Here are a bunch of old postcards depicting normal everyday life street scenes in Sweden in the 1960s. Progress has taken its toll on all of these places and I very much doubt they look like this today. Although, I do love the colors and how everything looked so casually organized and clean back then.
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A selection of excellent photos from the series No lifeguard on duty by photographer J. Bennett Fitts. Imagine sipping a cocktail by one of those pools in their heydays, groovy. If you would like to dig deeper into the history of the Salton Sea, feel free to visit fellow blogger Lee Prewitt's blog The Salton Sea Chronicles. (Via)
Sorry for the absence, been keeping my self busy with different things. Nevertheless, today we are returning to the World's fair held in Seattle in 1962. Going under the title Century 21, this is one of my favorite expositions next to the one that was held in New York two years later. Here are a couple of photos from it to better illustrate my point.
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