What did our moms often wear at beaches in the 1950s? A submission photo collection from Flickr's members shows what their mothers wore at beaches nearly 70 years ago.
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| Mom with her sister Ann, back when she was nearly 18 (Ann was almost 16), September 1959 |
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| My mom and her mother, somewhere along the Jersey shore in the 1950s |
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| Mom with my dad's mother Vera in South Hampton, getting too much sun as was the custom in the 1950s. Mom was about 31 years old, and Vera was in her 50s |
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| Mom, dad, and Paul, age 2, at the beach in Alexandria, Egypt, 1956 |
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| Mom, roasting hot dogs, Long Beach, NJ, August 1957 |
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| My mom (right) and a friend during a vacation to Daytona Beach, Florida, 1954 |
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| My Mom (Ruth Stacey) with my brother, David, at beach during summer of 1952 in Grand Bend, Ontario |
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| My mom and I at Cape May Point, New Jersey, circa 1957 |
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| My Mom and I enjoying the beach in Venice California, summer of 1957 |
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| My mom at Jones Beach, NYC, January 1950 |
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| My mom was my grandma's favorite model when she was a teenager, circa 1950s |
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| My Mom, the early 1950s fishing and catching some rays in Wisconsin |
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| My mother and me, circa 1951, on Oak Bluffs Beach, Martha's Vineyard, MA |
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| My mother before me in Del Mar, California, circa early 1950s |
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| My mother June Devon with her feet in the receding surf at Wildwood, NJ, 1950 |
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| My mother June drinking a coke on the beach in Cape May, NJ in 1950 |
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| My mother, on the left, with her best friend Nancy, at Coney Island in the early 1950s |
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| My sibs and mom at Newport Bay, California, circa 1956 |
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| Me, my mother and grandmother at the beach, Belmar, New Jersey, 1953 |
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| Mom and a fellow co-worker at Numazu beach, circa 1953 |
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| Mom and dad at beach, 1954 |
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| Mom and dad at beach, 1956 |
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| Mom and dad at the beach in the 1950s in California |
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| Mom and dad on a beach next to Lake Michigan in 1955 |
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| Mom and dad Québec beach, 1950 |
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| Mom and friend as bathing beauties in Miami Beach, Florida, 1954 |
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| Mom and her family at the Jersey Shore, 1957 |
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| Mom and I on Atlantic Beach in Georgia, 1959 |
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| Mom and me at Half Moon Bay, Saudi Arabia, circa 1953 |
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| Mom and me, Barnegat Light, NJ, June 1957 |
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| Mom at Fort Walton Beach, Florida, 1954 |
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| Mom at Lake Michigan in Chicago, 1954 |
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| Mom at Miami Beach, Florida, January 1950 |
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| Mom at the beach in the 1950s |
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| Mom at the beach, somewhere in Texas, 1953 |
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| Mom in swimsuit at Cedar Beach, on the shore of Lake Champlain, 1958 |
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| Mom is sitting on a rock jetty at Cape May Point, NJ in 1950 |
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| Mom on Santa Monica Beach in the 1950s with uncle Bob's car |
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| Mom strikes a pose for the camera along the boardwalk at Carolina Beach, NC, July 1954 |
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| Mom wasn't expecting to get splashed, 1956 |
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