Hollywood & Vine: 1963 | Shorpy :: History in HD

Benjamin Zander: Classical music with shining eyes

Really good TED talk about appreciating classical music.

Benjamin Zander on music and passion | Video on TED.com

February 1942. Firestone Rubber plant in Akron, Ohio. "Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. Before completion of the fourth and final welding operation in the manufacture of shatterproof oxygen cylinders for high altitude flying, all straps are subjected to physical tests to determine the strength of the weld. Occasional radiographic inspections are made to insure the quality of workmanship after the two halves of the cylinder are brought together in this atomic welding machine and made one unit. Here, the operator has just completed the union and is about to remove the whole cylinder." 4x5 nitrate negative by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.

Mating Operation: 1942 | Shorpy :: History in HD

We are all going to die. And for some of us... its the damned robots that are going to do it.

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June 30, 1925. "Miss Dorothy Brautigam of the National American Ballet." National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

Water Nymphet: 1925 | Shorpy :: History in HD

New York, 1917. "Washday on landship Recruit." Sailors doing their laundry on the Navy's pretend battleship moored at Union Square, used for recruiting during World War I. In back is the Automatic Vaudeville penny arcade, two of whose backers -- Marcus Loew and Adolph Zukor -- went on to found Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount Pictures after a few years in the nickelodeon business.

Shipshape: 1917 | Shorpy :: History in HD

Some Day I Will Be This Cool - dog'S faint!!

The deal was in motion.
As he guided the BMW Z3 roadster onto Highway
280, Matthew Locke felt as though his mind were spin-
ning as quickly as the wheels that propelled him for-
ward.
Appraising his position, he quickly cut over to the
fast lane. He briefly wondered why the traffic was so
light, then shrugged it off. He had more important things
to think about. Bright sunlight and warm air rushed
through the open windows as he gained speed and set
the cruise control at seventy miles per hour.
Then Matthew noticed the clock, and realized that,
for the first time in as long as he could remember, he
was two hours ahead of the nightly 280 rush. His work-
day had ended sooner than usual. There was nothing
more for him to do except wait for tomorrow to come.

Deal, a cool book, being serialized on BoingBoing.

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A light tank, called the Honey in Britain. Machine gun ports in the hull help distinguish this model, as well as the hexagonal commander's hatch. The M3A1 ditched the hull mounted side machine guns.

At least this mudhole is shallow, one in France swallowed up a later M5 model in 1944.

Big Muddy: 1942 | Shorpy :: History in HD

June 1942. "Why greases must be saved. Introducing two good soldiers of the home front: the housewife who saves her waste household fats and greases, and the butcher to whom she gives this salvaged fat after she has collected at least one pound, strained it through a metal sieve and poured it into a large, wide-mouthed can. Butchers displaying the poster shown here will pay househoulders for the fat, and sell it to rendering plants thereby turning this valuable material into industrial channels where it will be processed into ammunition for America's fighting men." Medium format negative by Ann Rosener for the OWI.

Burgers to Bombs: 1942 | Shorpy :: History in HD