History is a huge treasure box filled with memorable moments, incredible people, encounters, places, events, you name it. But as time flies, they can easily be forgotten under a dusty blanket. Thanks to the invention of the camera, we have had the opportunity to get up close and personal with the lives of people in the past.
Dennis Rodman declares that he is bisexual and that he is going to marry himself, 1996
Catering service in first class on an Air France Boeing 747, 1988
The first Miss Universe pageant, 1952
In 1938, Bruce Mozette took the first underwater photographs, and they were outstanding
In the old days, Santa Claus would gather mischievous children, throw them in baskets, and drive them to the North Pole to be his slaves. This is where the legend of the Christmas elves comes from
Ryan Reynolds was holding a dead fish in 1983...... His door was open
Office life before the invention of Autocad and other drafting software
In 1948, a man wearing a 30-pound three-toed lead shoe stompeds his feet on a Florida beach at night, pretending to have a giant penguin visiting. The scam was not debunked until 40 years later.
The first preserved mammoth carcass was discovered in northeastern Siberia in 1977. The 7-month-old baby named Dima died about 40,000 years ago.
The bride leaves her recently bombed home to get married, London, November 4, 1940.
YB-49 flying-wing prototype during a routine test flight, 1947
British rock band Queen meets Diego Maradona in Buenos Aires during a 1981 South American tour.
Donald Trump, Mara Maples, and Players at the "Hoop-La" Basketball Tournament for the Benefit of Special Olympics – June 25, 1992
In 1982, things changed in Italy.
Alfred Hitchcock serving tea for Leo the Lion, 1957
Croatian women - sitting on the banks of the Busava River - summer 1985.
American Airlines flight attendants in a 1967 advertising campaign
In 1955, the Emory Harrison of Jonesboro, Tennessee, had 13 children, all boys, making it the largest all-male family in the United States
Arnold Schwarzenegger's evening school in California, 1973
Marilyn Monroe without makeup - 1960.
Audrey Hepburn's swimsuit, 1960s.
Lockheed employee Sally Wadsworth drives a P-38 Lightning in Burbank, California, in 1944
Dr. Maxime Maynard in the radiology department of the Cochin Hospital in Paris, circa 1914. Maynard later lost his finger due to the side effects of operating an X-ray machine.
McDonald's around Christmas 1976.
Child car seats from the 1950s
Magical place! Post-war roadside attraction in Wisconsin Canyon
Patrons of the mall try their first hand at a hula hoop by the Wham-O toy company. 1958.
Hitchhiker in France in the 70s
A combination of hair dryers in a salon of the 1920s.
In the early 80s, children were playing "Pong".