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Simms ‘Motor Scout’ Armoured Quadricycle, ca. 1899

May 23, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this sitePopular at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, quadricycles were four-wheeled bicycle-like vehicles powered by humans […]

In the 1970s, the AnyCars Were Built by Mixing Parts From About 100 Different Models Combined

May 22, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteMixing parts of different cars in one project has always been the basis for creating hot rods. The […]

In 1952, the Flatwoods Monster Appeared and Terrified People in Braxton County, West Virginia

May 20, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteOn Friday evening, September 12, 1952, two brothers, Edward and Fred May, and their friend Tommy Hyer, said […]

On May 20, 1873: Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis Invented Blue Jeans

May 20, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteOn May 20, 1873, San Francisco businessman Levi Strauss and Reno, Nevada, tailor Jacob Davis are given a […]

Twins Become Mothers Together for Second Time in Two Years, 1939

May 19, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteTwins become mothers together for second time in less than two years. Accustomed to doing practically the same […]

Colored Toilet Paper Were Almost in Everything Bathroom From the 1950s Throughout the 1970s

May 16, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteToilet paper and facial tissue weren’t always just white. Back in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, toilet paper […]

The World’s First Effective Bulletproof Vest, 1901

May 16, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteJan Szczepanik (June 13, 1872 – April 18, 1926) was a Polish inventor, with several hundred patents and […]

Cabinet Card Portrait Photographs of Gilded Age Celebrities by Jose Maria Mora, Photographer of the Rich and Famous

May 15, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteJose Maria Mora (September 2, 1847 – October 18, 1926) was a Cuban-American portrait photographer active in New […]

The Mammoth Potato, the First Ever Viral Photo From 1894

May 15, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe words “mammoth” and “potato” do not often go together. But in 1894, W. L. Thorndyke, a news […]

On May 13, 1981: Pope John Paul II Was Shot Four Times by a Gunman in St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City

May 13, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe first attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II took place on Wednesday, 13 May 1981, in St. […]

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Martin Sweeney’s 1991 Slalom Skateboarding World Record

May 12, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteMartin Sweeney was the UK’s finest slalom racer and an exponent in tight slalom. In the early 1980s […]

Shocking Photos of Escaped Slave Gordon Showing His Scarred Back at a Medical Examination, Louisiana, 1863

May 11, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteGordon, also known as “Whipped Peter,” was an escaped American slave who became known as the subject of […]

Test Lip-Stick on Guinea Pig, 1939

May 11, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn the photo below, Max Factor, Hollywood make-up specialist (left) and Dr. J. R. Pratt, chemist, were testing […]

50 Amazing Panorama Photographs Show What New York’s Fifth Avenue Looked Like in 1911

May 10, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteFifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It stretches north […]

Members of the Glenwood Springs Fire Department Posing in Front of the Hotel Glenwood, Colorado, circa 1888

May 9, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Hotel Glenwood first opened its doors in 1884. It was financed in part by town founder Isaac […]

The 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps: America’s Short-Lived Black Army on Wheels

May 9, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps was a unit of black soldiers commanded by a white officer, Lt. James […]

May 8, 1886: Coca-Cola Is Invented

May 8, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn May 1886, Coca-Cola was invented by Doctor John Pemberton, a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia. According to the […]

How the "Falling Cat" Phenomenon Helped NASA Prepare Astronauts for Zero Gravity From the 1960s

May 6, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteBack in the golden era of space exploration – the 1960s, NASA scientists were concerned with how astronauts […]

Captain Lewis Nixon With His Beloved Stash of Vat 69 Whiskey in the Morning After Celebrating V-E Day in 1945

May 4, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteOn the morning of May 4, 1945, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division moved […]

Tunnel Through Snowslide, Otto Mears’s Toll Road Between Ouray and Silverton, Colorado, 1888

May 4, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe effects of winter can be very long-lasting in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. A spring 1888 avalanche (snowslide) still […]

The Two-Headed Dog Experiment: Shavka and Brodyaga, Two Soviet Dogs Became Famous in History by Becoming One

May 1, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this site In 1959 Vladimir Demikhov, a Soviet scientist and organ transplant pioneer, attached the upper body of a […]

Vintage Photographs Capture Main Street in Grand Junction During the Operation Foresight Project, 1962

April 29, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn the 1950s, Grand Junction was thriving due to the Uranium Boom. Growth was expected to rise, and […]

In 1908, a Doctor Used X-Rays to Highlight the Damaging Effects of Tight Corsets on a Woman’s Body

April 29, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteLudovic O’Followell, a French doctor who in 1905 and 1908 published books on the effects of the corset […]

Painless Parker, an Early 20th Century Street Dentist Who Pulled 357 Teeth in One Day

April 27, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteBefore local anesthesia could manage the pain, one early 20th century dentist distracted his patients with showgirls and […]

Amazing Vintage Photographs Capture Victorian Women Climbing High Mountains in Long Skirts

April 27, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this site“All mountains appear doomed to pass through the three stages: an inaccessible peak, the hardest climb in the […]

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