Packed parking lot for game one of the 1916 World Series in Boston.
In June of 1941, Harriett Peterson, a Pacific Telephone and Telegraph employee, was photographed while perched on top of a stack of 2,000 copies of the new Tacoma telephone directory. 85 distributors began delivering the directories on June 26, 1941. The July, 1941 directory had more telephone listings, more pages in it, and more copies printed than any previous phonebook in Tacoma history. The information in the book did not become effective until Sunday morning the 29th, when approximately 4,000 phone numbers changed overnight and became dial operated. Imagine that, one could just dial the number and no longer HAVE to talk to an operator!
The large Brazilian gold mine Serra Pelada. In 1979 a local child found a nugget of gold in the area. This caused a gold rush in the early 1980s. During its peak the mine employed around 100,000 diggers.