The Picture Game

[The Lawspeaker]

The Picture Game is a game where we get to post a historical pictures from a date in which photography was already common place and where others need to guess when that picture was taken. The one who guesses it right may post a new picture.

Picture nr 1 : when was this picture taken ?

[Barreldriver]

1907?

[The Lawspeaker]

Nope. It's much more recent.:D

[Barreldriver]

3-03-2009?

[The Lawspeaker]

Hehe. No :) Perhaps a Dutchman would have some more luck on this one.

[Æmeric]

Sunday in the Netherlands, winter 1973-1974, during the Arab Oil Embargo. We didn't ban Sunday driving in the states but many gas stations ran out of gas & limited how much you could buy. It was something of a national panic. I didn't see anything like it again until the panic buying on 9/11.

[The Lawspeaker]

Yap, that's right. Your turn, Æmeric:)

[Æmeric]

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=836&stc=1&d=1236102051

[The Lawspeaker]

June 1972. Hanoi Jane (the American actress Jane Fonda) visits North Vietnam.
Now that was one that should have been facing a firing squad rather then some cheap personal glory in the years ahead.

[Æmeric]

Correct!:thumb001: Your turn Lawspeaker.

[The Lawspeaker]

This may be a slightly disturbing picture but the scene was just as disturbing (and worse) for those that actually saw it happen.

[Thorum]

This may be a slightly disturbing picture but the scene was just as disturbing (and worse) for those that actually saw it happen.

I remember this story/picture. Sad, because if I remember correctly, they tried to save her but she was stuck and died there from heart failure. :(

South America? Mud slides or earthquake? I will take a guess at 1997?

[The Lawspeaker]

Correct (both location and background) but this is a slightly different year.

[Lenny]

Is it the 1999 Venezuela flood?

[The Lawspeaker]

Nope.

[Thorum]

Can I cheat?

[The Lawspeaker]

Go ahead. Let's see how good you are.
I give you a hint: Armero

[Thorum]

http://pigbird.com/images_press2.html

I vividy remember this story. It is heartbreaking...........

[The Lawspeaker]

That was indeed a very unpleasant story.:( Heartbreaking indeed.

Your turn, mate...

[Thorum]

I am sorry if I am making this thread depressing. When was this photo taken?

[The Lawspeaker]

2 november 2004. Dutch film director, publicist, actor and television producer Theo van Gogh was murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri, a Morrocan terrorist.

[Thorum]

Damn!! You are the man!!! Good work mate!!

Everyone should know that photo!! It should never be forgotten...........:mad:

I suppose you are next. :thumb001:

[The Lawspeaker]

I am Dutch, mate- thus I remember that picture forever. I can still remember where I was when Fortuyn was murdered and where I was when van Gogh was murdered.

[Thorum]

I am Dutch, mate- thus I remember that picture forever. I can still remember where I was when Fortuyn was murdered and where I was when van Gogh was murdered.

6 June, 1944? France?

[The Lawspeaker]

Nope. Sorry.:p

[Beorn]

Battle of Arnhem 17-25 September 1944?

[The Lawspeaker]

Yap.
Bloody shame that the Germans won that one....:(:rolleyes2:

You're next, mate.

[Beorn]

http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww185/BeornWulfWer/g.jpg?t=1236178003

[Lenny]

http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww185/BeornWulfWer/g.jpg?t=1236178003

Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts vs. Communist and Jewish opponents; "Battle of Cable Street" (Jewish neighborhood), London; Oct. 1936; possibly the largest political streetfight in English history:eek:

[Beorn]

Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts vs. Communist and Jewish opponents; "Battle of Cable Street" (Jewish neighborhood), London; Oct. 1936; possibly the largest political streetfight in English history:eek:


Correct :thumb001: Your turn.

[Lenny]

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/3860/falsefilename.jpg

[Thorum]

Striking workers, United States. Clashes with police. That is all that comes to mind. Late-20's?

[The Lawspeaker]

I think that I recognise the Capitol in the background- so it must be the 1932 Bonus Army that was treated without any shame by a corrupt government.

June 17, 1932

[Lenny]

Striking workers, United States. Clashes with police. That is all that comes to mind. Late-20's?Not striking workers, or not exactly, but it's on the right track. What year exactly?


EDIT: Oops, the Lawspeaker got it :D. [How he could make out that the Capitol is in the background (if it is) I can not know.] I don't know if that's the right date, because the "Bonus Army" was camped in Washington for months. But it was definitely 1932.

The Bonus Army was a group of thousands of Great War veterans who were unemployed during the worst of the depression, and who came from all parts of the U.S. to demonstrate for veterans' payments owed to them. That photo is of some local police "inspecting" their shantytown camp.

After months of pressure and daily demonstrations, the U.S. congress voted against a bill to pay them, and then many of the Bonsu Army men went home. Those who stayed kept protesting, and eventually the police burned their camp down and they too left. Another version of the Bonus Army bill was finally passed in 1936 with a supermajority of Congress (FDR vetoe'd the bill, but 2/3rds voted for, so it overrided the veto).

...Lawspeaker's turn again.

[The Lawspeaker]

Let's see..

[Beorn]

6th May 1994. Queen Elizabeth and President Frog face open the Channel Tunnel.

[The Lawspeaker]

6th May 1994. Queen Elizabeth and President Frog face open the Channel Tunnel.
Mais oui. And they should have let it collapse with both of them in it....:rolleyes2:

Your turn, mate.

[Beorn]

http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww185/BeornWulfWer/o.jpg?t=1236203558

[Æmeric]

Margaret Thatcher at Ronald Reagan's state funeral on June 11, 2004. Reagan must be spinning in his grave.

[Beorn]

Margaret Thatcher at Ronald Reagan's state funeral on June 11, 2004. Reagan must be spinning in his grave.


Correct! :thumb001: Although I thought it was the 9th.

[Æmeric]

Reagan was interned on the 11th. The whole event lasted about a week.


What is this?

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=855&d=1236206019

[Beorn]

Hmm? I recognise the situation....

I won't say it though as I have had enough goes for now. :D

[Psychonaut]

That's the car crash Princess Diana died in.

[Loddfafner]

Princess Die was a Skrewdriver fan
Followed Ian Stuart right to the end
The bikers that loved her
shot loads on her corpse
Got smashed in the tunnel
beaten and bashed

Papparazi Bootparty
Papparazi Bootparty
Papparazi Bootparty
Papparazi Bootparty
DI IS DEAD
AND NO ONE CARES
IF YOU GIVE A FUCK
WE'LL BEAT YOU UP!

Miles of tearful Brits
threw flowers on the hearse
if you tried to eat em
fatal dose of daffodils
Now St Diana cures your cancer
so the tabloid ladies pray

Papparazi Bootparty
Papparazi Bootparty
Papparazi Bootparty
Papparazi Bootparty
DI IS DEAD
AND NO ONE CARES
IF YOU GIVE A FUCK
WE'LL BEAT YOU UP!

[Æmeric]

:thumb001:Your turn Psychonaut!

[Psychonaut]

http://www.worldsfamousphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/assassination.jpg

And yes, that guy is about to get stabbed.

[The Lawspeaker]

It doesn't work, Psych. Perhaps you can simply download the picture and put it in your attachments ?

[Æmeric]

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=857&stc=1&d=1236264877

Here's Psychonaut's photo.

[The Lawspeaker]

The murder of Inejiro Asasuma in 1960.
World Press Photo of that year- I recognised the picture and decided to look it up.

[Psychonaut]

Whoops, sorry about that:

http://www.pigbird.com/images/press/2.jpg

[Lenny]

Did Lawspeaker get it then?

[Psychonaut]

The murder of Inejiro Asasuma in 1960.
World Press Photo of that year- I recognised the picture and decided to look it up.


You are correct sir. Sorry about the tardy reply, work has been Hellish these last few days.

[The Lawspeaker]

O.K this one is small and a bit blurred. Let's see what you can make of it:

[Æmeric]

Oct. 4, 1986. Queen Beatrix dedicates the Oosterscheldekering, part of the massive Delta Works that protect Holland & Zealand from flooding.

[The Lawspeaker]

You are good.:D
You're next ! Wow I am amazed that you knew this one...

[Æmeric]

I recognized Queen Beatrice & what looked like a massive dam in the background. It took a little research.:cool:

Who are these 2 & where are they & what is the occasion?


http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=892&stc=1&d=1236439816

[Æmeric]

Hint: Those two are President Eisenhower & Queen Elizabeth II. A little research will tell you the where & when.

[The Lawspeaker]

26 june 1959 ?
The Queen and President Eisenhower inaugurate the St Lawrence Seaway in Canada.

[Æmeric]

:clap:Correct! Your turn Lawspeaker.

[The Lawspeaker]

:D Not bad at all. Google actually works.

[The Lawspeaker]

O.K hints: The Netherlands and 1930's.:)

[Lenny]

O.K hints: The Netherlands and 1930's.:)Heh, those are not good hints; both are obvious from the picture:p

Does it have anything to do with Anton Mussert?

[The Lawspeaker]

Heh, those are not good hints; both are obvious from the picture:p

Does it have anything to do with Anton Mussert?
Nope. Look carefully though- what kind of people are standing in it ?

[Lenny]

Nope. Look carefully though- what kind of people are standing in it ?Well, they vaguely appear to be soldiers, but I see no weapons, or insignia?

I will guess 1939 anyway. Sitzkrieg :p --> Hence no guns!?:D:D

[The Lawspeaker]

Well, they vaguely appear to be soldiers, but I see no weapons, or insignia?

I will guess 1939 anyway. Sitzkrieg :p --> Hence no guns!?:D:D
It is 1939 alright- but the Netherlands were not officially involved untill May 10, 1940.

[Lenny]

Here's one that shouldn't bee too hard:

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4167/012345.jpg

[The Lawspeaker]

Here's one that shouldn't bee too hard:

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4167/012345.jpg
Wait a moment.. you haven't guessed what was on the picture, mate. For what occasion it was taken but because I am so lenient I will give you the solution and let you get away with it:


http://www.mei1940.nl/Images/Algemene_Mobilisatie_29_aug_1939.jpg



August 29, 1939. Mobilisation of the Dutch Army.
Some 280.000 were called up at a population of 8 million.

[Lenny]

Wait a moment.. you haven't guessed what was on the picture, mate. For what occasion it was taken but because I am so lenient I will give you the solution and let you get away with it:


http://www.mei1940.nl/Images/Algemene_Mobilisatie_29_aug_1939.jpg



August 28, 1939. Mobilisation of the Dutch Army.
Some 280.000 were called up at a population of 8 million.
Whoops :(

Mobilization in a neutral country occurred three days before the German-Polish fighting began, that's interesting. (Then again the USA was in wartime mobilization many months before Pearl Harbor; to say nothing of Lend-Lease). I guess that explains why they're so relaxed and had no guns, there was no war on yet :D

[The Lawspeaker]

The German-Polish crisis had been lingering for most of the summer (as far as I know) so our government decided to play safe as France and Britain had clearly allied themselves with Poland. The government realised that we would end up positioned between the belligerent parties and decided to give the order in order to protect our neutrality.

[Lenny]

The German-Polish crisis had been lingering for most of the summer (as far as I know) so our government decided to play safe as France and Britain had clearly allied themselves with Poland. The government realised that we would end up positioned between the belligerent parties and decided to give the order in order to protect our neutrality.Was Netherlands invaded in 1914 (too)? I can't remember.

[The Lawspeaker]

Was Netherlands invaded in 1914 (too)? I can't remember.
Nope. Belgium was eventhough it was neutral. We managed to stay neutral although our borders around the small Limburgian town of Vaals seems to have been violated by the Germans in 1914 but nothing serious came from it.

[The Lawspeaker]

I am going to bring this one back to life- just for the hack of it :D
Sorry folks..

So- when was this ?

[Lenny]

So- when was this ?
Is that Portuguese? I assume some kind of anti-Salazar thing (that was the name of the Portuguese autocrat in the mid-20th century, right? :o).

Rather than doing some quick research, tho, I'll guess purely on the clothing, hair styles, and general appearance of the people: 1975.

[The Lawspeaker]

Is that Portuguese? I assume some kind of anti-Salazar thing (that was the name of the Portuguese autocrat in the mid-20th century, right? :o).

Rather than doing some quick research, tho, I'll guess purely on the clothing, hair styles, and general appearance of the people: 1975.
Almost...

[Jamt]

1974 Nejlikerevolutionen

[The Lawspeaker]

Yap that's right. The Carnation Revolution of 1974.
Your turn.

[Jamt]

Could someone else take it pleace?

[Lenny]

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4167/012345.jpg

Jamt ceded his turn so guess [the above's year and story behind it] and win a great prize! (If you like +1-rep-points and a congratulations post, it's a great prize.)

[Ladejarlen]

1947? (Kon-tiki?)

[The Lawspeaker]

Yes :) At least I think so. We haven't been playing the game for ages and someone should give it a good bash

[Ladejarlen]

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/2923/bilden.jpg

[The Lawspeaker]

@Ladejarlen


The Picture Game is a game where we get to post a historical picture from a date in which photography was already commonplace and where others need to guess when that picture was taken. The one who guesses it right may post a new picture.