American helicopters pour machine gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, Vietnam.
March 1965
Photograph by Horst Faas/AP
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech.
August 28, 1963
Photograph: AFP/Central Press/Getty Images
Streams of alcohol pour off of the upper level of a speakeasy in Detroit during a Prohibition raid.
Detroit, Michigan
1929
Photograph: Detroit News Staff
(27825/Walter P. Reuther Library/Wayne State University)
Interior of the last Detroit Street Railway (DSR) streetcar
Detroit, Michigan
1956
Photograph by Tony Spina/The Detroit Free Press
(2845/Tony Spina Collection/Walter P. Reuther Library/Wayne State University)
Ambassador Bridge
Detroit, Michigan/Windsor, Ontario
1962
Photograph by Tony Spina/The Detroit Free Press
(2837/Tony Spina Collection/Walter P. Reuther Library/Wayne State University)
View of the Lower Manhattan skyline as seen from the roof of the Hotel Bossert
Brooklyn, NY
1943
Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt/LIFE/Getty Images
James Richardson Airport #6 on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
December 20, 2010
Winnipeg, Manitoba
The old Winnipeg airport terminal, which has begun to be torn down. (I’m pretty sure this area is all gone now.)
BBC: Tales of Television Centre
Cut to 1:42
Really interesting (I think, at least) documentary about the historic BBC Television Centre, where programs including Monty Python and the old Doctor Whos were made. Actors and technical staff are interviewed in this, and each one has a different interesting story to tell about their time in Television Centre. They make really good use of old historic footage and archived television programmes as well.
The good ol’ days of Television Centre are no more, sadly. The Beeb has put the building up for sale, and they have stated that they will be ending all BBC production in the building, by (they hope) the end of 2013, and to have the building vacant by 2015.
Luckily the building will not be demolished, as parts of Television Centre are now a Grade II listed building, but it will still be sad to know that it will never be like it was again. (And I say that as someone who has wanted to work in television since I was little.)
At the end of the program, actress Penelope Keith says “It was an iconic building on it’s own, with the cars in the middle, all that’s changed, and certainly the inside has changed, radically. And, um, it seems awfully corporate to me now.”
She hit the nail on the head there.
(Also, it seems the historic Granada Television Studios are facing a similar fate.)
Frank Sinatra
Los Angeles
1955Frank Sinatra singing in the studio, recording the soundtrack to ‘The Man With The Golden Arm’
Photo by Bob Willoughby
Hurricane Carol hits Eastern seaboard
August 31, 1954
Brooklyn, New York
Photographer Unknown (via Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Palace Theatre
Gary, Indiana
2008
Photograph by Andrew Moore
Nelson’s Column under Construction
Trafalgar Square, London, UK
First week of April 1844
Photograph by William Henry Fox Talbot
Street Minstrel
Gose, Nara, Japan
1870s
Photograph by Shinichi Suzuki
RFK Funeral Train
June 8, 1968
Photograph by Paul Fusco/Magnum Photos and Bonni Benrubi Gallery
