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In the Navy: 1952
... intrigued by the traditional Navy enlisted uniform. The kids today would call it "old school". The service dress blues uniform shirt ... 
 
Posted by Vintagetvs - 12/11/2016 - 5:24pm -

The honoree of the party for whom the Kodachrome Crowd had gathered. His name's Ronnie, going by the evidence in the set of slides I found in a thrift store. View full size. Mirror ImageThis image is reversed. His Seaman stripes (E-3) are on the wrong sleeve and da Vinci's Last supper image is also reversed. [Thanks; fixed. tterrace] Thanks, for an old salt from the 60s those stripes on the wrong sleeve were like fingernails on a blackboard to me. Crackerjack JumperI've long been intrigued by the traditional Navy enlisted uniform. The kids today would call it "old school". The service dress blues uniform shirt the subject in the photo is wearing is called "crackerjack jumper". I always thought the white cap, neckerchief, the bell bottom pants and the whole thing are really cool..and yes..really old school. I am not a veteran of the US Navy so anyone who is can cheerfully correct me if I'm wrong. Anchors Aweigh! (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Ashwood (Colorized): 1939
... Colorized version of Ashwood, 1939 . Where do kids get these crazy ideas? From their parents, of course. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by Phadrus - 08/03/2011 - 11:04am -

Colorized version of Ashwood, 1939. Where do kids get these crazy ideas? From their parents, of course. View full size. (Colorized Photos)
Ancil West
... Here he is with his teachers. My favorite part is the kids peeking out of the windows in the background. Ancil West Ancil West ... 
 
Posted by Alliebobcat - 02/22/2008 - 12:23pm -

My great-great grandfather Ancil West (standing at left). Among the many things he did during his lifetime, he was principal of a small school in Stockdale, Texas. Here he is with his teachers. My favorite part is the kids peeking out of the windows in the background. Ancil WestAncil West is the brother of my grandfather. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Joyride: 1941
... the dream? Am I the only one who thinks these Oregon kids are having a heckuva lot more fun than the Oklahomans? (The Gallery, ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/30/2018 - 5:27pm -

July 1941. "Farm boys getting on the ferris wheel, one of the attractions at the Fourth of July celebration at Vale, Oregon." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Oregon vs. Oklahoma - who's living the dream?Am I the only one who thinks these Oregon kids are having a heckuva lot more fun than the Oklahomans? (The Gallery, July 4, Russell Lee, Small Towns)
Fall Fashion: 1971
... pants fit to withstand rising flood waters. My goodness, kids could be mean. As further proof, the former kid in me points out the ... 
 
Posted by BornTooLate - 09/04/2015 - 7:11pm -

"The Rockin' Sounds,' a contemporary music vocal/instrumental group, Rogers High School, Rogers, Arkansas, 1971. View full size. FloodsBell bottoms, elephant pants: there were many names for the type of pants worn by the lanky fellow on the far right. But because of the great distance between the bottom of his trousers and the ground, we would have considered these pants fit to withstand rising flood waters. My goodness, kids could be mean. As further proof, the former kid in me points out the haughty look on the face of the young lady beside floods boy. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Heading Home: 1953
... in-laws. View full size. Front seat Where some kids sat. Before car seats, before seat belts. (ShorpyBlog, Member ... 
 
Posted by Born Too Late - 06/14/2013 - 7:52pm -

Another in a series of professional 8x10 pictures taken in Atlantic City in August, 1953 for Better Living Magazine, featuring my in-laws. View full size. Front seatWhere some kids sat. Before car seats, before seat belts. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Aspiring to be Marilyn
... this lady as my new aunt. She always dazzled us as kids, she taught us that life was electric. There are stories to be told over ... 
 
Posted by Vintagetvs - 01/19/2011 - 9:59am -

Woman posing on a rooftop. Found in a lot of photos purchased at auction. View full size. Aunt I have adopted this lady as my new aunt. She always dazzled us as kids, she taught us that life was electric. There are stories to be told over in the El Dorado. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Christmas Morning: 1953
... tinsel on the tree, but as sparse as it is this year, we kids must have been the decorators. We enjoyed Christmas cards and mother ... 
 
Posted by ImpressionsInWat... - 01/18/2011 - 1:41pm -

My sister had curly hair which mother worked into finger curl. She failed miserably with my stick-straight hair. To play with Pluto you depressed the bottom full center and Pluto bowed. Push left or right and he leaned that way. The pointing finger is my brother who would snitch and hide Pluto. I've seen remakes of this toy concept but not a Pluto of that era. My father put the lights and tinsel on the tree, but as sparse as it is this year, we kids must have been the decorators. We enjoyed Christmas cards and mother pinned them on the curtain for decoration. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery, Christmas)
Halloween Party: 1949
A group of neighborhood kids at a party in N.E. Pennsylvania. During Halloween in my town at the time, ... 
 
Posted by Mr. Peabody - 10/30/2012 - 10:59am -

A group of neighborhood kids at a party in N.E. Pennsylvania. During Halloween in my town at the time, when you trick or treated you were invited into the house and had to perform something (usually a song) to earn a reward of a penny or two. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Sled Makers: 1925
... from that era. The factory did make personalized sleds for kids and this could have been one for a boy named Victor. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by sledworks - 12/20/2011 - 2:36pm -

Original print from Old Sled Works museum collection, c. 1920s. An enthusiastic looking bunch. That could be the owner to far right, wearing the bowler hat, and another manager type in center with tie. It looks like the factory employed young teens. Some have hammers in their hands. I cannot confirm that this image is from our Duncannon, PA location. The building doesn't look familiar, however, the sled in the middle reads "Victor" and looks similar to our small Lightning Guiders from that era. The factory did make personalized sleds for kids and this could have been one for a boy named Victor. View full size. SledsIn the 1920s, the major East Coast trade-names for sleds were Victor and Flexible Flyer. I suspect that this was one of the former. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Girls of Winter
... size. For Want of Insulation Aside from the cute kids, this photo perfectly illustrates the consequences of not insulating the ... 
 
Posted by dwig - 02/17/2012 - 10:27pm -

This is my mom, Tam, and her younger sister Joan. It is a scan of an old roll film negative so I have no notes or dates. Based on their ages, this would be sometime in the mid-1930s, probably the winter of 1933-34. They were living outside of Philadelphia at the time but this seems to have been taken elsewhere. I suspect it was during a visit to grandparents in Reading, PA, likely over Christmas. View full size. For Want of InsulationAside from the cute kids, this photo perfectly illustrates the consequences of not insulating the attic of a home. Heat radiating upward melts the snow and makes ice dams that overflow the gutters. Compare the upper gutters to the lower ones attached to the porch roof, which has no heat exfiltration. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Honorable mention
... photo contest around 1928. The picture of the two kids with buckets is of my Grandma and her sister in Miami. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by Dana - 07/20/2009 - 2:18am -

Good Housekeeping, in my humble opinion, ripped of the picture my great-grandmother won honorable mention with. But then again, who knows. The inset photo is the photograph that received honorable mention in a Miami newspaper photo contest around 1928. The picture of the two kids with buckets is of my Grandma and her sister in Miami. View full size. Jessie Willcox SmithThe photo is so like the cover that it was surely the source, and it's very seldom that the inspiration for a cover painting can be sourced. Good Housekeeping's cover artist was Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935), one of America's most popular and successful illustrators, who must have seen the newspaper photo and knew a good subject for a cover when she saw it. She produced every Good Housekeeping cover from 1918 through April, 1933, and was paid $1,800 for each cover painting, much more than a typical skilled worker's annual salary in that period. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Active Imaginations
... Iowa, c.1958. View full size. Still useful My kids have that peg desk (with a chalkboard lid). A number of desired Lego kits ... 
 
Posted by HankHardisty - 04/27/2012 - 10:12pm -

Here is a picture of younger brother George, and I, playing with our "shared" American Flyer c.1958. The "steam" locomotive and tender cannot be seen, but on the floor you may spot several familiar items: signal bridge, telephone pole, water tower, small trackside tool shed. There are two windmills made of tinker toys, too. We had a cow that would block the track and quickly move out of the way when the train approached. Also in the room, with fanciful wallpaper, note the steam radiator, the peg desk and the record player. Burl Ives' "Bimbo" is probably playing. What imagination! What fun! Kodachrome slide taken in Clinton, Iowa, c.1958. View full size. Still usefulMy kids have that peg desk (with a chalkboard lid). A number of desired Lego kits are currently listed on it. I don't think they've ever seen an actual steam radiator. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Bike Parade: 1954
... right leaning against the sign who, unlike all the other kids in the photo, doesn't have a bike. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery) ... 
 
Posted by ZebraMan - 09/27/2013 - 7:18pm -

A companion photo to one posted earlier here, taken during a bicycle registration event in Lafayette, Indiana in 1954. Wally and The Beav are surely in there somewhere. View full size. No bikeThere's something unutterably sad about that kid on the right leaning against the sign who, unlike all the other kids in the photo, doesn't have a bike. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Peewee Posse (Colorized): 1936
... original. Summer of 1936 Dalworthington Gardens, Texas. Kids look like they are having a ball. View full size. (Colorized ... 
 
Posted by richland1254 - 02/15/2013 - 8:28pm -

Colorized from this Shorpy original. Summer of 1936 Dalworthington Gardens, Texas. Kids look like they are having a ball. View full size. (Colorized Photos)
Detroit Christmas: 1947
... other babies behind the camera being wrangled by the older kids. Left top: Ida Mae (whose husband Oscar is taking the picture), Fran ... 
 
Posted by Lynea - 12/30/2009 - 7:34pm -

Ouellette family Christmas. There are many other babies behind the camera being wrangled by the older kids. Left top: Ida Mae (whose husband Oscar is taking the picture), Fran & Kate, Pat, Bernie & Jack, Toni & Joe. Left couch are: Mrs. Cowette (Fran's Mom). Right couch arm: Norm & Mary (my grandparents) On couch: Aunt Gin, Grandma Anna, Marie, Pa. On floor: Aunt Blanche, Frank (Marie's Husband) and the baby is either Frank & Marie's son Fred or my aunt Norma. They were the same age... We've very lucky that five of these people are still living Marie, Norm, Mary, Bernie and Pat. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery, Christmas)
No Fun: 1947
... The ride home is going to be a doozy One of those kids is going to get a smack in the head on the way home- you can just tell ... 
 
Posted by Fathead - 10/09/2013 - 12:53pm -

No fun for Dad and the boys. Lake Hopatcong State Park picnic grounds, 1947. The ride home is going to be a doozyOne of those kids is going to get a smack in the head on the way home- you can just tell by the look on the old man's kisser I should know I was there. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Louisiana: c. 1880s
... met and married John. Johanna went back to Scotland. The kids were raised Catholic but Jessie remained Presbtyrian until on her ... 
 
Posted by catsoldpics73 - 07/12/2011 - 4:08pm -

This has to be either Covington, Louisiana or New Orleans. My mother told me these are probably my great-great grandfather, John Mayne, and his wife, my great-great grandmother, Jessie Allan. They lived in both New Orleans and Covington. There is no writing on the back. He went to Trinity College in Dublin and was going to be a priest but decided not to and moved to New Orleans, where he met Scottish Presbtyrian lass, Jessie Allan. Jessie and her sister Johanna had come over from Scotland as very young women looking for their older brother after their parents died, or so the story goes. They never found their brother. Jessie met and married John. Johanna went back to Scotland. The kids were raised Catholic but Jessie remained Presbtyrian until on her deathbead, when she converted because she "wanted to be where her family was." View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Rough Cowboy Brothers: 1951
... days is was free to enter and they used to encourage us kids to ride our horses around the park. Can you imagine such an invitation ... 
 
Posted by woodchuck - 12/29/2009 - 4:55pm -

Knott's Berry Farm Buena Park, CA., 1951. Brothers Dennis and Wayne being photographed behind cardboard props. My family lived within a mile of Knotts Berry Farm. In those days is was free to enter and they used to encourage us kids to ride our horses around the park. Can you imagine such an invitation today with the fear of accidents and lawsuits. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
A huge teething ring
... I guess I remember this photo from when we were little kids and recall not understanding why my brother would want to chew on a ... 
 
Posted by microanne - 01/15/2012 - 2:47pm -

When my son was 9 months old in 1952, we took him aboard his grandfather's sailboat, Silhouette, on Chesapeake Bay, MD. This was his reaction when we sat him at the wheel. Guess he didn't have sailing on his mind at the time. Snack food I guessI remember this photo from when we were little kids and recall not understanding why my brother would want to chew on a steering wheel. They don't taste that good - do they? (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Just Horsing Around: 1963
... that area more than usual. My husband mentioned young kids and horsey rides, and wanted confirmation that couldn't be at all bad. ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 04/13/2018 - 7:00pm -

My pajama-clad father plays pony to me and my equally pajama-clad brother on a Sunday morning. Though the pony was not an every Sunday activity, lounging about on Sunday mornings was. There was no rush to get dressed on a Sunday morning because we weren’t going anywhere. Horsey ridesWhen my husband once mentioned to his doctor that his lower back was hurting more than usual, the doctor asked if he'd been doing anything that might be stressing that area more than usual. My husband mentioned young kids and horsey rides, and wanted confirmation that couldn't be at all bad. The doctor then asked him if he thought getting down on all fours with a couple of cinder blocks piled on the small of his back could possibly be a good thing. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Great Uncle's Rock Garden
I don't know who the kids are, but it is wild to see the garden in all its glory knowing that I ... 
 
Posted by Gen Xer - 11/25/2007 - 11:31pm -

I don't know who the kids are, but it is wild to see the garden in all its glory knowing that I played in the same area 70-80 years later among weeds, a cracked pond and scattered rocks - Like ghosts of the past. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Christmas Dinner: 1954
... were opened to accommodate the crowd - the overflow of kids was at card tables. The big excitement at this dinner was a fire, not at ... 
 
Posted by Angus J - 12/19/2011 - 5:01pm -

Uncle Don, Uncle Alec and the cousins are ready for a feast at my Grandmother's house on Cornish Road, in Toronto, Ontario. We have all snapped our Christmas Crackers and are checking out the party favours inside them before donning the tissue-paper hats. The dining room suite is now at my home in Vancouver. Both extensions were opened to accommodate the crowd - the overflow of kids was at card tables. The big excitement at this dinner was a fire, not at the table (despite many candles), but in the kitchen. When I left the dining room to go to the kitchen in the middle of the meal, paper serviettes left too close to the gas burner on the stove had ignited. Adults quickly extinguished the blaze, which did not cause major damage. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
My Friends and I: 1953
... dark. So daytime was spent hanging out with the neighbour kids. Money was tight, clothes didn't match. Nobobdy cared. I'm in the back, ... 
 
Posted by Spooky - 02/13/2008 - 10:02pm -

Back in the '50s we didn't have too much indoor entertainment. Electricity was just being introduced where we lived and only for lighting. Before that, kerosene lanterns were the only reading lights after dark. So daytime was spent hanging out with the neighbour kids. Money was tight, clothes didn't match. Nobobdy cared. I'm in the back, the oldest kid. If you look to the left you'll see a man sharpening his Swede saw on his porch. At this time, power saws were two man machines. The carburetor was primitive and so those heavy powered saws required a tiltable bar as the saw would not run on its side. Very few people could afford one anyway, so the Swede saw was the usual means of cutting trees down and into usable lengths for firewood. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Homemade Icecream
... Bessie Johnson, makes homemade ice cream for the kids. That's my dad, Sam Johnson, grinning from ear to ear standing on the ... 
 
Posted by 1stgear - 07/10/2008 - 4:09pm -

July 1955 - Cordova, Alabama. My grandmother, Bessie Johnson, makes homemade ice cream for the kids. That's my dad, Sam Johnson, grinning from ear to ear standing on the chair in the background. That's uncle Gene in the front and Aunt Betty on the far left. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Halloween Parade 1969
... my classmates. In those days there were several hundred kids in the school and our parade wound around the school yard and out onto the ... 
 
Posted by Cerrito68 - 10/13/2012 - 11:32am -

It's Halloween 1969 and that's me in the Popeye costume. I was in 1st grade and those are my classmates. In those days there were several hundred kids in the school and our parade wound around the school yard and out onto the local neighborhood streets where residents and parents alike stood outside and watched us pass. This is Mira Vista School in East Richmond Heights in the San Francisco East Bay Area. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
The Foursome: 1958
Here are the four of us kids, in 1958. L to R: Cousin Stephen, the oldest was 7, I have my finger in my ... 
 
Posted by HankHardisty - 09/19/2011 - 9:25pm -

Here are the four of us kids, in 1958. L to R: Cousin Stephen, the oldest was 7, I have my finger in my mouth at age 5. George, my younger brother, 3, and Cousin Suzanne, age 4. This 35mm Kodachrome slide was taken near Blandinsville, Illinois, probably in October or early November. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Big Sur: 1950s
The Clark Kids and Mom on a vacation up the coast from Santa Monica to Big Sur, ... 
 
Posted by dclark26 - 07/19/2013 - 9:39pm -

The Clark Kids and Mom on a vacation up the coast from Santa Monica to Big Sur, California. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Ozark Teachers
... posing for a group photo sometime in the early 1930s. The kids peering out of the windows are apparently having a good time watching. ... 
 
Posted by Grrrowler - 08/16/2020 - 2:43pm -

The staff of Ozark High School in southern Missouri posing for a group photo sometime in the early 1930s. The kids peering out of the windows are apparently having a good time watching. My grandmother, Gussie, is on the far right, second from the front. She was about 30 years old when this photo was taken. The woman in the center of the front row is Gussie's aunt, Blanche, who was only 3 years older than my grandmother. Blanche died on August 29, 1934 at age 34. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
So Cal Fishing Barge, 1958
When my brother and I were kids my grandfather would take us fishing on one of the many fishing barges off ... 
 
Posted by Rute Boye - 08/31/2012 - 8:46pm -

When my brother and I were kids my grandfather would take us fishing on one of the many fishing barges off the coast of Southern California. Some of barges were anchored in the ocean and some were tethered at the end of a pier. This is obviously one of the tethered versions, but exactly which one I'm not sure. As far as I know, the last of these barges, possibly the one off Redondo Beach, was sunk in the 1980s as an artificial reef. Judging from the number of fishermen lined up at the pier, the fish must have really been biting! I have a distinct memory of us trying to reel in the mackerel & bonito, and having big sharks swim up and steal our fish right at the edge of the hull. I also have a distinct memory of the barge captain shooting the thieving sharks with a .30-06 Springfield rifle. I rather doubt that this would be legal today! View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
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