Awesome historical photos......enjoy!

 

 

Miss America 1924

 

 

 

Helen Keller Meeting Charlie Chaplin 

 

 

 

 

Leather gloves worn by Lincoln to Ford's Theater on the night of his assassination. Blood stains are visible at the cuffs. 

 

 

 

Phoebe Mozee (aka: Annie Oakley). Famed for her marksmanship by 12 years old, she once shot the ashes off of Kaiser Wihelm II's cigarette at his invitation. When she outshot famed exhibition marksman Frank Butler, he fell in love with her and they married. They remained married the rest of their lives. 

 

 

 

 

Very Young Lucy Lucille Ball circa 1930 

 

 

 

 

This is one of five known X-rays of Hitler's head, part of his medical records compiled by American military intelligence after the German's surrendered and declassified in 1958. The records also include doctor's reports, diagrams of his teeth and nose and electrocardiograms. He had bad teeth, lots of fillings and crowns. 

 

 

 

 

Two Victorian sideshow performers boxing - the fat man and the thin man. 

 

 

 

 

Prison Garb 1924. Belva Annan murderess whose trial records became the musical "Chicago." 

 

 

 

 

Maud Allen: Seductive US dancing girl who was sued for being too lewd, outed as a lesbian, and fled London after being branded a German spy who was sleeping with the prime minister's wife. 

 

 

 

 

 

John Fitzgerald Kennedy 

 

 

 

Caroline Otero, courtesan, the most sought after woman in all of Europe. She associated herself with the likes of Prince Albert I of Monaco, King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Kings of Serbia, and Kings of Spain as well as Russian Grand Dukes Peter and Nicholas, the Duke of Westminster and writer Gabriele DAnnunzio. Six men reportedly committed suicide after their love affairs with Otero ended. Two men fought a duel over her. She was famed for her voluptuous breasts. 

 

 

 

 

Filming the MGM Logo 

 

 

 

 

Mae Questel ca. 1930's, the voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl, Minnie Mouse, Felix the Cat (for three shorts by the Van Beuren Studios), Little Lulu, Little Audrey and Casper, the Friendly Ghost

 

 

 

Bea Arthur (ne Bernice Frankel) (1922-2009) SSgt. USMC 1943-45 WW II. Enlisted and assigned as typist at Marine HQ in Wash DC, then air stations in VA and NC. Best remembered for her title role in the TV series Maude and as Dorothy in "Golden Girls". 

 

 

 

 

In 1911, Bobby Leach survived a plunge over Niagara Falls in a steel barrel. Fourteen years later, in New Zealand, he slipped on an orange peel and died. 

 

 

 

Three days before his 19th birthday, George H.W. Bush became the youngest aviator in the US Navy. 

 

 

 

 

Market Street, San Francisco after the earthquake, 1906. 

 

 

 

Zelda Boden, circus performer, ca. 1910.

 

 

 

 

Geraldine Doyle, who was the inspiration behind the famous Rosie the Riveter poster. 

 

 

 

 

Vintage Baked Potato Cart. A legitimate fast food lunch option back in the day. 

 

 

 

 

Cyclists ride in the first running of the Tour de France, in 1903. 

 

 

 

Sergeant Stubby (1916 or 1917 April 4, 1926), was the most decorated war dog of World War I and the only dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat. America's first war dog, Stubby, served 18 months 'over there' and participated in seventeen battles on the Western Front. He saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas attacks, found and comforted the wounded, and even once caught a German spy by the seat of his pants (holding him there til American Soldiers found him). 

 

 

 

Nightwitches - Female Russian bombers who bombed Germany during WW2. They had old, noisy planes & the engines used to conk out halfway through their missions, so they had to climb out on the wings mid-flight to restart the props. To stop Germans from hearing them & starting up the anti aircraft guns, theyd climb to a certain height, coast down to German positions, drop their bombs, restart their engines in midair & get the hell out of dodge. Their leader flew 200+ missions & was never captured.

 

 

 

 

 

Marilyn Monroe meets Queen Elizabeth II, London, 1956 Both women are 30 years old. 

 

 

 

 

Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson plays Going Home as FDRs body is borne past in Warm Springs, GA, where the President was scheduled to attend a barbecue on the day he died. April, 1945. 

 

 

HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU'RE OLD , AND DON'T MOVE FAST ANYMORE .

 

George Phillips, an elderly man from Walled Lake, Michigan,was going up to bed, when his wife 
told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed,
which she could see from the bedroom window. 
George opened the back door to go turn off the light,
but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.

He phoned the police, who asked 
"Is someone in your house?" 

He said "No," but some people are breaking 
into my garden shed and stealing from me. 

Then the police dispatcher said "All patrols are busy. 
You should lock your doors and an officer will 
be along when one is available"

George said, "Okay." He hung up the phone and 
counted to 30. Then he phoned the police again. 

"Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because 
there were people stealing things from my shed. 
Well, you don't have to worry about them now because 
I just shot and killed them both; the dogs are 
eating them right now," and he hung up. 

Within five minutes, six Police Cars, aSWAT Team, 
a Helicopter, two Fire Trucks, a Paramedic and an
Ambulance showed up at the Phillips' residence, 
and caught the burglars red-handed. 

One of the Policemen said to George, 
"I thought you said that you'd shot them!"

George said, "I thought you said 
there was nobody available!" 

(True Story) 
I LOVE IT!  
Don't mess with old people.

 

Eye opener... Wake Up America!!!

This is an image of a sales receipt from Cabela's, a popular 
sporting goods store with almost 50 locations throughout the US.

The 2.3% Medical Excise Tax that began on January 1st is supposed to be "hidden" from 
the consumer, but it's been brought to the public's attention by hunting and fishing 
store Cabela's who have refused to hide it and are showing it as a separate line item tax 
on their receipts, the email states.

I did some research and found directly from the IRS's website information that PROVES 
this to be true and an accurate portrayal of something hidden in Obamacare that I was 
not aware of! Now being skeptical of this I went to the IRS website and found this!

Q1. What is the medical device excise tax?

A1. Section 4191 of the Internal Revenue Code imposes an excise tax on the sale of 
        certain medical devices by the manufacturer or importer of the device.

Q2. When does the tax go into effect?

A2. The tax applies to sales of taxable medical devices after Dec. 31, 2012.

Q3. How much is the tax?

A3. The tax is 2.3 percent of the sale price of the taxable medical device. 

See Chapter 5 of IRS Publication 510, Excise Taxes, and Notice 2012-77 for additional 
information on the determination of sale price.

So being more curious, I clicked on "Chapter 5 of IRS Publication 510."

Chapter Five http://www.irs.gov/publications/p510/ch05.html 

 

And what do I find under "MEDICAL DEVICES" under "MANUFACTURERS TAXES"?

 

The following discussion of manufacturers taxes

Applies to the tax on:

Sport fishing equipment; 

Fishing rods and fishing poles; 

Electric outboard motors; 

Fishing tackle boxes; 

 

Bows, quivers, broadheads, and points; 

Arrow shafts; 

Coal; 

 

Taxable tires; 

Gas guzzler automobiles; and

Vaccines.

 

DID YOU KNOW THAT A TIRE IS A MEDICAL DEVICE ?

You are really stupid if you believe that the Affordable Care Act is all about 
health care. It truly appears to be nothing more than a bill Laden with a 
whole lot of taxes that we the people have yet to be aware of.

I am still incredulous that this can go on.  
Where is our press? 

Remember?

 

THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ENJOY THIS ...

 

 

'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you were growing up?'

 

 

'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,'

 

 

I informed him.

 

 

'All the food was slow.'

 

 

'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'

 

 

 

'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !  'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'

 

By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I had to have permission to leave the table.

 

 

But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood if I figured his system could have handled it :

 

 

Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card.

 

 

 

 

In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card. The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears &Roebuck.

 

 

Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.

 

 

My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we never had heard of soccer.

 

 

I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds, and only had one speed, (slow)

 

 

We didn't have a television in our house until I was 19.

 

 

It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came back on the air at about 6 a..m. and there was usually a locally produced news and farm show on, featuring local people.

 

 

I was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie.' When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's still the best pizza I ever had.

 

 

I never had a telephone in my room. The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people you didn't know weren't already using the line.

 

 

Pizzas were not delivered to our home But milk was.

 

 

All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers-- my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.

 

 

On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be home on collection day.

 

 

Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most anything offensive.

 

 

If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren

 

Just don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.

 

 

Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?

 

 

MEMORIES from a friend :

 

 

My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.

 

 

How many do you remember?

 

 

Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.

 

 

Ignition switches on the dashboard.

 

 

Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.

 

Real ice boxes.

 

 

Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.

 

 

Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.

 

 

Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.

 

 

Older Than Dirt Quiz :

 

 

 

 

Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.

 

 

1. Blackjack chewing gum

 

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water

 

3. Candy cigarettes

 

4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles

 

5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes

 

6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

 

7. Party lines on the telephone

 

8 Newsreels before the movie

 

9. P.F. Flyers

 

10. Butch wax

 

11.. TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels... [if you were fortunate])

 

12. Peashooters

 

13. Howdy Doody

 

14. 45 RPM records

 

15. S& H green stamps

 

16. Hi-fi's

 

17. Metal ice trays with lever

 

18. Mimeograph paper

 

19. Blue flashbulb

 

20. Packards

 

21. Roller skate keys

 

22. Cork popguns

 

23. Drive-ins

 

24. Studebakers

 

25. Wash tub wringers

26. Milking 40 head of cows by hand

27. Double runner ice skates that attached to your boots.

 

 

If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young

 

If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older

 

If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,

 

If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!

 

 

I might be older than dirt but those memories are some of the best parts of my life.

A Doctor's Lecture...

> -------------------------
> 
> A Doctor was addressing a large audience in Tampa. "The 
> material we put into our stomachs is enough to have killed 
> most of us sitting here, years ago. 
> 
> Red meat is awful. Soft drinks corrode your stomach lining. 
> Chinese food is loaded with MSG. High fat diets can be 
> disastrous, and none of us realizes the long-term harm 
> caused by the germs in our drinking water. But there is one 
> thing that is the most dangerous of all and we all have, or 
> will, eat it. Can anyone here tell me what food it is that 

> causes the most grief and suffering for years after eating
> it?" 
> 
> 
> After several seconds of quiet, a 75-year-old man in the 
> front row raised his hand, and softly said, "Wedding Cake."
> 
> 

Come Again...?

   A wife asks her husband, "Could you please go shopping for me and
> 
> buy one carton of milk and if they have avocados, get 6.
> > 
> A short time later the husband comes back with 6 cartons of milk.
> 
> The wife asks him, "Why did you buy 6 cartons of milk?"
> 
> He replied, "They had avocados."
> 
> If you're a woman, I'm sure you're going back to read it again!
> 
> Men will get it the first time.
> 
> My work is done here.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Water in the carburetor
> 
> 
> WIFE: "There is trouble with the car. It has water in the carburetor."
> 
> HUSBAND: "Water in the carburetor? That's ridiculous "
> 
> WIFE: "I tell you the car has water in the carburetor."
> 
> HUSBAND: "You don't even know what a carburetor is. I'll check it out.
> 
> Where's the car?
> 
> WIFE: "In the pool"
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> _A FRIGHTENING STATISTIC_
> 
> 
> THIS IS A FRIGHTENING STATISTIC, PROBABLY ONE OF
> THE MOST WORRYSOME IN RECENT YEARS.
> 
> 25% of the women in this country are on medication for mental illness.
> 
> That's scary.
> 
> It means 75% are running around untreated.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> A young man wanted to get his beautiful blonde wife something nice for
> their first wedding anniversary. So he decided to buy her a cell phone.
> He showed her the phone and explained to her all of its features.
> 
> 
> Meg was excited to receive the gift and simply adored her new phone.
> The next day Meg went shopping.
> 
> 
> Her phone rang and, to her astonishment, it was her husband on the
> other end. "Hi Meg," he said, "how do you like your new phone?"
> 
> 
> Meg replied, "I just love it! It's so small and your voice is clear as a 
> bell,
> but there's one thing I don't understand though..."
> 
> 
> "What's that, sweetie?" asked her husband.
> 
> 
> "How did you know I was at Wal-Mart?"
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> HE MUST PAY
> 
> 
> Husband and wife had a tiff.
> 
> 
> Wife called up her mom and said, "He fought with me again, I am
> coming to live with you."
> 
> 
> Mom said, "No darling, he must pay for his mistake. I am coming
> to live with you.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Today's Short Reading from the Bible... from Genesis:
> "And God promised men that good and obedient wives
> would be found in all corners of the earth."
> 
> 
> Then He made the earth round...and He laughed and
> laughed and laughed!
> 
> 

> 
>

ANOTHER CROTCH SALUTE...Who voted for this monkey?

At the Fort Hood Memorial Service... The Crotch Salute Returns I am sorry folks, but is this guy the elected President of our country? You know, the United States of America . I do believe that saluting the flag goes with that, as does respecting and honoring the service members who have died.   Does he believe he is above that gesture? If not a salute, how about a hand over the heart like the other guy? He can shower us all with flowery words (via teleprompter) and dazzle us with his bull, but actions speak louder. He has no idea about patriotism or respect.   EVERYONE needs to see this Pic! How does he get away with this....How can the our Armed Forces have any respect for this guy ???