16 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless


These photos from the past are a quick and interesting glimpse at the times the pictures were taken. This completely random, yet somehow still interesting, list of photos will bring you your dose of fun facts and intriguing things for the day. Like, I had no idea that Alfred Hitchcock pretty much enjoyed a nice, warm cup of tea with the MGM lion. I kid you not.

1. Alfred Hitchcock and the MGM Lion Leo having tea together.



2. Wooden bathing suits made in 1929 that were supposed to make you more buoyant.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

3. A fugitive being dragged by border patrol so that he doesn't escape the USA and enter Mexico.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

4. The Dynasphere, which is a monowheel built in 1932 that can go up to 25 miles an hour.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless 





5. A portable TV concept created in 1967.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

6. The participants of the Miss Lovely Eyes competition in Florida held in 1930.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

7. Sound finders were used in World War I to figure out which way enemy planes were coming from.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

8. Salvador Dali walking his pet anteater in 1969.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

9. Babies, orphaned after the loss of their parents during the Vietnam war, are transported to the United States in 1975 in Operation Babylift.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

10. Women in 1942 would paint their legs to look like they were wearing stockings.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

11. In 1930, a policeman judges an ankle contest.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

12. A brewery delivers kegs on a spitfire to troops fighting in Normandy.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless
 

13. Women boxing on a roof in the 1930s.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

14. Everyone in New York in 1939 wore a hat.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

15. People in Paris avoid getting wet in the flood by stepping on a series of chairs in 1924.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

16. A woman waits for the hoops of her crinoline to be finished in a London dress shop in 1860.

24 Rare Historical Photos That Will Leave You Speechless

33 Photos Of People Taken Seconds Before They Die.

Sometimes people do things that are so INCREDIBLY STUPID you just can’t believe they’re real… but they are. They really, really are.


Who’s up for grilling?


No one. No one is up for grilling because they’re all burn victims by now.

This is what porches are for…



Are you too good for dogs and cats, guy?


Honestly you’re almost rooting for them to get trampled after this…


BRB just gonna take a quick nap!


This just HURTS to even LOOK at…!


What was the end game here?


Really hope this funny little photo was worth what inevitably came next…


“Yeah no dude I’ve totally got you.”


WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!?



Ghost ridin’ the whip!


Yeah pointing that towards the foliage seems like the right move.


United you stand… but sometimes, united you fall, as well.


UNACCEPTABLE.


Bruce Wayne is about to face his fiercest opponent yet!


No harness? Noooo problem!


It seems like this can’t possibly be the only way to do this.


The strange thing is… they clearly OWN a bigger ladder, pictured on the left…


Got to love the irony!


Never played on a teeter-totter as a kid?


Now is probably not the time to try the concept out for the first time.

Again with the short ladders… loosen up the purse strings, people!


Although this one… almost brilliant.


(But still mostly outrageously dumb).

Certainly a creative way to destroy a car.


At least he looks happy?


…but HOW?

You know what really adds to an already dangerous stunt? A campfire.


On the bright side of this outrageous situation, she is absolutely killin’ that look.


YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING.




Did she never see Zoolander!?

For the win!

Oh, they were caught? What a mind-blowing shock!


Hard to even digest exactly what’s going on here…


It seems impossible that anyone could have thought this was a good idea…


So that’s TWO points now for irony.


Really, guy? Is that where you’re supposed to go on that machine?