40 Vintage Vacation Pictures Showing How People Lived It Up Throughout History
If there’s one constant throughout time, it’s that people love vacation. Time to get away from work and the business of everyday life and go have some fun.
These vintage pictures of old school folks on vacation are a time capsule showing that people haven’t really changed that much. Sure, camera technology and clothing style is different, but there theme stays the same. We all need to get away from time to time.
1. My Grandma on vacation In The 1950s
2. I’m Not Sure Of The Date. Maybe 1950’s. My Great Grandmother Making Fun Of Einstien’s Shoes While On Vacation Together
3. My Roommate Found Old Photos Of Her Dad While He Was Traveling And Surfing Up And Down The West Coast In An Old VW Bus With His Pup (1972)
4. My Grandma Always Used To Tell Us About This Kid That Would Sing At The Resort On Her Vacations In Hawaii. Turns Out That Kid Was Bruno Mars. 1990
5. A Group Of Fun-Loving Friends Have Recreated A Photo From Their First Girls’ Holiday – More Than 50 Years Later
6. My Grandmother Nancy On Her Honeymoon Near Capitan, NM. Taken By My Grandfather On A Kodak Kodachrome, 1949
7. My Mom On Vacation In Amsterdam After She Broke Off Her Engagement In 1971
8. I Acquired And Scanned In Over 500 Of My Grandpa’s Ektachrome Slides. Here Is My Grandma In The Late 1940s/Early 1950s On Vacation
9. Brunch Along The Road While Traveling In 1957, Before Fast Food Options Existed
10. 1986 Me On Holiday In Gran Canaria. Thank God For The Existence Of Braces
11. My Mother Has Nary A Hair Out Of Place After A 4 Day Backpacking Trip Into The Wilderness… A Shout Out To Breck Hairspray. My Parents 1969
12. The In-Laws’ Family Car, On Holidays In Scotland In The 60s
13. My Grandma Turns 99 Years Old Today. Here’s A Photo Of Her On Holiday In Venice In 1962
14. My Grandpa And Grandma In Puerto Vallarta, 1950’s
15. My Great Grandmother Playing Golf In A Christian Dior Dress, On Holiday In The Scottish Highlands, 1951
16. On Vacation With My Dad In 1984 – When Guys Would Wear Sports Jackets On Vacation, Even If You Were Out In The Woods
17. Traveling In Style In 1974
18. My Grandpa Proudly Holding A Bunch Of Pepsi Bottles While On Vacation (Late 60s). He Was Originally From Communist Czechoslovakia So He Probably Had Pepsi For The Very First Time
19. 1999. Meeting Denzel On Summer Family Vacation Visiting Grandma. Taken At The Rusty Rudder In Dewey Beach, Delaware
20. My Beautiful Grandmother On A Beach Vacation In 1957
21. My Mom And Her Sister Vacationing In Europe (Paris?), 1965
22. Rest Stop On Our Way To Our Vacation Somewhere In The Sixties. I Am The Little One
23. My Grandma At Age 20 While On Vacation In Venice
24. Hooking The Boat Up During Vacation Preparation, 1953
25. My Dad In August 1983 With His Brand New Apple Iie That He Brought On Vacation With Him To The Jersey Shore
26. My Mom, Aunt, And Grandparents On A Family Vacation Ca. 1973
27. Summertime In The 80s
28. My Dad Tolerating My Weirdness While On Vacation In Jamaica 1984
29. My Grandparents In Their Late Teens Going On Vacation. 1950’s Denmark
30. My Mom & Dad On Vacation In 1990 (I’m Sleeping In The Stroller)
31. Italian Vacation – 1977 Style
32. Mom (50) Enjoying Vacation Time In Her Native Sicily In 1978
33. They Look So Carefree And Simply Eloquent; Pre-1991 Mogadishu, Somalia. Why Did We Collectively End The Afro Hair Look? That Was Such Beautiful Style We Had
34. My Mom At The Boise, Idaho, Holiday Inn In The Early 70s
35. My Uncle On Holiday In Europe – Taken By Granddad. My Granddad Travelled A Lot With The Raf, I Think This Was Taken In Germany In The 1950s
36. My Mom On A Roadtrip Across The Country After Graduating College, India 1993
37. My Family Before An Early Start To Our Vacation, 1963
38. On Holiday In The Scottish Highlands In The Summer Of 1974. Tights Over Our Heads Were To Protect From The Horrendous Clouds Of Midges
39. My Grandpa (Photographer) And His High School Buddies Chilling In Their Rented Oldsmobile While Vacationing At The Sleeping Bear Dunes Near Empire, MI In The Summer Of 1959
40. My Grandpa With His Saab In Kenya In 1968
