These Historical

Photos Are Remarkable

ეს ისტორიული სურათები გამორჩეულია
პირველი მგზავრობა მეტროში -
The first subway ride

Not much after the first flight in 1903, the US got its first
subway in New York in 1904. George McClellan, the City’s
mayor, opened it and even drove the first passengers on a
track that was 9.1 miles long and had 28 stations. At the
time, people saw it more as a circus act than a means of
transportation. Talk about how times have changed
Billy the Kid - ბილი კიდი

When you are one of the most famous outlaws, you do anything to
stay hidden. That is why there are only a couple of photos of the
legendary Henry McCarthy, also known as William H. Bonney and
most widely referred to as Billy the Kid. Not to mention that he was
only 21 when Sheriff Pat Garret shot him in 1881, so it makes sense
why Billy the Kid didn’t live a life long enough to have that many
photos. Who would’ve thought that he liked to play croquet?
James Dean and his Porsche -ჯეიმს დინი და მისი
პორშე

He was the Rebel Without a Cause, one of the first Hollywood hunks
that became a cultural icon. James Dean may have played only in 3
movies, but his legacy is huge. This is his last photo before he went
on a drive that eventually ended his life at the age of only 24. You
could see in his smile that he had the lust for life, especially fast cars,
like his beloved Porsche 550 Spider.
The first photo ever- პირველი
ფოტო

You might not think that this blurry image is a photo, but it is
considered to be the oldest surviving photograph in existence. It was
made by famous French photography pioneer Joseph Nicéphore
Niépce in 1826.
No wonder he did not take selfies.
John Lennon’s last photo- ჯონ
ლენონის ბოლო სურათი
John Lennon signed an autograph to Mark David Chapman the same
day that he later shot him in front of his New York residence. It was
captured by an amateur photographer Paul Goresh. Chapman
planned to murder Lennon for a long time and he finally did it on
December 8, 1980. Apparently, he was angry with Lennon for
claiming that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus, as well as
for the lyrics to the songs “God” and “Imagine”. Chapman is still
alive, serving his 20 years to life sentence
Helmet testing- ჩაფხუტის
ტესტი

Although it is widely thought that this is the photo of a football

helmet testing, it is in fact a safety demonstration by a British
inventor W.T. Warren of a Protective Flight Helmet he invented. At
the time, head injuries were the leading cause of pilot deaths in
flight accidents, so he patented a leather-covered, spring-equipped
pilot safety helmet, padded well with horsehair to spread the shock
over a large area. If only he had a different testing method…
Pablo Picasso - პაბლო პიკასო

This photo of Pablo Picasso as Popeye was shot by famous

photographer André Villers, who did portrays of many great artists.
He spent almost a decade following Picasso, recording his work, but
also moments like this, where he was obviously fooling around. Most
ingenious artists were quite eccentric and Picasso was no exception.
His look might seem random, but it is actually quite elaborate, since
he was wearing a beard, a fake nose, a hat and a rather interesting
looking pipe.
Fidel Castro and the kids- ფიდელ კასტრო და
ბავშვები

He might have been considered a dictator by some, but in this photo El Comandante shows off
his soft side. All the kids are wearing fake beards to resemble him and he seems to be enjoying
it. And it all would’ve not been strange if those kids were Cuban, but they were not, they were
actually American. Hard to imagine today, but it happened in 1959 during his visit to New York,
just after he took charge of Cuba and before the US sanctions. Times they are a changing…
Jewish photographer-
ებრაელი ფოტოგრაფი

Alfred Eisenstaedt took this photo of Joseph Goebbels, the Third

Reich's propaganda minister, during the League of Nations
conference in 1933. The look and posture of the high-ranking Nazi is
due to realization that the photographer was Jewish. The hatred in
his stare is pulpable. Because Nazis were on the rise in Germany, as
well as antisemitism that they proclaimed, Eisenstaedt emigrated to
US, where he spent the rest of his life as a successful photographer
for Life magazine.
Left or right? - მარჯვნივ თუ მარცხნივ

On 3rd September 1967, Sweden changed from driving on the left-

hand side of the road to the right-hand side. Needless to say, it did
not go smoothly, as can be seen in this photo. It even became known
as the right-hand traffic diversion day, since quite a few people were
late to work that day. It might seem simple enough, but habits are
hard to change. Wonder how long did it take them?
The first McDonald’s store –
პირველი მაკდონალდი

You wish the price of the burger was ¢15 as it was when the first
McDonald’s store opened in San Bernardino, California. Most of the
successful companies started small, so did the McDonald’s. They’ve
come a long way since then, with many restaurants world-wide,
drive-throughs and birthday parties with the clown. Their first
restaurant serves as McDonald’s #1 Store Museum now.
Baby photography- ბავშვის ფოტო

In the 19th century, photography became popular and many people wanted to
take one, especially of their baby children. But, it was easier said than done.
Babies don’t like to stand still, if they can sit on their own at all, so
photographers came up with a clever solution. What you see in the photo is a
baby wearing a rather long frock, but what you don’t see is its mother hiding
underneath it, holding it still. The lengths they had to go for a photo then.
Snowball fight - გუნდაობა

This photo looks more like a mug shot than the one with the
students of Princeton University in it. But, believe it or not, they
were, only just after an annual freshman-sophomore snowball fight
of 1893. You might have expected more from the students of one of
the more prestigious universities in the US, but certain traditions
have to be honored.
Mummies for sale- იყიდება
მუმიები

After the Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt, Egyptian historic artifacts

were made available to European market. Mummies could be
purchased from the street vendors and European elite used to often
throw “The Mummy Unwrapping Parties”. If that wasn’t disgusting
enough, the well-preserved remains of the ancient Egyptians were
ground into powder and consumed as a medicinal remedy. Demand
was so high that it started the counterfeit trade in which the flesh of
beggars was passed off as that of Egyptian mummies
Phone booth stuffing-
ტელეფონის ჯიხურში

It all started in South Africa, where students in Durban fitted 25

people in a phone booth in order to get into the Guinness Book of
World Records. The craze soon traversed to England, where it was
called ‘telephone booth squash’, but they managed to fit only 19
students. And then it spread to US and Canada and even got so
popular that they had to invent the rules, since some cheated. Just
as fast as it took off, it quickly disappeared, with South African record
intact.
Capturing of John McCain- ჯონ მაკკეინის
შეპყრობა

During a bombing mission over Hanoi as part of Operation Rolling

Thunder in October 1967, John McCain was shot down, seriously
injured, and captured by the North Vietnamese, as shown in this
photo. He was a prisoner of war until 1973, where he was tortured,
but refused an out-of-sequence early release, before all the
American POWs captured before him. After the war, he turned to
politics, until his death in 2018
Nikola Tesla- ნიკოლა ტესლა

Most likely one of the most under-appreciated inventors of all time,

Nikola Tesla was responsible for many inventions that we could not
imagine our lives without today. He was way ahead of his time and
often misunderstood, devoting his whole life to science and
invention. He didn’t even mind when others used his patents for
their inventions, all in favor of science and progress. Often
mistreated by his patrons, he died a poor man in New York hotel
room, leaving all his inventions to humanity
MB Storage, 1956- მეხსიერების ბარათი

This huge box is not any big machine or computer that is being transported from
one place to another with the strength of over 4 people involved
It’s a hard drive with a storage of 5 megabytes. That amount of storage and such
enormous size of the hard drive! This storage was leased for $3,000 a month by
the company that is equivalent to $30,000 today.
In contrast to this, we can carry more than 32 gigabytes on our phones daily.
While 5 MB of IBM storage could only hold around 6 photos, that would not be
quite helpful in the present generation of unlimited selfies at one time.
Young Boy Reading-
ახალგაზრდა ბიჭი კითხულობს

The Germans conducted mass air raids against British towns and cities, beginning with raids on
London towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940. This photograph was taken of a London
bookstore that was left in ruins and damaged from an air raid. We see a boy sitting among the
remains and skimming through a book, but what makes this photo so touching is the stark
contrast between his calm conduct while sitting among scattered books, one of the unfortunate
targets from an air raid.
Hearing For the First Time - ხმა გაიგონა
პირველად (სმენა დაუბრუნდა)

This moving picture shows a startled young boy who isn’t sure what’s happening, or how it’s
happening. From his world of silence, he has suddenly been transported to another world of
rich, vibrant sound. It is new, strange, and probably a little scary. His little eyes widen with
wonder, and he is on the edge of his seat, waiting to hear what this new world has to offer. The
little boy is Harold Whittles, and he has just been fitted with a hearing aid.
New Shoes- ახალი
ფეხსაცმელები

The photograph moves you to happy tears the moment you see it. Gerald Waller captured the
photo in Austria after the war in 1946. The little boy is a six-year-old orphan, and his name is
Werfel, he is seen sitting outside on the steps of an orphanage in Austria. His elated expression
says it all as he hugs a new pair of shoes given to him by the American Red Cross. The photo was
first printed in LIFE magazine on December 30, 1946.
Mona Lisa Returned-
მონა ლიზა დააბრუნეს

The Allies liberated Paris on August 25, 1944, and on May 8, 1945, Germany unconditionally
surrendered, and the war in Europe was over. Finally, all the Louvre's works that were taken
began to come back home, and the museum was extensively renovated between 1945 and
1946. Two years after Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Museum in
Paris, it was recovered inside Italian waiter Vincenzo Peruggia's hotel room in Florence. The
Mona Lisa returned on June 16, 1945.
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