Retail & Shopping – 48 Cool Pics Show How People Went Shopping From the 1960s and 1970s _ US
With the arrival of more money in people’s pockets to spend on both essentials and luxuries (first in the United States from the late 1940s and then in other industrialised countries from the mid-1950s) shops and shopping were transformed. In…
Beautiful Women’s Factory Fashions Designed by Tina Leser, 1953 _ US
In April 1953 about 16 million Americans worked in manufacturing jobs—many more than today, where the number is about 11 million. And roughly a quarter of those workers back then were women. Many work near moving machinery or poisonous dusts…
30 Amazing Photographs of Abandoned and Shuttered Fotomat Film Kiosks _ US
Rendered obsolete by technology, hundreds of abandoned Fotomat drive-thru photo development kiosks still stand in suburban shopping center parking lots. Founded in the mid-1960s, Fotomat specialized in drive-thru, “One Day Photo Service”… that’s right kids, people once had to wait…
Beautiful Photos of Keller Festival Dances, Texas in 1995 _ US
Keller is a suburban city in Tarrant County, Texas, in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is the 74th most populated city in Texas. The most recent population estimate, as of July 1, 2019, is 47,213. In the early 1850s, settlers…
Krazy Kat Klub: A Bohemian Speakeasy and Nightclub With a Treehouse in Washington D.C in the 1920s _ US
The Krazy Kat Klub (or The Kat) was a Bohemian cafe, speakeasy, and nightclub that operated at No. 3 Green Court near Washington D.C.’s Thomas Circle during the early decades of the 20th century. The club was run by portraitist…
Black and White Photos of Bar Scenes at Club Deluxe, San Francisco in the Early 1990s _ US
Club Deluxe is a live music venue located on the famous corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco. The bar, designed in 1949 and owned by Jay Johnson in 1989, was the nesting ground for the swing revival of…
50 Vintage Fashion Photos That Reveal Just How Awesome People Used To Dress _ US
Fashion goes round in circles. At least to a certain extent, the fashions of the past will become the fashions of the future. When we look back to photos of the post-war era of 1940-1960, all we see is classy…
30 of the Most Popular Fads From the 1960s _ US
Find out what was popular when your parents were kids, or take a nostalgic trip down memory lane from your own childhood: 1. Afros Everyone had an afro. During the 1960’s one crazy fad they had was that everyone had…
No ID, No Problem: 25 Vintage Photos That Show What It Was Really Like to Fly During the Golden Age of Air Travel _ US
Known as the ‘Golden Age of Travel,’ commercial flights really took off between the 1950s and the 1960s. And once you check out about the glamorous styles and luxurious perks that came with flying back then, it’s understandable why the…
Ocean Liner of the Air: Historical Photos of Sikorsky S-40 Flying Boat From the 1930s _ US
The Sikorsky S-40 was an amphibious flying boat built in the early 1930s, and the largest commercial airliner of its time. Flying for Pan American Airways, a total of three aircraft were built, manufactured by the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of…