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re: Interesting historical pictures thread (add captions please)
Posted on 1/26/13 at 9:03 pm to redstick13
Posted on 1/26/13 at 9:03 pm to redstick13
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I will definitely check this out
You will enjoy it. A tidbit of info, the space shuttle pilots are honorary members of the WWII Glider Pilots Association as the shuttle was indeed a 'glider'. The museum walls have some of their pictures as well as items they brought back from their missions.
The Greatest Generation of Soldiers grows smaller every day. My dad was one of the last of his group that used to meet every year. Sadly, the group had lost so many members and those that were still alive were too old to travel, forced them to cancel future reunions.
I'm glad you had years to spend with your Grandfather.
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Posted on 1/26/13 at 9:28 pm to Traveler
Hands down the best thread I've ever read here. Keep em coming!
Posted on 1/26/13 at 9:31 pm to BR Tiger
August Landmesser (born May 24, 1910; missing and presumed dead Oct 17, 1944; declared dead in 1949) was a worker at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, best known for his appearance in a photograph refusing to perform the Nazi salute at the launch of the naval training vessel Horst Wessel on 13 June 1936.
Posted on 1/26/13 at 10:16 pm to Duckie
Boring picture but the story really hangs around
"One of the legends of Paris' Moulin Rouge, Joseph Pujol was one of the most unique entertainers of all time. Popularly known as "Le Petomane," Pujol's act consisted of disciplined, odorless flatulence, a talent learned during his military service. The effects he produced included the various flattus produced by a bride over the course of her marriage, an imitation of the San Francisco earthquake, and the extinguishing of a candle from three feet away. He would conclude his performances by playing "La Marseillaise" through a specially-attached ocarina. At his peak, Pujol was the highest-paid performer in Paris, earning more money than Sarah Bernhardt. Pujol retired from performing after the outbreak of World War I, becoming a baker in Toulon."
"One of the legends of Paris' Moulin Rouge, Joseph Pujol was one of the most unique entertainers of all time. Popularly known as "Le Petomane," Pujol's act consisted of disciplined, odorless flatulence, a talent learned during his military service. The effects he produced included the various flattus produced by a bride over the course of her marriage, an imitation of the San Francisco earthquake, and the extinguishing of a candle from three feet away. He would conclude his performances by playing "La Marseillaise" through a specially-attached ocarina. At his peak, Pujol was the highest-paid performer in Paris, earning more money than Sarah Bernhardt. Pujol retired from performing after the outbreak of World War I, becoming a baker in Toulon."
Posted on 1/26/13 at 10:23 pm to lsewwww
"American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to Los Angeles International Airport. On May 25, 1979, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 operating the flight crashed moments after takeoff from Chicago"
Note the missing engine, which fell off and severed hydraulic control to the left wing
This post was edited on 1/26/13 at 10:24 pm
Posted on 1/26/13 at 10:37 pm to lsewwww
Holy shite!
Posted on 1/26/13 at 10:42 pm to lsewwww
A mortally wounded comrade at his feet, Lance Cpl. James C. Farley, helicopter crew chief, yells to his pilot after a firefight in Vietnam, 1965. Taken by Larry Burrows
Posted on 1/26/13 at 11:21 pm to lsewwww
Self Explanatory
Posted on 1/26/13 at 11:37 pm to rantfan
Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody
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In 1883, Cody had attempted to recruit famed chief Sitting Bull to join his Wild West show. Sitting Bull was not interested until he saw a postcard featuring Annie Oakley. The Sioux chief saw her performance in 1884 in St Paul. He called her “Tatanya Cincila” or “Little Sure Shot”. Oakley claimed that Sitting Bull had adopted her as a daughter. The heartwarming story of Oakley’s “adoption” into Sitting Bull’s family increased the familial atmosphere of the Wild West show and provided an undeniable draw for the audience. Sitting Bull was still despised by some and referred to as the “killer of Custer”. Yet, when he first joined the show, he was loudly cheered. Sitting Bull did not take part in re-enactments. He rode his horse in the opening scenes and sold autographs to fans. Unfortunately, in 1886, Sitting Bull was banned from the Wild West show by civilian authorities. To the audience, Sitting Bull’s transformation from feared enemy to family man was meaningful. It represented the passage of the Indian from “savagery” to “civilization”. Cody’s Wild West show provided the stage for the “domestication” to take place. Despite Sitting Bull’s appeal, he was never fully accepted by the spectators. [19]
Posted on 1/26/13 at 11:48 pm to Traveler
Native American 1898
Posted on 1/27/13 at 12:01 am to Duckie
Amelia Earhart pilot's license.
Amelia Earhart with her Lockheed Vega surrounded by a crowd after she became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California in 1935.
Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, 10 days before their disappearance in the Pacific.
Posted on 1/27/13 at 12:12 am to MaroonWhite
Great thread 
Posted on 1/27/13 at 12:50 am to MaroonWhite
Japanese pilots get instructions aboard an aircraft carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, in this scene from a Japanese newsreel.
It was obtained by the U.S. War Department and released to U.S. newsreels.
Aircraft prepare to launch from the Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier Akagi during the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
This photograph, from a Japanese film later captured by American forces, was taken aboard the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku,
just as a Nakajima "Kate" B-5N bomber launched off the deck to attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.
Aerial view of the initial blows struck against American ships, as seen from a Japanese plane over Pearl Harbor.
The battleships West Virginia and Tennessee burning after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941.
A small boat rescues a USS West Virginia crew member from the water after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.
Two men can be seen on the superstructure, upper center. The mast of the USS Tennessee is beyond the burning West Virginia.
Japanese aircraft can be seen in the air above Pearl Harbor (top center and upper right) in this captured
Japanese photograph taken during the initial moments of the Japanese attack.
Sailors stand among wrecked airplanes at Ford Island Naval Air Station as they watch the explosion of the
USS Shaw in the background, during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941.
The USS Shaw explodes after being hit by bombs during the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii, in this December 7, 1941 photo.
The forward magazines of USS Arizona explode after she was hit by a Japanese bomb on December 7, 1941.
Frame clipped from a color motion picture taken from on board USS Solace.
A sailor killed by the Japanese air attack at Naval Air Station, Kanoehe Bay. Photographed on December 7, 1941.
An American seaman looks at the charred corpse of a Japanese flier brought up from the bottom of Pearl Harbor,
where he crashed with his burning plane during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941 in Hawaii.
This post was edited on 1/27/13 at 12:51 am
Posted on 1/27/13 at 1:41 am to zzemme
Of all the amazing threads on this site over the years, this one is amongst its finest.
Let me contribute a small corner of my world, if I may...
The Cameron Parish Courthouse after Hurricane Audrey, 1957, where my grandparents rode out the storm:
Closer up, and man and a dog amongst the rubble:
After Audrey, my grandfather and a friend planted an oak tree to replace a tree killed during Audrey. Some years later, probably late 60s, this was its appearance:
In 2005, Rita revisited some horrific resemblances, as every building you see around the courthouse is gutted and green summer oaks were stripped bare and browned overnight:
I took the picture below last Monday. The tree my grandfather planted, and the town, endure to this day:
Let me contribute a small corner of my world, if I may...
The Cameron Parish Courthouse after Hurricane Audrey, 1957, where my grandparents rode out the storm:
Closer up, and man and a dog amongst the rubble:
After Audrey, my grandfather and a friend planted an oak tree to replace a tree killed during Audrey. Some years later, probably late 60s, this was its appearance:
In 2005, Rita revisited some horrific resemblances, as every building you see around the courthouse is gutted and green summer oaks were stripped bare and browned overnight:
I took the picture below last Monday. The tree my grandfather planted, and the town, endure to this day:
This post was edited on 1/27/13 at 2:05 am
Posted on 1/27/13 at 1:59 am to LSUgusto
Really cool knowing your grandfather planted that
Posted on 1/27/13 at 2:21 am to Duckie
quote:
Prostitute and slave 1900 Persia
WTF? Looks like Jay Leno!
Posted on 1/27/13 at 2:36 am to zzemme
The IBM 360
This movie camera was commercialized in 1956. In 1953 Bell & Howell produced the model "220", a very cheap movie camera.
Bell & Howell produced many models, descended from the "220": they had the same structure, only the "number" of the model and some little details changed.
This movie camera is equipped with the following lens: Bell & Howell Super Comat 10mm - f:2.3. Is weight is 0,900 kg. its size is 160x70x90 mm.
Computer operators at Lawrence Livermore work at IBM 650 computer consoles, October 1956.
Lawrence Livermore accepted delivery of its first IBM computer in 1954.
Bill Gates, about 27, in his Microsoft office in 1982.
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
Bill Gates watches his friend and future Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen typing on a teletype terminal at the Lakeside School in Seattle in 1968.
Gates was 13 when he entered the exclusive prep school, which was around the time this photo was taken.
In 1977, Gates was arrested by New Mexico police for speeding
Bill Gates 1979 Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas
Pong was the first game developed by Atari Inc., incorporated in June 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney.
This post was edited on 1/27/13 at 2:54 am
Posted on 1/27/13 at 3:01 am to Supermoto Tiger
Most of Belloq's pics of Storyville whores look like glamor shots, but not this one. I've never seen this before.
as opposed to this famous shot:
Storyville whorehouses...high-dolla vs low-rent cribs:
Most of those houses of ill-repute seen above, filled with drug whores, illegitimate children, disease, violence, low-character / immoral scum, disreputable visitors, and exploitative entrepreneurs were mercifully torn down and replaced with more ambitious and charitable projects...SEEN BELOW... designed to stop the spread of disease and immoral temptations due to pressure by the US Government and concerned Christian organizations.
as opposed to this famous shot:
Storyville whorehouses...high-dolla vs low-rent cribs:
Most of those houses of ill-repute seen above, filled with drug whores, illegitimate children, disease, violence, low-character / immoral scum, disreputable visitors, and exploitative entrepreneurs were mercifully torn down and replaced with more ambitious and charitable projects...SEEN BELOW... designed to stop the spread of disease and immoral temptations due to pressure by the US Government and concerned Christian organizations.
Posted on 1/27/13 at 3:03 am to Duckie
Some good pics from Gordon parks
This post was edited on 1/29/13 at 3:38 pm
Posted on 1/27/13 at 3:15 am to tylercsbn9
brilliant
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