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Category / Time travel

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…

The Rise & Fall of the Greatest Ride that Ever Was

I went to a funfair for the first time in a long time on date night last weekend and the sights, sounds and smells of being around those rides caused an overwhelming nostalgia to stir inside me, pulling me back to my childhood. Ambling home clutching our funfair prizes and looking back at the flashing…

Invasion of the Hippies

A pretty interesting insight here on how some people saw the blossoming counter-culture of hippies in the 1960s as a serious threat to the younger generation, or mankind even. The 1967 report by Harry Reasoner talks about hippies as if they were some kind of alien species attempting to take over the world and infect its…

The Neighborhood Leopard of 1960s Kensington, London

Meet Angela McWilliams and her pet leopard Michael, taking a walk on a leash in London, possibly Gloucester Road or Cromwell Road and in Hyde Park. This will no doubt spark a some fury with a few readers– but just try to remember (and be thankful) that this video is around 50 years old, when the public…

The Bohemian Coffee Houses of 1950s London

Before Starbucks took over the London high street, London had as many bohemian coffee houses as Paris does charming cafés. A meeting place for artists, writers, musicians, radicals and intellectuals, coffee houses had their own quirky themes and style. This 1959 newsreel gives us a glimpse into the golden age of London’s beatnik coffee bars… [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nsRHHcq1P8#at=130]…

An Unknown Bob Dylan & friends at Summer Festivals of the 1960s

While thousands storm the famous muddy fields of Glastonbury for its annual music festival this week, why don’t we turn back the clock to the summertime festivals gone by, when Bob Dylan’s words weren’t yet American anthems, hipster was just another name for a jazz musician and the music seemed to have just a little…

New York in Color, 1939 (like it was just yesterday)

It’s amazing how history can feel so much more real and alive when it’s in color rather than black and white. This footage of New York in 1939 comes from the Romano archives which has an extensive collection of unpublished historical footage from the 1930s and 40s in color available on their Youtube channel– worth…

An Underwater Fashion Show c.1947

So I went sniffing around the LIFE Archives again and this time found some rather unusual photographs from an underwater fashion show, taken by Sam Shere in 1947. There wasn’t much more information than that available on the quirky event, but in one of the photographs of a model standing around the pool, I spotted a…

Wine after 100 Years in a Cellar

Do you know where the oldest classified wine region is in Europe? (Don’t worry, I didn’t). It’s not Bordeaux, it’s not Porto in Portugal or Chianti in Italy. In a corner of Northeast Hungary is the little-known Tokaj wine trail, and here, many of the stone wine cellars were built as early as the the mid-1500s.…

Preserved Moments of Historical Sass (Vol.1)

I came across the fantastic photograph below and knew there had to be more preserved sassy moments out there, so I went looking, which resulted in this little post dedicated to preserved moments of historical sass! Submitted by Lisa Warninger to The Sartorialist: ‘The sassy woman in the saddle shoes is my grandma Lois. This…

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