While home this weekend for the Canadian Thanksgiving, my mother brought out old albums for us to browse thru. One of those albums was filled with various images of difference vacations my grandparents/parents took over the years. It was so nice to see how happy everyone looked and all the cool places they ventured out too. So keeping with that theme, today’s ‘Vintage Photo Tuesday‘ is all about Family Vacations (featuring 1950’s and early 1960’s images of families in all shapes and sizes).

Note: Here is Part 2-Vintage Family Vacations!


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Vintage Photos of Family Vacations

1950’s & 1960’s Images

1950’s Family vacation to Hawaii. The photo on the back says “The Hawaiian Trio”.

1950's vintage photo of a family in Hawaiian outfits posing together.
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1950’s photo of a family in Yosemite. Families who wear matching outfits when at Yosemite, stay together (or at least I think that is how the saying goes).

1950's vintage photo: 1950s photo of a family in Yosemite.
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A visit to the Hoover Dam in 1953.

1950's vintage photo of a family posing together at Hoover Dam, 1953.
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Calico Ghost Town…1950’s.

1950s vintage image family vacation at a ghost town-Calico Ghost town.
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Kids & their Casinos. Golden Gate Casino Las Vegas, 1950’s (The hotel still stands today).

1950s vintage photo of two kids posing together across the street from the Golden Gate Casino in Las Vegas.
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Four women on a cruise ship circa late 1940s / early 1950s.

Late 1940s, Early 1950s Photo of a group of women posing together on a cruise ship.
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1950’s photo of a stylish beauty in Mexico in the prettiest sundress.

1950s Photo of a woman in mexico in a 1950s sundress.
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The family vacation to Knott’s Berry Farm or Bust circa 1950’s.

1950s Vintage Photo of photobooth of a son and his mom at Knott's Berry Farm.
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Take the family (family can be two people) and travel to the Taj Mahal 1960’s. Love the pearl necklace this woman is wearing.

1960s vintage photo of a couple posing together in front of the Taj Mahal.
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One cannot visit Venice without taking a gondola ride, circa 1960’s.

1960s vintage photo of an older couple in a Godola ride in Venice.
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Lastly, vacations are meant for enjoying the small things, like drinks and a paper while on a terrace in France circa 1960s.

1960s vintage photo of a copule having a drink together and reading the paper in France.
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Question Time: Do you have vintage family photos of vacations from times gone by? Or was your family more of the stay at home kind?

FURTHER READING: Vintage Travel Posts 1920s-1960s (Archived blog posts)

Liz

11 Comments on Vintage Photos of Family Vacations

  1. What great pictures. I’m half inspired to take of few of them and write short stories with the picture as the starting point. They are so cool and have a lot of character.

  2. Fabulous photos as always! There are very few photos of my grandparents generation due to the cost of cameras. They were all working class people and cameras were the last on their list of priorities. It’s a real shame, but I totally understand. I do have a small number of a couple of my relatives from the 1920s – 1940s, which are just gorgeous, but most of the family photos are from the late 1960s and onwards.

    • My grandparents photos came in the 60s and later as well as they too did not own a camera, especially since my dad’s parents were in Germany during the war. Once they moved to Canada the images just started coming in. I’m glad that you still have some early photos of your family to treasure though, that is a great piece of family history you will always have.

  3. Matching or not, how stylish is that mum with her blue sweater and rolled up jeans?

    We have some pictures of my granddad on a cycling holiday around Britain with some friends, maybe in his early 20s I guess. A bunch of skinny white guys with their shirts off standing in front of bikes, but they are still awesome pictures!

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