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History is full of the Weird and weirder ,well according to today’s ‘Mordern Standards’ , let review a range of that weird historical moments.


Shame money could buy skin color

police officer judges an ankle competition in London (1930). Yeah ankle competition....
Loling

A professional “rat catcher” showing off his kill. Rat catchers would scour the sewers of Europe and receive money for each rat they killed (1904)


Reminds you of Nairaland Animal poachers

Women painting their legs to make it appear that they were wearing stockings (1942)

The chaotic day Sweden switched which side of the road they drive on (1967)


NB: There-were were casualties

A maintenance crew loads 5 megabytes of memory into a Pan am Aircraft (1956)

A brewery in England delivering kegs of beer on Spitfires to troops fighting in Normandy June 1944

Alfred Hitchcock serving tea to the MGM Lion (1957). Poor Alfred

TheSourcerer:
Shame money could buy skin color

Lmao! she got so rich that the racist bastards had to pretend she's white just to cope

Exercise machine designed to “roll the fat” out of legs (1936)

hopefulLandlord:
Lmao! she got so rich that the racist bastards had to pretend she's white just to cope

I can totally see this happening , Shame, hows your day going though buddy?

Salvador Dali walking his pet anteater (1969)





Thread to turn gore soon

Women box on a rooftop (1938)

TheSourcerer:
Shame money could buy skin color

They are still very much racist than ever....

.otherwise they would have allowed blacks and other race declare they are white and get european or any white man country's citizenship .... just as people now wake up and claim their are men and women whenver they like...

Wooden Swimsuits Idk

An alien mugshot, part of a 1958 hoax in Bad Axe, Michigan
A MUGSHOT hahahaha, funny how people beloved we had a mugshot of an alien

Berlin boy selling lemonade with a portable lemonade dispenser (1931)
Looks like the blonde in game shakers Idk

United States Border Patrol trying to drag a fugitive across the US border in order to keep him from escaping to Mexico (1920)

An overhead view of New York showing that everyone wore a hat (1939)

Japanese women cover their faces in shame in a Tokyo courtroom

The Dynasphere was a monowheel electric vehicle which could go up to 25 miles per hour (1932)

TheSourcerer:
A professional “rat catcher” showing off his kill. Rat catchers would scour the sewers of Europe and receive money for each rat they killed (1904)


Reminds you of Nairaland Animal poachers

1904 Europe have sewers

But till today some city in our dear country don't.

Russian soldiers feed polar bears from their tank (1950)

Woman waits for the hoops of her crinoline to be completed by a London dress shop (1860

Kids playing with stacks of German money (1922)

Parisians navigate flood waters by walking across rows of chairs (1924)
I doubt they blamed the government for this , they worked!

Portable TV Concept (1967)

Participants of a “Miss Lovely Eyes” contest held in Florida (1930)
Yes yes it was fashionable before Jason ruined the whole Mask idea ....

An advertisement for an anti-malaria drug (1941)
smh

TheSourcerer:
A maintenance crew loads 5 megabytes of memory into a Pan am Aircraft (1956)

5 megabytes ONLY??

An “icebox” facial beauty treatment (1966)

A masked Mickey Mouse Club meeting (1930s)
Hahahahaha , imagine bursting in from the future into the theatre and everyone looks at you at the same time haha