20 Intriguing Historical Pictures You May Not Have Seen

Take a step back in time and check out some crazy images from the past.

Published 7 years ago in Wow

Take a step back in time and check out some crazy images from the past.

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Glenda Kemp doing her famous snake dance during a show in South Africa in 1970. She became so popular she even did a film called Snake Dancer in 1976 showcasing her talents.

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Charlotte Darehshori hides from sniper fire from Charles Whitman during the University of Texas Tower shooting on August 1, 1966. Whitman killed a total of 16 people, his wife and mother earlier in the day, than another 14 from sniper fire from the tower during a 90-95 minute shooting spree, while wounding another 32. He was eventually snuck up on and killed by police.
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A 5 year old boy picking cotton in Oklahoma, USA in 1916.

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People line up around the block on both sides waiting for a chance to see Star Wars in 1977. Some people would wait all day or sometimes days and some theaters ordered more reels and would only show Star Wars and nothing else due to its demand.
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2 women hitchhiking in Toronto, Canada in 1974. It is possible these 2 found the only time of day and the only street in the country without nice Canadians to assist them. That, or a big hockey game may have been taking place at the same time.
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A woman gives her confession at the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon, Portugal in 1955.

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Waitresses known as CarHop girls deliver food to Drive-In patrons in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA in 1940. Known for their flattering outfits, especially showcasing their legs, CarHop girls were everywhere in the US in the 1940s-1950s. Sometimes they wore roller skates, and had uniforms that made them look like band members (as shown), cheerleaders, or sometimes even only wore bikinis at some locations, or any other absurdly sexy outfit to attract mostly male customers.
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The famous Hells Café in Paris in 1903.
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An Austrian-Hungarian soldier plays with his pet fox and owl, both chained to their cages, somewhere near the Eastern front in 1915.

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People in Siberia, Russia line up for bread in 1990. This was the norm throughout most of the USSRs history, but people were usually fed post WWII. Unfortunately, as the USSR was collapsing, it got worse and people waited for hours for basic groceries or supplies and wouldn't get what they were in line to get in the first place for days.
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Jewish children at the Irene Kauffman Settlement school in Pittsburgh in 1934 giving a straight arm salute to the American flag. This salute was much like the Nazi salute, and common in the US before the Nazi's made it their own way of saluting.
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Students playing a soccer game in Wuhan, Hubei province, China in 1980. China has had space issues for what seems like forever, and this is no different. The field has no room for stands, leaving children dangerously close to watch the game.

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A group of school boys hanging out between classes in Havana, Cuba in 1937. The young man with the lollipop is none other than Fidel Castro.
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Protesters in Warsaw Poland in 1984. This was the beginning of a 7 year movement known as the Solidarity Movement. They are holding up the peace symbol which also became the symbol of the movement.
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Women working at a piano factory in Sydney, Australia in 1922.

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3 veteran Tiger hunters pose for a picture somewhere in what is now North Korea in 1922.
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The MS St. Louis when it arrived in Antwerp in 1939. This was a German ocean liner carrying around 900 Jewish refugees. The German captain and his crew got them out of Germany. They first tried to seek asylum in Cuba, but were denied. Then they tried the US and Canada, but both denied them as well. Luckily Belgium, The Netherlands, France and the UK accepted them. However, since 3 of those countries were conquered by the Nazi's, over a quarter of these Jews were shipped to camps and died.
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East Berlin guards adding fresh barbed wire to the top of part of the Berlin Wall in 1972 as a curious West German family watches.

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Indian refugees arrive in London after being expelled from Uganda in 1972. Idi Amin, the former heavyweight boxer turned Ugandan dictator expelled all Asians from the country almost immediately after taking power.