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44 Vintage Photos of Miniskirts in the 1960s

33 Amazing Vintage Photos of Life in Mobile, Alabama during the 1900s

Mobile began as the first capital of colonial French Louisiana in 1702. During its first 100 years, Mobile was a colony of France, then Britain, and lastly Spain. Mobile first became a part of the United States of America in 1813, with the annexation of West Florida under President James Madison.

The photographs below reveal its heritage with the ornate décor on many buildings.

**Monroe Park, Mobile, Alabama ca.1906**

**River packet Jas. T. Staples, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1906**

**A River packet, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1906**

**Mobile County Court House and Jail, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1910**

**Government Street in Mobile, Alabama ca. 1906**

**Government St., Mobile, Alabama ca. 1900**

**Jewish synagogue, Mobile, Alabama ca.1905**

**Entrance to Monroe Park, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1906**

**Monroe Park, Mobile, Alabama between 1905-1915**

**Waterfront, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1900**

**The Waterfront, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1906**

**Yacht Club Pier, Monroe Park, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1900**

**Yacht Club, Monroe Park, Mobile, Alabama – ca. 1900**

**Royal Street looking north, Mobile, Alabama between 1905-1915**

**Royal St., looking south from St. Francis St, Mobile, Ala. between 1905 – 1915**

**Windsor Hotel and Royal Street, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1906**

**City Hospital, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1909**

**Unloading bananas Mobile, Alabama ca. 1900**

**Unloading a banana steamer Mobile, Alabama ca. 1900**

**Hotel Bienville, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1900**

**Medical College of Alabama, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1900**

**Medical College of Alabama, Mobile, Alabama – ca. 1909**

**Mobile Country Club, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1909**

**Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1909**

**Bienville Park, Mobile, Alabama ca. 1900**

**The Cross, Bienville Square Park Mobile, Ala. ca. 1900**

**Dauphin St., Mobile, Ala between. 1900 – 1910**

**Dauphin St., Mobile, Alabama – ca. 1909**

**Duncan Place and Semmes monument. Mobile, Alabama ca. 1901**

49 Stunning Photos of Model & Actress Martha Vickers in the 1940s

Born 1925 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, American model and actress Martha Vickers began her career as a model and cover girl. She moved to Hollywood when her father, an automobile dealer, assumed control of an agency in Burbank, California. Vickers was 15 at that time.

Vickers’ first film role was a small uncredited part in Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943). She played minor roles in several films during the early 1940s, working first at Universal Studios and then at RKO Pictures. She next went to Warner Bros., where “they gave her the star push, rearranging her surname to ‘Vickers.'” Her work there included the role of Carmen Sternwood, the promiscuous, drug-addicted younger sister of Lauren Bacall’s character in The Big Sleep (1946). She also starred in a musical, The Time, the Place and the Girl, followed by two Warner Bros. comedies, Love and Learn and That Way with Women (both 1947).

During the 1950s, however, Vickers’ film career stalled. She continued to act in television. One such appearance was in the 1959 Perry Mason episode, “The Case of the Jaded Joker,” in which she played Sheila Hayes. Her final two performances, in 1960, were on The Rebel.

Vickers died of esophageal cancer at Valley Presbyterian Hospital, in Los Angeles, California in 1971, at the age of 46.

Take a look at these glamorous photos to see the beauty of Martha Vickers in the 1940s.

62 Amazing Vintage Photos of People and Their Motorcycles During the 1930s

**Glendale, California police officers on V-series Harley-Davidsons, circa 1930.**

**Police officers marking tires using a Servi-car, 1934.**

Sally Halterman was the first woman to obtain a motorbike licence in Washington D.C. in
1937.

**A woman on her BMW motorcycle, 1935.**

Marjorie Dare (Doris Smith) riding hands free around “The Wall of Death” sideshow at the
Kursaal amusement park in Essex, England, 1938.

**A woman and a performing seal at a circus, 1935.**

A woman trying out a Douglas motorcycle on display at the 18th Cycle and Motorcycle Show
in London, 1933.

Workers measuring the positions of footrests and controls on partially finished
motorcycles, 1933.

**A woman setting off for a motorcycle rally in England, 1934.**

**A reverend blesses the motorcycle of a woman who is learning to drive, 1938.**

A woman rider in the Six Days Motorcycle Trial, in which competitors have to cover 200
miles a day over rough terrain, 1933.

**Montana motorcycle club in the 1930s**

**Motorbike patrolman and young girls, 1930**

**Young woman on a motorcycle asking a chauffeur for directions, Paris, 1930**

Joan Grimes, Australian Women’s Emergency Legion, learns to ride a motorcycle, to fit her
for the job as a dispatch rider, 1939.

Officials cutting the starting ribbon at a speedway motorcycle race in Brisbane,
Australia, 1930.

Man dressed in a long dustcoat, hat and goggles with a motorcycle standing in front of a
painted backdrop in a studio, 1935.

**Motor Cycle stunt team, Thrills and Spills, Bundaberg, Australia, 1937.**

**A driver wearing driving gloves and a dust jacket, on a Harley Davidson motorbike, 1930.**

**A driver on a 350cc Harley Davidson Peashooter, 1930.**

**People on their motocycles at a speedway race track, 1930.**

**British women on motorcycles, 1930s.**

40 Amazing Colorized Photos of Victorian and Edwardian Women

(Photos from klimbims)

30 Vintage Photos of Men’s Striped Swimwear from the Early 20th Century

In the early 20th century, women were not the only ones to get tighter swimsuits. Men’s swimwear also slimmed down to show off his new athletic body. In many ways, men’s and women’s suits were nearly identical.

Men’s swimsuit in this period was mostly a one piece tank top and shorts, and the striped ones were often their favorite choices.

43 Haunting Photos Taken Inside Mental Asylums from the Past

**A patient sits inside Ohio’s Cleveland State Mental Hospital in 1946.**

**A patient sits in a restraint chair at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, England in 1869.**

**Child patients sit bound and tied to a radiator inside the psychiatric hospital at Deir el Qamar, Lebanon in 1982.**

**A patient sleeps on a thin mattress on the floor of an otherwise bare room in Ohio’s Cleveland State Mental Hospital in 1946.**

**A patient sits alone in a dark room inside Ohio’s Cleveland State Mental Hospital on February 3, 1955.**

A hungry boy stands alone and eats with his hands as other boys sit together under a blanket on a bed beside a small wood-burning stove at a hospital for mentally-handicapped children in Kavaja, Albania in March 1992.

**A psychiatric patient poses for a photo at Paris’ Salpêtrière Hospital circa 1876-1877.**

**A child patient sits inside Normansfield Hospital in Teddington, England on February 12, 1979.**

**A patient at a mental hospital undergoes electroshock treatment in 1956.**

**Patients sit inside Ohio’s Cleveland State Mental Hospital in 1946.**

**Workers restrain a patient at a hospital in Moscow, Russia on February 19, 1992.**

**A patient suffering from “general paralysis” poses for a photo at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, England, 1869.**

**On March 29, 1950, at Philadelphia’s Bella Vista Sanitorium, a fire killed nine patients, five of whom had been chained to concrete slabs like the one pictured.**

**A nurse tests out electronic equipment designed to monitor various patient data at a psychiatric hospital in Toronto on March 12, 1964.**

**Pioneering and prolific lobotomist Dr. Walter Freeman performs a lobotomy with an instrument similar to an ice pick at Western State Hospital in Lakewood, Washington on July 11, 1949.**

**One of Walter Freeman’s lobotomy patients ten days after the procedure. 1942.**

**A young patient’s rotted teeth, due to poor dentistry, are revealed at London’s Friern Hospital (previously known as the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum) circa 1890-1910.**

**A patient lies on the floor of Ohio’s Cleveland State Mental Hospital in 1946.**

**Patients go about their day inside Ohio’s Cleveland State Mental Hospital in 1946.**

**A patient stands in a straightjacket inside Ohio’s Cleveland State Mental Hospital in 1946.**

**Nurses hold down a patient receiving electroshock treatment at a facility in England on November 23, 1946.**

**A surgeon uses a brace and bit to drill into a patient’s skull before performing a lobotomy at a mental hospital in England, November 1946.**

**Doctors test a new method of using radio waves to treat psychiatric patients at a hospital in Paris on May 13, 1938.**

**Two patients rest in the sleeping area of Ohio’s Cleveland State Mental Hospital in 1946.**

**Patients at the Riul Vadului Mental Asylum in Romania huddle together in an unheated room in the middle of winter. Date unspecified.**

Dr. James G. Shanklin administers electric shock and anesthesia in preparation for Dr. Walter Freeman to demonstrate his new transorbital lobotomy procedure at Western State hospital in Lakewood, Washington on July 11, 1949.

**A prisoner sits inside the West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, England in 1869.**

**Patients lie on a bed inside a psychiatric hospital in Bucharest, Romania. Date unspecified.**

A guard at Vacaville State Prison prepares a prisoner for a lobotomy in 1961. The warden of Vacaville at that time was Dr. William Keating, a psychiatrist who was convinced that “criminality” was lodged in certain areas of the brain, and so lobotomies at Vacaville became routine.

**Child patients sit in their room at a mental hospital in Ursberg, Germany circa 1934-1936.**

**A patient lies back in a Bergonic chair, an early electroshock treatment apparatus, circa World War I.**

**Dr. James Watts (left) and Dr. Walter Freeman examine a patient after lobotomy. Date unspecified.**

**An amputee psychiatric patient of London’s Friern Hospital (previously known as the Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum) poses for a photo circa 1890-1910.**

**A British patient identified only as “Mary C” poses for a photo following her lobotomy. October 28, 1960.**

**Ties bind a patient’s feet to a bed at a mental hospital in Bucharest, Romania. Date unspecified.**

**Orderlies wash patients at the Long Grove Asylum in Epsom, England circa 1930.**

**Orphans share a feces-stained crib at the Riul Vadului Mental Asylum in Romania. Date unspecified.**

**A patient diagnosed with “hysteria-induced narcolepsy” lies strapped down to a bed in Paris’ Salpêtrière Hospital in 1889.**

**A policeman stands guard at the bars of the ward for psychiatric patients (possibly the “criminal insane,” per original annotation) at New York’s Bellevue Hospital circa 1885-1898.**

**Debris litters the floor at Maryland’s Crownsville State Hospital psychiatric hospital (formerly Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland) during the aftermath of a riot in 1949.**

30 Wonderful Photographs Showing Life in London in the 1930s

Bill Brandt was a British photographer and photojournalist. Although born in Germany, Brandt moved to London in 1933 and began documenting all levels of British society. This kind of documentary was uncommon at that time.

19 Amazing Photos of the Los Angeles Floods in 1934

In a now-familiar Los Angeles story, late 1933 brush fires cleared the vegetation from the hills above the Montrose-La Crescenta section of Los Angeles County. When heavy rains arrived on New Year’s Eve 1934, the neighborhoods were flooded and lives lost.

The Jan. 9, 1934, Los Angeles Times reported the death toll in Los Angeles County as 44 with about half the dead from the Montrose-La-Crescenta area. Another 15 were still missing, six of whom were from the Montrose-La Crescenta area.

**Jan. 2, 1934: Car caught in mud from flooding in La Canada-Montrose. The car is sitting on the pavement of Montrose Avenue.**

**Jan. 1, 1934: Mud, rocks and damaged cars on Montrose Avenue in Montrose after New Year’s flooding.**

Jan. 2, 1934: Panorama made from three negatives in the Los Angeles Times Archive at UCLA showing mud-covered Honolulu Ave. in Montrose. This panorama was published in the Jan. 3, 1934 Los Angeles Times.

**Jan. 1, 1934: Cars marooned outside Bohemian Gardens at 3890 Mission Road, East Los Angeles.**

**Jan. 1. 1934: A milk truck is almost completely submerged on Whittier Blvd. under Union Pacific railroad bridge. This photo was published in the Jan. 2, 1934 Los Angeles Times.**

Jan. 1, 1926: Crowd gathers at the washed out Mesa St. bridge where four people drowned with their auto plunged into the Rubio Wash. The wash is west of San Gabriel Boulevard in the Monterey Park area. This photograph was published in the Jan. 2, 1926 Los Angeles Times.

Jan. 1, 1934: Five people drowned when this car and Rush Avenue bridge was swept into the Alhambra Wash, near present day Whittier Narrows Recreation Area. This photo was published in the Jan. 2, 1934 Los Angeles Times.

Jan. 4, 1934: Civil Works Administration men from Pasadena help clear Honolulu Ave. in Montrose following flooding during New Year Eve rain storm. This photo was published in the Jan. 5, 1934 Los Angeles Times.

**Jan. 3, 1934: Following the New Years Eve flooding in Montrose, food kitchen is set up to help survivors. This photo was published in the Jan. 4, 1934 Los Angeles Times.**

**Jan. 1934: American Legion Hall in Montrose following the New Years Eve flood were a dozen people were reported killed. The building was located at the intersection of Fairway Ave. and Rosemont Ave.**

**Jan. 1, 1934: House in La Cresenta-Montose area was swept off its foundation and carried hundreds of feet by New Year Eve flooding. This photo was published in the Jan. 2, 1934 Los Angeles Times.**

**Jan. 2, 1934: Burro used to move water and supplies after New Years Eve flooding in La Crescenta area. This photo was published in the Jan. 3, 1934 Los Angeles Times.**

Jan. 3, 1934: Cars parked on the dirt, left, show the depth of debris on roadway being cleared on Foothill Blvd., in Montrose. The boulder on right is fifty feet in circumference. This photo was published in the Jan. 4, 1934 Los Angeles Times.

Oct. 17, 1934: Cars caught in the flooding on Honolulu Ave., near Rosemont in Montrose. This photo was published in the Oct. 18, 1934 Los Angeles Times. NOTE: Montrose hit twice in 1934 by bad flooding, first on Jan. 1st then Oct. 17.

Oct. 18, 1934: Severly damaged home located at Sunset Ave. near Florencita St. in Montrose. This photo was published in the Oct. 18, 1934 Los Angeles Times. Monrose suffered two major floods in 1934, this October event and a more damaging one on Jan. 1, 1934.

**Oct. 18, 1934: Workers dig out car and remains of home on Glenada Ave. in Montrose following flooding from a storm the night before.**

**Oct. 18, 1934: Garage on Glenda Ave. in Montose is destroyed by flooding, but car survived. This photo was published in the Oct. 19, 1934 Los Angeles Times.**

**Oct. 18, 1934: Water flows through the Hall-Beckley Wash where it intersects with Glenada Ave. in Montrose. This photo was published in the Oct. 19, 1934 Los Angeles Times.**

Dec. 13, 1934: Workmen at Honolulu and Agner Streets in Montrose setting up sand bags at a known flood danger point. Montorose suffered major flooding in January and October of 1934. This photo was published in the Dec. 14, 1934 Los Angeles Times.

22 Wonderful Photos of Bands On Stage during the 1985 Live Aid Concert at Wembley Stadium

On July 13, 1985, at Wembley Stadium in London, Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially open Live Aid, a worldwide rock concert organized to raise money for the relief of famine-stricken Africans.

Organized in just 10 weeks, Live Aid was staged on Saturday, July 13, 1985. More than 75 acts performed, including Elton John, Madonna, Santana, Run DMC, Sade, Sting, Bryan Adams, the Beach Boys, Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Queen, Duran Duran, U2, the Who, Tom Petty, Neil Young, and Eric Clapton. The majority of these artists performed at either Wembley Stadium in London, where a crowd of 70,000 turned out, or at Philadelphia’s JFK Stadium, where 100,000 watched. Thirteen satellites beamed a live television broadcast of the event to more than one billion viewers in 110 countries. More than 40 of these nations held telethons for African famine relief during the broadcast.