1950s Unlimited

 Students, 1947

Spring vacation, Balboa Beach in Southern California. These strapping young men are are only a few of a mob of 1,600 Glendale Junior College students who swarmed to Balboa Beach for a party and overnight stay.



Yale Swim Team, 1941

How handsome and confident these young men look here. 


Wartime Love, 1945


Married college girl looking in mirror surrounded by pictures of her enlisted

husband.


Steve McQueen, 1963

Actor Steve McQueen chatting with students in his old dorm room while visiting Boys Republic School, which he attended as a youth.


Rush Week, 1956


         Fraternity brothers meeting pledges at the University of Illinois during rush week.

life


Frat Boys, 1956


Students interested in pledging a fraternity shaking hands at the University of Illinois during rush week

life


College Boys, 1954


Students having lunch at Hotchkiss Prep. School, boys hiding faces are embarrassed because they told college girls on a date that they were students at Princeton.

Life


One Day’s Menu, 1952

A student of Cornell University’s “College of Home Economics” learns, as “Cook for the week”, how to plan, buy, prepare and of course, budget the food for the other girls in the class. 


Life


1970 Student Peace March

Student and faculty demonstrators can be seen marching from the campus for a sidewalk parade to the downtown Los Angeles post office where 50,000 letters to President Nixon were taken for mailing.


Tri Delta Society Dance 1951

best looking couples at a dance held by the Tri Delta Society at the Crystal Room, Beverly Hills Hotel.

(Source: 1950sunlimited)

Fight!

University of Southern California pushball contest, 4 May 1956. Sophomores and Freshmen. Freshmen won, 20 to 0