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

[Valmy]

Everybody was so much skinnier back then.

[derspiess]

I wonder which things we see as normal now will be seen as embarrassingly backwards in 30-40 years.

I wonder about that myself from time to time.  There's a certain arrogance in thinking we have everything figured out right now, but you know there are some things we don't bat an eye at that are going to look bad in a few decades.  Like letting women vote.

[Valmy]

I wonder which things we see as normal now will be seen as embarrassingly backwards in 30-40 years.

I wonder about that myself from time to time.  There's a certain arrogance in thinking we have everything figured out right now, but you know there are some things we don't bat an eye at that are going to look bad in a few decades.  Like letting women vote.

Well played sir.

[Admiral Yi]

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.

Someone must be Lorraine Newman.

[derspiess]

Someone must be Lorraine Newman.

I'd recognize that nose anywhere.

[Admiral Yi]

And of course token black guy is Garret Morris. 

Wonder when SNL will have its first token Asian.

[sbr]

I was 5 when the first season aired and I was never a big enough fan to go back and watch enough reruns to recognize the ones that didn't make it really big. 

[Syt]

Ah, the beautiful 70s. Take a deep breath! *cough*

http://www.vintag.es/2014/07/pictures-of-america-in-crisis-and-cure.html


Clark Avenue and Clark Avenue bridge, looking east from West 13th Street, obscured by industrial smoke, in Cleveland, Ohio, in July of 1973.


A mountain of damaged oil drums lies in a heap in an Exxon refinery near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in December of 1972.


A man rides in a graffiti-covered subway car in New York City in May of 1973.


train on the Southern Pacific Railroad passes a five-acre pond, which was used as a dump site by area commercial firms, near Ogden, Utah, in April of 1974. The acid water, oil, acid clay sludge, dead animals, junked cars and other dump debris were cleaned up by several governmental groups under the supervision of the EPA. Some 1,200,000 gallons of liquid were pumped from the site, neutralized and taken to a disposal site.


Cars were jammed even more than usual into every spare space at a downtown commercial parking lot during a bus strike in Washington, D.C., in May 1974. Some 250,000 people were forced to find alternate forms of transportation. Monumental traffic jams resulted as drivers learned there were more cars than legal places to park.


An illegal dumping area, seen just off the New Jersey Turnpike, facing Manhattan across the Hudson River, in March of 1973. To the south is the landfill area of the proposed Liberty State Park -- which was built and opened in 1976.


A Crown Zellerbach pulp mill dumps solid waste into a pond it formerly used for log storage in June of 1973.


One of the daughters of Jerry Rainey, a miner who was out on strike against the Brookside Mining Company in Brookside, Kentucky, for several months during 1974. She stands on the back porch of the house Rainey rents from the company. Notice the outhouses in the background. The family was threatened by eviction during the lengthy and sometimes violent strike despite a state law which outlaws such practices.

[Caliga]

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.

someone - Laraine Newman
'token black guy' - Garrett Morris 

edit: whoops, didn't realize this had already been addressed and corrected. 

[Syt]

Anyone know what kind of car design this is?

[Admiral Yi]

Interesting that Chevy Chase is not hanging with the homies, no?

[Zanza]

Anyone know what kind of car design this is?

Looks like Homer's car from The Simpsons.

[Richard Hakluyt]

As I suspected from the registration plate it is an English car, a one-off made by Mr Graham of Kingston in 1929 :

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/english-driver-invents-this-novel-three-wheeled-pleasure-car/

[Richard Hakluyt]

I also found a couple of photos of the car with captions :

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/mr-grahams-novel-three-wheel-car-designed-to-look-like-an-news-photo/3272335

http://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/three-wheeled-car-made-by-mr-a-graham-of-kingston-surrey-news-photo/3325104

[Syt]

Ah, thanks.

It looks like a bit of a strange design, and with the wheels at the far ends of the contraption, I figure there's a lot of stress at the center of the support structure. I'd be worried that it would break in the middle.