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Category / Obscure history

Lost Photographs of a Segregated World

I‘m not used to seeing segregated America in pretty pastels. Typically, the civil rights photography we look at is in black & white and instantly disturbing. But these rare pictures, discovered after the photographer’s death at the bottom of an old storage box, wrapped in paper and masking tape and marked, “Segregation Series,” are unlike any…

Haunting Postcards of Apprentice Geishas

Misconceptions about the nature of the geisha profession have been allowed to spread throughout history largely unchecked, and the geisha world has remained to this day a very private, elite world, shrouded in mystery. These vintage postcards of ‘bathing’ geisha and maiko (apprentice geisha) taken from the Meiji (1868–1912) and Taisho (1912–1926) eras of old…

That time Al Pacino was Arrested on suspicion of Attempted Robbery

On the night of January 7th, 1961, in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, a police car pulled over a suspicious vehicle that had been circling the block and passed the officers several times. When they approached the car, they found three males wearing black masks and gloves. In the trunk the officers found a loaded 38 calibre…

15 of those Awkward Moments in History

1. When the Centro Universitario of Mexico abbreviated all over their sports uniforms: Top row, second from left: “Not me!”   2. Tobacco Companies getting away with it:   3. ‘Alfonso’, not trying to look like anyone in particular at all:   4. When women thought they had options:   5. When this book did…

Anti-Flirt Club

“The Anti-Flirt Club was an American club active in Washington, D.C., during the early 1920s. The purpose of the club was to protect young women and girls who received unwelcome attention from men in automobiles and on street corners. The Anti-Flirt Club launched an “Anti-Flirt” week, which began on March 4, 1923.” “The club had…

The Terrifying Beauty Spas of the 1950s

Filmed in 1959, The Way to Beauty shows the lengths women went to 50 years ago in trying to shed the pounds and turn back the clock. Therapies included sticking your face into a blender, covering yourself in candle wax and strapping electrical wires to your head. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmYknRtZUmc&feature=plcp] Via British Pathé ::: YOU MIGHT…

Declassified! US Airforce’s 1950s Flying Saucers

So remember that time a bunch of aliens crash landed into the desert somewhere in Nevada, a.k.a Studio 54 Area 51 (always get those two mixed up) … well it turns out the U.S. government actually went and plagiarized the aliens’ quirky style of air travel in the 1950s (not very successfully). Recently declassified records…
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