The Golden Age of Floppy Disks: 27 Interesting Vintage Photos of Women at Computers in the 1980s _ US
Here’s a stack of images of women at computers in the 1980s. As you might have guessed, most are secretaries doing glamorless data entry for the gentlemen in double breasted suits (we weren’t “enlightened” back then). (via Retrospace)
40 Vintage Photos Show Fashion Styles of ’50s Young Couples _ US
The 50s was an interesting time for fashion and focused on garments that celebrated the female form. It was an exciting time, with new patterns and silhouettes, and many styles are still popular in fashion today. Poodle skirts and ponytails,…
40 Vintage Photos That Show Beautiful Fashion Styles of ’50s Ladies _ US
The 1950s was a time of change. Fashion was just beginning to move away from the severe styles of the 1930s and 1940s and instead of complexity, it was more relaxed and casual in 1950s fashion. Women were wearing more…
Vintage photos show the spectacular engineering feat that brought drinking water to New York City, 1906-1917 _ US
A fork in the Yonkers pressure tunnel. 1913. These incredible vintage photos show how one of the world’s greatest engineering feats was created in 1906-1915 to bring water to New York City. In 1905, the city’s newly established Board of…
The Most Beautiful Train in the World: Interior of Southern Pacific Daylight Train From the 1930s and 1940s _ US
Here we see the interior of the Southern Pacific service originally called the “Daylight Limited” and later the “Coast Daylight.” It was the Southern Pacific’s train between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Passengers really did dressed up to ride the…
Before Laptops, iPads and Seat Back Videos: 13 Vintage Color Photos Show What Travelers Did to Pass the Time on Long Flights in the 1950s and ’60s _ US
What did we ever do to pass the time on aircraft before laptops, iPads, Ipods and seat back videos with 1000 choices of entertainment? In the 1950s and 60s inflight entertainment as we know it today was in its infancy…
Amazing Photographs of the Mt. Lowe Railway’s Thrilling, Terrifying Circular Bridge From the Turn of the 20th Century _ US
Call it 19th-century L.A.’s idea of a thrill ride. Leaving the safety of granite slopes, trolley cars arced out onto a creaking, cantilevered wooden trestle, soaring over a 1000-foot sheer drop – with no reassuring seat belts or safety bars….
30 Amazing Vintage Photographs Capture Everyday Life in the U.S From Between the 1900s and 1910s _ US
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was born during the American Civil War. In the 1880s, Johnston studied art in Paris and then returned home to Washington, DC, where she learned photography. She quickly established a national reputation as a professional photographer and…
30 Cool Photos of the 1940s Women in Jeans _ US
Overall and blue jeans, called dungarees, were a necessary clothing item for laborious tasks. WWII made blue jeans more popular as working Rosies took to factories and Land Girls worked farms. Men’s blue jeans had a loose fit, long crotch,…
16 Examples of Video Game Ads in the 1980s _ US
In the early-1980s, arcade games were a vibrant industry. The arcade video game industry in the US alone was generating $5 billion of revenue annually in 1981 and the number of arcades doubled between 1980 and 1982. The effect video…