Iconic photos through time

[DriftingSand]

The Shuttle Disaster:

 

[BDBoop]

Same for this one, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, probably fifty years apart.

 

[BDBoop]

John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever, 1977

 

[DriftingSand]

Jane Fonda supporting the Communist NVA:

 

[BDBoop]

Jimmy Stewart, in the hat he wore in most of his westerns, especially those directed by Anthony Mann

 

[BDBoop]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial (USA). The opposite of DC’s white, gleaming marble, the black, low-lying Vietnam memorial cuts into the earth, just as the Vietnam War cut into the national psyche. The monument shows the names of the war’s 58,267 fatalities – listed in the order they died – along a dark, reflective wall.

Took us long enough.

 

[BDBoop]

Any sports fans out there? There are probably a few moments we could include on that front.

I'll show pictures of when the Vikings won the Super Bowl.

TADA!!!

 

[BDBoop]

This one needs to be heard:

 

[skye]

I like that ^^^^^^

 

[BDBoop]

May 1992 - and I still miss him.

 

[BDBoop]

I like that ^^^^^^

I saw you posting in 'what are you listening to,' and somehow wound up in the Big Band section.

 

[skye]

I like that ^^^^^^

I saw you posting in 'what are you listening to,' and somehow wound up in the Big Band section.

I adore vintage! love it!

let me see what can I find of Benny Goodman 30s 40s ok? one sec please..

 

[SmedlyButler]

Started to post Challenger explosion but couldn't ....

This afternoon I watched the movie "The Challenger Disaster" starring William Hurt. I recommend it highly. It recounts the investigation into the tragedy. Centering on Richard Feynman, Nobel winning physicist and member of the disaster committee, it essentially exposes what ammounted to a conspiracy by NASA to cover up embarrassing aspects of the case. His exposition of the non-pliability of the o-rings at low temperature was a classic display of practical science in a simple yet profound demonstration.

I'm a big Feynman fan so this photo of him with an o-ring sample and a glass of ice water at a hearing of the committee is iconic.

 

[Amelia]

Building the Empire State Building:

... that reminds me of ....

 

[BDBoop]

Rosa Parks

 

[skye]

here... (Helen Forest vocals)

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Sjh5nszHg]Smoke Gets in your eyes - Benny Goodman & Helen Forrest - YouTube[/ame]

 

[BDBoop]

Robert Kennedy Jr, June 5 1968

Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy ( Boris Yaro / Los Angeles Times ) June 5, 1968, Los Angeles Busboy Juan Romero, 17, comforts Robert F. Kennedy moments after Kennedy is shot in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel kitchen. Thirty-five years later, Romero would tell Times’ columnist Steve Lopez: “He was looking up at the ceiling, and I thought he’d banged his head. I asked, ‘Are you OK? Can you get up?'”

 

[BDBoop]

Minneapolis women lining up to vote for the first time in a presidential election, 1920

 

[BDBoop]

Jackie Kennedy (Onassis?) with Coretta King, 1968 at MLK funeral

 

[SmedlyButler]

Vietnam Veterans Memorial (USA). The opposite of DC’s white, gleaming marble, the black, low-lying Vietnam memorial cuts into the earth, just as the Vietnam War cut into the national psyche. The monument shows the names of the war’s 58,267 fatalities – listed in the order they died – along a dark, reflective wall.

Took us long enough.

I've mentioned before that my first visit to the Wall was one of the most powerfully emotional events of my life. It wasn't until much later that I learned about the controversy that erupted around the design selection because the student architect Maya Ying Lin who designed it was Asian. Seems so petty now...