Amazing Vintage Photos of the USS Macon Airship Under Construction _ US
The USS Macon (ZRS-5) was a rigid airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting and served as a “flying aircraft carrier”, designed to carry biplane parasite aircraft, five single-seat Curtiss F9C Sparrowhawk for scouting or two-seat…
In 1930 the Indiana Bell Building Was Rotated 90°, No One Inside Felt It Move! _ US
The Central Union Telephone Company built a headquarters building on the corner of Meridian and New York Streets, in 1907. Indiana Bell bought Central Union in 1929, but found the existing headquarters inadequate. Originally, the old building was to be…
Don’t Look Down! Vintage Photographs of Skyscraper Window Cleaners From the Past _ US
Cleaning high-rise windows is nothing like cleaning the windows of your house or bedroom, which only needs a damp cloth, a squeegee, some window cleaning detergent or a bucket of soapy water and some elbow grease! When you’re cleaning windows…
The Golden Age of Floppy Disks: 27 Interesting Vintage Photos of Women at Computers in the 1980s _ US
Here’s a stack of images of women at computers in the 1980s. As you might have guessed, most are secretaries doing glamorless data entry for the gentlemen in double breasted suits (we weren’t “enlightened” back then). (via Retrospace)
40 Vintage Photos Show Fashion Styles of ’50s Young Couples _ US
The 50s was an interesting time for fashion and focused on garments that celebrated the female form. It was an exciting time, with new patterns and silhouettes, and many styles are still popular in fashion today. Poodle skirts and ponytails,…
40 Vintage Photos That Show Beautiful Fashion Styles of ’50s Ladies _ US
The 1950s was a time of change. Fashion was just beginning to move away from the severe styles of the 1930s and 1940s and instead of complexity, it was more relaxed and casual in 1950s fashion. Women were wearing more…
Vintage photos show the spectacular engineering feat that brought drinking water to New York City, 1906-1917 _ US
A fork in the Yonkers pressure tunnel. 1913. These incredible vintage photos show how one of the world’s greatest engineering feats was created in 1906-1915 to bring water to New York City. In 1905, the city’s newly established Board of…
The Most Beautiful Train in the World: Interior of Southern Pacific Daylight Train From the 1930s and 1940s _ US
Here we see the interior of the Southern Pacific service originally called the “Daylight Limited” and later the “Coast Daylight.” It was the Southern Pacific’s train between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Passengers really did dressed up to ride the…
Before Laptops, iPads and Seat Back Videos: 13 Vintage Color Photos Show What Travelers Did to Pass the Time on Long Flights in the 1950s and ’60s _ US
What did we ever do to pass the time on aircraft before laptops, iPads, Ipods and seat back videos with 1000 choices of entertainment? In the 1950s and 60s inflight entertainment as we know it today was in its infancy…
Amazing Photographs of the Mt. Lowe Railway’s Thrilling, Terrifying Circular Bridge From the Turn of the 20th Century _ US
Call it 19th-century L.A.’s idea of a thrill ride. Leaving the safety of granite slopes, trolley cars arced out onto a creaking, cantilevered wooden trestle, soaring over a 1000-foot sheer drop – with no reassuring seat belts or safety bars….