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the good ol' days

Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
edited November 2011 in A Moving Train
some would say ..but those were hard time for most Americans but also it seems they were simpler time.

Godfather.


These pics. were taken from color slides found at the Library of Congress. They are dated between 1939-1943.
The pictures are so clear and the color is so vibrant, it looks as though they were taken just yesterday.
http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp
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  • SD48277SD48277 Posts: 12,243
    Those pictures are fantastic. Thanks for posting the link.
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  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    Beautiful! Everybody back then was skinny :D
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Nice pics.
  • EmBleveEmBleve Posts: 3,019
    Thanks for posting. Really neat.
  • jshinjshin Posts: 1,759
    Wow.. Those are amazing, thanks for posting this.
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  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    those were great 8-)

    take a drive in these parts and we still see the old buildings like that,
    general stores gas stations

    thanks for posting Godfather! :D

    'the good ol' days' I think belong to our youth ... each unique ... each a different generation
  • conmanconman Posts: 7,493
    very cool
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    thanks all ! I really like seeing old photos like this also, our youth is our good ol' days Pandi I agree a 100%

    Godfather.
  • PJ88PJ88 Posts: 1,074
    Those are awesome. The picture showing the Brockton Enterprise was nice to see. I read that paper every night. It is now called, The Enterprise. Thanks for sharing those.
  • pandorapandora Posts: 21,855
    Godfather. wrote:
    thanks all ! I really like seeing old photos like this also, our youth is our good ol' days Pandi I agree a 100%

    Godfather.

    I love seeing old photos too!
    I posted an old pic of my Grandparents I was never able to know,
    found it tracing my family tree.

    The power in that photo is indescribable for me. The gamut of emotion seeing my face
    in my Gramma's, so similar, Annie.
    My Grandfather Isaac, his weathered eyes like my fathers, like mine.

    It's like coming home.
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    there is like one picture that had both a white and a black person ... something to consider ...
  • Hairy DaneHairy Dane Denmark Posts: 205
    Very cool indeed. Reminds me of an article I read a few years ago http://www.wilhelm-research.com/corbis/ ... gh_Res.pdf (fairly big 16MB) about preservations of old photographs. You guys (US) have a real particular (photo)history seeing how you've embrace the photo much better than we did, when it became more accessable.

    But great find, linked it on my FB for all my fellow history photo-geeks.

    http://www.wilhelm-research.com/corbis/ ... ow_Res.pdf <- smaller version around 3 MB
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  • ComeToTXComeToTX Austin Posts: 7,876
    polaris_x wrote:
    there is like one picture that had both a white and a black person ... something to consider ...

    that was my thought...the good old days unless you were black.
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  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    edited November 2011
    polaris_x wrote:
    there is like one picture that had both a white and a black person ... something to consider ...
    :cry: are you trying to pull the race card ? it will just turn some old cool pic's into another wasted race thread.

    Godfather.
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  • CH156378CH156378 Posts: 1,539
    love the pictures. thanks for sharing.
  • spencer958spencer958 Louisville, KY Posts: 279
    Great pics. If you notice a lot of the school kids don't have on shoes. My grandma used to tell us that they could only afford one pair of shoes a year so they never wore shoes in the summer. Also, I love the War Bonds poster in pic #69
  • SCMike10SCMike10 Posts: 195
    Godfather. wrote:
    polaris_x wrote:
    there is like one picture that had both a white and a black person ... something to consider ...
    :cry: are you trying to pull the race card ? it will just turn some old cool pic's into another wasted race thread.

    Godfather.


    I don't see it as pulling the race card- it is something to think about that all the black children are labelled "African-American children", and the white children are just "children".

    Regardless, the pictures are quite facinating.
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  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Godfather. wrote:
    polaris_x wrote:
    there is like one picture that had both a white and a black person ... something to consider ...
    :cry: are you trying to pull the race card ? it will just turn some old cool pic's into another wasted race thread.

    Godfather.

    i don't want to derail your thread ... but pictures like art are different things to different people ... you think these were the good ol days - that's cool ... but that is what i took away from your exhibit ...
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,431
    Great pictures, Godfather. I'm sure people had problems and issues they had to face back then as well (including the race issues that have been pointed out) but more people lived close to the land then than do now and, as can be clearly seen in these images, had a better sense of community than we do. We could learn a few things from these photos that way. Thanks for posting them.
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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    wonderful pictures. i love it. thank you, godfather.

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  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    i can't get over most of these photographs. amazing
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    spencer958 wrote:
    Great pics. If you notice a lot of the school kids don't have on shoes. My grandma used to tell us that they could only afford one pair of shoes a year so they never wore shoes in the summer. Also, I love the War Bonds poster in pic #69
    i know a lady from kentucky who never had shoes until she was a teenager. i think to myself, how the hell did she walk to school or play outside in the cold months? their toys were stick and wood made items.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    62, 66, and 70 are like paintings
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  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,156
    Some of the town pictures still look like my neighborhood today .... except back then everyone tried to dress nice and today everyone wears flip-flops and board shorts from Old Navy.
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  • AELARAAELARA Posts: 803
    Great pictures! I like old pictures a lot!
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  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    chadwick wrote:
    spencer958 wrote:
    Great pics. If you notice a lot of the school kids don't have on shoes. My grandma used to tell us that they could only afford one pair of shoes a year so they never wore shoes in the summer. Also, I love the War Bonds poster in pic #69
    i know a lady from kentucky who never had shoes until she was a teenager. i think to myself, how the hell did she walk to school or play outside in the cold months? their toys were stick and wood made items.

    my grandfather joined the army during WWII and growing up on a farm never wore shoes either and when they started marching on the way to battle he said a lot of men had blisters on their feet and could barely walk.

    Godfather.
  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Thanks for sharing, these are great. My grandfather took a lot of pictures around this era and earlier. They're so great to see.
  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,618
    Picture #11 really shows us how "girlie" shows have progressed in 70 years!!!!!!!!!!
  • FiveB247xFiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    Nostalgia is nothing more than a fallacy.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,431
    FiveB247x wrote:
    Nostalgia is nothing more than a fallacy.

    May be true when you're young. But when you pass middle age it becomes much more appealing! :lol:
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