37 Amazing Vintage Photos Show Street Scenes of Minneapolis in the 1920s-30s

Here below are some amazing vintage photos showing street scenes of Minneapolis in the 1920s-30s.

Beer wagon, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1939

Bootblack's stand, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1937

Boston Block Department Store, 300 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, 27 December 1936

Chicago Hotel in Minneapolis, 1920

Christmas decorations at 7th Street and Nicollet Avenue. Dayton department store on left, 1920s

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See How Kids Used to Celebrate Halloween From the 1930s Through the 1980s

Classic Halloween traditions like dressing up and carving pumpkins have been around for a while. Here, check out how kids in decades past celebrated the year's spookiest day.

07 Oct 1930 --- Children carve their own pumpkins for Halloween on Oct 7, 1930. (Underwood/Corbis)

A group of children in Halloween outfits, Milwaukee, Wisc., circa 1930s. (Everett Collection)

A young boy and girl crouch and bob for apples on Halloween, circa 1935. (Lionel Green—Getty Images)

A Halloween party circa 1940 in New York City. The party was organized for members of Tots' Town, a daycare facility at the Children's Aid Society's James Center. (Keystone—Getty Images)

A boy wears a knight costume, circa 1940s. (Michael Martin—Corbis)

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20 Vintage Pictures Capture Physical Culture and Sports of the USSR during the 1930s

At the start of the Soviet Union, all things that were seen as tools of capitalism were renounced; this included competitive sports. Therefore, the Soviet Union refused to participate in the international Olympic Games. However, by the 1930s the Soviet Union began to take a different stance concerning competitive sport.

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42 Interesting Vintage Automobile Ads in the Last Decades

Imagine it for a moment: you’re living sometime in the 1800s, and as you tie up your horse after a long trip, you see it… those big bold letters, a snazzy font, and that almost otherworldly word, “car” now linked to an engineering marvel.

While many of us probably don’t remember our first automobile advertisement, the history of the car parallels the rise of modern marketing in many ways. Today, we’re going to dive into that history a bit more and take a look at what’s gone into a car advertisement in the last decades...

Advertising for the model Fiat 3 1/2 HP, 1899

Advertising for the Panhard Dyna Junior, 1953

Auburn car advertising, 1927

BMW 700 advertising, 1959

Buick advertising, 1918

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Rare and Amazing Photographs of Iggy Pop Taken by His Girlfriend Esther Friedman From 1976-1982

Esther Friedman was Iggy Pop's girlfriend for seven years, from roughly 1976 to 1982. They met while Iggy was living in West Berlin with David Bowie, where the two Rock stars were hoping to dry out after a period of heavy drug use. Iggy and Bowie lived at Hauptstrasse 155 in Schöneberg. At that time, Friedman was a prolific photographer, and she took many revealing photographs of Iggy Pop in various locales.

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Against Threat of Chemical Warfare: 15 Vintage Photos of Dogs Wearing Gas Masks During the Wars

Carrying gas masks became routine for adults and children during the Wars. But this collection of amazing pictures shows it was common place for dogs to be equipped with breathing apparatus as well.

German soldiers and dogs on maneuvers in northern Germany during World War I, c.1916-1918.

German messenger dog wearing doggy gas mask during WWI.

A French sergeant and dog wearing gas masks, near the front line during World War I, c.1915.

French Red Cross dog with gas mask, 1917.

c.1918

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A Collection of 13 Odd and Strange Vintage Halloween Postcards

Apparently people had fetishes for pumpkin people. Check out these 13 odd and strange Halloween postcards from the past...

1. Wait, what exactly is going on here?

2. This pumpkin (yam?) man knows and likes where this is headed

3. A witch creepily looks in the window at the delicious children she is about to eat

4. The vision you’ll see from drinking too much absinthe on Halloween

5. Hold on, is this pumpkin man about to eat a pumpkin pie?

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