Interesting Things From The Past (21 pics)

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Here is a vaccine card from 1909.

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Here is what it looked like to record the first roaring lion MGM logo in the 1920s.

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This is what a children's car seat from the 1950s looked like.

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Here's what gas masks designed for children looked like during World War II, called the "Mickey Mouse" mask.

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Here's what one of the first physical versions of Mickey Mouse looked like — along with Donald Duck.

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And here's Minnie, Goofy, Clarabelle Cow, and Pluto with Mickey.

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Here's the very first version of Kermit the Frog, which creator Jim Henson made out of one of his mom's coats.

8

Here are the Apollo 11 flight plans.

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Here's the player (Jerry West) that the NBA logo is reportedly based on.

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Here's the original McDonald's mascot — whose name was Speedee.

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This is what the original Ronald McDonald looked like.

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Here's what the original McDonald's menu was.

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Here's the letter the United States dropped on Nagasaki before the atomic bomb.

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Here's what the original Edison bulb from 1914 looked like.

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This is what the original Michelin Man looked like.

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Here are T-4 statements from 1959, showing a couple's income — with inflation, this would be about $30k a year today.

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Here are examples of questions Black voters were asked in order to vote during the Jim Crow era.

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Here is a reservation to a flight to the moon that Air Canada offered in 1969 (Pan Am did something similar, and believed they would be able to offer flights by the year 2000).

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Here's what Old Spice canisters used to look like.

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Here is an old KKK membership form.

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Here is what Red Bull used to look like, back when it was called Krating Daeng after being invented in Thailand.