50 Important Historical Images That Might Change Your Perspective On Things, As Shared By This Instagram Page
InterviewToday we'd like for you to take a look at an Instagram account by the name of "The History Atlas". This page collects interesting and unseen historic images and shares them with its whopping 81K followers on the platform.
In fact, most of these images are rather rare or previously unseen by the public, as they depict people, places, and fascinating events from the past. For some of the images, the page also includes captions and explanations about the images, providing historical context and background information to quench your thirst for knowledge of the human past.
The article also includes an exclusive interview with a Hellenistic period historian Dr Elke Close, so make sure to keep on reading.
With that being said, if you'd love to see images of the old Cincinnati library before it was demolished, the creation of the central line in 1898, and many other things, then scroll down below!
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A White And A Black Men Leading A Civil Rights March In The Late 1950s
The saddest song I know is “All too well” 10 minute version by Taylor Swift, or “When I was your man” by Bruno Mars. (Responding to ur bio) 🥰♥️
Load More Replies...I saw terrible discrimination in the 1950s. Never understood the point of it. Why did my friends have separate drinking fountains? Why did they ride a different part of the bus? Even my church discriminated. I caught a lot of c**p for not "following the rules." Screw it. Any rule that separates humans into groups like we were marbles, and choosing which ones get put into play... it's wrong.
What vile troll is downvoting you? Here, have an upvote!
Load More Replies...(・_・”)/\(・_・”)^5 Got a few years on you, but yeah... seems weird to have childhood memories documented as 'historic.' lol
Load More Replies...Black and white together and none of them are superior to each other
Incorrect. This is a photo of two courageous men leading a civil rights march. Just because the photo is black and white doesn’t mean we have to bring color into it. Everyone bleeds red!
You have to remember that nobody ever sees that and Bethy is very much correct.
Load More Replies...If they could do that back then, why can't every one? Racism is SO f'n stupid!
Love this❤️❤️! But it still breaks my heart that some Americans are still treating the blacks with disrespect. No matter the color of your skin, we are all created equal in the eyes of God. It breaks my heart that we are so quick to judge, rather than we don’t know what that person is going through, for our feet are not planted in their shoes. I wish people would stop accusing blacks on for all the hell that’s goes on, and allow the white folks get away with murder. I wish one day that everyone can see that black life matters just as much as our lives matter. For we are no different.
To hear some more interesting facts, Bored Panda reached out to Dr Elke Close. Dr Elke Close is a Belgian Classical Languages and History Teacher with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in the Netherlands who has created her own online education tool related to ancient history, as well as started informative and topic related pages on Instagram and Facebook (@hellenistichistory). She also makes illustrations (@drawingancienthistory on Instagram) inspired by the classical world and is currently working on a colouring book and podcast related to Ancient Greece!
Police Dog On Duty In Side Car. 1930s
"Why are you taking my picture hooman? Can't you see I'm on duty? "
Load More Replies...love the dog, fascinated by the bicycle... electrical or with a small petrol engine... wondering...
Almost certainly a small petrol engine: this looks a lot like the "Motorcycle" my great great grandfather used to ride around the University of Colorado campus around the same time period (minus the sidecar and companion) that was more or less a gas motor on a bicycle.
Load More Replies...You know the dog is saying "look at me, I've got my human just where I want him,I can't believe my luck,being ridden around"
Yeah you could almost believe there's a bit of cat in him. And I don't mean that as an insult.
Load More Replies...I would never dare to do anything illegal infront of this dynamic duo
The Old Cincinnati Library Before Being Demolished, 1874-1955
from what i could find, (correct me if i’m wrong here) it was demolished to make way for a new library- a shame, the original is super pretty :( — https://historydaily.org/demolition-of-cincinnati-library — https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-old-cincinnati-library-demolition-1874-1955/
Load More Replies...Note - it was fashioned around the structure of an incomplete opera house, which is what gave it its appearance. It was poorly ventilated and very dirty due to the soot from the fires coating everything. Multiple cleaners were hired to clean the books and so many were still lent out almost completely black from the coating. It was prone to flooding so books from the sub cellar were warped, water damaged, and musty from mould. The public weren't allowed in the stacks because they were dangerous, and i is known that Pages died retrieving books for patrons. It was torn down by the company that the land was sold to after a new library was built - one that was less dangerous, bettr ventilated, and not heated by coal fires. People at the time were not unhappy - they saw it as a filthy dangerous relic of a bygone era. https://www.wvxu.org/podcast/oki-wanna-know/2022-06-15/oki-wanna-know-what-happened-old-cincinnati-library
Zia , thanks for the information. I'm glad they built a better library. I would hate to think all those books being thrown away .
Load More Replies...No, why did they demolish it, I would love to go there. Hell, if i went there i ain’t even coming out.
It was filthy, it was dangerous, it flooded frequently, and they had built a new library that didn't have these problems. It was demolished by the company it was sold to. No one at the time was sad to see it go.
Load More Replies...Omg same. My husband built me bookshelves last year and then had to build a book case a few months ago because we ran out of room 😬
Load More Replies...Wow. Now that’s a library! Used to love libraries. When was the last time I went to one? Years.
You might be wondering what exactly is Hellenistic age, just like Elke did all those years ago. Interestingly enough, the historian became interested in the Hellenistic Age by accident.
“My interest in the Hellenistic Age (i.e. the period of Greek history after the death of Alexander the Great), came about by accident. I had always been interested in Ancient Greece and Rome while in high school, so at University I decided to study Ancient History.
For one of my courses of my bachelor, I had to write about a random revolt that happened to take place during the Hellenistic Age. When I then went on Erasmus to Greece, I had a single course dedicated to the period which was so enthralling that I ended up writing my MA thesis on the Graeco-Roman interactions in the 3rd and 2nd century BC. When I realized that I wanted to pursue a PhD in Classics, needless to say it was going to be about a topic related to Hellenistic History. Now that I’ve finished that project I wanted to keep learning more about the period, as it such a fascinating time period.”
Milk Delivery By Dogcart, Studio City, Ca, Circa 1910
Why did they take the German Shepherd breed and turn it into a monstrosity with a sloping back and virtually useless hip joints. Look at this stunning dog and just imagine how much suffering could have been avoìded just by a different wording on the breed specifications for the Kennel Club and AKC.
German shepherds are still work dogs throughout the world, the bad breeders have the non-functional dogs, while the military and police are selective about the breeders and dogs they get.
Load More Replies...Cannot verify this particular dog, but I found a bunch of great pics from the same era from around the world showing dogs delivering milk. Thought you lot would enjoy 'em. The one on the bottom right is an etching, the rest are photos. Dogs-Deliv...8c-png.jpg
Cool - thanks! Don't understand all the claims of photoshop on the picture posted. It was a thing so what would be the point of photoshopping another picture of a dog-pulled milk cart?
Load More Replies...See and my grandpa said a dog was a waste of money and didn't earn it's keep!
If only your grandpa knew the thought process that went into creating most breeds. Almost all dog breeds were created for some kind of work at some point.
Load More Replies...In The 1920s And 1930s, Sheep Were Routinely Introduced Into London Parks To Keep The Grass Under Control And Reduce Mowing Costs
Shepherds competed for the privilege of grazing their flocks on Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Clapham Common and other pastures around the city. Sheep are like a lawn care multi-tool. As they cut your grass, they also aerate the lawn with their hooves and spread fertilizer in the form of urine and manure. Sheep don’t require gasoline and oil changes, and although they are certainly not maintenance-free, grass-fed sheep are a sustainable alternative to lawn mower.
Then later, you can wear them and eat them. That’s not a criticism, by the way; so long as they’re treated well, they’re a highly sustainable resource.
Can verify that this is what sheep do. Friends who own a sheep farm, around 250 sheep. The field never gets very high, but it continues to grow enough to feed them. They do require a few different types of supplemental foods in their diet. They grow these in their other fields. Sheep are hilarious.
Yeah my grandma owns sheep and sometimes watching them during lamb season is just great. They're all jumping around and running in circles and sometimes the adults will join the lambs in their craziness.
Load More Replies...My mother city grazes heritage cows on ancient public greens! It's lovely to see the tradition maintained.
In my area of North Orange County CA, they use goats to keep the wild brush on the hill sides under control. A little orange mesh temporary fencing to keep them off the roads works. Fun to drive by.
Fire-control goats have been very popular in Northern California for some time (for good reason). Once I saw a herd behind orange mesh doing its thing on the other side of the freeway in front of San Francisco International Airport.
Load More Replies...Portland has been using goats as landscape architects for years, maybe even decades. Its the weirdest thing to drive down the freeway and see a herd of goats clearing brush along the roadside. I want ro pull over and pet them. (Used to live on a farm and I miss the menagerie)
It's also bring done in the part of Spain where we live, it's fun to see them do what they do best 😁
A lot of you Pandas may be interested in learning about the key events and developments that took place during the Hellenistic period, so we kindly asked Dr Elke to share some interesting facts with us.
“The Hellenistic period is marked by several events and developments that changed the Ancient World forever. The conquests of Philip V of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great had already changed the Greek world before the start of the Hellenistic period and the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC without a proper marks the beginning of the Hellenistic period and leads to a series of wars among his successors (the Successor Wars 322 -275 BC) that saw his large empire crumble into the three large Hellenistic Kingdoms: the Ptolemies in Egypt, the Seleucids in the East and the Antigonids in Macedon.” She explained to us.
“From that point onwards, the Hellenistic kingdoms and Rome, for this is also the period in which the Romans turned their interest to the East, become the most important players in the Greek speaking world. The Roman conquest of Macedon in 168 and Greece in 146 BC is the start of a long process in which step by step the Hellenistic world becomes part of the Roman empire. This ends with the defeat of the last of the Hellenistic rulers, the famous Cleopatra VI, at Actium by the soon-to-be-emperor Augustus. Even though the defeat of Cleopatra and Marc Anthony in generally considered to be the end of the period, there is some discussion among scholars for alternative dates such as 146 BC.”
The Soldiers Fed The Polar Bears With Condensed Milk Tins. Soviet Union, 1950
Photo taken during a routine military expedition in Chukchi Peninsula, Soviet Union. It isn’t sure if the Chukchi Peninsula has more people or white bears. The climate is very severe and sometimes weather can be so fierce in winter that the temperature falls 60 C degrees below zero (-76 Fahrenheit).
"Excuse me, would you tell your species to stop global warming? We would like to still have a habitat with ice floes and we can also do without extinction. It would be nice if you stopped your s**t. That's enough. thanks"
The only way I'd get that close to a polar bear is if I was in a tank. With the hatch closed. Moving away.
Right? I have so many questions! Why were they feeding their supplies to the bears? Wouldn't this make the bears pester the expedition? And potentially eat the soldiers? And was the photographer just standing there next to one of the most dangerous animals in the world? Who thought this was a good idea??
Load More Replies...They are magnificent indeed, but they are also the only type of bear that actively hunts humans as prey. No judgement here.
Load More Replies...If it is brown lay down, if it is black fight back, if it is white feed them condensed milk..?
this is sweet but feeding wildlife is never a good idea, and milk isn't even something that polar bears eat
Well said Tyler ....... you are a human with a functioning BRAIN !!!!!!!!!!!!
Load More Replies...Snowman On A Soviet Scale. Ussr. Late 1960s
His arms look a little small for his overall size. He's like the T-Rex of snowmen.
Because in Soviet Union, all comrades work together on same project.
Load More Replies...O no no.... Not soviet scale.... We want the banana scale.... How many babanas is that......lol
Following our previous question, we asked Close to describe how the Hellenistic world differed from the classical world that preceded it. “The Hellenistic World was different form the classical period in several ways. The Greek mainland was no longer the centre of influence, this position had been taken up by new cities such as Alexandria. These new centres of power and learning resulted in progress in science, literature and art which are marked by a new more complex, individual nature. Because of Alexander’s vast expansion of his empire, the ‘Greek’ world had become so much bigger and the interactions between Greek society and the indigenous people created a new and multicultural society and world that was vastly different than that of the 5th century.
Greek culture and language became more widespread than before and the Greek gods were often syncretised with local gods, creating new deities such as Greco-Egyption god Serapis. Even though there were plenty of Greek poleis, the world was now ruled by kings and consuls in stead of the smaller Greek democracies – which does not mean however that they ceased to play a role in the Hellenistic period. If we compare the Hellenistic and Classical world, one can say that the conquests of Alexander created a cosmopolitan, multicultural society which transcended classical Greece.”
Country Store, North Carolina 1939
Ulysses Everett McGill : Hold on, I don't want this pomade. I want Dapper Dan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Country Store Owner : I don't carry Dapper Dan, I carry Fop.
Well, I don't want Fop, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan man!
Load More Replies...North Carolina in 1939 - wouldn't that have been segregated??? I'm surprised to see mixed races in the photo. (Please don't downvote - I was under the assumption that most everything was segregated in the south back then, please educate me if I'm wrong!)
googled it for my own sake. https://theforgottensouth.com/gordonton-nc-dorothea-lange-store-photo/ I guess if you're the only store for an entire community (of all poor farmers, regardless of race) then perhaps you wouldn't segregate.
Load More Replies...For the curious, 22 cents/gallon in 1939 is around 4.40 to 4.70 in today's money
Just the porch usually. There are a lot of old houses in my rural NC town with porches that were built this way and are still standing.
Load More Replies...Store like this right down the road from me. Its old wood is a sensory experience.
Lovely looking store. Many modern buildings and shops are plain ugly and have zero atmosphere.
An authentic interactive country store would be a fun museum exhibit.
they still have a lot of places that look like this in the midwest
Rode Greyhound from Va to TN in the 1990s and we stopped at a place like this in the Carolinas
Here We See The Creation Of The Central Line In 1898
here are a million fascinating facts and figures about the London Underground, but this rarely seen photograph reminds us just what an engineering feat the construction process was.
And still is - the new Elizabeth Line had to bore right under the entire city, weaving between and through all of the existing underground network and services, often with centimetres to spare. Thinking about having to bore a tunnel to that accuracy in three dimensions makes my brain want to leak out of my ears! There are several TV programmes about the construction on British television.
My dad was one of the H&S consultants on the Elizabeth Line and his stories make me glad I didn't know at the time what he's said since! Massive feat of engineering and I spot him a few times on some programmes!
Load More Replies...My dad was a H&S consultant on the new Elizabeth line (and a few other new tube extensions too) and said that it was dangerous enough nowadays with burring under buildings and around existing infrastructure, alongside making sure they weren't buried alive or drilling into dangerous pockets of gas etc. He said he takes his hat off to those who built it back then and how scary and dangerous it must have been! There is an amazing programme about it on the BBCiPlayer
If only they could see how huge the London Underground is now. Working conditions back them must have been horrible too.
The following is quoted from username Ted Bundy's response page. "Cream balls😂 hahahaha can’t control how dirty my mind is" Only one example from his page to show how seriously stupid this person is. The user name says it all. My first cousin was friends with one of Bundy's victims, Susan Curtis. I do not tolerate those who idolize psychopaths.
they all have Turkish mustachios. must've been the craze and or from Turkey.
Looking at the photo reminds me of seeing city workers on the 'job' 1 guy with a pick in the center and everyone else standing around watching. But even with that this was an amazing accomplishment.
Dr Close also opened up about her approach to research and writing about historical events and figures. “This kind of depends on the topic I am planning to write about. If it is something that I am completely new to, I tend to start by compiling some basic information – I am not afraid to say that Wikipedia has been rather useful here.” She told Bored Panda. “Then I start to look at more specialized works such as academic books and articles or blog posts which I combine with different kinds of primary sources such as ancient authors, epigraphic texts or numismatic evidence. Due to the fragmentary nature of a lot of the ancient source material, I have found it to be necessary to combine as much of the material as possible in order to get the full picture.”
Gypsy Children Being Taught To Play The Violin In A Courtyard Of One Of The Poorer Houses. Budapest, Hungary, 1939 By William Vandivert
And all of those children, like most Roma, ended up in nazi death camps.... Lest we forget...
To Mr Bundy- wtf, first of all the username in itself is terrible and laughing at the genuine suffering of others is worse. Shame on you.
Load More Replies...Yes, Roma are Gypsy, but Gypsy aren't necessarily Roma. The term can be used as a slur, but as there is no PC alternative it's still used. As there are different groups some even prefer the term Gypsy as they are falsely called Roma otherwise.
Load More Replies...Charitable Chinese Man Feeding A Criminal In A Cangue. Ca. 1905
Petty criminals were sentenced to wear the canque, often for a couple of months, and display themselves in public places. At best they were humbled by dependence on others to be fed, at worst, they might starve to death. The sign on the cangue describes the man's crime.
For petty crimes!? What happened for extreme ones. Do I even wanna know?
Quite possibly one way ticket to meet their ancestor
Load More Replies...Wonder what the crime was. Can anybody read the text? It's hard to see the characters so I think one needs to master Chinese to decipher -- and maybe that's not even enough :)
This was done more than a century ago, it's inhuman and used to keep the fear of the Emperor in the people. Not more then a few years ago, hands, fingers and ears were/are cut off in for example Iran, even if the victims were innocent (not a fair process) and in some Islamic countries people are sentenced to death by stoning them.... Humiliation and inhumane sentencing are still a way to keep the people under controle in a number of parts of the world today... It's like beating the cr@p out of children though, you can not torture to gain respect, the only thing that happens is hate or fear or avoidance... Respect is earned. Look at North Korea, were the people have to put on the show of their life to please Kim Jong Un, for if they didn't, the punishment would be severe. If someone escapes the country, the family left behind will pay with severe punishment. People are just sick sometimes 😭
I have a half brother that likes to try to kill Hispanic people while high on drugs... California is so nice they keep releasing him. Sometimes people need substantial punishment.
Load More Replies...“Oriental” (NO NOT ASIAN) people are a whole different classification of humans when it comes to cruelty!
When asked about what she found most rewarding about her work as a historian, Dr Elke told us this, “Working as a historian – and a Classical language teacher – allows me to write and talk about topics that personally interest me and share those interest with others. Every day I am able to find out more and more things about the ways people live thousands of years or about the ways in which they organised their lives, and to me that is absolutely amazing. There is nothing better than going on holiday to search for traces of those people among long forgotten ruins.”
Woman Hailing A Cab In New York City, 1956
Ya and the woman isn't too badly dressed either
Load More Replies...She's proof someone can look absolutely beautiful without showing off 90% of her unclad body and without a cell phone.
yeah okay I get what ur saying but this also hugs her body. so jot the best example. both r beautiful.
Load More Replies...Cue screeching of brakes as half a dozen cabbies all try to compete for her fare! Apart from the cars, that photo could have been taken last summer, she wouldn’t look out of place now, and even her doggie’s jacket looks totally contemporary.
if she's alive....that's someone's great grandma. and you know....grandma's lookin' pretty damn great.
She could also be someone's mother. My oldest brother was born in 1956 and my mother was 18.
Load More Replies...People Sleeping On The Crowded Platform Of Elephant And Castle Tube Station While Taking Shelter From German Air Raids During The London Blitz
Humanity is just the worst at times :(
Load More Replies...My Great Nanny Edna, still alive, at 96. Met her husband in the shelter they were in, under a church. The church survived, and they got married in the same church later on. 🥰🥰
I often find myself when waiting on underground platforms just how scary it must have been to be down there during bombing raids not knowing what you'd walk back out to!
You can also report people now too. I don't think that the down votes count as much as they used to. It might hide the comment but I don't think it causes bans anymore.
Load More Replies...Most of the Underground network served as air raid shelters, there were children born down there.
Including Jerry Springer. He was born at Highgate Tube Station.
Load More Replies...The historian also discussed with us how she integrates different perspectives and interpretations of historical events and figures into her work.
“Sometimes it is easy to forget that our historical sources were also made from a certain perspective. While is true for any kind of source, including the less obvious ones such a 19th century photo, I find that when creating a narrative, it can already be enough to give an overview to your readers of the different interpretations that exist in the modern scholarship about a certain event or figure. Of course, this rather depends on what kind of work you have to produce, sometimes you just do not have the room to do so as can be the case with shorter blogs or social media posts.” She said to us.
Viet Cong Medics Operate On An Injured Cambodian Solider, 1970
Average age of American combatants in the Vietnam war was 19…
Load More Replies...My ex was Cambodian and I learned so much that was never taught to me in school. Honestly I didn't even really know about the Cambodian genocide. Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge, killed or imprisoned anyone who was wealthy, educated, religious, had history belonging to other political parties, or just for the hell of it. They would raid villages and kill everyone except children from the ages of about 6 - 12. Any child younger and any babies would also be killed because they were of no use to them. The kids then became child soldiers if they were boys, or sent to brothels if they wete girls. My ex's family had to flee their village in the middle of the night because the Khmer Rouge had come. His mother, father, and 4 siblings fled into the jungle. His mother was about 38 weeks pregnant with him, and literally gave birth to him, in the middle of the night, in the jungle, while fleeing from the Khmer Rouge. 3 hours into fleeing their home, she goes into labor. She told me how she kept going, even through contractions. . She talked about how she had to be so quiet. and when she knew it was time to push, she made the kids hide in the trees while she gave birth. She then said " I give birth, afterbirth comes, I get up, wrap the baby to my chest so he can eat, and start running again". I have never forgotten that sentence. They made it Thailand and spent 3 years in a refugee camp before coming to the US. All 7 of them survived, which is a miracle in itself. They had so many stories of families they knew and how only 1 or 2 of them survived. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were responsible for an estimated 3 million deaths (30 % of the Cambodian population) in a span of 2 years. Yet, this is rarely taught in history. If anyone wants to know more here is a good link. https://www.britannica.com/event/Cambodian-Genocide
The movie, 'The Killing Fields' also depicts the situation as you describe it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Nominated for 7 Academy Awards/Oscars -- Won 3 ... Rated 93/100 on Rotten Tomatoes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Killing_Fields_(film)
Load More Replies...In a swamp too, it appears. I can't imagine what it would have been like
Happy Story: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I coached a Cambodian refugee who was conscripted into the army as a child soldier. He was shot in the calf and taken away to recover. After two weeks, when he could walk with a limp, he was told he was going back up to the front line. He escaped the medical unit and headed toward the coast, where he got into a overloaded boat that drifted across the Pacific Ocean. Before it sank, he was rescued and taken to a refugee camp. After staying there a year, he was adopted and moved to a new home thousands of miles away. He is one of the most contented/satisfied people I've ever met. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . As his coach, we often practiced and played in miserable weather. Sometimes when this happened, I'd feel a wave of happiness. Each time, I'd turn around and realize this teenager was near me. This guy would be just standing there -- very content. When I'd make eye contact, he would just smile. I don't believe in Aura's, crystals, essential oils, etc. that have been scientifically debunked -- but I can't explain why I'd suddenly feel good when this guy was nearby when I didn't even know he was nearby.
People do radiate energy though. That energy can 100% affect those in close proximity!
Load More Replies...They are doing surgery in knee deep swamp! I don’t think many people can actually understand how awful that must have been. I don’t see how anyone survived. If the bullets and bombs don’t do it you got malaria, infection, and starvation.
... Who could and would have killed. (and that's the sad about it. Looooosing a childhood)
Load More Replies...Finnish Cavalry Training 1930s
which is why you'll never become a finnish cavalry hero...
Load More Replies...Training is important. You never know if such a situation will arise during war.
I would not want to be the guy on the bottom. I wouldn't want to be any of them but especially the guy on the bottom.
Is there really such a shortage of wood posts in Finland that you'd replace them with humen men? Jeez.
Yes at that time wood posts and potential wood posts outnumbered the human population of Finland 31500:1. Wood posts are only used if that ratio is at least 34000:1
Load More Replies...Having been dropped on my first ever trust-fall, it is clear that such teambuilding activities are not as wholesome as planned
The historian also told us how she thinks the study of history can inform our understanding of the present day. “The study of history is a tool for those of us who want to understand how certain things today were shaped by events in the past. It provides us with analytical tools and empowers our critical thinking, so that by looking at what came before, we can more easily understand what kind of patterns lead to certain problems and how can we avoid or solve them. Studying the past is looking at ways in which our society changed over time and how these changes not only had an impact on humanity in general but on us as individuals as well. History is everywhere and if you learn how to interpret it, it can be the greatest tool to understand the present society.” Dr Elke shared with Bored Panda.
High School Teenagers 1947
Absolutely correct. Kids these days! Kids those days!
Load More Replies...This would not happen today's world. So many safety violations . I miss riding in the back of grands pickup with 8 - 18 of my cousins. Those were the days.
I looked at this picture and thought about the wars Korean, Vietnam and wonder how many....
Police Officer Guarding A Pharmacy In High-Flood Waters, Ontario, 1974
That is some commitment. But wouldn’t that be dangerous, seeing as everyone else has already evacuated, or what seems like it in the back?
From knight5923 on Reddit: “ Weird to be able to do this, but that was actually my Grandfather's pharmacy. He used to tell us that he went out and found that police officer on the nearby streets and asked him to keep an eye on the store front because people were crowding at the edge of the floodwater while he and his wife and staff were busy trying to get their stock in the back room up above water level, and he was concerned that, if any looting were to start, his otherwise unguarded narcotics could be stolen and people could get hurt.” Edited to add notes from the Hamilton Spectator “ The police officer in the picture stood corner of Ainslie and Dickson streets waist-deep in the floodwaters is Const. Jack Shuttleworth. ”
Load More Replies...This happened in Cambridge Ont. in the mid 1970's. I was about 100 meters from here closer to the Grand river. We were rescued by a huge front end loader, by getting in the bucket. and slowly navigation around sunken cars. That was about a half hour after this photo was taken.
And have something waaaaay worse than STD.... Ew!!! No thanks please!!!
Load More Replies...Looks like he’s got waders on, just hope there isn’t a leak. Or that he needs one… I do like the ‘Do Not Enter’ sign, very appropriate.
I just read an article saying a sporting good store across the street lent him a pair and he stayed dry.
Load More Replies...When asked for advice on pursuing a career in the field of history, Dr. Elke Close emphasized the importance of not allowing others to discourage you from pursuing your passion, and to have confidence in your ability to succeed. “Do not let anyone discourage you from pursuing your passion, you just have to know how you want to get started.” She said. “Aside from the traditional careers such as history teacher or university lecturer, there are so many exciting ways in which you can work with history: you can create your own projects, apply for a heritage job, produce books and podcast, become an advisor for historical games… The list is endless. Just be sure to keep on reading and developing your knowledge about your area of interest!”
An Elevator Parking Lot In New York. C.1920
I have a friend who lived in a condo that had an elevator system in their garage and one time it did fail and it was just as destructive as you would imagine 😂
Load More Replies...That's my car, the black Model T. No wait, I think it's the next one. No wait...
Would definitely keep from having property turned into asphalt. Takes up less space.
That's my car, the Model T. No, wait, I think it's the next one. No, wait...
I saw these frequently used in Japan. Very convenient, but much more sophisticated now.
A Man Standing On The First Cables During The Construction Of The Golden Gate Bridge, With The Presidio And San Francisco In The Background. 1935
How do these workers even know what to do, let alone do it without much safety precautions?
Dr Close expressed her excitement about the increasing use of social media and digital tools to make history more accessible and engaging for a wider audience. “I love that there are more and more people using social media and digital tools to tear down the barrier that history has to be boring or is only applicable for a certain group of people. Those stuffy lessons from high school or boring documentaries belong to the past. Why not use games or AI to teach subject in classes or give workshops in museums?” She shared at the end of the interview.
Moving A House Using Horses. San Francisco, 1908
The horses are powering capstan winches. Hydraulic jacks existed in 1908, but heavy duty jobs still relied on screw jacks. The people under the structure are probably placing or removing cribbing depending on whether the house is being raised or lowered.
Load More Replies...The horses are heavy horses and are bred for the purpose of performing heavy labour
Load More Replies...My grandparents did this with their house. It was pulled with horses and rolled on logs, and handed down to my Dad. Proud to say it's a century farm.
Damn!! One of my fave books as a kid was The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton, it's about a house being moved!!
Americans be crazy! Houses primarily built of wood that can be moved like this blow my mind as an English person blow my mind. Here, everything is stone or brick with some intense concrete foundations. Ain't no way you're moving one of them, with anything! (Plus the roads wouldn't be big enough)
Not usually so much laziness that leads to houses built of wood (we have plenty of them in Australia too). It's about cost. Timber houses quicker and cheaper to build. Even brick hoses these days are built with cheaper bricks and only expected to last for 5 years, rather than the 20 years expected in the past. Suits landlords who charge high rent because they can always demolish and build again when needed. Sucks for anyone who has to live in them though. I personally like weatherboard houses but am in the process of adding more insulation etc to make mine more liveable.
Load More Replies...Sunday At Coney Island 1949
I don’t mind crowds, but this looks rather nightmarish. Where’s the water?
We hope you found our exclusive interview with the renowned hellenistic period historian, Dr Elke Close, to be informative and enjoyable. We also hope that the accompanying article provided a deeper understanding and appreciation of the fascinating topic of history that surrounds our world. Thank you for joining us for this engaging and educational discussion, dear Pandas!
On Oct. 22, 1895, The Express Train From Granville To Paris
On Oct. 22, 1895, the express train from Granville to Paris was running late.
Hoping to arrive on time, the driver increased the speed of the steam locomotive, which was carrying 131 passengers.
As it entered the Montparnasse terminal, the train was traveling approximately 25 to 37 miles per hour.
The air brake either failed or was applied too late, and the conductor was too preoccupied with paperwork to throw the hand brake in time. The train crashed through the buffers at the end of the track, crossed the 100-foot concourse and burst through the wall of the station, tumbling onto the street below.
A woman on the sidewalk who was minding her husband's newsstand was killed by falling masonry. Five people on board the train were injured.
For four days, the train stood intact outside the station, drawing crowds of curious onlookers.
The driver was fined 50 francs.
guy goes around the corner for a pack of smokes, and a god**mn train falls onto his wife and kills her.
Some stations still today have multiple levels for trains. With some of them being on or above street level.
Load More Replies...Kids Playing In A Fire Hydrant In NYC In The Summer Of 1954
Philly 1970 I was able to play on the block like this. I'm sure we weren't supposed to but at 5 yrs old who was I to protest.🤣👍
When I was young, I loved it when the Fire Department came around and opened the Hydrants to flush them out. It was so much fun and never lasted long enough.
My father had one of those giant wrenches. He would open the hydrant for all the neighborhood kids.
Load More Replies...This was a big thing in Philly as well. They made it legal if you had a sprinkler but full open hydrants would usually get turned off by the police. If you got caught with a wrench you could get a hefty fine and lose the wrench.
So they should fine people !!!!! I value our environment !!!!!!
Load More Replies...And there's a car parked at No Parking when the entire streets empty. Not a new trend I guess!
The fire trucks used to spray water during the 4th of July parade. It was soo cooling when it was hot....then someone complained and it's a battle every year just to keep our squirt guns and water balloon fights (which we are very careful that only those involved get wet).
Hope you collect the balloons (post breaking) so you didn't litter & kill wildlife !!!!!!!
Load More Replies...The Barge "Marine Angel" Negotiates A Turn Through The Upraised Michigan Ave. Bridge, Chicago, 1953
This is the view from my office! A lot has changed, but the Wrigley building hasn't. Last fall I watched a boat like this try and navigate the same bend. It was fascinating. I also took pictures: sorry, I've never attached a pic before.
A New York Construction Worker Walks Along A Girder High Above The City Streets, Circa 1950
To quote Daniel Kaluuya in the movie Nope, "Nope".
Load More Replies...I'd be gone. My brain would tell me to lean over or step off or both and it would grow until I had to obey. I'm not in any danger of deleting myself in any way but intrusive thoughts don't make any sense.
Load More Replies...I read somewhere that one worker died for every $1 million spent during those pre-OSHA days...
One good gust of wind and I'd be splattered all over the sidewalk below.
I cannot relate to people who can do this. I struggle on a step-ladder.
Anyone else feel like people were stronger and bolder back then? Who might do that today?
People like this still exist. Have a look at the amount of YouTube videos of people climbing tall structures without safety gear.
Load More Replies...This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850
Long long ago that Island used to be hills and farms. Then Manhattan happened.
And long, long long ago it used to be hills and woods
Load More Replies...Couples Dancing In The Grand Foyer Of The Paris Opera House At A Victory Ball
He's the one taking the picture and picking out his next victim
Load More Replies...I watch A LOT of Period pieces and I think that this would have been an amazing time in life...Other than electric/water/sewer and corsets.. LOL
Three Boys Are Fishing For Change During The Great Depression, New York, 1930
They used a hex nut tied to a string for weight then slap gum or tape on the nut, bombs away....
Gum on the end of a string is my educated guess
Load More Replies...Daytona Beach 1903
"Cars" driving up and down Daytona Beach just like today. ... (zooming in shows some men and women wearing beach-wear above their knees!)
I used to live in Florida and the idea of living there pre air-conditioning in victorian style clothes makes me physically sick. Opening your front door can feel like opening an oven that's preheated.
Some women are being all scandalous with their skirt above their knees
50yrs and 6 yards of fabric per person makes a big difference
Load More Replies...I can’t imagine wearing cosets and petticoats in Florida weather…so sticky…
It appears something weird is happening. Everyone is looking toward the boy and the animal in the water..?
Delta Delta Delta Sorority Sisters, University Of Texas, Austin, 1944
Ok, this may be a dumb question, but what exactly are sorority’s and fraternity’s? I never understood the concept of them, like do they just host parties, are they like social groups or what?
The ones you mostly hear about are social clubs. Most universities in the US have some variety of them. Only the larger schools have their own houses - meaning everyone who joins the fraternity or sorority lives in the house together. (This is what you see in movies.) It's designed to create a sense of belonging and give a support network for students as they go through school. Unfortunately, they are mainly known for partying, poor (even criminal) behavior, and dangerous initiation rituals. (This is definitely exaggerated in movies, but it does happen.) There are also some professional/academic fraternities that are good to have on resumes when applying for jobs after graduation. They tend to just have weekly meetings, do service projects, etc.
Load More Replies...The dame (1940's speak) on the floor is wearing her boyfriends fraternity shirt (Sigma Nu) ... Risqué
It's a costume party, I think she's dressed as him, thus the face. Looks like a dress up sleep over. There's a zoo worker, Marilyn, a cow girl....
Load More Replies...lol My cousin worked for Delta Airlines and I used to beg her to answer the phone like that, lol
Load More Replies...Lousy with virginity Won't go to bed 'til I'm legally wed I can't, I'm Sandra Dee
Load More Replies...These look like a fun group of girls! Plus they have stuffies! I would fit right it!
The dorky poses similar to one's that today's college kids like to use. Reminds me of the dorky things me and my friends did in high school.
Kids Playing On The Lower East Side, New York, 1963
Are you sure it's 'the floor is lava and not the first picture of parcor
The lil' girl & boy trying to get on the ladder to play... every youngest kids dilemma when trying to be part of the crew
Boys Sidewalk Sledding On Steep San Francisco Hill Street, 1952
nooo concrete wounds are like one of my worst nightmares 😭😭 it’s like they hurt 2x worse than normal wounds
We used to ride down steep hills in England sitting on a single skate (the type you tied to your shoes) with a book on top.
Load More Replies...Did this on a Flexiflyer (with wheels) back in the late 50s. Didn't have my body positioned equally and halfway down the hill tilted to my rightside grinding my elbow on the pavement. Today, people still ask, "What is that perfectly round, 1" white spot on my arm (I am Black).
Family lives in small town with hill like this... much shorter slide. Get enough snow and sledders are rewarded with serious air when you hit RR tracks at the bottom.
Hill Street. No s**t! 😳 Also, my knees are aching just looking at those steps… 😖
I swear that kid towards the bottom of the photo could be my husband! He grew up in the City around this time and would have done stupid stuff like this!
Even I know that's not a sidewalk. The actual sidewalk looks a little bumpy! ;-)
I always look at these kinds of things and think Did they even know their picture was being taken? I bet the woman on the steps, probably a mother to one of the kids, didn't. The man waking at the bottom probably didn't, and is gone so will never know. That feeling, what is it? Feeling wistful?
I remember there being a steep hill in an alleyway when I was growing up. I used to sit on a skateboard and ride it down the hill over and over again.
My street was similar and my siblings and I did the same thing. Our uncle even made us an aeroplane, which was a skateboard with two 'wings' of wood curving up from the sides, with wheels attached to the ends, so you could sit on the board and lean to the side to turn corners better. One time my brother went down on his bike though and a car came out of a driveway and he crashed into the side of it! The driver was angry at him, even though she was the one who didn't look before reversing.
Load More Replies...San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge
A stunning technological and artistic achievement, opens to the public after five years of construction. On opening day–“Pedestrian Day”–some 200,000 bridge walkers marveled at the 4,200-foot-long suspension bridge, which spans the Golden Gate Strait at the entrance to San Francisco Bay and connects San Francisco and Marin County. On May 28, the Golden Gate Bridge opened to vehicular traffic.
I've done it! You would not BELIEVE how much this sways from side to side in the wind...
Load More Replies...Just looking at this gives me an anxiety attack. There is no way I would be in the middle of that.
When a load of people turned up to cross the Thames on a new bridge for the Millennium, it bounced so much they had to close it! I guess there’s so many people in that photo they could barely more than shuffle!
The bridge developed an alarming sag mid-span right around the time this photo was taken. The bridge authorities stopped letting people on, but that was about all they could do.
Load More Replies...The Grand Prix In Monaco, 1937
Look up footage of the Isle of Man TT Race, which takes place every year on an island in the Irish Sea.
Load More Replies...The W125 (first two cars) reached race speeds of well over 300 km/h (190 mph) in 1937
Mercedes one and two, their third car lying in fifth. Not sure, but I think the third placed car is an Auto Union, now Audi, driven by Hans Stuck.
R.m.s. Mauretania 1909
Looks like she’s in dry dock, possibly for maintenance; the lower blade on the starboard propeller looks like it’s been damaged.
She was sister-ship to the ill fated Lusitania. Mauretania served Cunard Lines from 1907 to 1934. She was scrapped in 1935.
Forget the Banana, Humans needed to distinguish Mass for this one.
The Beatles' Rooftop Concert In 1969
Can't decide if it's Little Orphan Annie or Harpo Marx holding the notepad...
This was great.. People stopped and stared up at the roof and eventually the cops arrived.. LOL!
Man Standing In The Lumberyard Of Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing, 1939
I'm struggling to make sense of this. How do they get new planks up to the top? How do they get planks off the stacks, they can't just throw them down. And why so high in the first place?
I wondered that too but I'm sure they had cranes of some sort and the higher they stack them the more they can store on less space but OMG and accident waiting to happen. I'd be afraid of fire.
Load More Replies...The first time I drove through Washington State I was saddened by all the empty fields that had once been covered in 'old growth' trees. Sometimes I think of the beauty & life that was destroyed when we cut down all the trees. Now instead of nature's beauty we have concrete roads & HiRISE's & people, billions & billions of people. Not progress as far as I'm concerned.
Belgium Coal Miners Crammed Into A Coal Mine Elevator, Coming Up After A Day Of Work, Circa 1900
They still ARE in many places. Coal miles are still horrible places to work.
Load More Replies...This had to be such an incredibly difficult and short life. 😞
That is inhuman! Cramming them all in! What if it gave way? So many would die a horrible death...
They probably died from black lung anyway in few years, dying from lift dropping down would have probably been easier less painful way to go.
Load More Replies...Looks like the Orlando airport during the Disney 50 year celebration. I should know, I was in that airport at that time.
Drive-In Theatre. Chicago 1951
You'd be a bit upset if you were one of the two behind that little building on the left.
That was the concession where at intermission, or if your kids were driving you nuts for popcorn and soda, mostly dad went to go buy. It wasn’t a great place to be, but most of the drive-ins had the screen high enough up you would be able to see. Miss them. They were so much fun. Clarification: I was a kid. My last drive -in move was E.T.
Load More Replies...They had screenings of it locally last year at one of the multiplexes. Just a one day thing, but it still plays in theatera.
Load More Replies...We still have one left in the Los Angeles area. They used to be all over the place when I was growing up. Now pop up ones are a huge thing here in the summer. They do food trucks and movies and there's a famous one in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Load More Replies...In the 60's our church in Michigan had drive-in services on Sunday nights in the summer. My dad was the minister and once swallowed a mosquito while he was singing a solo. The ushers walked among the cars to collect the offering.
We supplied carbon rods for big carbon-arc projectors used in drive ins. Got to stay and watch the movies free.
And how many are actually watching the film? Don't come knocking if you see me rocking.
you mean they were all watching you instead? :o
Load More Replies...5 minutes until showtime!! We have one here in Dickson City, PA that was redone. We saw Rocky Horror there in 2019.
Times Building Under Construction, 1903
Wedge. This is the building where the ball drops on New Year's. This view is looking south. 42nd street is at the far end of the building.
Load More Replies...Yup, the flatiron building beats this building by a mile. This is not the flatiron building.
Load More Replies..."OK... What we're looking for here is a building one city block long, 4 city blocks high, and about 3 feet wide! Got it?... Oh.. And better order a few dozen really narrow desks!"
For some reason this image is giving me the creepy-crawlies.So narrow,I feel as if I'm going to fall off!
Fashion Show On Board The New York, New Haven, And Hartford Railroad's Show Train, 1949
You can blame a 60s model named Twiggy for the beginning of anorexic-looking models.
Load More Replies...See that little poochy belly ? THATS what women are supposed to look like….not a waif like Kate Moss.
The women and men seem to like what they see, smiles all round from the pic im lookong at 👍
Call me crazy, but if it was a fashion show for ladies clothing, why are the men having the aisle seats and not their women? I guess I'm officially getting old...
One of the social conventions of western cultures that my mother was raised with was that men were on the outside of any pass through (halls, aisles, streets). I think it started with men being able to access weapons for defense in case of being accosted and evolved into preventing women's clothes from getting spattered with mud by passing carriages since they were so much harder to clean. It was taught a etiquette for years after the need for those practicalities had ended and women being "on the outside" were considered to be public property (i.e. - not under a man's protection) and subject to being cat-called, groped, etc.
Load More Replies...The guy on the front right is like, "Nope, you aren't gonna catch me looking and show my wife!"
Paris Viewed From The Top Of Notre Dame, 1955
I'm looking for Liam Neeson chasing the yacht with his daughter on board.
Anyone else remember that old song that's just a bunch of French cities? Orléans Beaugency Notre-Dame du Cléry Vendôme Vendôme
Los Angeles Development Boom Of The 1950s
Moving vans aside, this looks exactly like one of the neighbourhoods in the game LA Noir - I'm guessing the animators used these exact photos (of Lakewood park in Los Angeles) to design the game.
Load More Replies...They may all be the same but imagine owning a brand new house, convertible and boat AND affording children all on one salary 😮💨 They're probably all under 50 too...
I'm local and I wish there was a street name I could see so I could go take a pic from the same spot!!
Load More Replies...They are usually planted after. When I was young, my foster carer (respite) lived in a new subdivision, with no trees. When I went back 10 years later they had all grown quite high. Plus the electricity was all underground, so they didn't have to keep pruning them from around wires.
Load More Replies...I know they served a purpose but why, oh why are they all the bloody same !!! Still going on today, shame and spit on you thoughtless, heartless bastards without souls who created this sort of horrible homogeny !!!
Second Class Saloon, Nome, Alska, July 1, 1901
They were in Nome, Alaska, so the only thing you could drink west of it was water from the Bering Strait... In the american west at the time goods from the east coast had a name for quality and no-nonsense economy, coming out of the industrialized states in the New England. "Eastern beer" sounds like a quality statement, but as a matter of fact anything there was "eastern made"
Load More Replies...Mount Adams Incline And Price Hill Incline. Cincinnati Ohio 1906
Yes. The two carriages are connected by a cable. One goes up, partially pulled by the weight of the other one decending, which uses much less power than pulling one at a time. We have some of these on the South coast of England as well.
Load More Replies...Wow, the hill is so steep they even need a level platform to put the streetcar going up and down it on.
I feel like I can't see part of/a second picture. Mt. Adams and Price Hill both had inclines but they were at opposite ends of the downtown basin.
Man where’s the trees? Cincinnati is more tree than buildings these days
It's not there but you can tell by the road where the incline used to be. My husband grew up in the area. http://cincy.com/home/neighborhoods/parms/1/hood/price-hill/page/history.html
Load More Replies...30 Men Prove The Strength Of The Dkw 'Front Reichsklasse' Type F7 Car, Amazingly Built By Wooden Coachwork 1930s
... only one of them takes any risk - and, of course, it was calculated that it would last ... this isn't stone age machinery, although ancient in engineering's timeframe. This just is more graspable to people not into engineering than a sheet of calculations.
Yeh this shows the compressive strength of the frame, but with that load if they would drive it and cause some lateral force it could crumble like a house of cards, obviously I dont know if it would but it looks like it could for me personally judging only from the photo.
Load More Replies...Wood is a stunningly good material if engineered properly. In some ways, it rivals carbon fiber. That's why airplanes used to be built of wood. But, supply is tricky. Quality control is tricky. Protecting it from the elements is tricky (it absorbs moisture from the air).
Vorsprung Durs Technic! Morgan still build sports cars with a wooden frame, ash is quite springy, so add a bit of flexibility to the structure. Their cars last for decades.
The one guy on the bottom-"If I die at least they'll have a cool story"
Vintage Tennis Photo Women Smoking Cigarettes 1930s
Natural legs. I've never understood why men are allowed to be as hairy as a gorilla but a woman is not allowed a hair below the neck.
"Smoking may help relieve symptoms of ASTHMA," was a thing doctors used to recommend. 😱
Load More Replies...The shoes! Forget about the cigs. Equipment is one of the biggest reasons why people now think everyone is so much more athletic. No pro would dare try a set in those today.
I was thinking the same thing about the rackets. My mom had one of these old wooden ones, it had to be kept pressed in a frame to keep it from warping. I tried playing with it once, made me grateful for my graphite one
Load More Replies...Ah yes, the 10 minute smoke break. Got to get in your two packs a day to stay good and healthy. Good ole days, right?
Tourists Sunbathing And Drinking Tea On Top Of The Great Pyramid Of Giza, 1938
is it just me or do we see this photo on like every “antique photo” post-
imo pretty disrespectful to a historic site, even back then they should have known better
This is literally dream. Just chilling on top of a huge a**e pyramid, soaking up the sun and drinking tea.
Before they decided to protect them and ban tourists from climbing all over them
Load More Replies...Ol’ dude looks like he’s doing the worm and she’s like okay here worm boy
There is so much in this photo lol. Like the woman feeding the dude laying down.
Load More Replies...Rms Mauretania (Also Known As The "Maury") Was An Ocean Liner Of The Cunard Line, Launched On 20 September 1906
At the time, she was the largest and fastest ship in the world. Mauretania became a favourite among her passengers. After capturing the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1907 inaugural season, Mauretania held the speed record for 22 years.
I used to go to flea markets/house clearances and found a diary given to a passenger travelling on the Mauritania to Canada via New York in 1934. So began my slight obsession with finding out who she was (Miss E C Clough, Holly Lodge Mansions, London N6) and about more the Mauritania. This was before the internet and didn’t get very far. Started searching on line around 2015 and have got such things as passenger lists but Miss Clough remains an enigma. She was born into a poor family so what took her to live in London and then travel as a first class passenger and did she stay in Canada or return to the UK.
What a fascinating rabbit hole to fall into! Good job!
Load More Replies...Rose mentioned this boat in the movie I think just as she is getting on the titanic
"It doesn't look as big as the Mauritania"...if memory serves me.
Load More Replies...That ship must have been crucial for recent world history when it is twice among these "important" historical photos..
Is Blue Riband British English for Blue Ribbon? Sincere question.
British, yes, but antiquated, even at the time of the Mauretania’s sailing.
Load More Replies...Window Cleaners Cleaning High Rise On Madison Avenue. 1957
After cleaning, raised window, ducked inside, moved to next window. As a boy I saw these men often in NYC--and way higher up than this man.
Are you thinking they climbed up the wall outside? It's actually very easy. Take elevator to your floor, find the room, open window from inside, prepare harness, climb out and get to work.
Load More Replies...New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, Right, Watching Agents Pour Liquor Down A Manhole Following A Raid During Prohibition 1921
Just picturing a bunch of mobsters at the bottom of the drain filling up barrels and shipping them back to the bar.
That Ted Bundy dude really came with the goal to get the most down votes on a post
“Ted Bundy” chose his pseudonym with care, but in the end, he’s the type that promises a Big Mac and shows up with a french fry.
Load More Replies...Why do so many of these photos show up on every list of historic photographs? Can’t the posters come up with something new?
BoredPanda sadly doesn’t write a lot of their own content anymore. I think a lot of listicle content on sites like BoredPanda and Buzzfeed is copy and pasted from Reddit and unfortunately not edited for some bizarre reason.,
Load More Replies...I wonder what kind of life these people had, are some still alive today. The beginning of Cheers with the old photos has me doing the same thing
Definitely some 60s kids are alive and well (my grandma is one of them) 40s kids are great grandparents, the 20s kids are in nursery homes (and are over 100 now) and the kids born before the 20th century... Aren't around anymore, sadly.
Load More Replies...Historical pictures and facts are amazing with what they provide to the world..
Why does the author of these posts capitalise every word? It is not only bad grammar but is also extremely annoying. Stop it.
Not one American hero from the 1940s!!! The female who built the tanks, planes, boats, ships, and weapons that help win WWII!!!! Not one photo of these American female heroes and not one of the women who did a suicidal job of flying as WASPS! Some of the greatest women ever! Let's not leave out the female heroes of the civil war and revolutionary war! Not that we know much about them since one president took all no white male heroes out of the history books! These are the same history books used today! Thanks, you Democrat president Woodrow Woodford! Also to add he liked to show a WS video in the white house!
That Ted Bundy dude really came with the goal to get the most down votes on a post
“Ted Bundy” chose his pseudonym with care, but in the end, he’s the type that promises a Big Mac and shows up with a french fry.
Load More Replies...Why do so many of these photos show up on every list of historic photographs? Can’t the posters come up with something new?
BoredPanda sadly doesn’t write a lot of their own content anymore. I think a lot of listicle content on sites like BoredPanda and Buzzfeed is copy and pasted from Reddit and unfortunately not edited for some bizarre reason.,
Load More Replies...I wonder what kind of life these people had, are some still alive today. The beginning of Cheers with the old photos has me doing the same thing
Definitely some 60s kids are alive and well (my grandma is one of them) 40s kids are great grandparents, the 20s kids are in nursery homes (and are over 100 now) and the kids born before the 20th century... Aren't around anymore, sadly.
Load More Replies...Historical pictures and facts are amazing with what they provide to the world..
Why does the author of these posts capitalise every word? It is not only bad grammar but is also extremely annoying. Stop it.
Not one American hero from the 1940s!!! The female who built the tanks, planes, boats, ships, and weapons that help win WWII!!!! Not one photo of these American female heroes and not one of the women who did a suicidal job of flying as WASPS! Some of the greatest women ever! Let's not leave out the female heroes of the civil war and revolutionary war! Not that we know much about them since one president took all no white male heroes out of the history books! These are the same history books used today! Thanks, you Democrat president Woodrow Woodford! Also to add he liked to show a WS video in the white house!
