Sep 21, 2012 6:48 PM

Gallery: From Food to iPhones: These Are the Lines That Try Men's Souls

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apple-store-line
San Franciscans stand in line for the iPhone 5 on launch day. *Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired* [![](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/wp-content/gallery/global/creative-commons-ng.gif)](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/about/#faq13)
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Extras lining up in front of Paramount Studios in the 1920s. *Photo: Bettmann/CORBIS*

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bikini-line
Bikini contest. *Photo: [C-Monster](http://www.flickr.com/photos/arte/4550508511/)/Flickr*
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bourke-white-bread-lines
Margaret Bourke-White's famous photo of a bread line during the Louisville flood in 1937.

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boy-prisoners-line
Boy prisoners exercising in a courtyard at Tothill Fields Prison, London, circa 1845. From *London Labour and the London Poor*, by Henry Mathew, 1849. *Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images*
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chick-fil-a
Thousands of people stood in line for up to an hour at the Chick-fil-A in Chandler, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, after Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and Fox News host, called for a national ''Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.'' The event was meant to encourage people to patronize the fast food chain after Dan Cathy, President and CEO of Chick-fil-A, who is a fundamentalist Christian, made public his views against same sex marriage, causing an outcry from political leaders and gay rights advocates. *Photo: Jack Kurtz/ZUMAPRESS*

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cow-line
*Photo: [Olga Caprotti](https://secure.flickr.com/photos/__olga__/2598159429/)/Flickr*
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Line for the Eiffel Tower. Paris, France. *Photo: [Alexandre Duret-Lutz](http://www.flickr.com/photos/gadl/89650415//)/Flickr*

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Ellis Island. *Photo: National Park Service*
Anthony Redpath
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elvis-auditions
Elvis impersonators waiting for a callback. *Photo: Anthony Redpath/Corbis*

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girls-integration-loc
A line of school girls standing in a classroom while boys sit behind them. 1955. *Photo: Thomas J. O'Halloran/Library of Congress*
STEPHEN HIRD
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harry-potter
Fans of the Harry Potter books queue outside Waterstones bookstore in Piccadilly in central London on July 19, 2007, two days ahead of the release of the novel *Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows* by British author J.K. Rowling. *Photo: STEPHEN HIRD/Reuters/Corbis*

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mexico-soup
In line for soup. Mexico City. *Photo: Library of Congress*
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portapotty-line
*Photo: [rockman13](https://secure.flickr.com/photos/rockman13/1063679130/)/Flickr*

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rotunda-harding
A line of people wait outside the U.S. Capitol to see the remains of the late Warren G. Harding. 1923. *Photo: Library of Congress*
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stormtroopers
Stormtroopers in line at Star Wars Celebration in Indianapolis, 2005. *Photo: [Doc\_Brown](http://www.flickr.com/photos/doc_brown/171971258/in/photostream/)/Flickr*

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