Back In The Good Old Days <Thread #2>

Chief John Smith, reputed to be 138 years old when he died, 1784-1922.

Smith was a Chippewa Indian who lived in the Cass Lake, Minnesota area and is reputed to have died at the age of 138. He was known as “The Old Indian” to the white people. Whatever his precise age, his well-lined face indicates a man who led a long and full life. He fought, he fished, he counseled, he rode horses and trains, he appeared in moving pictures, he sold postcards. He had eight wives and no children, but an adopted son Tom Smith.

The author of Psycho, Robert Bloch, writing at his desk, 1950s. The novel is considered Bloch's most enduring work and one of the most influential horror books of the 20th century.

The author of Psycho, Robert Bloch, writing at his desk, 1950s. The novel is considered Bloch's most enduring work and one of the most influential horror books of the 20th century.

Dolores Costello, silent movie star (and also Drew Barrymore's grandmother)

10 October 1960: A plane tries to change careers.

1884: Construction of the Statue of Liberty.

1895: A fighting monk of the Kamakura epoch. From: "Military Costumes in Old Japan". Photo by K. Ogawa, Tokyo.

c1900: Cumberland Place, The Rocks, Sydney, Australia.

5 January 1911: A grotto in an iceberg, as seen during the British Antarctic “Terra Nova” Expedition (1910-1913). Shown are scientists T Griffith Taylor and Charles S Wright at the entrance, and the Terra Nova in the distance. Photo by Herbert George Ponting.

18 October 1918: A party of Royal Engineers of the 8th Division who removed the German flag from the prefecture at Douai.

Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy.

Hear some of their music here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swhEa8vuP6U

1930: Students of the Moscow Institute of Physical Education at the Dynamo Stadium, USSR.

11 January 1935: Taking off from Oahu, Hawaii, on , and reaching Oakland, California, the next day, Amelia Earhart was the first person to fly solo between Hawaii and the continental United States.

1938: Margot and Anne Frank at Zandvoort Beach.

4 September 1944: A Soviet officer and a Finnish officer compare watches in the city of Vyborg, Russia.

1947: Queen Elizabeth II (then a Princess) shooting a rifle (likely a Lee-Enfield) on the deck of the battleship HMS Vanguard.

1949: Nuba girl, Kordofan, Southern Sudan.