History is… well, not necessarilynotorious, but definitelyoddly characterizedas having weird moments. To some extent, that’s quite normal.Just think about it: in terms of innovation, product design, and overall style, things tend to be weird, even more so when they are just starting out. Heck, if you google medical equipment from the early to mid 20th century, you’re going to see some science fiction madness. Because that’s just how it was.Now, though, everything is different, and these early iterations were weird. For lack of a better word, but it was definitely a different time. A time documented in this dedicated Instagram page called Got Weird.This post may includeaffiliate links.

History is… well, not necessarilynotorious, but definitelyoddly characterizedas having weird moments. To some extent, that’s quite normal.

Just think about it: in terms of innovation, product design, and overall style, things tend to be weird, even more so when they are just starting out. Heck, if you google medical equipment from the early to mid 20th century, you’re going to see some science fiction madness. Because that’s just how it was.

Now, though, everything is different, and these early iterations were weird. For lack of a better word, but it was definitely a different time. A time documented in this dedicated Instagram page called Got Weird.

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A Man Posing With A Donkey In His Lap, Ca. 1910s

A Mother And Her Son On Their Way To A Pride Walk, 1985

The Librarian At Lorain Ohio, Public Library Is Looking At The 50,000 Book Chaos After One Shelf Fell Over, The Rest Fell Like Dominoes, 1971

So, as mentioned above, there’s an Instagram page calledGot Weird. The page has been around since 2014, during which it has managed to get over the 3,000 post mark and establish a following of 244,000 people.The tagline reads “everything old is new again” and the page is affiliated withthe Vintage Everyday blog, which is all about cool old stuff.

So, as mentioned above, there’s an Instagram page calledGot Weird. The page has been around since 2014, during which it has managed to get over the 3,000 post mark and establish a following of 244,000 people.

The tagline reads “everything old is new again” and the page is affiliated withthe Vintage Everyday blog, which is all about cool old stuff.

Paparazzi Take Pictures Of Bill Clinton’s Cat Named Socks, 1992

The Higher The Hair The Faster The Runner, The Abilene, Texas Track Team, 1967

A Family Out For A Ride In The UK, Ca. 1930s… And Clearly Safety Wasn’t An Issue Back Then

The contest was held because the Prince and Princess of Wales will be in Washington a week later

Maureen Murray (#18) Of Alexandria, Virginia Won The Local Princess Diana Look-Alike Contest Which Took Place At The “Champion Sports Bar” In Washington D.c. On November 5, 1985

This Classroom Celebrating Halloween In The ’80s

The farm had 20 ponds for the trained alligators where patrons could mingle freely with them

A Picnic At The California Alligator Farm In The 1920s, Located In The Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Of Los Angeles Between 1907 And 1953

There’s definitely odd stuff, likepersonal photos with donkeys,police bikes with bars for detainees, andwhatever these skate shoes are.But there’s alsophotos of JFKmoments before his assassination,a black man visiting a swimming poolback in the day, or theDynasty 605 veering off the runwayand crashing into the water.

There’s definitely odd stuff, likepersonal photos with donkeys,police bikes with bars for detainees, andwhatever these skate shoes are.

But there’s alsophotos of JFKmoments before his assassination,a black man visiting a swimming poolback in the day, or theDynasty 605 veering off the runwayand crashing into the water.

A Man Experiences Irony As His Car, Laden With Used Tires, Has A Flat Tire, Houston, Texas, 1966

British Actress Jessie Matthews Supporting An Enormous Headdress For The Revue ‘Evergreen’ (1934)

Shoe Phone From 1965

Got Weird gives off very similar energy to another page thatBored Pandahas covered in the past, and that’sDragon Utopia.Dragon Utopia is a subreddit that features historical photographs and pictures that showcase the inconvenient, uncomfortable and downright horrible parts in human history, but are otherwise there as a reminder for future generations.

Got Weird gives off very similar energy to another page thatBored Pandahas covered in the past, and that’sDragon Utopia.

Dragon Utopia is a subreddit that features historical photographs and pictures that showcase the inconvenient, uncomfortable and downright horrible parts in human history, but are otherwise there as a reminder for future generations.

Rosalind Russell Riding Bicycle On The Set Of “The Trouble With Angels” (1966)

‘Flying Saucer’ Gas Stations In Kyiv From The Late 1970s And Early 1980s

A Diver Photographed After Ascending From The Oily Interior Of The Sunken Battleship Uss Arizona. Photograph Taken At Pearl Harbor, Hawaii In The Days Following The Attack On Pearl Harbor In December 1941

While some might view history as boring or irrelevant, those two descriptives couldn’t be further from what this discipline is really all about.Historyhelps us to understandhow we got to this point as a civilization. We are very much different from who we as a concept were a century or two ago. We can gauge into what worked for us and what didn’t—and draw conclusions off of that.

While some might view history as boring or irrelevant, those two descriptives couldn’t be further from what this discipline is really all about.

Historyhelps us to understandhow we got to this point as a civilization. We are very much different from who we as a concept were a century or two ago. We can gauge into what worked for us and what didn’t—and draw conclusions off of that.

Showgirl With A Stuffed Bird In A Cage On Her Hindquarters At The Latin Quarter Nightclub, New York, 1952

These DeLoreans Were All Hiding From Hurricane Dorian In Storage! Delorean Motor Company Florida Posted This, Ensuring All The Cars Stay Safe In The Hurricane

Three Million Volts Hit A Car In The Westinghouse Electric Corporation In Pittsburgh For A ‘Lightning Test,’ Ca. 1940s. The Passenger Remained Unharmed

Besides that, history provides context to the human experience. Records of the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, for instance, gave us an understanding of how the covid pandemic could’ve taken place, with the foreshadowing of the second wave and whatnot. It is the context we need to make sense of our own lives within the world and make guesstimated conclusions based on historical patterns.

With A Category 5 Ranking, Hurricane Andrew Was A Powerful And Destructive Storm That Struck The Bahamas, Florida, And Louisiana In August 1992

Mugshot Of John Wojtowicz, Who Unsuccessfully Tried To Rob A Bank On August 22, 1972 To Pay For His Wife Eden’s Gender Reassignment Surgery

Sad Little Girl Holds Hands With Her Scratched-Out Sister

If anything, history teaches critical thinking, how to be a healthy skeptic and to question everything so as to find the truth in things.

“Glass” Tops For Convertibles, Similar To The “Blisters” And “Bubbles” Made By The Same Company For War Planes, Have Been Introduced In Los Angeles

Chetak Helicopters Used By Indian Air Force For Ceremonial Flyovers In The 1970s

In 1954, The Traveler Could Install A Relief Bunk In His Car – An Aluminum Cot That Extends Above The Seats From Front To Rear

And the fact that history can be weird—a side-effect of culture, society, innovation, and the like—only embeds the historical experience. For we as a speciesare drawn to weird things. Well, weird, disgusting, otherworldly, what have you. It captivates us, so we could process and focus on it, making sure our evolutionary side internalizes it and stops thinking it’s out to get us.

The car crashed into the Chicago River below. This would be McQueen’s last movie before his death in 1980

A Stunt Car Drives Off The Parking Garage At Marina City Towers During The Filming Of The Hunter, Starring Steve Mcqueen On Sept. 21, 1979, In Chicago

Puritan Against Too Revealing Swimwear On Daytona Beach, Ca. 1982-83. (Photo By Keith Mcmanus)

Two People Are Wearing Painted-On Eyes At A 1955 Art Student League Ball In NYC

And, if you use this rudiment of evolution to your advantage, you might just become a very oddly interesting person at any party with the fun facts.But, all jokes aside, it sticks with us. Teaches us thatthis was a thingand we can now draw conclusions from it. Even more so than if it wasn’t weird. But if you’re genuinely interested in history, then it’s gonna work either way.

And, if you use this rudiment of evolution to your advantage, you might just become a very oddly interesting person at any party with the fun facts.

But, all jokes aside, it sticks with us. Teaches us thatthis was a thingand we can now draw conclusions from it. Even more so than if it wasn’t weird. But if you’re genuinely interested in history, then it’s gonna work either way.

In 1928, A Figure Known As The Ice Man Could Be Seen Delivering A 25-Pound Ice Block In Houston, Texas

“Will You Just <em>look</em> At My Grandpa Playing Piano!”

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If you’ve enjoyed this listicle, you can also continue on toanother article that we’ve covered on Got Weird. Either that or you canvisit the horse itself.But if you have stuff to do, then why not do that stuff, but not without having left a comment sharing what you thought of any of this in the comment section below!

If you’ve enjoyed this listicle, you can also continue on toanother article that we’ve covered on Got Weird. Either that or you canvisit the horse itself.

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The Hertella-Auto Kaffeemaschine could be mounted straight onto the dash of a ’59 Beetle, providing occupants with a steaming hot cup of coffee as and when they desired. The Kaffeemaschine as having no on/off switch. When ready, the coffee dispenses straight into a porcelain cup fitted with a metal base that attaches magnetically to the Kaffeemaschine helping to keep things secure and safe. Little known is of the Hertella coffee maker, only that it was available in either 6- or 12-volt versions and that it cost DM65 (Deutschmarks). For context, the price of a new Beetle in 1959 was DM3790

Mixing Hot Water With A Moving Vehicle Is Probably Not The Smartest Idea Ever, But That Didn’t Deter German Company Hertella From Producing And Marketing A Coffee Machine Specifically Designed For The Volkswagen Beetle

The Self-Propelled Skates That Were Produced By The Motorized Roller Skate Company Of Detroit, Beginning In 1956

On A Casual Glance At The Contraption Shown Here In The Photo, You Would Think It One Of Rube Goldberg’s Latest Inventions

Three Children In Oklahoma On Their Way To School During The Dust Bowl In 1933

The 13 Flying Black Cats Was A Professional Aerial Exhibition Team That Started Around 1925, Advertising They Would Do Anything For A Price

In its overall size the anchor measured an impressive 18ft 6in in length. The cast steel head of the anchor measured 10ft 9in in width and the anchor weighed an incredible 15ton 16cwts

Titanic’s Centre Anchor Was At The Time And For Some Time To Follow, The World’s Largest Anchor Ever Forged By Hand

Here&rsquo;s An Azar&rsquo;s Worms Vending Machine From 1965, Just In Case You Run Out Of Night Crawlers At Home

In 1949, For Railroad Travelers, Dr. Igo Seeger Of Vienna Had Came Up With A Sleep Hanger That Held The Passenger In A Comfortable Sleeping Posture While Sitting Upright

“Sales Meeting Of Ce-Lect Baking Co. Introducing Mickey Mouse Bread Campaign, Hotel Sheraton Boston, June 16, 1936.” From The Collection Of Mel Birnkrant

The tractor was used to dust and detassel the high corn. The builder started with a 21-horsepower crawler tractor. He raised the tractor chassis including the motor and transmission so there would be 78 inches of clearance beneath it. Side frames – the “stilts – support the tractor in this position. Additional sprockets and links of track were installed on each side. The result was a tractor that rolls through the high corn, dusting and detasseling it even during wet weather when rubber-tired tractors bog down in the mud. It has 6-1/2 feet clearance and straddles two rows of corn while dusting 12. A framework across the back holds the dusting equipment. During detasseling, men ride on hangers dropped down between the rows alongside the tractor

Moving Slowly Through The Sweet-Corn Fields Of California In 1954 Was A Weird Tractor On Stilts

Stunt Pilot Howard Casterline Crashes His Plane &ldquo;Jennie&rdquo; Into A Tree In Hartford City, Indiana, Ca. 1920s. He Survived In The Crash

Its wheels are hollow, bulbous floats that, with the aid of four smaller globes on outriggers, sustain it in the water. All of the floats revolve freely like wheels, resulting in a minimum of drag. When the rider pedals across the water, fins on the rear wheel serve as paddles to drive the machine forward. For a ride on dry land, the outriggers supporting the outer floats may be folded up clear of the ground. Proof that the floats would be sufficiently buoyant to support the rider was given when the inventor navigated his device, without difficulty, across a large swimming pool

A Hybrid Among Vehicles, An Amphibian Bicycle That Could Travel On Land Or Water, Was Demonstrated By Its French Inventor At A Paris Exposition In 1932

Strapped to a band worn about the head, a metal frame extends from the forehead and holds two ovals of amber glass in front of the eyes, where they are normally just out of range of direct vision. A slight turn of the head places the glass ovals between the eyes and the rays of oncoming car lights.

To Reduce The Blinding Glare Of Approaching Automobile Headlights, A Novel Eye Shield Has Been Introduced In 1936

It was one of the largest fires in California history, and burned for three days

People Watching The Hancock Oil Refinery Fire At Signal Hill, California. May 22, 1958

A roommate lights a cigarette, places it in a hole in the end of the stick, and holds it to his friend’s lips. To raise his body for the purpose, he uses a support suspended above his bed, as shown. A nail in the end of the holder is used to feed the patient candy

Betsy Golden Kellem investigates the complex of racial and cultural stereotypes that made the Circassian beauty such a sideshow spectacle.

Among The “Human Curiosities” In P. T. Barnum’s American Museum Was A Supposed Escapee From An Ottoman Harem, A Figure Marketed As Both The Pinnacle Of White Beauty And An Exoticised Other

Car Junk Yards From Days Gone By

US Scientists Study The Phases Of The Moon On Lunar Models In Preparation For An Eventual Manned Flight To The Moon, 1962

That day, the Committee on Laws of the Board of Aldermen unanimously voted to ban females from lighting up in public places. The law, called the Sullivan Ordinance, put the responsibility of preventing women from smoking not on the women themselves but on business owners. It was named after the man who proposed it: Alderman Timothy “Little Tim” Sullivan. According to reports, Sullivan had never seen a woman smoke in public but was repulsed at the thought of it. Right after the ordinance was enacted, on January 22, Katie Mulcahey, the only person cited for breaking this ordinance, was fined $5 for smoking in public and arrested for refusing to pay the fine; however, the ordinance itself did not mention fines nor does it ban women from smoking in public. “I have never heard of this new law and I don’t want to hear about it. No man shall dictate me,” she reportedly told the judge. She was released the next day. The mayor at the time, George B. McClellan Jr., vetoed the ordinance two weeks later

On January 21, 1908, It Became Illegal For Women To Smoke In Public In New York City

In 1939, Asked To Make A Speech On Motor Safety, Williams Invented This Signaling Device For Drivers Instead. A Dry Cell Supplies Current To Light Bulbs, One White And The Other Red, On The Fingers

Les Géants Du Nord (The Giants Of The North), 1951. (Photo By Robert Doisneau)

After repeatedly asking Elvis to move on so he could resume normal business, station manager Ed Hopper slapped Presley on the head and found himself on the receiving end of a punch in the face from Elvis. Station employee Aubrey Brown tried to help his boss, but was no match for Presley. After police are called, Hopper and Brown were charged with assault and were fined $25 and $15 respectively

Oct. 18, 1956: 21-Year-Old Elvis Presley Pulled Into A Memphis Gas Station Where He Started To Attract A Small Crowd Of Autograph Seekers

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