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Flashes from our past – 009
1957. The Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep, also known as the flying Jeep, was developed for the US Army to takeoff and land vertically. They believed they could completely unleash the old rolling off-road vehicle. 1900. American woodcutters 1913. First all-Russian Olympic Games in Kiev. Riding and mowing Gymnastic with rakes and mowers. 1914. […] More
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60 classic Hollywood movie posters 2.
1918. Tarzan of the Apes 1925. 1931. 1933. 1934. 1935. 1951. 1952. 1958. 1958. 1960. 1960. 1961. 1962. 1962. 1962. 1962. 1962. 1963. 1963. 1964. 1965. 1966. 1968. 1968. 1968. […] More
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Flashes from our past – 008 Mind Blowing Soviet Union
The Soviet Union is an inexhaustible source of interesting, disturbing, shocking or simply rare photos. Here’s a pack of ’em: 1920. H.G. Wells meets V. I. Lenin 1922. Mounting of high-voltage power lines towers without crane. The upper parts were always rolled up (see right) 1927. From 1909 to 1930 there was a […] More
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Neil the roommate lion – 1972
If we hear the name Tippi Hedren, we do not have much to think about. But she is Melanie Griffith’s mother and she is an actress (Hitchcock: Birds, Marnie), a model, an anti-Vietnam war activist and an enthusiastic animal protector. She created the Shambala Lion Wildlife Reserve. Continue reading
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Flashes from our past – 007
Shocking, surprising, interesting, rare! 1901. Playground in Russian Empire, Cherkassy city. The name of the game is giant step 1910. US-Mexico border 1911. The 16 ton anchor for SS Titanic leaving N. Hingley & Sons, Netherton Iron Works, UK 1916. Cleaner vacuum cleaning the 2nd class wagons on the Russian Empire railway 1919. Red terror era. […] More
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Summer in New York City – 1979
Peter van Wijk – a Dutch merchant ship’s radioman – is the one who came to New York in the summer of 1979 and photographed the bustling, vivid color metropolis with his machine. You can see the whole collection at the same time, just as nowhere before. More
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Flashes from our past – 006
Shocking, surprising, interesting, rare
The Blizzard of 1910 was considered the worst snowsorm to hit New York since 1888. A trolley plowed through the snow and wind during the heavy snowfall on New York streets in Jan. 1910.
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50+1 classic Hollywood movie posters 1.
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Istanbul is the city of opposites – 1965
Istanbul. Bosphorus. Meeting East and West. Meeting Europe and Asia. Meeting modernization and traditions.
This is Istanbul today and fifty years ago.
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Flashes from our past – 005
Shocking, surprising, interesting, rare.
1907. The fire that destroyed the famous victorian Cliff House hotel in San Francisco
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Men fashion around the world in the 70s
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Flashes from our past – 004
Shocking, surprising, interesting, rare. Today some 18+! images are in at the end.
1886. Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov, older brother of Lenin. Hanged for an attempted assasination of Tzar Alexander III, aged 21.
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One decade of the american trucker-magazine
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Liverpool 1980s
Today we will visiting in the 1980s’ Liverpool. Watch out, 52 kicking photos coming! Liverpool fell to the depths never before seen in the early eighties. The economic recession, which is heavily affected by the city (and the country), mainly due to the shrinking industrial production and the endless factory closures have sparked stunning unemployment. […] More
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Flahses from our past – 003
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Vintage car ads
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East-Asia in the 1950s
Phil Roeder uploaded his fathers photos to Flickr, who served in the US Air Force in the 1950s. Photographs made in Okinawa, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and the Philippines and show the region shortly after the war. Macao and Hong Kong are not yet part of China (UK and Portugal), Okinawa is ocuppied by Americans and […] More
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Vintage christmas wishes
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Christmas for kids by Sears – 1977
Watch this 1977 SEARS catalogue! Toys for kids. Selected 101 sites from whole 40 years old issue. Click to enlarge (be patient, sometimes takin’ for a while)! source More
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Flashes from our past – 002
1893. Man, probably Tempest Anderson’s (pioneer of vulcanology) team member standing in a spiracle on a lava plain in Iceland 1906. Italian village Boscotrecase destroyed by volcanic ash and lava during Vesuvius eruption 1924. Calvin Coolidge (right) 30th president of United States on his Vermont farm with his wife (left) and son John (middle) […] More
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