40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

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It seems that today we live in a crazy world, but — believe it or not — we have always lived in a crazy world. Judging by these photos taken in the distant (not very distant) past, the world was even weirder, as the people who lived in it. Let the selfies and cats in tights seem strange to those who will live after us, years after 100-200, and today we are surprised by the strangeness of those who lived before us.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

1. A police officer assesses ankle participating in beauty contest in London. 1930.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

2. Professional Piper shows off their catch. The Piper went down in the sewers of Europe, and they were paid for each dead rat. Actually, now as well doing in India.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

3. Girls draw arrows to make it seem like if they are wearing stockings. 1942. In wartime, nylon for stockings were scarce and women had to go to all sorts of tricks to look fashionable.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

4. The same day, when Sweden got confused about which side of the road now she needs to go. 1967.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

5. Community members who like to swim on the tire Seattle rest in the pond. 1953.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

6. Technicians loaded a "map" of memory, 5 megabytes in the plane, 1956. Great to fit the whole picture...

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

7. The man is testing a prototype of a football helmet. 1912.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

8. Only Batman on an elephant, 1967. Scroll further.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

9. Nazis sing from Jewish stores painting, to induce the Germans to advocate the closure of shops. 1933.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

10. Need a ride? 1920s

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

11. This weapon was invented for hunting water game, but it was soon banned because of inefficiency. 1800-ies. Interestingly, they did not agree?

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

12. A brewery in England delivering kegs to the soldiers fighting in Normandy. June, 1944.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

13. Vietnamese orphans whose parents died in the war, flying to Los Angeles airport. April 12, 1975.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

14. Alfred Hitchcock serves tea to the lion, starring in the logo of MGM. 1957.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

15. Trainer for "rolling fat" feet. 1936.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

16. Salvador Dali walking his pet anteater. 1969.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

17. Women's Boxing on the roof. 1938.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

18. Women in wooden bathing suits, created to better tread water. 1929.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

19. A portable sauna.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

20. The Berlin boy selling lemonade from a portable tank. 1931.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

21. The United States border patrol is trying to pull the offender across the border, so he fled to Mexico. 1920.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

22. Top view of new York, proving that when everyone wore hats. 1939.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

23. Japanese women have covered their faces in shame in a courtroom in Tokyo.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

24. Ginastera — one-wheeled electric vehicle that could accelerate to 40 km/h.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

25. Soviet soldiers feeding polar bears from a tank. 1950.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

26. A German soldier fires his rifle, standing on the horse. 1939.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

27. A woman waits for workers at the London Studio is not completed to collect the hoops of her crinoline. 1860.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

28. Foot rollers. 1910.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

29. Children playing with bundles of German money. 1922. Because of the inflation after the First world war banknotes in Germany have become almost useless.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

30. The concept of the portable TV. 1967.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

31. Parisians cross flooded streets on chairs. 1924.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

32. Woman in a raincoat designed to protect against harmful UV rays. 1946. Before the invention of tools we had to protect ourselves in various ways.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

33. "Searchers sound" during the First world war was supposed to determine which side of enemy aircraft approaching.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

34. Nurse children is irradiated with UV light. 1927. In the past vitamin D was supplied to children through the tan, while this method has not replaced safer methods that we use today.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

35. Belgian soldiers and their dogs, harnessed to cannon, on the way to the Western front. 1914.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

36. The participants of the contest "Miss beautiful eyes" in Florida. 1930.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

37. Creative advertising tools against malaria. "These people have not taken atebrin". 1941.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

38. Care treatment for the skin called "freezer". 1966.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

39. Meeting of the fan club Mickey mouse. The 1930-ies.

40 retrofit showing how strange the world was before

40. Actors recording an episode of the detective show, "Hunters gangs." 1934.

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