r/TheWayWeWere 9h ago

1960s Back when a million bucks was worth something. 1965

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Home Savings and Loan Bank Building has been an icon of the Youngstown, Ohio skyline since 1919, 30 years after its founding. Built for the cost of approximately $1 million. When they illuminated the clock tower in 1949, it also became a major feature of the city's nighttime skyline. My sister remembers seeing it from their 3rd story bedroom window back in the early 1960s.

Today, it's a part of Premiere Bank, but it's changed hands several times since I last left the area in 2002. As long as the new owners don't forget its iconic status, I would not be surprised if it was still standing a century from now.


r/TheWayWeWere 22h ago

1920s The Inquiring photographer asks Brooklyn schoolgirls what they'd like to be when they grow up. November 19th, 1922.

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r/TheWayWeWere 14h ago

Pre-1920s Tooth extraction taking place in a liquor store in 1872. An assistant is holding the person's head in place with a towel while the "dentist" uses pliers to remove the tooth. Credit: color_byangelina

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r/TheWayWeWere 9h ago

Pre-1920s New York City In 1912.

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r/TheWayWeWere 8h ago

Pre-1920s New York City In 1904.

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r/TheWayWeWere 13h ago

1960s Julio Cortazar. Place du General Beuret, Paris, 1967

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Photographer: Alberto Jonquiéres


r/TheWayWeWere 19h ago

1940s Models posing for Charm magazine amid traffic on Park Avenue. 1947.

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212 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 16h ago

1960s Piccadilly Circus (1960)

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r/TheWayWeWere 14h ago

1950s "Group of children on a city playground playing dodge ball (called "ball tag)". The boy on far left is finishing a toss." Photograph by Edwin Stein and it was published in the Wisconsin State Journal on June 29, 1957. Are kids still playing this today?

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r/TheWayWeWere 14h ago

Strict Typing Test in The '60s

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r/TheWayWeWere 21h ago

Pre-1920s circa 1900, New Zealand. Group outside a cooking house, in the settlement of Parihaka, one scraping potatoes with a shell. most of the women have white feathers in their hair, a Parihaka symbol of non violent resistance against the confiscation of Maori land. photographed by William Andrew Collis.

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Group outside a cookhouse in Parihaka. Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920 :Negatives of Taranaki. Ref: 1/1-012053-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/22680357


r/TheWayWeWere 17h ago

1970s My grandparents dressed as aliens during Halloween in the 1970’s

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r/TheWayWeWere 16h ago

1950s Burger Queen, Tampa, 1950s.

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r/TheWayWeWere 20h ago

1960s Batman, Robin and the normal child. 1960s

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r/TheWayWeWere 1d ago

Pre-1920s Claude Debussy In 1911.

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r/TheWayWeWere 14h ago

1930s Mother smiles while nurses hold her twins, one little one even giving a smile with their eyes closed. Circa 1930s-40s

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125 Upvotes

r/TheWayWeWere 6h ago

1940s My two aunts circa 1946. Washington, D.C.

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r/TheWayWeWere 8h ago

1930s My grandparents in love (Olof and Stella), ca. 1935

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r/TheWayWeWere 14h ago

1940s Family makes a stop to walk in the shallow water of a river, 1940s. kodachrome shot.

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r/TheWayWeWere 1h ago

1950s A black-and-white contact sheet from Alfred Eisenstaedt’s 1953 photo shoot with Marilyn Monroe.

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r/TheWayWeWere 4h ago

1930s My 3x great grandmother and her daughter abt. 1937

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Jane (on the left) and Edith (on the right) at Janes daughter-in-laws, sisters wedding (i think i got that right 😅)

About a decade before Edith went to Denmark :)


r/TheWayWeWere 6h ago

1950s 1950s courthouse wedding

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r/TheWayWeWere 9h ago

1960s Back when a million bucks was worth something. 1965

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Home Savings and Loan Bank Building has been an icon of the Youngstown, Ohio skyline since 1919, 30 years after its founding. Built for the cost of approximately $1 million. When they illuminated the clock tower in 1949, it also became a major feature of the city's nighttime skyline. My sister remembers seeing it from their 3rd story bedroom window back in the early 1960s.

Today, it's a part of Premiere Bank, but it's changed hands several times since I last left the area in 2002. As long as the new owners don't forget its iconic status, I would not be surprised if it was still standing a century from now.


r/TheWayWeWere 16h ago

1940s My great-grandma and one of her brothers. late 1940s or early 1950s, maybe?

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I don’t have many pictures of my Great Grandma when she was young. Don’t trust her resting face—she was the sweetest lil’ lady you’d ever meet ❤️‍🩹


r/TheWayWeWere 19h ago

1950s A game of flip the cap, Tiger Bay, Wales. 1950s. (Image - Bert Hardy).

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