Musical Pearls
Good Old Days
Old black and white photographs of scenes from bygone years
Baby cages were once used on high rise apartment buildings to ensure young children got enough sunlight
Damaged mannequins after a fire at Madam Tussauds Wax Museum in London 1930
In the 1920s, beach patrol officers measured the length of women's bathing costumes and if the hem was too short, the woman would be fined
Children were used to set up the ten pins in early bowling alleys before automation was introduced
Testing of new bullet-proof vests in 1923
Anne Edson Taylor in 1901 was the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel
Charlie Chaplin at age 27 in 1916
The Titanic leaving Southampton in 1912
Recording the MGM lion in 1939
Mother taking her baby for a walk in a gas resistant pram in England 1939
The last prisoners leaving Alcatraz in 1963
German soldiers react while watching film footage of the concentration camps
Little girl with her doll in the bombed out ruins of her home in London 1940
A sun tan vending machine in use around 1949
Mother and child watch mushroom cloud after atomic bomb test in Las Vegas 1953
Disneyland employees cafeteria in 1961
The Hindenburg passenger airship disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1937
Walter Yeo was one of the first to undergo plastic surgery and skin transplants in 1917
Circus hippo pulling a cart in 1924
Harley Davidson mobile booking cage used by police in the 1920's
A desperate mother puts her children up for sale in Chicago
Fun at the fair on one of the first zip wire rides
Before alarm clocks were affordable, people would employ a 'knocker-up' to wake them
Turnips and cabbage for Christmas dinner during the Great Depression in the 1930's
Annette Kellerman promotes the right for women to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit in 1907. She was arrested for indecency.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waving his worthless 'piece of paper' after returning from peace talks with Adolph Hitler before
the outbreak of the Second World War
Greasers in New York City in 1950
The original Ronald MacDonald in 1963
A space chimp posing for the camera after a successful mission to space in 1961
Elvis Presley in the army in 1958
Animals being used as part of medical therapy in 1956
106 year old Armenian Woman guarding her home
Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard in 1960
Unknown soldier in Vietnam in 1965
