Note to people who make decisions about content-based websites: Based on previous experiences with these kinds of features on websites, I half expected each picture to be on its own page. If it was, I did not intend to click past the first one. However, in this case I browsed the entire thing, and am much more likely to share this URL with others.
50 Years Ago: The World in 1962
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#22Picture 47 - I thought it odd that no-one removed the sprue tags on the lettering. Also, how deep is that TV? Picture 44 - Anyone able to locate this on Google Maps? I can see a sign for "Viginia Stree", but I'm having toruble finding the place.
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#23Picture 47 - I thought it odd that no-one removed the sprue tags on the lettering. Also, how deep is that TV? Picture 44 - Anyone able to locate this on Google Maps? I can see a sign for "Viginia Stree", but I'm having toruble finding the place.
Here's the same street, but I need to work harder for a better location.
(http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Sebastian+Strasse+berlin&...)
Lol Google, your urls.
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#24This is described in patent 3250902, which is actually pretty clearly written.
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#25Though, in my private high school in Indiana, in 1999 I overheard kids more than once telling n*er jokes. I heard less overtly racists at the school saying things like "Yeah, it would be weird to have a black friend." These were the rich kids who parents owned the local businesses. I have a hard time believing the kids weren't getting it from the parents.
It seemed so absurd at the time, but I guess it's less surprising if you remember segregation had only officially ended 37 years ago, then, and that the klan remained active in Indiana for decades after.
That was 12 years ago, but I doubt it's all fixed since then. I know that school is still basically exclusively white despite the town being about 25% African American and 9% Latino. I fear the consequences of treating so many people as less than people will stick with us for a long time. Kind of naive to think they would all go away in just 50 years.
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#26Picture 47 - I thought it odd that no-one removed the sprue tags on the lettering. Also, how deep is that TV? Picture 44 - Anyone able to locate this on Google Maps? I can see a sign for "Viginia Stree", but I'm having toruble finding the place.
The monorail only goes down 5th Avenue, so I didn't have too much detective work to do :)
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#29Except the Mongolian photo. How did it make there?
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#3050 years ago in Afghanistan it was 1962. Today it is 1262. Sort of makes you realize that peace, freedom and technological advancement aren't defaults, but aberrations. I can't imagine what it would feel like to be an Afghan citizen who was born in Kabul in the 1940s... It must feel like being stuck in a time machine.
http://www.pagef30.com/2009/04/iran-in-1970s-before-islamic-...