34 photos from 1926 that will make you realize how insanely different life was 100 years ago 🤯

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A lot has changed in the past 100 years, and looking at old photos from 1926 really drives that home. Here are some highlights of what the world looked like exactly a century ago...

1. This swimwear:

2. And these beach looks:

3. These tennis players at Wimbledon:

4. This Miss America:

5. This beauty look on original "It Girl," Clara Bow:

6. This perm machine:

7. This bridal look:

8. This race day fashion:

9. This woman and her anti-splash gaiter to protect her stockings from mud:

10. These iron workers listening to the radio while having a lunch break 24 stories high:

11. This casual camping trip:

12. These friends posing for a photo with this "portable" camera:

13. This family going out for a drive:

14. And these friends piled into one car:

15. This infant "shock absorber":

16. This racecar:

17. This delivery van:

18. This milk delivery:

19. These grocery prices:

20. This American Airlines sleeper plane:

21. These school kids listening to the radio during class for "a lesson in current affairs":

22. These kids "cooling off" at a water pump in the street:

23. These boys playing marbles on a dirt road:

24. These boys getting ready to play baseball:

25. This telephone:

26. And these telephone operators:

27. This woman doing household chores:

28. This "modern" kitchen:

29. And this "modern" dishwasher:

30. This electric toaster:

31. This sewing machine:

32. This bootlegger's fake lumber truck, used to hide scotch during prohibition:

33. These prohibition agents pouring wine down the drain:

34. And these kids scooping up dumped alcohol in the street:

Which 100-year-old photo was your favorite or shocked you the most? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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