Wilma Deering in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979).

Sigourney Weaver and Ian Holm on the set of Alien (1979)

Always working it. RuPaul, 1979.

Future legends. The cast of SCTV, 1979.

India, the Himalayas, 1979.

 

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Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Harvey Keitel and Quentin Tarantino on the set of Tarantino's break through film Pulp Fiction, from 1994.

The band Sublime, on stage, 1994.

Marlon & Shawn Wayans photographed by Ron Galella while attending the screening of “Sugar Hill” in Hollywood, CA - February 24, 1994.

Selena doing promotion for Coca-Cola, 1994.

January 17, 1994. The Northridge Earthquake in California.

 

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George A. Romero filming "Night of the Living Dead" (1967)

Leonard Nimoy appears in a sketch on The Carol Burnett Show, November 18, 1967.

Diana Rigg and Oliver Reed, 1967.

In Cairo, Egypt, 1967.

It was named Gullfaxi and marked a turning point and the beginning of the jet age in Iceland when it landed at Reykjavík Airport on June 22, 1967. A large crowd welcomed the plane, which was the first Icelandic jet. Icelandair bought the aircraft, Boeing 727-100, new from the Boeing factories, and took over one hundred passengers. The aircraft was sold out of the country on January 27, 1984 to the American company UPS (United Parcel Service), which modified it and has used it for cargo flights until 2008. It was recovered from the Mojave Desert and brought back to Iceland. And is now at the Aviation Museum of Iceland in Akueyris Airport.

The rock/blues band Cream, with Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, London, 1967.

This was Sick's Stadium in 1967 - home of the Seattle Rainiers and the Pilots.

1st Marine Recon 1967.

 

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The Princess And The Smuggler. Ford and Fischer, 1980.

A Soviet Mi-8 helicopter flying past one of the two Buddhas of Bamiyan, Afghanistan 1980. After the Soviet Russian invasion of the country was over the Taliban would destroy these two ancient statues for being "Un-Islamic" in March of 2001.

The same species? Polish Olympic wrestlers, Jan Falandys (cat. 48 kg) and Adam Sandurski (cat. 100+ kg) at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The other pic is from 2019. Falandys - 156 cm (5 ft 1 in); Sandurski - 214 cm (7 ft 0 in)

John Lennon at the studio control board with son Sean, 1980.

Hans Zimmer with his Moog Modular Synthesizer circa 1980.

Superman DC Special from 1980.

Debbie Harry of Blondie fame was serving as a muse of sorts for H.R. Giger for a time. Here she is in a bodysuit designed by the famed artist well known for his work in the ALIEN franchise of films, from 1980.

Workers butchering the carcass of a whale for further processing, Iceland, 1980.

From the very strange tie in to the 1980 Summer Olympics that was to be broadcast on the NBC network about the antropormorphic "Animalilympics".

Animalympics was commissioned by NBC in 1978, as the network intended Lisberger Studios to create it as two hour-long specials to be paired alongside coverage of both the 1980 Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympics then held in Moscow. But after the Soviet Union had invaded and gained control of Afghanistan, then United States President Jimmy Carter decided to boycott the Moscow Summer Olympics. Because of this, NBC canceled its Olympic coverage and the Animalympics Summer special.

However, from its conception, producer Donald Kushner and director Steven Lisberger intended the project as a feature-length theatrical release (complete with Dolby surround sound via 35mm film), even though The Winter Olympics special was already considered for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film nomination.

Among those who worked on Animalympics were art director/animator Roger Allers, animation director Bill Kroyer, and animator Brad Bird. Allers, who animated Kit Mambo, the lion star of Animalympics, went on to direct The Lion King. Kroyer later wrote and directed the Oscar-nominated short Technological Threat and the animated feature FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Brad Bird went on to work as story editor of The Simpsons, and later achieved even greater success writing and directing The Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Director Lisberger went on to conceive, co-write and direct the science fiction cult classic Tron, which some of the Animalympics crew were involved in. Its soundtrack supervisor was Michael Fremer, who was involved in Animalympics as a co-writer, voice artist, dialogue/music track editor and sound mix supervisor. Fremer also went on to supervise the Oscar-nominated soundtrack to Tron as well.

 

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Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother of two, became only the second person ever to reach the peak of Everest–the world’s highest mountain–unaided, without oxygen or help from sherpas (1995)

Will Smith photographed by Margaret Norton during the filming of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air S6 Episode 1 “Burning Down The House” in Burbank, CA - August 17, 1995.

Luther Vandross and Patti LaBelle during Sixth On Seventh Spring Collections: Versus By Versace at Bryant Park in New York City, New York, United States in 1995.

Iman and Miriam Makeba in South Africa. Photo by Bruce Weber, published in VOGUE, June 1995.

Kathy Griffin in an ad for Kenwood Audio products from 1995.