It's always partly about 'did it happen in my time?' - for some of us oldies the year central to the last two pics is still such a bookmark in the record of our lives that something near it jumps out. I was a year out on one, three out on the other, but there are days when being in the right decade seems a feat.
Picture two is well before my time but echoed images we see in Ireland of the Eucharistic Congress around that time - priests, laity, all presenting in the same kind of way.
And as for 1 - if that bank was built then, how long did it take the weeds to grow and the top to get knocked off the lamp. I w
And I love love love any American picture with clothes pegged out on the line. Bring back labor-saving solar drying!