President Barack Obama’s official visit to Cuba this week is the first such trip in nearly 90 years. The last–and only–time a sitting U.S. President visited Cuba was Calvin Coolidge in 1928:

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, second from left, and his wife, first lady Grace Coolidge, third from left, are shown with the President of Cuba General Gerardo Machado y Morales, right, and his wife, Elvira Machado, left, on the estate of President Machado in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 19, 1928. (AP Photo)
U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, second from left, and his wife, first lady Grace Coolidge, third from left, are shown with the President of Cuba General Gerardo Machado y Morales, right, and his wife, Elvira Machado, left, on the estate of President Machado in Havana, Cuba, Jan. 19, 1928.
AP Photo

The Cuba Obama’s visiting has a reputation as a place frozen in time, but that’s not really true. Just look at these images from Cuba in the 1920s.

Read more about Coolidge’s visit here: The Only Other Time a Sitting President Visited Cuba

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