43 Color Snaps That Capture Everyday Life of Lisbon in the 1960s

Lisbon is the capital and the largest city of Portugal. Its urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits, being the 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union. It is continental Europe's westernmost capital city and the only one along the Atlantic coast.

Lisbon lies in the western Iberian Peninsula on the Atlantic Ocean and the River Tagus. The westernmost areas of its metro area form the westernmost point of Continental Europe.

Lisbon is also one of the oldest cities in the world, and the oldest in Western Europe, predating other modern European capitals such as London, Paris and Rome by centuries. Unlike most capital cities, Lisbon's status as the capital of Portugal has never been granted or confirmed officially – by statute or in written form. Its position as the capital has formed through constitutional convention, making its position as de facto capital a part of the Constitution of Portugal.

Make a trip back to Lisbon more than 50 years ago to see what the city looked like in the 1960s.

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Rarely Seen Photos of Jayne Mansfield in the Netherlands in October, 1957

An unseen found photo set from Poedie van Laar that captured Jayne Mansfield in Netherlands in October 1957.

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20 Vintage Snaps of Demonic Glowing Eyed Cats

In many animals, including dogs, cats and deer, the retina has a special reflective layer called the tapetum lucidum that acts almost like a mirror at the backs of their eyes. If you shine a flashlight or headlights into their eyes at night, their eyes shine back with bright, white light.

Humans don’t have this tapetum lucidum layer in their retinas. If you shine a flashlight in a person’s eyes at night, you don’t see any sort of reflection. The flash on a camera is bright enough, however, to cause a reflection off of the retina — what you see is the red color from the blood vessels nourishing the eye.

These vintage cat photographs are from Robert E. Jackson's collection, and they show how when a flash is taken of a cat, the lens of their eyes glows such that they looked possessed.

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Ford Edsel 1958 Car Models: The Wrong Car at the Wrong Time!

Ford in the 1950s was nothing if not ambitious. Unfortunately, this ambition gave birth to the Edsel, whose name became synonymous with abject corporate failure after the nascent brand was killed in 1959. The Edsel's short history makes a fascinating cautionary tale for anyone in business–not just the car industry.

Ford dubbed Sept. 4, 1957, the day the Edsel debuted, as "E-Day" and spent the year leading up to it pushing a teaser campaign for the new brand and the new car. At launch, Ford made 18 different versions of the Edsel available — an unheard-of move at a time when most car companies offered just a few models. The Edsel was supposed to be everything American car buyers wanted; however, it was a terrible flop.

The Edsel never gained popularity with contemporary American car buyers and sold poorly. The Ford Motor Company lost $250 million on the Edsel's development, manufacturing, and marketing. The very name "Edsel" became a popular symbol for a commercial failure.

Here's the vintage automobile advertisement for the 1958 Edsel models (please click on the images to view them larger).

30 Vintage Sexy Hammond Organ Album Covers From the 1970s and 1980s

The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. These days, there's no distinguishing one keyboard from the next because all they really do is act as computer trigger devices. But in the 1960s, '70s, '80s, and even the early '90s, keyboards and their manufacturers were known for signature sounds.

There were still plenty of Hammond LP’s being sold (in Europe in particular), with each album cover, almost without exception, delivering cheesecake. After all, which album are you going to buy, the one featuring a girl in a bikini, or the one with the overweight organist on the cover? No need to answer that. Let’s have a look at some fine examples...

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55 Color Photos That Capture Everyday Life of Moraira, Spain in the 1980s

Moraira is a small, upmarket Spanish coastal town, part of Teulada (also known as Teulada-Moraira) municipality, in the Marina Alta comarca, north of Alicante and south of Valencia.

Moraira's historic roots as a fishing village are still in evidence; its fish market is one of the most popular in the Costa Blanca region and the port has five fishing boats in operation. The Moraira region is also famous for the growing of Muscatel grapes for wine-making.

A fascinating photo collection from Elizabeth Wickstead that shows everyday life of Moraira in the 1980s.

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One of the Most Beautiful Actresses in Film History: Rare Found Photos of Maude Fealy in the Early 1900s

Born Maude Mary Hawk in 1883 in Memphis, Tennessee, American stage and silent film actress Maude Fealy performed on stage with her mother at the age of three, and went on to make her Broadway debut in the 1900 production of Quo Vadis, again with her mother.

Fealy frequently toured the United Kingdom from 1901 to 1905, and by 1907 was the star in touring productions in the United States.

Appeared in her first silent film in 1911, Fealy was one of rare silent film actresses whose career survived into the talkie era.

Fealy died in 1971, aged 88, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, and was interred in the Abbey of the Psalms Mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Take a look at these rare found snapshots to see the beauty of young Maude Fealy in the early 1900s.

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