Historical and interesting photos

[gopher]

from the OP:

I may have mentioned a long time ago that there was an essay written about 1970 entitled: "Is Your Cat A Communist?"

This because Lenin and other political lefties were said to be cat lovers. Darn - For some reason I still cannot find that essay anywhere.

 

[gopher]

commie cat lovers:


Communists With Cats




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[Locutus]

Vivian Krause ‏@FairQuestions

Cool... @VanCourierNews: 76 years ago today, the Lions Gate Bridge was opened:

http://tinyurl.com/ow4fefz

 

[spaminator]

commie cat lovers:

Communists With Cats




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captain picard! :shock:

 

[gopher]

Gordon Parks and some photos of the South:


A segregation that was never black and white: Gordon Parks’s photographs of 50s Alabama | Art and design | The Guardian



Mr Parks lived in Gopherland for many years. GREAT artist.

 

[Locutus]

Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, Everest, 1953

 

[darkbeaver]

Re: Few more old and interesting photos

East Berliners going to West Berlin, the saturday after the Berlin Wall fell in 1989

We were always told that they didn't have cars.

 

[Locutus]

Victorian photoshoppage:

People In The 1800s Loved Decapitating Themselves In Photos - All Day

 

[WLDB]

Victorian photoshoppage:

People In The 1800s Loved Decapitating Themselves In Photos - All Day

Well thats one of the weirdest pages I've seen in awhile. Kind of neat too.

 

[gopher]

Well thats one of the weirdest pages I've seen in awhile. Kind of neat too.

weird is the word!

 

[spaminator]

Victorian photoshoppage:

People In The 1800s Loved Decapitating Themselves In Photos - All Day

the link was very decaptivating.

 

[Locutus]

One Times Square under construction, New York City, 1903

Times Square, 1919

 

[gopher]

http://www.avalonn.com/bluesbrothers/image/BBOB53.JPG




Blues Brothers jump the Grand Canyon!

 

[WLDB]

One Times Square under construction, New York City, 1903

Times Square, 1919

That spot was a lot smaller than I expected when I first went through.

 

[Blackleaf]

ClassicPics ‏@History_Pics

Yearbook photos of Rock and Heavy Metal icons

It's very difficult to find photographs of Slipknot without their masks on. Most people don't know what they actually look like, apart from Corey Taylor and Jim Root, who are both also in Stone Sour.

 

[Twila]

One Times Square under construction, New York City, 1903

Times Square, 1919

Is the 1919 pic during some special event? Or did the population explode in just 16 short years?

 

[WLDB]

Is the 1919 pic during some special event? Or did the population explode in just 16 short years?

Construction sites tend to have less people. The population did jump quite a bit in those years though. 3.4 to 5.6 million.

 

[Blackleaf]

Nelson's Column under construction in 1843, the year it was completed. Trafalgar Square, in which it is situated, was completed in 1845, forty years after Nelson's victory at Trafalgar.

This photograph of a leaf may not seem much, but it could be the first photograph ever taken. It was taken by photography pioneer Thomas Wedgwood (4 May 1771 – 10 July 1805) in the 1790s! He is the first person known to have thought of creating permanent pictures by capturing camera images on material coated with a light-sensitive chemical, which have led some historians to call him "the first photographer." Thomas Wedgwood was the son of famous potter Josiah Wedgwood (of Wedgwood pottery fame) and the great-uncle of Charles Darwin.

 

[Locutus]

Winter in Siberia, 1960.

buffalo...

 

[Locutus]

The cathedral of Amiens during WW II, France, 1940s.