50 unexplainable black white photos

[mto'brien]

Sorry if this has made the rounds before. Some very interesting photos here. Enjoy.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/50-unexplainable-black-white-photos

 

[PatrickT]

I saw this a few days ago...very interesting!

 

[Pfreddee]

Elsewhere , someone said that all except #35 are unexplainable. #35 is a young Sarah Palin.

With best regards,

Pfreddee(Stephen)

 

[Photosynthetech]

That deserved a facebook post. Very funny

 

[andrewmore]

26 I think is an experimental vehicle chassis (under test) designed by a chap with the surname of Strausler (or something like that) who worked before WW2 in the UK. The first two wheels are acting as ditching rollers and can be ignored making the vehicle an 8x8. Something like this was used an experimental oil tanker, but it wasn't a great success.

Regards

Andrew More

 

[mwooten]

#4, a smoking kid with poultry is always classic.

 

[jsrockit]

Very good...

 

[gekopaca]

# 18 is a vanité.
# 23 is not really funny
# 35 is the basis for education in the USA
# 39 is a good picture

 

[oftheherd]

Interesting to say the least. Thanks for the link.

 

[j.scooter]

Is it me or were chickens a lot bigger back then???

 

[Nikon Bob]

Interesting series of photos. If I had to bet then #43 was taken om the HMS Wolfhound which was a W Class destroyer in the RN. The prominent feature of the ships crest was the head of a wolfhound. Just another blank round fired in the dark.

Bob

 

[mto'brien]

#31 is:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2005.100.443

 

[alistair.o]

Are you sure #12 isn't an early picture of Bill Clinton?

 

[MC JC86]

# 18 is a vanité.
# 23 is not really funny
# 35 is the basis for education in the USA
# 39 is a good picture

#23 looks like Imperial army gear, not Nazi stuff if I'm correct... although I guess perhaps you just don't like Germans.

#35... we know about way more than flags and handguns..

rifles too!


EDIT: I'm mobile and as a result can't see the stuff too well... may be totally wrong about #23

 

[pagpow]

The responses on this thread are way more interesting than the pictures -- and may replace the Rorschach as a revealing test.

And I appreciate the delicacy with which some comments were framed.

 

[bob338]

# 35 is the basis for education in the USA

where did that come from?

 

[Luddite Frank]

Wow...

Some of my thoughts:

#2 - Don't really want to know; those ladies all look a little too happy...

#4 & 14 - Smoking really does stunt your growth !

#8 - rejected concept for Hitchcock's "The birds"

#24 - Stow-away

#25 - Addams Family lost cousin ?

# 31 - ?????

#37 - A fare is a fare...

#39 - even without any explanation - this is a great catch-the-moment...

 

[Keith]

LOL ... #1 is definitely straight from Alfred E Neuman's family album!

 

[Keith]

And this one may possibly be why 'Bill Bailey' won't go home!

 

[gekopaca]

where did that come from?

From my "lieux communs" and my french ethnocentrism.