Back In The Good Old Days

This Is What the U.S Army Thought the Soldier of the Future Would Be Like, 1959.

The futuristic uniform includes "rocket-powered jump belt", infrared binoculars and rubber mask and gloves to protect the wearer from nuclear explosions.



Here’s a video showing off the revolutionary tech

Although more than 1.2 million Indians fought and 70,000 died in the war, Indian pilots were unheard of in WWI.

Hardit Singh Malik was one of only four Indians to fly with the Royal Flying Corps.



A devout Sikh, he had a special helmet made to fit over his turban, earning himself the affectionate nickname ‘The Flying Hobgoblin.’

He was in the squadron under Major Billy Barke and helped hunt the Red Baron.

He died aged 90 in 1985.

The lifesavers car in the US in 1934.

An accumulator electric omnibus in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1900.

A white active soldier sent in to quell the race riots in Chicago, US in 1919 is confronted by a black former WWI soldier.

FBI agents and secretaries review files at the overflowing archive at the DC Armory in Washington DC, US in 1945. The archive collected over 23 million individual cards and over 10 million fingerprint records during WWII. At one point they were adding around 400,000 new cards every month.

Tommy Russell (driving the first car on the left) shows off a row of Russell Motor Cars in Toronto, Canada in 1909. His company was the first successful Canadian car company.

Southwest flight attendants, ~1970

The Edmund Fitzgerald...

During the 70’s Oil Crisis, the roads were so deserted that people could have picnics on highways (1973).  The crisis began when OPEC member states in the Middle East started an embargo of petroleum to the United States.

The Indiana Jones movie set – no CGI back then!