Life — July 3, 1919 — page 1: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is a graveyard scene from Life magazine (July 3, 1919), titled with a quote suggesting loss of the familiar. The image shows graves with headstones reading "In Loving Memory of Golf" and "Rest in Peace Chewing Gum," treating recreational activities as deceased. This appears to satirize post-World War I American society, likely critiquing either wartime restrictions on leisure activities or broader cultural anxieties about changing social norms following the war. The personification of golf and chewing gum as "dead" suggests these everyday pleasures have disappeared or been fundamentally altered. The exact historical context—whether referencing specific legislation, rationing, or cultural shifts—is unclear from the image alone, though Prohibition began in 1919.