Rare Historical Photos That Make The Past Come Alive (38 PICS)

Posted in PICTURES       22 Aug 2024       4779       14 GALLERY VIEW
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This time capsule note from 1998 that mentions Bill Clinton just as the Monica Lewinsky scandal was breaking (back when Clinton was still denying everything):

This Gameboy from the Gulf War that wrecked my perception of time:

This stamp of Charles and Diana from 1981:

This speech for President Nixon in case Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin couldn't get back to Earth:

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These "easy-to-follow instructions" for making all kinds of drugs from 1973:

As well as this old drug education kit with the actual drugs it was describing:

This fill-in-the-blank letter to troops in Vietnam:

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This list of expenses for a University of Alabama student in 1929, which totals under $100 for a quarter:

This 1965 church cookbook that lists married women using their husbands' last name:

This old vaccine card that prove they're nothing new:

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These instructions from a 1911 book of home remedies:

This old cell phone with a clip-on chatboard that now feels very, very dated:

Along with this display of mobile phones from their inception until today, which shows just how quickly things change:

This briefcase that had a separate compartment for floppy disks:

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This Netflix instant streaming disc for Wii:

This prediction that computers won't take over the world, actually, from 1980:

This "Kraft Dinner" from 1979 that proves Kraft has been around for a while, but it used to look pretty different:



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Lavonne 1 weeks ago
#33 Those are not swastikas. they are a Hindu good luck symbol. swastikas are rotated 45 deg
       
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Elizabeth 1 weeks ago
Lavonne,

that's completely wrong and the name of the symbol isn't "good luck symbol" but indeed "swastika". Get your facts straight.
       
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Johannah 1 weeks ago
Elizabeth,
The swastika as a symbol of prosperity and good fortune is widely distributed throughout the ancient and modern world. The word is derived from the Sanskrit svastika, meaning “conducive to well-being.” It was a favorite symbol on ancient Mesopotamian coinage. It wasn't a symbol of evil till the Nazis took it over.
       
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Reginald 1 weeks ago
Johannah,

That's exactly what Elizabeth said
       
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Mamie 1 weeks ago
#19 Better still would have been a pic of the box from 1937, when Kraft first introduced their boxed mac and cheese dinner.
www.bookofjoe.com/2021/07/kraft-boxed-mac-n-cheese.html
       
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Nicey 1 weeks ago
Mamie,

Love that stuff! Got me thru college in the 80's and was about $0.25 a box.
       
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Edythe 1 weeks ago
#15 there are a couple of Palm Pilots there, they were PDAs, never phones
       
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Tal 1 weeks ago
Edythe,

And I'm not sure I would agree with "quick change". There is about 50 years of mobile devices there.
       
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Arie 1 weeks ago
#29 it's the averages at the time and is very accurate. Go visit the titanic museum and see how small people were back then. People weren't overly tall and obese as today. Lack of exercise and altered foods contribute to this
       
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Gilbert 1 weeks ago
#35 The three in the middle are not medicines, they are for artists. Windsor Newton is still in business and makes high quality paintbrushes and other art supplies.
       
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Cedric 1 weeks ago
#30 THATS an Uranium glass

#33 a nazi swastika is mirrored and rotated 45 deg

But the important Part is "mirrored"
       
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Elizabeth 1 weeks ago
Cedric,

you're wrong. The nazi symbol is a swastika rotated 45 degrees, nothing more. What you are referring to is a sauvastika (in hinduism) and as nothing to do with the nazi symbol.

Get your facts straight.
       
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Elizabeth 1 weeks ago
#10 you mean first name?
       
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Rollo 1 weeks ago
#26 na zi privileges
       
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