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Brooklyn, Summer, 1974

From the National Archives, here’s a collection of vintage photos taken by Danny Lyons during the summer of 1974. posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:23am EDT

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      proof of 40 years of processed food making america tubby and gov being in corps back pocket.

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      Any of you guys wanna play stickball??

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      ATTICA! ATTICA!

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      WAAAAARRIORS…

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      More photos from this series (including the ones here, with their captions preserved) on this page.

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      I think that first photo is of a race-related beatdown about to happen…

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      And yes, people were much much much thinner in the 70s.
      40 years passed and we became human blobs

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      Shirts were hard to come by in the 70s. I remember my parents telling me about the great shirt famine of 1974.

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      incredible photos

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