40 Old Timey Photos

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/6/14 at 11:33pm

Ah, the good old days!

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/6/14 at 11:45pm

I've been looking at these all day and #12 still scares the crap out of me!

[SNAFU]

Posted: 3/6/14 at 11:46pm

Man, Kellerman had a killer figure!

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/7/14 at 7:47am

It was a simpler time ... or maybe it wasn't.

[artscallion]

Posted: 3/7/14 at 8:00am

That original Ronald McDonald in #13 is Willard Scott, former weatherman for The Today Show.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/7/14 at 12:34pm

#25 really makes me sick

[Eris0303]

Posted: 3/7/14 at 12:40pm

#20 The Baby Cage

In the 1930s, London nannies lacking space for their young ones resorted to the baby cage. It's exactly what it sounds like: a creepy wire contraption, patented in the U.S. in 1922, that lets you claim that space outside your city window for your infant. Risky? Maybe, but so convenient. How sweet; how sick.

Maybe we'll see one of these on Call the Midwife
The 50 Worst Inventions

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 3/7/14 at 12:51pm

#26

I'll take one, please.

Or settle for him being my new desktop background.

[tazber]

Posted: 3/7/14 at 12:57pm

Are these part of the massive Getty library that was just made available for public use?

16 & 17 both touch my heart.

21 is frightening

24 is amazing

25 is horrifying