Amtrak GG1 4939, now at the Illinois Railway Museum and restored to it's original number, brings a northbound train through the curves at Elizabeth NJ in May 1977. - Photo by Lou Gerard [2048 x 1302]

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Times Square, 1972.

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Riviera Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV. Opened April 20, 1955, it was the first high-rise resort (9th resort on the Strip) with nine stories comprising of the casino, shops, and over 2,100 rooms. Expanded (1988-1990), closed in 2015, and imploded on August 16, 2016.

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Adrienne Barbeau, 1973

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Accident on upper roadway of Grand Central Station, New York, 1944 - Photograph by Arthur Fellig (popularly known as “Weegee”)

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Shaffers Crossing engine terminal of the Norfolk & Western Railway, in Roanoke, Virginia, 1943. - Bryan Beard Photo [1218x700]

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The Rio Grande Zephyr waits for its final departure from Denver’s Union Station on April 24, 1983. - Photo by Bruce Fingerhood [1240 x 836]

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In Living Color TV Series logo (circa 1991)

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Aftermath of the Hammond Circus Train Wreck, in which 86 people were reported to have died and another 127 were injured when a locomotive engineer fell asleep and ran his train into the rear of another near Hammond, Indiana. (June 22, 1918)

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Aerial view of the 102-story Empire State Building and its surrounding area, Midtown Manhattan, New York City, c. 1972 - Photo by James Doane

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Chicago Passenger Terminal, Chicago, Il. Built in 1911 (at a cost of $23,750,000) it was originally located at Clinton and Canal Streets. It was served by the C&NW and Union Pacific. In 1984, much of the original station was demolished and rebuilt as the Ogilvie Transportation Center.

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Santa Fe run through power are eastbound on Conrail as they pass a South Shore train at Bendix, South Bend on a very cold Sunday, January 1977. - Photo by Lou Gerard [2048 x 1392]

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Mourners watching Robert F Kennedy’s funeral train, 1968 - Photograph by Paul Fusco [1280 x 873]

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Sexy Bra & Cleavage (Rocky Horror Picture Show 2016)

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Canadian National Railway U-2-g class 4-8-4 #6218 breaks through the morning fog as it passes through Tecumseh, Ontario, October 1970. - Photo by Joseph Petric [1600 x 1051]

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[Warehouse 13] Paula Garces

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Family Dinner, 1970

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Looking west on Prospect Avenue, c. 1961.

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Weird Science (1985) [567 x 802]

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Ad for The Turtlesuit, 1972

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Corner of Main Street and Congress Ave., c. 1974 - Photo by Mitch Epstein

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Westbound California Zephyr at Earlville, Illinois, January 1970 - Photo by Joseph Petric [2048 x 1345]

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Telephone Booth, 3 a.m., Rahway, New Jersey, c. 1974 - Photo by George Tice

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Union Pacific FEF-3 class 4-8-4 Northern type #8444, when she had that extra 4, comes through a photo runby somewhere in Wyoming in October 1978. - Photo by Lou Gerard [2048 x 1285]

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Timo Makinen (Ford) helping out in the service of a Porsche 911 during London-Mexico Rally, 1970. [1280 x 1074]

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Man Smoking in Diner, 1974 - Photograph by Harold Feinstein

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Postcard view of the Algiers Hotel, 8301 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, circa 1960. The motel was the site of the infamous Algiers Motel incident during the Detroit Riots of 1967. Image from the collection of Walter Jung.

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Pacific Electric Car #5152 westbound on Hollywood Boulevard approaching Highland, circa 1958 - Photo by Roger Titus

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Fremont Street, lit up at night, 1961. - Photo by Nat Farbman for LIFE.

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42nd Street and 7th Avenue, ca. 1970 - Photo by Robert Rossicone

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A prostitute in the red-light district of Sao Paulo, 1997 - Photo by Patrick Zachmann

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Roger Moore, 1971.

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Traffic on the Boulevard of the Allies, Pittsburgh, circa 1930.

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The Half Moon Hotel, Coney Island, Brooklyn. Opened on May 5, 1927, the 16-story, 400-room $3 million dollar hotel originally stood at West 29th Street and the Riegelmann Boardwalk. Immortalized in the mysterious death of mobster turned government informant Abe Kid Twist Reles. Demolished in 1995.

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How Federal Law Creates A New Privileged Class- America’s Independent Light and Power Companies, 1956

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80s computer stuff - Atari

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Treasure Master (NES, 1991) Poster

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Sip a smile... Relax a while! - Orange Crush, 1959

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Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY. Built from 1922-1923 for $2.4 million, as the home ballpark of the Yankees from 1923-1973 and then from 1976-2008. Closed in 2008, and demolished in 2010.

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Southern Railway 2-8-2 No. 4501 is storming westward on the Rock Island at Oak Forest with a trip to Bereau IL. in June 1973. - Photo by Lou Gerard [2048 x 1358]

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Hackers (1995) poster

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In a training session, police recruits aim their revolvers in a mock confrontation at the New York City Police Academy’s “Fun House”, May 5, 1987 - Photo by Jim Wilson for the New York Times. [675 x 1024]

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Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy #4000 at the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) Schenectady, NY., plant in 1941. - Photo by Dmitri Kessel. [1280 x 1280]

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Corona del Mar High School students in Pucci tights, California, 1969 - Photo by Arthur Schatz

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The Flying Dutchman: Fiction becomes Fact - Royal Dutch Airlines Ad, 1933

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Forget the Coffee... Leave that light and lively Irish taste alone. - Old Bushmills Irish Whiskey, 1970

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His palette is rather broad, from kerosene to varnishes. And no one has been able to figure out so far how to talk sense into such a ... connoisseur!, anti-alcohol poster, Soviet Union, 1985

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Director Quentin Tarantino and actress Vanessa Ferlito on the set of Death Proof, 2007

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A brand new concept in luxurious living - Print ad for the “Foodarama” by Kelvinator, ca. 1953-56(?).

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IRT 2 Train, South Bronx, NYC., 1980 - Photo by Danny Lyon

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Carnaby Street Space Age Fashion., June 1st, 1969. - Photo by Daily Herald

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“The Cabaret de l’Enfer” (The Cabaret of Hell), circa 1920s

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A show of unity in Brooklyn for six black prisoners found dead at Attica Correctional Facility, New York, September 25th, 1971 - Photo by Jean-Pierre Laffont [1536 x 1024]

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Atlanta Terminal Station. Built in 1905 (rebuilt in 1947) at Mitchell Street and Ted Turner Drive, once called Spring Street, Terminal Station served as a transportation hub in Atlanta for nearly 86 trains a day until its closing in 1970 and its demolition in 1972.

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One of The Best Soundtracks in Video Game History

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We're Helping Him Strike Em' Out - Union Pacific Railroad, WWII

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Rock band The Runaways pose for a portrait on the beach in April of 1976, Los Angeles, CA. - Photo by Michael Ochs.

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Skeletal remains of a victim found in John Wayne Gacy's crawlspace.

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Union Pacific Railroad E8 934 at Cheyenne, Wyoming on August 27, 1965, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. [1600 x 1011]

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NYC, 1983 - Photo by Miron Zownir

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Chicago, 1963 - Photo by Vivian Maier

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Watching The Gyro, Coney Island, 1949 - Photo by Harold Feinstein

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Saturday Night Live’s “Not Ready For Prime Time” Players for the second half of season 2 (1977): Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.

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Redd Foxx, Eddie Murphy, and Richard Pryor on the set of Harlem Nights, 1989

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Southern Pacific GS-4 Daylight Lima-built 4-8-4 steam locomotive number 4449, southbound through Fresno, California on its way to the New Orleans Worlds Fair, May 12, 1984. [3411 x 2097]

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NYC Grand Central Terminal, 1941 - photo by John Collier. [900 x 880]

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Times Square, 1973

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Southern Railway 2-8-2 No. 4501 and Rock Island E6A #630 rest on display in downtown Chicago in June of 1974. Photo by Tom Golden. [2048 x 1394]

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42nd Street, 1986

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Tijuana, Mexico, circa 1967.

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Dearborn Street Station, circa 1910 – including a not-quite-successfully retouched little pedestrian blur.

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Phoebe Cates as Linda Barrett in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

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Here’s what Film Noir is to me. It’s a righteously generically American film movement that went from 1945 to 1958 and ex-posited one great theme and that theme is you’re fucked. - James Ellroy, Connecticut, 1991. Photo by Bruce Gilden.

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Former Atlanta and West Point 4-6-2 Pacific #290 gets ready to leave the Zero Mile Post station at Underground Atlanta, sometime in the spring of 1992. - Photo by Bill Dennington [1592 x 1062]

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California Zephyr dinner menu - October 1969

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Lynda Carter wearing a cowboy hat and a pair of bell bottoms, 1970s

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Boardwalk Hotel & Casino, located on 3750 South Las Vegas Blvd., in between the Bellagio and the Monte Carlo and across from the Paris, Aladdin and MGM Grand., c. 1998.

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Jane Curtin, John Belushi, Garrett Morris, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Laraine Newman, and Dan Aykroyd, 1976

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Mogas (modern girls) wearing western dress at the dawn of the Showa era, Japan, c. 1932 - photographer unknown

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Girl in the rain, USSR, Early 1980s - Photo by Anonymous

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Hanging out on Baxter Street, Little Italy, New York City, c. 1976 - Photograph from the “Prince Street Girls” series by Susan Meiselas

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Salma Hayek, 1999

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Corner of 9th, Main and Spring Streets, Los Angeles, California, 1948.

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Howdy Doodies, Chicago, 1960. Photo by Steve Schapiro

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Canal Street at Bourbon Street, c. 1967

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1979 Cocaine Calendar

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Union Pacific Challenger #3985 (disguised as Clinchfield 676) leads CSX's Santa Train over the Copper Creek bridge at Speers Ferry, Virginia. - Photo by Bill Gordon [1024 x 805]

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Caroline Munro - Lamb's Navy rum shoot, 1979

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Members of the Young Lords Party, East Harlem NY, 1970 [1280 x 879]

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“View from 224 Avenue B” (1983) - Photograph by Ken Schles

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The Money Pit (1986) - An underrated but awesome Tom Hanks comedy.

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Istanbul, 1954. - Photo by Ara Guler.

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With the City Hall building in the background, the San Diegan, led by ATSF 371, sits at Los Angeles Union Station, March 1971. [921 × 607]

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Air-defense forces searchlights illuminating the sky over Moscow, June 1941. - Photo by Anatoly Garanin [1000 x 642]

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Rosario Dawson [Sin City/Percy Jackson/Daredevil/Jessica Jones/Luke Cage/The Lego Batman Movie]

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Spike Lee on the set of Do the Right Thing, 1988

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Aerial view of smoke rising from the smoldering rubble of the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia, Pa., May 13, 1985. [1200 x 796]

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Catching the streetcar home in Five Points, Atlanta, Ga., 1945. [900x718]

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Southbound Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad local engaged in switching at Granger, Texas, in July 1971. - Photograph by J. Parker Lamb [2048 x 1657]

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A night view of Broadway and Times Square, NYC, 1965

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Construction of the Union Plaza Hotel & Casino, Circa April or May, 1971.

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DODGE PUT ME INTO A STREET VAN. - Chrysler, 1976

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Boy holding a pride flag at a Pride Parade in San Francisco, June 26, 1988. - Photo by Daniel Nicoletta [1205 x 1600]

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A pair of Amtrak SDP40F's take the San Francisco Zephyr out of Chicago's Union Station, June 1975 - Photo by Lou Gerard [2048 x 1349]

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Hotel lobby, Frederick, Wisconsin, 1984 - Photo by Kelly Povo

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Southern Pacific Railroad 'Consolidation' Class C-9 2-8-0 #2790 steams across Donner Pass, California, 1949 - Photo by John Dominis [1280 x 978]

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You've got a lot to live. Pepsi's got a lot to give. - Pepsi-Cola Ad featured in Teen Magazine, June 1971

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You Can't Beat The Feeling! - Coca Cola, 1980s

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During the Roanoke NRHS Convention, Southern Ry. (Texas & Pacific) 2-10-4 #610 and Southern Ry. 2-8-2 #4501, perform a photo runby between Roanoke and Lynchburg on the N&W, September 1977. - Photo by G Morris [1600 x 1074]

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Ariana Grande

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Grand River Avenue, circa 1965

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State Street, looking north from Madison Street, circa 1927.

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Amtrak Southwest Poster - painted by artist David Klein, 1973

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42nd Street at Seventh Avenue, facing Northwest, c. 1970

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Times Square at dusk, 1952. - Photo from the collection of Al Ponte.

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John Wayne Gacy in an undated photo with his second wife, Carole Hoff and her daughter.

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“Unknown Sailor”, Times Square, NYC, 1989 - Photo by Matt Weber

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Florida East Coast Railway GP9 666 at Jacksonville, Florida on an unknown day in May 1980, Kodachrome by unknown photographer, Chuck Zeiler collection. [1600 x 1059]

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Pam Grier in Coffy, 1973

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Drinking Fountains, Mobile, Alabama, 1956 - Photo by Gordon Parks [2500 x 1691]

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Workout II in Leather - L.A. Gear ad, 1985.

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Piccadilly Circus at night, London, 1960 - photo by Elmar Ludwig

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Sophia Loren, 1964

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Hampton Terrace Hotel, North Augusta, SC. Built in 1902. Overlooking the Savannah River, this renowned hotel was booked solid every year and famous for its golf course with such golfers as President Taft. Disaster struck on New Years Eve 1916 when a fire destroyed the hotel.

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Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad E5 9910A, named SILVER SPEED, departing Union Station in Chicago, Illinois on August 21, 1949 - photographer unknown, print by Willian A. Raia, Chuck Zeiler collection. [1600 x 1231]

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The Reading Railroad's Crusader trainset, circa 1937.

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Cannon Films logo

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New pic from Instagram.

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Raquel Welch, 1968

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Looking north on Rush St. from Chestnut St., circa 1967

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A week before its inaugural run, the newly streamlined 20th Century Limited leaves Chicago's LaSalle Street station on a trial run, June 9, 1938. [928 × 720]

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Wyoming/Colorado Railroad FP7 #1512 parked on the main for lunch at Centennial, WY, July 1994 - Photo by Santa Fe Way [2362 x 1591]

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3 LTV Mining F's and a Geep 38 have the empties rolling out of Cramer Tunnel heading back to Hoyt Lakes, MN. on May 1996. - Photo by Lou Gerard [7198 x 4724]

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Finally, high-fidelity television with sterero sound. - Pioneer LaserDisc, 1981

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Delaware & Hudson 4-6-6-4 J-class Challenger #1526 hauls a manifest freight train along the mainline at Stillwater, Pennsylvania. - dated 11-09-1951 [1024 x 685]

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ONLY BY HIGHWAY you go straight to the choicest vacation spots - Greyhound, 1946

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Jennifer Tilly at age 59

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Wear a little sweater to the beach! - The J.C. Penney Co, 1973

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Assembly line with 1958 Chevrolets, October, 1957. - Kodachrome by Phillip Harrington [1280 x 858]

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Shoppers on West 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues in the Times Square area of New York, c. 1975 - Photo by Peter Keegan

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Union Pacific FEF-3 class 4-8-4 Northern type #8444 does a photo runby on the New Line in Wyoming in October 1978. - Photo by Lou Gerard [1024 x 681]

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Town and Country Restaurant, 284 Park Ave., NYC, August, 14, 1946

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