Summer Fun On Days Long Gone

image credit: Florida Memory

Have you ever felt that dread when, on their return from some far flung place, your friend threatens to show you their summer holiday photos? You may have to sit through that particular agony.

In the meantime, here is a collection of photographs spanning the first seven decades of the twentieth century which show summer in all its glory. Times and social mores may have changed, but these may still be the type of pictures you wish your friend had taken.