60 Vintage Photos That Prove That We All Were Cooler When We Were Kids

As kids, we all had a dream to be super cool when we grow up. But if you ever have the time to browse through some of your old photo albums, you’ll notice the opposite. You probably were much cooler as a child then what you are now!

Sure, you were more adorable than cool, but it was your own unique style of coolness. Bored Panda’s users shared their childhood pictures and bring those old days back.

1. “Me And My Pink Bike, 1986.”

2. “Found This Picture Of Me And My Pet Raccoon Fishing Together. He’d Wait For Me To Catch And Reel In A Fish So He Could Grab It And Eat It. Late 1980s.”

3. “Me Back In 1991. Just Your Typical Aussie Kid Drinking XXXXLight Beer (I Wasn’t Aloud Heavies Back Then) And Holding A Baby Crocodile.”

4. “My Father Took A Picture Of Me After My First Girlfriend Punched Me In The Eye, 1991.”

5. “I Think This Pic Of Me Really Sums Up What It Was Like To Be A Kid In The Early 90s.”

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Milkmaid’s Day Off: The Story Behind the Norway’s All-Time Best-Selling Postcard

Texting and emailing have diminished the popularity of the postcard as a way of staying in touch while traveling. But predictions of its demise are premature. Top-selling post cards still are popular, not least because they offer sender anonymity. In Norway, the best seller postcard by far is Seterjentens fridag (Milkmaid’s day off), featuring a black-and-white photo taken in 1932. More than two million have been sold.

(Photo: photographer said to be Fredric Hanche / courtesy of Normanns Kunstforlag)

The real-life story of Seterjentens fridag reflects Norwegian folklore. Milkmaid Anne Skår (1913–1991) was born at Borgund in Lærdal in Sogn og Fjordane County. At age 12, she began assisting at a summer pasture farm. At age 19, she was a qualified milkmaid working one at Galdestølen, on the road in Mørkedalen on the way up to the Hemsedal massif. The work was hard, the days long and the pay low, just NOK 25 ($5.80 at the exchange rate of the time) a month.

Like other farms of the time, Galdestølen literally was on the road, which ran between the cowshed on one side and the farmhouse on the other side. One day, a sow kept at the farm stubbornly stood in the middle of the road, refusing to move. Traffic on the road was negligible, but milkmaid Anne knew that the sow couldn’t just stand there, blocking the road. Persuasive calls and pushing didn’t budge the animal. So Anne tried the ultimate trick of jumping on its back, to ride it like a horse. A tourist staying in a nearby cabin saw and photographed the curious sight of a milkmaid riding a sow. And the rest is history!

The Galdestølen farm is now abandoned, but its buildings still stand in Sogn og Fjordane County, just to the southeast of Riksvei 52 (National road 52) between Borlaug on the European E16 highway and Breidstolen to the southeast.

(via The Norwegian American)

35 Cool Pics That Defined the 1930s Female Trousers

The 1930s is when we really see women in trousers get their stride. It was still not accepted by the majority in the early part of the 1930s.

They were not widely worn, but by the mid 1930s it was acceptable for wear for sportswear.  They’re mostly seen on campus, at the resort, and in other places if you lived in the warmer climates like Southern California or Florida.

In the second half of the 1930s, trousers really start going crazy.  In 1939 it seemed everyone wanted them. There were lounging ones, playing ones, work ones, beach ones, pajamas… and sometimes even dinner outfits.

The late 1930s is playful, and trousers fit in perfectly with that ideal.  Trousers were not meant to hug your butt.  They really wanted them to fit like a skirt- skimming your hips and rear loosely, then falling to a low crotch, and splitting into a bifurcated garment.

Here below is a cool photo set that shows trousers' styles of women from the 1930s.

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25 Behind the Scenes Photos of Debra Paget With Elvis Presley During the Filming of "Love Me Tender", 1956

Love Me Tender is a 1956 American black-and-white CinemaScope motion picture directed by Robert D. Webb, and released by 20th Century Fox on November 15, 1956. The film, named after the song, stars Richard Egan, Debra Paget, and Elvis Presley in his acting debut. It is in the Western genre with musical numbers.

As Presley's movie debut, it was the only time in his acting career that he did not receive top billing. Love Me Tender was originally to be titled The Reno Brothers, but when advanced sales of Presley's "Love Me Tender" single passed one million—a first for a single—the film's title was changed to match. This was the only time that Presley played a historical figure.

These sweet photos that captured Debra Paget with Elvis Presley during the filming of this movie in 1956.

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Rare Photographs of a Young and Beautiful Rosemary Kennedy Before She Was Lobotomized

Rosemary Kennedy (September 13, 1918 – January 7, 2005) was the first daughter of Rose and Joseph Kennedy. During Rosemary’s birth, Rose went into labor very quickly, and Rosemary entered the birth canal before the doctor arrived. A nurse told Rose to keep her legs closed to prevent her from giving birth until the doctor showed up. This cut off the oxygen to Rosemary’s brain and likely led to her intellectual disabilities. After a fairly quiet childhood, Rosemary began to have violent mood swings. She also had gait issues, including an infamous stumble in front of the King of England.

Throughout her teens, Rosemary never made it past a fourth grade reading or writing level and was shown to have an IQ somewhere between 60 and 70. By the time she was 23, her father, Joe Kennedy, had decided that what she needed was a frontal lobotomy. It was thought he was afraid his daughter might embarrass him and his son and hurt their chances in politics.

Prior to the procedure, Rosemary was described as being absolutely adoring of her brothers, especially Jack, but she could fly into a rage if she didn’t get her way. One night when she was caught sneaking out of the house, she erupted in a violent tantrums that would soon turn to seizures.

In November 1941, Dr. Walter Freeman performed the surgery with Dr. James Watts, and they sliced away at the young woman’s frontal lobe until the left side of her body was partially paralyzed.

After the surgery Rosemary was sent off to a mental institution where she had to relearn how to brush her teeth, walk, and dress herself. The bubbly and sometimes volcanically angry young woman was replaced with someone who was just above an invalid, who could only grunt, shriek, or scream. Tragically, she could no longer even recognize her beloved brothers.

The Kennedy family essentially erased her from their public profile, and her lobotomy wasn’t made public for 20 years. She died in 2005 of natural causes.

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Behind the Scenes Photos From Audrey Hepburn Dance Rehearsal for “Funny Face” in Paris, 1956

Audrey Hepburn behind the scenes during the filming of American musical comedy Funny Face, a film released 1957.

Audrey Hepburn rehearsing for Funny Face, in which she starred opposite a much-older Fred Astaire. Previously trained in classical ballet, Hepburn studied with Lucien Legrand of the Paris Opera to improve her skills. Funny Face was the first film in which she both sang and danced.

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44 Color Snaps That Show How the 1980s New Year's Eve Parties Were Like

A set of color snaps from Flickr's members that shows how people celebrated the New Year from the 1980s.

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"The First Lady of Television": Glamorous Photos of Faye Emerson in the 1940s and Early 1950s

Born 1917 in Elizabeth, Louisiana, American film actress and television interviewer Faye Emerson had her film debut in 1941 and acted in many Warner Bros. films.

In 1944, Emerson played one of her more memorable roles as Zachary Scott's former lover in The Mask of Dimitrios. She also appeared in a number of other crime dramas: Danger Signal (1945) and Guilty Bystander (1950).

Emerson's Broadway debut came in 1948 in The Play's the Thing. Her other Broadway credits included Back to Methuselah (1958), Protective Custody (1956), The Heavenly Twins (1955), and Parisienne (1950).

In 1948, Emerson made a move to TV and began acting in various anthology series, including The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre, The Philco Television Playhouse, and Goodyear Television Playhouse. She served as host for several short-lived talk shows and musical/variety shows, including Paris Cavalcade of Fashions (1948) and The Faye Emerson Show (CBS, 1950).

For her contributions to the motion picture industry, Emerson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Her star is located at 6529 Hollywood Blvd.

Emerson died in 1983 at age 65 from stomach cancer in Deià, Majorca, where she had lived since 1975.

Take a look at these glamorous photos to see the beauty of Faye Emerson in the 1940s and Eraly 1950s.

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The Kiss of Prohibition: “Lips That Touch Liquor…”

The following is scanned from Mother [Eliza Daniel] Stewart, Memories of the Crusade, a Thrilling Account of the Great Uprising of the Women of Ohio in 1873, Against the Liquor Crime (Columbus: Wm. G. Hubbard & Co.:273-)

(Photo: Women Campaiging Against Alcohol Consumption, location unknown)

The reason why the women are holding this sign for this picture is because they did not want a man that would drink because in most cases the women and children would be beaten, and the men would spend all of their money on the alcohol. This is a terrible issue of the time and it needed to be fixed, so women got together and protested and made sure that men knew their stance on the subject of alcohol.

“The Demon of Rum is about in the land,
His victims are falling on every hand,
The wise and the simple, the brave and the fair,
No station too high for his vengeance to spare.
O women, the sorrow and pain is with you,
And so be the joy and the victory, too;
With this for your motto, and succor divine,
The lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.”

“The lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine.” The last line of an anonymous poem from the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) became a popular mantra in the efforts by prohibitionists to stop all sales of alcoholic beverages in the United States: It seemingly was a threat by young women to their young men to stay away from the booze or skip the kissing routine.

According to BOTTLES, BOOZE, AND BACK STORIES, the origins are said to go back at least to March 1873 and perhaps as early as early as 1869. The mantra of the “drys” has been cited in newspaper articles, magazines and books; depicted on placards, signs, and needle point; and repeated in poems and songs. “Lips that touch liquor…” has reached iconic stature and as such has attracted more than its share of parodies. Featured here are a few of its manifestations.

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Amazing Color Photographs Capture Psychedelic Hippie Fashion in London in 1967

Psychedelic fashion was a quintessential 1960s movement. Although it was eventually, and to some degree opportunistically, embraced by virtually every mainstream design and sector of the fashion industry, it would be hard to isolated a single designer or even a cluster of designers who could be credited for its invention or promotion.

Nevertheless, the psychedelic preoccupation with light and the total environment reached a paradigm at the Manhattan boutique Paraphernalia in 1966, when electrical engineer Diana Dew devised a vinyl dress that turned-on at the command of the wearer. A miniaturized potentiometer fit on the belt of the dress and regulated the frequency of the blinking hearts or stars, which could be coordinated to the throbbing beat of the disco soundtrack. That same year, Yves Saint Laurent brought psychedelic light and color to pop art's disembodied trademarks with a bridal gown that flashed an incandescent flower, which enlivened the runway show’s traditional finale.

Psychedelic sensibility was essential to the second phase of 1960s’ fashion vocabulary, the move away from some of the sleeker and brusquer characteristics of mod fashion. It was consanguineous with the second phase’s absorption of folk and tribal lexicon, the experimentation in role playing and persona construction made possible by the improvised costumes adopted by youth cultures and spilling out into the Western world’s clothes-wearing population at large. The unprecedented outfits certainly owed something to the phantasmagoria of acid visions. Tribal and psychedelic converged with mottled patterns of African and Indonesian fabrics, the phosphorescent splotches and showers of tie-dye.

A complete series of photos from the October 1967 issue of Paris Match magazine on the psychedelic fashion in London. Photos by Philippe Le Tellier.

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