I fully endorse 3 out of 4. ETA: there's something liberating and insouciant about gambling and consuming harmful chemicals without a care in the world. It's the jabroni in me.
Can you identify the young man here posing with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in 1936? It's Alan Hale Jr., who would go on to play the Skipper in the 1960s TV show Gilligan's Island. (His father Alan Hale was shooting a movie with the comedy duo.)
Just stumbled across this thread. Over time, I've collected a few images scoured from the internet. Photos that evoke a sense of emotion or awe. Here's one. It's strikingly beautiful. It's an ICBM test over the Marshall Islands. Each illuminated streak of light would carry an induvial nuclear payload. I understand that the long exposure creates the visible lines in the photograph, but I'd like to suspend that understanding. To imagine that the last thing someone might see would be a beautiful pattern of lines radiating from the night sky. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fileeacekeeper-missile-testing.jpg
One of the earliest professional photographs of a young Lucille Ball modeling a snow dress for Hattie Carnegie’s Salon in 1928
On October 7, 1943, Ottla Kafka, beloved sister of author Franz Kafka, was gassed on arrival at Auschwitz after volunteering to escort a group of orphans from the Terezin ghetto so they wouldn’t be afraid.
Sadly, stories like this are not uncommon. When I was a child, I read some of the books of Janusz Korchak, a Jewish-Polish educator, pediatrician, and one of the earliest advocates for children's rights. To quote wikipedia: Below is his picture in 1930, when he was 52 (he was only 64 when he died): His book in two volumes, Król Maciuś Pierwszy (King Matthew the First) is the children's novel I read as a child. In addition to telling the story of a young king's adventures, it describes many social reforms, particularly targeting children, some of which Korczak enacted in his own orphanage, and is a thinly veiled allegory of contemporary and historical events in Poland. The book has been described as being as popular in Poland as "Peter Pan" was in the English-speaking world. It was the first of Korczak's novels to be translated into English – several of his pedagogical works have been translated, and more recently his novel Kaytek the Wizard was also published in English.
This is Audra Lindley in 1943. She's most well known for playing Mrs. Roper on "Three's Company" in the 1970s. She died in 1997.
A little more plebeian . . . my German great-great-grandfather and his family orchestra, in Earlville, Illinois
Looks like dumped bodies – but is a lava skylight - an opening in the roof above a lava tube from which the flowing lava can be seen. This digitized slide was taken during fieldwork, in 1996, within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, by the USGS Hawaiian Volcanoes Observatory. https://www.usgs.gov/news/truth-about-terrifying-lava-skylight-where-only-trained-should-lurk
*thinks about making a political joke about this being the front door to such-and-such's house* Nah, too easy.
Ahhh, the 70s. The era of big hair and strange ties. (I think that might be a leisure suit, but leisure suits had the shirt collar worn outside the jacket, and without a tie. On the other hand, the trousers are worn quite high in that picture, like a leisure suit. I wonder how any man got any action with trousers that high. Not that I ever wore a leisure suit, I hasten to add. I wasn't even in school yet when the 70s ended. But I always liked looking at strange fashions, even if as a warning about what not to do).
