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17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

The way things used to be.

By Nathan Johnson

Published 3 years ago in Feels

There's a Welsh word for the longing or nostalgia one feels for people and places lost to history: Hiraeth. More than your run-of-the-mill nostalgia we all experience, hiraeth refers specifically to a place you can no longer return to. For the Welsh, hiraeth usually calls back to aspects of Welsh culture that have eroded with time.


For those looking to escape into their own sense of hiraeth, we have below a series of photos to transport you to bygone eras -- perhaps times you remember, perhaps times you can never know, but all times that are now long gone.

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    Gun safety being taught in an Indiana school, 1956

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    Vince Lombardi at the lunch counter, Green Bay, Wisconsin, 1960

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    Debutante Ball. Harlem, early 1960s

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    Four generations in 1920

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    Lineman working on power. Telephone lines at an intersection in Pratt, Kansas, USA, 1911

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    Fashion in 1922

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    Lunch counter in Detroit, Michigan, 1955

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    Gas station, Benton Harbor, Michigan, 1940

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    Actress Julie Harris stops to buy coffee on Broadway, 1952

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    At a high school football game, 1950s

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    A photographer uses his own backdrop to mask Poland’s World War II ruins while shooting a portrait in Warsaw, Poland, 1946

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    Cashiers At The Piggly Wiggly Continental, Los Angeles, California, 1962

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    New York City, 1947, photographed by Stanley Kubrick

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    Traffic on the freeway, Los Angeles, 1965

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    Milk vendor In Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1953

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    A new suburban housing development opens, Lakewood California, 1953

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    Kids playing, lower east side, New York, City, 1963

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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    Marion County, Oregon, August 1939

    17 Old Timey Photos From a World Lost to Time

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