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JohnnyEnzyme, in 'Motormat' drive-in restaurant, Los Angeles, 1949

full article with explanations and more pics–

www.vintag.es/2023/06/motormat.html

MossyFeathers, (edited ) in 'Motormat' drive-in restaurant, Los Angeles, 1949

Damn, I’m almost certain I’ve had a dream about a place like that. Looks too weird to be real.

SARGEx117, (edited ) in Photo of the Pamir, one of the last commercial sailing ships in operation, picture taken in 1905, last sailing trip around Cape Horn in 1949

All of my knowledge of ship design comes from internet videos and very tiny amounts of research as to how it applies to rc boat designs, so I feel like I’m 100% qualified to say:

I hate how this looks. Either redesign the leading and trailing sails, or take out two of the masts and shorten the ship.

You could show me breakdowns and scientific analysis proving it’s 9,001% better in every way, and I still won’t like it based solely off its looks.

Give me the Amerigo Vespucci any day.

Well shit, fuck me sideways for sharing an opinion of looks in a joking manner, this place is just as fucking bad as reddit. Peace out I guess

HappycamperNZ,

Somebody likes their sloop rig. Turn the tops’il into a gaff rig for extra “wanna fight bro”

Taniwha420,

Hopefully someone saltier than I can reply, but I’m pretty sure this is a windjammer, which was a derogatory name. I believe steel construction - particularly of masts and lines, like stays - allowed ships to be much longer, and taller … and they were widely regarded as unaesthetic.

Kedly,

Lmao, you show up with an extremely negative comment and then get surprised when your negativity gets responded to with negativity. Yep, must be reddit and lemmys fault!

Kidplayer_666, in American pilot Gail Halvorsen throws candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift, 1949

How to pull of the best PR stunt possible and make Stalin look like a jerk 101

Grayox, in Testing a prototype football helmet, 1912
@Grayox@lemmy.ml avatar

CTE go brrrr

exocortex, in 84 year-old floodgate supervisor, Russian Empire, 1909 AD

Wow these are actual color photos from 1909 (not some AI-gimickry)! They were made by shooting 3 seperate images with different color-filters.

RickRussell_CA, in Roman Dodecahedrons: A Mystifying Archaeological Find
@RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world avatar

Those external nubs strongly suggest something that was used for winding fiber or knitting. Storing thread for sewing? Some kind of frame for a popular knitting pattern?

Pronell,

There have been several other articles about these in the past few weeks.

One of the most common suggestions is exactly that, used for knitting fingers for gloves.

Another I saw that made sense was for securing tent poles, with the nubs being used to secure the canvas to the ground.

SpaceNoodle,

The tent pole thing makes no sense.

Pronell,

Fair enough, I was just passing on what I’d read.

casmael,

Yeah I can’t really visualise that one tbh

phdepressed,

Don’t imagine it as a peg but like a thing to help knot around and hold a (small) rope in place.

But I think the sewing use is more likely.

rustyredox, in Boxing Match At Yankee Stadium. 1923.

Did practically everyone just bring their own binoculars or spyglasses? Those are some hemorrhaging nosebleed sections up in the rafters.

someguy3, in WW1 experimental camouflage sniper's suit using the concept of "dazzle."

So how well did it work? I can’t imagine it working well when it’s on land, distances are less, you know the size of humans, speed and heading are not factors, anything else?

thefluffiest, (edited ) in WW1 French Rifleman Behind Mobile Armored Shield

A WW1 soldier out in the open? Must have been really early 1914 or late 1918. Judging by the helmet and uniform, probably the latter. Or it’s just propaganda material.

JadenSmith, in A 5MB Hard Drive, 1956

The bald person at the bottom’s head looks like a penis.

PugJesus, in An M22 Locust light tank and a T28 Super heavy tank
@PugJesus@kbin.social avatar

I love the Locust so much.

Drusas, in Audrey Hepburn, at the grocery store with her pet deer, 1958

I like Audrey Hepburn, but taking wild animals as pets is not acceptable.

OmenAtom,

Touch grass

Drusas,

That's not even relevant to the comment I made.

be_excellent_to_each_other,
@be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social avatar

Stealing this comment from @Rolando wholecloth:

FWIW apparently the deer was tame and she only kept it while making a movie (and maybe for a bit afterwards while she was recovering from a miscarriage.) In the movie, her character was followed around by a deer so it had to get used to being near her beforehand. source

Drusas,

That's good to know, thanks for sharing.

Mr_Blott,

Oh my god you should totally cancel her

rockSlayer, in CSS Virginia (otherwise known as the Merrimack, Merrimac, or "Rebel Monster")

Quite the fitting end, blown to smithereens just like their lost cause.

Coach, in King Frederick IX of Denmark, a former naval officer, showing off his tattoos, 1951

Oh my…what a long shadow on that right nip.

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