VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

After Patton orders the vault door blown, 7,000+ bags of gold bars are revealed. Eisenhower was moved by the experience of his visit & wrote,"Crammed into suitcases & trunks was a great amount of gold & silver plate and ornament obviously looted from private dwellings throughout Europe. All the articles had been flattened by hammer blows, obviously to save storage space, & then merely thrown into the receptacle, apparently pending an opportunity to melt them down into gold or silver bars."

 

George Armstrong Custer and some of his fellow soldiers, during the American Civil War.

 

New Yorkers cool off in the Astoria public pool with the Hell Gate railroad bridge looming in the background in the summer of 1940.

 

Jackie Stewart's car flipping mid-way through a race

 

Hark Family Photo in the Great Depression

 

Graf Zeppelin over Egypt, 1931

 

Railroad bridge from the years 1901-1904, in the State of Oregon, USA.

 

Moving a house using draught horses. San Francisco, 1908

 

Mardi Gras, New Orleans 1907

 

A plane flies over Christ the Redeemer Statue under construction in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, c. 1930

 

Crammed into a Bulgarian coal mine elevator, coming up after a day of work, 1900