Vintage photos

1954: Behind the scenes of Creature From the Black Lagoon

A friend of mine called Verushka pinned the image below of the skeleton riders, which I thought was just so cool, so I went in search of the site that it came from. It wasn’t too hard to find, but that is besides the point. What I did find is a plethora of amazing vintage photos like this one, some with famous people in them, some not, some of well known moments in time, some just random shots of super cool things, spaces and places.

So I guess in a way this is what Instagram would of looked like back in the day, complete with cool filters and crops. This site has all sorts of shots of all sorts of weird and wonderful things and it just goes on and on. I picked some of my favourites to add to this post, but if you have time I would suggest wondering around, you won’t be sorry you did.

Skeleton riders, 1920s.

1984: Delivering a dinosaur to the Boston Museum of Science

1964: Dinosaurs on the Hudson being transported to the New York World’s Fair

1940: Bette Davis and her stand-in knitting and crocheting

1966: Claes Oldenburg with a monumental tube of toothpaste

1954: Grace Kelly takes a nap on the set of “Green Fire”

walking the alligator, 1960’s

1980: Elton John dressed as Donald Duck, Central Park

1890s-1900s: Tsar Nicholas II Clowning Around with Friends

1899: Los Angeles’ first telephone pay station

1972: Clint Eastwood riding a miniature pony

1954: Miss New Zealand collapses

1950s: Marilyn Monroe upside down

1935: Hoot Hoot Ice Cream

1940s: Girls on the wing of a Boeing XB-15

Late 1960s: Economy Class Seating on a Pan-Am 747

1971: Start of the Sydney-Hobart yacht race

1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Amphibious car

1971: Mr and Mrs Bowie take three-week-old Zowie for a walk

1961: Ford Gyron Concept Car

1960s: Getting sprayed by Mom

1960s: John Lennon having a cup of tea

1929: Newspaper seller, Paris

1966-1968:Batman riding an elephant