Category: Weird
Step into the bizarre side of history with strange and fascinating vintage photos. From odd inventions to surreal scenes — explore the unexpected.
These images prove that the past was often weirder, funnier, and more creative than we imagine.
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#2 February 4, 1942. Now that girdle and corset production has reached a new low due to rubber priorities and war conditions, dieting and reducing apparatuses will likely become popular. Here Gail King demonstrates a portable sweat box. It consists of a large cloth bag, with a zipper front, and a small air pump which forces heat and vapor into the bag, enabling one to relax in comfort while taking a steam bath.
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#3 Firemen and rescue workers tackle the blaze in front of the tail-plane and wing of the United Airlines Douglas airliner, which lay in the middle of a street in residential Brooklyn after colliding mid-air with a TWA Constellation airliner; at least 132 people died in the disaster, December 1960.
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