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Ah, the way we were. Totally bonkers. 1. This is the Coffee Queen of 1940, Peggy Van Vliet, posing inside the "world's largest iced coffee glass" with, well, an iced coffee: 2. This is stuntwoman Lillian Boyer hanging from the wing of an airplane extremely casually: 3. This absolutely ENORMOUS tower was built entirely out of alcohol confiscated during Prohibition: 4. Here's, in all its glory, is an underwater alligator race: 5. This is welder Terry Smith just absolutely munchin' and crunchin' on some records: 6. This is father Paul Carpenter apparently trying to set the world record for highest baby toss: 7. One of the biggest fads of the 1950s was "phonebooth stuffing," where-in a bunch of people would, well, stuff themselves into a phonebooth: 8. Here's a mother and son casually watching a nuclear bomb test in the distance: 9. And here's a group of people casually enjoying a swim while, in the distance, an atomic bomb detonates: 10. Speaking of which, people were so caught up in atomic-mania at they crowned a "Miss Atomic Bomb" in 1957. Here's what she looked like: 11. This is a beauty mask that apparently was made to cure hangovers: 12. This is what a totally safe, totally not-dangeorous chairlift looked like in the 1950s: 13. This is football player John Sweatlock catching a whole turkey without excellent form: 14. This is your classic picture of an underwater ping pong game flanked by a shark: 15. Here's a man and a kangaroo going jump for jump on a trampoline: 16. This photo shows conjoined twins Violet and Daisy Hilton in the mid-1920s, when Violet was briefly engaged to musician Maurice Lambert: 17. Here’s a look at a woman competing in the high jump from all the way back in the 1908 Olympics: 18. At first glance, this just looks like a regular old-timey baseball team photo. But look a little closer and you’ll spot what many believe is the very first captured moment of someone, well… flipping the bird: 19. Let's get a closer look: 20. This is Ruth Jump, well, jumping off a diving board while shooting a bow and arrow: 21. This is Alan Hogarth trying on his invention, shoes designed to let him walk on water: 22. For one brief, magical moment top-loading dishwashers were a thing: 23. This is woman undergoing an early beauty procedure meant to remove freckles: 24. Here's a stuntman flying off a ramp and absolutely cascading through the air in a tiny car: 25. This just might be a picture of the very first combined car and plane crash: 26. Pictured here is a circus strongwoman balancing not only a man on her chest but also an entire piano: 27. Here are some truly unhinged individuals enjoying lunch atop a skyscraper: 28. Ladies and gentlemen, here are three chimpanzees on a bicycle: 29. Here’s golfer Joe Kirkwood summarily executing his caddy, uh, I mean, hitting a golf ball out of his mouth: 30. Here's a bunch of WAY too calm people about to be jumped by a very intense man on a motorcycle: 31. This, in all its glory, is a meeting of the US Board of Tea Experts. They're, well, testing teas for sale in the USA: 32. Here's a cat pushing a baby in stroller... just because: 33. This is actor Marty Feldman making one of his trademark faces. You might actually be familiar with some of his roles, like Igor in Young Frankenstein: 34. Here's a vintage car graveyard, containing a bunch of very old cars about to meet their demise: 35. Here's a woman with just absolutely gigantic eyelashes: 36. Here’s a little girl giving her dolls haircuts in a completely not terrifying at all way: 37. Here's a whole bunch of nurses helping a whole bunch of babies both fight jaundice and get some vitamin D: 38. Here are a bunch of soldiers posing like little schoolchildren while another soldier jumps them: 39. This was a short-lived way to transport prisoners on motorcycle: 40. Here's Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson holding not one but TWO prize-winning roosters in 1927: 41. During its move to a new location, this house slipped off the transport truck, creating an incredibly bizarre sight: 42. Here's an elephant just casually resting its foot on a man: 43. This picture from the 1927 Tour de France shows riders Julien Vervaecke and Maurice Geldhof taking a quick cigarette break while competing: 44. Here's musician Fred Lemire playing world record world's largest banjo: 45. This is a scene from the premiere of the movie Underwater, which was held... underwater: 46. This smiling fellow is a lab technician hired to observe couples kissing in order to gauge the durability of lipstick: 47. Here's model Madelle Hegeler wearing a whole bunch of bizarre jewelry made by Salvadore Dali: 48. Here are two men testing a bulletproof vest in the absolute safest way possible: 49. This is a real photo of two people, Gladys Roy and Ivan Unger, playing tennis on top of a plane flying at 3000 feet: 50. Here's photographer Jack Reilly prancing about the 74-story-tall Bank of Manhattan while it was under construction in 1929: 51. Before modern car washes were invented, one particularly wacky idea was for cars to drive around through water in a circle: 52. Here's the contestants of the World's Most Beautiful Legs competition in 1951: 53. This is pilot Charles Godefroy flying his plane through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris: 54. This, ladies and gentlemen, is a prototype flying car, meant to well, drive on land and fly in the sky: 55. This, in all its extremely-dangerous-looking glory, is a woman taking an "electric bath": 56. This is a prototype for a baby stroller made to withstand gas attacks during World War II: 57. This is what an average children's playground looked like in 1908: 58. This is beautician Max Factor with his invention, the beauty calibrator, a device designed to show which parts of a woman's face needed more or less make-up: 59. Back when people were so inclined to do so, this was one way to board and travel by blimp: 60. And, finally, this is a woman wearing a hat that's also a shoe. A shat. Or a hoot. You be the judge:
