25 Historical American Photos - Have You Ever Seen These?
25 Historical American Photos - Have You Ever Seen These?
1. The first Waffle House? - circa 1900.
2. 1916 4th of July Parade, Front Street, Nome Alaska.
3. Detroit Opera House - date unknown.
4. Pumping gasoline - circa 1925.
5. Old General Store - circa 1917.
6. Cincinnati Street Car - 1913
7. Lucille Ball - 1930
I never realized she was so beautiful.
8. John Fitzgerald Kennedy - as a boy.
Now please, let's NOT have another issue over that star. It's a Sheriff's star, NOT a Star of David.
9. Three days before his 19th birthday,
George H.W. Bush became the youngest
aviator in the US Navy.
10. Market Street, San Francisco.
After the earthquake, 1906.
11. Bonnie and Clyde's car following the shootout that ended the two outlaws. The gunfire barrage was so loud that many members of the posse experienced temporary deafness.
12. Mark Twain smokes a cigar in 1905.
13. Children in iron lungs in 1937, before the advent of the polio vaccine.
Thank God for Jonas Salk, who refused to patent his vaccine so it could be affordable for all humanity.
14. Cincinnati's cavernous main library, demolished in 1955.
15. The first known sports team photo ever taken, Knickerbocker Baseball Club - 1858
16. Eisenhower and Patton examine a trove of stolen artifacts that the Germans hid in a salt mine 1945
17. The old Pony Express and the future of mail delivery.
18. JFK and Bobby, 1960
19. The first ambulance: Bellevue Hospital Center, NY, 1869.
20. Abraham Lincoln inspects the battlefield in 1862.
21. Prohibition begins and alcohol is poured down the drain in 1921.
22. 12th Street in Miami, Florida in 1908.
23. An Alabama schoolhouse in 1935.
24. Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill pose together in 1885.
25. The road leading to Woodstock in 1969.
Two friends and I were all packed and ready to go. I was going to drive, but when we saw the weather report for rain, we decided against it.
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Another in my photo series. Any comments about any of the photos?
Great Job Buzz
Like em all. The one of George H is most interesting to me. Youngest Navy pilot!
I read a book called "Flyboys", about the American Air Force during WWII in the Pacific, and there was a story about Bush who was a bomber pilot who had to ditch next to an island occupied by the Japanese, and he stayed in the water until he was lucky enough to be rescued. For years after he was concerned about what had happened to his crew.
There are several of them that I don't know if I've seen before or not, because they are so similar to many I've seen of that period. For example, some of the street scenes-- I've seen many like those, don't remember the details. (So many scenes of towns in the old west, or cities with old motor cars, many of which are pretty similar to each other).
Only three I'm pretty sure I haven't ever seen: #1 Waffle House; #7 Lucy; #14 Library.
Pretty sure I've seen these before, #s: 11 (car), 12 (Twain), 13 (Iron Lung), 16 (Ike), 18 (Kennedy's), 20 (Lincoln), 21 (prohibition), 24 (Sitting Bull), 25 (Woodstock).
Comments:
-I would never have recognized either Lucy or Bush from those photos!
-Iron lung: I knew an old guy (in his 70s) who was in great health-- worked out regularly with weights, played basketball weekly with a group of friends. (Recently was diagnosed with a rapidly spreading form of brain cancer and died rather suddenly).
A while back he told me he had Polio as a young child.. this was before the vaccines were invented.Got some sort of unconventional treatments regularly-- after a while he recovered completely! (I hadn't thought that was possible before the vaccines).
-That library photo is incredible! It really makes me angry that so many beautiful old structures are torn down (and replaced with ugly, bland, modern architecture).
-Baseball team- just checked, man in top hat is not Lincoln!
-Some interesting facts about General Eisenhower: Although he ran on the Republican ticket, he was pretty moderate, relatively "centrist"-- so much so that the Democrats had asked him to run on the Democratic ticket (he was a returning war hero).
When American troops first entered concentration camps they were shocked at both the brutality as well as the scale of it all. Gen'l Eisenhower felt it important that the world would never forget-- so he ordered extensive documentation be made. photographs taken, etc. (If not for him, much of the memory of what actually happened might have been lost for posterity).
-Woodstock: At the time I had friends who were going & invited me. But for some reason I declined-- now I wish I had gone! (Friends also invited me to see Janis Joplin perform live at the Fillmore East (it longer exists)-- I also missed that, even though I was a big fan of Janis! Finally, I also turned down a trip to Washington for the big march (with Dr King's famous "I Have a Dream" speech).
We really shouldn't trouble ourselves over what "might have been", although I do regret some opportunities that either I wasn't smart enough at the time to take advantage of, or simply lacked the courage. I will relate one such missed opportunity. Years ago we had a home on a lake in the Haliburton Highlands of Ontario. We took a couple, who were our neighbours and friends up to the lake, and we showed them a cottage there that they liked and they bought it. They then decided to create a magazine about cottage life, but they needed $100,000 financing to get it going. They approached me with a full partnership proposal if I were to invest that amount. I really liked the idea, because I have had some experience having been editor of my university newspaper and a folk music magazine, but I lacked the courage. The magazine not only took off, but it led to biannual huge showcase fairs for suppliers, realtors and manufacturers but also a TV show, and more. Our friends became multi-millionaires because of their concept (and because I lacked the nerve, we didn't).
Great photo series Buzz.
The Long Beach CA. earthquake 1933.
L.A. has certainly grown a bit since then!
These are photo-restorer's dream … but with a caveat … that being, in "historic," photos, as opposed to family, scenic, travel, etc., … the aging of the photo itself is best left as is, which emphasizes both the era of the subject and the passage of time as manifested by the print.
Agreed. I could have edited the photos to provide more contrast, but chose not to for that reason.