Good Old Days


The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) actively worked towards creating a "sober and pure world"

How life guards looked in the 1920s

Early beauty contest winners

Austrian boy receives new shoes during World War Two

Man pours acid into a swimming pool as black people swim in it in 1964

Chaos in Sweden in 1967 when they changed from driving on the left to driving on the right


Terrified children fleeing after a napalm attack in Vietnam in 1972

Albert Einstein with J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb



Manchester United versus Arsenal in 1967

London Fire Brigade in 1905

Marilyn Monroe in New York City in 1955

Workers at a vinyl record factory in 1960s

British teddy boys in the 1950s

American baseball player Babe Ruth


A Buddhist monk burns himself alive in Saigon in 1966

Elvis Presley at the beginning of his career in the1950s



The 'great smog' wreaked havoc and killed thousands in London in 1952

Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield at a 20th Century Fox party in 1957

 A motorcycle taxi in Paris in early 1900s

Graceful and charming early 1900s fashion



Lesbian love was forbidden for a large part of the 20th century

Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round in 1965

Loius Armstrong, one of the most iconic musicians of the 20th century

British soldiers blinded by gas in the First World War

Post war American teenagers out cruising

1920s gangster Al Capone

A mother with her chldren during the Great Depression