Rare Photographs of John Lennon and Paul McCartney at Paris in 1961

John Lennon received £100 for his 21st birthday from his relatives in Scotland, which he spent on a trip to Paris with Paul. On September 30th they set of, hitch-hiking from England, originally planning on going all the way to Spain, but eventually upon stopping in Paris and being hit by a sudden laziness, due to the fact that they had been hitch-hiking for days, the pair decided to stop in Paris.

"We’d never been there before. We were a bit tired so we checked into a little hotel for the night, intending to go off hitchhiking the next morning. Of course, it was too nice a bed after having hitched so we said, ‘We’ll stay a little longer,’ then we thought, ‘God, Spain is a long way, and we’d have to work to get down there.’ We ended up staying the week in Paris - John was funding it all with his hundred quid." - Paul on the anthology.

They booked a very cheap hotel, that from the pictures we had seen only had one single bed. During the trip they walked around all of Paris, checking out the artistic scene in Montmartre and even getting themselves a pair of what we today call a “bell bottoms” (eventually taking them in themselves) and the new beatle cut.

They hitch-hiked back to Liverpool and arrived back at around the 15th.

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An Austrian Boy Couldn’t Be More Excited About His First Pair of New Shoes in Years, 1946

Six year-old Werfel, living in an orphanage in Austria, hugs a new pair of shoes given to him by the American Red Cross, 1946.

(Photo by Gerald Waller)

14 Interesting Vintage New Year's Cards From the Late 19th Century

The holiday season comes upon us around the month of December and this is the time when there is cheer and gaiety amongst all as they gear up to welcome the New Year. Different people have different ways of celebrating the New Year and no matter the type it is always fun-filled.

This is also the time to express our love and concern for our near and dear ones and what better way to do so than by sending New Year cards. Earlier, cards used to be sent to family and friends staying far and away but today the trend has changed.

Today, cards are given to all the close ones irrespective of their distance. There can be no great feeling than receiving a personalized card which expresses love and affection from the bottom of your heart.

A Happy New Year, 1876, Henry M. Bloser

A. C. Krider, Happy New Year, 1882

A Happy New Year, 1876

A Happy New Year, 1879

Happy New Year! 20 for 10 Cents

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Pictures of Teenage Dancers at Upper Hutt Youth Club in New Zealand, 1969

These photographs were taken by Revelle Jackson in 1969 at the Upper Hutt Youth Club, New Zealand. Unlike typical representations of the "Swinging '60s," these young people appear uncertain — unsure whether they look attractive, whether they are dancing right, skeptical of the futures on which they are embarking.

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13 Vintage Photos of Celebrities Who Love Riding Vespas

Is there a cooler two-wheeled ride than a Vespa? Doubtful. Clearly, we’re just like celebrities, because the bold and the beautiful agree...

Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck

Gary Cooper

Vittorio Gassman

Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd

John Wayne

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Vintage Advertisement and Imagination on Wheels in Italy from the 1950s and 1960s

At one point in the history of Italian advertisement, huge cutouts in the shape of bottles and canned meat started appearing on car roofs; there were shoes and tubes of toothpaste, odd torpedoes, and sharks. They were the “advertisement vehicles” that invaded Italian streets in the 1950s and 1960s, to promote the widest possible range of products in the country's post-war economy on the verge of its boom.

Pick-up like car by Fissore, for Ebano

Shoe-shaped car advertising Ebano polish, by Grazia bodyshop in Bologna

The back of a car made by Fissore for Cavallino shoe polish, with aluminum box and logo

Car made by Boneschi bodyshop for Binaca toothpaste

Binaca cars during the 33rd Giro d'Italia

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Behind the Scenes at Disney Studios in 1953

The Disney studio is big (it covers 51 acres) and resembles a huge and complicated machine. Up to 400 draftsmen, editors, artists, cameramen, musicians, idea men, special effects men, all kinds of technicians, are required for even the shortest cartoon. There are inventions of great complexity and ingenuity... But being Disney’s, the special stamp of this machine is that it careens along looking as if every screw inside were loose. The wanderer through the studio will come across animators making faces in mirrors to get ideas for the looney animals they are drawing.

Quartet known as The Mello-Men bays in harmony before screen showing four canine characters whose voices they represent in the forthcoming Disney feature cartoon, The Lady and The Tramp. (Photos: Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Behind the scenes at Disney studios, 1953. (Photos: Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Voicing a character for the feature cartoon, The Lady and the Tramp. (Photos: Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Walt at work gives animated version of what he thinks action ought to look like as he directs story conference on his forthcoming Sleeping Beauty. (Photos: Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

Jim MacDonald, Disney's sound effects expert, blows across top of jug while other experts make murderous music out of bazooka, disembodied piano and assortment of strings, pipes, hinges, chains. (Photos: Alfred Eisenstaedt—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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