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

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Birmingham, UK. November 27, 1973.

According to a fan who saw the show, half the audience was at the bar at the beginning of Queen's set. They were David Bowie fans who were there to see Mott The Hoople (Bowie wrote All The Young Dudes, their biggest hit). With each passing song, more people left the bar to watch Queen and were won over by the energetic show and the musicianship.'

Paul Newman with wife Joanne Woodward and daughters (clockwise from left) Clea, Nell, Melissa, and Stephanie, in 1973.

T'was easy to get tickets to see Van Halen in 1973.

Houston Aeros Gordie Howe signs the hood of a 1973 Mercury Cougar at a WHA game.

May 11, 1973 and charges were dismissed against Daniel Ellsberg for releasing the Pentagon Papers to the press, with the government citing misconduct (1973)

American High School student behind the counter of local grocery store, 1973.

Out and about Thailand in 1973.

Bruce Springsteen and David Sancious (c. 1973)

 

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18 year old Mike Tyson and his trainer Cus D'Amato just before his first professional fight in Albany, New York, 1985.

Danuta Danielsson, daughter of an Auschwitz survivor, confronting Nazis marching in Växjö, Sweden in 1985.

Madonna by Francesco Scavullo for Time Magazine, 1985.

Queen backstage at a show inTokyo, Japan, May 8, 1985.

Philadelphia police dropped an incendiary device on a row house and tell firefighters to "let it burn" (May 13, 1985)


Philadelphia police dropped an incendiary device on a row house that was serving as a compound for the MOVE counter-cultural group. The group was armed and had been involved in previous conflicts with the police, both violent and ideological. The bombing killed 11 people, including 5 children, destroyed an entire neighborhood, and left around 250 people homeless. Firefighters had been told to "let the fire burn."

Why Have So Many People Never Heard Of The MOVE Bombing?

Matt Frewer in his full 'Max Headroom' make-up before filming in 1985.

Saxophone man. NYC, 1985 - Jamel Shabazz

Lesbian and Gay Pride, London, June 1985.

Al-Shaheed monument, Iraq, 1985.

 

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Daughter of an Afar Sultan in Djibouti, in traditional wedding attire. Photograph by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, for the 1999 National Geographic article “African Marriage Rituals”.

July 7, 1999. President Bill Clinton visited an Indian reservation, the first president since FDR to do so, specifically the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota (1999)

Actress Gigi Edgley as Chiana from the cult space adventure show Farscape (1999).

Aaliyah, Nas & Missy Elliott photographed by Dave Allocca in New York City, NY - April 06, 1999.

John Frusciante by Neil Zlozower [1999]

British Nuclear powered attack submarine HMS Trenchant being painted in a light blue colour to test out its camouflage potential in North Atlantic waters, 1999.

Rolling Stone, June 1999.

Time Magazine cover, Jan. of 1999.

Cricket player, India, 1999.

 

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Mythbusters own Adam Savage in 1986 trying to recreate the chest bursting scene from Alien via the medium of Thanksgiving Turkey.

Hong Kong, 1986.

Out and about in Yemen, 1986.

Hobby Models: Rogers Park, Chicago. Devon and Western 1986.

Protestor Ian Cohen riding the bow of USS destroyer Oldendorf entering Sydney Harbour in 1986. Both Australia and New Zealand in the 1980's had portions of their country that were unhappy about the possible threat posed by nuclear armed military ships and there were many protests when it came to incoming allied American Naval vessels.

Jan. 28, 1986. The crew of the U.S. Space Shuttle Challenger which would have a terrible and tragic failure upon launch leaving no survivors.

Covers for the DC Comics follow up crossover event to Crisis On Infinite Earths titled LEGENDS, pencils by John Byrne, inks by Karl Kesel and co-written by John Ostrander and Len Wein.

 

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Cooking with ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog, 1974.

Steve Martin jamming with the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia - 1974.

Churchill Square Brighton 1974.

Paul and Linda McCartney (and kids) meet Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner in Nashville, 1974.

Christopher Lloyd And Christopher Walken In Stage Production Of MacBeth in 1974.

George Foreman, casual playing ping pong before fight vs Muhammad Ali at InterContinental Hotel. Kinshasa, Zaire 10/26/1974 - 10/29/1974

Portrait of Muhammad Ali posing in front of Le Militant statue before fight vs George Foreman at the presidential complex outside of Kinshasa. N'Sele, Zaire 10/26/1974 - 10/29/1974

In the bride's room, 1986. In the Soviet Union, people got married in register officers and usually chose Sunday (the only day off) to do so. The brides are waiting till their name is called, then they will go inside and get their marriage registered.

John Lennon and Harry Nilsson visited the Troubadour on that fateful night in 1974. Filled to the eyeballs with Brandy Alexanders, ready and raring to go, things got ugly really quickly and soon saw the two men red-faced. After some serious heckling and a bit of back and forth with the Smothers Brothers, the pair were soon asked to leave the show as they were disrupting the good time the audience were having. When they refused to leave the premise, things turned a little violent.

Security arrived and became physical with the singers, unwilling to bow to their fame. Lennon was becoming more and more surly as the drinks began to set in, and soon enough, a full-blown scuffle ensued, with Lennon losing his trademark specs in the furore. “My wife ended up with Lennon’s glasses because of the punches that were thrown,” Smothers later said.

Famed actress Pam Grier also somehow ended up in the kerfuffle and was ejected alongside the troublesome twosome. During the scrap, one waitress alleged Lennon had assaulted her, while a valet attendant suggested the same thing, but both cases were quickly dismissed and swept away under the carpet.

The Smothers Brothers were quick to leap to Lennon’s defence, who suffered heavily in the media for his role in the fracas. “It was a big Hollywood opening. During our first set, I heard someone yelling about pigs…it was fairly disgusting. I couldn’t figure out who it was. But I knew Harry and John were there. The heckling got so bad that our show was going downhill rapidly,” Smothers added. “No one cared because it was just a happening anyway, but there was a scuffle going on, and we stopped the show. Flowers came the next day apologising.”

Late on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1975 Lennon said, “I got drunk and shouted…it was my first night on Brandy Alexanders, that’s brandy and milk, folks. I was with Harry Nilsson, who didn’t get as much coverage as me…the bum. He encouraged me. I usually have someone there who says ‘okay Lennon, shut up.’

“There was some girl who claimed that I hit her, but I didn’t hit her at all, you know. She just wanted some money and I had to pay her off, because I thought it would harm my immigration,” claimed the former Beatle.

 

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The woman on the floor in the main photograph is believed to one of two women, the most usually named is Ada Wright (1862-1939), French-born but living for most of her life in England, she was a devoted suffragette who was imprisoned several times for her activities, and went on hunger strike, earning her the "For Valour" medal. She would later be a pallbearer at the funeral of WSPU leader Pankhurst.

The second possibility is that the woman is Ernestine Mills (1879-1959), an artist noted for her creation of political jewellery as mementos for suffragettes, such as an enamel-and-silver pendent created for suffragette Louise Eates (1877-1944) on her release from prison in 1909, which is today in the Museum of London collection. The image of the the suffragette on the floor, having seemingly been struck by a Policeman, became an iconic image of the suffragette movement after being used as a full-front-page cover of the Daily Mirror newspaper on 19 November 1910. The delegation to Parliament, and protest, were both dramatised in the film "Suffragette" (2015).

The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) demonstration of around 400 women was in support of a delegation that was led by WSPU leader Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) to see the Prime Minister and push for women's suffrage. The other delegates in the group included Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson, Hertha Ayrton and Princess Sophia Duleep Singh. The delegation was meeting the Prime Minister in the Palace of Westminster (The Houses of Parliament), and the demonstration was taking place in Parliament Square directly outside. Previous suffrage demonstrations around Parliament had been policed by Westminster's local "A Division" who, while following their orders in terms of crowd control and sometimes dispersal, were noted as reasonably courteous towards suffragettes. On this occasion however, a significant number of extra Police officers were brought in from the rougher East End and Whitechapel districts of London, and these were in turn 'supported' by large numbers of male civilians (some of whom were suspected to be plain-clothes Police).


Over six hours, the demonstration was insulted and assaulted by the civilians, and when the suffragettes encountered Police, they were also attacked, with some suggestion that the Police isolated individual suffragettes from the demonstration and left them at the mercy of the male civilians. There is a distinct division in accounts of the demonstration, as there is in many, as to the ubiquity of the force used against demonstrators. Newspaper reports at the time notably demonstrated significant sympathy for Police officers "doing their duty" in the face of "violent suffragettes trying to force their way into the House of Commons". 115 women were arrested, but all charges were dropped on the orders of the Home Secretary Winston Churchill (1874-1965), continuing a pattern of "light touch" legal responses to women-led protests, which led to suggestions the dropping of charges was to avoid Police violence being reported in trials, which Churchill vigorously denied in the House of Commons.

Sylvia Pankhurst recorded that "We saw the women go out and return exhausted, with black eyes, bleeding noses, bruises, sprains and dislocations. The cry went round: 'Be careful; they are dragging women down the side streets!' We knew this always meant greater ill-usage." A significant proportion of the violence meted out to the demonstrators was sexual, particularly the grabbing and wrenching of breasts. A result of this protest's violent suppression was a future disinclination of WSPU members to take part in large public demonstrations, in favour of attacks on shop windows and other 'lightning strikes' that gave enough time for the women involved to escape before Police arrived. The two deaths attributed to this demonstration are disputed - both came some time after injuries sustained in the protest. They were Henria Leech Williams (1867- January 1911) and Mary Jane Clarke (1862- January 1911), who were both injured during the protest and who, according to WSPU sources, did not recover afterwards, directly leading to their deaths.




The disabled woman was Rosa May Billinghurst (1875-1953), who campaigned from a wheelchair. Police pushed her into a side road, assaulted her and stole the valves from the wheels, leaving her stranded. Billinghurst was later imprisoned for one month's hard labour for taking part in window-smashing in 1912, but prison officers did not subject her to it, seemingly out of confusion as to what would constitute "hard labour" for a wheelchair-bound woman.

Billinghurst (in woollen hat, back to camera) struggling with Police attempting to move her and her wheelchair during a demonstration, c1910. This may be during the suffragette demonstration that took place outside Buckingham Palace in 1914.

She went to prison again in 1913 for setting fire to a Post box, during which she went on hunger strike and was force-fed by the standard method of a tube through the nasal passage and down the throat. She was awarded the WSPU "For Valour" medal for her strike. On 21 May 1914, Billinghurst took part in a mass protest by suffragettes outside Buckingham Palace, which took place in tandem with an attempt by a suffragette delegation to present their demands to King George V. This protest also collapsed into a brawl, and Ms Billinghurst was pushed out of her wheelchair by two Policemen, leaving Charlotte Drake (birth & death unknown to me, of the East London Federation of Suffragettes, charmingly named ELFS) to help her back into her wheelchair.

1911 photo of a group of American suffragettes taking part in a demonstration in Britain, Ada Wright is on the far right, acting as their host. The women are J Twells, Eugenie Freeman (organiser of the American movement for Women's Suffrage), Maud Roosevelt (niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919), and Professor LJ Martin of Stanford University, California.

 

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Steven Seagal with then wife Kelly Lebrock, 1987.

Tupac Shakur, NYC 1987.

Villains of Robocop clowning around on set, 1987.

September 18, 1987 and President Reagan announced the destruction of nuclear warheads by U.S. and USSR (1987)

From Marvel's Spider-Man Vs. Wolverine from 1987 with pencil art by the great M.D. Bright.

What was in theaters in 1987.

Queens NYC, and this couple is getting ready to go to senior prom in 1987.

November 22, 1987, at approximately 9:15PM, Max Headroom hijacked two TV stations in Chicago.

Well... Not the real one.

The first intrusion took place during the sportscast on the 9:00 PM news on WGN-TV and lasted 28 seconds; two hours later, a broadcast of Doctor Who on PBS affiliate WTTW was interrupted for 90 seconds. Audio of a distorted voice in the second broadcast made references to WGN sportscaster Chuck Swirsky and WGN-TV's call letters (an initialism for "World's Greatest Newspaper"). Thirty years following the incident, the identity of the hijackers remained unknown.

 

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1975 Elton John in his closet in London.

Cher with The Osmonds on “The Cher Show” 1975.





Pam Grier in "Sheba, Baby" (1975)

A visit to Sri Lanka, 1975.

Golblum on a trike, 1975.

The king of the Parrot Heads and the Red Headed Stranger. Jimmy Buffett and Willie Nelson, 1975.

 

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The Last Surviving Witness Of President Lincoln's Assassination Appeared On 'I've Got a Secret' In 1956. More than 90 years after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the last surviving witness of that event made a surprising appearance on the game show I've Got a Secret. Samuel J. Seymour was 96 years old when he answered questions from panelists. Seymour handled inquiries about whether his secret was a "pleasant thing" and if it had "political significance." The reveal was startling: As a 5-year-old, he sat in the balcony opposite Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865.

 

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David Bowie - Early 1988

Arnold Schwarzenegger meeting Soviet fans in Moscow, 1988.

Matthew Perry and Christina Applegate, 1988.

Van Halen, November 17th, 1988. At Arco Arena in Sacramento, CA.

In 1988, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole called the recording studio at 3am and said he has to record a song right away. 15 minutes later, Israel arrived at the studio. He recorded ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’.

 

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David Bowie & Ola Hudson ( G'n'R's guitarist Slash's mom), 1976.

The grand opening of the Muskegon Mall in Muskegon, Michigan, 1976.

Sissy Spacek at a screening of Carrie, c.1976.-

Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #21

Ming Smith |Young Woman with Buggy, Coney Island, 1976.

The national team of the USSR. Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, 1976.

 

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1943: A policeman of the US Military Police on a Harley Davidson at Saint-Lô in France.

1947: A street scene in Shanghai.

1952: A foggy night near the Palace Theatre, Cambridge Circus, in London. Photo by Carl Mydans.

1957: Night street cleaning near St Paul's Cathedral in London. Photo by Edwin Smith.

October 1957: Prime Minister Robert Menzies with ground hostesses at the opening of Qantas House in Hunter Street, Sydney, Australia.

1960: A lifesaver on duty at Bondi Beach.

1961: Nick Nolte's mugshot after getting arrested for selling fake draft cards.

1964: Engineer Karen Leadlay working on the analog computers in the Space Division of General Dynamics.

1968: James Earl Jones sparring with Muhammad Ali on the set of The Great White Hope at 20th Century Fox Studios, Los Angeles. Photo by Lawrence Schiller.

1970: John Lennon riding his Honda Monkey around his 72 acre Tittenhurst Park estate.

1971: ARVN troops disembark from an American helicopter during Operation Lam Son 719.

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Chief Low Dog was a Oglala Lakota Chief who fought with Sitting Bull at the Battle of Little Big Horn seen here in a photo from 1881.

 

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Thanksgiving menu at Plaza Hotel NYC, 1899.

 

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Quentin Tarantino working at a video rental store in California during the 80s.

 

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Bruce Lee chilling and on the set of Enter The Dragon, 1973.

 

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May 1922: 78-year-old Robert T. Lincoln (son of Abraham Lincoln) is helped up the steps at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

 

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November 6, 1972. The Jackson 5 perform at the Olympia in Paris, France as part of their European Tour that kicked off in Amsterdam on the 2nd of November.

Someone enjoying their Honda 350 SL, in 1972.

Harrison H. Schmitt of the Apollo 17 mission investigates a large lunar boulder with rover behind. Dec. 13, 1972.

Elvis Presley and Mary Selph on June 30, 1972 riding his 1971 Harley-Davidson FLH Electra-Glide motorcycle in Memphis at the corner of South Parkway East and Elvis Presley Boulevard.

"Diagram of a Drug Abuser", published in TV Guide, c.1972.

Apollo 17, the final Apollo moon mission, was launched, and its crew shot the photo known as The Blue Marble, December 7, 1972.

Couple celebrating their 50th anniversary in 1972.

 

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American car companies suffered in the 1980s as Japanese vehicles were cheaper and more reliable. Some major US car companies even had to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to avoid going under. In response, American business owners large and small made a heavy "Buy American" push in the late 1980s as the quality of Japanese goods soared.

Here two American dealership owners destroy a Japanese made car in 1988 as a publicity stunt.

Negotiation between the zoo director and escaped chimpanzee. Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1988.

Dali Yunnan China North Gate and Tower January 1988.

Conan the Barbarian poster by artist Bart Sears, 1988.

A woman mourns after the US Navy downs an Iranian passenger jet on 3 July 1988, carrying 290 civilians including 66 children.

Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas, that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, was destroyed and all 290 people on board, including 66 children, were killed. The jet was hit while flying over Iran’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, along the flight’s usual route, shortly after departing Bandar Abbas International Airport, the flight’s stopover location. Vincennes had entered Iranian territory after one of its helicopters drew warning fire from Iranian speedboats operating within Iranian territorial limits. The reason for the shootdown has been disputed between the governments of the two countries. According to the United States government, the crew of USS Vincennes had incorrectly identified the Airbus as an attacking F-14 Tomcat, a U.S.-made jet fighter that had been part of the Iranian Air Force inventory since the 1970s. While the F-14s had been supplied to Iran in an air-to-air configuration, the crew of the guided missile cruiser had been briefed that the Iranian F-14s were equipped with air-to-ground ordnance.

Anti-Gravity Engine - Globe Tabloid 1988

From the Marvel humor comic What The...?! cover dated October of 1988.

 

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Robin Williams with daughter Zelda in an ad from 2011.

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Blondie front woman and photographer's muse Debbie Harry at Coney Island, NY in 1977.

Van Halen recording "Jamie's Cryin'" at Sunset Sound (1977).

Lima and the hinterlands of Peru, 1977.

The Not Ready For Prime Time Players of Saturday Night on NBC getting a bite after a show in 1977.

Dolly Parton and Arnold Schwarzenegger in New York City, 1977.

Guitarist, singer and song writer Nancy Wilson of Heart fame, 1977.

Sex Pistols gig in Halmstad, Sweden 1977.

 

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Ford Model T equipped with chase tracks ca. 1921.

Einstein’s arrival in New York in April, 1921.

Dante Ferraro, a Boy Scout from Argentina, 1921.

Pickford & Alfred E. Green Through the Back Door Usa 1921.-

Long coats at Long Beach, 1921.

 

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Michael Jackson, 1978.

Prince, April 1978.

Van Halen, London, 1978. Photo by Fin Costello.

The God of storm, lightning and Twinkies in an ad in a 'Turok' comic (1978)

Brooke Shields and Debbie Harry at Studio 54 (1978)

Sid Vicious Under Arrest for the Murder of Girlfriend Nancy Spungen, New York, 1978.

Before Twitch... Ad for the latest innovation to arcade games in 1978.

 

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An example of the early traffic signals in New York City, 1922.

A Civil Servant with a manually operated traffic signal, Philadelphia, 1922.

7th & Broadway in Los Angeles before the three-way traffic signal was introduced in 1922.

Portrait of Princess Shimadzu, wife of the Japanese ambassador Prince Tadashige Shimazu to the Court of St James. Photographed in 1922.

Max Schreck, Nosferatu, 1922.




Sheriff Lucas Leon Ellis, Stewart County, TN, circa 1922.

San Francisco circa 1922. "Army car with carriage-mounted searchlight." A military-grade Cadillac at the Presidio next to an aircraft hangar.