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The Great American Summer (PICS)

thedailybeast.com — From Elizabeth Taylor’s beach romps to Clark Gable’s schooner adventures, here are some classic images from a bygone era when famous names knew how to relax. Grab your seersucker and come along.

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  • flapanthers87, on 07/06/2009, -1/+23Elizabeth Taylor was a fox.
  • kitsua, on 07/06/2009, -3/+24That Elvis pic is the literal definition and conception of Cool.
  • DouglasQ, on 07/06/2009, -1/+18Gone are the days of maltshakes, swing music and playful racism.
  • superflydugg, on 07/06/2009, -1/+18i love audrey hepburn, that pic is great.
  • gl77, on 07/06/2009, -0/+15the photo of Sean Connery...............wonder what he was thinking.
  • WaCkYmAk, on 07/06/2009, -0/+15Rita Hayworth eating a burger, hot. You won't see that anymore. Nowadays you might see some ribs, but not the kind you eat...
  • Presbyterian, on 07/06/2009, -1/+14Why is there always a jackass who has to be a total downer....
  • RudeTurnip, on 07/06/2009, -4/+16The Good Old Days never existed.
  • inactive, on 07/06/2009, -1/+12Oh, c'mon. Playful racism never goes out of style.
  • SmpleJohn, on 07/06/2009, -2/+11Style like this needs to come back. Classic.
  • Igor39, on 07/06/2009, -3/+11I wish we could retain just a bit of that style and class in modern day society, not just amongst our celebrities, but amongst the general populace. It's time our society stopped focusing on the quantity and efficiency of life and started focusing on the quality of it.
  • gl77, on 07/06/2009, -0/+8The photo of Ginger Rogers says she is applying "sunscreen" to "protect her legs" but i dont think sunscreen was widely used back then. chances are it was a nice dose of tanning lotion, which is not sunscreen.
  • darny, on 07/06/2009, -0/+7gerrymandering?
  • 4321234, on 07/06/2009, -1/+7Clarke Gable in 1936 with sailboat, stache, and pipe. Before there was cool, he pushed dashing to the edge of the envelope.
  • inactive, on 07/06/2009, -0/+5How the F did Ted Kennedy get in there??
  • tgc1, on 07/06/2009, -0/+5"I'm going to tap that like the fist of an angry god"
  • jdames1980, on 07/06/2009, -0/+5What the hell is that THING next to Rita Hayworth on the beach towel? An aborted fetus?
  • HoldenMyOwn, on 07/06/2009, -0/+4Oh yeah, I forgot, you can't make your own list if you don't like this one.
  • inactive, on 07/06/2009, -2/+6yeah because nothing ***** up ever happened back in the past
  • xsecretfiles, on 07/06/2009, -1/+5I'd hate to see the "where are they now" pics..........
  • mariathepirate, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3Well played.
  • vinceislegend, on 07/06/2009, -1/+4This is one of the nicest photo galleries I have seen on here in a long time. Dugg.
  • jdames1980, on 07/06/2009, -2/+5He is referring to the fact that people dress like ***** and act like rude morons today. People at least seemed to be more classy back then.
  • quantumd, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3"You Dumb Bastard. It's not a Schooner... it's a Sailboat!"
  • kitsua, on 07/06/2009, -0/+3Yeah, like surfing Digg - what an adventure!

    *wishes there was an ascii for eye-rolling*
  • stevieraveon, on 07/06/2009, -1/+3http://www.catalogs.com/info/bestof/wp-content/upl ...
  • inactive, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2Great pics.

    FYI the actor in pic 11, Russ Tamblyn from West Side Story, who's upside down on the swing set, would later play Dr. Jacobi on Twin Peaks.
  • splorpdotorg, on 07/06/2009, -0/+2http://thesuperficial.com/2009/06/04/0604_audrina_ ...
  • darny, on 07/06/2009, -2/+3dug for the uke on image #3

    but seriously, wtf is that next to her foot on #1?
  • Jookly, on 07/06/2009, -1/+2@jdames1980 you must be a pretty uncomfortable person to take that position. Claiming people were more classy is rubbish.
  • URnotheonly1, on 07/06/2009, -2/+3Thanks for posting that.
  • Jookly, on 07/06/2009, -1/+2what in the hell are you referring to? These are people relaxing, you can do that all summer if you choose to.
  • roundy, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1Looks like a stuffed animal toy of a monkey.
  • tgc1, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1A schooner is a sailboat stupid head!
  • jazzmess, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1I was wondering that myself.
  • geesamba, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1Touche' my good sir. Touche'
  • kitsua, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1funkyp, did you reply to my comment by mistake? I can't make head nor tail of it.
  • grahamvinyl, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1thanks for the laugh
  • zoethebitch, on 07/06/2009, -0/+1Also Amber Tamblyn's dad. Not sure if that's her mom though.
  • dikky, on 07/06/2009, -1/+1damn ginger had fine legs
  • Sherman901, on 07/06/2009, -4/+2Porch monkey!

    What? I'm bringing it back.
  • cwright213, on 07/06/2009, -6/+1WOW the America back then was really one sided or in a bubble.
  • funkyp56, on 07/06/2009, -6/+1Oh yeah, I forgot, ethnics dont' get summertime
  • Aliwalla, on 07/06/2009, -15/+3No. I'd rather make my own adventures in my own time than look at pictures of celebrities from the past that I do not care about.
  • Presbyterian, on 07/06/2009, -13/+0Clark Gable?.

    I doubt most people have seen Gone with the Wind, probably too "classic".

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