5/2/12

Eye candy

Children Play in Yard of Ruston Home...08/1972 Evening primrose, 05/1972. Airborne Flocks of Blue Geese and Snow Geese Stop at the Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Mound City, Missouri, at the Northwest Corner of the State...10/1974 W.G. Leistikon, 70; and John Ricks, 87, in Front of the Local Drugstore. Stumps in Front of Store Are Reserved for the "Old-Timers" 11/1972 Breakup of a storm over Pike's Peak, 04/1974. Mary Workman Holds A Jar of Undrinkable Water That Comes from Her Well, and Has Filed A Damage Suit Against the Hanna Coal Company ..., 10/1973 Barrel cactus in bloom. Hovenweep National Monument, 05/1972. Earth, as Seen by Astronauts Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt from Apollo 17 Young Rial Redding, third generation of Reddings who have ranched in Sarpy Basin, joins the resistance movement..., 06/1973.UntitledFeast your eyes on these inspiring images from the 70's. They are all from the US national archive.  
There are hundreds more for you to gaze upon, but don't blame me when it's midnight and you haven't dont your homework and you really should have tidied your room and done the dishes. 
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12 comments:

  1. Such amazing photos, they really transport you back into the 70s!
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  2. Love these! Wish I was a kid in the 70's

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  3. I am OBSESSED with the 1970s at the moment, I blame Life on Mars!

    Maria xxx

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  4. 70's and sooooo american!lovely :) great post!

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  5. You really do know just what happens when I find fun stuff on the internet!

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  6. these are wonderful, thank you so much for turning me on to the flickr stream! i'm glad I'm still in bed and on an off day <3

    Meghan

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  7. Ugh. There goes all the unpacking I SWORE I would finish tonight.

    xoxo
    Remy
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  8. thanks for the site, i'm going to have a good night on here. love the photo of the two chaps

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  9. wow these are great photos, the birds are amazing. will definitely check their page! x

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  10. "but don't blame me when it's midnight and you haven't dont your homework and you really should have tidied your room and done the dishes." - my life in a nutshell!

    these pictures are FANTASTIC!

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  11. So awesome. I love that we have a digitized photo archive. Hopefully it will just keep on growing so we can look at more pretty pictures like these!

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