Blast from the past

[Administrator]

Did anyone attend World Expo '88?

 

[ozcopper]

Trade You for an iPod: 1979

 

[ozcopper]

Almost Teens: 1959

 

[ozcopper]

1907. "Maud Wagner, circus performer and tattooist." Maud Stevens Wagner (1877-1961), thought to be America's first female tattoo artist.

 

[ozcopper]

Motorcycle Cop: 1924

 

[ozcopper]

Beach Policeman: 1922...

"June 30, 1922. Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrill, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee."

 

[ozcopper]

Unknown Official Australian War Photographer

"Stretcher bearers bringing out wounded of the 4th Australian Division from the front line near Delville Wood, Longueval. These journeys, through cold and wet and heavy mud over a distance of two miles (occasionally shortened by use of the Light Railway) were something of a hardship. Identified are: Private Linou, 4th Field Ambulance (third from the left with arm outstretched), and Private Pearce, 4th Field Ambulance (fourth from left)."

 

[ozcopper]

Buy More War Bonds: 1943
March 1943. "Montgomery, Alabama. Soft drink truck." Pepsi goes to war.

 

[Administrator]

The monthly rations per Polish citizen in the mid-eighties under communism.

 

[Silver Soul]

The monthly rations per Polish citizen in the mid-eighties under communism.

Potato and the odd next door neighbours chicken in ya stew was very popular in those days. 

 

[ozcopper]

Queenie Ladovitch: 1920

Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Queenie Ladovitch." Possibly the daughter of Ernest (Ernst) Vladimir Ladovitch, president of the Washington Conservatory of Music.

 

[ozcopper]

Top picture:

"Boston, 1963. Records for sale in hi-fi store." Where the fi goes at least as high as Blaupunkt Multiplex Stereo.

Bottom picture:

Interior of the Holiday Shop record and camera store at the Roeland Park Shopping Center in Roeland Park, Kansas 1950's

 

[ozcopper]

Spring 1939. "Drugstore window in Washington, D.C."

 

[ozcopper]

August 1942. "National music camp at Interlochen, Michigan, where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. Writing to the boyfriend back home."

 

[ozcopper]

This guy is going to a supermarket.  The exchange rate is 25 million Zimbabwe dollars for 1 U.S. dollar.

 

[ozcopper]

1952. "Journalists standing in front of a KTLA television truck at Camp Mercury Proving Grounds; present to record an atomic bomb detonation in the Nevada desert."

 

[Administrator]

Computers in the 1980s.

 

[ozcopper]

A little girl plays with her doll next to two guns and a knapsack in Reims, France during World War I. 1917.

 

[ozcopper]

Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor, 1905.

 

[ozcopper]

In the 1920's , Big Tits only cost 10c....