some more of those old photos

savage170

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Execution of a German communist in Munich (1919).
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The construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco (1937).
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William Harley and Arthur Davidson (1914).
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A pyramid of helmets from captured German soldiers on display in New York (1918).
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106-year-old Armenian woman protecting her home with an
AK-47 (1990).
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The oldest running car on the planet: the 1884 De Dion, Bouton et Trepardou Dos-?-Dos.
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A WWI submarine washed ashore on the beach in England .

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Control room of the UB-110 German submarine (1918).

96harley

Real treasures.

fishkiller41

Figures the oldest running car is steam powered.
The old Stanley Steamer could push 100mph.

notnow

Those H-Ds have pedals. Is that instead of a clutch?

kannoneer

Are you sure that's a pic of a GERMAN sub control room? ...Doesn't look complicated enough. But as for the pic of the execution, that has got to be the most informal set up I have ever seen. Plus, those Huns look like they've never shot a gun before.

mmppres

great pictures thanks

Ditch-Runner

neat old photos
I like to own have for sale that pyramid of German helmets at a military sale [:D]
the control room looks simple enough [:D][:D]

woodshed87

That De Dion Ran On Corn Squeezins[:D][:D]

montanajoe

[8D][8D][8D][8D]

chris8X57

That guy looks pretty nonchalant about shortly getting five 8mm rounds at point blank range!

Also, some building owner is going to need some masonry work after they're done shooting [B)]

allen griggs

I love the old pics, but something doesn't seem right about that Kraut execution. The firing squad looks like it doesn't know what it is doing, and the commie looks nonchalant. In 1919 in Germany, there were 10 million men who had lots and lots of experience shooting the 8mm Mauser. Looks staged.

Those were wild days in Germany, having lost the Great War, there were incessant battles in the streets between communists and the other factions. Hitler was getting cranked up, and his Brown Shirts were involved in numerous street fights against communists.
Russia had just gone commie, so the question was, who was next?

Hitler managed to take over in 1933, I wouldn't have wanted to be a German communist after that.

savage170

http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/execution-german-communist-munich-1919/ found more information on first photo

savage170

http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/execution-german-communist-munich-1919/ found more information on first photo

popgun

Thanks for the very interesting pics. [:)]

bigoutside

Neat stuff
Photojournalist during the civil war used to stage photos as well.

glyn

Cool photos.

asop

[:)][:)][:)]

TRAP55

quote:Originally posted by notnow
Those H-Ds have pedals. Is that instead of a clutch?

Think Moped, you had to pedal like hell to get it started. Early ones had a leather belt drive.
When my Grampa was courting Gramma, that's what he had to get to the other side of the county to see her. He said it never failed, the belt would always jump off right at the end of the driveway to the ranch with big mean cattle dogs.
He would have to scramble to get it back on, and then pedal for all he was worth before the dogs made it to the road.