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28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

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By Carly Tennes

Published 6 months ago in Wow

Though the flapper age may have been in full swing in the United States, nowhere embodied the spirit of Jazz quite like Paris in the '20s and '30s. With vivid club scene, bustling caberets and a breadth of iconic musical performances, the city garnered attention not only from the world as a whole, but from superstars like actress Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, F. Scott Fitzgerald and of course, Salvador Dalí. 


From wild nights out to pet cheetahs walking through the city of light, here are 28 absinthe-fueled photos of Jazz Age Paris. 

  • 1

    “At a Paris jazz club, circa 1929.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 2

    “Jazz Legends Louis Armstrong and Django Reinhardt. | Hot Club, Paris [1930s].”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 3

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 4

    Django Reinhardt and his band play a show in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris, date unknown.

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 5

    “Jazz age icon, Louise Brooks, wearing Jean Patou, 1930.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 6

    African American soldiers play as a part of the 369th Infantry Regiment, 1918.

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 7

    “Salvador Dalí and Man Ray in Paris making ‘wild eyes,’ July 16th, 1934.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 8

    “A lesbian couple in a gay nightclub, Paris 1930.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 9

    “Girl feeding swan. Bois de Boulogne, Paris, ca. 1930.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 10

    “A father and son in paris 1930s.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 11

    “A crowded bar at 'La Boule Blanche' - Paris, 1930.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 12

    “A man waiting on a street in Paris. 1930.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 13

    “My great-grandfather, Paris (circa 1930) posing with the carriage and the horses that would drown him in the Seine.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 14

    “An impromptu race on the Champs Elysées, Paris around 1930.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 15

    “Modigliani, Picasso and André Salmon in front the Café de la Rotonde, Paris. Image taken by Jean Cocteau, 1916.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 16

    “‘Janet Flanner and Ernest Hemingway reading a manuscript together in a cafe,’ Paris, by David E. Scherman, 1945.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 17

    “Ernest Hemingway pictured with Sylvia Beach, founder of the world-famous bookstore Shakespeare and Company. Paris 1944.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 18

    “Young woman on a motorcycle asking a chauffeur for directions, Paris, France 1930.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 19

    “Rivoli street, Paris 1920.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 20

    “A woman at a cafe in Paris with her pet cheetah, 1932.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 21

    “Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald poses with his wife Zelda and their daughter Scottie in their Paris' home on Christmas 1925.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 22

    “Ernest Hemingway having fun at a bar in Paris.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 23

    “Paris cafe, 20s.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 24

    “Writer Ernest Hemingway in Paris, 1920s.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 25

    Josephine Baker, who became the first Black actress to star in a major motion picture after headlining 1934’s “Zouzou” poses for a photoshoot in Paris early in her career. 


    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 26

    “Josephine Baker with her pet cheetah Chiquita (Paris, late 1920s).”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 27

    Josephine Baker and Chiquita serving face during a photoshoot, late 1920s.

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

  • 28

    “Monocles were never cool. Except for one moment in [1934] Montmarte.”

    28 Vintage Photos That Show What Life Was Like in Paris During the '20s and '30s

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