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Category / Time travel

A Good Old Southern Weekend, 1951

We’ve all had a weekend like this once in our lives, whether it was deep in the fried green tomato south of USA or an hour’s drive outside the city in French Brie country. It’s a soul-lifting kind of weekend that doesn’t require much more than the great outdoors, a roof to sleep under, good…

Taking a Bath in Hitler’s Tub for Vogue

Just hours after Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30th, 1945, former fashion model and Vogue correspondent, Elizabeth (Lee) Miller was photographed taking a bath in his tub. Miller had been accredited into the U.S. Army as an official war correspondent for Condé Nast Publications and upon the American liberation of Munich, she entered the city with the 45th division and LIFE photographer…

Preserved Moments of Historical Sass (Vol. 7)

sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and stylish, showing no respect for people in authority, saucy, pert, confident, chic. “This picture is hanging in my local sandwich shop. Owners parents were definitely old school cool.” –Shared by CousinDan “Tea in the yard”, circa 1910 found by James Morley of What’s that Picture. …

My Grandmother was a Total Babe

Guest Article by Pretty is our Playground “I was on a date in Worcester” said my 87 year old gram when I found this well hidden photo on an old slide this last summer. The lady who can not remember what she asked me five minutes ago could recall every detail of the evening she…

Preserved Moments of Historical Sass (Vol. 6)

sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and stylish, showing no respect for people in authority, saucy, pert, confident, chic. Glamour in the face of war 1940s, found here. Amateur Hour, The Apollo Theater, Harlem 1981, photograph by Steve Saphiro found here Seattle, Washington. 1953. Members of the Seattle Tubing Society, photograph…

10 Reasons why Vintage Hollywood Sci-Fi is still So Good

I spent the majority of my day today digging through vintage science fiction groups on Flickr, (as you do) and found a very cool archive of images from a time that seemed to have just a little bit more imagination and creativity. And because making random lists is one of my favourite things to do,…

Blondie, the Living Room Lion

In 1955, LIFE photographer Joseph Scherschel spent a day shooting a rather unusual subject for a spread in the magazine entitled, “Living Room Lion – Blondie, A Docile 200-Pound Texan, Becomes A Member of the Family.” The oversized house cat belonged to Charles Hipp, an oil businessman based in Graham, Texas. You’re probably thinking, ‘another bored…

A Naughty Pool Party, circa 1939

This is another one of those gems that I found digging deep in the LIFE photo archives with very little information to go with it. Photographed in 1939 by David E. Scherman and simply titled, “Too Many Girls swimming party”, I’m going to take a wild guess and say this might have been some sort…

New York Crime Scenes: Then and Now

New York Daily News photographer Marc Hermann loves history and lucky for him, he has the key to the Daily News photo archive. With those two things in mind, he embarked on a project to bring the newspaper’s most infamous photographs back to life, superimposing them onto modern photos of the same location. The result is…

All Aboard the Streetcar Party, 1942

I‘ve been at it again, rummaging through the vault of treasures in the LIFE archives. This time I found these sassy snaps all the way from the jazz era taken by LIFE photographer Bob Landry. The only other details given for the photo essay however are simply: “Streetcar Party, May, 1942”. So it looks like…

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