Syt's Pictorial Collection of Stuff and Things (image heavy)

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Syt

June 07, 2015, 02:08:30 AM
I like photos from the olden days, like that 70s USA series in The Atlantic, or old advertising, or interesting architectural pictures, and other odds and ends, so I will keep them in a separate thread instead of putting them into OTT all the time.


Here's some advertising that probably wouldn't fly today:

http://www.vintag.es/2015/06/30-vintage-ads-that-would-be-banned.html































I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

celedhring

#1
June 07, 2015, 02:34:15 AM
The state of some of those ads  :lol:

Happy to see we've gone forward as a society. I wonder which things we see as normal now will be seen as embarrassingly backwards in 30-40 years.

Zanza

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June 07, 2015, 04:19:09 AM Last Edit: June 07, 2015, 04:21:48 AM by Zanza


That's a real ad from 2008 by the way.

The Brain

#3
June 10, 2015, 03:57:29 PM
Quote from: Zanza on June 07, 2015, 04:19:09 AM


That's a real ad from 2008 by the way.

This one is incredibly racist.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Malthus

#4
June 10, 2015, 04:01:58 PM
See avatar.  ;)
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Valmy

#5
June 10, 2015, 04:16:36 PM
Quote from: Zanza on June 07, 2015, 04:19:09 AM
That's a real ad from 2008 by the way.

The first person to give her a haircut?
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Admiral Yi

#6
June 10, 2015, 04:19:13 PM
BMW knows their entire market is dickheads anyway.

Which is not to say I have any problem with the ad.

Syt

#7
June 21, 2015, 03:04:42 AM
Some pre-1900 pictures in color:

http://www.vintag.es/2015/06/an-american-odyssey-stunning-color.html




Mulberry St., NYC


Homestake mine, South Dakota


San Francisco
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

The Brain

#8
June 21, 2015, 07:46:00 AM
Copyright 1900?
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Syt

#9
July 03, 2015, 01:09:57 AM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

#10
July 03, 2015, 10:00:25 AM
Color film footage from Berlin, summer 1945: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=387&v=R5i9k7s9X_A

Brandenburg Gate, Hotel Adlon, Alexanderplatz, Chancellery, Sportpalast etc. Some of it looks like the Capital Wasteland in Fallout 3.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

#11
July 08, 2015, 04:09:15 AM
Impressions from the library of the new University of Economics in Vienna. It's colloquially called "Starship Enterprise."





I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Martinus

#12
July 08, 2015, 06:16:56 AM
Was that Bill Murray? :D

sbr

#13
July 08, 2015, 06:54:16 AM
Yep. The second picture caught me off guard too, then I went back and looked at the first one again; it is the cast of Saturday Night Live:  Radner, Belushi, someone, Curtain, first token black guy, Murray.

Syt

#14
July 08, 2015, 06:57:55 AM
I only just noticed that one lady of the group of women crossing the street is carrying an "Ernte 23" bag, a German cigarette brand.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.
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