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The Way We Were - 35 Vintage Photographs of Children Playing in the Past That We Could Have Lost Today

What is your favorite toy? What games do you like to play? Do you think that children in the past had the same toys and played the same games as you? Check out how children played in the past through these 33 funny pictures.

 
Hanging around in Swansea, April 1939
Little girl playing with kitty, ca. 1910s
London in the 1920s
Messing around the phone booth, New York, 1975
On a play street in New York, ca. 1900s
Playing time at school, 1956
Ring around the rosie, ca. 1940
These young Neapolitans hanging onto the backs of street cars, Naples, 1948
Two children have great fun hanging upside down off a low rail in stockport, 1966
Two girls play with their tricycles, ca. 1920s
Two girls swing on a lampost, Manchester, 1965
Two little kids dancing on the streets of New York City, ca. 1940
Young boys hitch a ride, London, 1941
Brooklyn, New York, April 1949
Children balance on rail in South Dakota, 1959
Children draw on pavement with chalk, ca. 1960s
Children drawing on the pavement, 1941
Children hanging on a full train after the liberation, 1945
Children playing at The Bronx, New York City, ca. 1940s
Children playing on a street, ca. 1890
Children playing, Misawa, Japan, 1960
Edwardian children on stilts
Girls doing handstands, Southam Street, London, 1956
Girls jump rope in Zennor Road, ca.1957-65
Hanging around in Swansea, April 1939
Children on seesaw in a park, ca. 1910s
Children playing in the snow at residential school, 1946
Group of Gleichen boys playing in rubber tires, Alberta, ca. 1920
Little cowboys riding wild horses, ca. 1910s
Sarcee children on Sarcee Reserve, Alberta, playing with bows and arrows, 1911

 
Slide and swing in a park, ca. 1910s
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