Yep, truly history can be seen as a vast and almost bottomless coffee cup (er, let’s make that over, over-sized MUG) of amazing stories and plotlines with the most breathtaking and incredible characters ever conceived.
I really enjoyed reading this Glen. History teaches us lessons about what works and doesn’t in this ever-changing world. It’s certainly good to look back!!
I reckon my favourite is the chess kid. Him defeating all the pompous-old-man-intellectuals one-by-one reminds me of Bruce Lee or Jet Li (pick your era) being surrounded by a maurading gang of black belts and then systematically smashing them all to bits with the ease of a knife going through butter.
In the first clip, when Jet Li rolls up his sleeves you know he means business…
In the second clip, if you can hold your laughter, the choreography is still pretty impressive…
OMG. I left a SUPER LONG response. I tried to copy it before I posted, but it wouldn’t let me. So I crossed my fingers. It wanted me to “log in” even though I’m logged in already, so I did, and the messaged disappeared. Oh, well. I’ll try again later. But I love these photos, Glen! They’re amazing and fascinating.
If this comment system of Word Press was a person I’d want to throw them head first on to a set of train tracks while the signal was green. Ok, bit harsh. Let’s make that if the signal was on amber, but still headfirst, straight smashingly down onto those tracks amid all the stones.
I’m praying that long one makes it onto the site at some stage, just to brighten things up a little around here.
LOL You already brightened it up in here with your comments. I shall duplicate my earlier observations. Even though I think I’ve already talked in here, at some point, about why Prohibition actually happened over here in the US…? If I have, which I think I did, then I don’t need to write that one again. Has to do with alcohol.. and cars… and oil companies….? Anyway, more later. I’m actually working right now and shouldn’t be messing around! 🙂
Yes, comment number 1 was Prohibition only happened because people were figuring out just how much alcohol could be used to run cars. The oil companies couldn’t have that, so they fueled the teetotaler’s self-righteousness and rode their coattails into infamy. There’s all sorts of other reasons on the net about why it happened. Nobody ever talks about the oil company angle. And since I can’t prove it without some serious research, it’s just gossip, lol
The other thing that stood out was Afghanistan in the ’50s! Amazing. What I heard about how conservatism took over again in Middle Eastern countries was when a moderate Egyptian moved to the US right about then, ’50s or ’60s, and encountered so much racism that he returned to Egypt and began pushing conservative beliefs and ideals, all anti-Western, leading to the strict, religiously rigid lifestyles we see all over there today. Of course, I don’t remember the man’s name or who he was, so my information is shoddy at best, suspicious at worst. But something like that. Everyone can blame us! lol
Among my favorites, too, were the car elevator, which of course we have today, but I had no idea they built one so early on! The face cones for snowstorms–those would have been great for Covid! And the fact that people were also zip-lining back then. I thought that was SOLELY a modern thing! All fascinating. I love old photos. Just LOVE them!!
Thankyou Stacey. You are so right about the face cones having a use during Covid. The world did get to see some creativity on that front four years back…
true that )
Hi Beth.
Yep, truly history can be seen as a vast and almost bottomless coffee cup (er, let’s make that over, over-sized MUG) of amazing stories and plotlines with the most breathtaking and incredible characters ever conceived.
I really enjoyed reading this Glen. History teaches us lessons about what works and doesn’t in this ever-changing world. It’s certainly good to look back!!
Matt
I reckon my favourite is the chess kid. Him defeating all the pompous-old-man-intellectuals one-by-one reminds me of Bruce Lee or Jet Li (pick your era) being surrounded by a maurading gang of black belts and then systematically smashing them all to bits with the ease of a knife going through butter.
In the first clip, when Jet Li rolls up his sleeves you know he means business…
In the second clip, if you can hold your laughter, the choreography is still pretty impressive…
OMG. I left a SUPER LONG response. I tried to copy it before I posted, but it wouldn’t let me. So I crossed my fingers. It wanted me to “log in” even though I’m logged in already, so I did, and the messaged disappeared. Oh, well. I’ll try again later. But I love these photos, Glen! They’re amazing and fascinating.
If this comment system of Word Press was a person I’d want to throw them head first on to a set of train tracks while the signal was green. Ok, bit harsh. Let’s make that if the signal was on amber, but still headfirst, straight smashingly down onto those tracks amid all the stones.
I’m praying that long one makes it onto the site at some stage, just to brighten things up a little around here.
But of COURSE it leaves the short one, no problem, lol
I’ll take the short.
And hope for the long.
Sounds like I’m taking expresso orders!
LOL You already brightened it up in here with your comments. I shall duplicate my earlier observations. Even though I think I’ve already talked in here, at some point, about why Prohibition actually happened over here in the US…? If I have, which I think I did, then I don’t need to write that one again. Has to do with alcohol.. and cars… and oil companies….? Anyway, more later. I’m actually working right now and shouldn’t be messing around! 🙂
Yes, comment number 1 was Prohibition only happened because people were figuring out just how much alcohol could be used to run cars. The oil companies couldn’t have that, so they fueled the teetotaler’s self-righteousness and rode their coattails into infamy. There’s all sorts of other reasons on the net about why it happened. Nobody ever talks about the oil company angle. And since I can’t prove it without some serious research, it’s just gossip, lol
The other thing that stood out was Afghanistan in the ’50s! Amazing. What I heard about how conservatism took over again in Middle Eastern countries was when a moderate Egyptian moved to the US right about then, ’50s or ’60s, and encountered so much racism that he returned to Egypt and began pushing conservative beliefs and ideals, all anti-Western, leading to the strict, religiously rigid lifestyles we see all over there today. Of course, I don’t remember the man’s name or who he was, so my information is shoddy at best, suspicious at worst. But something like that. Everyone can blame us! lol
Among my favorites, too, were the car elevator, which of course we have today, but I had no idea they built one so early on! The face cones for snowstorms–those would have been great for Covid! And the fact that people were also zip-lining back then. I thought that was SOLELY a modern thing! All fascinating. I love old photos. Just LOVE them!!
Thankyou Stacey. You are so right about the face cones having a use during Covid. The world did get to see some creativity on that front four years back…
Ha. Thanks for the short but intense video of creative Covid masks. I think the orange was the best one. The maxi pads were just ga-ross !! lol