For any of you Photo or History Nerds out there, Google has teamed up with LIFE Magazine to provide, free to the masses, all of LIFE's back catalogue of photographs.
That's around 10,000,000 photos we're talking about here covering human history from the 1860's to the present. I applaud both Google and LIFE for doing this. Making our history accessible and free to everyone is something that should happen a lot more often, but sadly doesn't as people and companies are always concerned about copyrighted images.
News is news people. Nobody owns history. It should be free. And thanks to these two great companies, a little bit of it is. Looking through the pictures you're bound to find all sorts of interesting things, like the above image of Disneyland taken around the time that the Matterhorn must have first opened (you can see a bigger version of the image here). Check out how cool the park looks below the guys in the background. You can even see the full size pirate ship that used to be in the park as well as the Alice In Wonderland ride on the right side of the pic.
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