These UNBELIEVABLE Historical Pictures Tell Stories Beyond Words

PART 2:

 It’s just an incredible display of strength. This was back in 1940. Two little girls are talking with their grandparents in East Germany over a barbed wire fence. It was a barricade that later became the Berlin Wall back in 1961.  There are women pictured at the Waldorf Hotel in New York City in 1945.  Soup cooling spoons. 1948.  A man holds a crumbloaf.

 This was an experimental curved rifle barrel attachment that the Nazis developed during World War II. It was used to shoot around walls and over barriers. The Rocket Express, a Montreal, carried kids around the toy department on the eighth floor at the John Waker Department Store in Center City, Philadelphia in the 1950s.

The Knobbly knees contest. A knobbly knees competition or knobbliest knees is a parody of a beauty contest in England 1953. It’s 1944 and you’re looking at a pretty unusual site. There’s a fake city built right on the roof of a factory. This factory, by the way, was cranking out Boeing combat airplanes.

 It’s all happening here in the United States. A donkey is seen with a rocket launcher strapped to its back in Turkey in 1930.  It seems like the dog wants to say something.  A crow lighting the cigarette of Tippiedron on the set of The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1963.  It’s Christmas time, 1930.

 Imagine a scene of pure holiday cheer. Someone’s busy decking out their car. They’re probably adding some bright lights, maybe a big wreath, and whatever else would make it festive. It’s a classic, and it makes me smile just thinking about it. All right, here we go. This is a picture of a young man about 20 wearing a white shirt and a dark suit.

He’s sitting at a table. There’s a white tablecloth and some flowers in a vase. He’s holding a book. Behind him, there’s a large window. The room looks very elegant. German soldiers are reacting to footage of concentration camps 1945. Let’s take a look at some old photos of the cast of friends. So, this is a spray tan vending machine from 1949.

 Young Jimmy Carter was working as a nuclear engineer in the United States Navy in 1948.  There’s a fighter plane, a Grumman F6F Hellcat that crashed in the ocean. It’s in the water and it’s sitting upside down. The ocean floor is visible.  Linda Carter, who was 21 years old, MissWorld USA, 1972.

 A rocket propelled bicycle. Germany, 1931.  Zar Nicholas II. It looks like a selfie stick, but he was probably just checking the camera when it went off.  On March 29, 1956, a fine spring day, Hollywood royalty Grace Kelly visited the Cardier store in New York City. the inauguration of Rebecca Latimer Felton in Georgia in 1922.

She became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate in 1922. Using an unexloded 16-in naval shell for a resting place, Marine Private First Class Raymond Hubert shakes a 3-day accumulation of sand from his boondocker. July 4th, 1944. It’s a stark scene, isn’t it? A long, long line stretching down the street.

People just waiting. You get the feeling they’ve been there a while. It brings to mind the struggles of the Great Depression. Times were tough back then. Between 1929 and 1940, scarcity was everywhere. Makes you think about what it must have been like. Groucho Marks and Lucille Ball are goofing off at CBSKNX radio studios in 1945.

 Coast Guardsmen are on the deck of the US Coast Guard cutter Spencer and they’re watching the explosion of a depth charge. The charge blasted a Nazi hubot’s hope of breaking into the center of a large convoy. This happened during the sinking of U 175 in 1943. There was an anti-KK group called the Invisible Jungle, Knights of the Tiger’s Eye, a New Secret order.

 In 1922,  Beachnut Girl in Harlem, 1940s. Harlem, 1940s. Beachnut Chewing Gum Girl making a sale.  Manhattan, New York, around 1917. There’s a horsedrawn car and a modern tram right next to each other. In 1917, a French Red Cross dog wore a gas mask, protecting it during wartime. These dogs played critical roles in delivering messages and aiding wounded soldiers.

Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reveal on their wedding day 1952. Entertainer Gene Kelly is executing a leapover film cans labeled with titles of his movies. There are street Arabs in the area of Malbury Street, New York in 1880.  Loggers sit on the stump of a giant sequoia in 1904.  A photographic portrait of Sigman Freud circa 1921.

 A girl is doing the Lambeath Walk, a popular dance craze of the late30s.  December 1940, Starky, Florida. construction workers drinking beer in Soldiers Joy Cafe near Camp Blanding.  So making the Titanic’s anchor chain at Hingley and Suns 1909.  Theodore Roosevelt on a Cougar Hunt, 1901.

 Charles Atlas, also known as Angeli Siciliano, a pioneer of bodybuilding and fitness in his prime. That would be either the 1920s or early 1930s. California Street, San Francisco, 1964. Martin Luther King Jr. removes a burned cross from his yard in 1960. The boy is his son.  During the 1930s, kittens were already risking themselves at high altitudes and causing trouble for electric company employees.

Queen Victoria, 1887.  Let’s talk party games from the 1940s.  15-year-old revolutionary Erica Celis. The Hungarian Revolution, 1956.  Ouch. 1940s.  A family is playing on a unique homemade four-person swing in Finland in 1954.

 In the 1890s, there are three women on bicycles in Helsinki, Finland. Gospel car number one constructed by William Downer in Glasbro, New Jersey in the late 1910s. The photographer was above the skies of Berlin in 1912.  There’s a man perched way up high. He’s standing on one of the very first cables being strung for the Golden Gate Bridge.

This was back in 1935. Imagine being up there, a tiny figure against the sky, watching the whole incredible thing come together. What a view and what a job. It looks like there was a bad crash in Boston back in 1930.  All right, so it’s a test audience reacting to the chest burster scene in Alien from 1979.

 April 25th, 1930. Children are playing cricket in a London street. The wicket is drawn on a lampost.  Ray Conklin, president of the New York Motorbus Company, is with his superb bus 1915.  Annie Oakley around 1903.  Before she became famous as an actress in All in the Family, Ma, and Golden Girls, be Arthur worked as a truck driver and typist in the United States Marine Corps

Women’s Reserve during World War II.