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re: Interesting historical pictures thread (add captions please)
Posted on 1/29/13 at 9:58 pm to HarryBalzack
Posted on 1/29/13 at 9:58 pm to HarryBalzack
Vintage New Orleans Scenes
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General scene on Bourbon Street. Undated photo.
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Cotton exchange in New Orlenas. No date.
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Canal Street in 1870
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St. Charles Avenue Streetcars 1900-1910
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Metairie Cemetery 1900
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Canal Street 1901
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Maison Blanche No Date
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Steam Fire Engine Battling Storefront Fire 1900
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New Orleans Wharves 1881
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Houses in New Orleans 1925
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Carondelet Street looking south. On the right; the Federal Reserve Bank, the Maritime Building, the Marine Building, the New Orleans Cotton Exchange and the Hibernian bank Building. No Date
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A Canal Street Store With WSMB Radio Station
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Canal Street 1891
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Posted on 1/29/13 at 10:12 pm to HarryBalzack
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New Orleans police officers try to keep their heads down as they move in on a Black Panther headquarters during an exchange of gunfire in New Orleans on Sept. 15, 1970.
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The parade of Rex 1933
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A child sits in the driving seat in an circa 1890 automobile owned by Mr J. Ritchi. New Orleans.
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Smuggling Whiskey in Fuel Truck, New Orleans. 1925
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Violence During Trolley Car Drivers' Strike in New Orleans 1929
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A picture made in 1931, when Huey P. Long was Governor of Louisiana and Senator-elect, showing him (Left), being welcomed as an Honorary member of the Cleveland Indian baseball team, by President Alva Bradley of the Indians
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The "Kingfish" congratulates One of His Successful Candidates. New Orleans, La.: Senator Huey P (Kingfish) Long, political dictator of Louisiana, shown in the center, congratulating James O'Connor, one of his own candidates, upon the latter's successful race for the Louisiana public service commission in the recent democratic primary here. Governor O.K. Allen, who also has Long's support, is shown looking on at the right. 1934
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Thousands off citizens and visitors clog New Orleans' Canal Street. 1946
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David Ferrie , shown in his police mug shot was found dead in his apartment here. Ferrie, according to Dist. Attn, Jim Garrison, was a chief suspect in the investigation of a plot to kill President John F. Kennedy, the D.A. said that Ferrie was to be arrested early next week for his involvement in the plot.
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New Orleans police gather around the bullet riddled body of a sniper killed on the roof of a downtown motel. Police rushed the roof only to find in empty. Police believed there were at least 3 snipers. Seven people are dead and 20 wounded in the sniper fire. January 08, 1973
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Only one person was in the carnival spirit at the suburban Mercantile Bank & Trust Co. and he was wearing a Mardi Gras mask and waving a snub nosed revolver. Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies said a lone bandit held up the bank just after opening and made off with $4700, but were unable to get any firm identification from the bank employee because he was so well covered. February 27, 1973
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Part of the 20,000 persons crowded in Canal Street, just before strikers and sympathizers burned the trolley car, with which the public Service Company had attempted to renew service. Two were killers in a riot following. No Date.
Posted on 1/29/13 at 11:48 pm to HarryBalzack
There is no way in hell any of the Nimitz carriers or Enterprise can/could do 50 knots.
Judge the facts for yourself:
SS United States
Length: 990 feet
Beam: 101 feet
Displacement: 47,300 tons at maximum draft
Power: 248,000 shp
Fastest authenticated speed: 38 knots (normal transatlantic speed was 32 knots)
Nimitz class carrier
Length: 1040 feet (waterline, slightly longer)
Beam: 134 (waterline, significantly wider)
Displacement: 100,000 to 104,600 tons
Power: 260,000 shp
Fastest authenticated speed: Officially 30+ knots
While a Nimitz is slightly longer and slightly more powerful it's also wider and displaces twice as much water which is a huge increase in drag.
Here are some very interesting links about the subject:
Speed Thrills III - Max speed of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers
Speed Thrills IV
Judge the facts for yourself:
SS United States
Length: 990 feet
Beam: 101 feet
Displacement: 47,300 tons at maximum draft
Power: 248,000 shp
Fastest authenticated speed: 38 knots (normal transatlantic speed was 32 knots)
Nimitz class carrier
Length: 1040 feet (waterline, slightly longer)
Beam: 134 (waterline, significantly wider)
Displacement: 100,000 to 104,600 tons
Power: 260,000 shp
Fastest authenticated speed: Officially 30+ knots
While a Nimitz is slightly longer and slightly more powerful it's also wider and displaces twice as much water which is a huge increase in drag.
Here are some very interesting links about the subject:
Speed Thrills III - Max speed of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers
Speed Thrills IV
Posted on 1/30/13 at 12:14 am to HarryBalzack
quote:Sounds like a typical piece of shite democrat politician.
Leander Perez
Why the frick would a parish build a park and monument to a fricking known corrupt crook who stole millions from them and the state? fricking morons.
Posted on 1/30/13 at 8:05 am to Duckie
Goats on the beach - Dauphin Island, Alabama - before the bridge. Now it's fat people on the beach.
Big Rattlesnake in the cabbage patch. Watch out Mrs. Wiggins!
Helen Keller and her Akita, Kenzan, a gift from the Japanese govt in 1939. Helen Keller brought the 1st Akita to the US in 1937, but the puppy died at 7 months. The Japanese had a lot of respect for Helen and sent her a gift.
Big Rattlesnake in the cabbage patch. Watch out Mrs. Wiggins!
Helen Keller and her Akita, Kenzan, a gift from the Japanese govt in 1939. Helen Keller brought the 1st Akita to the US in 1937, but the puppy died at 7 months. The Japanese had a lot of respect for Helen and sent her a gift.
Posted on 1/30/13 at 9:06 am to mauser
Rwandan machetes and a Rwandan machete victim.
Posted on 1/30/13 at 8:12 pm to mauser
That looks like cows
Posted on 1/31/13 at 10:44 am to lukeland3
Posted on 1/31/13 at 2:07 pm to HarryBalzack
NOLA 1950s
looks the same
looks the same
Posted on 1/31/13 at 4:27 pm to Duckie
Bumpity bump bump
Posted on 1/31/13 at 4:32 pm to bhtigerfan
Ma Barker and her Thompson gun in an undated picture of the legendary matriarch
Posted on 1/31/13 at 4:38 pm to Placebeaux
Lumberjacks - 1901.
Posted on 1/31/13 at 4:41 pm to Placebeaux
On November 18, 1978 912 followers of American cult leader Jim Jones ("Peoples Temple") died in a remote South American jungle compound called "Jonestown" in British Guyana. Some members were shot, others were forced to drink poison, but most willingly participated in what Jones said was an act of "revolutionary suicide."
Posted on 1/31/13 at 4:45 pm to Placebeaux
1868 - Trees cut by Donner party, the height of the trunks indicates the depth of the snow
Posted on 1/31/13 at 4:48 pm to Placebeaux
Elevator 'girls' at Marshall Fields department store, Chicago, Illinois, 1947
Posted on 1/31/13 at 4:52 pm to Placebeaux
Children picking cotton - 1910's - notice that most are in the field barefoot.
Posted on 1/31/13 at 4:56 pm to Placebeaux
This old photo, taken from the Bohemian Grove Annals Book (a book given to members containing historical photos from the Grove) appears to show a man being hung. Year unknown.
Posted on 1/31/13 at 4:57 pm to Placebeaux
1909 Bohemian Grove photo which appears to show and African American child being carried on a makeshift stretcher, to the delight of Grove members
Posted on 2/1/13 at 9:28 am to lsewwww
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Kinda shocked this one wasn't posted yet considering it happened right in Gibsland, LA.
The car with Bonnie and Clyde after the ambush by law enforcement, 1934
I was thinking about posting that...on their Wiki page, near the bottom, there is a video you can watch. It's basically a newsreel-type video and was taken just a couple of minutes after the B&C ambush. It's really cool/interesting/historic:
LINK
Posted on 2/1/13 at 9:40 am to HarryBalzack
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Comdr. Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr. - Report from Inside a Hanoi Prison, 1966
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While speaking on camera, he blinked in Morse code the word “T-O-R-T-U-R-E.” Eventually, the videotape was widely circulated and reviewed by U.S. Naval Intelligence. Denton’s one-word report, delivered in Morse code, was the first clear confirmation received by U.S. Intelligence that American POWs were, in fact, being tortured.
That is incredible.
This thread is awesome. And I'd like to also reiterate this post to see if there was any luck with the picture..from "Me" around page 20 or so:
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I've been trying to find a picture online for awhile now with no luck. I saw it in a Time book of pictures from about 15 years ago. It is a black and white photo of two men in a cafe from about the 1950's time period. Someone is across the street taking their photo and they are looking at him like WTF. Turns out the guy is taking the photo of a woman who jumped off the top of the building and is moments from hitting the ground right in front of them. I'd love to find it because it is really amzing.
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