Society Magazine

Really Cool Historical Pics. Part One.

Posted on the 28 October 2013 by Eowyn @DrEowyn

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.

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A boxing match on board the USS Oregon in 1897

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The Beatles in 1957

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Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.

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Che Guevara

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Child laborers in 1880

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Winston Churchill out for a swim – typical swim suit of the day

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British SAS back from a three-month-long patrol of North Africa , January 18, 1943

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The construction of Disneyland

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The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940

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The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake of 1906

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Elvis in the Army

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Google begins – 34 people here.

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Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001, await orders.

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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.

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Disneyland employee cafeteria in 1961

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Martin Luther King, Jr. removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960.  The boy is his son.

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The original Ronald McDonald – played by Willard Scott!

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Young Bill Gates and the Microsoft staff in 1978:  11 people – 2 women, 5 beards.

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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.


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