Woolworth’s lunch area
Denver,Colorado
(1966)
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New Yorkers stop to watch the “Seinfeld” finale in Times Square - May 14, 1998
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State Electricity Commission, Victoria, Australia, ad promoting the use of electricity, 1960s
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Did you know that during the 90s, North Korea leader Kim Jong-Il, and his son and future leader Kim Jong-Un used fake Brazilian passports to travel to Disneyland
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Happy Wiener Wednesday
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In the picture captioned "State Electricity Commission, Victoria, Australia, ad promoting the use of electricity, 1960s…
That woman sitting on the stove should not be doing so, she’s ‘too old to ride the range’. 
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The shoe on “The Silver Slipper” sign, designed and built by Young Electric Sign, downtown Las Vegas NV
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Inside the “Edison Sub Station” at Hunts Point in The Bronx… (1918)
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Man arrested for growing marajuana in the 1970’s.
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A 700-year-old well-preserved lacquer coffin dating back to the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368), discovered in east China’s Jiangsu Province in 2018.
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Golden Throne of King Tutankhamun.
Tutankhamun, commonly referred to as King Tut, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the 18th Dynasty during the New Kingdom of Egyptian history. His father is believed to be the pharaoh Akhenaten, and His mother is his father’s sister, identified through DNA testing as an unknown mummy referred to as “The Younger Lady” who was found in KV35.
Tutankhamun was between eight and nine years of age when he ascended the throne and became pharaoh. He was buried in a tomb that was unusually small considering his status. There were 5,398 items found in the tomb, including a solid gold coffin, thrones, face mask, archery bows, sandals, trumpets, a lotus chalice, gold toe stalls, furniture, food, wine, and fresh linen underwear.
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The founder of Cadillac Henry Leland He is cranking a 1906 Cadillac Model “M” Touring
Henry M. Leland and his 1906 Cadillac-Mr. Leland was chief engineer of Cadillac for 15 years, and designed the Lincoln. Became president of Cadillac in 1905.
The echo of its beat can still be heard in the roaring of millions of engines in Cadillac and Lincoln.
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Emily Dickenson
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George Armstrong Custer
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Geronimo
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It’s amazing to think that someone who was born in 1769 could have been photographed, but such is the case with Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington. He lived until the 1850s, but a photograph was still taken of him before his passing.
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Butch Cassidy
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Johnny Appleseed
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Nothing says “All American” like bulldozing entire historic city neighborhoods, communities and countless lives for a highway. Only to find out a few decades later “it was all a big mistake” and they should remove the highway…
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The last clam Shell Service Station in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was a filling station constructed in 1930 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 13, 1976.
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Art Deco bathroom. At Ernest Hemingway’s house in Key West, FL.
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Elvis’s Bathroom Upstairs at Graceland (Photo and Rendering)
Elvis’s Bedroom
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Photo taken during the Great Depression
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The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, Auburn, Indiana, USA, (1930). This was the original factory showroom for the Auburn Automobile Company.
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Art Deco Trains
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“Painted Ladies” in San Fransisco
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Walt Disney’s Personal Apartment Above the Fire Station in Disney World
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Dual Purpose" Evans Truck. This vehicle could travel on both road and rail, and saw limited use in the late 30’s and early 40’s.
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UPS, The Early Days
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Gun holes in the windows to shoot through.
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Fun in the snow!
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Originating to prove the stability of a plane to becoming a subject in many Hollywood movies, daredevil wing-walking was a popular stunt in the USA during the 1920’s. Wing-walkers would often make money from the audience betting if they would die or not.
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Looks like a short trip to the diner
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The Dublin lockout, which ended on 18th January 1914, is often viewed as the most severe and significant industrial event in Irish history. Central to the dispute were the poor working conditions, lack of workers’ rights and the inability to unionise.
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Brooklyn public elementary school in 1913
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1910: Keel of New York, Brooklyn Navy Yard,
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1910 Panoramic View … Trinity Church new york
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Smiling Queen Victoria
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It is a part of the huge statue of Constantine the Great, the founder of Istanbul and the Eastern Roman Empire.
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Picture this: you’re in 1920s New York, strolling down the bustling streets of Manhattan. Suddenly, you look up and see a daring man performing an incredible balancing act on the edge of a luxurious hotel’s cornice. This scene, which could be straight out of a movie, is actually the subject of an iconic photograph that captures the adventurous and courageous spirit of the time. In this image, Captain Charles N. Fitzgerald, a specialist and acrobat, defies gravity while balancing on the structure of the famous McAlpin Hotel in New York.
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Newsgirl and newsboy 1912
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The Waldorf Astoria Hotel c. 1902
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Because of a chronic skin disease, JP Morgan had a purple nose marked by pits, fissures, nodules and a sebaceous growth. Rather than being shy because of his appearance, it made him more aggressive and bolder, looking people squarely in the eye when he met them almost as if he willed them to turn away first. Nonetheless he hated having his photo taken and all photographs of him were retouched.
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Elizabeth Montgomery on the Bewitched Set
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Taken in January 1901, this grand, and wonderfully sharp image makes it hard to believe that this family scene is over 120 years ago. Produced by the Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford, this is the family of Archibald McCoy (aged 49), Solicitor, who’s younger brother was James Abernethy McCoy DSO, RN, Commander of 4 Destroyers during WWII.
Archibald’s wife, Mary Helen (aged 35) is seen holding the reins of her daughter’s pony. Aged just 9 months, Mary Helen (bearing her Mother’s name) looks pretty comfortable in that custom made wicker seat. I think it’s safe to assume that the McCoy’s were quite well-to-do, I can’t imagine a better start in life than riding around the Irish countryside on your own pony. Archibald and his wife, had another daughter, Irene Emily a year after this picture was taken, so I’m sure that wicker seat got plenty of use.
The house is No. 71 John’s Hill, in Waterford, and the family lived here with two servants: Norah Elizth Greehy (aged 22), and Norah Margaret Tyran (aged 19).
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1904, Four lovely dogs, a beautiful Grey Parrot, a Lord, a Lady, and a Right Honourable …
Taken 120 years ago, this wonderfully composed picture is both remarkable as a photograph, and has some interesting history. I’ve seen thousands of late 1800’s, and early 1900’s images that have included slightly blurred pets. Exposure times were much improved, but you just can’t guarantee that your beloved dog will stay still when there is so much going on around them. So, it’s an incredible feat that has been managed here, as you have not one, but four dogs, all captured sharply. Having said all that it might be considered cheating by holding three of them, and the fourth being asleep, but let’s give credit where it’s due. To top it all, the families Grey Parrot, is happily perched on the back of the chair. I have assumed that the Parrot was very much alive at the time, and wasn’t in the words of Monty Python “an ex parrot”!
This menagerie is in some titled company, the human content of the picture is:
The Hon Lucy Ada St Vincent second daughter of Viscount St Vincent 1852-1930 (seated)
The Baron George Robert Canning Harris 1851-1932 (standing right)
The Right Hon George St Vincent Harris 1890-1984 (standing Left)
Colonel George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris, GCSI, GCIE, CB, TD, ADC), generally known as Lord Harris, was a British colonial administrator and Governor of Bombay. He was also an English amateur cricketer, mainly active from 1870 to 1889, who played for Kent and England as captain of both teams. He had a political career from 1885 to 1900 and was for much of his life a highly influential figure in cricket administration through the offices he held with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
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Taken over 110 years ago, I really hope this family didn’t take a quick look at the original of this glass plate negative, and think “that’s really dark, it’s not worth printing”, and just file it away. I must admit that I almost scrolled past, but curiosity dragged me back. By 1910, the “speed” of photographic emulsions was pretty fast. In bright light, you needed only a fraction of a second of exposure. People were taking their own Kodak snapshots, and for this upper middle class family taking candid, less formal pictures, and processing them at home meant photography wasn’t just in the hands of a studio based professional. I think today we are so used to viewing pictures instantly that the process of first having to develop negatives, and only then being able to see if we have actually captured anything worth looking at is fading into history.
This picture was obviously taken in a sheltered corner of the garden so It’s not surprising that this shot has come out so gloomy. Having an automatic flash attached to modern cameras is something else we take for granted. I think it’s pictures like this that remind us our ancestors were no different than us, everyone has a picture of themselves in the garden with a cheesy grin, standing, and looking slightly uncomfortable. The Edwardians weren’t always stiff, and formal that’s just the impression we get from seeing so many carefully posed portraits.
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Born 142 years ago today, 18th January, 1882, A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander Milne) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and as a captain of the British Home Guard in World War II. He was the father of bookseller Christopher Robin Milne, upon whom the character Christopher Robin is based.
Alan Alexander Milne was born in Kilburn, London, and grew up at Henley House School, Kilburn, a small independent school run by his father. One of his teachers was H. G. Wells, who taught there in 1889. Milne attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he studied on a mathematics scholarship, graduating with a B.A. in Mathematics in 1903.
Milne married Dorothy “Daphne” de Sélincourt (1890–1971) in 1913 and their son Christopher Robin Milne was born in 1920. In 1925, Milne bought a country home, Cotchford Farm, in Hartfield, East Sussex.
After graduating from Cambridge University in 1903, A. A. Milne contributed humorous verse and whimsical essays to Punch, joining the staff in 1906 and becoming an assistant editor.
From 1903 to 1925 he published 18 plays and three novels, including the murder mystery The Red House Mystery (1922). After Christopher Robin was born (August 1920), Milne produced a collection of children’s poems, When We Were Very Young, which were illustrated by Punch staff cartoonist E. H. Shepard. A collection of short stories for children A Gallery of Children, and other stories that became part of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, were first published in 1925.
Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films (founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel). These were The Bump, starring Aubrey Smith; Twice Two; Five Pound Reward; and Bookworms. Some of these films survive in the archives of the British Film Institute. Milne had met Howard when the actor starred in Milne’s play Mr Pim Passes By in London.
Milne is most famous for his two Pooh books about a boy named Christopher Robin after his son, Christopher Robin Milne (1920–1996), and various characters inspired by his son’s stuffed animals, most notably the bear named Winnie-the-Pooh. Christopher Robin Milne’s stuffed bear, originally named Edward, was renamed Winnie after a Canadian black bear named Winnie (after Winnipeg), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war. “The Pooh” comes from a swan the young Milne named “Pooh”. E. H. Shepard illustrated the original Pooh books, using his own son’s teddy Growler (“a magnificent bear”) as the model. The rest of Christopher Robin Milne’s toys, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Tigger, were incorporated into A. A. Milne’s stories, and two more characters – Rabbit and Owl – were created by Milne’s imagination. Christopher Robin Milne’s own toys are now on display in New York where 750,000 people visit them every year.
The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were set. Milne lived on the northern edge of the forest at Cotchford Farm, 51.090°N 0.107°E, and took his son walking there. E. H. Shepard drew on the landscapes of Ashdown Forest as inspiration for many of the illustrations he provided for the Pooh books. The adult Christopher Robin commented: “Pooh’s Forest and Ashdown Forest are identical.” Popular tourist locations at Ashdown Forest include: Galleon’s Lap, The Enchanted Place, the Heffalump Trap and Lone Pine, Eeyore’s Sad and Gloomy Place, and the wooden Pooh Bridge where Pooh and Piglet invented Poohsticks.
Not yet known as Pooh, he made his first appearance in a poem, “Teddy Bear”, published in Punch magazine in February 1924 and republished in When We Were Very Young. Pooh first appeared in the London Evening News on Christmas Eve, 1925, in a story called “The Wrong Sort of Bees”. Winnie-the-Pooh was published in 1926, followed by The House at Pooh Corner in 1928. A second collection of nursery rhymes, Now We Are Six, was published in 1927. All four books were illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Milne also published four plays in this period. He also “gallantly stepped forward” to contribute a quarter of the costs of dramatising P. G. Wodehouse’s A Damsel in Distress. The World of Pooh won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1958.
Milne and his wife became estranged from their son, who came to resent what he saw as his father’s exploitation of his childhood and came to hate the books that had thrust him into the public eye. Christopher’s marriage to his first cousin, Lesley de Sélincourt, distanced him still further from his parents – Lesley’s father and Christopher’s mother had not spoken to each other for 30 years.
During World War II, Milne was a captain in the British Home Guard in Hartfield & Forest Row, insisting on being plain “Mr. Milne” to the members of his platoon. He retired to the farm after a stroke and brain surgery in 1952 left him an invalid, and by August 1953, “he seemed very old and disenchanted.” Milne died in January 1956, aged 74.
A few wonderful quotes from the world inhabited by Pooh, and Piglet …
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.”
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”
“How do you spell ‘love’?" - Piglet
“You don’t spell it…you feel it.” - Pooh”
“Sometimes,’ said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”
“If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
“I used to believe in forever, but forever’s too good to be true”
“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.”
“I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh.
“There there,” said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
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Godzilla 1954
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IBM Magnetic Drum Data-Processing Machine
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This beautifully composed picture is a rare example of early photography. We get to see the whole scene as it was captured, and before the photographer cropped down the picture to produce a well composed group portrait for this family.
His clients, the painted canvas backdrop, the walls, and floor of his studio (including the light streaming through the skylight) is before us, just as though we are standing behind the camera ready to press the shutter release button.
This was produced around 1912 in the studio of Olai Fauske, who was born at the farm Fauske in Naustdal municipality, Norway, in 1887. Fauske was the oldest child from his mother’s second marriage, and therefore did not inherit the farm. He also suffered from bad health and was unable to choose a career involving hard physical labour. In 1904 Fauske decided that the best way for him to make a living was to become a photographer. In 1905 Fauske trained as a photographer under Otto Talle in Bergen for three months, and then returned to Naustdal and set up his business. In 1912 he moved his home and business to the nearby town Førde where he worked till his death in 1944. Olai Fauske was for several decades the only photographer based in Førde and as such, he was the one people turned to when they wanted to document important events in their family life, such as weddings and funerals. Fauske also produced many studio portraits in his career, as well as photographing people’s everyday life of work and leisure. Throughout his career, Fauske travelled around the Sunnfjord region photographing the landscape and the people. The photos and postcards he produced were not only sold to the people of the Sunnfjord region, but, more importantly to the many who had emigrated from Sunnfjord to the US.
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Nov. 21, 1948: The Wee-Bee, at the time the world’s smallest piloted plane. This Beecraft creation weighed 150 pounds, had no cockpit – the pilot was strapped to the fuselage – and the landing gear was made out of tricycle wheels. (Associated Press)
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Before smart phones ruined everything
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The William A. Clark Mansion at Fifth Avenue, New York 1920’s
Prior to it’s demolition in 1927, a large sign on the mansion advertises the modern apartments soon to come at 960 Fifth Avenue.
The William A. Clark House, nicknamed “Clark’s Folly”,[2] was a mansion located at 962 Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner of its intersection with East 77th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It was demolished in 1927 and replaced with a luxury apartment building (960 Fifth Avenue).
William A. Clark, a wealthy entrepreneur and politician from Montana, commissioned the New York City firm of Lord, Hewlett & Hull to build the mansion in 1897. It was completed in 1911, after numerous legal disputes,[1] at a cost of $7 million[2] (equivalent to $219,850,000 in 2022). The mansion contained 121 rooms, 31 baths, four art galleries, a swimming pool, a concealed garage, and a private underground rail line to bring in coal for heat.[2]
Clark bought a quarry in New Hampshire, at a cost of $50,000 (equivalent to $1,570,000 in 2022), and built a railroad to transport the stone for the building. He also bought a bronze foundry employing 200 men to manufacture the bronze fittings.[2] In addition, he imported marble from Italy, oak from Sherwood Forest in England, and parts of old French châteaux for the interior.[2]
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Basket Jim does his thing in Covent Garden, London in 1930. Back in the days when Covent Garden was a fruit and veg market
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Brooklyn bridge. 1900
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Einstein’s office the day he died
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Marie Curie in her labratory…
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Sigmund Freud’s Study
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East Houston Street 1920s.
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Detroit Water Works Park and Tower. Opened in 1876. Demolished in 1945.
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Kenneth C. Purdy’s Motormat drive-in, Los Angeles - The food tray was sent out on rails, 1948
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New York, March 28, 1915: Society on Fifth Avenue on Palm Sunday. They are John D. Rockefeller Sr. and John D. Rockefeller Jr.
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Photo by Brien Forrester
Megalithic Yangshan quarry in China
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Thanks for all the photos, yyy!! What a wonderful peek into The Past!! 
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Mrs. Astor’s Ballroom.
For almost four decades, New York society – then the world’s most rigid and exclusive – was ruled by one woman, Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, known throughout New York as the Mrs Astor. Her prestige was such that to be invited to Mrs Astor’s annual ball, invariably on the third Monday in January, was to be “in” society; not to be asked was to live in outer darkness. Or so it seemed to the many aspirants to her ballroom.
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Former President of the now defunct Donny Osmond Fan Club!
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Pretty cigs!!
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Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.
But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."
We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.
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Prague 1910 vs. 2024
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The Great Manure Crisis of 1894
It seemed that The End of Civilization As We Know It would be brought about, not by a meteor strike, global sickness or warfare, but by an excess of manure, by the urban equine.
Problems with horse drawn transport were not new. Julius Caesar had banned the presence of horse drawn carts from Rome between dawn and dusk in an effort to curb gridlock, noise, accidents, and the other unpleasant byproducts of equine transport.
In 1898 the first international urban planning conference convened in New York. One topic dominated discussion: manure. Cities all over the world, including Sydney, were experiencing the same problem. Unable to see any solution to the manure crisis, the delegates abandoned the conference after three days instead of the scheduled ten days.
Then, quite quickly, the crisis passed as millions of horses were replaced by millions of motor vehicles.
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Here are Kids Playing in a part of Catherine Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, that has been closed to traffic & after a water hydrant hydrant has been opened to provide relief during a Heat Wave…(c.1925)
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Hospital Cigarettes Back in the 1950s
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Paris, France 1935, An interior view of patrons at he bar in the Cafe Gourand in the Montmartre district
Girl in her finest dress getting weighed on the Boardwalk, Brooklyn - 1900
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Female worker bottling ketchup at the Heinz factory. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1897
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Book sellers on the Seine embankment, Paris France c. 1900
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Boston Massachusetts circa 1906
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Fire Brigade circa 1925
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Soba noodles deliveryman in Tokyo, 1935
Piles of soba bowls were packed on the shoulders of bicycle couriers.
Photo by the Mainichi Shimbun.
The Lavenberg Collection of Japanese Prints
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Mme Decourcelle first female taxi driver in Paris 1909.
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A family bikes down the street in a four-person bicycle invention, 1939.
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1913 …on a Stack of Chairs … New York City skyscraper
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Women hanging out in Los Angeles during the 1950s.
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Brassaï: The Stairs of Montmartre, Paris 1930
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Sweethearts in the 1940s.
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From the 1950’s, now restored
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The World’s Largest Block Of Cheese was Made In Wisconsin in 1964.
In 1964, Wisconsin produced the world’s largest cheese at the time, using milk from 16,000 cows. A team of 25, including award-winning cheesemakers, worked for 43 hours to create a 34,591-pound block of cheddar.
After being cooled and dried, it was displayed at the New York World’s Fair, attracting significant attention. The cheese was estimated to be seen by 12 million people over two years.
Post-fair, it toured the U.S., promoting Wisconsin cheese, before being returned to New York in 1965 and eventually delivered to The Borden Company.
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1936 junk yard in Milwaukee
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c. 1890, ELEPHANT HOTEL/BROTHEL, CONEY ISLAND. From 1880 to the beginning of WWII, Coney Island, Brooklyn, NYC, was the Disneyland of its time. One attraction, the Elephant Hotel (aka the Elephantine Colossus), built in 1884, was 12 stories tall and contained a hotel, concert hall, and entertainment center in the 31-room building. As the hotel aged, prostitutes found that they could offer a less Disney-like experience. By 1893, the hotel began to deteriorate and was abandoned. It burned to the ground in 1896. (The elephant at the Moulin Rouge, Paris, was designed by the same architect.)
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Bourbon Street, New Orleans c. 1925
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Kaiser Wilhelm II’s water closet at his home in Exile, Doorn Manor in the Netherlands.
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E. Lillian Todd, the first woman to design and build her own aircraft, 1906
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Young ladies in Norway, 1890s.
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An image from the 1860s, half houses such as these were built…meant as a money and space saving design.
This photo is on Front Street at Christian with the old Sparks’ Shot tower seen in the distance on the left!
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J. Edgar Hoover liked to wear matching outfits with his “business associate” Clyde Tolson
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