In the late 60s and through 1973 when the Vietnam war ended, the “hippie” movement thrived in America.

Young people opened up to new experiences and embraced a kind of life that brought them closer to nature.

In this photo, a barefoot girl sells bouquets of flowers on the streets of Oklahoma.

In the 60s, when traveling by plane was not as easily accessible to everyone as it is today, airlines used to pay extra attention to detail, including the uniforms flight attendants wore.

As we can see, these outfits could be both fashionable and risqué.

This is just a plain old photo of a grandpa having a good time with his grandson on the porch, right?

Well, it is often these seemingly ordinary moments that convey the whole atmosphere of the era. And the 30s were quite a decade!

These beautiful ladies were enjoying the summer in the mid-40s.

While the photo has been colorized for maximum glamour, it’s incredible to see how much effort went into looking beautiful by the pool. Surely you can’t get that hair wet!

The bikini girl was photographed by Georges Dambier on the Boardwalk for “Jour de France” in the late 50s.

The beautiful blonde girl in her polka dot bikini, holding what looks like a glass of juice, must have turned heads back in the day. She still would today!

What an interesting photo of the “L”- train in Chicago, Illinois.

The photo was taken by Stanley Kubrick for LOOK magazine.

This is what Detroit looked like back then.

Who would have thought that an office – and especially the computing section of a company – would mainly consist of women back in the 20s?

But women were the original computer scientists, believe it or not!

This is the lady’s championship team of the Missouri University shooting club.

Although pointing a gun at the photographer doesn’t sound like the safest thing, the photo is beguiling in its own way.

This could be the ice bucket challenge – 1943 edition.

Jokes aside, this is how people used to cool off in summer 1943.

Shorts, knee-high boots for the ladies, chic street style for the men – this photo could have been taken out of a fashion magazine.

It’s the very epitome of old-school cool.

These young ones put on their trendiest clothes and attended their school dance.

Just look at this kid totally feeling the beat!

This photo of the women working at a Bell System international Telephone Switchboard was taken during World War II, between 1939-1945.

This picture of boys playing in the street in the late 1940s is gold.

Their smiling faces are simply adorable.

This is what dating looked like in the 50s. Teen couples would share milkshakes and presumably have other innocent fun.

Lovely to look at!

This man is Benjamin Cowins, at the time student at FAMU.

In the photo, Cowins was trying to get service at a McCrory’s, but he was systematically ignored by the waitress because he’s Black.

Only two weeks later, he was arrested at a Neisners lunch counter and spent thirty days in prison.

This unemployed man and his wife were casually posing for a photo in the 1930s.

They might have been struggling to make ends meet, but they still had reasons to smile.

This photo of a protesting young woman offering a flower to a Military Police Officer is the essence of Flower Power.

110 years later, few things have changed.

We still enjoy a good picnic at the park with a good beer! But we might dress a bit differently.

This is a historic photo featuring the iconic hotel and casino The Mint, in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.

The hotel was renovated in 1965 and closed in 1988.

Look how happy this woman was while she was hiding a flask in her boots!

The photo was taken in Washington, D.C.

In 1921, the first Miss America beauty pageant took place.

The third woman from the left, Margaret Gorman, was crowned the “Golden Mermaid” (which a journalist referred to as “Miss America, a name that stuck) and won $100.

Similar to today’s roads, 1950s LA roads were equally jammed.

In this particular photo, we can see Venice Boulevard and La Cienega Boulevard.

Imagine going to the beach and having someone check your swimsuit to make sure it isn’t more than six inches above the knee!

How times have changed!

This father and son hold a warning sign to try and keep away gas stealers during the oil crisis.

It’s a stark reminder of the chaos that prevailed until the US stock market recovered in December 1974.

Disneyland is every child’s dream destination, and it seems it has been so for more than 60 years.

You can still see the same big smiles today.

Halloween is always an opportunity to party. And so it was back in the 50s, when everything looked more innocent.

This adorable toddler seems to have everything under control.

We can’t get over the stylish watch and the pose!

Actually, the woman in the photo had just gotten her driving license.

This German family found themselves in Quebec in the early 1910s and the uncertainty in their faces is obvious.

One can’t help wondering what happened to them.

These four unemployed men posed for a photo on December 18, holding toy airplanes made of wood for that Christmas.

The Dutch are famous for relying on bikes to carry them around.

In this case, that included a baby in 1920s Amsterdam.

While he, Friedrich Albert, was a German prisoner and she, Elinor Powell, was a Black American nurse, this didn’t stop them from falling in love and getting married in 1947.

Love wins.

The rock legend had just taken up the guitar – and the one in the photo is actually his first electric instrument.

Only three years later he became famous, but died in 1970 before even turning 30 years old.

Decades before Instagram, this old-school photo is so Instagrammable!

This photo was taken only a few days after the opening of the road. It’s so interesting to observe how different the background would be today.

This is what SAS Scandinavian Airlines used to serve as snacks back in the 50s. Apparently, the term “low-cost” hadn’t been coined yet.

The popular hobby isn’t a new invention. As the picture shows, it was already a favorite among kids in Brooklyn in the 1960s.

The historic monument of Los Angeles is depicted in this photo, dating back to the 60s. After a couple of accidents, it has been reopened since 2017.

This boy’s photo was taken in a playground in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

It doesn’t come as a huge surprise since, at the time, tobacco companies were marketing to children.

Only a couple of decades after the first baseball game was played in the US, this baseball team posed for a team photo in their uniforms.

So retro!

It was the largest Japanese community in the US before World War II.

This boy clearly enjoyed the encounter with the pumpkin.

At the time, he was four years old and he was obviously a big fan of Halloween.

In the late 19th century, there was a kind of therapy for headaches called “vibration therapy,” and – as is obvious in the photo – it involved a pot and a sledgehammer.

We’re not surprised it’s a “therapy” lost to time!

This very interesting photo shows both men and women of the Greek Resistance ready to fight for their independence.

Only three years before she was murdered by the Manson Family cult, Tate had this photo taken at Heathrow Airport.

On August 18, 1969, these guys were headed to the most iconic music festival ever, Woodstock.

Although one cannot tell by their faces how excited they were at that time, they must have realized they actually made history that day.

What is now called Times Square today used to be called “Longacre Square” back in the 19th century. Posters at the time advertised theatrical plays and operas, just as they do today.

Apparently, this is what cool looked like in the 50s. The greasers were mainly working-class teenagers or young adults of Italian or Latin American descent.

This amazing photo takes us back to 1900 New York in a moment. All these people going about their everyday lives remind us that some things never change.