Fascinating Vintage Photos of People Dancing at the Savoy Ballroom
The Savoy Ballroom was a large ballroom for music and public dancing located at 596 Lenox Avenue, between 140th and 141st Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. In operation from March 12, 1926, to July 10,…
50 Fascinating Pics Capture People Posing With Their Convertibles From Between the 1930s and ’60s
A convertible, cabriolet or spyder/spider is a passenger car that can be driven with or without a roof in place. The methods of retracting and storing the roof vary between models. A convertible allows an open-air driving experience, with the…
Los Angeles Over 80 Years Ago: 30 Rarely Seen Photos of the Second-Largest City in the U.S in the 1930s
These are what the life of Los Angeles looked like in the 1930s. Los Angeles Over 80 Years Ago Los Angeles Over 80 Years Ago Los Angeles Over 80 Years Ago Los Angeles Over 80 Years Ago Los Angeles Over…
The Sexiest Knees in America: The Curious Story of Mack Sennett’s Bathing Beauties From the 1910s and 1920s _ UK-LGT
In 1915, up-and-coming silent film actor and director Mack Sennett had a bold idea: He would form a bevy of young women to appear as a comedic element in his short films and for promotions across America. The group, to…
The Pioneers of Preppy: Seven Prestigious American Women’s Colleges Gave Us a Way of Dressing That’s Still Going Strong Today _ US-LGT
In the 1930s, women attending the Seven Sisters colleges began rebelling against the dress code restrictions, eventually developing a new, empowering style of clothing: preppy. The Seven Sisters-a prestigious group of American colleges: Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith,…
Vintage Photos of 12 Crazy Wooden Homes on Wheels From the Early 20th Century
There is no formal definition of a house car but in the early 1900s, Americans want to take to the roads and explore. Some creative Tin Can tourists decided that they’d rather bring their home with them rather than have…
12 Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show People Who Weren’t Afraid of Heights
We might all feel a little nervous going higher than humans are meant to – it’s evolution apparently that makes us worry about falling from a height. But in 12 vintage photographs below that show these people are not afraid…
With nylon stockings scarce, women would paint their legs so it looked like stockings, 1940s
Until the end of the 1930s, the best women’s stockings were made from silk. This changed in the United States when DuPont began manufacturing nylon in 1939. Nylon stockings went on limited sale in October of that year followed by…
38 Snapshots Prove That Jeans Made the 1950s Girls Look So Cool
Invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873, jeans marked culture of the last 140 years probably more than we think. Jeans are undeniably a fashion mainstay, but that wasn’t always the case. In fact, jeans are one fashion…
Amazing Vintage Photos Show the Ford Assembly Lines Mass-Producing Model T Cars, 1910s-1920s
Henry Ford was not the first to create the assembly line, but his car and moving assembly line were certainly the most successful and memorable. After creating his version of the automobile in 1896, Ford moved workshops first to Mack…