20 Cool Pics Capture People Posing With Lancia Cars From Between the 1920s and ’60s

Lancia is an Italian automobile manufacturer that was founded in 1906 by Vincenzo Lancia as Lancia & C.. It became part of the Fiat Group in 1969; the current company, Lancia Automobiles, was established in 2007.

The company has a strong rally heritage, and has often used letters of the Greek alphabet for its model names.

These cool pics from Vintage Cars & People that captured people posing with Lancia cars from between the 1920s and 1960s.

A company of four posing in an open-top Lancia Lambda in a city street on a rainy day, 1927

A fellow in a chauffeur's outfit posing with a Lancia Lambda Berlina at the back of a prestigious building on a bleak winter's day, circa 1928

Two young ladies posing with a Lancia Lambda Berlina in an unpaved urban street, circa 1928

A lady in a fur-collared coat posing with a Lancia Lambda in front of an overgrown garden on a hazy autumn's day, circa 1929

A company of three enjoying a cigarette break on the bank of a river in summertime, a Lancia Artena Saloon can be seen parked in the shadow of a row of trees behind them, circa 1930

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The World's Greatest Indoor Miniature Village: 18 Vintage Postcards of the Roadside America From Between the 1940s and ’60s

Roadside America is an indoor miniature village and railway covering 8,000 square feet (740 m2), created by Laurence Gieringer in 1935. It was first displayed to the public in the home of Mr Laurence Gieringer in Hamburg, Pennsylvania.

Word got out about the exciting miniature village after a story was published in the local newspapers, and due to its popularity, Mr. Gieringer moved the display to a recently-closed local amusement park called Carsonia Park, where more people could come to see his spectacular miniature village.

The display stayed there for a very short time, from 1938 to about 1940 when Mr. Geringer purchased land at the current site of Roadside America to build a larger display in order to accommodate the growing interest.

In 1941 the exhibit reopened at the current location, a former dance hall in Shartlesville, Pennsylvania, Exit 23 on Interstate 78, approximately 20 miles west of the Lehigh Valley.

These vintage postcards that show the Roadside America from between the 1940s and 1960s.

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Iconic Photo of President Reagan Greeting a Young Boy While KGBer Vladimir Putin Dressed as a Tourist in Red Square, 1988

According to Obama’s photographer, this is Putin. According to Putin, this is not Putin!

President Ronald Reagan in Red Square in 1988 with, at far left,... KGBer Vladimir Putin? (White House Photo/ Pete Souza)

The historic photograph was taken during the US president’s 1988 visit to Moscow. Is the camera-wearing blond youth insouciantly dressed as a tourist actually a tourist? Or is he in fact an undercover KGB spy, now better known as Vladimir Putin?

Reagan (and later Obama) White House photographer Pete Souza, who took the photo, recalled in a 2012 interview on NPR that the tourists Reagan met were asking some oddly pointed questions about his human rights record, until a Secret Service agent told him, “Oh, these are all KGB families.”

Souza said he was told the ‘tourist’ with the camera was a young Putin, who in 1988 was just a midlevel KGB agent, “and it certainly does look like him.”

“Putin wasn’t really on the scene [at the time], right? But this guy made a good case for why this was him: The so-called tourists that were in Red Square were really—we knew they were KGB families” Pete Souza told Esquire. “I wondered about it, so I contacted the Reagan library and the National Security Council at the Bush White House... The Reagan library wasn’t sure, they didn’t know any way to check. Someone at the National Security Council at the Bush White House emailed me back and said, ‘It could be him, but we can’t say for sure.’”

The identity of the young man with the camera has been up for debate since the photo surfaced in 2009. Putin’s press spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, flat-out denied that the man in the photo was Russia’s future head of state. “It’s not him,” Peskov said. To further complicate matters, Putin wasn’t even stationed in Russia in 1988 — he was based in East Germany. And skeptics point out that it would be highly unlikely that he was flown back just to pose as a tourist and pester Reagan with questions during a “casual” encounter. Souza has insisted that the man is definitely Putin.

“So jump ahead to 2009, when I was first hired to do the Obama job. I did an interview with Steve Inskeep of NPR, and this came up in discussion. And I made it sound, wrongly, like I was convinced that it was Vladimir Putin, when in fact there was no concrete proof. So I don’t know. It’s still a mystery to me. But the Russians have denied that it’s him.” – said Souza.

(via Timeline)

22 Gorgeous Portrait Photos of a Beautiful Ballet Dancer in the Late 1930s

A set of 22 sepia photographs was found by Sam Salt that all datestamped on the reverse 31 March 1939. They came in an envelope from Jerome Ltd of Kings Cross Road London that was addressed to Miss Sear.

From other photographs of the same girl, her first name can be identified as Marjorie. Her age is noted only on one photo as being 15.

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Firebird III: One of the Most Intriguing and Influential Concept Cars of General Motors

GM built the Firebird III in 1958 and debuted it at Motorama in 1959. It is another extravagant concept with a fiberglass body and no fewer than seven short wings and tail fins (which were tested extensively in a wind tunnel).

The car is a two-seater powered by a 225 hp (168 kW) Whirlfire GT-305 gas turbine engine, with a two-cylinder 10 hp (7.5 kW) gasoline engine to run all the accessories. Its exterior design features a double-bubble canopy and technical advancements to make it more practical, such as cruise control, anti-lock brakes, and air conditioning.

The Firebird III also featured “Space-Age” innovations, such as special air drag brakes like those found on aircraft, which emerged from flat panels in the bodywork of the car to slow it from high speeds; an “ultra-sonic” key that signaled the doors to open; an automated guidance system to help avoid accidents; and "no hold" steering.

The driver controlled the steering with a joystick positioned between the two seats. This gave the car a more futuristic feel and simulated the experience of flying a plane.

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25 Vintage Photos of Badass Women Riding Their Choppers

A chopper is a type of custom motorcycle which emerged in California in the late 1950s. The chopper is perhaps the most extreme of all custom styles, often using radically modified steering angles and lengthened forks for a stretched-out appearance. They can be built from an original motorcycle which is modified (“chopped”) or built from scratch.

Some of the characteristic features of choppers are long front ends with extended forks often coupled with an increased rake angle, hardtail frames (frames without rear suspension), very tall “ape hanger” or very short “drag” handlebars, lengthened or stretched frames, and larger than stock front wheels. The “sissy bar”, a set of tubes that connect the rear fender with the frame, and which are often extended several feet high, is a signature feature on many choppers.

Perhaps the best known choppers are the two customized Harley-Davidsons, the “Captain America” and “Billy Bike”, seen in the 1969 film Easy Rider.

Kickass or badass—whatever you wanna call these tough biker ladies—here’s a selection of 25 vintage photos of young women with their easy rider choppers.

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Lovely Photos of Ingrid Bergman and Her Children

Throughout her three marriages, Ingrid Bergman had a total of four children. In 1937, at the age of 21, Bergman married a dentist, Petter Aron Lindström, who later became a neurosurgeon. The couple had one child, a daughter, Friedel Pia Lindström (born September 20, 1938). After returning to the United States in 1940, she acted on Broadway before continuing to do films in Hollywood.

Bergman returned to Europe after the scandalous publicity surrounding her affair with Italian director Roberto Rossellini during the filming of Stromboli in 1950. In the same month the film was released, she gave birth to a boy, Renato Roberto Ranaldo Giusto Giuseppe (“Robin”) Rossellini (born February 2, 1950). A week after her son was born, she divorced Lindström and married Rossellini in Mexico.

On June 18, 1952, she gave birth to the twin daughters Isotta Ingrid Rossellini and Isabella Rossellini. In 1957, Rossellini had an affair with Sonali Das Gupta and soon after, Bergman and Rossellini separated. Rossellini later married Sonali Das Gupta in 1957.

In 1958, Bergman married Lars Schmidt, a theatrical entrepreneur from a wealthy Swedish shipping family. Curiously, while vacationing with Lars in Monte Gordo beach (Algarve region, Portugal) in 1963, right after recording the TV movie Hedda Gabler, Ingrid got ticketed for wearing a bikini that showed too much according to the modesty standards of conservative Portugal. After almost two decades of marriage, Ingrid and Lars divorced in 1975. He was, however, by her side when she died.

Here, below are 24 lovely vintage photographs capture the actress with her children from the 1950s to 1970s:

Ingrid Bergman observing her son Roberto Rossellini Jr.'s first steps, 1950s. Photo by Mondadori.

Ingrid Bergman strolling with son Roberto Rossellini Jr., Stockholm, 1950s. Photo by Mondadori.

Ingrid Bergman standing in front of a shop window with her son Roberto Rossellini Jr., Stockholm, 1950s. Photo by Mondadori.

Ingrid Bergman going through a photo album with her son Roberto Rossellini Jr., Stockholm, 1950s. Photo by Mondadori.

Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, at home in Rome for the first family portrait that includes their twin daughters, Isotta and Isabella, and their first child, Robertino, 1952. Photo by Bettmann.

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