In the 1950s, men’s swimwear saw a significant shift towards shorter, tighter styles compared to the more modest options of previous decades. The popular silhouette became the “trunk” style, which ...

This 1950s postcard of Batavia’s YMCA Camp Arthur G. Hough at Silver Lake is from the collection of James R. Owen of Batavia. As the postcard states, the camp offered boating, canoeing, sailing, ...