Back In The Good Old Days <Thread #2>

The Green Line demarcation zone, Beirut, Lebanon 1982.

The now lost "From Hell" letter, posted in 1888, along with half a human kidney, by a person claiming to be Jack the Ripper. It reads: (Edit)

From hell
Mr Lusk
Sor
I send you half the
Kidne I took from one women
prasarved it for you tother piece
I fried and ate it was very nise. I
may send you the bloody knif that
took it out if you only wate a whil
longer.

signed
Catch me when
you Can
Mishter Lusk.

Hard disks in 1981.

Evolution of the New York skyline since 1876.

The Moulin Rouge cabaret music hall in Paris, 1929.

Schienenwolf. A railroad plow used by the retreating German army to destroy railroad tracks, 1945.

Al Capone's prison cell where he spent about nine months in 1929.

Dinosaurs are transported on the Hudson River to the 1964 World’s Fair.

The Eiffel Tower at twilight, 1932. Photograph by George Brassai.

'Alpha,' described by his creator, scientist Harry May as the most perfect robot in the world, 1932.

"He can talk, sing, whistle, laugh, carry on a conversation, tell the time, fire a revolver and read small print on a newspaper."

View at the 'Exposition Universelle' across the River Seine towards the Eiffel Tower, and the 'Globe Celeste,' 1900.

A camouflaged Russian sniper at the Finnish front, circa 1940.

Daytona Beach, 1957

Beach Date, 1950s.

Francis Ford Coppola's potential cast list for The Godfather, 1970s.

Apollo 11 being rolled out to the launch site of the Kennedy Space Center in July, 1969.

On the road to Woodstock, 1969.

The western staircase leading to the roof of the Temple of the Goddess Hathor, Egypt.

A London bus makes its way along Fleet Street in heavy smog, 1952.

A group of samurai in front of the Sphinx, Egypt, 1863.

Shadow of bike from atomic bomb blast in Hiroshima.

The rarely seen back of the Hoover Dam before it was filled with water, 1936.

A canal being drained and cleaned in Venice, Italy, 1956.

Park Avenue, NYC. 1964.

Canadian soldiers serving in Korea made a makeshift hockey rink, 1952.