Blast from the past

[ozcopper]

The 1989 Pink Floyd concert in Venice on a floating stage next to San Marco?s Square gathered over 200,000 fans in the crowd and unintentionally resulted in the mayor and the entire city council resigning in the aftermath of their performance.

The city authorities had arranged for a free concert to take place in Venice?s historic Piazza San Marco which would be shown on television in more than 12 countries. The council justified it by saying that Venice ?must be open to new trends, including rock music?.

The news was met with excitement by many but also with anger by many Venetians. Many older Venetians wanted to ban the concert. They felt that it would be a logistical nightmare that would potentially destroy the ancient facades and monuments.

Also, it would be eroding the cultural integrity of the event that was planned just around the same time as the concert, the Redenetore (The Redeemer Festival).

?Historic centers should not be used for performances that are incompatible with their historic nature,? Augusto Salvadori, a former Venice commissioner for tourism, told the New York Times. ?If they want rock, let them do it in a football stadium, but not in the Piazza San Marco.?

 

[Serial]

Fck pink floyd,  I used to love their music but they turned into such boot lickers during covid

 

[ozcopper]

Misleading vintage ads about the dietary benefits of sugar, 1950s-1960s

 

[ozcopper]

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[ozcopper]

Vintage advertisements that preyed on women?s need for marital security, 1910-1960

 

[Shlomo Goldberg]

Bloody hell Oz if this trove of material gets out, your political career is finished.

 

[STKR]

Bloody hell Oz if this trove of material gets out, your political career is finished.

He'd still have my vote  ;D

 

[ozcopper]

Bizarre and terrible food ads that would probably never run today, 1940s-1960s

 

[Shlomo Goldberg]

One thing is clear from this thread, corporations have always had the consumers best interests at heart.

 

[Oddjob]

Holden production line.

Love the 1970's production line PPE...long walk socks.  ;D .....such a simpler time in history.

 

[ozcopper]

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[belever]

The gold executive order is incredible in its power wielding.

Build political influence to the point in 1913 that you can gain control of the banking system.

20 years later, harness the power of the political system to force all individuals in your captive area to hand you their gold under penalty of imprisonment (which is in effect, if you try to escape, threat of beating or death).

 

[Administrator]

Life In Australia: Sydney

From The Film Australia Collection.  Made by The Commonwealth Film Unit 1966.  Directed by Joe Scully. Episode 12 of the Life in Australia series.  This series was made to encourage immigration to Australia and to highlight the various social activities, employment and educational opportunities and lifestyles of the various cities and regional centres throughout Australia. This film shows an idyllic picture of life in the New South Wales capital of Sydney in the mid 1960s.

https://youtu.be/DUdeLgfWgUM

 

[willrocks]

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[ozcopper]

TV set ads from the 1950s

 

[ozcopper]

Executive Order 6814?Requiring the Delivery of All Silver to the United States for Coinage

 

[ozcopper]

Once we were warriors.

?HQ Holdens ready to be shipped off to overseas markets in the early 1970's, including South Africa, Parts of Asia and the South Pacific among others. In 1972 Holden exported it's 250,000th Vehicle and in 1973, a record year for Holden, 41,000 Vehicles exported.?

 

[ozcopper]

Incredible photos of Neil, the pet lion of Tippi Hedren and Melanie Griffith, 1971


These pictures are not staged and show Tippi Hedren, star of Alfred Hitchcock?s The Birds, with her husband, Noel Marshall, her daughter, actress Melanie Griffith, and their lion, Neil.

In 1969, Hedren and Marshall were filming in Africa and came across an abandoned house inhabited by lions. The scenery made the couple want to make a film that would help promote the preservation of this beautiful endangered species.

Marshall wrote a script titled Lions, Lions and More Lions based on their experience; it was retitled Roar and centered on a family?s misadventures in a research park filled with lions, tigers, and other wild cats.

Animal trainer Ron Oxley advised them that ?to get to know anything about lions, you?ve just got to live with them for a while.? That?s when the family started to live with Neil, the 400-pound (180 kg) mature lion.

The strange living situation was documented in Life Magazine in 1971. The photographs, taken by Michael Rougier, reveal how Neil enjoyed coexisting with Hedren?s family, sometimes sharing a bed or hanging out poolside with them.

Hedren later wrote a memoir in 1988 and admitted that allowing big cats to roam free around the house was ?stupid beyond belief.?

 

[ozcopper]

Nothing goes harder than a Lada  ;D

 

[ozcopper]

Amazing behind the scenes pictures from the making of Star Wars saga, 1977