The Curious Retronaut

Street playground: Marbles. Campeão, Portugal. 1956.
Photo by António Peixão

Washington Square Arch. NYC. 1965.
Photo by Bedrich Grunzweig

Frankfurt, Germany. 1928
Photo bu Paul Wolff

Venice, Italy. 1958.
Photo by Nino Migliori

Dublin, Ireland. 1960s

Amsterdam, 1950

Sunday at Portobello Road. London, 1954

A formal dance heid at the Kenwood Country Club was only traditional part of Mariemont's Prom. Ohio, USA, 1958

Saturday night. 1950s

Street scene Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, Looking west from Seymour Building, New York City. 1937
Photo by Berenice Abbott.

Venice, Italy, the Piazzetta de Saint Mark. 1954
Photo by Gianni Berengo Gardin

Sale of roasted chestnuts in the Plaza Mayor of Madrid. 1956

Book-O-Mat, the pocket book vending machine. 1947

Low tide by the medieval French abbey of Mont Saint Michel. 1950.

Concorde - The first UK flight landing at RAF Fairford with its characteristic sloping nose for aerodynamic braking before touchdown. 9 April 1969

Puerto Rican Day Parade, 5th Avenue, New York City. 1963
By Joel Meyerowitz, a pioneer of color photography. Reminiscing about this shot from in the early '60s, he said: "The four girls stood in a doorway primping and getting ready to walk in the parade.

Grand Central Terminal concourse. NYC, 1941

This photograph was taken in 1938 by Berenice Abbott it shows lower Manhattan and in the distance you can see a large ocean liner which is headed outbound her name is the SS Normandie.

Who remembers Saturday matinees back in the day?

A westbound Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe passenger train passing by a siding near the town of Hoover, Texas. March 1943.
Photo by Jack Delano

British European Airways -BEA- Stewardesses, 1950.

Street scene in Malmö, Sweden, 1957.

Elegant lady enjoying a sunny morning in the park. Paris, 1955

Women workers build radios at Emerson factory. 1951

Paris scene. 1950s.
Photo by Loomis Dean

Snowstorm street scene at 43rd Street and Broadway. NYC, 1937

Photo by Willy Ronnis. 1952

Last displaced personas boat. Ellis Island, NYC. 1951

Great backlighting of Gran Vía street in Madrid. 1953
Photo by Francesc Català-Roca

The Swimmobile Pool on Eldridge Street, Between Stanton Street and East Houston Street, Lower East Side, New York City in 1972.