Time machine: 100 years ago to 1925 daily life in USA
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Jump in to our image slideshow time machine as we take you back 100 years to the United Sates in 1925. What was going on in the daily lives of people, what events were happening? Are there things we do now that were surprisingly similar all that time ago? When you do see something in these images that relates in some way to your life now, that is the magical moment you feel you could have been there.
Miami Beach, Florida: February, 1925. A young boy has been buried up to his neck in sand and is now happily watched over by two women. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
New York, New York: c. 1925. Floating grain elevators in New York City harbor. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
Miami Beach, Florida: c. 1925. Cabana Row is what they call the boardwalk that runs along the front of the Roney Plaza Cabana Sun Club in Mami Beach, Florida Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
Miami Beach, Florida: c.1925. A lone woman gazes out at the surf on a stormy winter day at the ocean in Miami Beach. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
Redding, California: c. 1925. A window display by George Hauber at the McCormick-Saeltzer department store for Frigidaire refrigerators Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
East Otis, Massachusetts: c. 1925. A camper at the Bonnie Brae Girl Scout Camp on Big Pond lake does a swan dive off the diving board. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
United States: c. 1925. Two women camping in a trailer, with one preparing a meal outside. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
Downtown Manhattan Skyline, New York City, USA, High Angle View, Single Image of Stereo Card, circa 1925. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG) Credit: JTVintage/GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group
United States April 2, 1925 Troops inspecting a newly-developed acoustic locator device, mounted on a wheeled platform. The large horns amplify the distant sounds of approaching enemy aircraft, enabling the aircraft defenders to derive their distance and altitude. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
United States: c. 1925. An office scene with many men and tabulating machines. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
New York City, New York c 1925 Two women playing miniature golf. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
Tennis Player Bill Tilden in Action, Washington DC, USA, National Photo Company, May 1925. Credit: Circa Images/GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group
New York, New York: c. 1925. The New York Battery skyline reflected in the harbor waters. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
Caddy Mozart Johnson wearing the latest safety device for golf courses fashioned from wire-mesh and worn over the head and upper torso to protect “”caddies and ball-retrievers from wild golf balls.”” California, circa 1925. Credit: GG Vintage Images/Universal Images Group
New York, New York c 1925, New Yorkers come out in force to watch the ice skating in Manhattan’s Central Park. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
George Trafton (left), Jim McMillen (2nd left), Don Murry (center), Red Grange (right), Chicago Bears, National Football League, Underwood & Underwood, 1925 Credit: Circa Images/GHI/Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group
New York, New York: circa 1925, New York Harbor as seen from New Jersey. Ellis Island is to the right and Manhattan is in the background. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
Honolulu, Hawaii: c. 1925.A surfer at Waikiki Beach stands on his head as he rides a wave into the shore. Diamond Head is in the background. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
Crowd in the stands watching the Laurel Auto Races ca. 1925. Credit: HUM Images/Universal Images Group
Glen Echo Park visitors on the carousel ca. 1925. Credit: HUM Images/Universal Images Group
Reps. Charles M. Stedman & Samuel J. Montgomery (oldest and youngest house members) exercising in the House gym ca. 1925. Credit: HUM Images/Universal Images Group
1925 World Series: Washington Senators players waiting to board a train to Pittsburgh for the World Series. Credit: HUM Images/Universal Images Group
Senate pages in snowball battle at Capitol ca. 1925. Credit: HUM Images/Universal Images Group
Men and women having a wonderful time at an inaugural ball in honor of Calvin Coolidge ca. 1925. Credit: HUM Images/Universal Images Group
President Calvin Coolidge standing in front of the White House, in the White House lawn ca. 1925. Credit: HUM Images/Universal Images Group
Vintage Auto Racing: Cars racing during the Baltimore-Washington Speedway race, McDonogh leading ca. 1925. Credit: HUM Images/Universal Images Group
Park visitors walking by the Coasterdips ride at Glen Echo Park Amusement Park ca. 1925. Credit: HUM Images/Universal Images Group
New York, March 18, 1925. Listening to their favorite orchestra in the Old Home Town, while visiting in New York, three guests in the Hotel Baltimore, New York, which has just installed individual radio set in every suite and plans to make good on the slogan ‘radio in every room’. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
Newberg, Oregon, 1925. During prohibition, many individuals resorted to their own resources to provide bottles of strong and often fearful ‘drinkin likker.’ This crude still was discovered by liquor agents in 1925 near Newberg. Credit: Underwood Archives/Universal Images Group
The famous screen star Harold Lloyd, visited Washington, D.C. unannounced, and with his wife and Will Hays, czar of the movies, they made a visit to the Navy Yard. The picture was made in front of the President’s Yacht The Mayflower. Left to right: Captainolphus Andrews of the Mayflower; Mrs. Harold Lloyd, Harold Lloyd, Dr. Joel T. Boone and Will Hays. Photography by Harris & Ewing, 1925. Credit: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group
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