Shots from the long gone PAST

[big6]

These are a great collection of photographs from the forties, when most of us where just a gleam in somebodies eye.

https://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/2363/

 

[NutmegCT]

My gosh - those are some of the most interesting historical photos I've ever seen.

The black farm workers "chopping cotton" - the soil looks like it would hardly support any growth of anything, yellow and rocky. The actual work looks the same as it was 200 years before.

The railroad yard with the trace of the signalman's lantern.

The sweaty dancers, the two-piece "orchestra", a woman bathing a massive locomotive in live steam, drinking from an old mayo jar in the "lunch room", children actually wearing socks, assembling twin-engine bombers, children in old "iron and pine" school desks ...

Man, thanks so much for posting that. Fantastic.

Tom in CT

 

[Mickey Richaud]

WOW! Loved the ones from Natchitoches, near my home.

Thanks!

 

[aeronca65t]

Great stuff! I will pass that link on to others.

 

[Banjo]

Those are excellent.

 

[Twosheds]

Very good stuff. Thanks for posting it.

 

[maynard]

Shouldn't the dive bomber be an Avenger, not a Vengence?

 

[bgbassplyr]

ISTR that an Avenger was a torpedo bomber, not a dive bomber. Could be wrong though.

 

[Sherlock]

Nice! #49, #56 and #66 for me please...

Colour photography is nothing that new, but prior to the 1950's it was very rarely used... Kodachrome changed all that in the 1950's...