Drinkers in Harlem, NYC celebrate the news of heavyweight boxer Joe Louis’s first round defeat of Max Schmeling by KO at Yankee Stadium. June 1938 [1200×960]

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« Some soldiers in front of barracks, Hereweg westzijde, Groningen, the Netherlands, 1910. [1280×853]

Secret Service agents respond to a hostage crisis at the Augusta National golf course during a visit by President Reagan. They are dressed casually in order to comply with the President’s request that they cease wearing suits on the golf course. 1983. [2500×2001] »

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ClandesTyne

Repost due to incorrect information on original source. Apologies!
mcf71

They became great friends did they not? If I remember correctly Max Schmeling became a German fallschirmjager trooper during the Second World War.
ShadyOxy

We really should start dressing better as a society. Such class back then.

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