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Classic Cultural Photos From The Wayback Machine

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Classic photos from the 60s and 70s

Photos are our way to look back on our lives and notice how things have changed (or sometimes stayed the same).  We assembled a list of some seriously nostalgic images from all over the web for you to take a trip back through time:

1. This car seat from the 1950s

u/Fit-Winter-4372 / Via reddit.com

 

2. Here is what it looked like to record the first roaring lion MGM logo in the 1920s.

John Kobal Foundation / Getty Images / u/Deechon / Via reddit.com

3. Kermit the Frog’s first iteration wasn’t all that different than the one we know today!  But the Muppets used to be a little creepy. The Muppet was made from one of Jim Henson’s mother’s coats!

Mark Wilson / Getty Images

4. A bill for a new mother from a hospital, what would be the equivalent of around $900 today 😮

u/space-catet / Via reddit.com

 

5. A young sailor heads to Normandy for the D-Day landing.  This young man had a position on the ship and made it home to his family after his tour.

Reddit: u/blueSnowfkake

 

6. Victorian ladies in 1850s America loved their roller skates!

reddit.com: u/Coffeera

 

7. Young kids in Dallas at the turn of the 20th century play on what we can only assume is some sort of torture device or a small circus😳

Reddit: u/rzynxrt420

 

8. Man wrestles an alligator in a special event, sometime in the 1950’s in Colorado

 

Facebook: History Colorado

 

9. Joseph Henry Biggs & Emily Elvira Boland on their wedding day in Missouri circa 1900.

Reddit: u/CatPooedInMyShoe

 

10. The “Electricab” transporting visitors at the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair

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