Time Capsule Tales@timecaptales · Dec 15, 2024

A thread of what everyday life used to look like in the United States of America 🇺🇸 1. Average American family in…

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A nostalgic collection of photographs and snapshots depicting American life from the 1910s through 1960s, showcasing everyday moments like family dinners, shopping, schooling, social gatherings, and major historical events that illustrate how people lived, worked, and entertained themselves in mid-20th century America.

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A thread of what everyday life used to look like in the United States of America 🇺🇸 1. Average American family in Detroit, Michigan, 1954. A house, car, and enough to support a family, all on a Ford factory worker's wages!
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2. Housewife poses with a weeks’ worth of groceries in 1947. She spent a total of $12.50 (not including milk) to buy her groceries. On this budget, she is able to feed herself, her husband, her four-year-old twins & their cat.
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3. Kids do remote learning during a polio outbreak in the 1940s. Teachers read lessons over the radio.
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4. Life in the 1910s America. 20% of adults could not read or write and only 6% of Americans had graduated from high school.
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5. Gasoline prices in 1955 - I love how they break the price down
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6. Protesting the high school dress code that banned slacks for girls, Brooklyn, 1940
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7. A mother with her 8 sons who all served in WWII & all came home
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8. A Friday night in 1966 - drinking some beers & looking at Playboy
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9. Family on a cross-country roadtrip in their station wagon, 1964.
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10. Young woman with a moose calf in Alaska, 1952.
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11. Times Square in 1957.
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12. Kmart Employees in North Carolina watching the moon landing (July 16, 1969)