A friend turned me onto this site which has two stories you might like:

The first is of unusual celebrities posing together, there are some amazing and fun shots:

http://curiouseggs.com/awesome-photos-o … -together/


the second dear to me as it shows Paris circa 1900's in color.  What is wild is that the city is still very recognizable 100 years later.  The scans are not great but the shots are interesting especially if you have been there.

http://curiouseggs.com/extremely-rare-c … 00s-paris/

Two very nice sites there! thanks for the links!

Neil Armstrong smoking a cigar



Rare photos NASA wants buried...

(well actually, Neil admitted he does this once a year... sometimes he forgets to.)

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I could not stop looking through these.

Some of the relationships I know of. But some of the photos I didn't expect.

Martin Luther King Jr. and Marlon Brando, that looks like it could have been a scene from a film. Nice.

Looking at the first set, I was struck by how few of them are still alive.  I grew up watching them in movies and on stage.  I've met some of them, and having turned 60 just a couple of days ago, it makes me realize how long I have been around.

The pictures bring back memories of my younger days.  They are incredible snippets of American life.

Thanks for linking to those two sites. I particularly enjoyed looking at the Parisian photos at the glimpse of Paris in colour over a century ago and also the people. It's interesting to compare them with photos done just a few years later in Russia, using, I think, the same or similar process. Most people look better fed and subject to less hardship than what you see in some of the Russian photos.

In the Paris set the military parades and commemorations were very interesting to me and the shot of the soldier with the one good leg and a wooden stump on one was moving.

Very nice. Thanks for sharing

One thing that struck me about the Paris set was the composition in most of the photos.  You'd expect there'd be a tendency to rely on the novelty of color photos that had never been seen before and not pay so much attention to making "good" photographs, but most of those are more carefully composed and thought out than a lot of the travel photography that gets published today.

Now that was delicious!

Great sites!

Really liked the look on Sophia Loren's face when looking at Jayne Mansfield .

I'm a huge fan of Craig Ferguson/The Late Late Show, and this picture is making my head explode.

(Those are the exact three impersonations Craig and his sidekick do all the time.)