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What was life like 100 years ago? The 1920s were a time of boundless fun, fewer precautions, and some truly peculiar trends—like casually picnicking alongside alligators.
Here are 20 amazing wacky and wonderfully weird snapshots from the era.
1. Just some students goofing off in true 1920s fashion.
2. Their Halloween game? Terrifyingly creative.
3. Circa 1920s, New Brunswick Canada.
4. On-line dating in the 1920s.
5. Bibendum, the Michelin mascot, looking iconic in his vintage style.
6.The Pickle Sisters, a 1920s Vaudeville group who dressed as pickles.
7. An architectural masterpiece shaped like a tamale in 1920s Los Angeles.
8. An extra-large family, proudly representing the big household trend of the ’20s.
9. Scot-Tissue Pride
Advertising’s golden age featuring tissue paper in 1928.
10. A grandmother showing off her goat-pulled cart.
11. Pilots perform grand aerial stunts in the 1920s.
12. “My great-grandparents in 1920s Oklahoma…with six kids in tow.”
13. A girl’s head “detached” and placed on a table—just 1920s trickery.
14. Silent film star Buster Keaton riding what looks like the original Segway prototype.
15. In this 1920s California alligator farm, kids could ride and play with alligators.
16. Women breaking boundaries at Oxford University.
17. A picnic among trained alligators, proving they were surprisingly chill.
18. Alvin “Shipwreck” Kelly started the pole-sitting craze in 1924.
19. Great-Grandma at Coney Island
A snapshot of carefree amusement from the iconic boardwalk.
20. In 1924, a hippo named Lotus towed a man in a cart because… why not?
The 1920s truly were a decade of daring, eccentricity, and pure fun—proof that some things never go out of style: living life with a sense of humor.
