Historical Pictures

[Mr. Dirlewanger]

Didn't he support the Nationalists in Spain. I'm a Phalange/Carlist fan. Arriba Espana!

Very possibly. He certainly didn't support the Reds!

OswaldTheOsprey

I'm pretty sure he championed the nationalist cause in leaflets/books and on his radio show. I just refreshed my memory via Wiki. It is sad that we try to write such men out of our history. We can't hope to understand ourselves today when we do that.

[OswaldTheOsprey]

Didn't he support the Nationalists in Spain. I'm a Phalange/Carlist fan. Arriba Espana!

Very possibly. He certainly didn't support the Reds!

OswaldTheOsprey

I'm pretty sure he championed the nationalist cause in leaflets/books and on his radio show. I just refreshed my memory via Wiki. It is sad that we try to write such men out of our history. We can't hope to understand ourselves today when we do that.

Very true. Men like Coughlin and Senator Huey P. Long get the crummy end of the stick.

OswaldTheOsprey

[OswaldTheOsprey]

Washington, DC Monday Jan. 25, 1932: The great Americanist Senator Huey P. Long
is shown at his Senate office desk.

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[OswaldTheOsprey]

St. Paul, MN 1925: A young woman strolls past a panhandler while a bystander
looks on bemused. The storefront reminds us of the great days of the railways.

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[Mr. Dirlewanger]

Two staunch anti-communists: Eisenhower with Franco in Madrid. 

[OswaldTheOsprey]

A great and still relevant 1919 cartoon.

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[OswaldTheOsprey]

Rollin Kirby, The World (New York)
1915: Leo Frank is lynched in Georgia.

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[OswaldTheOsprey]

An old fashioned Independence Day: a Minnesota family celebrates the
Fourth of July in 1908-100 years ago.

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[OswaldTheOsprey]

Aug. 15, 1932: Time covers the Four Marx Brothers.

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[spunkloaf]

An old fashioned Independence Day: a Minnesota family celebrates the
Fourth of July in 1908-100 years ago.

OswaldTheOsprey

I could tell that was Minnesota before you mentioned it, even in the black and white.


Can anybody else make that distinction about their land that they know?  How cool.

[OswaldTheOsprey]

An old fashioned Independence Day: a Minnesota family celebrates the
Fourth of July in 1908-100 years ago.

OswaldTheOsprey

I could tell that was Minnesota before you mentioned it, even in the black and white.


Can anybody else make that distinction about their land that they know?  How cool.

Very cool! How could you tell?

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[spunkloaf]

First it was the trees.  This picture looks like it was taken right in my front yard.  In parallel, it was the style of the houses.  We still have many, many houses that survived that period and have a very similar style.  Then it was the sidewalk, for some reason.  It looks rough and weathered, and Minnesota is among the few territories which has this kind of terrain and has all-season weather.  I've seen many many sidewalks around here which look just like that with cracks and wears, and grass/weeds growing over the edges of the embedded cement, and eventually growing through the cracks.

The family throws me off, because (obviously) people don't dress that way anymore.  Everything else in the picture just looks like home to me.

[OswaldTheOsprey]

First it was the trees.  This picture looks like it was taken right in my front yard.  In parallel, it was the style of the houses.  We still have many, many houses that survived that period and have a very similar style.  Then it was the sidewalk, for some reason.  It looks rough and weathered, and Minnesota is among the few territories which has this kind of terrain and has all-season weather.  I've seen many many sidewalks around here which look just like that with cracks and wears, and grass/weeds growing over the edges of the embedded cement, and eventually growing through the cracks.

The family throws me off, because (obviously) people don't dress that way anymore.  Everything else in the picture just looks like home to me.

Great!

OswaldTheOsprey

[Vermouth]

First it was the trees.  This picture looks like it was taken right in my front yard.  In parallel, it was the style of the houses.  We still have many, many houses that survived that period and have a very similar style.  Then it was the sidewalk, for some reason.  It looks rough and weathered, and Minnesota is among the few territories which has this kind of terrain and has all-season weather.  I've seen many many sidewalks around here which look just like that with cracks and wears, and grass/weeds growing over the edges of the embedded cement, and eventually growing through the cracks.

The family throws me off, because (obviously) people don't dress that way anymore.  Everything else in the picture just looks like home to me.

The Spunkloafs circa 1908?

[OswaldTheOsprey]

New York Thursday, April 28, 1921: Fresh from the Yankees' 9-5 win over the Washington
Senators, Babe Ruth and some young fans gather around his swanky Packard roadster.

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