interesting pics in history

Cincinnati’s old public library, circa 1955. The building no longer exists.

 

Pretty sad.

 

https://www.the-mainboard.com/index.php?threads/ancient-and-not-so-ancient-history-thread.184263/

lots listed here, I've added a few

 

This is the Mir Diamond Mine in Siberia, 1772 feet deep and 3900 feet wide. Digging began in 1957 and stopped in 2001.

 

Ishouldcallher.gif

 

chronophoto.app

like geoguesser but with photos from 1900-present. My high score after three rounds is 2820, come at me

edit: nailed round 4, 3854 points. That’s gonna be hard to beat, a combined 16 years off of perfection.

 

Went down a rabbit hole on this one. The plane tore apart over water flying into Honolulu, Hawaii.

There was one fatality, flight attendant Clarabelle Lansing, who was swept out of the plane and her body never found. Everyone else had their seat belt on.

 

I remember it. She was in the aisle and was sucked out through the roof right before the eyes of the passengers.

 

In 1981, LA Times photographer Boris Yaro heard a police report about a suicidal man threatening to jump from a building. His editor wasn’t interested and didn’t send a reporter, but the photographer went to the scene anyway.

A friend of Muhammad Ali was near the scene on the street and called Ali, who immediately came to the scene and talked the guy back from the ledge.

Yaro caught it all.

 

Nah, that dude is in Mumford and Sons.

 

That's Bernard the elf from the Santa clause

 

That is insane. No way you can go through with jumping if Ali tells you not to

 

"You will float like a butterfly but it will sting worse than a bee. Come down from there."

 

He had the Jack Harlow cut that most teenage dudes have now 100 years before it was trendy.

 

The OG hipster.

 

I wonder if we can trace the origin of adoption to that point in history. Lol

 

why did they tear it down?

 

They built a newer, larger one. That whole side of town got hit with the wrecking ball in the early 1960’s.

Then in the 1990’s, the area became one of the worst neighborhoods for violent crime in the country.

Then mid-2000’s, the gay and lesbian community began to take over all of the 1840-1890’s buildings that remained in Over the Rhine neighborhood and gentrified.

Now a condo near Findlay Market costs what you could have paid to buy the whole block 20 years ago.

 

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-old-cincinnati-library-demolition-1874-1955/

not surprising, much like a lot of the cool old shit in dayton, it got torn down to be a fucking parkin garage.

 

Boston desegregated its schools with a bussing program in the mid-1970’s. It led to white protests and violence in 1976.

Stanley Forman won the Pulitzer for this photo:

 

just perfect

 

Newsies in St. Louis, 1910 by Lewis Hine

 

I kinda remember that show.

 

Evelyn Mchale dubbed the “most beautiful suicide”

Spoiler

 

do they know how high she was when she jumped?

 

86th floor

 

Like three good bong hits of Indica.

 

That’s clearly Indicar*

 

That's laps

 

Audio of a telephone call between a pissed-off JFK and an Air Force general. He was upset because he was unaware they spent money on high-end furniture for the First Lady and then let reporters and photographers in the room.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvIOvDZNUXa/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

"Well sir.....this is obviously......."

"This is obviously a fuckup"

"Right, sir"

 

also the cover to the walkmens debut album

 

I can't imagine how pissed off most American drivers would be if they shut down that road for construction for however long it took and then come to find out they just made musical bumps

 

I've said this before, but by establishing this precedent (that the president has final authority on when nukes are authorized) Truman probably saved the world from human annihilation in the years that have followed (some general going off half cocked and dropping nukes on the Russians or something)

 

One of the hardcore histories goes into that period. LeMay I believe was all in on preemptive strikes against the USSR to stop them from being able to develop their own bomb. Just insane to think about today.

 

Pretty cool thread. Historian thought an old American Revolutionary War Fort was inside the walls of this old plantation house in WV. Lawyer bought it, and excavated it.

 

That’s an interesting tidbit. And a fact that feels dangerous as fuck after trump and with the possibility of another term.

 

IIRC from a podcast, that's pretty much what happened with the second one in Nagasaki. Truman more-or-less approved the first one, but definitely not the second one and some general did it on his own accord.

 

Runs counter to all I've ever read or heard that Truman had zero reservations about nuking Japan