VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

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Couple standing next to their Ford Touring, Southern California (1909)

 

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Silent screen actress Jobyna Ralson appearing in the April 1926 issue of Photoplay Magazine.
Jobyna appeared in over 60 silent films, notably seven films as comedian Harold Lloyd’s leading lady, a featured role in the 1927 Clara Bow film “Wings”, and a part in a Marx Brothers lost 1921 silent film.

 

Lillian Gish - 1930​

 

Lunch break in the Chance Mine in Silver Valley, Idaho, 1909.​

 

A family at a Chicago are drive-in theater summer of 1951. ​

 

A typical Nebraska homestead in 1887.​

 

Head check!

 

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Originally car seats weren’t designed for safety—they were just there to keep kids from bouncing around. No real protection, no regulations.

 

Ed’s telling Buddy….”Don’t get on any Bonanza’s”

 

Fishing at the Manhattan Beach pier, CA 1937
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7th Avenue, New York City’s Garment District, Manhattan, New York (1964)​

 

Babe Ruth with his father, George Sr. at the bar at 38 South Eutaw Street Babe bought for him in 1915.
Tragically, on August 25, 1918, George Sr. died attempting to break up a bar fight.​

 

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Company store in Osage, West Virginia, 1938. A sack of flour that costs sixty-nine cents at the local A&P sells for one dollar and twenty-five cents at the company store.

 

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1940​

 

Children on their way home from school, with book bags strapped on their backs. (1930)
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Four women sampling a 9-foot-long baguette in Soho, New York City, 1955.
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Crowd welcoming visitors from a steamer upon arrival in Avalon, Catalina Island 1941​

 

Buddy be like, I’m sorry mister Sullivan but that’ll be the day when you join the band.

 

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