San Francisco's iconic Cliff House, shortly before it was destroyed by fire in 1907 .

Three-martini lunchtime at the Plaza Hotel's Oak Room circa 1974.

Easter Sunday 1957 in Fort Wayne, Indiana

French mug shot of François Bertillon, 23 months, as photographed by his father, Alphonse, a French policeman responsible for standardizing the modern mug shot. Crime: Gluttony (nibbling all the pears from a basket). October 17, 1893 .

Lunchtime in Depression-era Indiana at Fort Wayne's Famous Coney Island, 1935. After more than 100 years in the same location, the place is still in business and looks remarkably unchanged .

The Dakota circa 1890, when NYC's Upper West Side was the fringe of upper-crust civility. How times have changed.

Talk about being right in the flight path ... a woman and her granddaughter watch as a 747 jetliner, en route to LAX, flies over their home in Los Angeles. September 27, 1973.