21 Magnificent Mid-Century Pics Of Paris
These dreamy black and white photos will make you want to Midnight-in-Paris yourself to another era.
1. 1968

Beauty in a cafe. (She's smoking, but you shouldn't.)
2. 1960

A very fashionable lady waits. But for whom, we ponder.
3. 1961

From a young age, the French trust their children to do grocery shopping and not spend the money on drugs.
4. 1960

Couple in La Methode cafe. Man inspects extremely interesting crumb on the table. Woman dreams of finding a man who doesn't find crumbs interesting.
5. 1961

Dancing in the streets on Bastille Day. Years later, a Motown song would turn this into a thing.
6. 1955

Beatniks just chillin'.
7. 1955

What clubbing in 1955 looked like.
8. 1969

Doggie, je t'aime.
9. 1955

Doggie, je t'aime: part deux.
10. 1965

Young ladies sun by the banks of the Seine. Jalouse much?
11. 1956

A French postal worker makes sure to smell each envelope before delivery to ensure it has been spritzed with the right amount of Chanel No. 5.
12. 1966

Russian ballerina Sonia Petrovna waits for le bus, showing restraint by not dancing.
13. 1955

Menfolk in Paris do their part.
14. 1950

Students from the Sorbonne kick it in the Luxembourg Gardens.
15. 1960s

Two fine ladies at a cafe on the Champs-Élysées.
16. 1955

Twin sisters avoid eye contact with a waiter.
17. 1956

These people are having highly philosophical conversations. Comme d'habitude.
18. 1963

On a visit to Paris, Jane Fonda demonstrates the single-gloved scarf-tying technique, a very difficult French move to master.
19. 1956

A man and his dog wait for the bar to officially open.
20. 1955

A ballerina demonstrates the correct way to enter the Parisian métro.
21. 1964

A woman tries to work one of those new-fangled "parking meters."