40 vintage photos showing how strange the world used to be

It seems we live in a crazy world today, but believe it or not, we have always lived in a crazy world. Judging by these photographs taken in the distant (and not so distant) past, the world was even stranger, as were the people who lived in it. Let selfies and cats in pantyhose seem strange to those who will live after us, in 100-200 years, and today we will be surprised at the strangeness of those who lived before us.

1. A police officer evaluates the ankles of participants in a beauty pageant in London. 1930

2. A professional rat catcher boasts of his catch. Ratcatchers descended into the sewers of Europe, and paid them for each killed rat. Actually, they do the same in India now.

3. Girls draw arrows to make it look like they are wearing stockings. 1942 During the war, nylon for stockings was in short supply, and women had to go to all sorts of tricks to look fashionable.

4. The same day Sweden got confused about which side of the road it should drive on. 1967

5. Members of the Seattle tire swim community relax in a pond. 1953

6. Technicians load a 5 megabyte memory "map" onto an airplane, 1956. Great, the whole picture will fit in there ...

7. A man tests a prototype football helmet. 1912

8. Just Batman on an Elephant, 1967 Scroll further.

9. The Nazis sing outside Jewish art shops to encourage the Germans to advocate for the closure of the shops. 1933

10. Give me a ride? 1920s

11. This weapon was invented for hunting water game, but it was soon banned due to inefficiency. 1800s. I wonder what they didn't like?

12. Brewery England delivers barrels of beer to soldiers fighting in Normandy. June, 1944

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

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

15. The simulator for "rolling fat" from the legs. 1936

16. Salvador Dali walks his pet anteater. 1969

17. Women's boxing on the roof. 1938

18. Women in wooden swimsuits designed to better float on the water. 1929

19. Portable sauna.

20. Berlin boy sells lemonade from a portable tank. 1931

21. The US Border Patrol is trying to drag the criminal across the border so that he does not escape to Mexico. 1920

22. Top view of New York, proving that once everyone wore a hat. 1939

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

24. Dynasphere - a one-wheeled electric vehicle that could accelerate to 40 km / h.

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

26. A German soldier fires a gun while standing on a horse. 1939

27. A woman waits until the workers of the London atelier complete the collection of her crinoline hoops. 1860

28. Pedal rollers. 1910

29. Children play with bundles of German money. 1922 Due to inflation after the First World War, banknotes in Germany became practically worthless.

30. The concept of a portable TV. 1967

31. Parisians cross flooded streets on chairs. 1924

32. A woman wearing a raincoat designed to protect against harmful UV rays. 1946 Before the invention of suntan, we had to defend ourselves in all sorts of ways.

33. "Sound Seekers" during the First World War had to determine from which side enemy aircraft were approaching.

34. A nurse irradiates children with UV light. 1927 In the past, vitamin D was supplied to children through sunburn, until this was replaced by the safer methods we use today.

35. Belgian soldiers and their dogs, harnessed to guns, on the way to the Western Front. 1914

36. Participants in the Miss Beautiful Eyes contest in Florida. 1930

37. Creative advertisement for anti-malaria drug. "These people weren't taking atabrine." 1941

38. Facial treatment called “freezer”. 1966

39. Mickey Mouse fan club meeting. 1930s.

40. Actors recording an episode of the detective radio show "Gangbusters." 1934