‘Olden Days’ image gallery that the over 60s will enjoy
Enjoy our collection of images captured in the ‘olden days’. This page is updated regularly with new images and covers all types of moments in history. Enjoy a trip back to the good ol’ days, we hope you stay a while.
Note: Photography credit is referenced in each image or caption. 60+Club does not own rights or claim ownership of the below images.
Sean Connery is usually called the original James Bond. But Barry Nelson actually played 007 some eight years before 1962’s Dr. No hit the big screen, starring in an hour-long episode of the live American teleplay series Climax!
Photograph by Harry Warnecke.
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On September 30th, 1956, during a drunken argument in a New York City bar, a man named Thomas Fitzpatrick claimed he could fly an airplane from New Jersey to NYC in under 15 minutes. To prove it, Fitzpatrick left the bar, stole an airplane from a New Jersey airfield at 3 AM, and flew without lights or radio before landing the plane on the street right outside the bar. Amazingly, the owner of the plane was so impressed, he declined to press charges, and Fitzpatrick only copped a small fine. Two years later, another bar patron called bullshit on his claim, so he did it again. The second occasion saw him cop six months in jail, but it was all worth it for the birth of the original “hold my beer” story.
Image source: Sydney Morning Herald
Old 16mm footage in the 1940s that includes Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane.
Old 16mm vacation films were discovered at a garage sale in San Jose, CA by Tim Peddy and digitally converted courtesy of The California Pioneers of Santa Clara County. The unknown photographer traveled throughout 1940’s Australia, including Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. All Rights Reserved.
Influenza killed over 100 Million people.
Photograph: Science & Society Picture Library/Getty Images
Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
This iconic photograph taken atop the ironwork of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, during the construction of the Rockefeller Center, in Manhattan, New York City, United States.
The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling 840 feet (260 meters) above the New York City streets. The photograph was taken on September 20, 1932, on the 69th floor of the RCA Building during the last months of construction.
Lunch atop a Skyscraper was published in the New York Herald-Tribune, Oct. 2 1932, with the author of the photograph still unknown – either Charles Clyde Ebbets, Tom Kelley, or William Leftwich.
The picture behind the picture. This is a picture of photographer Charles C. Ebbets, who took the world famous photograph, “Lunch atop a Skyscraper”.
Footage of how the famous pictures atop skyscrapers were actually taken – and who took them.
Short documentary by 100 Photographs: Lunch Atop a Skyscraper
Footage of Construction Workers on the Historic Chrysler Building circa 1929-30
New York City’s Chrysler Building, one of the city’s most iconic skyscrapers, was built in a remarkably short time. Foundation work began in November 1928, and the building officially opened in May 1930. Even more remarkably, the steelwork went up in just six months in the summer of 1929 at an average rate of four floors a week.
At 1,046 feet (318.9 m), the Art Deco-style skyscraper was the world’s tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931.It is the tallest brick building in the world with a steel framework.
Fox Movietone’s sound cameras visited the construction site several times in 1929 and 1930, staging a number of shots to maximize viewers’ sense of the spectacular heights. Movietone almost never put somebody in front of a camera without giving them something to say, so a number of scenes include some staged dialogue.
Scenes include:
0:35 A construction worker is posed out on the end of a beam on the north side of the building. Another worker supplies his words (or thoughts). When it’s over, he gingerly makes his way off.
1:32 Another shot, taken the same day, shows plasterers and bricklayers posing for the camera. Far below, trains can be seen on the Sixth Avenue El. The Avenue itself is mostly tenament buildings.
2:09 A pair of construction workers, posing precariously on the edge of some pipework, give a few facts and figures about the building.
3:05 Workers wrestle on of the 61th-floor eagles into place. Far below, streetcars run up and down Lexington Avenue.
7:55 Workers on the scaffolding surrounding the needle spire that, for 11 months, made the Chrysler building the tallest building in the world.
Video source: Speed Graphic Film and Video
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By 1930, Sydney’s ferries faced a bleak future as the Bridge began to span the Harbour. In 1927, ferries had carried 47 million passengers to the North Shore. Today the figure is closer to 14 million.
The Bridge took eight years to build, from 1925 to 1932, including the approaches and supporting roads. Over 2,000 people were employed to work on the bridge, including engineers, boilermakers, ironworkers and stonemasons.
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This photo was taken in August of 1948 and published in a Chicago newspaper. This truly encapsulates the experience of those families still down on their luck years after the war.
The woman, Lucille Chalifoux, was only 24 years old, but pregnant with her fifth child at the time. Lucille and her husband Ray, age 40, were facing eviction from their apartment at the time. Ray had lost his job as a coal truck driver. Faced with the prospect of being homeless – and the daunting task of feeding so many mouths – they chose to auction off their own children.
On the top step are Lana, 6, and Rae, 5. Below are Milton, 4, and Sue Ellen, 2.
Within two years, all four of the children pictured, as well as the child she was carrying, were sold off for as little as $2 or given to other homes.
A guard of honour passes out as Queen Elizabeth II rides past during the Trooping the Colour parade, 1970.
Australian soldiers carrying Prime Minister Billy Hughes down George Street in triumph, after his return from the Paris Peace Conference. Sydney, Australia, 1919.
The shells from an allied creeping bombardment on German lines, 1916.
Elephant-mounted machine-gun, 1914.
Simone Segouin, the 18 year old French Résistance fighter, 1944.
Testing football helmets, 1912.
NASA scientists with their board of calculations, 1961.
Female IRA fighter, 1970s.
Fidel Castro smoking a cigar and wearing two Rolex watches during a meeting with Khrushchev, Kremlin, 1963.
Theodore Roosevelt’s diary the day his wife and mother died within hours of each other on Valentine’s Day, 1884.
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Job hunting in 1930’s.
Women boxing on a roof, 1938.
The class divide in pre-war Britain, 1937.
German soldiers react to footage of concentration camps, 1945.
The last public execution by guillotine, France, 1939.
John F. Kennedy’s coffin lies in state in the Capitol Building, 1963.
American soldiers returning after V-Day to New York harbour on a crowded ship, 1945.
Due to a shortage of stockings in 1942 women would paint them on instead.
100,000 Iranian women March against the hijab law, Tehran 1979.
The first ever press pictures of dead U.S. soldiers that were presented to the public, “The Face Of War”, 1943.
Maori Battalion haka in Egypt, 1941.
Testing a bulletproof vest in 1923.
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Einstein’s desk photographed a day after his death.
A lucky British soldier showing off his damaged helmet, 1918.
Aftermath of The Great Fire of Toronto in 1904.
Navajo riders in the Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. 1904, photo taken by Edward Curtis.
Relatives of Titanic survivors waiting for their loved ones at Southampton, 1912.
U.S. gun crew from Regimental Headquarters Company, 23rd Infantry fires a 37mm gun against German entrenched positions on the first day of the Meuse-Argonne offensive (September 26, 1918).
The bodies of Benito Mussolini and other fascists hung up for display after being executed, 29 April 1945 in Milan.
Russian soldiers in a Gaoliang field. Russo-Japanese war, 1904-1905. Photo taken by Prokudin-Gorsky.
Highway of Death, The result of American forces bombing retreating Iraqi forces, Kuwait, 1991.
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