Fantastic pictures. Thanks for sharing. I just couldn't help but notice how people dressed in the 40's. Those were elegant times back then. By comparison we're a bunch of slobs with our jeans, baseball hats, and tennis shoes.
Posted by Jean Shimp (Member # 198) on :
Thanks - that was entertaining. Some of those photos reminded me of Norman Rockwell paintings.
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
And I thought everything was grey back then Posted by David Wright (Member # 111) on :
Makes me proud of our heritage, and maybe a ,little ashamed of where we are now.
Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
Some those photos were simple amazing...thanks
Posted by Sheila Ferrell (Member # 3741) on :
SO cool ....
Lots of great sign work in so many of of those pictures!
I totally agree with Jean - some of the photos almost look like oils paintings ... most are so inspirational ... This makes me want to get all my parents old pictures out and do some paintings from them - particularly the ones of my dad standing in front of the aircrafts during WW2.
People had bigger ears back then. They must have talked less and listened more . . .
David, technology and media have moved us forward & backwards ... in diametrically opposed directions ...
Things are now extremely swift, and learning tons of info is literally a touch away - nearly every individual is so advanced by access to constantly advancing technology ...
Yet that very access is so intense, so graphic and ultimately so mentallty debilitating to each successive generaion - I am stunned and shocked at the things little eyes are too often allowed to view in media forms ....
Where are we going indeed.
Innocence is nearly extinct.
Posted by Dale Feicke (Member # 767) on :
These are some terrific shots.....and you can see by the expressions on faces, and the demeanor of some of the people, that they led a hard life....probably around the depression. I'm thinking I saw this piece awhile back, and that the pictures had been black & white, but were colorized
There is another neat archive, www.Shorpy.com, that has a lot of old photos from way-back. It's quite interesting also.
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Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
Ya know, back then it seemed as if we as a people did so much more with so much less.
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