Interesting Old Photographs

Qball50 · Feb 4, 2014

1.Born 110 years ago, Red Grange carries the ball in his professional debut for the Chicago Bears in

front of 39,000 people on Thanksgiving Day 1925. (Average attendances were around 5,000 up to that point)

2.The face of an NHL goalie before masks became standard game equipment

3.The first ever team photo in baseball history, 1858

4.Members of the Stealth Bomber football squad at Gallaudet University, 1920.

It was the first university for the deaf and they started the idea of the football huddle so other teams

couldn't see their signs.

5.U.S. chess prodigy, Bobby Fisher, playing 50 opponents simultaneously at his Hollywood hotel on

12 April 1964. He won 47, lost 1 and drew 2

6.The very first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, 1931

7.Old Cincinnati Library, looking at one of the large cast-iron book alcoves that lined the Main

Reading Hall, circa 1900

8.The Hindenburg successfully landed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 1936

9.This is what Mount Rushmore was supposed to look like if they hadn't run out of funding in 1941

10.Last public execution in USA, 1936

11.Dissection room at a medical school in Bordeaux, France. h Circa 1890

12.Suburbia: move-in day 1950 Œs

13.Children in an iron lung before the advent of the polio vaccination.

Many children lived for months in these machines, though not all survived. c. 1937

14.André Roussimoff (Later known as the Giant) Cannes, France, 1967

15.An aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, one year after the atomic bomb detonation. Taken July 20, 1946

fieldgrade · Feb 4, 2014

Very nice pics Dave!

As usual.

trcubed · Feb 5, 2014

You always find the most interesting pictures...

Hybrid Moments Pass · Feb 5, 2014

that was awesome

majicmike · Feb 5, 2014

Great pictures,,

old confederate · Feb 5, 2014

I enjoy looking at old pictures. Thank you. Larry

donato · Feb 5, 2014

really enjoyed these

poppy · Feb 5, 2014

Good stuff right there.

Remshooter · Feb 5, 2014

Thanks, enjoyed checking them out.

wally592 · Feb 5, 2014

OK. So I just spent 15 minutes reading about an iron lung ... Sure am glad I live in this day and age and I never had to think about suffering (or watching my children suffer) from polio.

Very interesting post... Thanks.

9outof10mms · Feb 5, 2014

Pretty cool. I had no clue that Rushmore was supposed to look like that.

bashman · Feb 5, 2014

Qball50 said:
3.The first ever team photo in baseball history, 1858

I never knew Abraham Lincoln was a baseball player.

Qball50 said:
5.U.S. chess prodigy, Bobby Fisher, playing 50 opponents simultaneously at his Hollywood hotel on 12 April 1964. He won 47, lost 1 and drew 2.

And the man that gave him the one loss?
Yep, you got it -

Catfish · Feb 5, 2014

7.Old Cincinnati Library, looking at one of the large cast-iron book alcoves that lined the Main Reading Hall, circa 1900

The Internet, Beta Test, V0.1

9outof10mms · Feb 5, 2014

Catfish said:
The Internet, Beta Test, V0.1

Ha! And that guy's nickname was "Decka" (intentionally misspelled). Let's see if anyone gets that...

-06 · Feb 5, 2014

Here is a collection of old pics I have saved:
http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&t=14428&finish=15&start=0
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/04/27/on-war-joe-rosenthal-and-iwo-jima/

Have several more collections of very interesting pics but they would take way too much room. If interested in seeing them just PM your address and will E them to you--06

spatterhead · Feb 5, 2014

Thomas Jefferson was originally planned to be on the right side of George Washington, but a crack in the granite forced them to sandblast the face off the right side and was added to the left. Also, as a sculptor myself, the plumb bob or pointal system used was remarkable! They basically had a sculpture 1/12th the scale sitting on top of the mountain and 1" = 12". They used this pointal system to sculpt from the model above. This system is still in use today, but they way Borglum implemented it was nothing short of artist genius! Thanks for posting this!

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