2. Original caption, dated April 18, 1922: "Thirty foot wall of water raging towards Beardstown, Illinois, as the levee broke under the tremendous pressure. The Illinois River at flood stage, the highest ever known, rapidly poured into the lowlands at right. In foreground are the C.B. & Q. railroad tracks—the last connecting link between Beardstown and the outside world—just washed away." # Bettmann / Getty
100 year-old interior design
4. An interior view of the rigid airship USS Shenandoah, under construction at the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey, circa 1922 # Library of Congress
Again, King Charles 111 will have it easier
6. Two men hold guns behind a barricade in a Dublin street during factional fighting over the recently established Free State treaty. # Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis / Getty
Repeat the boat race because it gives new meaning to walking on water. And because I've never seen one like it before .
9. A boat race takes place in Mandalay, Burma, photographed during a tour by England's Prince of Wales. # Spencer Arnold Collection / Hulton Archive / Getty
Some MAGA types from back then
13. The Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini (center, hands on hips) stands with members of the Fascist Party in Rome, Italy, after he seized control of the Italian government in a bloodless coup on October 28, 1922. # AP
Is more crowded now
29. A view of a crowded Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, circa 1922 # Archive Photos / Getty
The old photos help us to appreciate how lucky some of us are today. Cheers.
4 of 100 -- Participants recover at the finish line during the Women's Mass Start Free 10km event at the Tour de Ski
People run through the streets ahead of fighting bulls and steers during the first day of the running of the bulls at the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Thursday, July 7, 2022. Revelers from around the world flock to Pamplona every year for nine days of uninterrupted partying in Pamplona's famed running of the bulls festival which was suspended for the past two years because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos) in Val di Fiemme, Trento, Italy, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta)