GlenPettit 1,714 #1 Posted January 23, 2018 These are some great historical photos... click anywhere on the right side of each photo to move to the next one RareHistoricalPhotos.pps - Google Slides 12 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
formariz 11,974 #2 Posted January 23, 2018 Thank you for posting it.Very interesting stuff. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jerry77 1,218 #3 Posted January 23, 2018 Thanks for posting Glen....I love the old photos...not so much the ones that show the evil in the world, but we can't ignore it...as much as things change, they don't seem to change that much.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
953 nut 54,383 #4 Posted January 23, 2018 Glen, you come up with some fascinating photos for us to view, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AMC RULES 37,102 #5 Posted January 23, 2018 (edited) Do love those tracked Model T's Edited January 23, 2018 by AMC RULES 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GlenPettit 1,714 #6 Posted January 23, 2018 (edited) I especially like to look closely & slowly at these old pictures, at what's in or is happening in the background. Like, of the thousands of girls in the Nuremberg photo, their vest colors show their old 30's political party flag, or in the Kings photo, two 'kings' have their sash on differently that the other seven, or real wicker baskets on the store counter. Glen Edited January 23, 2018 by GlenPettit 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Daddy Don 905 #7 Posted January 24, 2018 Love it want more Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cafoose 3,324 #8 Posted January 24, 2018 There are many more here you can look at them all day if you want to: https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=ug5oWr3jOJLYsAWI6q_wCg&q=rare+historical+photos&oq=rare+hist&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0l10.1916.5087.0.8670.9.9.0.0.0.0.132.822.7j2.9.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.9.819...0i131k1.0.boNsSjLTMWM Thank you Glen very interesting! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
r356c 375 #9 Posted January 24, 2018 Thanks Glen! The photo of Supreme Commander MacArthur accepting the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces brought a memory. My wife and I traveled to Hawaii some years back. The first thing I did was to take her to the USS Arizona Memorial to pay our respects. Then I took her aboard the USS Missouri and pointed out the plaque attached to the deck showing where the signing was done. She did not get it, but I tried to explain the deep significance of the sites we had visited. The USS Arizona was a somewhat isolationist, innocent America. The USS Missouri was America as a global super power. The book ends of a war that still define 'old history' from 'modern history'. 1 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KC9KAS 4,741 #10 Posted January 24, 2018 Thanks Glen...Lots of world history at a glance. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
857 horse 2,581 #11 Posted January 24, 2018 these pics are worth more than several thousand words 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dan693 510 #12 Posted January 24, 2018 Interesting pics....thanks! FYI the pic from the Titantic was actually taken on board the CS Maccay Bennett after the Titantic had sunk. Here's a link. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/im-a-celebrity-star-martin-roberts-reveals-how-his-grandad-rescued-titanic-survivors-35371752.html 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pullstart 62,193 #13 Posted January 26, 2018 On 1/24/2018 at 1:17 AM, r356c said: Thanks Glen! The photo of Supreme Commander MacArthur accepting the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces brought a memory. My wife and I traveled to Hawaii some years back. The first thing I did was to take her to the USS Arizona Memorial to pay our respects. Then I took her aboard the USS Missouri and pointed out the plaque attached to the deck showing where the signing was done. She did not get it, but I tried to explain the deep significance of the sites we had visited. The USS Arizona was a somewhat isolationist, innocent America. The USS Missouri was America as a global super power. The book ends of a war that still define 'old history' from 'modern history'. We went to Hawaii April, 2017 for my sister in law's wedding. At first, my thoughts were "We have to go all the way to Hawaii for a wedding" then shortly before we went, they turned to "We're going to Hawaii. we are there just over a week and the wedding is just a couple day's work. Let's make the trip worth it!" We did a premium guided tour of Pearl Harbor and learned so much about the attack, the island, geography of how it all went down. And to think all that had happened, the start and the finish were just hundreds of yards away. Humbling experience, in short. Not enough time to take it all in though. I thank every soul who is willing to lay his or her life down for our freedom. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
r356c 375 #14 Posted January 27, 2018 My mother lost her brother to a kamakazi attack of his B-29 Superfortress bomber over Japan in WWII. As a preschooler, I remember asking my grandmother why she had a photo of a large airplane (a B-29) on her hallway wall. She did not answer, and I was given the distinct impression that was a subject to not bring up again. A few years before my mothers passing, I was able to take her on a tour of Fifi, an airworthy B-29, when it came through Orlando. As SpaceX's Falcon Heavy waits on the pad at the Cape, it is very easy for me to trace a finger back to the German V-2's in Peenemünde. I grew up next door to a 'captured' German rocket engineer that came over with the Wernher von Braun group. His daughter was my age, and we were quite fond of each other as I recall. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites