Before Smartphones When Kids Had Real Fun

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Kids today might find this hard to believe, but there really was a period in time when smartphones didn’t exist. But how did they entertain themselves?. How did they survive without instant and constant access to hilarious videos of cats being cats and people failing at stuff?

Well, actually, they managed just fine. Check out these vintage pictures of children enjoying themselves before mobile phones were invented to see what we mean. Compiled by Bored Panda, the list serves as an important reminder that all you really need to enjoy yourself is a little bit of imagination. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite!

 

#1 Girl Playing For Her Dog1#2 Children In A Manchester Street Find Their Own Enjoyment With The Aid Of A Rope And A Lamp Post, 1946 2#3 Children Playing «Push The Peanut», King’s Cross Street London, 1938 3#4 Best Friends 4#5 Girl Dancing In Front Of Her Teddy Bear, Paris, 1961 5#6 Two Little Kids Dancing On The Streets Of New York City, 1940s 6#7 Paul Remos, A Circus Strongman, Hoists His Son Up In The Air Using Only His Right Arm To Feed A Giraffe At The London Zoo, 1950s 7#8 Three Boys Are Fishing For Change During The Great Depression, New York, 1930 8#9 Even The Dog Gets A Go On This See-Saw, Northamptonshire 9#10 Kids Playing With Skippy Balls, London 10#11 Child Hung Up On A Clothing Rope, Paris 11#12 Two Girls Ride Sheep 12#13 Children Drawing With Chalk, Manchester, 1966 13#14 Kids Dancing In The Street, New York, 1964 14#15 Children Playing, New York, 1940s 15#16 A Young Boy Wearing An Indian Headdress Hides In A Coal Hole And Takes Aim With A Toy Pistol, London, 1954 16#17 Police Officer Playing With Children, Harlem, 1978 17#18 Two Boys Engrossed In Their Comic Books, Outside On The Street, 1952 18#19 Catching Rain 19#20 Ten-Year-Old Martin Witter Watches Two Snails Race In His Home In Lynwood, California, 1954 20#21 Nun Dancing With Children On Saint Patrick’s Day, Ireland, 1964 21#22 Girls On Swings 22#23 Tuba Players, New York, 1940s 23#24 Girls Doing Handstands, Southam Street, London, 1956 24#25 The Little Marilyn, Paris 1975 25#26 Children Playing With Paper Boats, Paris, 1950 26#27 This Girl From Finchley, North London, Shows No Fear Of Being Dropped By Her Two Friends As They Play, 1954 27#28 Young Daughters Of Air Raid Wardens In South-east London Practising First Aid With The Aid Of Their Dolls, 1940 28#29 A Group Of Children In The Middle Of A Haystack In A Field In Pawling, New York, Early 20th Century 29#30 Children Playing Marbles, Missouri, 1940s 30#31 Children Playing In Paris Under The Eiffel Tower 31#32 Russian Child Plays On Homemade Swing Made On A German Cannon Left Behind, 1944 32#33 Girl In Japan, 1958 33#34 Children Playing, Ribeira, Porto 34#35 Kids Keeping Cool In The Summer, New York, 1937 35#36 Children Leaping With Umbrella, 1963 36#37 Children Playing In The Housing Slums Of Gorbals District, South Bank Of The River Clyde, Glasgow, 1960s 37#38 The Little Parisian, 1952 38#39 Youngster Playing In Water From Fire Hydrant. Police Are Waging Campaign Against Indiscriminate Opening Of Hydrants Since It Reduces Water Pressure And Poses A Threat To Fire Fighters, New York, 1959 39#40 Children Fishing In Victoria Park, London, 1953 40#41 Children Singing In A Snow Cave, Niigata Prefecture, 1956 41#42 An Eye On The Street, Glasgow, 1968 42#43 Boys Skateboarding In Streets Of New York, 1960s 43#44 A Group Of Boys Aged Between 8 — 14 Out At Play 44#45 Girls Playing With Their Skirts On An Air Vent 45#46 Children Balance On Rail In South Dakota, 1959 46#47 A Us Soldier Helps Some Children With Their Skipping, England, 1944 47#48 Boys Riding The Rails After The Liberation Of Holland, 1945 48#49 Two Girls Swing On A Lampost, Manchester, 1965 49#50 Children Walking Rue Marcelin Berthelin Berthelot, Choisy Le Roi Mai, Paris, 1946 50#51 German Kids Flying A Kite Made Of Worthless Money During Hyperinflation, 1923 51#52 Children Playing With A Bike Wheel, Palermo, 1971 52#53 Children Playing With Stacks Of Hyperinflated Currency During The Weimar Republic, 1922 53#54 Girls Playing, Barcelona, 1958 54#55 Two Children Have Great Fun Hanging Upside Down Off A Low Rail In Stockport, 1966 55#56 Kids Play With Boxes 56#57 Children Looking At Billboard Adds, New York, 1950s 57#58 Girls Playing Hopscotch In The Street, New York, 1947 58#59 Two Girls Playing In Sydney Slums, Mainly Surry Hills, Woolloomooloo, Redfern, 1949 59#60 Youngsters Play In Harlem Street In The 1920’s 60

 #61 Young Boys Swinging From A Lamp Post In The Midst Of Rubble Left By A Bombing Raid On London During The Blitz, 19401#62 Kids Play In The Street, New York, 1900s 2#63 Two Girls Play With Their Tricycles, 1920s 3#64 London Children Wear Their Gas Masks As They Skip In The Park At Their Temporary Homes On The South Coast Of England, 1940 4#65 Children Playing A Game Of Leap-frog In A Street In Harlem, New York, 1935 5#66 Girls Peeping 6#67 German Kids Playing On A Panther Tank Turret Following The Fall Of Berlin, 1945 7#68 Children Playing On Waste Ground, Middlesbrough, England, 1976 8#69 Children Climbing Walls, Amsterdam, 1964 9#71 Kids Playing On Rue Edmond-Flamand, Paris, 1952#70 Children Playing With Toy Guns, Rome, 1951 10#72 Kids Play In A Fort, New York 11#73 Children In Swansea Make The Most Of This Climbing Frame, 1939 12#74 Girls Playing, Italy, 1954 13#75 Two Boys Playing At Water’s Edge With Toy Sailboat, 1930 14#76 Fifteen Children Enjoy A Ride In London’s Bloomsbury 15#77 Children Peeping Through The Window 16#78 Boy Climbing A Pole, Paris 17#79 Children Playing In An Area Of Bomb-damaged Wasteground In Stepney, In The East End Of London, 9th March 1946 18#80 Girls Jump Rope In Zennor Road, London, 1960s 19 20#81 Children Playing, New York, 1940s 21#82 Pupils Walking On Rue De Rivoli, Paris, 1978 22#83 Kids Playing In A Fire Hydrant, New York, 1954 23#84 A View Of Children Playing Hopscotch In The Street In Spanish Harlem, 1965 24#85 Children Playing With Sleigh In The Snow, Oxford, 1903
25#86 Young Boys Playing Stickball In Vacant Lot Next To An Apartment Building, New York, 1947 26#87 Kids Splashing Water, New York, 1942 27#88 Children Balancing On A Wall, France, 1949 28#89 Three Children Playing Golf With Clubs Made Of Sticks, 1905 29#90 Two Young Girls Play A Campbell Soup Kid Doll, New York, 1912 30#91 Children Playing At The Berlin Wall Near Bernauer Strasse. The Three Boys Are Climbing Up The Wall And Moving Along A Barbed Wire Fence Alongside The Wall Hand By Hand, 1963 31#92 Children Playing Cricket In A London Street, With The Wicket Drawn On A Lamppost, 1930 32#93 Girls’ Playground, Harriet Island, 1905 33#94 Children Play In The Gutter In The Southern Section Of The Bronx During The Great Depression, New York, 1936 34#95 Boys Posing For A Photo 35#96 Children Playing In London’s Bethnal Green Area, 1949-52 36#97 A Group Of German Children Playing War, 1915 37

#98 Playing Cricket On Wasteground In Manchester, 1970

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#99 Children Play In Slum Housing Area In Hulme, Manchester, 1946

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#100 Kindergarten Children Playing With Plasticine, 1910

40#101 Children Playing In The Streets, Paris 41#102 These Young Neapolitans Like The Danger Of The Strictly-forbidden Practise Of Hanging Onto The Backs Of Street Cars, 1948 42#103 Group Of Gleichen Boys Playing In Rubber Tires, Alberta, 1920s 43#104 Girl Playing Stickball, New York, 1947 44#105 Kids Play During Recess In School 45#106 Game At A Girls’ Orphanage, Naples, 1948 46#107 Brooklyn Boy Gang, New York, 1946 47#108 Young Boys Hitch A Ride, London, 1941 48#109 Children In A Street, Paris, 1953

1953, EUROPE. FRANCE. PARIS. STREET SCENE. RUE PUJOL. CHILDREN
1953, EUROPE. FRANCE. PARIS. STREET SCENE. RUE PUJOL. CHILDREN

#110 Kids Playing In Water After Busting A Hydrant, New York, 1953

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