Chicago circa 1948. "Dr. Norman Vincent Peale." Celebrity clergyman whose 1948 page-turner, A Guide to Confident Living, was but a preface to his greatest hit, 1952's The Power of Positive Thinking. 4x5 acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.

Columbus, Georgia, circa 1961. "Martinique Motor Hotel, Fourth Avenue." The New Frontier in Old Dixie. 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.

This circa 1958 candlelight candid offers a glimpse of the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer city desk during a power outage. Start the presses! 4x5 inch acetate negative. View full size.

        Our annual salute to the start of vacation road-trip season, first posted here 15 years ago. Everyone buckled in? Let's go!

"Great Falls, Montana. Return after 3 weeks Vacation. June 27, 1964." This Kodachrome of a 1960 Chevrolet Parkwood station wagon is from a box of slides found on eBay. View full size.

Columbus, Georgia, circa 1964. "Jaycees -- Golden Gloves physicals." The first rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club. 4x5 inch acetate negative. View full size.

Columbus, Georgia, circa 1956. "Police cars at Muscogee County Jail." Let's be careful out there! 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.

        We dedicate this golden (Kodachrome) oldie to picnic-partakers everywhere. Happy Memorial Day weekend from Shorpy!

June 1960 somewhere in Maryland. "Picnic in yard." Janet, of Kermy and Janet, pointing at the camera. Who wants more potato salad? View full size.

February 2, 1954. "Actress Hope Lange and diving instructor Chuck Diercksmeier diving off the Florida coast; Lange posed on seawall with an assortment of scuba equipment." 35mm negative from the Look magazine assignment "Everybody's Going Underwater." View full size.

Shorpy hereby declares the country club pool open for the summer! Lifeguard courtesy of the Junior League. 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.

February 1942. Woodville, California. "Nurse at Health Center clinic of FSA farm workers' community." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

Meanwhile, back in the cement-sack warehouse, these guys are still piling it on. Columbus, Georgia, circa 1955. 4x5 inch acetate negative from the News Photo Archive. View full size.

October 1940. East Hartford, Connecticut. "New type of plating machine being used at the Hamilton Standard Propeller Corporation. It automatically dips the part into the proper solutions for the proper length of time." Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.

Circa 1907. "Athenaeum -- Portsmouth, New Hampshire." Next door to Foye's and its 1,000 Palms. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

1906. "Kansas City Club, Wyandotte and West 12th Sts., Kansas City, Mo." Popcorn, anyone? 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

"Ruins of Pettibone Bros., New Montgomery Street." San Francisco in the aftermath of the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.