Random Cool Photo Thread

[B-Man2]

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Anyone have idea who’s the woman is in this photo with Clark Gable ? Just wondering .

 

[dinomartino1]

Anyone have idea who’s the woman is in this photo with Clark Gable ? Just wondering .

I don't know but here's actress Margaret Sullavan, good friends and made four films with james stewart, she was married to henry fonda in the 30s.

With william wyler 1935

On the harley she bought for william wyler in 1935

Simone Simon rides pillion on a motorbike behind director William Wyler. The bike was given to Wyler by actress Margaret Sullivan

 

[dinomartino1]

Lizabeth Scott

 

[JonnyCrow]

Vintage leather jackets

 

[flyincowboy]

KOOL RIDE

 

[dinomartino1]

German Prisoners of War
Arrive at NAS Jacksonville, Florida, on 9 June 1945. They are guarded by U.S. Army personnel including a corporal with a M1917 revolver in a M1911 .45 pistol shoulder holster. The Germans are Army, Navy and Air Force non-commissioned officers wearing a variety of tropical and continental uniforms. All have U.S. raincoats with "P.W." stenciled on each arm.

 

[dinomartino1]

Theodore Roosevelt seated in an aircraft with aviator Hoxsey, in 1910. From Army and Navy Journal, 15 October 1910: "Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was up in an aeroplane for four minutes at the St. Louis aviation field on Oct. 11, with Arch Hoxsey, one of the Wrights' graduates, as pilot. The air flight of the ex-President was not scheduled and the whim to go aloft seemed to seize him suddenly as he sat in his automobile. Two circuits of the field were made at a height of about 150 feet."

 

[Shanghai-Mayne]

It is a gun sight on Tu95’s fire control station.

 

[FlakMagnet]

Caption: “Veronica Lake flew solo from Los Angles to New York after earning earning her pilot’s license in 1946.”

 

[ties70]

If you think of "cool" from an aesthetic POV and disregard the "p*ss poor" circumstances during the time of their creation, then the work of Dorothea Lange is definitely "cool" stuff...

...you could take these pictures and use them as an advertisment for RRL straight away.
Isn't it kind of ironic that these people endured their daily hardships in a style that we like to copy so much these days?

There is so much pride and dignity in these guys...

 

[Grant]

Really good point Ties. Many of the Farm Security Administration photographers including Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Jack Delano and John Vachon captured the dignity and pride of these folks.

 

[ties70]

Really good point Ties. Many of the Farm Security Administration photographers including Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Jack Delano and John Vachon captured the dignity and pride of these folks.

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...let's not forget Walker Evans ;-)

 

[Grant]

Hells yeah! Speaking of, years ago I discovered a bookseller at a Connecticut flea market selling off Walker’s library. I managed to buy his copy of Walt Whitman’s Leave of Grass. This book ranks right up there with my most prized A-2!

 

[Micawber]

Supermarine Spitfire XVI of 17 Squadron painted to represent ME109s in reconstruction of attack on Amiens prison at RAF Display Farnborough, 1950

Pilots of 5 and 17 Squadron, left to right, Flt Lt D. White, Fg Off F. Bernard, Flt Lt D. Yeardley, Sqdn Ldr R. Noble and Polish pilot PII R.B. Barnes, flew Spitfires painted to represent Me109s in reconstruction of attack on Amiens prison at RAF Display, Farnborough, 1950

 

[ties70]

...let's not forget Walker Evans ;-)

Oh, and of course the jedi master himself:

 

[Saint-ex]

Lora Webb Nichols - 1927

 

[Micawber]

Genuine photo. Lewis Benjamin ('Benjy') at Sywell in 1963. A well known pilot his wife would perform a standing on wing act back in the day.
This incident resulted in the pilot suffering broken collarbone and other injuries. Aircraft G-ANMZ was repaired and returned to service.

Accident De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth G-ANMZ, Thursday 22 May 1969

De Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth MSN 85588; Taken on charge by the RAF as DE634 at 15 MU, RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire 5.6.42. To 3 FIS (Flying Instructors School), RAF Hullavington, Chippenham...

aviation-safety.net

 

[ZuZu]

If you think of "cool" from an aesthetic POV and disregard the "p*ss poor" circumstances during the time of their creation, then the work of Dorothea Lange is definitely "cool" stuff...

...you could take these pictures and use them as an advertisment for RRL straight away.
Isn't it kind of ironic that these people endured their daily hardships in a style that we like to copy so much these days?

There is so much pride and dignity in these guys...

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Ah yes- the working class heroes. So beautiful from afar- just like the work they do. Due to young idiocy I came down from my Ivy League cloud and lived among them for for 40+ years. They are a great people yet benighted- as remote from your Other World (offices, finances, business) as a wolf from a dog. Easy to romanticize but the reality of work is just that- Reality. They are quaint because they live in the Real World...

 

[FlakMagnet]

 

[B-Man2]

Three .50 cals mounted in the tail.....never saw that before.