I don’t know about you, but I love seeing old pictures especially with some sort of description. I present for your viewing pleasure part one.
~Steve~ H/t hujonwi
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Albert Einstein looking fabulous.
A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897
The Beatles in 1957
Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.
Che Guevara
Child laborers in 1880
Winston Churchill out for a swim – typical swim suit of the day
British SAS back from a three-month-long patrol of North Africa , January 18, 1943
The construction of Disneyland
The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940
The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906
Elvis in the Army
Google begins – 34 people here.
Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001, await orders.
California lumberjacks work on Redwoods. Thousands of tree rings in these ancient trees – each over 1000+ years old or even much older…such a shame…irreplaceable giants. National park treasures all gone but a few – what kind of men would do such a thing for over 100 years – destroy something they cannot ever fix or replace for 2000 years? It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1200–1800 years or more. An estimated 95% or more of the original old-growth redwood forest has been cut. In 1850, old-growth redwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres…down to 8,100 acres by 1968, by which time nearly 90% of the original redwood trees had been logged.
Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961
Martin Luther King, Jr. removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son.
The original Ronald McDonald – played by Willard Scott!
Young Bill Gates and the Microsoft staff in 1978: 11 people – 2 women, 5 beards.
A different angle taken of “Tank Man,” the man who stood against a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square . He is standing in the street between the tree trunk and the fleeing man. You can see the tanks approaching from the right.
