27. Astrophysicist, writer, artist. Michigan. Business inquiries: kaijunobiz@gmail.com
Photos during the Civil Rights movement were in Black and White because they were cheaper and because News Papers were in black and white (most of the people taking pictures were taking them to publish them).
So here’s some color photos of Martin Luther King to remind everyone that this was recent. This is recent history. This is recent memory for a lot of people. People are alive today that got to witness MLK’s speeches.
-fae
These look like old timey black and white photos but it’s actually the Mackinac bridge like. Right now
This bridge is roughly 5 miles long and 200 feet above the water at its peak.
I would literally shit my pants if I had to drive across it in those conditions.
I’ve driven the bridge in snow fog like today and it is the most nerve wracking experience of your life. Especially when you’re driving on the grating and can see the fog/water below you
I make black and white but mostly gray
These look like old timey black and white photos but it’s actually the Mackinac bridge like. Right now
This bridge is roughly 5 miles long and 200 feet above the water at its peak.
I would literally shit my pants if I had to drive across it in those conditions.
I’ve driven the bridge in snow fog like today and it is the most nerve wracking experience of your life. Especially when you’re driving on the grating and can see the fog/water below you
For those of you concerned. Yes, the Mackinac bridge has center lane grating that you can see through
Anita Blair was the first guide dog handler in El Paso, Texas, when she graduated from The Seeing Eye in March 1940 with Fawn, a German shepherd. The photo is a black and white photo of Anita being guided by Fawn across a bustling city street in the early 1940s.
Just a month later, Anita and Fawn were crossing a street in El Paso when a car nearly hit her. “Fawn, the fawn-colored German shepherd, with perfect timing checked her mistress’s pace, so that the car sped past without the driver being aware that the young woman could not see,” the El Paso Times reported on April 19, 1940.
Fawn was at her side when she graduated from the Texas College of Mines and Metallurgy – now known as the University of Texas at El Paso, or UTEP – with a bachelor’s degree in 1944. She later earned a master’s degree from Texas State College for Women, now Texas Woman’s University, in Denton.
In 1946, Anita and Fawn were again in the news during a tragic fire at the 23-story Hotel LaSalle in Chicago. According to the June 6, 1946, issue of the El Paso Times, Anita was awakened by screams. “When I opened the door the smoke was so heavy I could taste it,” Anita told the newspaper. “I closed the door but did not want to get Fawn excited. Because of her I remained calm – and probably because of me she did the same.”
Fawn led Anita out the window and down the fire escape – 11 stories down – while the fire raged. Sixty-one people were killed in the fire.
In 1952, Anita became the first El Paso woman – and the first blind woman in any state – to be elected as a state representative. During her time in office, Anita fought for funding for the State School for the Deaf, teacher pay raises, and a bill that allowed women to serve on juries.
Anita returned to The Seeing Eye five more times to be matched with successor Seeing Eye dogs. Her last was Beryl, a black Labrador retriever, in 1990. Anita died in 2010 at the age of 93, and in recognition of her service as a state legislator, is buried in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin.
These look like old timey black and white photos but it’s actually the Mackinac bridge like. Right now
Have any of you heard of the Harvard MIT Pigeon Prank?
An MIT student dressed in a black-and-white striped shirt went to the Harvard football stadium every day of one summer, blowing a whistle while scattering breadcrumbs or birdseed to coax neighborhood pigeons down onto the field. At Harvard’s opening game of the season, upon the referee’s first whistle, it’s said that hundreds of pigeons descended onto the field, causing a half-hour delay.
Ah yes, classical conditioning put to good use
Anonymous asked:
The first in general was the black and white version of The Fly which, due to the monkey scene, gave me nightmares.
The first one I ever saw in a theatre was E.T. tho
graysoulztheuniter asked:
yeah i hope i can talk my mom into Ali
![showslow:
“ Jessica Harrison, Hole in the head
”
[sighs] [unzips]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/13605a6e8303078ed2c3b515043dd27b/tumblr_mgdk59A11Y1ro74x3o1_1280.jpg)
