15 retro shots that capture the most interesting and mysterious events (16 photos)

Let's enjoy some fun retro shots!





This our 21st century, of course, is interesting and eventful, therefore, most often we write about him (after all, for us he is real), but from time to time we turn our gaze to the twentieth century. The more we we move away from it, the more surprising some black and white photographs taken a long time ago.

Bright moments in such collections are pictures, on which shows exactly how people coped with what is now performed automatically or with the help of more advanced devices. Yes and in general, some situations are peculiar exclusively to the last century and can no longer happen now. This is the value of such photographs, who fix history and stop time for some notable events.

1. Road washing machine in 1905



2. Actors Stanley Morner and Betty Furness rehearse a masked love scene, 1937



This is how kissing rehearsals went during the epidemic flu. The scene was played 20 times before the actors were pointed cameras. During the shooting, the masks, of course, were removed.

3. Fiat factory, on the roof of which there was a track where cars were tested, Turin, Italy



4. Judges-measuring at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, 1964



With their help, before the introduction of video recorders, winners in races and any other collective competitions in speed.

5Airline Booking Service Before Computers, 1945



6. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell and his amazing geometric kite



7. In 1902, people did not sculpt snowmen, but snow titans, Alaska



8 House Moves, San Francisco, 1908



9. Private US Marine Harry Weber on exercises with his pet fox Rusty, 1943



10. A policeman stops traffic so that a cat can move her kittens, New York, 1925



11. Lady Florence Norman rides to work on her scooter, London, 1916



12. Disney animators working on the character Bambi, 1942



13. 16-year-old Bill Clinton shakes hands with John F. Kennedy, 1963



14. A British Bombardier cargo ship watches workers play in a Scottish port, 1963.



15. US President Lyndon B. Johnson drives a German Amphicar floating car across the lake at his ranch in Texas, 1965



Such cars were produced in Germany, and most of them were for export to the USA. However, due to low demand and high cost amficars, the Quandt Group, which produces them, quickly went bankrupt.