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OT: Rare historical photos....

Just Google Penn State Archives and you can find all sorts of images. That was from this article.
Any of you guys know these ladies?
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Looks like it could be late 70s (or maybe early 80s?).
If late 70s, I'm sure some or all of those pretty girls turned me down for dates at one point or another. (sigh).
 
We were pushball national champions that season. Pitt will try to claim it, but we beat them on the field, 372 forward pushes to 289 on Homecoming. Defense! Defense!

You can't spell pushball without "PSU".
Nope...pitt got 3 NC’s from that game alone.
 
Your question of "When did wearing your sports team's fan wear begin?" is interesting and one I never considered. I don't have a good answer. :confused:

I worked in the Sporting Goods Business for years and was able to get the head of Licensing for the NFL , MLB and NHL on the cover of our sports trade publication... this was the mid 90’s and each represented a Billion + business... just in licensed sales... amazing...
 
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Optical illusion or not, those had to be some of the toughest, most skilled workers this country has ever known.
It is my understanding that the photos are legit, but were staged. A guy didn't just take a photo of those guys eating lunch, or sleeping on the beam. The ironworkers were told what to do and photographers were brought in to capture the images.
 
Not especially rare, but I’ve always been fascinated by the construction (and lunch breaks) photos from the NYC skyscrapers. What OSHA say these days if they saw this on a routine audit?
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There's an Italian restaurant in Altoona that has that photo on the wall in the men's room. It made me feel weak in the knees to look at it in fine detail.
 
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Even still, that’s one helluva photo shoot!!
Agreed, and they routinely walked the beams in those days with no safety equipment. I read once that they figured there would be 1 death in skyscraper construction for every million dollars spent.
 
Not especially rare, but I’ve always been fascinated by the construction (and lunch breaks) photos from the NYC skyscrapers. What OSHA say these days if they saw this on a routine audit?
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Taking another look at these pics tonight brought to mind something that I was taught back in grade school a long, long time ago: That many of the ironworkers were Native American. So, I googled that up to refresh this old man's memory.
http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2012/09/the-mohawks-who-built-manhattan-photos.html

https://www.wnyc.org/story/192807-sky-walking-raising-steel-mohawk-ironworker-keeps-tradition-alive/

https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-...-featured-in-2015-native-american-dollar-coin

http://www.aboriginalironworkers.ca/tradition
 
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Taking another look at these pics tonight brought to mind something that I was taught back in grade school a long, long time ago: That many of the ironworkers were Native American. So, I googled that up to refresh this old man's memory.
http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2012/09/the-mohawks-who-built-manhattan-photos.html

https://www.wnyc.org/story/192807-sky-walking-raising-steel-mohawk-ironworker-keeps-tradition-alive/

https://www.usmint.gov/news/inside-...-featured-in-2015-native-american-dollar-coin

http://www.aboriginalironworkers.ca/tradition
When I stand on a ladder to put up Christmas decorations I get nervous. I cannot imagine doing what these men did.
 
Fairgambit, I enjoyed the photos. Thanks. One of the things that stood out to me in your 1912 photo of people entering Forbes Field was all the men wearing suits. Damn near everyone of them. My how times have changed. Makes me wonder about the social class of people attending games then. Well to do? Where are the working class folks? Perhaps they’re weren't actually that many that attended prior to the first world war.
 
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Fairgambit, I enjoyed the photos. Thanks. One of the things that stood out to me in your 1912 photo of people entering Forbes Field was all the men wearing suits. Damn near everyone of them. My how times have changed. Makes me wonder about the social class of people attending games then. Well to do? Where are the working class folks? Perhaps they’re weren't actually that many that attended prior to the first world war.
You may be right. I don't think there are any steel workers or coal miners in that photo. One thought is that the bleachers were well down the left field line and maybe the common folk entered the park from there.
 
Pirate Owner Barney Dreyfuss "hated cheap home runs and vowed he'd have none in his park", which led him to design a large playing field for Forbes Field.
In the Babe’s last season he smashes 712, 713 and 714 at Forbes - same game. The finally, a towering shot believed to hit someone’s roof. Not too shabby for an out of shape 40 year old party animal.

 
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There's an Italian restaurant in Altoona that has that photo on the wall in the men's room. It made me feel weak in the knees to look at it in fine detail.

In the men's room in a restaurant in DT Colorado Springs there is a photo of Sophia Loren in a skimpy outfit putting on a pair of stockings, if you really want to feel weak in the knees.
 
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