“The Image of an Earthly Paradise”: US Beach History in Color

“The Image of an Earthly Paradise”: US Beach History in Color

Categories: History | North America

The set of associations of the “American dream” certainly includes the endless beaches of California and Florida, where it is always warm, sunny and fun. Now few people are surprised by beautiful beach views, but how cool it looked on excellent color photographs many decades ago! Thanks to the archives of National Geographic magazine, where most of the photographs below are taken from.

(Total 11 photos)

“The Image of an Earthly Paradise”: US Beach History in Color

“The Image of an Earthly Paradise”: US Beach History in Color

1. Daytona Beach, Florida, 1957

“The Image of an Earthly Paradise”: US Beach History in Color

2. Girls on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, photographer Richard Hewitt Stewart, November 1938.

“The Image of an Earthly Paradise”: US Beach History in Color

3. Free fitness classes (calisthenics) on the beach in Long Island, New York, photographer Willard Culver, 1939.

“The Image of an Earthly Paradise”: US Beach History in Color

4. Somewhere on an American beach, 1945

“The Image of an Earthly Paradise”: US Beach History in Color

5. Vinis Beach in Los Angeles, 1947

“The Image of an Earthly Paradise”: US Beach History in Color

6. Hawaii in 1950

“The Image of an Earthly Paradise”: US Beach History in Color

7. Jones Beach State Park, New York, 1953

“The Image of an Earthly Paradise”: US Beach History in Color

8. Cypress Gardens, Florida, 1957

“The Image of an Earthly Paradise”: US Beach History in Color

9. Ibid.

“The Image of an Earthly Paradise”: US Beach History in Color

10. Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, 1959

“The Image of an Earthly Paradise”: US Beach History in Color

11. Once Upon a Time in America, circa 1958

Keywords: National Geographic | Beach | USA

Post News Article

Recent articles

Evolutionary Atavisms: 7 Organs We No Longer Need
Evolutionary Atavisms: 7 Organs We No Longer Need

Our body is a real time machine, in which relics of the past are hidden. The appendix, goose bumps, and even wisdom teeth - these ...

"Angel Face": the story of a maniac and a mama's boy by Sean Gillis
"Angel Face": the story of a maniac and a mama's boy by Sean ...

As a child, his mother called Sean Vincent Gillis "a baby with an angelic face" and did not even suspect that her child would turn ...

Two-legged scavengers: a new gastronomic trend has emerged in the world
Two-legged scavengers: a new gastronomic trend has emerged in ...

If you are against killing animals, but are not ready to give up meat and are not too squeamish, then a new food trend gaining ...

Related articles

Paintings from a sheet of paper
Paintings from a sheet of paper

Artist Bovey Lee (Bovey Lee) continues the tradition of Chinese art "of Czarci" — cut patterns out of paper. Bovey Lee was born ...

The most famous gang of bikers
The most famous gang of bikers

Bikers since the mid-twentieth century terrified the inhabitants of "one-storied America". The roar of the engines meant one thing ...

This collection of items Seized from air passengers by the TSA will make your day
This collection of items Seized from air passengers by the ...

Can you tell what snakes, ninja shurikens, eels and grenades have in common? It's simple — all this is periodically seized ...