So you think your life is cool and the older generation will never know what that word means? Well! If your parents lived in the sixties and seventies that was the freedom and flower power era synonymous with coolness more than you’ll ever know. If you really want some insight into the life your parents and the older generation lived in the time of phrases like “peace brother” or “Give peace a chance”, then take a look at these classic but cool vintage photos of earlier generations.
Now how cooler can this outfit be. This was the trendy look of the seventies, the less clothes hippy flower power look where women dressed like this for Woodstock and a Joan Baez concert.
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This is the very best of times when couples chilled out in the back of a car parked into a drive-in movies, a drive in movie was the best time to have fun or a cheap date with your partner.
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Here’s the hippy look with those flared bell bottoms and tank tops but what is missing is the peace amulet and a flower in her hair. Ask your parents if they remember Scott Mackenzie with the famous line “if you going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair”
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And they carried it off with style but check out the clothes, and does it make you smile that the lumber look has come back in fashion with flared jeans and a checked top?
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The sixties and seventies was a pop culture reflected by psychedelic colors that even made its way into fashion; check out the colors of clothes on the girls. Hot pants were the in thing. The bicycles were long handled then just like your BMXes.
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This style is reminiscent of the sixties and seventies when everyone wanted an afro perm.
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No one wanted war in the sixties, it was all about peace and here are Chinese immigrants with styles indicative of the fifties, they look cute though.
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The sixties and seventies were great times for music and outdoor concerts galore but one also remembers the good old days of audio cassettes and the tape deck.
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This was a photo from 1955; it looks almost straight out of a movie scene “From Here to Eternity”
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Just because women wore one piece swimsuits didn’t make them look unattractive, it made women look gorgeous and there weren’t size zeros then as you can see from this photo. She’s got the Betty Grable pinup look.
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Now this is a famous photograph shot at Woodstock which happened to be one of the most remembered moments in music history. The Woodstock concert lasted 4 days in August 1969 and was an iconic moment.
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Today it’s all about a cool set of wheels but in those days, youngsters even enjoyed a ride in the back of a truck, the fanciest car of course was a Cadillac.
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This was perhaps the first model of computers that came out. They were one piece models and worked with floppy discs.
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What else can one say except beautiful. Clothes and fashion wasn’t so complex, no garish designs it was simple yet elegant.
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Here’s another elegant photograph of a woman who may be someone’s grandma today.
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Yes, there were many women welders during the war because the men were all drafted into the army and women did their bit to help.
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This was posted on Imgur by someone with the caption “my mom with her Camarro when she was 16.” Sorry dude but she’s really hot.
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What better way than to transform your car bonnet into sundeck for yourself.
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Although some arcades do carry these machines, these were a much bigger novelty in the sixties when they first came out. Check out the bell bottoms the woman is wearing, that was the seventies style.
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That’s the true look of the seventies, long hair, sunglasses, leather jacket and jeans. More like an evolved jimmy dean and who can’t forget the favorite bike and for some their favorite girl too, Harley!!
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Remember Cyndi Lauper, well the woman at the bank has her look. This was the age of punk rock and pop and by the looks of the hair do it must have been 1984 a great year for music that gave us Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, and of course “we are the world.”
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Now this is beautiful photo protesting racial discrimination. This attitude is what made America the great nation it s today.
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Here’s another shot of the seventies cool flower people. This is also taken from the Woodstock festival.
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Check out the Roger Daltrey and Peter Frampton looks, In fact almost every rock star sported the same look which set a trend of long or frizzy hair in men.
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This is a colorized version of a photo of the dying bred of cowboys of the West taken in 1910.
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