1970s america

The collection of photographs, taken between 1971 and 1977, show children splashing happily in Louisiana's Lake Charles next to chemical waste, cars rusting in ponds and factory chimneys belching smoke over the suburbs of Washington.

“New York City, 1971. Photograph by Gentle***Giant on Flickr.”

Last week, we took a trip — and we use that word with a certain degree of tongue-in-cheek — back to the early Seventies and the show car scene. And what’s so cool about that movement is the way it was interpreted out on the street, as it were. Panels, lace, fishscale, cobwebbing, scallops, flames,…

Here's a collection of amazing color photographs of New York City's street scenes in the 1970s (via ozmerry)

Smoking Billboard atop the storied Bond’s Clothing store, Broadway & 44th Street, New York City, c. 1970s. (image via Blair Stirret)

The Mountain State has a great deal of history, but this era had a unique story that's oft overlooked. Check out these photos of West Virginia in the 1970s!

Midtown traffic congestion and jaywalking pedestrians, in April of 1973. (Dan McCoy/NARA)

German photographer Stephan Erfurt traveled the US in the 80s, snapping along the way capturing breathtaking images of American life. The shots are compiled in his book On The Road.

Teenage girls’ fashion in the 1970s continued the “do-your-own-thing” look of the late 1960s for the early years of the decade. Girls’ ...

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