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#4575302 - 07/24/21 06:37 PM 42 Historical photos  
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Buddy email me these.

There was electric cars in 1905? The Hollywood sign originally had 4 extra letters?

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#4575313 - 07/24/21 08:18 PM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
The Hollywood sign originally had 4 extra letters?

Yep. Not how it happened, but it made for one of my favorite scenes in The Rocketeer.

(skip ahead to 2:20)


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#4575314 - 07/24/21 08:30 PM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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James Bond? I never heard of Rocketeer

#4575316 - 07/24/21 09:40 PM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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No Bond here https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102803/
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#4575320 - 07/24/21 10:34 PM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
James Bond? I never heard of Rocketeer


You should check it out. Not a great movie, but worth watching.


“I like it”


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#4575322 - 07/24/21 11:11 PM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
#4575327 - 07/24/21 11:34 PM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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Open this 1st photo. Control on top skip forward through 42 photos.

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#4575339 - 07/25/21 04:42 AM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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Photo #26 was quite depressing and disturbing.


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#4575342 - 07/25/21 05:06 AM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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Can't believe they can turn the Niagara Falls off

what happens to the fish when the water is off? Do they die?

https://www.wired.com/2016/01/new-york-is-going-to-turn-off-niagara-falls-heres-how/

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/niagara-falls-without-water-1969/

5000 folks have gone over Niagara Falls since 1850.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_gone_over_Niagara_Falls

The first documented survival of a stunt was done by a woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Edson_Taylor#Niagara_Falls

#4575343 - 07/25/21 06:48 AM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: oldgrognard]  
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Originally Posted by oldgrognard
Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
James Bond? I never heard of Rocketeer


You should check it out. Not a great movie, but worth watching.


“I like it”


Jennifer Connelly was what I think is the classic apotheosis of beauty in that film.


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#4575344 - 07/25/21 07:12 AM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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Rocketeer is a totally underrated movie. I think its a great movie. Captures the golden era of aviation beautifully.

#4575345 - 07/25/21 07:45 AM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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Another fan of The Rocketeer, but a sad reminder that the early 90's was Disney's finest moment (including the parks, IMO).



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Gives way and suddenly it’s day again
The sun is in the east
Even though the day is done
Two suns in the sunset, hmph
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#4575370 - 07/25/21 02:23 PM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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I don't know what is up with that page it takes like a minute to see each picture


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#4575377 - 07/25/21 03:48 PM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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I'd like to add this picture to NFB's post took me awhile to realize what I was looking at and finally relaized it was men covering the Statue of liberty.Had to copy it to paint and Zoom in

https://blog.grunt.com/blog/1918-statue-of-liberty-2/?sc_src=email_1418416&sc_lid=115123666&sc_uid=gKoNlV84KW&sc_llid=187458&sc_eh=73e1e954af39ac831&utm_source=emarsys&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2021-07-25+17%3A00%3A00-07_25_21_Sgt+Newsletter+&utm_content=IMAGE+statueoflib1918.jpg


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#4575386 - 07/25/21 05:25 PM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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Originally Posted by oldgrognard
You should check it out. Not a great movie, but worth watching.


“I like it”

That depends on your what you consider a 'great movie', og. Not going to rank up there with the classics, but it did what a movie should do, which is entertain and lift one's spirits. Add to that the fact that it came when it was still cheaper to fly real airplanes than hire a couple hundred CG animators, the references to historical people, places, and events those of familiar enough with them will get (Neville Sinclair's being based on Errol Flynn, including the rumors that Flynn was a Nazi spy, and Dalton's resemblance to Flynn as well as the fact that Dalton had recently played Bond...Howard Hughes, particularly when the model Spruce Goose glides across the factory...Eddie Valentine choosing to fight the Nazis, just as the Mafia did assist the US in the war...and my favorite, the Hollywoodland sign, to name a few), and it's pretty easy to call it great.

And yes, NFB, you should check it out.


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#4575388 - 07/25/21 05:27 PM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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#4575393 - 07/25/21 06:20 PM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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Thanks NfB.I only had the one link


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#4575394 - 07/25/21 06:24 PM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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You are welcome.

That photo is amazing. 18,000 men!

Originally Posted by Timothy


Jennifer Connelly was what I think is the classic apotheosis of beauty in that film.


I watch a movie with her recently. I know it's her: I GOOGLE to find out who was the actress that was naked. https://www.amazon.com/Mulholland-Falls-Nick-Nolte/dp/B00MX0ZQJU

#4575422 - 07/26/21 03:00 AM Re: 42 Historical photos [Re: Lucky_1]  
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Originally Posted by Lucky_1
Rocketeer is a totally underrated movie. I think its a great movie. Captures the golden era of aviation beautifully.



I never saw it but I knew James Horner did the score for the film and that the film had a very similar "vibe" to the Indiana Jones movies.

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