Brunswick Bowling The Golden Years 1960

I saw this on TCM in between movies.

The first American space trip

If you didn’t live through it, you have no idea how big a deal this was. We watched early American space flights in school. I can still name the severn Mercury astronauts.

Mercury 7 launched from Cape Canaveral, today 1961, making Alan Shepard first American in space: pic.twitter.com/qRBnVdE8mz
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) May 5, 2023

The Petersburg Battle of the Crater site

In 1963, our family toured some of the Civil War battlefields. The Battle of the Crater (1864) looked very dramatic in paintings from the time. The Union forces used dynamite which created a crater.

Unfortunately. by 1963 the crater had filled in and was very unimpressive. It was so disappointing.

#OnThisDay in 1864 during The American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches. pic.twitter.com/6lOOIp2xZx
— Past To Present History (@PastToPresentH1) July 30, 2022

Only half-joking here … The Petersburg siege and thus the Civil War would have ended months earlier except for a drunk Union brigadier general's failure to tell his troops to go around the hole at the Battle of the Crater instead of into the hole where they got stuck
— George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) September 27, 2022

July 30th in year 1864, American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches. #AmericanCivilWar #history #datefacts pic.twitter.com/ypJmVVQl54
— Today in History 🏛⛩🗼🗽📅 (@date_facts_MR) July 30, 2021

During the Civil War, 187,000 African Americans served the Union. The greatest concentration of United States Colored Troops served at the siege of Petersburg, where they secured a section of the Dimmock Line and fought at the Battle of the Crater. #BHM https://t.co/z4IVhv6U2b
— American Battlefield Trust (@Battlefields) February 11, 2022

The crater from the civil War battlefield Petersburg, it's very rounded and smooth now. Hardly recognizable as the site of a tremendous explosion. I assume these mounds were larger and more shaped than they are today. Would you agree?
— Victory Points (@Victory_Points) January 28, 2023

The Washington Post on the real story of the painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware

#OnThisDay in 1776, General George Washington led the remnants of his army across the icy Delaware River on Christmas night. ⁣
Learn more: https://t.co/3trvjIC6hL
⁣ pic.twitter.com/ewr7NcQyZz
— Mount Vernon (@MountVernon) December 25, 2022

That patriotic painting of George Washington on Christmas? It was German.

The historical reenactment of George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River is held every December in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. https://t.co/c9KvLxVN6A
— ABC News (@ABC) December 25, 2022

#MerryChristmas to all who are celebrating! #OTD in 1776, General George Washington & his troops crossed the Delaware River to storm the Hessian forces at Trenton, NJ. The successful surprise attack inspired a painting by Emanuel Leutze, on which these 1976 stamps are based ©USPS pic.twitter.com/uja1eR3ro4
— Postal Museum (@PostalMuseum) December 24, 2022

Metropolitan Museum of Art visitors viewing Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze. The photo is from 1907. https://t.co/1901JUo0U9 pic.twitter.com/vRtOXv1lgq
— Presidential Trivia (@triviapotus) December 25, 2022

Polo Grounds photos from Twitter

I saw the 1962 and 1963 Mets play there. It was the former home of the New York Giants before they moved to San Francisco. I recommend following the Twitter accounts I posted the tweets from to see more cool photos,

Polo Grounds with Yankee Stadium in the background pic.twitter.com/0V238yL6dJ
— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) November 22, 2022

Wow. What an incredible shot of inside Polo Grounds pic.twitter.com/LEVOpiUwVq
— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) November 9, 2022

Polo Grounds, 1921 pic.twitter.com/qSZPkV49WW
— Baseball In Pics (@baseballinpix) November 22, 2022

Great colour photo of Polo Grounds pic.twitter.com/uwIvMgqjZK
— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) October 26, 2022

Casey Stengel leaves the field after the the last game at the Polo Grounds, September 18, 1963. pic.twitter.com/n8Inc0qvIY
— Baseball In Pics (@baseballinpix) September 18, 2022

1936 World Series at the Polo Grounds pic.twitter.com/xHVTQaa5ie
— Baseball In Pics (@baseballinpix) November 14, 2022

The view from the Polo Grounds’ right field bleachers

A hat on every head pic.twitter.com/v73iSirTIw
— OldTimeHardball (@OleTimeHardball) November 17, 2022

Aerial shot of night games being played at Yankee Stadium and Polo Grounds. pic.twitter.com/2xZIaLAAR5
— Baseball In Pics (@baseballinpix) November 24, 2022

Demolition begins on the Polo Grounds, April 10, 1964. pic.twitter.com/yVdN7zwI5j
— Baseball In Pics (@baseballinpix) April 10, 2023

Demolition of Polo Grounds pic.twitter.com/Rr43tAgHj8
— BaseballHistoryNut (@nut_history) April 21, 2023

The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination

The Kennedy assassination was 59 years ago today on 11/22/63. Abraham Zapruder witnessed it and filmed it on his 8 mm camera. The film was sold to Life Magazine and still frames appeared in print. They’re unforgettable if you have seen them.

The Zapruder film has been called the most important 26 seconds of film in history. https://t.co/WFD3hdWtjG
— Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) November 22, 2022

The 8-millimeter Bell & Howell home movie uses by Abraham Zapruder to capture the entire shooting sequence of the JFK assassination. pic.twitter.com/CrFggQocNR
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) November 22, 2022

The Edsel: Ford’s 1950s car failure

Old folks like me remember the Edsel. I don’t recall a car from a major company that was such a flop.

November 19, 1959, Ford ends the Edsel program. The last Edsel ad appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on November 21, 1959.

On February 3, 1969, the Edsel Owners Club was incorporated as a non-profit organization for the promotion and restoration of the Edsel automobile. pic.twitter.com/9ECegh2SoE
— Bill Lucey (@wplucey) November 19, 2022

#OTD in 1959, Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the unpopular Edsel.

Job number 344, the last Edsel to be built, a tan station wagon, rolls off the Ford Motor Company assembly line with no fanfare in Louisville, Ky., Nov. 20, 1959. | Photo H.B. Littell pic.twitter.com/Qv3Qiy7z1J
— AP Images (@AP_Images) November 19, 2022

Real-time animation of the Titanic sinking

Watch the Titanic Sink in Real Time in a New 2-Hour, 40 Minute Animation https://t.co/0PKUJfnTGE pic.twitter.com/Bwaz1FqOiU
— Open Culture (@openculture) November 19, 2022

Planning on watching Titanic to mark the 25th anniversary? The Nazis made their own version back in 1943: it cost millions and led to more fatalities than the real ship. I watched it so you don’t have to. https://t.co/Rpd2P4oRip
— George Bass (@GeorgeBas5) December 18, 2022

The video shows “rare, uncut, and unnarrated footage" of the first time man set eyes on the sunken ship.

Robert Ballard, who led the team that first discovered the wreckage, said the footage helped inspire the 1997 film “Titanic.” https://t.co/u9onBhjP1j
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 16, 2023

An ambitious digital imaging project has produced what researchers describe as a “digital twin” of the Titanic, showing the wreckage of the doomed ocean liner with a level of detail that has never been captured before. https://t.co/z78uOWfVpX
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 18, 2023