A vinaigrette of historical footage from past years. Issue 190
Welcome to a new hodgepodge of interesting retro photos. This time the selection will be dedicated to the USA. The shots vividly capture the bustle of large cities and the coziness of small towns, the lives of celebrities and ordinary Americans. Welcome everyone and enjoy watching!
Jump into the pool. USA, 1947.
New York School of Hairdressing, 1959. Luckily, the training was conducted on a balloon. They put shaving cream on the balloon and have to rub it off with a blade. One mistake and the balloon bursts.
Abandoned farm, Oklahoma, USA, 1942. One of the most difficult periods in US history was the Dust Bowl era - a series of devastating droughts and sand and dust storms that swept across the central states of the country in the 1930s.
Construction of the George Washington sculpture on Mount Rushmore. Keystone, South Dakota, USA, 1940.
Result of a bet lost on the outcome of the 1948 US presidential election.
Central Park, New York, 1955.
The liner "Queen Elizabeth" in the harbor of New York, USA, 1958.
Advertising portrait of actress Jeanette Loff (1906-1942) dressed as an Easter bunny. USA, 1930s.
A lonely little African-American child sucks his thumb next to a covered canary cage in a school shelter during a severe flood, 1937.
A trip to California, the San Diego coastline, 1968.
A worker inspects a 34-ton propeller to be installed on a United States liner, New York, USA, 1951.
Underground nuclear explosion. USA, October 22, 1964.
Demonstration of an underground economy class bomb shelter that could accommodate 8 to 12 people, USA, 1958.
The famous "Hollywood" sign, 1920s.
A walk on the roof, New York, 1940.
Fog in San Francisco. USA, 1950.
Winter cycling. USA, 1930s.
Train and automobile. Wyoming, USA, 1954.
Hay stacking in Buffalo County, Nebraska, 1903.
Clarinetist Ross Gorman and his daughter with a camera aimed at a doll in a stroller. Exterior, New York City, 1920.