Fascinating Nostalgic Color Photos Show What the World Looked Like in the 1950s
A 1950s Ford with a ‘Welcome to Colorful Colorado’
The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement in the United States. “America at this moment,” said the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1945, “stands at the summit of the world.”
During the 1950s, it was easy to see what Churchill meant. The United States was the world’s strongest military power. Its economy was booming, and the fruits of this prosperity–new cars, suburban houses and other consumer goods–were available to more people than ever before.
A set of fascinating color photos from the Flickr user TresBohemes that shows what life around the world looked like in the 1950s.
An old man walks up stairs in a small Belgian town
Back in the day when you traveled slow enough to see animals along the way
Camels in the desert
Cherokee street scene
Classic cars line up in the desert at this rest stop
Covered bridge near Johnson City, Tennessee
Driving through the redwood tree, Oregon
Harvesting of sugar beets in Germany
Holland residential street with canal
In his wooden shoes, this little boy in Holland stops to lay in the sand
Kingston, Jamaica street scene
Main street in USA
Malibu Beach Colony
Paris and the Eiffel Tower
Pit stop for cars and buses
Quebec City Saint Louis Gate
Salton Sea Beach sign
Salton Sea Beach, California
Scene from Holland showing Dutch milk seller and woman on bike
Skalkaho Highway, Montana
The famous Cliff House, San Francisco, California
Two young men getting their gear ready for a camping trip next to their station wagon
Yosemite Glacier Park
Young woman is tossed in the air on a large fur from an old
