Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Got this in an email from an army buddy. Thought it was interesting. http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tell Sackett SASS 18436 Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Great pictures. It was a different world back then. However, I don't think there were any "African Americans" in 1940. They were either people of color , or Negroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 I love color photos from the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abilene Slim SASS 81783 Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Pics are sometimes worth a thousand words. Hard times -- more for some than others. Thanks for posting Badger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 22, 2015 Author Share Posted August 22, 2015 I was looking for family in those pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Great link, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Wyatt Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Very cool stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Great pictures. It was a different world back then. However, I don't think there were any "African Americans" in 1940. They were either people of color , or Negroes. First time I heard the word "Negroes" was when Walter Croncite was talking about the riots in the 60's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Lizard Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 I bet these are from Kodachrome film....It was the only good stable color process at the time and still is today....They just don't make it any more... Texas Lizard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 22, 2015 Author Share Posted August 22, 2015 Yep, that is what the e mail stated. Give that man a ceegar.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 In cleaning up the folk's estate, we collected up bushels of pictures. I think mom had school pictures of every kid in every grade through high school within a 10 mile radius. A lot of old pictures from the 30s-50s, mostly people we don't know. We found beautiful studio pictures in heavy cardboard folders of people we don't know. The old Polaroid pictures look pretty bad now. In talking with people that buy out estates, old pictures have value to those studying clothing styles. Especially valuable are pictures of black folks. Mom had a very old picture of her grandfather in his blacksmith shop in Hutchinson, Kansas I'm guessing 1880s. It was mounted on heavy cardboard. I found half of the picture with an unidentified person. It had been ripped in two within recent times and picture of great grandpa missing. Other family pictures we knew mom had are missing. Old albums have about 2/3s of pictures ripped out. I'm guessing mom did it for reasons unknown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted August 22, 2015 Author Share Posted August 22, 2015 Somewhere in the files of history is a photo of my family taken at my maternal Grandfather's farm house. It is dated ~1943/46. All of the boys have on bib overalls, and are bare footed. All of the girls have on cotton dresses and are bare footed. We all are looking at the camera with an expression of "COME ON HURRY UP WITH THE PICTURE, WE HAVE PLAY TO BE DONE." What a far cry from the kids in the Mall today. Climbing on the tractor or down at the barn with the animals was about as good as it got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasty Newt # 7365 Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Good stuff. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 That boy in #12 sure is lucky he ain't wearing a pink shirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 If you scroll through the pictures you'll not see a single overweight person in the collection despite many of the pictures displaying food or food production. I'm of the opinion that the diets we've been feed in the past 75 years is based on junk science. Many old studies that our medical and health guidelines are based have been challenged and found to be flawed. Just take it with a grain of salt. Oh yeah, new studies find no link of salt increasing blood pressure or effecting heart health. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted August 22, 2015 Share Posted August 22, 2015 Something for everyone in this array. What a cross section of the America that used to be! Thanks so much for posting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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