27 Vintage Photos Capture People Posing in Front of Airplanes _ US
The Wright brothers invented and flew the first airplane in 1903, recognized as “the first sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight”. Following its limited use in World War I, aircraft technology continued to develop. Airplanes had a presence in all…
38 Vintage Photos of Women in Miniskirts at Huge Computers in the 1970s and 1980s _ US
Attractive women wearing as little clothing as the decency of the day allows–this tool has been a constant one in the history of advertising, although hemlines over those same years have been anything but constant. The 1970s were a heady…
35 Black and White Photos of the 1938 Los Angeles Flood _ US
The Los Angeles flood of 1938 was responsible for inundating much of Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties, California during February and March 1938. The flood was caused by a pair of Pacific storms that swept inland across the Los Angeles Basin,…
30 Interesting Vintage Photographs That Show What Life Looked Like in Female Dorm Rooms in the 1950s _ US
Most colleges and universities provide single or multiple occupancy rooms for their students, usually at a cost. These buildings consist of many such rooms, like an apartment building, and the number of rooms varies quite widely from just a few…
100 Years Before the Smartphone: 40 Photos of People Talking on Telephones in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries _ US
Today, almost everyone knows and owns at least one smartphone. It is also very handy, and essential to us in our daily lives. So how about 100 years ago? Check out these interesting photos to see how people used the…
40 Viпtage Sпaps of Yoᴜпg Girls With Very Big Hair iп the 1980s _ US
The 1980s caп be categorized as a decade of excess. The пew geпeratioп of yoᴜпg people placed a heavy emphasis oп iпdividᴜality, materialism aпd coпsᴜmerism, all of which was reflected iп the popᴜlar fashioпs aпd hairstyles of the time. As…
40 Lovely Portrait Photos That Defined Hairstyles of ’60s American Students _ US
The 1960s saw the onset of a counterculture revolution, with accepted social norms in every realm from music to film to fashion being challenged and re-written. Slowly, the bouffants, pompadours and poodle cuts that reigned over the previous decade were…
35 Cool Snaps Capture Teenagers Wearing Cuffed Jeans in the 1950s _ US
Jeans are a type of pants or trousers, typically made from denim or dungaree cloth which were invented by Jacob W. Davis in partnership with Levi Strauss & Co. in 1871. Originally designed for miners, modern jeans was popularized as…
Wide-Leg Jeans of the 1990s _ US
Wide-leg jeans, colloquially called baggy pants, are a style of clothing that were popular from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s. The quintessential brand of “hip-hop”-style wide-leg jeans comes from the Los Angeles-based JNCO (“Judge None Choose One”), although…
U.S. Ladies in Jeans and Boots: One of Favorite Wear for American Women during the 1940s _ US
Jeans and boots were not only for men, but also for women with strong personalities, and they were also favorite fashion styles for ladies from the 1940s. These adorable vintage snapshots below show American women in jeans and boots for…