Amazing Forgotten Photos From The 20th Century

The mid 20th century was an incredible time filled with technical advances and an end of the innocence we enjoyed as a nation. These images capture an era long gone but also one that has left us with incredible images and inspiring memories.

Skip Frye surfing Santa Barbara 1967

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A Tattoo parlor in the early 1920’s

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Drive-in theater in West Virginia, 1956

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1924 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey “Circus of Freaks”

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A new suburban housing development opens, Bellflower California, 1953

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Customers at a London music store listen to the latest record releases in soundproof listening booths, 1955

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The New York Times Writers, 1942

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Getting cooled air piped into the car while enjoying a meal at a drive-in restaurant. Houston, Texas. 1957

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Economy class flying in 1970

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Saturday afternoon matinee…double feature and cartoons for .25

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Beach Date At Balboa Beach in 1947

A young couple spending an evening in Las Vegas (1957)

Guests on the “Snow White and her Adventures” ride on the opening day of Disneyland (1955).

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Grade school dance 1950s

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Tri-Delta sorority sisters, University of Texas, 1944

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Street gang from 1916

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Street Person eating out of trashcan. September 24, 1959, New York, NY

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Teenagers at a party in 1947 in Tulsa, Oklahoma

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United Airlines stewardess 1970

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