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Posts By: Kelly Rakowski

  • February 28, 2013

    LA Placos, 1970s

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Welcome to “Sur” (South, So.Calif). These photographs are of Chicano “placos” (wall writing) painted mostly in the 1970s by gang members.

    FROM:Flickr Faves

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  • February 26, 2013

    Billy the Kid

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Billy the Kid, born William Henry McCarty Jr.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • February 20, 2013

    Young Elvis

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Elvis fans are aflutter over his thirteen year old boy signature.

    FROM:Teen Reads

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  • February 19, 2013

    Cats and Dogs

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    A boy with his cat, a boy with his dog.

    FROM:Flickr Faves

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  • February 15, 2013

    Happy Campers

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    The Center for Jewish History‘s photostream is overflowing with camp pics of teenagers chilling at various summer camps—dancing the hora, shooting arrows, and floating downstream.

    FROM:Flickr Faves

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  • February 12, 2013

    Strong Men

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Spot the weight lifters of Ritzville High School in small town Ritzville, Washingonton.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • February 7, 2013

    Water Carnival

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    News-worthy pics of teenaged Lummi Indians participating in the 17th Annual ‘Stommish Celebration’ in Gooseberry Point, WA in 1962.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • February 6, 2013

    Footballers, 1938

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Portrait of the footballer as a young man. 

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • January 29, 2013

    Studious & Crafty

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Solemn class portraits from young adults c. 1900s in Kentucky, reading, writing, arithmetic, knitting and embroidery.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • January 28, 2013

    I Don’t Like Beer

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Pre-teen punk machine! Astonishing 8 year old Venus DeBaun was featured in this 1982 Dutch documentary on the So.

    FROM:Tube Time

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