Old pictures from history

Great thread!!

 

10/10 thread. Would bang.

 

Manhattan, New York City, 1933.






Photo by Dr. Paul Wolff, Bay of Naples, Italy, 1930’s.

 

Galveston Seawall .... in 1905 (ginormous pic) :

Spoiler

 

Apparently before the current Metro system there used to be a streetcar trolley system. I wonder why they took it out, it looked like loads of fun

 

AND a monorail, at least for a few months in 1956.

 

Only known photo of the Texas City Disaster (second explosion) -- the equivalent of a 1 kiloton tactical nuke detonation.

wiki

 

Downtown Houston - 1960


The Dunes 1960, now the Bellagio sits here.

 

Some of us actually remember the nightmare that was the construction of the Pierce Elevated. To this day, even after being rebuilt, probably more that once, you bounce when driving on the damn thing. I've always wondered who got that contract, and who got paid off, because that was a lousy contruction job.

 

You and your old lady visiting the library on a date back in the day?

 

Here are 40 pics.

http://pulptastic.com/40-photos-from-the-past/


Too lazy to post them in the thread

 

This one was funny from the above link

 

First morning after Sweden switched from driving on the left side to the right side of the road.

 

New London school explosion New London, Tx 1937 I have 3 uncles that had just left school when it exploded.

 

Its pretty cool to see that one of the snipers was a woman. I didnt expect that.

 

Oh -- you've never heard of Miss Pavlichenko? Firstly, it is a great Woody Guthrie Song:
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And secondly, it is just a cool story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko


Red Army Female Snipers

 

Anyone else notice All models are representing a country then there is one representing Texas in the middle :grin:

 

Yep, the Texas model is right next to the model from the country of Pennsylvania who is next to the model from the country of Illinois who is next to that awesome country of Nevada's model. Above her are the models from the countries of Tennessee and Kentucky. Top right is the model from that weird country of Montana. I think Dick Cheney was their president?
In case anyone couldn't find the middle.

 

I think the confusion is that these sashes are not the name of the place they are from, but they are rather elaborate name tags that an eccentric millionaire made the women in his harem wear.