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Proof that teens were painfully awkward even in the 1960s — mashable.com

Revelle Jackson, 96, worked as a commercial photographer in Upper Hutt, near Wellington, New Zealand, after emigrating from England in 1952. Here Jackson has photographed the Upper Hutt Youth Club dances, held three times per week on Friday and Saturday nights, and Sunday afternoons. This set of pictures captures the awkward hesitancy not foreign to young people. Unlike typical representations of the "Swinging '60s," these young people appear uncertain — unsure whether they look attractive, whether they are dancing right, skeptical of the futures on which they are embarking.

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