Interesting Pictures.

Ran across this from a link in another forum. Neat stuff.

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

 

Those are incredible pics..... It is good to observe the olden days... keeps us humble...even me, who lives in Canada :wave

Thanks for the link Fred_G

Shelagh

 

Glad you liked them! Amazing quality on the picts. Like portrait snapshots... :cool

 

Brilliant photos. It seems odd seeing them in colour because you always see photos from that area in black and white.

 

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They are certainly better than the old sepia photos we normally find from that period.

Excellent find Fred.

 

These are real? Not reproductions? The quality is just impressive for the era. I wonder are they screen plates or Kodachrome?

 

Most look like full frame 35mm Kodachrome, with some 6x6's (and 6x4.5's?) too, not sure what that beauty at the bottom is though.

 

Well, the author of that used a 35mm Leica and a view camera at least. Look at the full res. photo of the carbon black worker!

Judging by the edges of the Denverpost repro. and the file size dimensions of the full res., I'd guess at 6x4.5(cm), if it was view or plate, the edges would be different, this one was shot on roll film.

 

Thanks Fred for the great pictures! The "good old days" eh? Who would want to go back to those days?

 

Slide film is awesome for quality. Kodachrome was made by Kodak for 1935 to 2009. :cry I have some slide film I shot with a 6x6 Hassleblad camera somewhere. The pictures are not that great, but the quality is great.

 

I'm just in love with period American culture,I like everything about it.

They way people talk,the way they dress,the style of the cars,the architecture and especially advertising billboards.

One of the reasons I love boardwalk empire.Thanks for the pics Fred.

 

I agree,life was tough back then.

One thing from those days I'd love to see make a return would be quality manufacturing,it obviously won't not with .China being able to take half a yoghurt pot and make car from it but I'd love to see it make a return.

Back then everything was was built to last and over engineered to prevent failure,quality meant everything to manufacturers and throwing something away was unthinkable,you have a skilled craftsman or engineer who would actually find out what the problem was and fix it!That's a novel idea hey?Take the cars in the picture,if you crashed one you'd take it to the garage and have the panels pulled,welded an be on your way,these days a small fender bender is a write off.

Its the scale that disposability permeates our society that bothers me,its great we can now all afford practically everything but I feel surrounded by cheap crap.In the pictures everything works and has a purpose,there's very little abandoned junk lying around like you see today.

For instance how many times during your day do you come across broken useless crap just lying around,or semi broken useless crap that works but only just?I used the bathroom recently at the supermarket and I noticed the cheap plastic laminate used to cover the cheap chipboard doors was all peeling off,I went to dry my hands and only one of our hand dryers worked,it even looked like it had been remodelled recently but still it was falling apart.

Rant over I guess

 

I hear you Rikky, quality is just not there on many things. And many things are made to work for a bit, then you trash them and buy new...

Will keep you in mind when I got shoot my .45 designed by the one often called 'the prophet', John Moses Browning. The 1911 pistol is an awesome design, still, perhaps arguably, in my opinion perfectly viable design.

I was stunned by the quality of the photos. Composition was excellent, photographers did a great job.

And since this is kinda a photo thread, If you like guns, you might like to look at these wood grips for guns: http://www.esmeralda.cc/1911_full_10.htm

The Andean Alder grips are so tempting... :-D

LoL, is my thread, I can hijack it.

 

I liked all those photos.

nothing like the look of manly men doing manly things to make a computer programmer feel like he is lazy :-D

 

Modern Dentistry is way too awesome for me to want to go back to anything beyond say 50 years ago, in a major metro area.

 

Ha! You got that right! My father tells the story of his first trip to the dentist to get a tooth pulled when he was 10 years old, circa 1938: the dentist tells my grandfather that it'll cost him $2.00 to pull Dad's tooth - $1.00 for the pull, $1.00 for the anesthesia. Grandpa only had $1.00 on him, but the tooth was pulled anyway.

Yikes!!! :eek :cry

 

great, old photos Fred.
I can't imagine living back then. People were a lot tougher than what we have today. Don't think I would've made it.
One note about CAMP BIRD MINE PIC. It still looks the same today, I think. In the 1970's and 1980's I sold and delivered welding supplies and gases to camp bird. You can drive a tractor-trailer straight through the drifts of the mountain mining district to Telluride from there. (if they allowed you) Amazing history in that part of the country.

 

Exactly.

I literally owe my life to modern dentistry and have no desire to change the era I live in. I do want to be way more manly, and have the rugged good looks of some of the fellows in those photos, but I like my teeth too.

 

My grandfather went to the dentist to get tooth pulled when he was 10.It cost two chickens for the pulled tooth and 3 pigs snouts for the dentist to crack a large rock on his head.

Unfortunately, he only had the three pigs snouts on him

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b214/Rikky_/SmileyBandaged.jpg

:-D

 

Rikky, whatever it is that you're smoking, I want some. :major

 

Marvellous pics..thanks for sharing