“She was 85 pounds of pigtailed détente, flipping her way into the American consciousness.”
Olga Korbut, Soviet Gymnast
Series: Archive Fever
Visual essays, photos, and ephemera from youth cultures.
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Friends with a Murderer
23 year old Charles Schmid, known as ‘The Pied Piper of Tucson’ murdered three teenage girls, Alleen Rowe, and sisters Gretchen and Wendy Fritz in the deserts surrounding Tucson, Arizona in 1964-65.
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The Sly Fox Sisters
Kate and Maggie Fox fooled their mother. Then they fooled Hydesville, NY.
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Jango
The cover for the April 26, 1943 issue of LIFE featured “Jango” Helen Almy being capped after successfully completing junior nurses aide project operating in Washington’s Doctor’s Hospital.
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Age of Adolescence
“The world of the adolescent is totally interlaced within itself and incapable of freeing itself…it whirls, rolls, and engulfs what it is allowed to engulf.”
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Hey Shorty!
One young Sullivan High School illustrator set out to draw every senior in the class of 1946.
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Marine Boot Camp
A gangly group of rag tag teenagers transform their scruffy selfs into somewhat shiny new men with the loving support of the US Marine Corps.
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Aramco Brats in the 60s and 70s
Aramco Brats, the expatriate children of employees of Saudi Aramco oil company, (which was estimated in 2005 to be the world’s most valuable company) are a “third culture” group — think military brats, missionary kids — defined by their bi-cultural identity formed by living a not quite suburban American lifestyle in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, a province whose lands are more than half the Rub’ al Khali (Empty Quarter) desert — sand and wind.
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Woody and I
In 1978, Nancy Jo Sales was a lonely 13-year-old in Coral Gables, Florida with an unlikely pen pal, a 42-year-old filmmaker named Woody Allen.
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Andrea Ski
Meet the 15 year old ski prodigy Andrea Mead Lawrence.