Historical pictures

[boots123]

Volunteer fireman Dmitri Shostakovich, during the Siege of Leningrad.

 

[boots123]

Construction workers on their lunch break in New York.Imagine if the middle guy wanted a desperate piss

 

[Stickman]

For some reason I can't post this on the s**tness of modern ******* thread so I'll put it here as I guess it is historical

 

£1.50 to get in and a season tkt for £63

 

[tokyojoe]

For some reason I can't post this on the s**tness of modern ******* thread so I'll put it here as I guess it is historical

 

£1.50 to get in and a season tkt for £63

 

What season was that? My first ST was £6.30. Got it the same week Shanks resigned.

[Tony Moanero]

What season was that? My first ST was £6.30. Got it the same week Shanks resigned.

1980-81, I think. Pre-Premier a League, Crystal Palace hadn't spend that many years in the top flight.

[Frank Dacey]

I remember paying a shilling to get in the Boys Pen in the promotion season, the football was pretty good; the education,... priceless.

[sir roger]

I remember paying a shilling to get in the Boys Pen in the promotion season, the football was pretty good; the education,... priceless.

 

Ha Ha , beautifully put.

 

The first time I went in the Boys Pen I came out like one of those glassy-eyed people you see on the news who have been caught up in a major disaster. My dad could barely get a word out of me.

[stringvest]

It was like a prison yard, only more so.

[sir roger]

I imagine you would face less danger in the average prison yard , 2000 Artful Dodgers & sociopaths all collected in one place.

[Stickman]

Inside of a Ryanair plane 1930

 

 

Unemployed men outside Al Capone's soup kitchen during The Great Depression

 

 

The original McDonald's clown 1963 and looking way way scarier than John Wayne Gacy 

 

[Evelyn Tentions]

 

 

 

The original McDonald's clown 1963 and looking way way scarier than John Wayne Gacy 

 

 

How's he holding that tray up?

[TheBitch]

Ryanair planes haven't changed all that much.

[VladimirIlyich]

For some reason I can't post this on the s**tness of modern ******* thread so I'll put it here as I guess it is historical

 

£1.50 to get in and a season tkt for £63

 

And we won trophies too. Can't top being top of the Profit League though.

[Stickman]

Levi ad 1971

 

[Mook]

Martin Luther King (& Son) pulls a burning cross from his front garden.

 

[Mook]

Kirk & Michael Douglas 1960.

 

[Stickman]

Jimi Hendrix with his first guitar Seattle 1957

 

 

 

And playing with the 101st Airborne Kentucky 1962 

 

 

 

James Dean in a coffee shop

 

 

 

Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali

 

[polymerpunkah]

 

The Solvay Conference 1927

 

A few bright physicists.

 

Back to front, left to right:

Back: Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, JE Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Fowler, Léon Brillouin.

Middle: Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr.

Front: Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, CTR Wilson, Owen Richardson.

[General Dryness]

I bet they were all trying to get into Marie as she was the only bird there.

[Stickman]

Tyson and Cus D'amato before his first pro fight 1985

 

 

Bruce Lee 1972

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Mersey Ferries Iris and Daffodil in Dover, after the Zeebrugge raid of April 1918, which earned them their "Royal" prefix.

 

 

https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2018/april/19/180419-royal-marines-to-commemorate-the-zeebrugge-centenary-in-wirral

[M_B]

An historical video

 

[Stickman]

Elvis receiving a ticket and I have to say looking all shook up by the incident

 

[Stickman]

Al Capone in Florida 1929

 

[sir roger]

Martin Luther King (& Son) pulls a burning cross from his front garden.

 

 

I had no idea that MLK's son invented the facepalm.