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We often look back at the past in disbelief of how
people were able to live differently from the way we do today. Without
iPhones, for example. Newcomers fail to realize that our present is
fairly new, and that those "ancient" times that include clunky
inventions and tailored outfits were not that long ago. Many years from
now, our grandchildren and great grandchildren will look back at the way
we live today and scratch their heads wondering how we could have
survived without the iPhone 20s, or something even newer. So it goes.
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A post office in Searsburg, Vermont. The population at the time was
between 130-140 people.
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1917: French soldiers blinded from the
war learn how to make baskets.
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English comic Charlie Chaplin meets with deafblind game changer Helen
Keller on the set of 'Sunnyside.'
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1931: Albert Einstein poses with wife, Elsa, and a Hopi Tribe at the
Grand Canyon in Arizona. |
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1932: In Paris, a man travels via amphibious cycle, meaning it can
operate on both land and water.
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1932: Well-known beautician Max Factor uses his beauty micrometer on
actress Dorothy Wilson. The micrometer helped identify imperfections so
that corrective make-up could be applied. The device did not become
popular.
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April 16, 1935: On its way to Hawaii, a Pan American Clipper flies over
an unfinished Golden Gate Bridge.
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1936: The Mercury train makes its way through Chicago.
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1950: The Statue of Liberty and Mt. Rushmore at
the America Fair in Osaka, Japan.
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1950: Open air nap time at a Russian kindergarten.
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A junkyard piled with Pacific Electric Railway cars on
Terminal Island, California.
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1957: Open air schools, the Netherlands.
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