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

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Robin Williams McCall’s Magazine, 1979.

Hergé, the creator of The Adventures of Tintin, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the character as he stands next to a bronze statue of Tintin and Snowy. Belgium, 1979.

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

Before the revolution... A private wedding party, Tehran, Iran 1979.

A marcher in a gay rights parade up New York’s Fifth Avenue, July 1979. Photographed by Brian Alper.

Diana Ross, Studio 54, NYC 1979.

Roll out! Venice Beach skaters, 1979.

 

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South Africa during its Apartheid period, 1979.

 

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From the varying Apollo Moon missions between 1969 and 1972.

 

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Feeling a lot of "Jackass" vibes for something from 1923. Two women use skates and a hand sail for some reason in Berlin.

June 12th 1923, Harry Houdini freed himself from a straight jacket while hung by his ankles upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above the ground in New York City.

Martin Gusinde, anthropologist with members of the Selknam people of Tierra Del Fuego, participants in the ritual called Chowh-toxen, 1923.

Selk'nam people - Wikipedia

Congestion on the road to the Epsom Derby, 1923.

German kids flying a kite made of worthless money during the hyperinflation of the Weimar years (1923).

 

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Nicole Kidman c. 1980. Photo by Lewis Morley.

A punk, a “rude boy” and a skinhead hanging out together in England c. 1980.

Striking Polish workers of the Solidarity movement led by Lech Walesa won a sweeping victory after a two-month battle with their communist rulers for the right to organize independent unions and the right to strike Aug. 30th 1980.

Sybil Danning as Saint-Exmin - Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

Three freinds in Alhambra, CA hanging in 1980.

Donna Summer, L.A. 1980.

DC Comics Superman digest from 1980.

Theatrical poster for FAME, 1980.

 

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Color film of London, taken in 1924.

 

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Daniel Day-Lewis playing Dracula on stage in 1981.

Laurence Olivier as Zeus in "Clash Of The Titans" (1981)

P. J. Soles an Bill Murray in a still from the 1981 movie 'Stripes'.

1981 PATCO Strike:

In February 1981, PATCO members began negotiations with the FAA for a reduced 32-hour workweek, a $10,000 pay increase for all air traffic controllers and a better retirement benefits, but management stalled the talks. PATCO members went on strike Aug. 3, 1981. The strike brought widespread flight cancellations and delays, and 22 of the nation’s busiest airports were directed to reduce their scheduled flights by 50 percent. Though the strike grabbed the public’s attention, technically, it violated a 1955 law that banned strikes by government unions, though several government unions had previously declared strikes without penalties. President Ronald Reagan, whose endorsement from PATCO was one of three union endorsements he received in the 1980 presidential election, declared the strike a "peril to national safety" and ordered controllers back to work within 48 hours. PATCO did not endorse the Democratic Party candidate because of a bad relationship with the FAA during the Carter administration, and because Reagan told them he understood the union’s struggle for better conditions. However, on Aug. 5, most of strikers were fired and their union fined $1,000 each day members remained on strike. Fired workers were replaced by controllers, supervisors and staff personnel not participating in the strike and in some cases, by military controllers. Union members, activists and others were outraged and on Sept. 19, about 500,000 supporters marched on Washington, D.C. in support of the striking air traffic controllers. On the picket lines, militant strikers were arrested, jailed and fined. The union was fined millions of dollars, and its $3.5 million strike fund was frozen. PATCO was decertified and the new air traffic controllers organized the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), but the union had no bargaining power. It was not until Aug. 12. 1993, that President Bill Clinton, would end the prohibition on rehiring the fired controllers. In 1996, Congress passed the Federal Aviation Reauthorization Act, which finally returned to air traffic controllers the ability to bargain collectively with the FAA for wages and personnel matters.

Movie listings in the paper, July 4th 1981.

Atari system ads from 1981.

 

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Sarah Douglas, who also played Ursa in Superman I and II as Pamela in the NBC Mini Series ’V: The Final Battle’ (1984)

Robin Williams in the 1984 film Moscow On The Hudson.

BTS of Sigourney Weaver on the set of Ghostbusters, 1984.

Motorola’s DynaTAC 8000X, a 2-pounder priced at $3,995. No texting, no Internet, no video or image capture, no GPS, no...

It was 1984.

Green Lantern Hal Jordan takes on Javalin, from GL #173 from 1984.

Ireland 1984 - workers against South Africa Apartheid march.

 

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Child seat in front of the bike, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1925.

Dancer Miss Gilmore poses on the roof of the Broadway Theater to the English artist McCutcheon, New York, 1925.

1925 Drexel Institute Girls' Rifle Team.

The "Babe" with some African-American fans in the stands, 1925.

Last Visual Record Of A Barbary Lion In The Wild, 1925.


The Barbary lion is an extinct lion species that lived in the Barbary Coast regions of the Maghreb, from the Atlas Mountains in Morocco to Egypt, but was eradicated following the spread of firearms and bounties for shooting lions.

Hartman Mercantile in Bedrock, Colorado in 1925.

Actress Betty Chester, 1925.

 

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Theatrical Posters, 1985.

 

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I was thinking, do I have something old historical interesting to show here? Crap no, since I just got a new laptop, and all my old fun historical pics/links I'd collected aren't available anymore. That's a bummer.

I guess this will simply be a tribute to this thread which I have highly enjoyed in recent years, and always appreciated how much work Krypton Inc put in to it.

I certainly will miss this thread, as will I miss Krypton Inc as a character. It was hard news realising he was banned. Like: We won't be ever seeing posts from Krypton Inc anymore on this place? How can that be?!

But when reading quite a few of the Admins posts in this matter, and how they were actually giving him a slack (or rather like several, several and yet again several slacks), it's actually not surprising that he's gone. Sad as it might be.

Well, since this will probably be the last post in this thread: Cheers Krypton Inc. I hope you're in a good place whenever you are now.


Ah, what the f**k, I throw in a 1981 pic of early Iron Maiden which I love just for fun, and it would fit like a typical Krypton Inc 1981 pic in this thread. Notice the then singer Paul DiAnno at far right in a typical weird jump suit which somehow was fashionable atm, while the other guys of course wears leather jackets and jeans. This was before their big break out with Number Of The Beast. But personally, Iron Maiden were at their best at this moment.

 

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Daft punk, Japan, 2000

 

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I'm fully aware that Krypton Inc got banned some while ago but just wanted to post this pic and this place felt most natural.

Lemmy and fellow Motörhead drummer Phil "Filthy Animal" Taylor at the funeral of the one and only Phil Lynnott (Thin Lizzy front man) in 1986.

 

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Kodachrome photo by Chalmers Butterfield of Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus, in the West End of London, mid 1930's.

From the early to mid 1930's, a "Ma Bell" switchboard operator.

Early 1940's L.A.

An Sherman tank named 'Elowee' of 'E' Company, Armored Regiment, Armored Division is parked near a hedge in Champ du Boult, Calvados, Normandy post D-Day, France, 1944.

 

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Interesting that if that is 1930s London, no one is wearing hats anymore. That is surprising unless they came back into fashion for men after the war again.

 

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Kodachrome photo by Chalmers Butterfield of Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus, in the West End of London, mid 1930's.

From the early to mid 1930's, a "Ma Bell" switchboard operator.

Early 1940's L.A.

An Sherman tank named 'Elowee' of 'E' Company, Armored Regiment, Ar111mored Division is parked near a hedge in Champ du Boult, Calvados, Normandy post D-Day, France, 1944.

Gambler is the name ... ?

 

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Kodachrome photo by Chalmers Butterfield of Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus, in the West End of London, mid 1930's.

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From the early to mid 1930's, a "Ma Bell" switchboard operator.

Early 1940's L.A.

An Sherman tank named 'Elowee' of 'E' Company, Armored Regiment, Armored Division is parked near a hedge in Champ du Boult, Calvados, Normandy post D-Day, France, 1944.

 

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Interesting that the men in London in the 1930s were already not wearing hats.

 

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The streets of NYC, in color, from the mid to late 1940's.

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These opium smokers have congregated in an underground den in Beijing, 1932. Before the Communist Party came into power, opium abuse was officially illegal however it was often smoked in secret.

Men with their hair in long braids eat dinner together in Hong Kong, 1880.

Peasant men carry bricks of tea on their back. The bricks weigh over 300 pounds and were carried around 112 miles by the men. This photo was taken in China's Sichuan province in 1908.

A woman poses with her maid near a bronze incense burner in Beijing, 1869. Following the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the communist era, traditions were swept away with hardly anything left from the Qing era (1644 to 1912).

This photo taken in 1906 is of the abbot of the monastery with the subject likely to be a Taoist priest.

Ladies of the palace pose for a photo dressed in the imperial clothes of the Qing dynasty. Their faces have been painted white. The Qing era lasted from 1644 until 1912.

Men stand near the cannons of their local arsenal in Nanjing, 1872.

 

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That cannon is a mitrailleuse 37 barrel gun. Probably French. The 37-barrel Montigny mitrailleuse was developed in 1863.

 

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