Born 1925 in Denver, Colorado, American actress and singer Barbara Bates studied ballet and worked as a teen fashion model. The shy teen was persuaded to enter a local beauty contes. Not only did she win but meeting Cecil Coan, a United Artists publicist, during that Hollywood trip altered the course of her life forever.Continue reading “48 Beautiful Photos of Actress Barbara Bates During the 1940s and 1950s”
Yearly Archives: 2021
30 Wonderful Vintage Photos That Show Beautiful Beach Fashions of the Early 1950s
30 Amazing Photographs Showing Life in Barcelona’s Red-light District During the 1950s and 1960s
34 Incredible Photos of People Drinking Beer in the Years Before Prohibition Took Effect in 1920
Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933. Before it, these old pictures that captured people drinking beer in the early 20th century.
44 Amazing Photos of The Beatles at the Premiere of the Animated Film ‘Yellow Submarine’ in London, 1968
52 Stunning Vintage Photographs of Bessie Love During the 1920s
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48 Vintage Photos Showing Life in Berlin in 1946
When Hitler was defeated by the Allies in World War II, he left behind almost no post-war plans. It had been tantamount to treason under the Nazi regime to even mention the possibility of defeat, and by the end, practically every single resource available had been poured into the war effort. What remained after Germany’sContinue reading “48 Vintage Photos Showing Life in Berlin in 1946”
47 Vintage Photos of People Wearing Bell-Bottom Pants from the 1970s
60 Vintage Photos Showing Street Life in Belfast During the Early 1910s
These photographs come from the Belfast Corporation archive and were taken by Alexander Hogg (1870–1939). The photographs show various properties, mainly older houses, to be demolished or otherwise affected by improvement schemes undertaken by the Corporation under the Belfast Improvement Order (1910) and the Belfast Corporation Act (1911). Although focused on the properties, the photographsContinue reading “60 Vintage Photos Showing Street Life in Belfast During the Early 1910s”
