A Re-enactment of the Sexual Harassment That Flight Attendants Regularly Experienced in the 1970s
This post was originally published on this siteThese vintage images are extracted from the book Sex Objects in the Sky: A Personal Account of the […]
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Keeps Air-Raid Map Under His Hat, 1940
This post was originally published on this siteAlthough not quite so good as a steel helmet, the black derby hat owned by an Englishman living […]
Amazing Vintage Photographs of San Francisco’s Sky Tram
This post was originally published on this siteFrom late 1955 to 1966, an aerial tram ran from the Cliff House to Point Lobos. The Sky […]
On the California Zephyr in 1948
This post was originally published on this siteThe California Zephyr ran from Chicago to Oakland and was introduced in 1948. The Budd Manufacturing Company made […]
Stage Entering Red Mountain Town, Ouray County, Colorado, ca. 1885
This post was originally published on this siteThis photograph of what appears to be an open-topped stage descending into Red Mountain was taken by legendary […]
36 Wonderful Photos of London’s Tube Riders From the 1960s to 1980s
This post was originally published on this siteFor more than four decades, photographer Bob Mazzer has been taking pictures on the London Underground. “There’s definitely […]
These 16 Vintage Photographs Show How Glamorous Flying Used to Be in the 1950s
This post was originally published on this siteBefore the 1980s, flying was a much classier experience. Back then airlines aggressively competed with each other to […]
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Train Running the Narrow Gauge Track Through the Animas River Canyon, ca. 1880s
This post was originally published on this siteDurango was built as a company town by the Denver and Rio Grande (D&RG) Railway in 1880 with […]
Go-Devil on the Little Bookcliff Railway, 1903
This post was originally published on this siteThe Go-Devil was a gravity driven rail car that ran on the Little Bookcliff (LBC) Railway from 1892, […]
Interurban Electric Train Between Grand Junction and Fruita, Colorado, 1911
This post was originally published on this siteBetween July 14, 1910, and October 31, 1928, there was a daily electric passenger train service between Fruita […]
Vintage Photos Show Mainly Ambiance Around the Dutch National Railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) in the 1950s
This post was originally published on this siteNederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) is a Dutch company, the principal passenger railway operator in the Netherlands. Founded in 1938, […]
50 Amazing Panorama Photographs Show What New York’s Fifth Avenue Looked Like in 1911
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 […]
Fascinating Pictures of London Drivers in the Eighties
This post was originally published on this siteChris Dorley-Brown spent two summers in the mid-1980s photographing drivers stuck in traffic jams in and around East […]
The Paternoster: The Non-Stop Europe’s Doorless Elevator
This post was originally published on this siteA paternoster is a passenger elevator which consists of a chain of open compartments (each usually designed for […]
1948 Davis Divan: The Three-Wheeled Sedan that Wheeled Itself Into Oblivion
This post was originally published on this siteThe history of auto design is filled with failed ideas and strange prototypes that never made it to […]
Incredible Photos of New York City’s Subway in 1980
This post was originally published on this siteIn the spring of 1980, Bruce Davidson began his ‘Subway’ project, which focused on New York City’s subway […]
Over Fifty Years, the V-Shaped Three-Point Safety Belt From Volvo Saved Well Over One Million Lives
This post was originally published on this siteThere is a saying that the simplest is often the best. However, it was only towards the end […]
Stilt Cycle Has Two Legs Instead of Wheels From the 1930s
This post was originally published on this siteWooden legs replace the wheels on a stilt cycle made by a Los Angeles man who proudly boasts […]
Sony Portable TV Set for Taxi Passengers in Japan, ca. 1963
This post was originally published on this siteA woman in Japan uses a portable micro television in the back of a car, invented by the […]
Vintage Photos of Type B Bus “Pigeon Loft” During World War I
This post was originally published on this siteFrom its start in the summer of 1914, the demands of the First World War provided the impetus […]
50 Amazing Photographs of Auto Transporters From the 1970s and 1980s
This post was originally published on this site Car shipping can be traced all the way back to the invention of the automobile. Cars were […]
40 Sombre Black-and-White Photos of Streets of Manchester in 1963
This post was originally published on this siteManchester went through enormous and difficult changes in the sixties. After WWII cities such as Manchester lost power […]
Street Life of Shanghai in 1947
This post was originally published on this site“A great, wicked and quite extraordinary city” was how, in 1947, LIFE described Shanghai. In 1947, four million […]
Amazing Photos of RMS Aquitania During Her Life
This post was originally published on this siteRMS Aquitania was a British ocean liner of the Cunard Line in service from 1914 to 1950. She […]
Vintage Photos of NYC Subway Riders From the Late 1970s to Early 1980s
This post was originally published on this siteFrom 1977 to 1985, famous Swiss photographer Willy Spiller lived in “The Big Apple”. During his seven-year stay, […]