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

[KRYPTON INC.]

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

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Danny Kaye, June Havoc, and Humphrey Bogart, with wife Lauren Bacall sitting beside him listen intently at the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings in 1947.

Howard Hughes testifies before the Senate War Investigation Committee in 1947.

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee, 1943.

Jack Whinery, homesteader, with his wife and the youngest of his five children, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940.

Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid innoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas, 1943.

Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex., 1942.

Shepherd with his horse and dog on Gravelly Range, Madison County, Montana, 1942.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Wayne Gretzky shills for Pro Stars Cereal, circa 1987-88.

Diana Ross going to town on a rib, 1973.

Gilbert Gottfried, Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, 1989.

Eddie Murphy and Rick James circa the mid 1980s.

Singer Kate Bush, early 1980s.

A nine year old Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson poses with his father and retired professional wrestler, Rocky Johnson in 1981.

Gary Oldman and Ian Mckellen meet at an awards ceremony, 1985.

The Eurythmics, 1983.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

From under the elevated train in Brooklyn, early 1980's.

Soviet army engineers with explosive sniffing dogs in Afghanistan, early 1980s.

Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine fame and Adam Jones in the 1980s.

Joey Ramone and Debbie Harry late 1970's, photo by Roberta Bayley.

Jon Stewart at a Front Line show in the early 1980's.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

The following is the work of photographer Edward Grazda from his Mean Streets collection.

Broadway & 55th Street, 1970.

Houston Street, 1973.
Anyone who lived in New York City during the 70s and 80s knows all too well how the financial institutions had totally failed and left people in dark places. The city fell into a complete bankruptcy while bankers and financiers couldn’t wait to swipe up everything in their wake.

Bowery & Bleecker Street, 1981.

D Train, 1980.

Bowery, 1970.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

In the pre-smart phone/tablet era there was one electronic accessory that you had to have walking the streets starting in the 80's... Your BOOMBOX. So a collection of people showing off their personal stereo systems.

LL Cool J carrying his "accessory".

A pre-beard Rick Rubin and the Beastie Boys.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Lonnie Johnson, inventor of modern water weaponry (early 1990s). Johnson created "Super Soaker" tech in the early 80's while in the U.S. Air Force.

Suge Knight, Tupac and Snoop Dogg backstage, early 1990s.

Some moments from Freaknik, Atlanta's massive Hip Hop Spring Break in the mid-1990s.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Truck bomb detonates on Bishopsgate, London, killing one and injuring 44, 24 April 1993.

Nelson Mandela with the Queen, July 1996.

Poll tax riots, London, 1990.

London Underground, Victoria Line, Finsbury Park, Northbound, 1995.

Oxford Street, east end, looking West, 1991.

Oxford Street, July 1995.

Nirvana in London, 1991.

Princess Diana with her sons Prince Harry and Prince William at an event, 1995.

Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop and Kate Moss in London, 1996.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Neon-lit streets in Kowloon in the early 1990s.

The Fresh Prince himself chills between takes with some Nintendo, circa 1991.

Shirley Manson of Garbage fame fooling around, early 1990s.

The streets of NYC in the early 1990's.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

B.B. King, in his 20s, Plays one of the first Lucilles, early 1950s.

Eastern Russia, early 1930's, where the temperatures can drop so far that even polar bears are in danger of freezing or starving
The few inhabitants of the area at the time, even though they couldn't afford to give much, would feed the mother bears so that they could produce enough milk for their cubs.

Greasers in Union Square New York City, early 1950's.

Sophia Loren playing pool at a U.S. Army Depot in Italy, 1954.

From photographer Gordon Parks' Segregation series. A young African-American man and his siblings in the rural American South, circa 1956,

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

The streets, alley ways and water ways of Hong Kong in the 1950's.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

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.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Behind the Iron Curtain: Photos of daily life in 1950s Soviet Union. Major Martin Manhoff, who filmed Josef Stalin's funeral procession in 1953 left behind an incredible trove of color photographs showing life behind the Iron Curtain. Manhoff was a prolific photographer while he was serving as an assistant army attache at the US Embassy in Moscow from 1952 to 1954. Manhoff was deported for espionage in 1954, and the reels of 16 millimeter film, along with color slides and negatives, were stored in a former auto body shop next to his home in Washington for more than 60 years. While he captured the only known independent footage of Stalin's funeral procession, most of Manhoff's photographs show people seemingly unaware that their lives were being documented.
Manhoff was accused of espionage in 1954, and he was deported from the Soviet Union. To this day, US intelligence agencies refuse to comment on his status.


Trinity Lavra of St Sergius, about 45 miles northeast of Moscow.

A market in Yalta, Crimea

Park Kultury Metro Station.

Pushkinskaya Square.

Manezhnaya Square.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

1950's Manila, the Philippines.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

The city of Venice, Italy has always held an allure to the famed and well heeled. To that end, some celebs caught in and around the waters of Venice.

Paul Newman 1963.

Cathrine Deneuve 1968.

Sue Lyon 1962.

Sean Connery 1970's.

Kirk Douglas 1953.

Mick Jagger sits next to Bianca Jagger 1971.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Skate coasters, North Beach, San Francisco, ca. early 1950s.

A Riviera chorus girl, Las Vegas, August 1952.

Albert Camus, 1950s.

A man smoking a pipe and driving a Messerschmitt KR200 in Stockholm, 1950's.

American General Colin Powell taking a mirror selfie in the 1950's.

 

[Brutikus]

Eagle Farm Airport Australua

Farewelling passengers 1966 style.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

View from observation deck of the Empire State Building on it's opening day, May 1st, 1931.

Japanese girls receiving shooting training during school in the late 1930s.

Candid BTS picture of Vivien Leigh on the set of Gone With The Wind, 1938.

Stunt Rider Dot Smith in the late 1930s, sitting on her 1937 EL Knucklehead Harley.

 

[Brutikus]

Japanese Delegation on deck of the USS Missouri September 2, 1945 for the signing of the formal surrender of Japan to the Allied Nations.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

From the front row. Dolly Parton performing on stage, mid 1960's.

Members of the Oxford University Boat Club pose for a photograph, early 1960s (Stephen Hawking with handkerchief).

Janice Joplin poses with her 1965 Porsche in front of The Palace For Fine Arts, San Francisco.

A 6-foot-5-inch machine gunner crosses a muddy stream on the Mekong Delta, south of Saigon, mid 1960s.

The Who, mid 1960s.

Adam West, Yvonne Craig and Leonard Nimoy together circa 1966.

Catherine Leroy, Photojournalist - Vietnam 1967.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Leroy

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

LRRP in Vietnam - Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol - reading comic books while waiting for a helicopter, June 1969 - Ben Het, South Vietnam.

Madison Square Garden, NYC under construction, mid-1960s.

Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth and the Beatnik Bandit, early to mid 1960's.

The East Bay Dragons, the first black bikers’ club, Oakland, California, late 1960's.

Pre fame, Mick Jagger, First right back row, Dartford Grammar School for Boys: Early 1960s.

Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels and Sean Connery on the set of Dr. No, 1962.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers with his dad Blackie Dammet circa 1977.

Steve Martin in the early 1970s.

Vietnam Veterans Against the War occupy the Statue of Liberty, 1971.

Eastern Airlines reservation center, Miami, 1970.

Donald Sutherland gets a haircut & a shave, 1970.

Lou Ferrigno on the set of The Incredible Hulk in the late 1970s.

The Jackson 5, 1970.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Students play in the wind during a school excursion on the Staten Island Ferry, crossing upper New York Bay, in June of 1973.

Passengers wait for a Lexington Avenue Line subway train on one of the platforms of the New York City Transit Authority, April, 1974.

A traffic accident on a crowded street in Harlem, in May of 1973.

Public pay phone stalls in use at Broadway and 34th Street, in May of 1973. The first handheld mobile phone call in history was made one month prior to this photo, in midtown Manhattan, in April 1973, when Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher made a call to his chief competitor Dr. Joel S. Engel, head of Bell Labs.

Youngsters at play on the July 4th holiday at the Kosciusko Swimming Pool in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant District, in July 1974.

A fire hydrant sprays water behind three young girls on Bond Street in Brooklyn, July 1974.

Midsummer evening quilting bee in Central Park, sponsored by the New York Parks Administration department of cultural affairs, in June of 1973.

Manhattan Bridge tower in Brooklyn, New York City, framed through nearby buildings, in June of 1974.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

A scene from Tattoo Jack’s shop in Denmark, circa 1942.

Mounted cop flies down Tremont Street, Boston 1920s.

1927: Ronald Reagan, lifeguard.

1920s: Golf Ball Collector.

Two women taking a cab in London, ca. 1927.

Woman on a Harley-Davidson Sport 20-J, ca. mid 1920s.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Photographer James Van der Zee captures a couple in raccoon coats, Harlem, NYC, 1932.

Two men dancing in Harlem, 1920s.

Apartment of Willie Mays, Harlem 1954.

Harlem Hellfighters in 1919.

Chorus Girls at Harlem Theater, 1936.

115th St and Malcolm X Blvd, Harlem, NYC, 1970.