Upper Deck Goodwin Champions made some really cool cards of Jack Johnson in 2019, let's take a look at them. This is one of the most beautiful cards I've ever seen, 2019 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions - Horizontal Turquoise - Jack Johnson.
2024 Historic Autographs -YesterYear - Design 3 - Jack Johnson. I love Historic Autographs cards, they always pack a lot into their sets and it's just a really fun experience.
2010 Ringside Boxing - Turkey Red - Jack Johnson. These cards are really cool, the artwork is just beautiful and this card is actually signed by the artist for this series.
I guess that's about it for the Jack Johnson cards, there are a few I couldn't find the photos to match up with the card so I'm disgusted about it and I'm just going to leave them out. I really enjoy this stuff, the boxing card hobby is so much fun and you rarely get a chance to see the photos that were used for the images we see on some of these famous and legendary cards. I don't know if anyone has ever tried to showcase the photos that were used for these cards but that's what I'm attempting to do here, a kind of museum, it's just really fascinating and cool to see. I short-changed a few fighters, when I first started this little project I was only going to do my favorite cards, but my OCD took over and now I'm going to try to do them all, so I'll have to come back around and get some of the cards I left out at the beginning.
It's a shame that Rocco Tozzo, aka Rocky Kansas, doesn't have a lot of cards, and what he does have is very rare, and the photos that match up with the cards just aren't available. He's one of my favorites, all-time great lightweight, world lightweight champion 1925-26, and I love his aggressive, "go for broke" fighting style. This is one of his cards, the 1925-31 Four-on-One Exhibits Postcards Heinie Groh / Stanley Harris / Jack Dempsey / Rocky Kansas.
Check this out, this is fascinating, this is Shanidar Cave, Shanidar Cave is a famous archaeological site in the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. Unearthed in the 1950s, it yielded the remains of ten Neanderthals dating from 35,000 to 75,000 years ago. The site revolutionized our understanding of early hominids by revealing evidence of community care, survival of severe injuries, and potential burial practices.
Check out this view from the inside of Shanidar Cave. It's absolutely fascinating to think that our ancestors, early humans, lived inside this cave some 35,000-75,000 years ago, ancient Earth is so fascinating.
Ten separate Neanderthal skeletons that may date back over 50,000 years were found in Shanidar Cave. The remains were first discovered in the mid-1950’s by a team from Columbia University led by Smithsonian anthropologist Ralph Solecki. The first nine skeletons were excavated between 1957 and 1961. The tenth skeleton was discovered in 2006 when an archeologist discovered several bones from the collection that did not match the others. The Shanidar Cave was not the first location of Neanderthal skeleton discovery, but it was the first that shed light on the burial practices and causes of death among Neanderthals. The most interesting of all the skeletons, referred to as Shanidar 1, was carefully excavated and diligently studied because of the damage to his skull and deformities on his leg and arm. It was discovered that the Neanderthal was between the ages 40-50 at the time of his death. The damage to his skull, leg and arm were discovered to have partially healed and were concluded to not have played a role in Shanidar 1’s death. Archeologists believe that Shanidar 1 was taken care of by the other Neanderthals in his social group. It would have been very difficult for him to live long enough for his injuries to partially heal without help from others. At the time, this was a significant discovery, as it lessened the strongly-held belief that Neanderthals were solitary in nature. The Shanidar Cave is not only home to Neanderthal skeletons, but also to over 30 other “proto-Neolithic” skeletons that have been dated to roughly 10,000 years BC. One of these skeletons, Shanidar 3, is on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Shanidar 3 traveled over 6,000 miles from Iraqi Kurdistan to Washington D.C. This is an archival photograph showing the archaeological excavation of Shanidar Cave, the arrows in the image document the location of several Neanderthal remains discovered during excavations led by Ralph Solecki between 1951 and 1960.
Sometimes archaeological excavations can be likened to a detective story, where the detective sets out to find a pickpocket but ends up catching a robber who's burglarized a bank vault. Much the same thing happened to Ralph Solecki when he began excavations in Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq in 1951. Solecki, then a thirty-four-year-old archaeologist at the Smithsonian Institution, was searching for ancient stone tools. Nine years later, the work was completed, and by then he had collected more Neanderthal skeletons than had rarely been found in one place. Eight years later, a new analysis of his finds, conducted thousands of kilometers from Shanidar Cave, revealed that Neanderthals decorated their dead with flowers, leading to a new appreciation of these ancient people. Ralph Solecki began his fruitful excavations in May 1951. For a month, he and his companion, an Iraqi official, explored the rugged Zagros Mountains in northern Iraq. Solecki entered one cave after another (about forty in total), but they were all so small, so damp, or so rocky that they clearly could not have served as human habitation at any time. Solecki then began questioning the mountaineers. This vast region, located at the crossroads of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey, is home to the Kurds. Some are sedentary, others semi-nomadic, moving their sheep and goats from one pasture to another in the spring and fall. They know the geography of Kurdistan like no one else. It was from these shepherds that Solecki learned about "Shkaft Mazin Shanidar"—the Great Shanidar Cave. Solecki found it on the slope of Mount Baradost above the Great Zab River. It met all the archaeologist's requirements. Spacious and well-ventilated (its entrance is eight meters high and twenty-five meters wide), it faced south, and was therefore fully illuminated and warmed by the sun. The floor—earth, not rock—promised untold archaeological treasures. In short, it was, in Solecki's words, "the most magnificent cave of all those we visited during our exploration." This is a photo of one of the early caves that Ralph Solecki explored.
Workers and early archaeologists used dynamite in Neanderthal caves primarily to break through massive, impenetrable rockfalls and heavy consolidated sediment blocks that prevented them from reaching the ancient, fossil-bearing layers beneath. This is a photo of workers who have just lit the fuse on a stick of dynamite and they're about to get the hell out of dodge before it blows.
A worker at the bottom of an excavation pit. Just look how deep they had to dig to find the neanderthal fossils, this is because of the natural geological process of sediment accumulation over tens of thousands of years.
Check this out, this image shows the original discovery of the Shanidar 1 skull, a 45,000 to 35,000-year-old Neanderthal nicknamed "Nandy". Unearthed in 1957 by Ralph Solecki in the Shanidar Cave, this individual is one of the most famous examples of a Neanderthal who lived into "old age" (approximately 35–45 years) despite severe, life-altering injuries. Just look at it, it's absolutely beautiful. I can't imagine what it must have been like to have unearthed this, to come face-to-face with a being that lived 35,000 to 45,000 years ago, to be the first Homo Sapien to come face-to-face with this Neanderthal.
A look at the entrance to Shanidar Cave today, where excavations still continue. After a 50-year pause, the Shanidar Cave Project was launched in 2014 by researchers from the University of Cambridge, continuing to uncover groundbreaking Neanderthal remains and new insights into their behaviors.
This is the skull of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal (dubbed "Shanidar Z") that was discovered in 2018 by researchers from the University of Cambridge and Liverpool John Moores University during renewed excavations at Shanidar Cave. Next to the skull is a model of what she actually looked like. It's absolutely fascinating, the artists that put these models together must be blown away when their work is complete and they come face-to-face with the past, with a Neanderthal that existed 75,000 years ago.
Check this out, this is Gorhams Cave complex, located on the southeastern face of the Rock of Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory situated on the southern coast of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain). Gorham's Cave complex is internationally renowned as one of the very last known habitations of Neanderthals in Europe. Archaeological deposits within the cave complex show that Neanderthals lived there continuously, dating back around 100,000 years and persisting until approximately 24,000 to 32,000 years ago. Excavations have revealed that Neanderthals hunted marine animals and birds, used feathers for ornamentation, and carved abstract rock engravings, proving advanced cognitive abilities. Recent exploration within the caves has led to the discovery of chambers sealed for over 40,000 years. It's absolutely beautiful and fascinating.
Earth's last Neanderthals lived on the Iberian Peninsula, specifically in the coastal sea caves of Gibraltar. Archaeological evidence indicates these final populations survived in enclaves like Gorham's Cave and Vanguard Cave, long after they had vanished from the rest of Europe. Because the far south of the peninsula maintained a stable, mild climate while the rest of Europe was largely uninhabitable due to glacial periods, this region acted as a final refuge. It's absolutely amazing to think that this was where the last Neanderthals lived before the species began to go extinct.
The X-Files is one of the greatest TV shows in history, I followed the entire series and the movies that were made, it's just one of the greatest stories ever told, Mulder's search for extraterrestrial life and the truth. This is one of my favorite scenes from the franchise, where the Neanderthals have an encounter with hostile extraterrestrial life in a snow cave in 35,000 B.C.
Watching that clip from the X-Files, it's fascinating to think that there could be intelligent life out there that could be technologically advanced far beyond our comprehension and yet here on planet Earth we're in the year 35,000 B.C. It's crazy how time and the universe works, on one planet it can be 1 million B.C. and we're just discovering fire, and on another planet it can be 15,000 A.D. and intelligent life is capable of interstellar travel. It's not entirely impossible that intelligent life could have been visiting our planet when we were just Neanderthals.
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2014 Panini Golden Age - Hobby Box Bottom 3-card Panels - Croft's Swiss Milk Cocoa Red Singles Jack Johnson.
2014 Panini Golden Age - Darby Chocolates - Box Toppers - 3-Card Panel - Jack Johnson/Joe Louis/Jake LaMotta.
Upper Deck Goodwin Champions made some really cool cards of Jack Johnson in 2019, let's take a look at them. This is one of the most beautiful cards I've ever seen, 2019 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions - Horizontal Turquoise - Jack Johnson.
2019 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions - Splash of Color - Royal Blue - Jack Johnson.
2019 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions - Base - Turquoise - Jack Johnson.
1979-81 Panarizon Jack Johnson. This is a really cool looking card.
2015 Sport Kings Gum Jack Johnson.
1995 Angar International - Who's Who - Jack Johnson.
2024 Historic Autographs -YesterYear - Design 3 - Jack Johnson. I love Historic Autographs cards, they always pack a lot into their sets and it's just a really fun experience.
2025 Historic Autographs - Famous Americans - Jack Johnson.
2002 Rockwell - The Great Heavyweights - Jack Johnson, large and mini variations.
2010 Ringside Boxing - Turkey Red - Jack Johnson. These cards are really cool, the artwork is just beautiful and this card is actually signed by the artist for this series.
I guess that's about it for the Jack Johnson cards, there are a few I couldn't find the photos to match up with the card so I'm disgusted about it and I'm just going to leave them out. I really enjoy this stuff, the boxing card hobby is so much fun and you rarely get a chance to see the photos that were used for the images we see on some of these famous and legendary cards. I don't know if anyone has ever tried to showcase the photos that were used for these cards but that's what I'm attempting to do here, a kind of museum, it's just really fascinating and cool to see. I short-changed a few fighters, when I first started this little project I was only going to do my favorite cards, but my OCD took over and now I'm going to try to do them all, so I'll have to come back around and get some of the cards I left out at the beginning.
It's a shame that Rocco Tozzo, aka Rocky Kansas, doesn't have a lot of cards, and what he does have is very rare, and the photos that match up with the cards just aren't available. He's one of my favorites, all-time great lightweight, world lightweight champion 1925-26, and I love his aggressive, "go for broke" fighting style. This is one of his cards, the 1925-31 Four-on-One Exhibits Postcards Heinie Groh / Stanley Harris / Jack Dempsey / Rocky Kansas.
1920s Romeo Y Julieta Rocky Kansas.
1936 La Salle Hats - Rocky Kansas.
1920 W519 Strip card - Rocky Kansas, regular and reverse image variations.
Check this out, this is fascinating, this is Shanidar Cave, Shanidar Cave is a famous archaeological site in the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan. Unearthed in the 1950s, it yielded the remains of ten Neanderthals dating from 35,000 to 75,000 years ago. The site revolutionized our understanding of early hominids by revealing evidence of community care, survival of severe injuries, and potential burial practices.
A view from the inside of Shanidar Cave, looking outward.
Check out this view from the inside of Shanidar Cave. It's absolutely fascinating to think that our ancestors, early humans, lived inside this cave some 35,000-75,000 years ago, ancient Earth is so fascinating.
Ten separate Neanderthal skeletons that may date back over 50,000 years were found in Shanidar Cave. The remains were first discovered in the mid-1950’s by a team from Columbia University led by Smithsonian anthropologist Ralph Solecki. The first nine skeletons were excavated between 1957 and 1961. The tenth skeleton was discovered in 2006 when an archeologist discovered several bones from the collection that did not match the others. The Shanidar Cave was not the first location of Neanderthal skeleton discovery, but it was the first that shed light on the burial practices and causes of death among Neanderthals. The most interesting of all the skeletons, referred to as Shanidar 1, was carefully excavated and diligently studied because of the damage to his skull and deformities on his leg and arm. It was discovered that the Neanderthal was between the ages 40-50 at the time of his death. The damage to his skull, leg and arm were discovered to have partially healed and were concluded to not have played a role in Shanidar 1’s death. Archeologists believe that Shanidar 1 was taken care of by the other Neanderthals in his social group. It would have been very difficult for him to live long enough for his injuries to partially heal without help from others. At the time, this was a significant discovery, as it lessened the strongly-held belief that Neanderthals were solitary in nature. The Shanidar Cave is not only home to Neanderthal skeletons, but also to over 30 other “proto-Neolithic” skeletons that have been dated to roughly 10,000 years BC. One of these skeletons, Shanidar 3, is on display at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Shanidar 3 traveled over 6,000 miles from Iraqi Kurdistan to Washington D.C. This is an archival photograph showing the archaeological excavation of Shanidar Cave, the arrows in the image document the location of several Neanderthal remains discovered during excavations led by Ralph Solecki between 1951 and 1960.
Sometimes archaeological excavations can be likened to a detective story, where the detective sets out to find a pickpocket but ends up catching a robber who's burglarized a bank vault. Much the same thing happened to Ralph Solecki when he began excavations in Shanidar Cave in northern Iraq in 1951. Solecki, then a thirty-four-year-old archaeologist at the Smithsonian Institution, was searching for ancient stone tools. Nine years later, the work was completed, and by then he had collected more Neanderthal skeletons than had rarely been found in one place. Eight years later, a new analysis of his finds, conducted thousands of kilometers from Shanidar Cave, revealed that Neanderthals decorated their dead with flowers, leading to a new appreciation of these ancient people. Ralph Solecki began his fruitful excavations in May 1951. For a month, he and his companion, an Iraqi official, explored the rugged Zagros Mountains in northern Iraq. Solecki entered one cave after another (about forty in total), but they were all so small, so damp, or so rocky that they clearly could not have served as human habitation at any time. Solecki then began questioning the mountaineers. This vast region, located at the crossroads of Iraq, Iran, and Turkey, is home to the Kurds. Some are sedentary, others semi-nomadic, moving their sheep and goats from one pasture to another in the spring and fall. They know the geography of Kurdistan like no one else. It was from these shepherds that Solecki learned about "Shkaft Mazin Shanidar"—the Great Shanidar Cave. Solecki found it on the slope of Mount Baradost above the Great Zab River. It met all the archaeologist's requirements. Spacious and well-ventilated (its entrance is eight meters high and twenty-five meters wide), it faced south, and was therefore fully illuminated and warmed by the sun. The floor—earth, not rock—promised untold archaeological treasures. In short, it was, in Solecki's words, "the most magnificent cave of all those we visited during our exploration." This is a photo of one of the early caves that Ralph Solecki explored.
Workers excavating at Shanidar cave, using a mechanical lift to remove the dirt.
Workers and early archaeologists used dynamite in Neanderthal caves primarily to break through massive, impenetrable rockfalls and heavy consolidated sediment blocks that prevented them from reaching the ancient, fossil-bearing layers beneath. This is a photo of workers who have just lit the fuse on a stick of dynamite and they're about to get the hell out of dodge before it blows.
A worker at the bottom of an excavation pit. Just look how deep they had to dig to find the neanderthal fossils, this is because of the natural geological process of sediment accumulation over tens of thousands of years.
Check this out, this image shows the original discovery of the Shanidar 1 skull, a 45,000 to 35,000-year-old Neanderthal nicknamed "Nandy". Unearthed in 1957 by Ralph Solecki in the Shanidar Cave, this individual is one of the most famous examples of a Neanderthal who lived into "old age" (approximately 35–45 years) despite severe, life-altering injuries. Just look at it, it's absolutely beautiful. I can't imagine what it must have been like to have unearthed this, to come face-to-face with a being that lived 35,000 to 45,000 years ago, to be the first Homo Sapien to come face-to-face with this Neanderthal.
Ralph Solecki at Shanidar Cave in the 1950s.
A look at the entrance to Shanidar Cave today, where excavations still continue. After a 50-year pause, the Shanidar Cave Project was launched in 2014 by researchers from the University of Cambridge, continuing to uncover groundbreaking Neanderthal remains and new insights into their behaviors.
This is the skull of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal (dubbed "Shanidar Z") that was discovered in 2018 by researchers from the University of Cambridge and Liverpool John Moores University during renewed excavations at Shanidar Cave. Next to the skull is a model of what she actually looked like. It's absolutely fascinating, the artists that put these models together must be blown away when their work is complete and they come face-to-face with the past, with a Neanderthal that existed 75,000 years ago.
Check this out, this is Gorhams Cave complex, located on the southeastern face of the Rock of Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory situated on the southern coast of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain). Gorham's Cave complex is internationally renowned as one of the very last known habitations of Neanderthals in Europe. Archaeological deposits within the cave complex show that Neanderthals lived there continuously, dating back around 100,000 years and persisting until approximately 24,000 to 32,000 years ago. Excavations have revealed that Neanderthals hunted marine animals and birds, used feathers for ornamentation, and carved abstract rock engravings, proving advanced cognitive abilities. Recent exploration within the caves has led to the discovery of chambers sealed for over 40,000 years. It's absolutely beautiful and fascinating.
Some great shots of Gorhams Cave complex.
Earth's last Neanderthals lived on the Iberian Peninsula, specifically in the coastal sea caves of Gibraltar. Archaeological evidence indicates these final populations survived in enclaves like Gorham's Cave and Vanguard Cave, long after they had vanished from the rest of Europe. Because the far south of the peninsula maintained a stable, mild climate while the rest of Europe was largely uninhabitable due to glacial periods, this region acted as a final refuge. It's absolutely amazing to think that this was where the last Neanderthals lived before the species began to go extinct.
A view looking out from the caves at Gorhams Cave complex.
The X-Files is one of the greatest TV shows in history, I followed the entire series and the movies that were made, it's just one of the greatest stories ever told, Mulder's search for extraterrestrial life and the truth. This is one of my favorite scenes from the franchise, where the Neanderthals have an encounter with hostile extraterrestrial life in a snow cave in 35,000 B.C.
Watching that clip from the X-Files, it's fascinating to think that there could be intelligent life out there that could be technologically advanced far beyond our comprehension and yet here on planet Earth we're in the year 35,000 B.C. It's crazy how time and the universe works, on one planet it can be 1 million B.C. and we're just discovering fire, and on another planet it can be 15,000 A.D. and intelligent life is capable of interstellar travel. It's not entirely impossible that intelligent life could have been visiting our planet when we were just Neanderthals.
More views looking out of the caves at Gorham's Neanderthal cave complex.