Rare bits of history

Presented by Brenda Music: For the Good Times by Floyd Cramer

1868 A Native American overlooking the newly completed transcontinental railroad

1880 Child laborers

1880 Samurai taken between 1860 and1880

1884 Construction of the Statue of Liberty

1897 A boxing match on board the USS Oregon

1906 The Great San Francisco Fire and Earthquake .

1907 Steamboats on the Mississippi River

1911 0r 1922 Winston Churchill out for a swim. Typical swim suit of the day

1911 New York 's Times Square

1912 The first photo following the discovery of Machu Pichu

1912 World Series.

1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated

1922 to 1931 Construction of Christ the Redeemer in Rio da Janeiro , Brazil

1933 The last known Tasmanian Tiger photographed in 1933. The species is now extinct.

1940 The London sky following a bombing and dogfight between British and German planes in 1940.

1940-Hitler in Paris

1941 A shell shocked reindeer looks on as World War II planes drop bombs on Russia

1943 British SAS back from a three month long patrol of North Africa

January 18, 1943.

1944 A Japanese plane is shot down during the Battle of Saipan

1945 Nagasaki , 20 minutes after the atomic bombing

1945

1954-1955 The construction of Disneyland

1956 The first McDonalds. - buy em by the bag ---- on the sign, Plains Illinois

1958-1960 Elvis in the Army.

1959 Fidel Castro lays a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial.

1961 Disneyland employee cafeteria

1963 The original Ronald McDonald

-- played by Willard Scott!

1964 The Beatles meet Muhammad Ali

1975 Bill and Hillary Clinton playing volleyball

1983 Arnold Schwarzenegger on the day he received his American citizenship

2001 Grounded aircraft on September 11, 2001await orders.

California lumberjacks work on Redwoods. Thousands of tree rings in these ancient trees each over 1000+ years old or even much older.

It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1200-1800 years or more. An estimated 95% or more of the original old-growth redwood forest has been cut

In 1850, old-growth redwood forest covered more than 2,000,000 acres(8,100 acres by... 1968, by which time nearly 90% of the original redwood trees

had been logged. 

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