[image: 1894__080814] *Mark Twain in Tesla’s lab, 1894* *[image: 1903__080814]* *A 10 x 15-foot wooden shed where the “Harley-Davidson Motor Company” started out in 1903*
*[image: 1912__080814]* *Testing football helmets in 1912* *[image: 1918__080814]* *Helmets again: A Pyramid of captured German ones in front of the NYC Grand Central Terminal, 1918* *[image: 1920__080814]* *A bar in New York City, the night before prohibition began,1920* *[image: 1920s__080814]* *Mount Rushmore Before Carving, 1920s* *[image: 1923_080814]* *Traffic jam in New York, 1923* *[image: 1926_080814]* *A quiet little job at a crocodile farm in St. Augustine, Florida, 1926 (UPDATE: well, an alligator farm of course, as Roy notes in the comments below)* *[image: 1929__080814]* *World economic crisis, 1929* *[image: 1930__080814]* *Central Park in 1930* *[image: 1930B__080814]* *Last four couples standing at a Chicago dance marathon, ca. 1930* *[image: 1930c]* *Meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club, early 1930s* *[image: 1938__080814]* *Confederate and Union soldiers shake hands across the wall at the 1938 reunion for the Veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg* *[image: 1939_080814]* *When they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their children, flour mills of the 30s started using flowered fabric for their sacks, 1939* *[image: 1940_080814]* *NY, Coney Island, 1940* *[image: 1942__080814]* *The thirty-six men needed to fly and service a B-17E in 1942* *[image: 1948__080814]* *A man begging for his wife’s forgiveness inside Divorce Court. Chicago, 1948* *[image: 1949__080814]* *Three young women wash their clothes in Central Park during a water shortage. New York, 1949* *[image: 1951_080814]* *19 year-old Shigeki Tanaka was a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima and went on to win the 1951 Boston Marathon. The crowd was silent as he crossed the finish line. (UPDATE: As Peter notes in the comments below, “Tanaka was not exactly “a survivor of the bombing of Hiroshima” — when the bomb was dropped, he was at home, about 20 miles from the site. He saw a light and heard a distant rumble, but was personally unaffected by the bomb.”)* *[image: 1955__080814]* *Florida’s last Civil War veteran, Bill Lundy, poses with a jet fighter, 1955* *[image: 1960s_100814]* *NASA scientists with their board of calculations, 1960′s* *[image: 1963_080814]* *Muhammad Ali’s fists after the fight with Cooper, 1963* *[image: 1969_080814]* *New York firemen play a game after a fire in a billiard parlor, 1969* *[image: 1971_080814]* *An abandoned baby sleeps peacefully in a drawer at the Los Angeles Police Station, 1971* *[image: 1972_080814]* *Boy hiding in a TV set. Boston, 1972 by Arthur Tress* *[image: 1974__080814]* *A spectator holds up a sign at the Academy Awards, April 1974* *[image: 1975_080814]* *Robert De Niro’s cab driver license. In order to get into character for the film Taxi Driver, he obtained his own hack license and would pick-up/drive customers around in New York City.* *[image: 1983__080814]* *Nancy Reagan sits on the lap of Mr. T, dressed as Santa, 1983* *[image: 1985_080814]* *Ronald Reagan wearing sweatpants on Air Force One, 1985* *And we all know that Ronnie Raygun never ever even broke a sweat.* ____________________________________________________________ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
