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Pictures have the ability to capture a moment in time that can be revered many years later. Whether moving or still, they hold our attention better than probably any other medium of art. In this digital age, almost anyone can become a photographer. Yet old photos hold a one-of-a-kind aura – a unique imprint of that time, if you will.
Instagram page RocaHistory is where vintage pop culture meets history’s photographic curiosities. It has everything: from fascinating moments from the archives of history to behind-the-scenes snippets of Old Hollywood. So check out these pictures from RocaHistory to perhaps see what you’ve never seen before, and read our interview with photographer Margaret Sartor below.
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#1
A Couple At Woodstock (48 Hours After They Met) And The Same Couple 50 Years Later
GoGoPDX 2 years ago (edited)
Jerry and Judy Griffin. Their story is a great one. Judy was driving to Woodstock with 2 friends and her car broke down about 90 miles from the festival. She decided to just ditch the car and hitchhike the rest of the way. A 67 VW Beetle pulled up and after seeing a girl in the passenger seat, she felt comfortable bitching a ride with them. She sat in the back next to Jerry for the trip He has been quoted saying “I thought, ‘Okay, this is definitely unusual. We just picked up this really cute girl. And I’m going to Woodstock and I’ve got a tent and she doesn’t,’ ” anyway, the rest is history and they have been married over 50 years and have 2 kids and 5 grandkids. To add to the greatness of this story, they didn't know this picture existed until they saw it on a documentary sPBS documentary Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation, in 2019. They actually didn't have any pictures of themselves at Woodstock. Then, they turn on the TV one day, and bam, they see their much younger selves, wet, glowing from new love, smiling back at them.
Catherine 2 years ago
Aww thanks for telling us this. Makes the photo all the sweeter :)
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Bored Panda spoke to writer, visual artist and photographer Margaret Sartor, who is currently teaching at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. We asked her why people are so fascinated by historical pictures. “All historical photographs are a window into the past, but beyond the facts (or a nostalgia for the past), they may indicate little else,” Sartor explains.
On the other hand, moments of the past are not the only thing old photos can reflect. They may trigger us to reevaluate what we know. “Some historical photographs have the power to subvert familiar narratives and carry with them the possibility of expanding or upending our understanding of our own history,” Margaret says.
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#2
In 1922, Scientists Entered A Ward Of Dying Children, All In Comatose Diabetic Ketoacidosis, And Injected A New Drug (Insulin) Into Them As Families Were Already Beginning To Grieve
Before they had injected the last person on the ward, the first woke up. One by one, all of the children awoke from their diabetic comas. A room of death and gloom, became a place of joy and hope
DC 2 years ago
Imagine being one of those parents. Science and engineering are cold-hearted, cruel professions? Sometimes, yes. But, after all, all rights and privileges we have, are NOTHING without the background tech running our society. Imagine the freshwater network of a major city collapsing. Or of an entire state or nation. See what I mean?
Srinivasan Somasundaram 2 years ago
And there are people who are against science and medicine even when you show evidences like these
Lord of the laserprinter. 2 years ago
I don’t want to imagine the pain and anguish of the parents if only their child had hung on for just another hour.
Jaaawn 2 years ago
I'm lucky enough to have seen one of the original insulin injections used during this event. I was at my hospital for a few tests and I was waiting so long in the waiting room so I looked around and they had one in a glass case along with all the information. I'm so grateful I live in the UK as my aunt is diabetic so her insulin is completely free- she'd likely be dead elsewhere as she has other health issues and a heavily disabled child that means she can't work.
Linus Bourque 2 years ago
Let's give credit: https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes/discovery-insulin https://www.diabetes.org.uk/research/research-impact/insulin#:~:text=On%2023%20January%201923%2C%20Banting,to%20have%20access%20to%20it. What's disgusting is that the pharmaceutical companies in the US abusing the generosity and humanity of Banting et al.
Marie A (Blondebat) 2 years ago
Before I was diagnosed w/type 1 diabetes, I was almost to coma. 40 years later I am still here!!!
#3
This Is Shavarsh Karapetyan, A Retired Armenian Swimmer
In 1976, he had just completed a 26 km (16 mile) run when he heard a loud crash. A trolleybus had lost control and had fallen into a reservoir. It was 25 meters (82 ft) off-shore and had sunk to a depth of 10 meters (33 ft).
Karapetyan immediately dived into the sewage-infested waters and managed to kick the back window of the trolleybus with his legs, despite zero visibility from the silt that had risen from the bottom. Of the 92 passengers onboard, Karapetyan pulled out 46 people. 20 of whom survived.
The combination of cold water and the multiple lacerations from glass shards led him to be hospitalized for 45 days. He developed pneumonia and sepsis. While he was able to recover, damage to his lungs prevented him from continuing his career as a swimmer.
"I knew that I could only save so many lives, I was afraid to make a mistake. It was so dark down there that I could barely see anything. One of my dives, I accidentally grabbed a seat instead of a passenger. I could have saved a life instead. That seat still haunts me in my nightmares," he said.
In 1985, Karapetyan came upon a burning building with trapped people inside. He rushed in and began pulling people out. He was badly burnt and had to once again be hospitalized.
Later in life, he moved to Moscow and founded a shoe company called “Second Breath”. He is still alive today and continues to run his business.
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago
Oh man, I feel so sad that the seat haunts him in nightmares. It wasn't your fault, you did amazing 💛
Margaret personally is very interested in a unique way of developing photographs that was used in the 20th century – using glass plates. “These glass plates are now over a century old and have, themselves, lived a history,” she explains the fascination.
Margaret talks about what makes them so special: “The resulting cracks, scratches, and subtle tonal shifts in the negative surface at times seem to embody the very texture of life. They point directly to the ways in which experience is inflected by passing history.”
#4
Everyone You Meet Always Asks If You Have A Career, Are Married Or Own A House; As If Life Was Some Kind Of Grocery List. But Nobody Ever Asks If You Are Happy. - Heath Ledger
TonyTee 2 years ago
That’s facts. He spoke the deep truth, God rest his soul. Besides Cesar Romero, Heath was the best Joker and I wish we got more of his performance as such.
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago (edited)
Nobody ever asks me anything because nobody talks to me :/
Tamra 2 years ago
Hey there Ranger! How's your day going so far? Anything interesting planned for the week?
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Janet Graham 2 years ago
That may be true of folks in his circle, but not everyone is so possession oriented.
#5
Robin Williams Dressing Up As A Denver Broncos Cheerleader, 1979
It’s disputed but newspapers at the time said this made him the first male cheerleader in NFL history
The gag was for his hit show “Mork and Mindy.” They filmed during a real game, one which the Broncos won 45-10 (sorry, Patriots fans)
The iconic Broncos cheerleading crew the “Pony Express” welcomed him as one of their own, and he participated in cheers throughout the game
Astrophile 2 years ago
He looks like he’s having so much fun! (Kind of weird to think that today, some people would literally call him a “groomer” and a “pedophile” for wearing women’s clothes ☹️)
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Hydro Keychain 2 years ago
Today, the right wing fascists would call him a 'groomer drag queen', and cancel his show, then boycott anything he touches. I hate fascists.
the_avenging_knight (her/she) 2 years ago
Of course he did! any team with Robin Williams is a winner!
Catharina Geerts 2 years ago
He's greatly missed. Loved to see that guy! (And am old enough to have enjoyed "Mork and Mindy", though this must have been from an episode I missed)
Tim betton 2 years ago
Where was the outrage when he did this. It was just fun then and should be now
#6
Freddie Mercury Said To Mary Austin In His Will: “If Things Had Been Different You Would Have Been My Wife, And This Would Have Been Yours Anyway.” (1984)
DC 2 years ago
... plus, she never ever spilled any details about anything. She's been offered money, and there's enough reason to expect her to know a lot of stuff people would love to read, although it is none of their business. After all, musicias publish music, any else is up to them. Plus, as a fellow cat lover, our deepliest loved ones would likely have hissed at each other.
Starry starry night 2 years ago
I think she was with him at the end, probably the only constant love in his life
luvsick (they/them) 2 years ago
god bless freddie mercury. i hope he is happy up there in heaven
𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 2 years ago
Freddie was bisexual. He had a romantic and sexual relationship with Mary for many many years. But he was not going to deny his bisexuality and commit to a marriage (and polygamy is illegal in the UK). Mary stood by him regardless, and through all of his life, even though they had some ups and downs, arguments and separations. It is likely the song "Love of My Life" was written for Mary. (Even though Freddie's manager, John Reid, claimed after Freddie's death it was written for David Minns, the timeline/dates don't add up.)
Mariele Scherzinger 2 years ago
Lovely picture, caption, and story. However.... how does this fit the headline of the the listicle?
Jaaawn 2 years ago (edited)
Because so many gay men still marry women to hide their sexuality, so I guess this is one of the instances of little change.
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saw & order 2 years ago
At first glance, I thought this was Sheryl Lee (she played Laura and Maddie on Twin Peaks)
BumbleBloom 2 years ago
No, this is Mary Austin. Freddy loved her but he was g.ay. She was his best friend and he left her all of his money.
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It’s easy to think that photographs developed with a hundred-year-old technology would be poor in quality. Margaret says it isn’t so. “Given these large negatives' capacity for detail, they are vibrant and sharp as anything we can do now with a digital camera, but they have also been enriched and made more beautiful by the effects of time’s passage,” she tells Bored Panda.
#7
Marlene Dietrich Is Detained At A Train Station In Paris In 1933 For Violating The Ban On Women Wearing Trousers
John W 2 years ago
That is just not true. That is her husband Rudolf Sieber to her left. This false fact has been debunked. There is no mention in any newspaper of the time of such a story. There is an article about this here (In French) https://observers.france24.com/fr/culture/20210729-marlene-dietrich-arrestation-pantalon-paris-1933-faux
Valerie G. 2 years ago
I apologized to my dad after I broke his 78 of Lili Marleen by Marlene Dietrich. It really wasn't my fault that someone, cough, cough, My Dad, left it on a chair. (Now all the younguns on the board are Googling to find out what a 78 is).
gerard julien 2 years ago
" It wasn’t until 1923 that the attorney general declared it was OK for women to wear pants in public in the United States. May 8, 2019 : In March, a federal judge struck down a rule at a North Carolina charter school that prohibited girls at the school from wearing pants. The school had argued that the dress code promoted “traditional values.” The same month, Hannah Kozak, a senior at a Pennsylvania high school, received the guidelines for her school’s upcoming graduation ceremony. “No pants,” it said for girls, specifying that they were to wear a “light colored dress or skirt.” Kozak had to fight the school board (paywall) for the right to wear pants. Until 1993, it was the unofficial rule on the floor of the US Senate that women weren’t supposed to wear pants. "
gerard julien 2 years ago (edited)
here is the real story about Marlene DIETRICH wearing pants :" In 1933, actress Marlene Dietrich, who tantalized audiences as a tuxedo-clad cabaret singer in the 1930 film Morocco, caused a minor uproar by turning up to famed Hollywood hangout the Brown Derby in pants. According to the Los Angeles Times, Robert Cobb, the restaurant’s owner, refused to seat her. On witnessing her rejection, a pair of comics, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, left the restaurant and came back in skirts (it’s unclear whether they were allowed in). It would be decades before Cobb lifted his ban on women in pants, the Times said."
Magnifico Giganticus 2 years ago
Fighting the good fight and keeping the world safe from ladies in pants.
#8
A Little Boy Hugging His Best Friend During Lunchtime At Raphael Weill Public School In San Francisco, California In 1942
Not long after this photo was taken, children of Japanese ancestry (including the pictured boy) were imprisoned with their parents to spend the duration of World War II in internment camps
DC 2 years ago (edited)
Know what? I'd love to see the US, as a whole, analyze that time, the fears and prejudices that lead to where they have sadly come, and somehow make up with the survivors as well as keep this atrocity in public memory instead of forgetting and glossing over anything and everything wrong the US have ever done. It's no wonder there are so many mindless-radical patriots and, well, the opposite, while neither love nor hate should be an emotion felt towards an entity like a state. It's not a proper recepient of either, it's ok to be grateful for whatever free or efficient stuff a state does (education and whatnot), but that can't exclude states and their representants on whatever level from obeying basic principles. The US failed here, imprisoning those who, likely, opposed japanese politics and THEREFORE left their home country in the first place. Why they chose the US? Because the believed in it, maybe? How betrayed must they have felt? How betrayed they were! It's hideous, and even more so to forget and be silent about this. If anything can cause a just case of pride in a nation, it's that this very nation accepts their former flaws, rids itself of them, and moves on better than before. This learning process is being withheld. For ... for what? None of those in charge back then are alive or punishable anymore anyway...
robin aldrich 2 years ago (edited)
Americans, who happened to have Japanese ancestry. Rounded up, property seized, thrown into camps. And our country does not have a racist history, and stiil has the racist sentiments....according to some.
Paul Collucci 2 years ago
Japanese Americans imprisoned for having a Japanese heritage, that is so wrong.
Elemcie 2 years ago
Another sad fact of American history. We've made terrible mistakes. We've done good things, but so many awful things to people who were "them" and not "us."
Shannon Mallory 2 years ago
And if you live in Florida, you'll never hear a word about any of them in school.
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Rae Ramirez 2 years ago
I never knew about race schism until I moved to an all the way at school. I have many different kinds of friends and never saw any problem with it
#9
A Mother And Her Son On Their Way To A Pride Walk, 1985
Disgruntled Pelican 2 years ago
Who are you to dictate which lives are considered "special"? This mother thinks her son's life is special. I think my parents and husband lead special lives. Everyone is important and everyone should be allowed to be who they are without fear.
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“His eloquent portraits depicting people from a wide range of racial and economic backgrounds are a surprising and unparalleled document of a very turbulent time in our history,” Margaret tells us. She says that these antique images surprise her with their artistic freshness: “their sometimes disquieting fragility aligns with how it feels to live in the world today.”
#10
A Young Peter Dinklage With Grown-Out Hair, 1980s
Hilary Mol 2 years ago
I can't decide if this is giving off more "Encino Man" or "Interview With the Vampire" vibes. Or just "Legends of the Fall" hair.
#11
Italian Summer, 1980s
Magazine 2 years ago
This doesn't make any sense in Italian... you probably wanted to say "molto buono" (very good)
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How do you uhhh... what's it called? Life? 2 years ago
Man I love food, But why is nobody commenting on that damn nice view?
#12
This Is 18-Year-Old Alice Roosevelt And Her Long-Haired Chihuahua Named Leo In 1902
She also had a pet snake named Emily Spinach who she would wrap around on one arm and take to parties.
Alice was extremely independent and unlike many women of her time, she was known to wear pants, drive cars, smoke cigarettes, place bets with bookies, dance on rooftops, and party all night. In a span of 15 months, she managed to attend 300 parties, 350 balls and 407 dinners.
A friend of Alice’s stepmom once remarked that she was “like a young wild animal that had been put into good clothes.” Her stepmom went a step further and described her as a “guttersnipe” that went “uncontrolled with every boy in town.”
William Howard Taft banned her from the White House after Alice buried a voodoo doll (of Taft’s wife) in the front yard. Woodrow Wilson also banned her after she told a very dirty joke (sadly no record of the joke exists) about him in public.
Her father, Theodore Roosevelt famously said, “I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.”
Alice once told President Lyndon B. Johnson that she specifically wore wide-brimmed hats around him so that he could not kiss her.
During an interview in 1974, Alice described herself as a “hedonist.”
She died in 1980 at the age of 96
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago
Oh, she sounds like a legend! I wish I could go back in time and be her friend
GoGoPDX 2 years ago
She definitely was a force of nature and ahead of her time in so many ways. That being said, she did have a darker side also. I didn't really know about it all until I read about her daughter. Alice was very mentally and emotionally abusive, emotionally distant, and neglectful of her daughter which ultimately played a huge part in her suicide when she was in her early 30s.
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Ross Shaw 2 years ago
From a 1965 "Saturday Evening Post" profile of Alice: "We walked to Mrs. Longworth’s upstairs sitting room, where she often reads until six o’clock in the morning. Books were piled everywhere on the tables and on the floor, and contemporary newspaper clippings were strewn on the side tables. Coyote skins were lying on the backs of two large, comfortable chairs, and on one of the chairs was a pillow with the words, IF YOU CAN’T SAY SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT SOMEONE, SIT RIGHT HERE BY ME."
Astrophile 2 years ago
Hey there’s no need to shame people for having plastic surgery/fillers etc. It gives some people inner peace and confidence.
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Although Margaret Sartor teaches at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, she’s not snobbish when it comes to the art of photography. “Anyone could be a photographer, just like anyone can draw or write a sentence if they can hold a pencil; the camera is simply a machine, a tool, a medium,” she believes.
#13
Mother Holding Her Daughter At A Budapest Market In 1987. 30 Years Later, They Recreated The Photo. The Photographer Is Atilla Manek. The Subjects Are His Wife And Daughter
#14
17 Year-Old Juliane Koepcke Was Sucked Out Of An Airplane In 1971 After It Was Struck By A Bolt Of Lightning
She fell 2 miles to the ground, strapped to her seat and survived after she endured 10 days in the Amazon Jungle.
After ten days, she found a boat moored near a shelter, and found the boat's fuel tank still partly full. Koepcke poured the gasoline on her wounds, an action which succeeded in removing the maggots from her arm. Out of 93 passengers and crew, Juliane was the only survivor of the LANSA flight 508 crash that took place December 24th, 1971
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago
And here I am, 26 years old, writing a script to say for ordering a pizza :(
Dumpster Fire 2 years ago
Don't worry about it, Ranger Kanootsen. Do you think Juliane knew she was capable of that before it happened to her? A typical human's need for survival is strong, regardless of how apologetic you are when ordering pizza.
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robin aldrich 2 years ago
There's a movie about it, it's just awful, but there's a movie. And then there's a more documentary style story on her and it was amazing.
Boredest Disabled Panda 2 years ago
That isn't actually her. It's a still from a movie made a about the incident.
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#15
Ducklings Being Used As Part Of Medical Therapy In 1956
Hydro Keychain 2 years ago
They do. You just have to ask for it. Insurance will cover $20.00 of the $10,000.00 out of pocket cost.
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Show thyself 2 years ago
Poor babies ... They musst be stressed out, with just that little tub to paddle around, neither duck nor drake in sight and surrounded by constantly moving humans. ---- I'm quite content with adult, trained 'support -animals' and 'support/entertainment-humans' in hospitals.
RamiRudolph 2 years ago
Why don't they do that anymore. Nowadays you might get roast duck, if you're lucky.
Sartor claims that like in any other medium, the mind is the most important thing. “A photographer, in any era, is someone who chooses to use the camera as a way to explore or discover something about the world or their place in it,” she explains. You can capture an authentic moment even with an iPhone – it’s the idea behind it, the feeling that it gives the viewer that matters.
#16
A Knocker-Upper Was Someone Whose Sole Purpose Was To Wake People Up During A Time When Alarm Clocks Were Expensive And Not Very Reliable
In this photo, Mary Smith earned six pence a week using a pea shooter to shoot dried peas at the windows of sleeping workers in East London, 1930s. She would not leave a window until she was sure that the workers had woken up
Silvermidnight 2 years ago
The waker waker uppers . . . but who woke THEM?
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I think the term knocker upper means Something different now, doesn't it?
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago (edited)
I thought a "knocker-upper" would have been an old timey sperm donor.
kathryn stretton 2 years ago
Who knocked up the knocker uppers? Careful with your answers please :)
Janet Graham 2 years ago
My ex hired a phone service to give him a wake-up call each morning. He often slept through it and he had several services quit him because of that. I woke him up on time for the next 25 years. After he dumped me and his side piece dumped him, he lost 2 jobs for missing important calls and not getting to work on time. heh heh heh
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago
Alright this wins the award for most hilariously sadistic job ever!!
#17
A Young Man Demonstrating Against Low Pay For Teachers, 1930s
Casey Payne 2 years ago
Not even the salary. The numbers are different, but the buying power those numbers have are still the same, if not worse.
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Nimitz 2 years ago
This is what happened to my generation of millennials in Alberta. Tons of people left school or scraped by with barely passing scores in grades 10-12 cause "this is stupid" and they didn't want to learn anything or challenge themselves. Then they immediately got $60,000/year jobs in the oil industry. 1/3 of my school mates effectively stopped learning at the age of 15 and have only ever lived in an echo chamber since and it's a massive societal problem. We call it the stupidity subsidy because they got an easy ride for being stupid and these people only ever vote for the ruling class and hate anyone that tells them about the environment or switching to a carbon-free economy
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 2 years ago
I don't know about other countries, but teachers here START at $70,000, where as most people don't earn more than $55,000. When teachers start at $50k like everyone else, then I'll get all upset.
#18
Cher, 1974
Jaaawn 2 years ago
NO! Don't say that- black cats are often the ones left in shelters because of peoples pathetic superstition that black cats are associated with magic and witches. Yes, even in the Western World in 2023. My black cat is actually magic though as she can cheer me up when I'm down.
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Justin Smith 2 years ago
How has no one said it yet. DARK LADY! I mean this was the year it came out and everything.
Valerie G. 2 years ago
When I was fifteen I showed my mom a picture of Cher from Tiger Beat Magazine and said that was how I wanted to have my hair. She said if I did, then I had to be the one to look after it. I'm 72 now, still got my Cher hair.
“Photographs are not the truth, but they can lead us toward it,” Margaret gives a quick rundown of the meaning of pictures as a whole. “As human beings and citizens, we are constantly trying to see ourselves and our ever-changing, often conflicted world as clearly as we can—hoping it matters, hoping we matter, wondering what happens next."
"The magic of photography is that photographs move us in ways we can neither control nor can we fully explain and in that sense they remind us that ordinary life is suffused with mysteries.”
#19
Not Everyone Likes Bikini, Miami Beach, 1980s
Vic 2 years ago
I hear hell is hot, so I think they are dressed appropriately.
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Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago (edited)
Oh f**k right off, sign person. They're not hurting anyone!
Astrophile 2 years ago (edited)
I’d say “you look like you haven’t actually lived a single day in your entire life. Go stand off to the side with your weird little sign, you’re blocking my nice warm sun rays and the sound of the ocean waves 😌” and then continue to enjoy my beach day while she spends the rest of her life hyper-judgmental and angry at everyone else. Religion can be exhausting when it’s people like this lol, quit pushing your lifestyle down our throats and go enjoy what little precious time you have on this earth! Edit:spelling.
Load More Replies... TheAmericanAmerican 2 years ago
This was the 1980s... this is when it all began. Thanks Reagan
Load More Replies... Kevin J. Henning 2 years ago
If Jesus face palmed every time one of these people said or did something stupid he'd knock himself unconscious.
Ima Manimal 2 years ago (edited)
Evangelicals: because they aren’t satisfied until everyone is as miserable as they are…… just stay home.
#20
Office Life Before The Invention Of Autocad And Other Drafting Softwares
Prior to the release of AutoCAD in 1982, engineering drawings were all done by hand using different grade pencils, erasers, T-squares and set squares.
Even after all the manual labor, if a change was required, the engineers and toolmakers had to start from scratch and make the sketches all over again. Nowadays, architecture designers and other drafters are mainly just clicking their mouse and keyboard and not hunched over on a giant desk wondering if any changes will be made to their final drafts.
DC 2 years ago
We still learned that in early to mid 2000's (I started at uni in 2003). We were among the last to learn to do a correct technical drawing, they said. Today, that is a merely useless skill - tech drawings, you derive directly from a 3D model, and the truly bad CAD are all either evolved into being usable, or disappeared altogether. Still, SWx is kind of a mimosa.
Scott Rackley 2 years ago
Had to take technical drawing in 1992, I still have my drafting stuff. I will say that creating the drawings makes you much quicker at reading them.
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Auntriarch 2 years ago
It's possible. But those were the days when left handedness was beaten out of you in school, so I'm inclined to believe that the photo is backwards
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howdylee 2 years ago
To be fair, I (architect) am STILL hunched over a giant desk waiting for changes to be made to my final drafts. But it is a lot easier to make the changes :) My first summer internship job in 2003 is when I learned AutoCAD, went back to university in the fall, and while hand drafting something I picked up my left hand and put it into position to hit Ctrl-Z to undo a mistake... doesn't work while hand drafting! :)
Tim Fawcett 2 years ago
I was taught trchnical drawing at school and at university (early 80s) - I consider it a valuable skill that should still be taught. The problem with a lot of CAD work I see is that it is focussed on getting the model into the computer with little or no consideration for how people might need to use that drawing. Schematics particularly can be absolutely awful. We were taught that a technical drawing is primarily a means of communication and should explain the designers intents to the reader as simply as possible
iseefractals 2 years ago
My dad was a credit shy of getting an industrial design degree, which was based on physical, hand made technical drawings like this....and was told that the course work was changing to be CAD based, as that's the direction the industry was taking. He was gutted, became a computer programmer instead.
Hetal Vyas 2 years ago
I used to absolutely love drawing at a desk!! It's a skill not really taught anymore
Janet Graham 2 years ago
There is an art being lost here. But, CAD saves tremendous man-hours and that is what computers are supposed to do! They do the repetitious work so we don't have to.
Shane Hussel 2 years ago
It was much later that cad became universal. It was outrageously priced.
#21
A Woman Dressed Up As Batgirl In 1904, 35 Years Before The Creation Of Batman (1939) And 57 Years Before The Creation Of Batgirl (1961)
Jonathan Jones writes for The Guardian that our fascination with old photographs stems from their ability to be both dated and immediate. “Every photo captures the light of a unique moment, a time and place dateable to the instant the shutter opened. So as soon as it is taken it starts to slip away in time – a perfectly preserved microcosm of a vanished universe,” Jones writes.
#22
Vintage Halloween Costumes
𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 2 years ago (edited)
Well, considering what eldritch horrors these costumes are, I'd say they are doing Halloween right! (The couple could be Beetlejuice extras.)
Ozymandias73 2 years ago
Those look more terrifying than some of the more gruesome costumes of today.
#23
In May 1987, An Estimated 800,000 People Gathered For The 50th Anniversary Of The Golden Gate Bridge. Event Organizers Had Expected A Crowd Of 80,000
Packed in shoulder to shoulder, roughly 300,000 participated in the walk across the bridge. The weight of the crowd caused the suspension to sag
Many of those on the bridge thought it would collapse. Some threw bicycles and strollers into the water to help lighten the load
One man recounted years later, “I remember discussing with my wife the real possibility that we were about to participate in one of the 20th century’s landmark disasters. A bridge collapse would have put to shame all those petty Third World bus and ferry tragedies you read about in the newspaper”
Despite the flattening of the roadbed, bridge engineers said there was never any real danger
Needless to say, bridge officials did not allow uncontrolled pedestrian access for the 75th anniversary in 2012
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago
Crowded places... yikes! I would have been half tempted to jump off just to get a little personal space!!
Janet Graham 2 years ago
If you feel that way, you would have never gone.
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My granddad helped build it, then he and my gramma walked across it the first day.
AndThenICommented 2 years ago
My mom was there with my sister and a family friend. She said it was miserable but still awe inspiring
Janet Graham 2 years ago
My brother-in-law was on that bridge that day. His eyes would just glow when he talked about it.
Mario Strada 2 years ago
I still have a bottle of Champagne with the anniversary label. Hopefully my daughter will open it at the 100 anniversary. For the record, I never went on the bridge. It looked sketchy as hell and I was there for the fireworks.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
they miss a 0 somewhere?? how do you expect 80k and end up with almost a million people?
#24
Meryl Streep In The New York Shakespeare Festival's Production Of The Taming Of The Shrew (1978)
Martin Kaine 2 years ago
Yes, from the original Shakespeare, "What hath Peter Bilt?"
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The Instagram page RocaHistory has its bit of claim to fame on social media. It was one of Kendal Jenner’s favorite Instagram accounts when it still ran under the name LostinHistoryPics. Now it has 1.3 followers that tune in daily for some interesting facts and images from the recent past.
#25
Woman And A Tornado, 1989
Imsquatchinyou 2 years ago
That woman has never had a bite of chicken without ranch dressing 😁
Snorky The Pig 2 years ago
Maybe she was an influencer before the age of influencers, doin' it for the gram 😂
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Miss World 1994, Aishwarya Rai Alongside Her Mother Having Lunch With Her Miss World Crown On
#27
Three Young Women Eat Spaghetti On Inflatable Mattresses At Island Of Capri, 1939
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago
I'd love to do this, except I'd probably capsize and end up with seawater spaghetti :(
Although it has been rebranded, the page still features lots of stylish pictures not only of celebrities in the past. Old photographs of regular people get similar attention as well. People find them especially intriguing if they have an interesting story behind them or feature some aesthetically pleasing visuals.
#28
A Local Theater Producer In Colombia Changed Shakira’s Life
In the second grade, Shakira’s music teacher told her that she sounded “like a goat.” The teacher said she had far too much vibrato in her voice and wrote her off as hopeless
Dismissed as a bad singer, she earned a reputation as “belly dancer girl.” Her dad — born in NYC and of Lebanese descent — took her to a Middle Eastern restaurant when she was 4. It had a belly dancing performance, and at one point she got up on the table to dance like them
She would perform her belly dancing moves for school friends on Friday and eventually earned dancing gigs around town. At the same time, she fell in love with songwriting. Her dad gave her a typewriter for Christmas one year, and she started writing poems. Those poems soon turned into songs
Monica Ariza was a theater producer in the Colombian coastal city of Barranquilla at the time. She was impressed with Shakira and convinced a Colombian executive at Sony Music to give Shakira a chance. He agreed to listen to her cassette tape but was unimpressed and called her a “lost cause”
But Ariza wasn’t done yet. She ambushed them with a Shakira performance in a hotel lobby on a later date, and they were sold on Shakira’s talent
Sony signed Shakira to a record deal at age 13. The Queen of Latin Music was well on her way
Here are some pictures of a dark-haired Shakira in the 1990s
Whenever, Wherever you can take a chance on a talented young person… do it and it might pay off
Jaaawn 2 years ago
She's currently in the news being accused of defrauding Spain out of €5million or something.
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#29
Kate Middleton And Prince William's Post-Clubbing Taxi Pics From The 2000s
Caroline Nagel 2 years ago
This one made me laugh. They look like millions of young people after a night out. They look normal.
Janet Graham 2 years ago
Three sheets to the wind, exhausted and possibly getting ready to hurl.
#30
Summer Tourists In Greece, 1983
Wendy 2 years ago
Why are pictures from the 80s always in black and white when shown online? My childhood pictures at home are all in color...
PotatoNinja5000 2 years ago
It was in fashion at the time. I've got colour photos from my childhood but there were also a lot of black and white ones. Another reason would be that it was cheaper to do black and white, so if a photojournalist was going to take a lot of photos, it makes sense that they would carry it more than colour.
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Timbob 2 years ago
Maybe some people had rich families who could afford expensive cameras and color film.
Mario Strada 2 years ago
The cameras make no difference (except for Polaroid) and the film wasn't that much more expensive. The developing was expensive and took longer.
Load More Replies... iseefractals 2 years ago
Look at that, people that could actually walk up a few flights of stairs without fear of medical emergency.
kathryn stretton 2 years ago
The Greeks at that time would find this disgraceful behaviour. Not so different tiday.
gerard julien 2 years ago
in Florida today you would get arrested ! emoji-6518...85b95c.png 
So, pandas, don’t be afraid to do a bit of retronauting. That’s a new term for sharing and enjoying old photos. Who knows, you might get a serious ting of positivity when scrolling through this selection. And if not, at least you might learn an interesting historical fact or two.
#31
Reese Witherspoon With Ryan Phillipe And Their Daughter On The Set Of Legally Blonde
Reese said in an interview in 1998 that she met Ryan at her 21st birthday party. She recalled the moment as embarrassing, saying she went over to Ryan when she was drunk and said “I think you’re my birthday present!”
#32
Jason Momoa And Carmen Electra On The Set Of “Baywatch Hawaiian Wedding” In 2003
Dirk Daring 2 years ago
Jason Momoa And Carmen Electra On The Set Of “Baywatch Hawaiian Wedding” In 2003
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#33
Young Girl At The Tower Of Pisa In Italy, April 1998
#34
Carrie Fisher Posing In Trash Cans, 1980 And 1976
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago
Why trash cans specifically? Do you think she just saw a trashcan on a morning walk and went 'yippee ki yay' or what?
WindySwede 2 years ago
why do people do the plank, tide pod challenge, pour milk? Guessing it's some like this? Or just an a*s of photographer?
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#35
The Discovery Of The Ancient Statue Of Antinous Found In Delphi, Greece During An Excavation In 1894 (Colorized)
Antinous was the Greek male lover of Hadrian, a Roman Emperor in the 2nd century. Antinous died of mysterious circumstances while riding a flotilla down the Nile river in October of 130. Theories put forth by scholars range from accidental drowning to human sacrifice to suicide.
Upon his death, Hadrian underwent a period of intense grieving and eventually deified his lover by building temples and placing statues throughout the empire. Hadrian held festivals, minted metals and coins, and even founded a city named Antinopolis in his honor. He even went as far as establishing a cult devoted solely to the worship of Antinous.
Today, Antinous has more surviving sculptures than any other figure from classical antiquity except Augustus and Hadrian himself.
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago
Every single one of those people look like Wights from The Peculiar Children
#36
Stunt Drivers Raking In Cash On The Wall Of Death, Motordrome In India. Photo By Siddharth Kaneria
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago
Wall of Death? Oh, how charming. I suppose everyone was flocking for a turn, with a name like that!
robin aldrich 2 years ago
India's version of NASCAR???? bamboo for traction on the wall of death, interesting.
#37
Swimming In A Pool With A Christmas Tree & Floating Ornaments In Los Angeles, 1955. Photo By Slim Aarons
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago
There's something extremely visually pleasing about this image, but I can't figure out what it is.
#38
J.K. Rowling Writing Harry Potter At A Café In Scotland (1998)
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
It's a shame that her views on trans people are s****y, but still, I'm thankful she wrote the HP books, those books got me through some rough stuff, and whilst I don't like her and her views, I'm able to separate the books from that, unlike some people who have literally told me to kill myself because I still like them. :')
Snorky The Pig 2 years ago (edited)
This was when she already started to gain fame, judging by the date. Book 1 came out in '97. She was probably writing book 2/3 here. I don't necessarily agree with her views and opinions but you have to say, that woman is a genius and she has a gift.
#39
Liv Tyler, Joaquin Phoenix, Jennifer Connelly, Billy Crudup, And Joana Going On The Set Of Inventing The Abbotts, 1997
Francis 2 years ago
great BP! 5 people named in the titel and 3 people shown in the pic... uykl81wd6b...faff7d.jpg 
#40
Princess Diana In St Tropez, 1997
kathryn stretton 2 years ago
The royal family seriously missed a beat here. If they had been more magnanimous and treated her well in the breakup of her and Charles's marriage and admitted the coercion of it, and showed appreciation of her contribution, the royal family would have been forgiven, and they would have more support today.
#41
Pink Floyd’s Floating Concert In Venice That Made Its City Council Resign, 1989
Caroline Nagel 2 years ago
From the wikipedia article; 'around 300 tonnes of rubbish and 500 cubic metres of cans and empty bottles left on the ground by the audience'.
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#42
“When You’re Young, You Believe There Will Be Many People You’ll Connect With. Later In Life You Realize It Only Happens A Few Times”
Florencia Renedo 2 years ago (edited)
The title is a quote in the movie "Before Sunset", which is a sequel to the movie "Before Sunrise". In Before Sunrise, Celine and Jesse meet in a train in Europe and he convinces her to spend a night together before he goes back to America. They have a great connection throughout that night, and decide to meet at the same train station where they part ways six months later. In the sequel, which was filmed ten years later, they meet again (Celine could not make it to their date six months later) and they reminisce about their lives in the past ten years. Despite the time that had past, they realize they still have a strong connection. They conclude that, while when you are young you think you can fall in love many times with many people, only a few people can have such an affect on you in life.
#43
Fleetwood Mac Photographed By Annie Leibovitz For Rolling Stone (1977)
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago
They should invest in a king sized mattress if they're all going to sleep on it like that.
#44
Photos Taken Of Britney Spears By Felicia Culotta
Culotta traveled as Britney’s assistant and chaperone starting when Britney was working on her first album at age 15. Felicia was known for carrying around a disposable camera and would make a scrapbook of Britney’s adventures every year to give to Britney’s mom for Christmas
#45
Helmet With A Built-In Device For The Driver And Backseat Rider To Communicate, 1960s
#46
Dennis Rodman Announcing That He Is Bisexual And That He Is Marrying Himself, 1996
The stunt was done for the promotion of his memoir “Bad as I Wanna Be”. He arrived in a wedding dress and wearing a wig. Thanks to this his book garnered even more publicity.
Invent The Horizon 2 years ago
Looks like Rodman and Mamoa have more in common than we thought.
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