22 Vintage Photos Of Your Favorite Summer Pastimes

By All That's Interesting
Published June 20, 2016
Updated February 12, 2018

Get ready to break out your new swimsuit and fire up the barbecue! This week marks the official start of summer with the summer solstice, which is the longest day of the year. Even if you can’t appreciate scorching heat and sweaty seats, these classic shots of summer are sure to put a smile on your face:

Running Water
Water Skiing Elephant
Walt Disney Pool
Jumping Rope On Beach
Ice Cream Boys
JFK Sailing
Lemonade Stand
Paragon Park Nantasket Beach
Grace Kelly
Amphibious Car
Coney Island Luna Park 1910
Family Backyard
Summer Love
Family Bbq
Water Biking
Teenagers Tanning Beach
Summer Home
Water Skiing Girls
Lemonade Stall
Swimming In River
Picnic
Trout Fishing

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A group of women run and enjoy a day at the beach. AFP/Getty
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Queenie the Elephant water skiing with keeper Liz Dane in 1958. Wikimedia
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Walt Disney sits and plays with his grandson in a child's inflatable pool.Gene Lester/Getty
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Beachgoers jump rope.National Media Museum
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Two boys eat ice creams bought from an Austin ice cream van in July 1961.Bert Hardy Advertising Archive/Getty
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Senator John F. Kennedy and fiancée Jacqueline Bouvier go sailing while on vacation at the Kennedy compound in June 1953 in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.Hy Peskin Archive/Getty
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Neighborhood children launch a lemonade stand. Bettmann/Getty
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Revelers at Paragon Park, a small amusement park across the street from Nantasket Beach Hull, Massachusetts. Super Stock/Getty
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In 1972, Princess Grace of Monaco takes a photograph at a swimming competition in Palm Beach.Hulton Archive/Getty
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A family drives an amphibious car on the lake.Gerald R. Massie/Missouri State Archives
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Coney Island's Luna Park in 1910. George Grantham Bain Collection/Library Of Congress
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A family enjoys pool time in the backyard.H. Armstrong Roberts/Getty
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A young man helps a barefoot girl step on exposed rocks to cross a small river.Gerald R. Massie/Missouri State Archives
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A family has a arbecue on a sunny day. Josef Scaylea/ CORBIS/ Getty Images
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Two women paddle their way across the lake on water bikes. Gerald R. Massie/Missouri State Archives
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A group of teenagers pile on top of each other on a crowed day at Coney Island, New York. Bettmann/Getty
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A group of friends enjoy their time at a summer house.Missouri State Archives
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Women water ski on Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri. Missouri State Archives
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An enterprising young boy sets up a stall selling cake, candy and lemonade to his neighbours, 1955. Lambert/Getty
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A group of young men and boys swims in Eel River, Garberville, California. H. Armstrong RobertsRetrofile/Getty Images
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Parkers enjoy a picnic.George Grantham Bain Collection/Library Of Congress
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A man catches fish in a shallow river.Ralph Waler/ Missouri State Archives
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Running Water
Water Skiing Elephant
Walt Disney Pool
Jumping Rope On Beach
22 Vintage Photos Of Your Favorite Summer Pastimes
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