Disney Women: 27 Actresses Who Have Been Featured in Disney’s Movies _ US
Walt Disney’s name will forever be associated with cartoons. But his work can’t be reduced to that field. In the 1940s, he began to produce films combining live-action and animation, a technique which would be later used at its best…
20 Amazing Vintage Photos of Young Girls in Hot Pants With Motorcycles _ US
In the latter half of the 1960s, Yamaha, Suzuki and other motorcycle companies started targeting the young Baby Boomers, a massive generation with unprecedented levels of leisure money ready to be spent. These mod young suburbanites were primarily being sold…
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…
Fifties Birmingham – Fabulous 50s Birmingham in 39 Pictures
The Fifties were a decade that was mainly focused on the recovery from World War Two with Birmingham being far from an attractive place with slum housing conditions being visible across the city. Health remained poor in the city with Birmingham with illnesses like tuberculosis being…
Vintage photos depict buses on the streets of London in the early 20th century
The first buses to come into service did so slightly earlier, though – back in London. As soon as the war began, London’s buses were pressed into action. Here is a small collection of vintage pictures that show London’s traffic…
Capturing the Essence – Photographic Portraits of the Original British Skinhead Subculture, 1970-1990
The skinhead subculture was born in England in the late 1960s as an offshoot of the mod culture. Skinheads were distinct from other British subcultures due to their uniform of boots, jeans, braces (suspenders), and the trademark shaved head. Their…