I love how this set of photos gets rediscovered every so often. It's been bumping around the net for at least 8 or 9 years now, and it never fails to amaze every time.
Between this and Homestar Runner, I'm worried that SB might be the victim of memory loss or temporal shenanigans.
I know. I've seen them before, but they haven't run out of awesome yet, not hardly.
Wow. They're new to me. It's so surreal to see high quality color photos of the past. It's like "Why, why, they were really people just like me!"
I'd like to assemble a committee to vet prospective posts for sufficient novelty. Any volunteers?
It always feels so odd to "discover" that the world was in color way back before about the 1940s. Reminds me of that Calvin & Hobbes cartoon.
6: That idea's been floated before, Standpipe.
Has it indeed? Very well then, administer the lashings.
# /etc/init.d/lashings start
* WARNING: lashings have already been started
#
In scrolling through those I wish each one had a little map next to it with a dot on it in the area/region/city it was taken in.
I sure hope SB's morale improves soon.
I wish I could navigate them like Googlemaps Streetview.
I am consumed with guilt for not blogging more and taking the heat off those frontpagers who do.
Also, neat pictures! Which I hadn't seen.
5: Yeah, good color shots from the past are a little disconcerting to me. These and WW2/Korea in color film seem a bit unreal even though I have no reason at all to doubt their authenticity.
Those are amazing pictures, SB. I hadn't seen them, so I'm glad you linked to them.
Not to pile on SB, but I thought I first saw these pictures because of a front-page post here. Perhaps just in the comments?
They are fantastic.
19: I was just looking for that thread. Grumble grumble hoohole grumble grumble.
Yahoo is better than google for searching unfogged. True fact.
Ah, here's what I was thinking of.
Yeah, these are great. I saw them at the Library of Congress back in the 1980s. I think I still have some of the postcards from the exhibit.
23: I am really excited to have children to tell just those kinds of lies. You can tell how old a tree is by counting its leaves, Charlie Brown.
26: You should have told her that she was correct, except that the currency used wasn't money, but physical abilities. Then you could have told her to behave or else you'd be selling off some part of her for a better parking spot.
28: My only regret is that from down there under the seat, I couldn't see her facial expression when you told her that.
Stunning.
It's terrible to think of what those young girls must have ended up seeing in their lives -- they were born in the crosshairs of history.
One of the perils of being the baby of the family - you never quite know what to believe. My 7 year old recently said to me, "This is really funny - did you know there's a dinosaur called a Doyouthinkhe-saurus?" Me: "Uh, well ...... Ernest, don't lie to your sister!" Ernest: "I was only showing her the dinosaurs on my duvet cover." (Which looks like this. Perhaps the *sunglasses* should have given her a clue.)
Sorry, I went off on a tangent from 25, and I know how deprecated that is.
Loved the photos, and I hadn't seen them before, so thank you. Have passed on the link.
No cars, no driveways, no parking lots. Wow.
...Also a lot of other stuff missing, much of it directly desirable, but wow.
A home a couple minutes walk from where I mostly stay in Poland link. And in this wedding pic the bride is dressed conventionally, but the boy next to her and the girl beside her in their traditional holiday best.
Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me of these pics, I did see them when they were linked ITFA, but it was nice to get a second look.
These photos are shocking. Michelle Shocking.
I'm kind of hungry, but I know that if I go home and start making dinner I won't do any more work today, and I'm actually getting stuff done, having written 1483 words and deleted 85.
For some reason, the LOC site doesn't have a photo that is on the Denver Post's page. The image of a seated young man and a seated older women (Dagestani Types), is—if I recall correctly—that of a young man and his mother.
Here is some beautiful color film footage of London (and elsewhere) in 1927.
40: That is really wonderful. I love the sign "Noted for Our Roasted Peanuts." Not "famous", not "celebrated," just noted.
Oh, wow. Here are 2,000 of Prokudin-Gorskii's pictures. Not as good as the 120 in the LOC exhibit, which were cleaned up, but wow.
Liu Bolin asks, 'Can you see me now ?'
Mostly in response to the original post and not to the
link.
These photos were new to me, Standpipe. Unlike the rest of you people, I only started using the internet for pron idle browsing in like 2005. Before that it was all work and political fulmination.
45: I guess you didn't continue to follow the thread linked in 22 to the end after you commented in it.
