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

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.

 

South Africa during its Apartheid period, 1979.

 

From the varying Apollo Moon missions between 1969 and 1972.

 

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).

 

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.

 

Color film of London, taken in 1924.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Theatrical Posters, 1985.