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.
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.
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.”
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