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!
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.
3. Kids do remote learning during a polio outbreak in the 1940s. Teachers read lessons over the radio.
4. Life in the 1910s America. 20% of adults could not read or write and only 6% of Americans had graduated from high school.
5. Gasoline prices in 1955 - I love how they break the price down
6. Protesting the high school dress code that banned slacks for girls, Brooklyn, 1940
7. A mother with her 8 sons who all served in WWII & all came home
8. A Friday night in 1966 - drinking some beers & looking at Playboy
9. Family on a cross-country roadtrip in their station wagon, 1964.
10. Young woman with a moose calf in Alaska, 1952.
11. Times Square in 1957.
12. Kmart Employees in North Carolina watching the moon landing (July 16, 1969)
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