Author: MYLIFE

One of the most dramatic and enduring moment of any Olympic Games opening ceremony is when the Olympic flame is brought into the main stadium during the opening ceremony. There…

In the track and field program at a Summer Olympic games the title of best all round male athlete resides with the man who collects the gold medal for the…

The burden of being the favourite in an Olympic Games event can be both a boon and burden. Over the 112 years of the modern Summer and Winter Games many…

Several countries in the modern Olympics would look to one sport and perceive it to be ‘their’ domain, the place where their Olympians traditionally excelled against the opposition. For the…

In Olympic sport there have been several events which have had a time, distance or points barrier which seem impenetrable until that one unique Olympian achieves that breakthrough. In gymnastics…

A series of photographs of teenage boys in Des Moines, Iowa, 1945, by LIFE photographer Nina Leen. Is it just me or were they much cuter in the 40s than…

We had a glimpse of teenage boys in the 1940s; don’t worry, there were girls too! St. Louis, Missouri, 1944. By Nina Leen. Teenage girls in blue jeans drink Coke…

Sometimes context makes all the difference. These photographs show Passover at home and at the synagogue– in Berlin, 1946.  (note: the captions incorrectly say 1945; this of course can’t be…

A terrific set of cigarette cards depicting a flight from London to Amsterdam in the early days of commercial air travel. The images (each “from an official photograph supplied by…

Another set of photochroms! (for a couple more details on photochroms, see this post; basically they are photographs crossed with lithograms). Today, a tour of Scotland, 1890s.  Library of Congress…