Fascinating old photos

e-mail over the transom | 4/1/13 | who knows

[gorush]

I hope you enjoy these as much as I did.

[Silentgypsy]

1980 ? child laborers?

[gorush]

1880, sorry

[luvie]

*snerk* :D

[EveningStar]

Bump

[newheart]

It's missing Lee Harvey Oswald...

I wish I could say I didn't laugh at that. Alas...

[martin_fierro]

A trip down Market Street, SF, 1906 (4 days before the Great Quake/Fire)

• Traffic at a crawl
• Excrement in the streets
• Clueless pedestrians

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, eh?

[KoRn]

Wow! Never knew the V2s went up that high!!

[Sawdring]

That was me before I cut the tip of my middle finger nearly off.

[SunkenCiv]

They were suborbital, knew that, but I’d never known about this photo until now. If the Third Reich hadn’t gotten sidetracked into that little multi-continent misunderstanding [euphemism], a German would have orbited the Earth, probably before 1950; they’d have gotten to the Moon by 1960 or 1961 (the F1 engine development happened during the Eisenhower administration, as a project to deliver Ed Teller’s huge-ass H-Bomb design, which was then superseded by smaller designs; the B-52 also resulted from that Ed Teller bomb), and been on Mars by 1970.

[GATOR NAVY]

Wasn’t T. Roosevelt the first to leave the US (Panama Canal?)

[doorgunner69]

Damn, looks like a buncha drunk drivers to me..........

[gorush]

Not as President.

[NYer]

I’d go back in time to 1912 in a minute if I could bring along a supply of modern medicines.

... and a 21st century surgeon : -)

[KoRn]

We were indeed very lucky that we were able to ‘inherit’ much of their technology after the war. If they would have been more patient and worked on those projects, rather going to war when they did, there might not have been any stopping them. Of course many things could have been driving the time tables/politics back then(not the least of which was Hitler’s inpatients/stupidity).

[Nowhere Man]

They were suborbital, knew that, but I’d never known about this photo until now. If the Third Reich hadn’t gotten sidetracked into that little multi-continent misunderstanding [euphemism], a German would have orbited the Earth, probably before 1950; they’d have gotten to the Moon by 1960 or 1961 (the F1 engine development happened during the Eisenhower administration, as a project to deliver Ed Teller’s huge-ass H-Bomb design, which was then superseded by smaller designs; the B-52 also resulted from that Ed Teller bomb), and been on Mars by 1970.

I think it was the German's goal to orbit a man by 1949, at least that's what I've read in one book.

[Nowhere Man]

They were suborbital, knew that, but I’d never known about this photo until now. If the Third Reich hadn’t gotten sidetracked into that little multi-continent misunderstanding [euphemism], a German would have orbited the Earth, probably before 1950; they’d have gotten to the Moon by 1960 or 1961 (the F1 engine development happened during the Eisenhower administration, as a project to deliver Ed Teller’s huge-ass H-Bomb design, which was then superseded by smaller designs; the B-52 also resulted from that Ed Teller bomb), and been on Mars by 1970.

I think it was the German's goal to orbit a man by 1949, at least that's what I've read in one book.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Wonderful! Thank you.

[gorush]

My pleasure. I need to acknowledge that my brother sent links to most of these over time. We share a love of history.

[beebuster2000]

Osama dressed up in front of a pink cadillac?

i think not