Parents have been sending their kids off to summer camps for more than 100 years, although the camp climate has certainly come a long way. What now costs a healthy tuition and requires prerequisites like lice checks and waivers used to be bare bones s’mores over the fire, bonding with buddies, and playing rock, paper, scissors to see who got to sleep on the top bunk. These nostalgic photos of summer camp throughout the decades take us right back to the good old days — we can practically taste the bug spray our counselors doused us in.
1. Holding a Skunk at Summer Camp in 1963
2. Camp Mountain Lake in North Carolina, 1977
3. 1973 YMCA Summer Camp in Illinois
4. Summer Camp in the Mid-1930s
5. National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan, 1942
6. Florida Summer Camp for Children With Diabetes, 1970s
7. Chris Farley at Summer Camp in 1974
8. Summer Camp Cabins in 1951
9. Summer Camp in the ’60s
10. 1940s Summer Camp in Tahoe
11. Heading Off to Summer Camp in 1982
12. Integrated Summer Camp in the 1940s
13. Writing Home from Summer Camp in Florida, 1950
14. YWCA Camp in Maryland, 1930
15. Summer Camp in 1900
Craving more summer reads?
Don’t skip out on 23 Photos of Summer Vacation in the ’60s and 15 Photos of Summer Vacation in the ’70s. You might also be interested in 12 Nostalgic Photos of Gas Stations When Gas Was Under $1 Per Gallon.
The post 15 Vintage Photos of Summer Camp appeared first on Wealth Gang.
