{"id":28271,"date":"2024-04-18T09:38:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=28271"},"modified":"2024-04-18T09:38:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:38:11","slug":"travel-back-in-time-with-these-55-fascinating-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/travel-back-in-time-with-these-55-fascinating-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Back in Time with These 55 Fascinating Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt;\">Travel Back in Time with These 55 Fascinating Pictures<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Today&#8217;s site pick (page pick) is going to be long on visuals and short on text. It&#8217;s hard to believe, I know. But it&#8217;s true. If you&#8217;re as old as I am or younger, you&#8217;re going to find these pictures amazing and I expect some of them will rev up that time machine inside you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">I&#8217;m going to show you 6 of the 55 pictures that appear on our site pick and if you&#8217;re not intrigued, I don&#8217;t what to say. I&#8217;d be lost for words&#8230; and I&#8217;m rarely lost for words as you know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/55pix1.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Site Pick - BuzzFeed - You Won't Believe Your Eyes When You See These 55 Old Photos That Are Simply Mind-Blowing\" width=\"600\" height=\"743\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Above: This is what the first Taco Bell looked like. You can find it at their headquarters in California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Below: Here&#8217;s who the Wendy&#8217;s logo was based on \u2014 Wendy Morse, whose father Dave Thomas founded the fast food chain&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/55pix2.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Site Pick - BuzzFeed - You Won't Believe Your Eyes When You See These 55 Old Photos That Are Simply Mind-Blowing\" width=\"600\" height=\"757\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And here&#8217;s what the first Shell gas station looked like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/55pix3.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Site Pick - BuzzFeed - You Won't Believe Your Eyes When You See These 55 Old Photos That Are Simply Mind-Blowing\" width=\"600\" height=\"576\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Here&#8217;s a menu from the Titanic on the day it sank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/55pix4.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Site Pick - BuzzFeed - You Won't Believe Your Eyes When You See These 55 Old Photos That Are Simply Mind-Blowing\" width=\"438\" height=\"1330\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Let&#8217;s take a look at house and mortgage prices in the late 1950s and early 1960s&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/55pix5.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Site Pick - BuzzFeed - You Won't Believe Your Eyes When You See These 55 Old Photos That Are Simply Mind-Blowing\" width=\"600\" height=\"762\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/SnapshotHistory\/comments\/1bk62gx\/the_kids_guide_to_the_internet_circa_1997\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s an instructional video<\/a> about using the internet from 1997. So much has changed in 27 years!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2024\/55pix6.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Site Pick - BuzzFeed - You Won't Believe Your Eyes When You See These 55 Old Photos That Are Simply Mind-Blowing\" width=\"600\" height=\"1067\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">OK! Those six pictures should be enough to encourage you to want to see the other 49 fascinating pictures on our site (page) pick today. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/hannahmarder\/old-photos-that-are-so-wild-to-see-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Come on, you know you want to see the other 49 pictures&#8230; so let&#8217;s go!<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Travel Back in Time with These 55 Fascinating Pictures Today&#8217;s site pick (page pick) is going to be long on visuals and short on text. It&#8217;s hard to believe, I know. But it&#8217;s true. 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