Old and new photographs that can sometimes be odd or surreal but are always unique with an interesting backstory.
It was built without any planning which led to its interlocking architecture, allowing residents to travel across the city without touching the ground. You can read a full article about it here: https://www.historydefined.net/kowloon-walled-city/
Christopher Lloyd (Banquo) and Christopher Walken (Macbeth) in the stage production Macbeth at Lincoln Center, New York, 1974
Jimi Hendrix on the 1967 Christmas Olympia Tour with among others Marc Bolan (right) Pink Floyd and Move
Oldest known photo of the Taj Mahal taken in the 1850’s.
Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher waiting for the cable car in San Francisco, 1960.
On January 19, 1981, heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali was so upset when he learned that a Vietnam veteran was going to commit suicide near his house that he rushed to the scene just four minutes later and personally saved the man. He then escorted the veteran to the hospital.
Serial killer Harvey Glatman, photographed in 1959, the year he was executed at San Quentin. Glatman lured women by posing as a photographer for S&M shoots, then assaulted and murdered them while they were restrained. He was put to death on this day in 1959. Further info below.
Ruth Hurschler, a contestant in a Perfect Back contest, is examined and X-rayed by a chiropractor in the final stage of the competition, Los Angeles, circa 1930.
Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of American media magnate William Randolph Hearst, poses with a machine gun in front of a Symbionese Liberation Army flag. Hearst was captured on this day in 1975, she had been on the run for over a year after taking part in a bank robbery with the SLA.
