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[MagnaderAlpha]

Wow! I LOVE seeing stuff like this. Thanks for posting!



The food industry hadn't become what it is and didn't know how to numb, addict and fatten the masses yet.

Also no computer, no video games, and when you wanted to go see see something or buy something, you actually had to get off your ass and walk to a theater or a store instead of on-demand/Netflix and Amazon. Now, people's asses are rooted in their chairs, and they have smart phones grafted into their hands.

 

[IISANDERII]

Pretty awesome, where did you find these

 

[Sub_Level]

Fuck Heineken.

Pabst. Blue. Ribbon!

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

Pretty sure a gaffer has that picture of the black boy with the hat for years now. I don't know his username though.

But it's nice to see these pictures anyway.

 

[Tar-Miriel]

Men should still wear hats. It made everyone look classy.

 

[Nealand Liquor]

People looked so hard in those pics.

 

[MilkBeard]

Those photos are something. It's really interesting to see them in color, almost like looking at a photo of today.

Oh yeah, and those cakes look delicious.

 

[blame space]

the jaw family

 

[jeremy1456]

Men should still wear hats. It made everyone look classy.

Hipsters ruined all hats.

 

[kess]

Proof Kodak discontinued the wrong film

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Also no computer, no video games, and when you wanted to go see see something or buy something, you actually had to get off your ass and walk to a theater or a store instead of on-demand/Netflix and Amazon. Now, people's asses are rooted in their chairs, and they have smart phones grafted into their hands.

They also didn't have the polio vaccine and many cancer treatments.Supermarkets didn't have most of the fruits and vegetables year round.

The food industry hadn't become what it is and didn't know how to numb, addict and fatten the masses yet.

How edgy. Modern food has made food security a thing and because of that you can have your gluten free, organic "lifestyle". You can have better crop science, protection and pesticides. All that has provided a way to fight against stuff like the Dustbowl.

I really don't get this romanticism.

 

[MilkBeard]

Wow, they were working on the Snowpiercer set that long ago?

 

[Michael F. Assbender]

Awesome pics OP.

Two things I learned:

1. Being unable to differentiate "you're" from "your" isn't a modern thing.

2. Napoleon Dynamite is a time traveler.

Edit: Jesus, both observations already made. I'm getting slow in my old age.

 

[TheExecutive]

My favorite. Great photos. Puts life into perspective now a days. Complaining about wifi connectivity and long lines at the bank... Yeah.

POST Great Depression

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

They also didn't have the polio vaccine and many cancer treatments.Supermarkets didn't have most of the fruits and vegetables year round.



How edgy. Modern food has made food security a thing and because of that you can have your gluten free, organic "lifestyle". You can have better crop science, protection and pesticides. All that has provided a way to fight against stuff like the Dustbowl.

I really don't get this romanticism.

hmmm, all good points. but what he said is still true.

 

[MattKeil]

Or in reality... it appears that these pictures ARE real color photos and not colorized. If you follow the source link to the Daily Mail it mentions that these are the very few real, color pictures from that era.

The photos are from this exhibit: https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/bound-for-glory/

Their mom was quite a trendsetter, then.

 

[UberLevi]

Is that Kristen Wiig on the left?

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

Fucking 1 cent oranges

Their mom was quite a trendsetter, then.

The pink and blue thing happened much earlier than WWII, I thought

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

Lame dp

 

[spekkeh]

That was actually just the reason people largely didn't smile in photographs... They considered them very important occasions. Most people never had their photograph taken in their life, and so the idea of smiling for no apparent reason wasn't something that somebody would think to do.

Also, exposure times were long. Maintaining a smile throughout that whole time might be difficult and could ruin the photo if you moved or let the smile down.

A photo might be given the same importance as somebody being painted, and that this is going to be a record of you for all time. So, somebody who's doing something that's going to be preserved for future generations would want to look dignified, thoughtful, or serious.

The best quote is by Mark Twain who summed it up...



The smile in photographs seems like it'll be something that lasts into future generations, but there could very well be a time when somebody in some future generation looks back from 1940 to 2050 and says "Why the hell were people ALWAYS smiling in photographs...? Don't they know they look ridiculous?"

Some of the men are outright scowling though, whereas you do see a number of the women smiling. I feel like you can still see it in some of the stronger puritan/reformed denominations even today, where the father has a permanent stern looking frown on his face because it looks more.. fatherly/God-fearing Christian? I don't know.

 

[petran79]

Also no computer, no video games, and when you wanted to go see see something or buy something, you actually had to get off your ass and walk to a theater or a store instead of on-demand/Netflix and Amazon. Now, people's asses are rooted in their chairs, and they have smart phones grafted into their hands.

No Call of Duty or Pokemon
Kids would throw rocks to each other and capture live small animals....

 

[Mad Season]

Most of these seem to be from the early '40s, so post-Depression.

sorry bout that!

 

[Maiden Voyage]

These are absolutely stunning.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

5 kids and they all look like the dad.

 

[Walpurgis]

Everything looks gross and the pollution makes me sick.

 

[Ricker]

When hats where super popular and times where hard...some great shots in there.