Summer Fun on Days Long Gone

Have you ever felt that dread when, on their return from some far flung place, your friend threatens to show you their summer holiday photos? You may have to sit through that particular agony. In the meantime, here is a collection of photographs spanning the first seven decades of the twentieth century which show summer in all its glory. Times and social mores may have changed, but these may still be the type of pictures you wish your friend had taken. Image Credit Florida Memory A group of young women make fun of a sign demanding that they wear full bathing costumes while on Florida’s Miami beach. Come on, this is 1934, after all! Sure enough, there were a number of women arrested that year for wearing two piece bathing suits. Image Credit Florida Memory You can be fairly certain the young women above didn't stay here. Image Credit State Library of New South Wales Just as the women of Miami were in open rebellion, on the other side of the world the men were taking risks too. The man…