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The art of photography has been around for over a century now, but the average image you’ll encounter in your day-to-day life is probably taken on a smartphone within the last year or two. So it can be interesting to explore the world before phones and even the internet and see the past through the actual lenses used at the time.
The “Vintage Photo Booth” Facebook page gathers interesting and historical images from before 1990. So get comfortable for your trip to the past, upvote your favorite pictures, and comment your thoughts and experiences below.
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A Cat Named Buffins, Photographed After Winning The Award For "Most Attractive Expression" At A National Cat Club Contest, In Washington, 1958
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They Are The Carter Family Of Toronto, Ontario In 1936. Louise And John William Carter, Immigrants From Barbados, Went On To Have 9 Children Over A 10 Year Period
The oldest child of this couple George Carter went on to become the first Canadian born Black judge in Canada.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Not surprised about the judge thing. The oldest of nine children would be well experienced at conflict resolution.
Margaret H 2 years ago
The cherry on top of their pride in how they look is, for me, their shoes. Every single one of them has shiny shoes.
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Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago (edited)
The whole family looks well turned out, but respect to mum for looking so "put together" raising that many children in a decade... and there are 3 more to come!
Maine 2 years ago
The mother must have been a strong woman! imagine being pregnant like non stop😐.
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
My great grandmother was a farmer’s wife who had 13. They had a wheat farm back in 1910 that is still in the family today. No modern conveniences there. Garden enough fruit and vegetables and can enough of them for through the winter. And that’s just one of her many tasks.
Load More Replies... Kevin J. Henning 2 years ago
Considering Louise did most of the work having the nine children she looks pretty good.
While photography as an art and a practicality would come about later, a device commonly referred to as a camera obscura was used to project “images” onto walls in a darkened room. Han Chinese philosopher Mozi describes the physics behind this phenomenon in roughly the 4th century BCE.
It can be thought of more like a projector, than a camera, creating a temporary image on a flat surface. The only way to preserve or replicate it, would be to manually trace the image, which is why they were commonly used as drawing tools for architects and designers.
#3
Sigourney Weaver’s High School Yearbook Photo And Quote In 1967. “Please, God, Please, Don’t Let Me Be Normal.”
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
To think there was a time before she was the most bada** female action hero ever.
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Julia Mckinney 2 years ago
I love her sense of humor. That "Gorillas in the Mist" Easter egg in her movie "Working Girl?" Her idea. (she gets a giant stuffed gorilla as a present)
Evie Conkling 2 years ago
As an aspiring actress, she took that quote from a 1960 musical play, "The Fantasticks".
noodles 2 years ago
Plagiarism isn’t an impediment to success. (“Try to Remember“ is a great song.)
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Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago
Thank you for being you, Ms Weaver. And for the awesome characters you've played in your career...
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
I have a pin of her as Ripley (holding Joneys) that I wear on my vest and I often get people asking if that's my mom. "I wish that she was my mom...and have you NOT seen Alien?!?!"
#4
A Beautiful Family Picture
Cat Palmer 2 years ago
I thought the same thing. Another one of these pesky immortals hiding right under our noses?
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Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
I'm glad they found love and had a family in spite of the eugenics movement of their day.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
If two little people have a child, there's a quarter chance of a normal sized baby, half a chance of a child with dwarfism, and a quarter chance of a stillborn. A double gene for dwarfism isn't viable.
Hokuloa 2 years ago
Clearly they won! Imagine how gut-wrenching it must have been knowing that latter 25% potential combined with the general maternal mortality rates of their times. A fortunate, happy family!
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The International Sweethearts Of Rhythm, The Pioneering All-Girl Jazz-Swing Group, With Bandleader Anna Mae Winburn, 1940s
Mona Stevenson 2 years ago
This article needs a pic of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the woman who pioneered rock guitar.
Appalachian Panda 2 years ago
There are several videos on YouTube if you want to take a look.
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
I have often said that the Baritone Sax is the world's sexiest instrument and now I need some time alone.
Cat Chat 2 years ago
At first I read world's as worst and had some questions, indeed.
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LadyVischuss 2 years ago
When are we going to stop saying "girls" and start saying what they are, women? This would not be labeled as a "boy band". So often I hear or read the word "girl/girls" used to refer to adult women. I see it as oppressive. Still not equal. Now be a good girl and upvote this diatribe.
The first image from a camera was created in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a French inventor. He managed to capture the view from his window, although the process did require eight hours of exposure on pewter coated with bitumen. Nevertheless, he achieved an image that wasn’t just some light on a wall. Over time, inventors would, bit by bit, reduce the time needed to capture something.
#6
Aboriginal Boy With Kangaroo Pet, Australia National Geographic | October 1955
K- THULU 2 years ago
And he won't be counted as a citizen of his country till 1968.... ( I'm an aussie, and fkn ashamed!)
XenoMurph 2 years ago
And possibly taken from his parents to be "raised" by good white christian parents?
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Beautiful smile. Not so great pet, from what I hear.
Dodo (they/them) 2 years ago
Genuine question: is the 'Aboriginal Australians think having your photo taken will steal your soul' thing a myth, an old belief or something from a specific culture?
K- THULU 2 years ago (edited)
Not specifically "taking their soul" but we do give warnings when they show pictures of those that have died on tv.... Showing images of, or even naming the dead is deemed taboo...
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#7
"Invisible Dad, Result Of War" By Evaldas Ivanauskas 1926
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
: There's a uniform that's hanging in what's known as father's room : A uniform so simple in its style : It's got no braid of gold or silk no hat with feathered plume : Yet me mother has preserved it all the while
Anastasija Kiseliova 2 years ago
*was digitalized by Evaldas Ivanauskas from original pictures of Vincas Firinauskas
#8
Marlon Brando, A Cat Lover, Once Declared, “I Live In My Cat's House"
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Of course it's true. Who doesn't know this? They own everything, including us!
Bella 2 years ago
I love my cats, but they still lick their butt! And this isn’t any ordinary nose ‘boop’, I think he has something in his mouth? Does anyone else see what I see?
Stephanie M Machado 2 years ago
Agreed, I even zoomed in. Perhaps a cat treat?
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Frances Pitchoune 2 years ago
I think that sometimes too. And then, I remember that he was not such a nice man. And an unappreciative dad.
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The first camera that could be effectively manufactured was invented in 1839 by another Frenchman, Alphonse Giroux. His device cost around 400 francs, a solid chunk of change at the time, and would only take between half an hour to an hour to “create” an image. Unfortunately for Alphonse, others took his idea and quickly upgraded it, creating more popular products.
#9
Two Girls Gallop Full Speed On Sheep In Cornwall, England 1969
StPaul9 2 years ago
Tumblr says Aberystwyth, Wales 1956. https://historical-nonfiction.tumblr.com/post/629815918971731968/girls-racing-sheep-in-aberystwyth-wales-1965 Cornwall is easier to spell. And I love the picture.
rullyman 2 years ago
Yeah I've always seen this photo attributed to Aberystwyth too
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Mutton busting and goat roping were still things when I was a kid in the '80s.
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Oskar vanZandt 2 years ago (edited)
Sheep aren't easy to ride... I was bucked head-over-@rse by a ewe as a young adult on our farm, trying to hold her so my father could give her a jab...
#10
12-Year-Old Freddie Mercury At St Peter’s Boys School - Panchgani, India, 1958
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
I knew it was Freddie before I read it was Freddie. 🤣
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Lyn Moffett 2 years ago
I read somewhere that someone suggested Freddie got his teeth sorted and he refused ,, something to do with his belief that it would affect his singing voice,, and what a voice.
robin aldrich 2 years ago
I also learned that too, and they actually portrayed that in the movie. Bohemian Rhapsody, he thought it would affect the incredible range.
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Ayesha Aleena 2 years ago
Wow I didn't know he went to school in Panchgani which is a hillstation 2 hours away from Pune(where I live).
#11
Ms Nora Washington With Catfish She Caught----With A Cane Pole, No Less----In The Colorado River, Bastrop, Texas 1950's
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago (edited)
Our Aunt Alice used to fish in that same river and every year they'd give a huge family fish fry. She caught a ton of gaspergous and for bait she used helgammites. Yes, I was confused for a while, too. Have fun Googling!
Despite the venerable age of some of these cameras, they were still a highly niche product, expensive, unwieldy, and annoying to use. Drawing and painting were considerably easier solutions if you wanted to depict a portrait, plus then you could easily “improve” the image of yourself, which no doubt many rich folk did.
#12
The Old Cincinnati Library, Before It Was Demolished In 1955
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
I hate seeing old buildings go. It hurts my heart.
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Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
It was. Although it was beautiful, the building was torn down because it was a fire and safety hazard, but the books were preserved and are now in the new Cincinnati Library.
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ƒιѕн 2 years ago
Talks for a new library building had already begun 30 years earlier when the book collection had started to outgrow the building. Books were stacked beyond reach. Ventilation was poor, and the air was stuffy.
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The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
Renovations frequently cost more than replacement. They didnt just demolish it for sh$ts and giggles.
Nancy Marine 2 years ago
Because here in the US, there is no appreciation for beautiful old buildings.
Marlena Jones 2 years ago
As someone who is afraid of heights, this would have been TERRIFING!
#13
La Policemen Disguise Themselves As Women To Catch A Purse-Snatcher In The 1960s
XenoMurph 2 years ago
You just know this initiative was made up as a frantic excuse when the sergeant was spotted on a Friday night dressed like this and calling himself Shirley.
General Anaesthesia 2 years ago (edited)
The snatcher probably approached from behind. That way they couldn't be recognized in a line up, or so a friend told me.
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Lori T Wisconsin 2 years ago
Didn't the republicans complain that they were grooming children by cross dressing?
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 2 years ago
But did it work? And nowadays, men in women's clothing are for some people a bigger threat to society than school shootings...
General Anaesthesia 2 years ago
Note the head scarves, which were still so common in the 1950s and 1960s that a snatcher wouldn't suspect anything.
MichelleDonut 2 years ago
You had to protect that hairdo! You went to the salon once a week to get it washed, put in curlers under a dryer hood, teased, and sprayed into a big helmet. Then you just gently touched it up throughout the week. My second cousin told me this, she said it was a great relief when she was growing out her layers, she never had to mess with her hair, the stylist did it all.
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Audrey Hepburn Photographed By Art Zelin On The Streets Of New York, 1990
Jessica Gilbert 2 years ago
Have you ever watched the documentary about her on Netflix? She struggled to feel beautiful despite the fact that she is because she wasn’t considered a bombshell beauty and in her day women like Marilyn Monroe were popular.
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Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
She was dying in this photo and didn't know it, insidious cancer slowly creeping around her and eventually robbing the world of a beautiful human being
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
Still stunning at 60 <3 (she died 3 years later in 1993, of Cancer, only 3 months after her diagnosis. :( may she rest in peace)
Another issue was the need for a specialist to handle the camera and the materials to produce the picture. At best, most people of the time saw cameras as a weird niche machine that made blurry, black-and-white images, which tended to not be particularly durable or strong compared to most alternative visual mediums of the time.
#15
Battersea Fun Fair, London, England C.1952
Frances Pitchoune 2 years ago
"It's a wonderful wonderful life" https://youtu.be/VNNTKZ4hEyw?si=Y2diPGtQr5BLDYFE
#16
NY Public Library Bookmobile – Bronx, 1950
Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 2 years ago
They should be called by their true name "Karens for Bigotry"...
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Sue Denham 2 years ago
Upvote for a library. I love libraries; they're like an amazing gift to humanity.
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago (edited)
I miss those things. If you couldn’t get to the library, it came to you. This was a time when that’s the way many many children got books to read. We didn’t have bookstores like today and nobody could afford them anyway. A wonderful way to share and give everyone the opportunity to learn and discover the joy of reading.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
I filled the book mailbox up at the park and it was wonderful watching the kids flock to it and grab up new books . Until one dad let his kids throw them all over the ground and leave them there
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
We have them where I live still. If I had a heavy driving licence I would have applied for the job driving one I saw last year.
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RiceRiceBaby 929 2 years ago
This would be exhausting to keep track of those books unless they're using the honor system
Cat Chat 2 years ago
When we had the book mobile in the 70s we still checked the books out by signing and leaving the book's card. Probably doing that or something similar here.
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Saralynn Lessord 2 years ago
They did recently in Buffalo. But I'm not sure since covid
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1940s.....i Would Love To Know What's Going On.....her Joy Is Infectiou
Doge 2 years ago
Finally had enough and killed her husband with a shard from a broken dinner plate.
2WheelTravlr 2 years ago
To me this doesn't look like joy, it looks like someone dealing with a mental health issue. The kids in the background appear concerned and a bit scared.
A major breakthrough was the invention of mass-produced film and 35mm film in particular. Multiple brands and inventors based cameras around this film, allowing for “regular people” to more easily take and process photos. While not dirt cheap, an average working person could buy a camera and supply it with film if they really wanted to.
#18
Found This On Another Site ...atlantic City 1939
MichelleDonut 2 years ago
Caption from Getty Images: A female sunbather points to a "You may now bathe without "tops" sign to explain to a lifeguard why she is going topless at Spring Lake Beach. Her actions are a literal interpretation, probably meant for males only, of the recent rescinding of the beach's law requiring all swimmers to wear "tops." New Jersey, USA, August 11, 1939
MichelleDonut 2 years ago
Explanation of 1930s men's swimsuits with removable tops here: https://vintagedancer.com/mens-fashion-history/vintage-mens-swimsuits-history/
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Alex Ruddies 2 years ago
Hey, if guys can bath without tops, so can women...and guys, for the love of Thor, be a man and don't stare.
Jordan Scott 2 years ago
America sucks! We'll sell a kid a gun while protesting, "Oh god! A nipple!"
Mommy Panda 2 years ago
Why thank you for your permission to do with our body whatever the fück we want...
#19
London Children And Dog..... Approx 1955
Bella 2 years ago
It’s a beautiful photo, but does anyone else see their amaaaazing gingerbread neighborhood??
Magazine 2 years ago
Yes! Actually my first thought was "oh to be there in the 50s and buy one of those houses..."
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M 2 years ago
I’ve noticed that the lower down a picture appears, the less votes the pic gets. Unfortunate.
MoMcB 2 years ago
Isn't that how it works? They are listed in order of votes given?
Load More Replies... Lyn Moffett 2 years ago
I love these types of photos. People had very little but they always seemed happy.
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Ladies At The Gateways Club In Chelsea, London
Mermeow Overlord (they/them) 2 years ago
They probably even showered together... to save money of course.
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Spikey Bunny 2 years ago
Sisters, Roommates, Best Friends, Lovers, Married, whatever... as long as they are happy I don't care ... and neither should anyone else!!!
Soon photographs were no longer a novelty, but a staple, as newspapers began to print images. Just a few decades ago, Polaroid came out with the very first instant image cameras, cutting out the wait period between taking photos and the negatives being developed. While the quality was not amazing, it’s a far cry from the multi-hour waits associated with cameras in a previous era.
#21
Girl Learning Photography And Cinema In Bali, 1934
WindySwede 2 years ago
Tiny tiny lenses,I wonder about F-stop,but it also maby was just 16 mm film or so?
Load More Replies... Lori T Wisconsin 2 years ago
Wow the earrings! A lovely young girl, wish the photo was in color.
Booker 2 years ago
Looks like she may be doing double-duty, both behind and in front of the camera.
David 2 years ago
that was my thought. She looks like she is dressed to be filmed and asked to look through the camera.
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#22
Fred With Tires From The Body Shop Series, 1984 By Herb Ritts
HannahNo 2 years ago
Omg. I had his poster on my wall as teenager! I didn't know it was taken in 1984. I wasn't even born then!
JM 2 years ago
he looks dehydrated for his muscles to stand out like that. sexy but not very healthy.
rullyman 2 years ago
That's what my thought was! Fred should take a break with a nice cup of tea
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Virginie Michaud 2 years ago
Fred Harding. More pictures in the series. Your welcome 😁😜 https://www.artsy.net/artist-series/herb-ritts-fred-with-tires
M 2 years ago
Thanks for the name. I tried goggling it, but couldn’t find out what he’s doing today, or a Wikipedia page. Seems all famous people have one today. Would love to know what became of all these models.
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Shishal Asaurus 2 years ago
I dîed laughing at this comment.... too funny
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Delivering Newspapers In Mexico City, 1977, By Frans Stoppelman
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
It's bad enough to have all the papers. I sure wouldn't be giving someone a ride, as well.
While amateur photographers could easily document anything they could capture, professionals had already learned how to edit and manipulate images. This practice existed long before digital images, photoshop, and filters, going all the way back to the 20th century, when photographers would “insert” their work into paintings or create a “montage” of multiple images.
#24
A Covey Of Young Nerds Compete For The *national 'Space Invaders' Championship, *hosted By Atari - NYC, 1980
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
Probably for a newspaper. Minor stories would still be black and white.
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anthonycarey24 2 years ago
I've realized that in these posts "vintage" refers to an art style rather than era
LittleWombat 2 years ago
There was nothing nerdy about playing Atari games in 1980!!!! Home gaming was totally new and super exciting!!
#25
Newly Completed World Trade Centre 1973
Sue User 2 years ago
What is difficult to see is the trash and two ( probabky) homeless people next to such a display of wealth and power.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
I'm old enough to remember New York before they Disnyfied it in the '90s. Times Square was full of porn theatres and strip clubs.
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Russell Bowman 2 years ago
There is a movie "The walk", based on true events, about Frenchman Philippe Petit who walked the high wire between the two. Worth a watch,
Larry XK 2 years ago
A little boring but I managed to watch the whole thing
Load More Replies... Janet Graham 2 years ago
I was there in November of 1972 and got top watch the cranes work on the top floors. They were so tall!
#26
A Couple Of Students Hang Out In Their College Dorm Room At The University Of Illinois In 1910
Bella 2 years ago
Look at their amaaaazing wall! That is just so freaking cool how they did that
Calvin Smelliott 2 years ago
It looks like some type of net. The pictures are held in place by putting their corners through the net.
Load More Replies... TheNewJenBrady 2 years ago
My college dorm walls in the late 1990s had a similar vibe...lots of random posters, photos,magazine ads, cards, art etc. I love seeing that this college collage thing has always been around.
robin aldrich 2 years ago
Oh k, why is the bed shaped like that? Was that the early version of the adjustable bed?
Despite its age, photography is still considered a new medium, as it still requires an interplay between the human creator and technology. While the photographer can choose how to frame what they take, they can’t manipulate or control the image nearly as much as an artist, painter or sculptor can.
#27
Ida Lupino - Great Dress Of The Times
Jack Burton 2 years ago
Very skilled director, everybody should watch The Hitch hiker. A tense and smart movie.
Dorothy Stovall 2 years ago
I had a dress like this as a preteen in the mid-70s. Didn't look like THAT though.
#28
Bowmont Drive Entrance Of Frank Sinatra’s Home In The 1960s
#29
Marilyn Monroe Attends The Premiere Of The Film "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof", 1955
imgonaarickrollyousohard 2 years ago
All the papers had to say was that Marilyn was found in the nude
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Bookworm 2 years ago
To my understanding, that's not an unusual thing. Apparently a lot of the actresses are sewn into their gowns at red carpet events, at least the really big ones like the Oscars; the actresses travel around with a team of people to extract them from their clothes when they have to use the bathroom, then sew them back into the dresses.
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With the advent of the smartphone, the entire plant can take and share images faster than ever, so when you are snapping your next pic, be grateful for the machine in your pocket. If you have been enjoying this collection of vintage photos so far, why stop? Bored Panda has other articles on old images that you can check out. Alternatively, feel free to look through our article taking old photos of a location and comparing it to what it looks like now.
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Coal Miner's Wife And Three Of Their Children. Company House In Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia, September 1938
JM 2 years ago
the older boy’s musculature looks like he’s already been working. what a difficult life.
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
I wouldn't be surprised, in the mines of the UK, kids as young as eight, and even younger in some cases, were hired for jobs in the mines. :I
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Weasel Wise 2 years ago
And lots of US states (ie Kentucky) want to bring this way of life back, child labor included. 😒😒😒😒😒
Elena Williams 2 years ago
The look on the mother's face says it all. What a difficult life she must have had.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
They're using the word "house" loosely. More like a tar paper shack on cinder blocks.
Michael Fuhry 2 years ago
"Child labor laws? What, are you some kinda red? Put them young'n's ta work". People are so ignorant these days. They have no effing idea.
#31
Kristen M. Shared This Photo From 1978. She Says This Is What Her Life Was Like Having Big Brothers
Leanne Hailes 2 years ago
Smoking wasn't a big deal. You could smoke in hospitals.
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Girl Talk At The Corner Of East End Avenue And 81st Street, NYC, 1950's
Shannon Hawks 2 years ago
be cool to have a picture in their nineties all together on same corner
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Mia Farrow C. 1964
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
Amazing how much her son Ronan Farrow looks just like her. Luckily him, because his father is Woody Allen.
Der Kommissar 2 years ago
I guess you missed the fact that Ronan looks JUST like his father, Francis Albert Sinatra. Mia cheated on Mr. Allen.
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Young Women Sitting At The Bar, Cuba 1950s
Mylittlecorgi 2 years ago
Cuba - this would have been the perfect time to vacation there. Gee, thanks for ruining things, Fidel.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago (edited)
No idea why you got downvoted for that, I thought it was pretty funny. Maybe someone thought the communist revolution that happened 70 years ago is still "too soon".
Load More Replies... hwatinternation 2 years ago
Or just getting a drink and hanging out with friends, there's that.
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Juan Riquelme 2 years ago
I reckon any girl in club/bar in the US is a "working" girl as well.
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The Maryhill Olympics, Glasgow 1980
Robert T 2 years ago
An Austin Allegro and a Talbot Horizon. Two of the most hideous cars to be inflicted on the British public.
VonBlade 2 years ago
On the plus side there is a Cortina Mk4 and a Mk3 estate, as well as a super cool early Transit and what looks like a Hillman Avenger.
Load More Replies... Boredest Disabled Panda 2 years ago (edited)
Black and white film was still the medium of photo journalists back then. It cost money for newspapers to print in color. In the 80's, they were teaching black and white photography at the community college I went to.
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#36
Polka Dotted Beach Pajamas, Deauville - 1930's
rullyman 2 years ago
Women weren't really allowed to wear trousers outside of pyjamas (and factories- women did work in WW1 factories) so upper class women started wearing loose pyjama palazzo pants to the beach and calling them beach pyjamas
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Sue Denham 2 years ago
Yes, very nice. Now tell us about the stuffed pig that woman is holding.
Lyn Moffett 2 years ago
Probably had a bottle of booze hiding in the pig lol
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Maisey Myles 2 years ago
Don’t wait for the world to make it stylish again. Start a new trend! Wear what you want- with confidence!
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Inella 2 years ago (edited)
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, but you can apparently make a regular purse out of a tiny pig (faux pig, of course)
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June 1938. "Butter Bean Vines Across The Porch. Negro Quarter In Memphis, Tennessee."
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Any city with a "negro quarter" has something seriously wrong with it and it isn't the people being forced to live in that quarter.
David 2 years ago
That's kind of a win win. The beans get lots of sun but make lovely shade for the porch as they grow up the string. the beans in my garden would grow up past their fences (about 5 foot) and bend over and meet each other to make an arch. When I would go in between rows it was like this shady green tunnel. Actually made it a cool place to pick the beans from.
Booker 2 years ago (edited)
Lima Bean - Wikipedia: "A lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus), also commonly known as the butter bean...".
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Auntriarch 2 years ago
We used to have them outside the kitchen window, much cooler inside
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Paul Brown 2 years ago
Im from America and never heard of this, but not surprised. A lot of America's ugly past has been hidden from the public.
Roland Charron 2 years ago
I thought she had half a cat on her lap until I zoomed in. It's a leaf on the vine.
Phred 2 years ago
As late as the 1970s I heard someone use the term "colored town." (North Florida)
Crissy Newbury 2 years ago
In the early 60s in m Texas town it was called something much, much worse…
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Mental Liberals 2 years ago
The US government created the Welfare State - all over the country...keep "them" down, control "them". Yes, they also created, ran, and still run the KKK, planned parenthood (to get rid of blacks), Jim Crow laws, and so much more. Oh, the demonrats...yes. Look it up liberals! :) Down vote the Truth away!!
#38
Elvis And His Mother Gladys
#39
The Zoot Suit, Ca. 1940s
Santos L. Harper 2 years ago
this is why you gotta twirl the excess when you roll
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Juan Something(downvotevictim) 2 years ago
The Zoot Suit Riots is worth learning about, if you aren't familiar.
Historyharlot93 2 years ago
“🎶 Is you is or is you ain’t my baby?🎶” or was that sung in the Tom and Jerry cartoon?
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
Everything deliberately ten sizes too large. It'd look great if the shoes were ten sizes too large as well.
sofacushionfort 2 years ago
When you look at photos of Hispanic and African Americans taken before the 1930’s, you see they wore the same styles as the dominant white culture. The Zoot suit changed this, and thereafter Blacks and Hispanics would develop new clothing styles that White Americans would consult when trying to keep up and stand out
S. E. in Indiana 2 years ago
So, imagine the length of the zipper on these. Hope he didn't have to go to the bathroom too often.
#40
The Original Ronald Mcdonald Photographed Here In The 1970s. You’re Welcome. Sweet Dreams
Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
I thought Willard Scott was the first And his version is way trippier. https://www.historyvshollywood.com/video/original-ronald-mcdonald-willard-scott/
Allen Scherr 2 years ago
Here is the original. Willard Scott from the Today Show. See attached photo. willard-65...741a2f.jpg 
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
I'm so old, I remember when clowns weren't scary, like Emmett Kelly and dear Red Skelton and his happy clown paintings.
Dorothy Stovall 2 years ago
I think they got scary about the time that guy who killed a bunch of young men - Gacy - became known. He used to dress up as a clown for kid's parties.
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#41
1942
Shari Davenport 1 year ago
I bet yours didn't have 1-½" heels on them! Look closely - those are not the flat heeled kind. Can you imagine? High heel saddle shoes with your uniforms? They were available in the early 1940s Sears catalogs, as shoes for grown women.
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realenancy170 2 years ago
It is a burner lifter for a wood burning stove. The handle stays cool, you can remove the burner to add more wood.
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Shari Davenport 1 year ago
No, it's not a Brillo ad, and it's not fake. It was one of a series of photographs taken in 1942 to illustrate a Life magazine-type story, showing a young couple and their daughter living in a newly built apartment, in a large group of apartments, that were constructed to house WWII factory workers in the northeast - Connecticut comes to mind - of a subcontractor for an airplane producer in the area. There are at least a half dozen more photos illustrating life for this couple, who moved out of an apartment in a shared apartment building in New York, and into their first apartment where the Mrs. didn't have to share kitchen or bathroom facilities with other tenants! This was in a rather small town during the early part of the War.
Load More Replies... Alewa 2 years ago
...when women where confined to the kitchen, black people to where white people didn't go, Jews to the gas chamber and the rest of the world were merrily killing each other.
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#42
Charleston, Sc, Photo By Baldwin Lee, 1984
Lara Elliott 2 years ago
They HAD to stack the new tv on the old ones because the old ones were too dang heavy to move!!
Happy Homemaker 2 years ago
I remember that it around this time when our dad built a TV from scratch. It took him 7 years to do it because us kids kept taking it apart, he said, so he started locking it up in his bedroom. It was around this time that he finished it. It was roughly the size of the bottom TV. We had one of those huge TV/record player cabinets. He took the old TV out and put the one he built in that. By the time he finished it, we had a better TV to watch, so we used the one he built for Nintendo video games. 😂 Since it had such a large screen, we could see everything on it.
Panda Please 2 years ago
I was grateful to be in some of his classes at University of Tennessee. Mr. Lee is a great man and I loved when he showed us his collections like this.
Vasana Phong 2 years ago
I swear back in the day everyone took a pic next to their big floor tv
#43
This High School Girl Has The Jean Jacket And Hair Style That Were Popular In The '70s
#44
Old School Bike Life Family
Bella 2 years ago
Okay is that a little bucket of popcorn and a fly swatter for the birds trying to eat it!!? 😆 (I know it’s not, but now you can’t unsee)
2WheelTravlr 2 years ago
The UK didn't experience the explosion of car culture in the 1920s like the US did with the introduction of inexpensive production-line cars. Another limiting factor was taxation, with 4-wheel vehicles paying much higher licensing fees than 2 and 3 wheeled conveyances. So, in many middle-class families a motorcycle was the family's transport. This particular bike appears to be a single-cylinder machine built in the later 1920s, many companies from BSA through Velocette made these small and inexpensive models which typically offered a whopping 2.5 to 3 hp.
Russell Bowman 2 years ago
I saw this every day in Lahore ... usually with another child sitting up front on the gas tank. And the womans stole hanging precariously near the drive chain.
#45
Daisy Bikini In
robin aldrich 2 years ago
That was probably shocking for the conservatives attitudes of the time.
Roland Charron 2 years ago
That is very low-cut for the 50s. Only a model would dare to wear this in public.
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Carman Davis 2 years ago
I wonder what year this is? Photo itself looks old but I don't think bikinis came out in the '60's maybe?
goddessgebo 2 years ago
Bikinis were invented during ww2. They became popular in the 60s.
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#46
Playing Cards In The Back Of A Car. (1950s)
Emily Phillips 2 years ago
I did a reverse image search and it showed Jane Fonda so good eye
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Marlena Jones 2 years ago
Yes, this is Jane Fonda. Jane Fonda Stretching Her Legs in a Limo While Playing Cards, 1958 In between takes while filming (her film debut, the 1960 movie 'Tall Story') this is her idea of relaxing: chilling in the back of a luxury car with her legs outstretched while playing a round of poker.
Tuesday 2 years ago
those legs make me doubt my straight-ness as a woman 😍 either way i love her smile
Cat Chat 2 years ago
Unless you mean you are sexually attracted to her because of them, it's perfectly ok to admire the body of the same sex without it meaning one is gay.
Load More Replies... Margaret H 2 years ago
If I saw a pair of legs hitting the roof of a car like that, the last thing I'd expect is that the girl is playing cards.
#47
Bunny Yeager · Self-Portrait
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Cameras are rare in photos. But this has something even rarer for a Bunny Yeager photo - clothes!
#48
Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Journalist Murray Kempton. He Never Learned To Drive
hwatinternation 2 years ago (edited)
I'm not sure why his not learning to drive is relevant to a photo taken of him mid-jump.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
There was a well known photographer of the period who insisted that all of the people he photographed jump for the picture. This includes the royal family.
Mary Tonningsen 2 years ago
That station wagon looks like the one my folks had when I was a kid. :)
#49
Jane Evelyn Atwood: Paris Red Light 1976–1979 Pigalle, Paris, 1978
Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
That does not look like a feminine person. Not judging, just observing.
Chickie 2 years ago
You made a good observation. The photographer (if you search on the Web) photographed a variety of Prostitutes in the Paris Red Light District. The "girls" included cross dressers.
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Marlena Jones 2 years ago
Jane Evelyn Atwood is the photographer. Atwood's two long-term immersive projects explore cis- and trans- gendered communities among prostitutes in Paris. the project was named "Jane Evelyn Atwood : Paris Red Light 1976-1979"
Frances Pitchoune 2 years ago
OK. You'll have to enlighten me. I thought Drag Queens were men dressing up as women. And that Trans people were men or women who had undergone sex change surgery. So, today, we must say that Drag are Trans? I'm a bit lost. Please update me.
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#50
Here Is A Woman With Three Young Girls, Out For A Stroll, In Manhattan's Madison Square Park In 1905
Heir of Durin 2 years ago
It must have taken forever to get those lovely girls out the door! I can barely manage getting my kids out in pajamas! 😂
pug nose curly tail 2 years ago
Exactly my first thought!!! I'd have to start 3 days before the outting.
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 2 years ago
I wish we still dressed so finely, guess I'm from the wrong time period. Then again, if I were born then, I'd have been long dead from lack of modern medicine
General Anaesthesia 2 years ago (edited)
Another 15 years and their mother will be allowed to vote.
#51
Before The Parachute
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
I saw a TV show on the invention of the parachute. Quite a few lives were lost.
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afia kooma 2 years ago
I was given the privledge of having a flight in a no-engine aircraft once. The one they pull up in the air with a propellplane, but otherwise looks just like a small plane, sans engines. He had given me the parachute, and someone else helped me attach it while he spoke of the lift-of and landing and how safe it all was. Then as he got ready to jump iin the plane, I said "Im not saying i dont trust the safety here and your competence, but I would feel like such an idiot if I go down today, and then die because I never asked wich of these lines to pull ".
A Gondring 2 years ago
This is balloonist Henry de la Vaulx in 1907. The parachute had been invented more than a century earlier. The cushions are in case of a crash of the experimental plane. It's not like the plane at that time would be flying at 20,000 feet, after all.
#52
Violinista Con Perro / Violinist With Dog, Ca 1933, Alfonso Sánchez Portela. Spanish (1902 - 1990)
Colin Matthews 2 years ago
For context, this is the year that Hitler took power in Germany, Spain began to descend into civil war, Mussolini had fascism well under way in Italy. For people who might be Roma (like a street artist or musician) life was about to become extremely precarious
#53
Brando Attends The Funeral Of Black Panther Bobby Hutton, Oakland, 1968
Lyone Fein 2 years ago
Actually Brando made admirable use of his fame by drawing attention to several important civil rights causes.
DC 2 years ago
... how much heat did he get from the yesterdayans for it? Comparable to today, worse, less, ...?
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Diane Arbus, "Woman With Eyeliner", N.y.c., 1964
Sans Serif (Sans) 2 years ago
Phenomenal photographer - love to see her inclusion in anything...
#55
Woody Guthrie At Mcsorley's Old Ale House In 1943
#56
Photograph By Martin Parr, From His Book Bad Weather, 1982, Kenmare Fair, Kenmare, Ireland
#57
Packaging Olives For A&p (George Skadding. 1949)
Benita Valdez 2 years ago
They weren't very popular but we had one or two still in late 90's. They bought two chains in my area which were prevalent in the early 2000's that slowly started fading and then all closed by around 2012-15; a&p filed bankruptcy. I may be a little off with timing but for reference, I live in NY and they had owned Pathmark and Walbaums and probably some others. We also had Best Market for a little while but they didn't last; dont know if any a&p relation. Basically all three of these supermarkets buildings are now Lidls these days in my area
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I heart Boo-BI-es 2 years ago
My local grocery store growing up was an A&P until the early 2000's
Frances Pitchoune 2 years ago
And it's the lady who puts the little piece of red pepper in the center of the olives. Hard job!
#58
Paying By Check
ƒιѕн 2 years ago
And today to you need to take out a loan to buy the same.
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Amazing that paying by check could seem so novel…I wonder how many pandas can remember this? (I’m one)
Dodo (they/them) 2 years ago
I never did it myself but I remember my parents doing it. I'm 37 (we phased them out a while ago in the UK)
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
That's a fake advertising image. The name of every product has been oriented towards the camera.
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R Adams 2 years ago
If i ran out of food just before payday and had no money left i could go to the supermarket and write a check knowing that before it cleared i would have gotten my wages lol. I also had a friend who would go clothes shopping on a friday, pay by check, wear the clothes to go out over the weekend then take the clothes back on the monday and get a refund before the check had cleared.
Gina 2 years ago
I still use checks for important things. I pay bills with checks. Instant receipt and proof
Temporary Dork 2 years ago (edited)
Ah, the 1970s, when even the serifs were pretending to be sans.
#59
Photo By Louise Dahl-Wolf, 1939
Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
For them that don't know, Louise Dahl-Wolf was best known as a fashion photographer. These are models, not just a casual day at the beach for a couple of gal pals.
Cooter McCoughlin 2 years ago
I was just about to say that looks like it could be Taylor Swifts mother
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Untitled Taken In Pittsburgh, 1955
sofacushionfort 2 years ago
That’s at 40.41912° N, 79.99571° W if you want to see how it looks today
Andi 2 years ago
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4191369,-79.9958668,3a,75y,169.05h,87.88t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s4goGt3mE9UECj_CNniLaUQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
M 2 years ago
Thanks. Couldn’t really even recognize the houses or street today! Such a shame.
Load More Replies... Cat Chat 2 years ago
"Darn it. We'd be having fun at the swimming hole but Johnny had to go and break his leg! "
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1962 - Anne Bancroft And Pattyduke In A Still From "The Miracle Worker"
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Anne Bancroft won the Oscar for Best Actress for this film. She couldn’t be there so Joan Crawford accepted it on her behalf. Took over a year for Bancroft to actually get it off Crawford!
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Since the Marlon Brando episode, the Academy will accept on your behalf if you're not there. And you can pick it up any time.
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BPisaddictive 2 years ago
Italian tv aired a version of this with actresses Anna Miserocchi and Cinzia De Carolis (little Helen), circa 1975. They were both great!
Janet Graham 2 years ago
Great movie and a great story! The life of Ms. Sullivan is worth reading!
#62
Jackie Kennedy Mannequin, New York, 1961
Thomas Grant 2 years ago
"Yes i am on official mannequin inspector. I require this mannequin for closer inspection and shall be taking it home with me"
starshollow 2 years ago
"Hey, put down right this minute! I am the first lady and this is bloody Chanel!"
#63
Bob Dylan And Suze Rotolo, Greenwich Village, New York City, 1963 / Photo By Don Hunstein
Mr. Toast 2 years ago
Was she the one on the album cover? If you are interested in those times an interesting read is The Mayor of Macdougal Street by Dave Van Ronk and Elijah Wald
Agfox 2 years ago
Yes, "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan". Sadly, she died of cancer in 2011
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Bar Los Siete Espejos (Bar Of Seven Mirrors), Valparaiso, Chile, 1963
David A Paterson 2 years ago
"I'm so bored, sir, pick me up and carry me off".
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Priscilla Presley With Her Boyfriend Mike Stone In 1975
Coleen 2 years ago
Everyone (including me!) had one in the 70s. We also turned our regular jeans into bell-bottoms by ripping out the outside seam and inserting new fabric like that floral she has! :-D
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Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I like her shirt. My style in the mid-2000s, though my stepdad would have immediately called me Elly May!
#66
Walking To Work Along Spring Garden Road. Feb 1960
Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
The snow should be a clue. It's Canada, of course, lol! Halifax, Nova Scotia, to be exact. Apparently, a major snowstorm shut down the city for about a week.
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Angie Dickinson And Director Howard Hawks On The Set Of Rio Bravo (1959)
Andi 2 years ago
ah Police Woman! looking back it was just a little exploitative (she had more baths than anyone) but still an icon for change and she did kick a**e!
Coleen 2 years ago
She looked just slightly different in Police Woman, as I recall. ;-)
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Country Wedding, Seine Et Marne, France 1960s, Photo By Yves Troispoux
#69
An Interior View Of The Mess Hall Showing Convicts At Dinner In The Ohio State Penitentiary Located In Columbus, Ohio
Tamra 2 years ago
Have you been incarcerated lately? I can only speak for the US, but I can assure you that prisons haven't gotten any more posh. Prison still feels like prison.
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The Ford Model Line Up, 1966. (Ford Modeling Agency, That Is.)
Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
Yes, black models were not a thing until the '70s. Interesting look at the times here via a story about Donyale Luna, the forgotten black model: https://www.thecut.com/2013/07/first-black-supermodel-whom-history-forgot.html
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Margaret H 2 years ago
So many of them look like those interchangeable talking heads from the Fox network.
#71
A Contest On Who Had The Prettiest Legs. Cliftonville, England 1936
Rose the Cook 2 years ago
So they will be judged on their legs only. Judges might be influenced by a pretty face or beautiful hair.
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Washing Day India, C. 1920’s
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
I'll wash out my grime and wash in the next door neighbors grime.
#73
1944 - Flirting: A Young Women Flaunts Her Charm While Sipping A Milkshake With Some Teenage Boys
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
Girl at the back is thinking “Jessica is such a whore. I wish I was Jessica”.
#74
At The Caramel Club, Paris, 1963 (Pierre Parente)
BPisaddictive 2 years ago
Those were times when being and looking bored and suffering was considered cool (existentialism)
#75
They Always Said To Put A Tiger In Your Tank. Glad They Put Them On The Roof This Time
#76
Dapper Deputy Dawg
k1ddkanuck 2 years ago
"So many colors! Ow!" There, I fixed it for you ;)
Load More Replies... Tiny Dancer 2 years ago
The man's name was Leslie, he was a farmer and, I'm guessing, all gussied up for a night of square dancing, yee haw! Original pic and some info here: https://www.shorpy.com/node/18282
Colleen Foley 2 years ago
The couch is nifty and the afghan iconic. But, as much as I adore wallpaper, who on earth thought the wallpaper, carpet, curtains, and throw pillows belonged in the same room? Especially the curtains. And how did they find 4 floral prints with different flowers?
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
My mum has a sofa with that patterned fabric, in red. My grandad had it reupholstered when he inherited from his aunt, it must be at least 70 years old.
#77
Masahisa Fukase Yoko 1970’s
Roan The Demon Kitty 2 years ago
The photographer is Masahisa Fukase... the woman in the picture is likely to be his (2nd) wife, Yoko Wanibe. He only ever photographed his wife, including both Yoko and his first wife, Yukiyo Kawakami.
Sans Serif (Sans) 2 years ago
I certainly hope she hasn't fallen asleep...
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Romance Is In The Air At Scandinavia’s Most Popular Dance Club, Nalen, In Stockholm, 1956. Photo By John Firth
Lori T Wisconsin 2 years ago
YUCK, her cigarette breath, kissing her is like licking a dirty ashtray LOL
#79
Brando Attends The Funeral Of Black Panther Bobby Hutton, Oakland, 1968
Little Wonder 2 years ago
Fourth row from the front, second from the left is Brando's car, obviously.
Load More Replies... Gustav Gallifrey 2 years ago
Some questions: 1. Why did Bobby own so many cars? 2. Why are they being buried with him? 3. Is Brando driving the tug boat?
Daniel Atkins 2 years ago
Brando would probably drive a tugboat just because.
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American car culture is exemplified by the Drive-In funerals that were popular in the 60s.
Richard Graham 2 years ago
1950 Fords. That is the brand-o of these automobile-os. Obviously Bobby Hutton was a Ford man, because so many of them are rushing to his funeral.
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GrowingThruConcrete 2 years ago
Vintage is officially now anything before 2003, by definition. Something can be considered vintage if it is between 20 and 99 years old, at least in my antique dealing expertise. My head hurts from it and I'm old
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Laura Price 2 years ago
Everyone that's so butthurt about the 70s 80s and '90s being "vintage" just think about being a teenager in the 70s or '80s and rolling your eyes at your mom or dad's 50s and 60s music. They're old 50s car. This stuff is even older than that. To kids now.
Janine “J9 rhymes with canine!” Hummel 2 years ago
there are so many in your post that struck my heart: The butter bean image; Brando and his cat; the image of the dead father being represented by a suit on a hanger. This is powerful; thank you for sharing!
Mell 2 years ago
It's always so strange to think that most of the people in these pictures are long gone...
GrowingThruConcrete 2 years ago
Vintage is officially now anything before 2003, by definition. Something can be considered vintage if it is between 20 and 99 years old, at least in my antique dealing expertise. My head hurts from it and I'm old
Load More Replies... Laura Price 2 years ago
Everyone that's so butthurt about the 70s 80s and '90s being "vintage" just think about being a teenager in the 70s or '80s and rolling your eyes at your mom or dad's 50s and 60s music. They're old 50s car. This stuff is even older than that. To kids now.
Janine “J9 rhymes with canine!” Hummel 2 years ago
there are so many in your post that struck my heart: The butter bean image; Brando and his cat; the image of the dead father being represented by a suit on a hanger. This is powerful; thank you for sharing!
Mell 2 years ago
It's always so strange to think that most of the people in these pictures are long gone...
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