#the way it was

[vintage-tigre]

Hitchhiking first became popular during the Great Depression, when vehicles were scarce and transients were numerous. But those were simpler times. Once romanticized by Jack Kerouac and the beat generation, hitchhiking has since been cast in a darker light. Horror stories told from the viewpoints of both drivers and hitchers became more prevalent. Because of this perceived risk, hitching has lost nearly all of its value and romantic image. In a Freakonmics podcast, statistician Bill James explained that hitching drove itself out of existence. Basically nobody hitchhikes anymore. ... And the real danger was not hitchhiking; it was the fact that you had a certain number of random crazy people who will hurt you. As long as you have the same number of random crazy people you have the same number of violent crimes, and eliminating hitchhiking doesn't, in my opinion, do anything to change that. So, it was a social change that protected the individual but was more revealing about the growing social distrust and the deterioration of the innocence of society in general.*

[mementoblues]

The Way It Was, June 2014

[angelmaldonado]

maybe a thief stole your heart.

[fullmetalscullyy]

just... reminiscing... :)

[grvnge-archive]

*sees preview of 2014 tumblr-related picture and clicks on it 🫢*

*sighs in relief when it's a single image in a post and not a collage of 4-10 pictures 🥰*

[lacilou]

[yekokataa]

do you guys know about the internet roadtrip? right now somewhere between 500 and 900 people are collectively 'driving' a car on google street view trying to make it to canada. it's fun i recommend it

[italianharlem]

Pleasant Avenue: The Way It Was" by Daniel Golio tells the story of Italian immigrants surviving in the slums of Pleasant Avenue on New York City’s East side in the 1930’s and the origins of the real Italian mob in NYC. – Read the book - Click Here

or get the E book Free – Click Here

[chaoticgouda]

[vintage-tigre]

[aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202]

I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.

[fullmetalscullyy]

sometimes..... sometimes i get it just right 🤌🤌

[italianharlem]

Pleasant Avenue: The Way It Was" by Daniel Golio tells the story of Italian immigrants surviving in the slums of Pleasant Avenue on New York City’s East side in the 1930’s and the origins of the real Italian mob in NYC. – Read the book - Click Here

or get the E book Free – Click Here

Rome, Italy (by Gabriella)

[boxheadpaint]

wish the human body had like a crash log or something so I could pin shit down. Why am I having a sudden spike of anxiety when I’m just sitting here? Well it looks like there’s a conflict here between my medication and the better foliage mod

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

This song has single-handedly taken over my life and it’s only been like a week