Picture by Walker Evans via Retronaut.

Miss Vivian Marinelli giving the gift of the Charleston to basketball players of Washington, D.C.’s Palace Club.

From retronaut

HAPPY NEW YEAR

From me and Clyde the Dog. Looking forward to the year ahead!

Watch the kids.

"Watch the kids. Do like they do. Act like they act. Yell like they yell. Dance the ways you see them dance. Sing like they sing. Work and rest the way the kids do.

You'll be healthier. You'll feel wealthier. You'll talk wiser. You'll go higher, do better, and live longer here amongst us if you'll just only jump in here and swim around in these songs and do like the kids do.

I don't want the kids to be grownup. I want to see the grown folks be kids."

-- Woody Guthrie 

Gymnasts

1. Four marine gymnasts on the parallel bars, 1933.
2. 1920s Gymnasts

Blooming Marvelous

I prefer this look to lycra.
I'm sick of lycra.

Bloomer wearing ladies of 1914 from retronaut

Edwardian health and beauty hints

Amazing us humans.
From Glamour Daze via retronaut

Beautiful Picture by Baron Raimund von Stillfried und Ratenitz c.1870-1890.

Found here.

Woman dancing on beach c.1920 via Retronaut

She is my kinda lady, I would like to meet her.

(source: retronaut)

Aquarium Man

13th June 1934
“Record duration stay underwater. Man in bathing suit holds his breath, lying on his side with a chain around his waist, in a water tank (enhanced aquarium) with glass panel”

I'm thinking Aquarium Man was a yogi. Pranayama was his thing.

Leap

1886:Leaping the chasm at Stand Rock
Ashley Bennett, son of photographer H.H. Bennett, jumping to Stand Rock, caught in midair by the instantaneous shutter.

Balance

Dang!
1919:Balancing on the roof of L.A. Chamber of Commerce
(image found here)

Dancing the Charleston

Dancing the Charleston with shock absorbers in 1925.
Brilliant.
via retronaut

Friends

Tsar Nicholas II Clowning Around with Friends.
found via Retronaut.
Persons in the photos include. Tsar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, The Duchess of Darmstadt, Prince Nicholas of Greece.

This is friendship.

Fly!

Found here

Found on Retronaut

Posture Class

Posture class at Barnard College, New York, 1954 Found here

WOW Human beings are brilliant.....
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