Vintage Lifeguard Fashion: 33 Interesting Photos of Lifesavers in Their Costumes Through the Years

   

These are what vintage beach lifeguards looked like in the past.

Women lifeguard team at Venice beach, Los Angeles in the 1920s

 

A female lifeguard is showing a boy how to dive in the 8 foot deep end of the swimming pool, 1936

 

A group of women surf life-savers from Henley Club, South Australia, 1946

 

Jones Beach lifeguard in the 1930s

 

Leggy lifeguard at Steeplechase Pool in Coney Island, 1942

 

A lifeguard at Steeplechase park, Coney Island, July 1961

 

Los Angeles municipal lifeguard, 1926

 

A pretty lifeguard stands at her post at Riverside Cascades Pool, 1938

 

At Shadow Lake, Franklin Lakes, NJ, 1934

 

At the beach in Ogunquit, Maine, 1926

 

Bondi surf lifesavers at Bondi Beach, Sydney, NSW, 1930

 

Chicago Lifeguards, 1933

 

Chicago Park district lifeguard, 1945

 

Coney Island lifeguard in the 1930s

 

Female lifeguard at Headlands beach, Mentor, Ohio, 1964

 

Galveston lifeguards in 1909

 

Female lifeguards of Brighton Beach, Baywatch, 1921

 

Hermosa Beach lifeguards in the 1920s

 

Hot lifeguard, 1955

 

Huntington Beach lifeguards in the 1950s

 

Lifeguard at Baywatch Brighton Beach, New York, 1904

 

Lifeguard at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, July 28, 1935

 

Lifeguard at the beach in 1917

 

Lifeguard at the beach in the 1930s

 

Lifeguard group, ca. 1950s

 

Lifeguard lessons, ca. 1930s

 

Lifeguards at the beach in NYC in the 1920s

 

Lifeguards at the beach in Rochester, NYC, Aug. 3, 1935

 

Lifeguards with beautiful girls at the beach in 1924

 

Lifeguards, Los Angeles, 1915

 

At Long Beach, California, ca. 1920s

 

Miami Beach lifeguards, 1905

 

Surf lifesavers at  Sydney beach, 1941