I never knew America was like this!
33 insane photos from america's past that you won't believe. We have visions of what America's past was really like, but do we actually know what it was like? We can only decipher the history through relics: ancient written works, icons and items from centuries past, paintings, and most of all, pictures. Since the 1850s, photography has been a staple of American history, and we have recorded things we might have otherwise never known about, thanks to work of tireless photographers. And through it all, we have captured a snapshot portrait of the United States of America in a single slideshow.These rare, vintage photos are more than just pictures. They're living, breathing relics of a moment forever frozen in time that shows us amazing things about the way that our country is, and the way our country was. Some of these pictures will break your heart, others will make you laugh, and still others will fascinate you. And nothing international here: all of these photos are homegrown American! But you have probably never seen most of these photographs before anyway, so we really think you will thoroughly enjoy this slideshow. These powerful images, showing what the United States REALLY used to be like, will take your breath away.
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Even in the 1950s people could be like this regarding guns some places. I can attest to that
while growing up and visiting some places in California, Arizona and New Mexico. It was thought completely normal if you were out in the country away from big cities where this would be frowned upon. Even a friend of my father's from church had a weapons collection of 1000 weapons including
a cannon that he accidentally started a fire with while shooting it off in Big Bear near
Palm Springs up in the mountains. So, people still were like this with their weapons even in the 1950s and early 1960s. I think it was a 2 to 4 inch cannon that he accidentally started a fire with when he set it off.
Part of the reason is that people in Big cities in the east are 5 to 10 minutes away of a police car
to help them whereas in the 1950s and before it might be 1/2 hour to an hour or longer (even if you
were lucky enough to have a phone to call the police. So, you would be long dead by the time any law showed up. So, unless you defend yourself (even now) it's all over for you if you
are in the country 1/2 hour to an hour away from the law (or more) even now. This is why people
still keep weapons to protect themselves from whatever happens in the country everywhere
in the U.S.
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