Love these photos...

[Kronx]

I came across an interesting site that has some cool historic photos that I found interesting. Each one creating questions in my mind. Here's a few in case you might enjoy them too.

1. 1938 - Frank Sinatra mugshot. Arrested for "Carrying on with a married woman."
2. 1846 - The very first picture ever taken of the White House.
3. 1936 - Spanish Civil War in Barcelona
4. 1917 - World War I crane girls at a munitions factory in Nottinghamshire England.
5. 1892 - Loggers and a Mark Twain Redwood.
6. 1914 - WWI - A German and British soldier sharing a smoke during the Christmas Truce.
7. 1862 - Burial Crew at Antietam.
8. 1957 - Eleanor Roosevelt's pistol license.
9. Ernest Hemingway and a tommy gun.
10. 1975 - Police photo of the items found in the Ted Bundy's VW.

 

[Fire-medic]

Interesting pics. A lot of misery represented among them.

Ted Bundy was jealous of the publicity that the Green River killer was getting, in the OR/WA area. Bundy liked to brag that the ones he admitted to were less-than the ones he actually-committed. He tried to stretch-out the time before he was executed, by saying he had info on many other missing women, but Florida had enough, and ended his life.

 

[Kronx]

Here's some more that I found interesting.

1. 1885 - Mercedes Benz motorcycle.
2. 1957 - 5 megabyte IBM hard drive.
3. 1909 - Rush hour traffic Chicago.
4. 1950 - Drive in in Southbend, Indiana
5. 1910 - 3500lb Ocean sunfish Catalina Island, California.
6. 1922 - Woman getting swimsuit measured for length violation.
7. 1936 - Mail carriers leaving to start their routes from the main office in New York City.
8. 1550 - The golden gauntlet of Henri III of France.
9. 1942 - Japanese American store owner evicted to an internment camp.
10. 1940 - British Expeditionary Force soldier getting a kiss from his girlfriend as he returns from Dunkirk.

 

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Ted Bundy's trunk contents remind me a "quintessential serial killer kit" that one may have been able to mail order from the back of a magazine. Creepy.

What's with the guy in Spanish Civil War photo? The one standing in the middle of the street. He doesn't look like he belongs there.

 

[Kronx]

That guy in the Spanish Civil War photo stood out to me as well. Most of these pictures I posted were because something about them made me ask other questions or want to know more about the moment. But yea the first thing I thought of with that pic was the guy with the pistol in this scene in the movie Harlem Nights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLPI_p5RnR0

 

[Fire-medic]

Guessing those are the Loyalists, who were defeated by Franco with the support of Hitler, who used the Spanish Civil War to test his Luftwaffe in combat, a 'dress-rehearsal' for WW II.

If that guy isn't a photoshopped-in character, it looks like the uniforms are the police, and that could be a detective, as he would be more-likely to carry a revolver than a long gun. Apparently it's a long-running battle between the Loyalists and Franco's fascist troops, probably who surprised the mounted police in an ambush, and the police using the downed horses as cover from-which to return fire.