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[Downtown Los Angeles] Grand Ave. looking south from the music center comparing 1963 and 2019

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/8376611 More Los Angeles history porn can be found at [!vintagela@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/vintagela) Edit: added more info

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William S. Burroughs and director David Cronenberg behind the scenes of Cronenberg's very loose adaptation of Burroughs' novel The Naked Lunch, 1991

It's a very disturbing but very good film if you've never seen it. Amazing soundtrack too.

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American Soldiers preparing to land in Nazi-Collaborationist French North Africa, in America's first major involvement in the European Theatre in World War 2 (November 1942)

[Source](https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_troops_on_board_a_landing_craft_heading_for_the_beaches_at_Oran_in_Algeria_during_Operation_%27Torch%27,_November_1942._A12661.jpg#mw-jump-to-license) Technically called the european theatre but more like the european-north african-middleeastern theater.

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Photo of the Sphinx taken from a balloon before it was excavated. I can't find a date, but based on when it was excavated and the history of photography, some time between 1840 and 1867

I looked all over for a date and got everything from "early 1800s" to "late 1800s" but nothing exact, so I had to make an educated guess. The first cameras practical enough to take such a photo were developed around 1840 and the excavations began in 1867.

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Austro-Hungarian troops in a trench on the Eastern Front, WW1, 1915

Middle guy has the "Oh fuck, you're taking a picture?" look. Truly timeless. Or at least dating back to snapshot cameras.

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Gustaf Håkansson, the 'Steel Grandpa', in a 1764 kilometer-long bicycle race at 66 years old, Sweden, 1951

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_H%C3%A5kansson

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The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire feeding her chickens, Chatsworth, UK, 1995

https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/one-of-a-kind-the-dowager-duchess-of-devonshire