Photos from the past have an aura that you simply can’t ignore. You can almost feel the good times flowing off them, and you don’t want to look away. These beautiful pictures from better days show us how different the world was only a few decades ago. Beautiful pictures like these can change your perspective for the better… especially if you’re seeing them for the first time. Each of these photos has a little secret you’ll miss if you don’t look closely. What looks like a simple photo of Lynda Carter has much more than meets the eye… you just have to know where to look.
Cheryl Tiegs
Cheryl Tiegs was everywhere in the 1970s. She was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, posters, and even TV. She says she wanted to be a librarian, but after popping up in a layout in Seventeen Magazine she was jolted to super-stardom almost overnight. She told Naples News, “Glamour magazine called and said, ‘We want that girl on a plane to St. Thomas.’ I did my own hair and makeup then. Today it’s all different…”
Cheryl Tiegs
This beauty barely had time to figure out her career before she was taken from this world in a dark moment for the groovy era. Born in Dallas in 1943, Tate was an Army brat who moved from Texas to Washington and even Verona, Italy. She went onto take the pageant world by storm and it’s obvious why. After marrying Roman Polanski following her role in the Fearless Vampire Killers she and her husband hung out with actors as varied as Peter Sellers, Yul Brynner and Warren Beatty. According to friends Tate and Polanski were “head over heels in love.”
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Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch has had a varied career. She’s appeared as manifestations of mythological creatures, tempted Ringo Starr, and appeared in the revenge western classic Hannie Caulder. In the film Welch plays a woman who seeks revenge against a group of scoundrels in the old west. She works with a bounty hunter who teacher her how to shoot and ride before she goes out on her mission. The film is a must-see for western fans, especially if you like down and dirty revenge films. Welch gets a chance to flex her acting muscles and she looks cool in a cowboy hat.
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Dawn Wells
Gilligan’s Island star Dawn Wells stole the hearts of millions as Mary Ann, but in the 1970s she appeared in a series of absolutely iconic genre films. The Town That Dreaded Sundown and Return to Boggy Creek are must-see films for anyone who loves ‘70s b-horror and of course she returned to the island on Rescue from Gilligan’s Island and Rescue from Gilligan’s Island. While speaking about the show that made her famous, Wells said there’s no way Gilligan’s Island would be as wholesome as it was in the ‘60s. She said, “They couldn’t even show my navel. We’ve come a long way. If we were doing the show today, we’d all be living in the same hut.”
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Farrah Fawcett
It’s hard to believe that Farrah Fawcett was 29-years-old when she took a starring role on Charlie’s Angels as one of three female detectives. The show transformed the airwaves and gave young women their heroes to root for. Fawcett was perhaps even more well known for her hair, those flowing blonde locks that people have been trying to recreate for decades. Celebrity stylist Ted Gibson told the Huffington Post, “It changed the way women wore their hair because it was a new soft hairstyle and worked on everyone in some shape or form. It was definitely a time of the late ‘70s, disco, shiny, wide legged pants – it all worked together.”
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