The link is to a series of interesting photos of an America long gone.
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American Early Color Photographs
American Early Color Photographs
Particularly for our American cousins. Visual poetry.
The link is to a series of interesting photos of an America long gone.
> http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/ ... 3[/color]/
The link is to a series of interesting photos of an America long gone.
> http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/ ... 3[/color]/
Re: American Early Color Photographs
I really enjoyed those. . It's like looking at a different planet and alien race of people as compared to now. Pete 
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Very interesting, and very much appreciated!!!
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Great stuff - some of those photos are amazing - the steam yard ones and the last one of the carbon worker especially.
The town shots are still gettable - I rode through a good few places like that when I did my Colorado/Utah/Arizona/Nevada Grand Circle ride in the late 90s.
Small town America and classic Americana is still out there and well worth getting off the highway to go in search for. The people are usually a lot more friendly and down to earth, police arent so arsey and in your face, and the sights are all worth it.
The town shots are still gettable - I rode through a good few places like that when I did my Colorado/Utah/Arizona/Nevada Grand Circle ride in the late 90s.
Small town America and classic Americana is still out there and well worth getting off the highway to go in search for. The people are usually a lot more friendly and down to earth, police arent so arsey and in your face, and the sights are all worth it.
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Great site. You know what immediately struck me? In all those photos I didn't see any fat person. Proof of what fast food, TV, computers, video games, and desk jobs have done to us now.
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prcscct wrote:I really enjoyed those.
and thanks for the link Jimbob
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to be fair HHF there are a couple of the farm women who look a bit broad in the beam...
maybe it was the fact that back then work tended to be a lot more physical that it is now. The steamyard photos and engineer photos youd be lucky to take now...work like that is all machines and computer supported. Manually driven heavy engineering is a dying trade in the west....my generation saw it end in the UK and in the US its restricted to teh ever thinning rust belt I guess. Farm work is very mechanised now...guess youd have to drive a long way to find some guys hand cropping fieldslike the cotton grower photos.
But yeh....the lack of Macs and Pizza Huts may well explain the lack of girth. Many of teh photos are from the war years....did you have sugar rationing in the US? We did in Blighty till well after WW2.
maybe it was the fact that back then work tended to be a lot more physical that it is now. The steamyard photos and engineer photos youd be lucky to take now...work like that is all machines and computer supported. Manually driven heavy engineering is a dying trade in the west....my generation saw it end in the UK and in the US its restricted to teh ever thinning rust belt I guess. Farm work is very mechanised now...guess youd have to drive a long way to find some guys hand cropping fieldslike the cotton grower photos.
But yeh....the lack of Macs and Pizza Huts may well explain the lack of girth. Many of teh photos are from the war years....did you have sugar rationing in the US? We did in Blighty till well after WW2.
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We did, chocolate bars nearly became legal tender according to stories my parents told me.did you have sugar rationing in the US?
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