Flying in Its Glory Days: 22 Vintage Photos Captured Air Travel Scenes From Between the 1930s to 1950s _ US
What did the glory days of air travel look like? These vintage photos below show just how glamorous flying was, with champagne, full-on sleeper beds, the works. Waiter service aboard Imperial Airways ‘Scylla’ during its flight from London to Paris,…
Amazing Vintage Photos of Street Cleaners in New York City From Between the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries _ US
By the 19th century, New York City was persistently and famously filthy. While other urban centers had begun to clean up their streets, approaching vessels could still smell New York far out to sea. Yet, the Department of Sanitation (DSNY)…
30 Cool Pics Show What Cool Guys Looked Like in the 1970s _ US
From hairs to clothes, these cool pics show what cool guys looked like from the 1970s. Cool Guys Looked Like in the 1970s Cool Guys Looked Like in the 1970s Cool Guys Looked Like in the 1970s Cool Guys Looked…
Cool Photos Show What House Parties Looked Like in the 1960s _ US
The 1960s were the time of the hippies, “Make love, not war”, The Beatles and Woodstock. It brings images of cultural revolution, peace symbols, flower power, beach culture, short skirts, flares and lots of hair. Girls looked like Twiggy or…
30 Photos Capture Street Scenes of Madison in the 1980s _ US
Madison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County. It is the second-largest city in Wisconsin by population, after Milwaukee, and the 80th-largest in the United States. The city forms the core of…
This is How Spring Break Looked Like in the 1980s _ US
A tricycle made for two at Daytona. 1983. These pictures show what was acceptable in the 1980s at Spring Break. Mostly from Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, these show a party scene that seems alien, the kind of en masse binge-drinking you…
The story of Tupperware parties in pictures, 1950s _ US
Passing round the product at an outdoor Tupperware. Hosts had a strict dress code – skirts and stockings were mandatory. 1955. When an amateur inventor and designer named Earl Silas Tupper first invented Tupperware around 1942 (from a refined version…
Aboard the USS Brooklyn: These photographs document the lives of sailors on a 1896 warship _ US
USS Brooklyn, the third United States Navy armored cruiser, was completed in 1896 in Cramp, New York, and named after a famous quarter of the City. Recognizable by her three very tall funnels, she embodied grace and might, being the…
The street scenes and everyday life of New York City by Wallace G. Levison, 1880-1900 _ US
Jamie Swan jumps off a short stone wall at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn. 1886. These stunning photographs show how New York City looked like in the 1880s and 1890s. The images depict the streets of the city that never…
Newsies: Portraits of the working children who spread the news, 1908-1924 _ US
“Newsboys waiting for the Baseball edition, in a newspaper office. Bad environment… Indianapolis, Indiana.” 1908. With the rise of the daily newspapers in the 1880s, more than half of all newspapers in the United States were sold by newsboys (and…