Flying Boats, Water Skiing Elephants and Such

If you think this is crazy, then go on over to Rick's Visual Ephemera for a great history piece on Florida's Ponce De Leon State Park, and the amazing 'Queenie' The Water Skiing Elephant. Thanks, RIck.

Found Kodachrome, Photographer unknown

Army Corps of Engineers Cause Largest Manmade Blast Before Hiroshima, In New York City, 1885

Dahlstrom Collection
Photographer Mr. Albee and wife setting up equipment at the foot of 88th St. in preparation for shooting the Flood Rock reef explosion; the Army Corps of Engineers are blowing it up because it is a navigation hazard (the explosion is reputed to be the largest prior to the atomic bomb)
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: October 10, 1885
Photographer: Wallace G. Levison
Size: 1280 x 1011 pixels (17.8 x 14.0 inches)
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Kids Play Among The Ruins Of Wrigley Field In Los Angeles, California 1969

Title: Children play among the ruins of Wrigley Field in Los Angeles (Calif.)
Publication: Los Angeles Times
Publication date: March 21, 1969
Subjects: American baseball players
African American children
Evans, Stanley
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Thompson, Kenneth
Urban renewal
Wrecking
Wrigley Field (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Genre: News photographs
Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library. Copyright Regents of the University of California, UCLA Library.
Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Photo ID: uclamss_1429_b630_250689
Copyright contact: UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988

Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (UCLA)