History Porn

Feb 8, 2015 1:42 PM

pghquidditch

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Dwight Eisenhower eats a hot dog with Richard Nixon as the Washington Senators beat the Boston Red Sox, 1960

Women changing discreetly on a British beach, 1929

Actress Veronica Lake demonstrates what can happen to female factory workers who don't tie their hair back, 1943

A 1965 Ford Mustang station wagon

Butcher shop, Edmonton, 1915

During the evacuation of Saigon, at least 45 UH-1 Huey's were pushed overboard from US aircraft carriers to make room for others

An Australian soldier plays with the kangaroo who served as the mascot for the 9th and 10th First Australian Imperial Force batt

A man's failed hippo racing business

Judy Garland in an early screen test for the Wizard of Oz with a blond hairstyle

The Grand Canyon, 1914

History Porn 2: http://imgur.com/gallery/dgejI

Arriving at Ellis Island, 1907

Ted Geisel works on a drawing of a grinch, the hero of his forthcoming book, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", 1957

Food taken up on the Mercury and Gemini missions, 1961-1966

Sailors on the deck of the British steam corvette HMS Satellite, circa 1860

A German U-Boat stranded on the southern England coast after surrender, 1918

Mail delivery Snowmobiles in the Khabarovsk Territory, 1983

A french soldier, whose face was mutilated in WWI, being fitted with a mask made by the Red Cross, 1918

A German canteen, circa 1917

Bicycling down the Eiffel Tower, 1923

Ernest Hemingway at a bar in Havana

That hippo racer would have been an imgurian today.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Ok real talk here. HOW THE FUCK DID HIPPO RACING FAIL?! WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE, AND THEY BLEW IT.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Anybody else think Hemingway looks like bill murray

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Those snowmobiles look pretty badass, to be honest.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Goddamn Veronica looked really hot.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

These are all really good.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

No one is going to say anything about the TURBINE powered snowmobiles?! Mailmen must've had so much fun in those..

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I know right. Its basically a VW bus with skies and a jet turbine mounted to the back. That would be so much fun on open snow.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This is awesome.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm sure the hippo racing business would be booming if it existed today

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Veronica lake would've been my dream girl, I guess she's a skeleton, so past tense

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

I've never seen any of these photos. +1 for my Internet boner.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

TIL that YOLO was around before WWII. Grand Canyon and Eiffel Tower people think safety is for weaklings.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That, my friends, is a wallaby.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Is that Edmonton, Alberta?!

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Yeah it is, it's the Edwin Paige Fulton Butcher shop in Edmonton, AB according to google. +1 for fellow Edmontonian

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Good Sunday morning first cup of coffee browse. Thanks,

11 years ago | Likes 153 Dislikes 1

Great Monday workplace procrastination also. Yes I'm on the toilet. So What

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So, what is it like, being an old CPO?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Beats the alternative.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Alternative, in this case, being young or being dead?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ted Geisel= Dr. Seuss?

11 years ago | Likes 185 Dislikes 5

Yep, that's his real name.

11 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Yeah, that's Dr. Seuss' real name.

11 years ago | Likes 85 Dislikes 0

Theodore Seuss Geisel, for those curious

11 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 0

his wife wanted to be a doctor and her last name was seuss so he used that after she died.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 4

Lies!

11 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Neither a doctor nor a Seuss.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

also = Theo LeSig

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You call it history porn and the first picture is someone fellating a hot dog. Don't put images in our heads!

11 years ago | Likes 654 Dislikes 3

If you want the source: http://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPorn/

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I first read it as History of Porn. I was so excited, but sadly after a few images I was brought back to reality.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You're the first person to pick up on this +1

11 years ago | Likes 88 Dislikes 5

Truly, my first thought. Cockgobbling... nudity... hairpulling... family car?!

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

I did this on purpose, but no one seems to have noticed ;)

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

"someone"

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Nixon's lucky that it was only Watergate that got out to the press...

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Still funny that watergate was leaked by... DEEPTHROAT

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

As a sports fan, someone should definitely take another shot at making hippo racing a thing. I'd watch the shit out of that

11 years ago | Likes 114 Dislikes 4

People would die though

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

What if they get hungry hungry? God help us all.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

I don't remotely care for sports in the least, and I'm right there with you on this one.+

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Edmonton? Everything is going fine in imgur, then suddenly my stupid city shows up.

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Stupid? The city which gave us Mass Effect?! Think twice before opening your mouth next time!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

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11 years ago (deleted Feb 10, 2015 1:34 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

*implodes from jealousy*

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm pretty sure that mustang wagon was a one off. I read a car and driver article about it, I'll see if I can find it.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Who else would watch a Bill Murray as Ernest Hemingway biopic?

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

4 other people! Alright!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was thinking the same thing!

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The Internet: proving daily that it's impossible to have an original thought

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fun fact: Many of the actors in The Wizard of Oz got permanent eye damage because the lights had to be extremely bright to film in color!

11 years ago | Likes 116 Dislikes 3

More like sad fact:/

11 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Turned the set temperature to 100 degrees! This movie was like a sweat shop in China.

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

That movie maimed or nearly killed so many damn people.

11 years ago | Likes 84 Dislikes 0

Didn't the first actor for the Tin Man get super sick due to the original body paint they used?

11 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

If I remember correctly he got lead poisoning from the paint they used on him.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Tin powder, got into his lungs.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fun fact! Yes, originally Buddy Ebsen was supposed to play the Tin Woodsman but the makeup was tin powder and it got into his lungs.

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

He then went on to play Jed Clampett in The Beverly Hillbillies.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Yeah, he had an allergic reaction to the silver in the pain, it basically asphyxiated him.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Yep. The original guy was Buddy Ebsen, the dad in the Beverly Hillbillies.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

WHY DOES NO ONE ELSE THINK BIKING DOWN THE EIFFEL TOWER IS A BAD IDEA!?!?

11 years ago | Likes 442 Dislikes 5

How does he stop??

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

hold my beer

11 years ago | Likes 66 Dislikes 0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxfzYTjz62Y What are you fucking nuts?

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As a cyclist NOPE

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

As a downhill rider: Eh, I'd consider it, just not on a bike from 1923.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

We do

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Pretty sure those guys trying to walk up the stairs thought it was a bad idea.

11 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Walking up the stairs is a terrible idea in itself, so I don't trust their judgment.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

i think its a great idea

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Tour de France*

11 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 0

I don't. Actually, when I saw that I wished we were able to do such things without people insistent upon putting a stop to the fun.

11 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

psht - HELMET-cam :D

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

that looks like so much fun. My friends and I used to do this as kids. I'm amazed monkey bars broke my arm, not the "stair racing"

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

But i can tell you: If you get your hair stuck in a drill like that, you wont look that pretty more than 0.5s...

11 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

Made me think of that scene from Bomb Girls.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Don't really know what you are talking about. But i sure have seen a pic or two of what happens when you get stuck to a lathe..I love my job

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ah, it's a show following women working in a Canadian munitions factory during WWII and (1/2)

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

(2/2) and one of the women gets her hair caught on the hook that carries the finished rounds. Tears a big part of her scalp off.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

there were a serious lawsuit here en Denmark where a girl got most of her hair torn off in the engine of a go-cart (1)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

she won since there were insuficient warnings and the personel had apparently told her it was fine

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

ERNEST*

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Fuckin' heathens.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hahaha, damn, I didn't even catch that until now! +1 I'll go edit

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hate to say it, but Hemmingway looks like that annoying old drunk guy that's too loud.

11 years ago | Likes 101 Dislikes 6

Shut your blasphemous mouth. He was "spirited" and a "fun guy to be around" lol

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'd like to point out the guy to the left of the guy in sunglasses. He's like "Christ Hemmingway, give it a rest already"

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

To be fair, that's probably pretty accurate

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Same with Bukowski, but both men were probably allowed to given they were literati geniuses.

11 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

Bukowski was a loud drunk before he became a literary genius.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

He was famous for it. But he earned it.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

He *Earnested it. I'll see myself out.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I bet he was, but when you've got his resume you can be as loud as you want if you ask me.

11 years ago | Likes 31 Dislikes 1

Uh, I think Hemingway might be on the far right ?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Yeah, it'd be hard to disagree with that. I still imagine his later years were lived as a Frank Gallagher type though.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Veronica Lake, didnt expect to see her today... I'll be in my bunk

11 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

That dame was pint-sized. 4' 11½" to be exact.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

my bunk doesn't care.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Didn't know that! +1 for petite girls.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

5'3" guy here. Perfect size

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#6 During Operation Frequent Wind, they even had pilots land, dump the passengers, and then ditch the helo in the ocean and be rescued.

11 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

This is heartbreaking to me

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And why was Saigon evacuated?

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The North Vietnamese had surrounded and were invading the city even though they said they wouldn't in the Paris Treaty

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Operation Frequent Wind is also what I call going to Taco Bell

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Hahaha

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who thought that sounded like a fart euphemism!

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And now time to find a documentary on it...

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Pbs documentary on Netflix called last days in Vietnam

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

who the fuck thought racing hippos was a good idea?

11 years ago | Likes 1744 Dislikes 9

They just need to be smaller. Someone should do it with house hippos.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's probably not a good idea because dangerous, but im positive that would be entertaining.

11 years ago | Likes 84 Dislikes 3

Hippos are the most dangerous animal in the waters of Africa. They will fuck you up bad.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Pygmy hippos. BAM! Problem solved.

11 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Someone needs to try it again in this day and age. They'd make millions

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Speedy Speedy Hippos!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

http://imgur.com/Jh2mWi5

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've gotten tons of reply to my comment, but yours was the best! Thanks for making me laugh.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hippos be fast!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That guy, I'm guessing.

11 years ago | Likes 450 Dislikes 1

Good guess, guy.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh, you sassy!

11 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

LOL! Idk why, but I love your comment.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Honestly, if someone told me a hippo race was going on I would probably go see it.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

he was just ahead of his time

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Because it might just have been the most dangerous game.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But wouldn't you pay to see that

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's also why the game Racing, Racing Hippos never made it to the public.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

100% terrible idea. Would definitely watch idiots sustaining moderate levels of injury while attempting.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hippodrome owners?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You're kidding, hippos can run up to 30km/h. This man was just in the wrong era.

11 years ago | Likes 92 Dislikes 2

If it were safe for the hippos, I would pay good money to watch a bunch of biological mini vans race!

11 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

Spoon, 10-15 km / he slower townhouses then?

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Jesus. Sooo 10-15 k

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Jesus I hate autocorrect. I give up.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Agreed-ish. They are fast but I suspect the stampede weight-class made hippos a poor choice.

11 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

So obviously we just use OTHER 1 ton creatures that we can sit on. With hooves.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

10/10 would get as high as the moon and watch the shit outta some hippo racing.

11 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

They would eat the audience. They are hungry, hungry, after all.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The fact that it was a failure makes it more understandable. Not a trend but one lone wacko.

11 years ago | Likes 136 Dislikes 1

So if I'd pay money to see this, does that make me a wacko too??

11 years ago | Likes 65 Dislikes 2

You're on imgur, we already know you're a wacko.

11 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

Yes but being a wacko doesn't mean you're wrong. :-)

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The only difference between a wacko and a genius is if they are successful

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Well I mean hippos are VERY fast

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well, tortoise races exist, so I've learned recently.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Your grandpa when he signed your mom up for track

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Probably a competitor of the person that was using the hippo-teeth xylophone.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The guy who married the wrong woman and is looking for any excuse to get out of the house.

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

same dude that thought rolling a bike down the eiffel tower was?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Same guy that designed that Mustang wagon. A fucking lunatic.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It designed to compete with the VW square back, the Mustang was originally a sporty family car but ford never built it an ad agency did.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm not quite sure how it didn't take off?!

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Someone with more balls than brains.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

hippos are actually pretty fast. I heard

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They can litrally bite you in two

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That hippo has had enough of that guy's shit. Look at him! That dude ded

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

That cat is just the worst.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hippos are crazy fast. They can outrun a horse.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

who the fuck thought biking down the eiffel tower was a good idea?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They race turtles, snails, dogs, horses, they even race people. Why not hippos?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

that guy did

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Who the fuck thought it wouldn't be a good idea?

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Are they fast?

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

To watch no, to participate hell yes. I would pay to race hippo chariots like some kind of extreme go-karting.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I do.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That hippo is like 'I don't get paid enough for this shit'

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

same who thought a mustang station wagon was

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Hippo looks so mad.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It would be cruel to the animals, which I wouldn't like morally, but a hippo race (maybe turning into a hippo fight) would be entertaining

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

There are a lot of things that I would like to do/say/watch that are morally wrong, but they would still be entertaining/enjoyable

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

The hippo looks like it knew the business was failing.

11 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Who the hell thought that this was NOT a good idea? I'd pay to watch this!

11 years ago | Likes 64 Dislikes 2

Hippos are stupidly dangerous. It's like racing rabid lions who haven't eaten for two weeks.

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Id pay to watch that as well...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Your point being..?

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

So...how is that not a good idea?

11 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

It's basically horse-racing, only if sometimes the horse ate one of the riders.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Is it the worst idea ever? Yes. Would I watch it religiously? YES.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It actually works if you hang a bag of marbles in front of them.

11 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 1

Hungry hungry ...

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've seen that attempted. They just stretch out their necks and grab the marbles. Their bodies don't even move.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Who decided it wasnt a good idea? id pay to watch that shit

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Apparently only one person...

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#RichPeopleProblems

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Lure them with food... cause their hungry..

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Said no pothead ever.*

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

@IAmAllThings does apparently. And I agree.

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

hippo looks disappointed........

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That hippo looks fucking pissed

11 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I agree, that hippo looks like it's about to fuck someone's day up.

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Rage and apathy are pretty much the only two emotions that hippos are capable of.

11 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hippo+land+speed they go faster than you

11 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

i would buy that Mustang. nice compilation sir/miss/idkwhattocallpplanymore

11 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 1

Just no. THAT is a true abomination.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Car people love shooting brakes.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"Dude"

11 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Only real issue is it's a never released prototype. Would've been cool to have though.

11 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0