Back In The Good Old Days <Thread #2>

The earliest known photograph of men drinking beer. Edinburgh, 1844.

Three Burmese 'giraffe-neck' women playing cards in London, 1935

Animal Tamer Captain Jack Bonavita with some of his cats, c. 1870s

Eleanor Roosevelt with the .22 Smith and Wesson she frequently carried in lieu of secret service protection.

Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell, and Rob Lowe on the set of The Outsiders, 1983.

A puppy sleeping between two Russian soldiers in Prague, 1945

Thousands of people celebrate the end of the First World War on Broad Street, Philadelphia. November 11, 1918

The aftermath of the 1969 Scottish Cup final between Celtic and Rangers

Photo taken on 11th Sept. 2001, when the south tower was collapsing.

An English girl comforts her doll in the rubble of her bomb-damaged home in 1940.

Roza Shanina, a Soviet sniper during WWII. She volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in 1941. You should definitely google this badass.

Headquarters of Benito Mussolini and the Italian Fascist Party (1934)

Rollie Free riding his Vincent HRD (in a bathing suit!) to a world record of 242km/h at the Bonneville Salt Flats, 1948

The Shah and Queen of Iran sharing a ride with Walt Disney during a visit to Disneyland, 1962.

A 12-year old Muhammad Ali, in 1954

"Bandit's Roost": The most dangerous street in New York City in 1888

The gymnasium aboard the Titanic, 1912

Interviewing Paul Newman at the Lincoln Memorial during the Civil Rights March on Washington, 1963.

A dog holds onto a little boy as he tries to retrieve a ball in a river with his golf club. 1920s

Young onlooker during the Miss TV Times Beauty Contest finals in London, 1971

Lillian Boyer, stunt flying acrobat, in action. 1922

An ambrotype portrait of a British war veteran and his wife, circa 1855. He is wearing a Military General Service Medal (MGSM) with five clasps, indicating that he fought in five battles during the Napoleonic Wars.

Audrey Hepburn in her Los Angeles apartment, 1953. Photograph by Mark Shaw.

Crowd watching Harry Houdini escaping from a straitjacket while hanging upside-down, 50ft in the air. Baltimore, 1916

At the Puerto Rican Day Parade, New York, 1963. Photograph by Joel Meyerowitz from the Howard Greenberg Gallery.