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[win231]

I stopped at a casino on the way back from Nevada & took a photo of this car - before a security guard told me not to take photos. (I didn't know it wasn't OK).

I also took a photo of a letter Clyde Barrow wrote to Henry Ford:

Letter from Clyde Barrow.

 

[SmoothSeas]

I love this old photo - there's such a wealth of wisdom in her eyes...

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[hollydolly]

Henry Ford receiving the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from Nazi officials, 1938​

At a ceremony in Dearborn, Michigan, Henry Ford is presented with the Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle on his 75th birthday. Henry Ford was the first American recipient of this order, an honor created in 1937 by Adolf Hitler.


This was the highest honor Nazi Germany could give to any foreigner and represented Adolf Hitler’s personal admiration and indebtedness to Henry Ford. The presentation was made by Karl Kapp, the German consul in Cleveland, and Fritz Heller, German consular representative in Detroit.

 

[hollydolly]

Astonishing photos from the 1930's great depression USA...

Unemployed men line up in front of a Chicago soup kitchen, which was operated by Al Capone.

A poor mother stands with her two children in Oklahoma. 1936..

The Central Park of New York City became Hooverville, a shanty town for the newly impoverished (named for President Herbert Hoover, in office during the market crash and widely blamed for it). 1933.

Lewis Hunter with his family, Lady’s Island, Beaufort,” Carl Mydans, South Carolina, June 1936.

food banks as far back as the 1930's....

 

[Pink Biz]

Moe and Curly Howard of The Three Stooges posing with their parents, Solomon and Jennie Horwitz, in 1933.

 

[JonSR77]

Tourists pose on Glacier Point above the Yosemite Valley. 1887.

The gateway arch at Yellowstone. 1900.

Tourists drive their car on a dirt road along the Yellowstone River. 1899.

Wonderful pictures! Thanks for posting them! I see that you are from London. Have you been to the US National Parks. If not, you really, really must. Just hard to describe how amazing they are. Like visiting another planet. Grand Canyon is an absolute must see. I was there in 1980. Back then, the helicopter tour of it was simply one of the best things you could do with your life.

I've been to Glacier, Olympic, Yellowstone, Bryce, the Badlands, Sequoia, Muir Woods, and a few more. All, absolutely worth it.

 

[SmoothSeas]

An officer halts traffic to make way for a cat carrying a kitten across the street, 1925.

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[hollydolly]

Hunts Point, South Bronx. 1970.

Couldn't leave a baby in a pram alone outside of a shop today ....

 

[SmoothSeas]

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[hollydolly]

A Policeman In San Francisco Scolds A Man For Not Wearing A Mask During The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, 1918​

 

[hollydolly]

Here Is How An Ukrainian Immigrant Celebrated Stalin's Death, 1953​

With luck that name will change very soon on that poster

 

[Lewkat]

Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941

 

[hollydolly]

A Nurse With A Sick Child During Smallpox Epidemic, Wrocław, Poland, 1963​

 

[hollydolly]

Nintendo's First Headquarters In Kyoto, Japan (1889)​

 

[carouselsilver]

 

[shedevil7953]

awful!

 

[shedevil7953]

This is such a powerful photo. It was taken in April, 1945 by Major Clarence Benjamin and shows a train of Jewish prisoners that had been intercepted by Allied Forces. This is the moment they learned that the train would not be heading to a Concentration Camp and they had been liberated.

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so awesome!

 

[Pink Biz]

The Cat's Meat Man

In the Victorian era, London’s felines received daily, hand-delivered skewers or packages of meat from a peddler known as the “cat’s meat man.”

A cat’s meat man sold chopped meat (usually horse scraps from local slaughterhouses) to cat owners. They had regular routes and clients, just like a milkman, and were a fixture of London street life: hundreds, if not thousands, of vendors serviced London’s estimated 300,000 cats.

 

[carouselsilver]

 

[carouselsilver]

 

[SmoothSeas]

May 1945
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A woman walks through the ruins of Berlin during the Battle of Berlin...

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[Lewkat]

Snowstorm in NYC. 50 yrs. ago.

 

[hollydolly]

“George Nissen, the inventor of the trampoline, jumping with his kangaroo.”

 

[SmoothSeas]

Normandy, France 1947

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Woman on Omaha Beach...

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[hollydolly]