Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lifestyle. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

US Bikini Laws,1922


June 30, 1922. Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrell, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee.’ [National Photo Co., via]

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Autochromes from 1910s






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Chicago's night clubs 1970s

Between 1975 and 1977, Michael Abramson hit Chicago’s South Side night clubs – Perv’s House, Pepper’s Hideout, The High Chaparral, The Patio Lounge, and The Showcase Lounge, not to capture the artists on stage, instead popping off a half dozen rolls every night on the crowd.






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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Atlantic City, 1970s


Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons playing the Steel Pier on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City


Lucy the Elephant, an Atlantic City attraction, during a period of disrepair

Atlantic City Boardwalk

Black shoes and socks, with shorts, on the Atlantic City Boardwalk

Grabbing some rays on the famed Atlantic City Boardwalk

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Cape Town ’60s Party Photos

These shots of Beehived, boozed up, breast-flashing gals, slumped-over sailors and tongue-entwined couples were shot by nightclub bouncer Billy Monk between 1967 and 1969 in Cape Town, South Africa.






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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Photographs from Yesteryear

The photos in this post may make you remember the nostalgic days from yesterday, but they are very beautiful and may also remind you of days of simpler times. You might even say they are oldies but goodies. From the days of corner drugstores to pinups, to large convertibles, these photos have it all.






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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Interesting black and white retro photos

These are some rather interesting black and white retro photos. The people and the scenes are quite unusual at least by today’s standards.






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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Color photography of America in years before World War II [more...]

Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative. Vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, August 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

African American’s tenant’s home beside the Mississippi River levee. Near Lake Providence, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

A crossroads store, bar, “juke joint,” and gas station in the cotton plantation area. Melrose, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Boys fishing in a bayou. Schriever, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Fish saler. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Costume and Dress

Mr & Mrs Lawrence Tibbett arrive in Sydney, 1938

Helen Twelvetrees during the making of Thoroughbred, Sydney, 1936

Arrival of Fuller-Gonsalez Opera Company with hands raised in fascist salute, Sydney, March 1928

Marcelle Boivin, Balmain, Sydney, ca. 1929

Wedding of Donald Bradman to Jessie Menzies, Burwood, Sydney, 1932

Mrs Hare ca. 1874-1908

McNamara-Claire wedding, Bankstown, Sydney, 1936

Mills wedding, Scots' Church, Sydney, 1940

Csergo wedding, Sydney, February 1952

Wedding, Sydney, in the 1920s

Riley wedding ca 1940 -1945

Women's dressing room, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 1930's

Woman war worker, 1944

Debutantes, Sydney, 1930's

Wedding tableau, Sydney, ca. 1930

Milky Way (dairy) exhibition, Sydney Town Hall, 12 August 1955

Young boy with dinky in car workshop while his father services a car, Bondi, 6 October 1955

Young male surfers (The Pier Club Mob) tease Alf Bait Gould about his backless swimsuit (a gift from his girlfriend), Bondi Beach, 10 October 1932

Women in bathing suits on Collaroy Beach, 1908

Country week tennis, 5 January 1937

Second Test, Sydney, 1936

Ingenues arrive, Central Station, Sydney, c. 1920s

Grace Bros mannequin parade, Sydney, November 1936

Musical comedy star Dorothy Brunton reading Sid Nicholl's Fashion-plate Fanny in the children's section of The Sun newspaper with a small boy at St. Margaret's Hospital, Sydney, January 1925

Australia’s first women Olympians, Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie, 1912