New York Harbor, end of WWII, 1945.
The liner Queen Elizabeth is filled with the American troops coming home from war. Wow!
2 A boy and two big lobsters that have just been caught on the New Jersey Coast, 1916.
3 1945: The Mona Lisa painting can finally be opened again after it had been hidden from German troops in 1939.
4 Longacre Square, New York, 1903, one year before it was named Times Square. That happened because New York Times moved their headquarters there.
5 Imperial Airlines airplane, 1936. It doesn’t look very safe, right?
6 April 15, 1912, a Titanic survival boat meets with a rescue ship.
7 A priest praying over the victims of the Titanic, 1912.
8 France, 1959. Kids playing with the guillotine. And they say that today’s video games are violent!
9 Bruce Lee and his master, 1958.
10. Enjoying a meal in the car while getting cooled air piped in the car. This is a drive-in restaurant, in Texas, 1957.
11. MGM opening credits in the making, 1928. Yes, that’s how they did it!
12. Hitler and Speer looking at the Schwerer Gustav, the biggest gun ever used in battle.
13. Transporting a 5 MB hard drive seemed like a serious job back in 1956.
14. This is how they tested shoes back in 1937.
15. First Wimbledon as an international tournament, 1883.
16. 1993, Queen Elizabeth II tests a big gun.
17. Coca-Cola being introduced to France, 1950.
18. Human-sized chess with actual soldiers, Russia, 1924.
19. Oil Crisis, 1973. People are having picnics on the deserted highways.
Old interesting PICTURES
Her Majesty and Prince Phil – same brooch, same pearls, same love.
Hans Christian Anderson
Winston Churchill, 1895
Mahatma Gandhi dancing
Sophia Loren
Albert Einstein
Paul Gaugin
Vincent van Gogh
John Wayne, 1930 (aged 23)
Elizabeth Taylor… this could have been X rated.
Alfred Hitchcock, 1920’s
Paul Newman, served in the Pacific in WW2
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
Confederate general Robert E Lee.
Did you know that when Lee joined the confederacy, his farm was taken and later became Arlington National Cemetery?Wonder if the Idiots want to tear down Arlington if they only knew its Lees Farm
Edgar Allan Poe poses with Abraham Lincoln in Mathew Brady’s Washington ,D.C. studio, 1849
Ernest Hemingway as an American Red Cross volunteer during World War I, 1918
Mark Twain, aged 15, 1850
Mother Teresa, What a find…!!!
