21 Historical Photos That Prove The World Has Changed Dramatically
School dance in the 1950s
Meunderwears / reddit
Just imagine how fast our world is changing! Even 50 years ago life was very different. Online banking and portable computers didn’t exist, and fashion didn’t change that fast. Maybe that’s why nowadays it is so interesting to see vintage photos. They always seem to put that nostalgic, cute smile on our faces.
h/t: brightside
Getting a facial from an ice machine, the 1950s
byrdie
Parade of athletes, 1938
History of Russia and its people / vk
Nonresident alien border ID, 1943
Lajwah70 / reddit
Futuristic car design by Bob Riley
flickr
Vladimir Zworykin demonstrates the electronic television in 1929
Smithsonian Institution / commons.wikimedia.org
A stewardess takes a cheetah for a walk at the Amsterdam airport in 1961
Anefo / commons.wikimedia.com
Atlas space station in 1958
flickr
NASA scientists pose with their board of calculations
SirPaulMcCartney_ / reddit
United Air Lines in 1930
flickr
Apple’s first product, invented by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
Ed Uthman / commons.wikimedia.org
Contestants in the 1930 Miss Lovely Eyes beauty pageant in Florida are wearing masks to obscure the rest of their faces
getty images
Wives and members of the Philadelphia Elks are at a gym exercise class in 1930
getty images
Getting a pilot’s license in the 1940s
jpgrandsam / reddit
Children sleep in the open air after lunch at a maternity hospital in Moscow in 1958
qasqaldag 3 / reddit
First selfie, 1900
unknown / commons.wikimedia.org
An audience wearing special glasses watches a 3D “stereoscopic film” at the Telekinema on the South Bank in London during the Festival of Britain in 1951
The National Archives UK / commons.wikimedia.com
Permanent Wave Machine, 1935
byrdie
Futuristic technologies from the past
flickr
Atomic nuclear crater after nuclear testing
Atomic Energy Commission / commons.wikimedia.com
Dancing classes in the Soviet Union
vk
Bonus: Berlin in 1945 and today
Michael M. Dean (Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Ministère de la défense nationale) / commons.wikimedia.com / depositphotos
