A vinaigrette of historical footage from past years. Issue 117

We invite everyone to take a ride in the time machine. And what made the trip even better, if you please, taste a fresh hodgepodge of interesting retro photographs! So, take your seats according to the tickets you purchased, we are leaving.

Hilda John and her six-year-old cat Thomas O'Malley, who weighed 19 kilograms. England, 1977.





This photograph was taken in 1949, when the Queen of England was simply Princess Elizabeth. At the Women's Royal Army Corps Shrewsbury, a young woman collapsed due to extreme heat.



Demonstration of an economy-class underground bomb shelter that could accommodate from 8 to 12 people, USA, 1958. It was stated that this bomb shelter could withstand the fall of a 20-megaton bomb in TNT equivalent.



Conductors pass breakfast tea from one carriage to another, Pakistan, 1983.



European gypsies, who tamed bears, have long practiced an unusual method of treating a sore back. The clubfoot was simply allowed to sit on the sufferer’s back, and any pain in the person’s spine disappeared as if by hand. Romania, 1946.



The inside of an American military pilot's jacket, 1959.



Hong Kong in 1967 and now



The head of the family, under the admiring glances of his relatives, nails a luxurious carpet to the wall. THE USSR. 1970s



Driva Geneve watch from Switzerland, with TV, radio and calculator, 1976. I had to carry the battery in my pocket.



Annie Edson Taylor is a 63-year-old teacher and the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel in 1901.



Prohibition, barrels of alcohol prepared for burning, USA, 1923.



The driver examines the bridge that collapsed under the locomotive. Canada, 1926.



Emergency landing of a Tu–124 passenger plane on the Neva River, Leningrad, August 21, 1963



Bruce Lee with his wife Linda and son Brandon, 1966.

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