What the world was like 50 Years Ago: August 1970 (49 photos)

Beautiful girls, the pain of war, provocative fashion, film experiments, the first sex fair, and much more. You'll find all this in this collection of interesting retro photographs taken 50 years ago in August 1970.







August 1970. Paris. Canadian actress Francine Racet.





August 1970. Vietnam. Kham Duc Air Base. Photo by Christopher Jensen. This C-130 Hercules was damaged by enemy small arms fire during landing in May 1968. After landing, control problems developed, the aircraft veered off the runway, and at the end of its landing roll, it crashed into a helicopter. No crew members were injured, and there were no passengers. Since the aircraft could not be repaired locally, it was destroyed during the evacuation of the base in 1968.



August 2, 1970. Aspiring Australian actress Katy Manning.



August 3, 1970. Fashion. Lace panties.



August 3, 1970. American actress Victoria Principal. Photo by John Downing.



August 3, 1970. Premiere of the British film "Performance." The film was shot in 1968, but the premiere was delayed due to lengthy censorship negotiations—the film was given a category that precluded wide release. Pictured: James Fox.



August 1970. Drive-in theater in San Francisco. Film "Valley of the Dolls." Photo: Arthur Schatz.



August 5, 1970. Vietnam, Da Nang. Interrogation.



August 5, 1970. Vietnam, Kham Duc Air Base. After a repelled attack on the base. The body of a Viet Cong commando. Photo by Christopher Jensen.



August 6, 1970. USS Endeavour II. A commemorative voyage dedicated to the 200th anniversary of James Cook's first circumnavigation.



August 6, 1970 — Premiere of the British horror film "Goodbye Gemini."



August 6, 1970. UK. Ron Storm is a performer who uses female characters on stage.



August 1970. Iggy Pop.



August 1970. Sweden. Bernhard Gustavsson, captain of the Balder. Photo by Stig Hjelm.



August 7, 1970. British actress Sally Farmiloe.



August 7, 1970. Naples. Italian film director, poet, novelist, and communist Pier Paolo Pasolini. He was murdered on November 2, 1975, in a very brutal manner. The crime will never be solved.



August 1970. Manchester. A certain weight loss device.



August 8, 1970. British actress Joan Collins at Heathrow Airport.



August 1970. Progresso fotografico magazine. Italian actress Silvia Dionisio.



August 1970. Astrakhan Region. Evacuation of a cholera patient to an infectious diseases hospital in Astrakhan. Cholera epidemic in the southern USSR in July-September 1970. Georgia, Crimea, Kherson and Astrakhan regions. Odessa and Kerch under quarantine. Over 1,500 cases, over 50 deaths.



August 9, 1970. Ismailia, Egypt, an Israeli soldier. The first day of the truce between Egypt and Israel.



August 1970. Filming of the erotic film "Zodiac Couples." Photo by Arthur Schatz.



August 1970. Beach fashion.



August 12, 1970. Paris. French actress Carole Andre.



August 12, 1970 — Premiere of the American film "Lovers and Other Strangers."



August 12, 1970. Northern Ireland, Londonderry.



August 12, 1970. Premiere of the American comedy film "Up in the Cellar."



August 13, 1970. Linda Kasabian was brought to the Los Angeles courthouse where the Manson Family trial was taking place. Kasabian, who was not directly involved in the murders, was granted immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony against Manson and other members of the Family. Kasabian now lives in Washington state and has four children.



August 19, 1970. American actress, singer, and model Peggy Lipton. Photo by Vernon Merritt III.



August 1970. Dennis Hopper at his home. Taos, New Mexico. Photo by Lawrence Schiller.



August 21, 1970. West Germany. The first sex fair in Offenbach history. A sex model from Munich offers her wax breasts for sale.



August 1970. Children of pilots of the British 43 Squadron, the "Fighting Cocks," in a Phantom.



August 24, 1970. Great Britain. Model. Photo by R. Jones.



August 24, 1970. King's Road, Chelsea, London.



August 26, 1970. Women's March in Toronto.



August 26, 1970. Women's March in New York City. A girl from the "Anti-Motherhood League." The sign reads, "Liberate the female body from pain and inequality. Put motherhood in a test tube." Photo by Fred W. McDarrah.



August 26, 1970. Cambodia, Prek Tamak district. Cambodian troops conduct an operation against Viet Cong forces.



August 27, 1970. Jimi Hendrix exactly one month before his death.



August 27, 1970. Isle of Wight Pop Festival.



August 1970. Vogue. Canadian actress and model Joanna Shimkus. Photo by Gianni Penati



August 1970. France, Saint-Tropez. Photo by Jean-Claude Deutsch.



August 1970. Marlene Jobert and Jean-Paul Belmondo during the filming of "Bride and Groom of the Year II," Romania. Photo by Jean-Pierre Bonnotte.



August 28, 1970. Hamburg. German actress Eva Renzi. Photo by Peter Timm.



August 28, 1970. Paris. Fashion by Yves Saint Laurent.



August 1970. Norway, Galven.



August 29, 1970. London, Heathrow Airport. Keith Richards, Anita Pallenberg, and their son Marlon before their flight to Sweden.



Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg on the set of "Performance."



August 31, 1970. Danish and French actress Anna Karina at the Venice Film Festival.



August 31, 1970. Danish and French actress Anna Karina at the Venice Film Festival.