Back In The Good Old Days <Thread #2>

An amazing Italian helmet dated 1543, and created by renowned armorer Filippo Negroli. Currently on view at The Met Fifth Avenue.

A child's gas mask during WWII.

Swimming pool designed by Verner Panton, Hamburg, 1969.

A composite image of a baby and a funeral procession at 55 degrees below zero, Evenkia, Russia, 1960s. Photograph by Gennady Koposov.

First aerial photograph of Stonehenge. Taken during the summer of 1906 from a balloon, this is the first known aerial photograph of an archaeological site.

Fan letter to the Beatles, 1964.

1960s 'Conversation Pit'

Paris Flood, 1910. Photograph by Leonard Misonne.

Paris Flood, 1910. Photograph by Leonard Misonne.

A department store on Sheffield High Street after nine hours of bombing, WWII, 1940. The Sheffield Blitz is the name given to the worst nights of German Luftwaffe bombing in Sheffield, England.

1914 Shackelton advertises for men for his Arctic Adventure

A grocery store at the time its Japanese-American owner is evicted. Oakland, CA, 1942. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.

New York City after the Blizzard of 1888

1909: Rush Hour in NYC

1914: William Harley and Arthur Davidson

A troupe of elephants and a zebra walk down 33rd Street in Manhattan for the arrival of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1968.

1929: Grand Central Terminal, NYC,. The sun can't shine through like that now due to the surrounding tall buildings.

Chorus girl-singer Linda Lombard, backstage getting ready for show in NYC, 1949.

The first drawing of the Eiffel Tower by Maurice Koechlin, 1883. Including a size comparison with landmarks such as Notre Dame and the Statue of Liberty.

Drive-in theater, South Bend Indiana, 1950s.

1920s women working on cars.

1956 Brigitte Bardot and Pablo Picasso at his studio in Vallauris

McDonalds menu in the early 1970s

Yes, this is Robin Williams! It was taken during filming of the Nov 25 episode of "Mork & Mindy", wherein Mork becomes the Denver Bronco's Pony Express first male cheerleader...and they filmed it during an actual game against the Patriots in front of more than 74,000 fans at Mile High Stadium. The Broncos won that game, 45-10.

Ancient Roman surgical instruments buried in a Physician's home in Pompeii, on display at Naples Museum, circa 1910.