40 Incredible Colorized Photos Show What Life of the U.S. Looked Like in the 1930s and ’40s

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  • Опубликовано: 13 янв 2025

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  • @HotSauce-fo6sf
    @HotSauce-fo6sf 3 года назад +155

    Gosh, 1940s fashion is so wonderful. It’s modest, classy and beautiful.

    • @michelles2299
      @michelles2299 2 года назад +24

      And no plus size people

    • @lobotomyforeplay
      @lobotomyforeplay 2 года назад +6

      @@michelles2299 😐 so we’re body shaming now?

    • @wugod
      @wugod 2 года назад

      @@lobotomyforeplay of course, obesity is illness not norm. We shouldn't encourage people to become fat and be positive about it. Moderation is the answer.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 2 года назад +6

      I think women were smaller. Whenever I find vintage stuff it’s always tiny. Gloves, hats, dresses.

    • @CynthiaWord-iq7in
      @CynthiaWord-iq7in 2 года назад +4

      It was all those fabrics from cotton and silk and wool--they had woven RAYON which draped and pleated pants with cuffs beautifully and parachutes or hosiery made of nylon mixes. There was no spun plastic (polyester) until the 60s...then, It never left, by the 70s they had begun to manufacture even denim with it in them.

  • @emkkahn
    @emkkahn 3 года назад +152

    I often wonder the foolish thought: was I born too soon or was I born too late?
    These are pictures of people living their full lives at the exact right time.
    Thank God for them! They saved the world from all kinds of horrors just by being so honest and moral. And, of course, for giving their lives to the cause of Liberty....
    Thank you SO MUCH for this collection of pics!

    • @Gerald0613
      @Gerald0613 3 года назад +6

      What did they save the world from exactly? 😂

    • @emkkahn
      @emkkahn 3 года назад +11

      @@Gerald0613 A little group called the NAZIs for one...

    • @xxgravity
      @xxgravity 3 года назад +9

      @@emkkahn I'm pretty sure the average person in these photos did none of the sorts. And who knows, this was in the 30s/40s they could be racist, homophobic/transphobic, sexist, etc. They aren't saints.

    • @emkkahn
      @emkkahn 3 года назад +17

      @@xxgravity They were people of their time. You cannot "judge" the people of yesterday by today's standards.
      Doing so is a great Moral Sin of the present that is akin to the moral sins of the past. The current "Cancel Culture" of trying to erase the heroes of past generations is making thing worse, not better.

    • @MichaelSHartman
      @MichaelSHartman 3 года назад +4

      @@Gerald0613
      There's always got to be a dick somewhere.

  • @williamschlenger1518
    @williamschlenger1518 3 года назад +117

    Great clear photos.I was born in 1943.People had class.

    • @ghoststarstalk
      @ghoststarstalk 3 года назад +9

      Clear photos that some almost resemble painted renderings of the sky and background buildings.

    • @Mr.Peetersen
      @Mr.Peetersen 3 года назад +4

      ...and better cameras

    • @tegunn
      @tegunn 2 года назад +2

      even in Skid Row!

    • @kdm187
      @kdm187 2 года назад +1

      Thanks for sharing William Schlenger :]

  • @billcoleman7316
    @billcoleman7316 3 года назад +130

    I'm amazed how well of a job they did colorizing these photos.

    • @mimexpress3224
      @mimexpress3224 3 года назад +1

      Nyc uncle

    • @redpine8665
      @redpine8665 3 года назад

      I do question that car from the 1930's being a yellow/beige. I think all cars were still black at that time. But otherwise, it was great I agree.

    • @mac11380
      @mac11380 3 года назад +5

      @@redpine8665 They had many colors in the 30's for cars.

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar 3 года назад +1

      @@redpine8665 Jesus... Do you kids learn anything or guess and call it a supreme fact. Oh and by the way, more than the Model T existed yes shocker.

    • @rouenpucelle
      @rouenpucelle 3 года назад +2

      The colorization is so good it seems like these pictures could be from today.

  • @zishere48
    @zishere48 2 года назад +36

    It's odd. I look at these pictures and feel a sense of nostalgia for a time period I've never lived in. I'm sure I'm not the only one. I think we had less in those times. But if you ask me we have less now.

    • @SFVnative
      @SFVnative 2 года назад

      Maybe you did live in it. 🤔

    • @Erik-by1eg
      @Erik-by1eg Год назад +3

      I know exactly what you mean

  • @charlesviars6542
    @charlesviars6542 3 года назад +36

    Always loved it when my grandmother would bring out all of the old photos from these days gone by and was lucky enough to inherit them .

  • @paulmercier186
    @paulmercier186 3 года назад +67

    A pre-WWII Kid (1940), I was ostensibly raised by aunts and grandparents. Dad had three jobs & Mom two. After the war were good times through the Fifties. A tight French-Canadian Community of Family, Faith & Friends in a NH Mill Town, we were technically poor but didn't realize it. An idyllic rearing that built character in all .....

    • @community1949
      @community1949 3 года назад +10

      I was born in 1949 and I remember my father working very, very hard but all the men in our neighborhood had jobs and kept them. The 1950's were good times to be alive. My father served in W W 2 over in England on an Army Air Corp base running a warehouse - he and mom did what they were supposed to do and did them well - we had good lives and we had no crime at all in your neighborhood or city.

    • @mariacullati2371
      @mariacullati2371 3 года назад +2

      God Bless

  • @f8bethere
    @f8bethere 3 года назад +23

    The composition, lighting and clarity of these photos is incredible. Very enjoyable watch. Thanks

    • @jindyrios6849
      @jindyrios6849 3 года назад

      Min, 4:11 Nebraska november say it's 1938, but behin I see that 1939,🤔

    • @destinationtwincities
      @destinationtwincities 2 года назад

      That would be a car magazine or catalog of the new cars coming out in the upcoming 1939 model year.

  • @avalondreaming1433
    @avalondreaming1433 3 года назад +102

    These people all had such dignity and self respect.

    • @harukrentz435
      @harukrentz435 3 года назад +11

      What makes you think that way?

    • @Mr.Peetersen
      @Mr.Peetersen 3 года назад +5

      They had all the same problems we do

    • @ssjrose9641
      @ssjrose9641 3 года назад +16

      Yep they had the dignity to segregate others based on their race and they had the self respect to not do anything about it.

    • @DoubleDogDare54
      @DoubleDogDare54 3 года назад +12

      @@ssjrose9641 After watching everything happening from Watts to the summer of 2020, you realize how wise that policy was.

    • @ssjrose9641
      @ssjrose9641 3 года назад +3

      @@DoubleDogDare54 what?!?!

  • @tropicalislandsurfer
    @tropicalislandsurfer 2 года назад +7

    Ver nicely done. This was quite enjoyable. Good timing too; plenty enough time to both read the captions and then look at the photo without feeling rushed. Very professional. Thank you!

  • @dianelake7802
    @dianelake7802 3 года назад +22

    I really enjoyed this video. I am fascinated by the eras of the 1920s to the 1950s and love to find everyday life in America during this period. Thanks

  • @dennisleporte2327
    @dennisleporte2327 3 года назад +57

    the music always fills me with a sense of nostalgia. Like I'm actually there experiencing it. Thank you so much.

    • @azia5051
      @azia5051 3 года назад +2

      One day we will be like these people, 59 years by now.

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar 3 года назад

      @@Mike-ke4yp I will never understand people saying they have nostalgia of this, clearly they don't.

  • @alexsmith-ob3lu
    @alexsmith-ob3lu 3 года назад +10

    Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for posting!
    I also love the elegance in the hats and clothing the average citizen wore. 1940 fashion is very stylish, yet simple.

  • @JustMe-vo9bq
    @JustMe-vo9bq 3 года назад +27

    Some of these photos reminded me of Norman Rockwell’s paintings of how America was back then…

  • @johndoe6260
    @johndoe6260 3 года назад +42

    I love how men suits looked back then

    • @PutItAway101
      @PutItAway101 3 года назад +8

      And the way they're worn, with the confident body language and presence that really sells a suit. These gentlemen knew who they were and wore the clothes that said it.

    • @CarlosGonzalez-vu1ew
      @CarlosGonzalez-vu1ew 2 года назад +2

      Yes, and the women

    • @bensno7690
      @bensno7690 2 года назад +4

      They weren't just men suits back then there were actually real men. Very rare today.

  • @yellowbearworks2535
    @yellowbearworks2535 3 года назад +4

    this is a truly incredible compilation. I felt like being in a time machine...You just made my day. Thank you!

  • @Magnetron33
    @Magnetron33 3 года назад +26

    That you managed to use the music that YT used with this stuff is delightful. I always thought the musical features were excellent! Have a great day!

  • @donaldvisconti5483
    @donaldvisconti5483 3 года назад +20

    Colorized photos give me a more authentic view of the way things were, back in the past!

  • @jimrollins4857
    @jimrollins4857 3 года назад +21

    Cool pics, cool music!

  • @georgesealy4706
    @georgesealy4706 3 года назад +9

    Some of those photos are off the charts great. Excellent.

  • @gastropod557
    @gastropod557 2 года назад +3

    I do love these videos. The 20s, 30s, and 40s fashions were and still are fantastic. It is something I am always watching (for). I am reminded of my youth and there was a time when people took pride in their appearance, especially in public.
    On another note, in the photo at 7:28 of the lady sitting in a cafe...above her head and looking through the window, there is an eyeball looking back.

  • @aileenrivera8992
    @aileenrivera8992 3 года назад +37

    Beautiful pictures women looks so lady like dressed up and also the men had class.

    • @m.e.d.7997
      @m.e.d.7997 3 года назад +7

      For most part people dressed when they went out in public.

    • @Limba777
      @Limba777 2 года назад

      Racism is not classy.

    • @golden.lights.twinkle2329
      @golden.lights.twinkle2329 2 года назад +1

      No piercings or tattoos. No torn jeans and no spandex pants.

  • @mairim4578
    @mairim4578 3 года назад +14

    How I wish today would be like that,am the 50s generation it was great.

  • @georelbonai8244
    @georelbonai8244 3 года назад +20

    It looks like a Different world, wow.

    • @azia5051
      @azia5051 3 года назад

      Yeah! It was, in fact it was in WW2.

    • @willielarimer7170
      @willielarimer7170 3 года назад

      My mother lived in New Jersey during WW2, and she said she would be scared seeing anti aircraft gun emplacments near the waterfront. In 1945 while she was in New York city, she said she saw where the B25 bomber had hit the Empire State Building

    • @mymindseyesees2002
      @mymindseyesees2002 3 года назад

      Great White yes

  • @FlexWheeler2nd
    @FlexWheeler2nd 3 года назад +46

    I found the "Skid Row" picture interesting as I compare what homeless and living on the streets looks like today. I can't make a blanket statement based on one picture, but I just find how neat and clean the guy in the pic was, as well as the street and sidewalk. Today's LA Skid Row makes SR back then seem like Rodeo Drive!

    • @josephmatthews9866
      @josephmatthews9866 3 года назад

      Yes , how our society has fallen!!!
      Yes , how we have all fallen from those times !!!

    • @sarahmostacci208
      @sarahmostacci208 2 года назад

      @Communism Is The Real Pandemic yes I agree, the people on the streets today are usually (not always) on some type of drug and that's the big difference.

    • @webstercat
      @webstercat 2 года назад +2

      Drugs were not an issue then….

    • @jameswalden353
      @jameswalden353 2 года назад +1

      @@webstercat I wish drugs never were used by society it would make a much better society if we stopped using em

    • @jamesolson7179
      @jamesolson7179 2 года назад

      Take a look at the streets of Kensington.

  • @123canadagirl
    @123canadagirl 3 года назад +5

    My parents generation growing up. They are gone now so this is a connection for me to them. I have lots if black and white photos of their lives but seeing it in color is amazing! Makes it more real!!

  • @kilterkaos1
    @kilterkaos1 3 года назад +14

    Color changes everything. You have more of a connection with that time period.

  • @aniaabd523
    @aniaabd523 2 года назад +2

    very beautiful thank you from algeria🍀🍀

  • @Ann65.
    @Ann65. 3 года назад +4

    Thank you so much. I loved looking at such great quality photos.

  • @benjaminperez1149
    @benjaminperez1149 3 года назад +24

    Love the Jitterbug photo. The girl has painted lines up her legs to fake stockings. Women did that because there wasn't enough nylon and silk available and they were expensive, Those materials went to the war effort to make parachutes. My grandmother and my mother told me that story. Mama was born in 1931. Grandma in 1904.

    • @golden.lights.twinkle2329
      @golden.lights.twinkle2329 2 года назад +2

      They are seamed stockings no doubt held up with a garter belt. The poor guys having to dance in a jacket, that must be so uncomfortable!

    • @benjaminperez1149
      @benjaminperez1149 2 года назад +2

      @@golden.lights.twinkle2329 ??? What a disjointed reply.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 2 года назад +1

      Nylons weren’t invented yet

    • @benjaminperez1149
      @benjaminperez1149 2 года назад +3

      @@samanthab1923 LOL Not invented yet??? What???

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 2 года назад +1

      @@benjaminperez1149 Well 1940, for sale but because of the war all the nylon was used for parachutes so tough to get.

  • @CarlosGonzalez-vu1ew
    @CarlosGonzalez-vu1ew 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for sharing

  • @firstlast189
    @firstlast189 3 года назад +6

    So clean and nice. And American.

  • @faisalahmad4455
    @faisalahmad4455 3 года назад +1

    Respect. Thankyou. Always. Great music. Thankyou

  • @Kinseydsp
    @Kinseydsp 2 года назад

    Yesterday Today Tribute So glad to see this again always loved it THANK YOU!

  • @PheonixStarsx
    @PheonixStarsx 3 года назад +4

    Breathtaking ! With color it looks like it was made yesterday

  • @elenatsygalman9666
    @elenatsygalman9666 2 года назад +3

    It's just a time machine! Great work!

  • @m.e.d.7997
    @m.e.d.7997 3 года назад +2

    Love your vids and the music that accompanies them

  • @manchesterexplorer8519
    @manchesterexplorer8519 2 года назад +5

    I love how everything is clean and kept up unlike today .

  • @stephenbastasch7893
    @stephenbastasch7893 Год назад

    Amazing colorization job!

  • @drpeterc12
    @drpeterc12 2 года назад

    Incredible photos. Thank you for posting them up. Love the one from the great city of Manchester, naturally.

  • @tdunph4250
    @tdunph4250 3 года назад +40

    It was just a different time back then. Practically everything was different. To me it seemed less complicated although I am sure the people back then had plenty of things that made life too complicated or difficult that we don't have to deal with now and vice versa.

    • @jamesolson7179
      @jamesolson7179 2 года назад +5

      I love these photos and no matter what hard times they may have had I wish I lived in that time.

    • @henryhorner3182
      @henryhorner3182 2 года назад +2

      Yes. And the lack of diversity explains why there was so much less crime in those wonderful years. But mentioning that, even thinking like that is not permitted.

    • @meredithmericle7487
      @meredithmericle7487 2 года назад

      Yeah, like the Great Depression, fathers, sons, husbands dying like flies in WW II, ineffective, for the most part, cancer treatment. No antibiotics until WW II or vaccines for things like measles, whooping cough, tetanus. Horrid makeup, hose that drooped around your ankles, no nylon, bras which were just coverings, hair treatment that would burn your hair beyond recognition. WW II rationing of gasoline, some foods, tobacco (everyone smoked). This information came from 1st hand accounts of my parents and grandparents. If you want to go back, be my guest. As for me--no thank you.

  • @twistoffate4791
    @twistoffate4791 3 года назад +38

    I always look at the year on each photo and figure out how old my parents would have been, and I insert them into each scene. In 1938, my mother was six years old, and I think of her going with my grandmother to the grocery store.

    • @JF-NYC-NJ-Girl
      @JF-NYC-NJ-Girl 2 года назад +1

      I’m doing that too. Makes me happy To think of my grandparents in the situation as well as my parents…💜💜💜

    • @JF-NYC-NJ-Girl
      @JF-NYC-NJ-Girl 2 года назад +3

      The women (even the “pit” girls w their hairstyles) look so well put together and stylish! The pantyhose, shoes- entire outfits (even just waiting at bus stops) are to die for. And today I see females at work (!) wearing pajama pants and it’s just sad. And men...business casual and backpacks have replaced suits and briefcases. 🙁

    • @twistoffate4791
      @twistoffate4791 2 года назад +1

      @@JF-NYC-NJ-Girl Yes, grandparents, too. I wish they were alive, now that I'm old enough to ask certain questions about their early lives.

    • @twistoffate4791
      @twistoffate4791 2 года назад +2

      @@JF-NYC-NJ-Girl No one these days seems to care much about their appearances. My dad used to go into work in Washington D.C. in a three-piece suit, wing-tipped shoes, a hat and an overcoat in the 60s & 70s. (It took him forever to get there, too, because he had to commute from the suburbs where we lived.) I wish I could go back & do it all over again.

  • @MrRobbyvent
    @MrRobbyvent 3 года назад +1

    thanks, they gave me a full rainbow of feelings!

  • @NeillWylie
    @NeillWylie 3 года назад +2

    Absolutely wonderful pictures.

  • @JanBugg
    @JanBugg 3 года назад +1

    Awesome. Thanks for making this.

  • @erichall7068
    @erichall7068 2 года назад +1

    Engrossing and amazing pictures!

  • @mowman7777
    @mowman7777 3 года назад

    Great pics and thanks for playing some decent background music.

  • @WesW3187
    @WesW3187 3 года назад +3

    Really nice photos. Thanks.

  • @hankwilliams150
    @hankwilliams150 3 года назад +21

    I LOVE the music with this!

  • @motaman8074
    @motaman8074 3 года назад +20

    The picture from Rosie's Cafe looked like a Norman Rockwell painting

    • @azia5051
      @azia5051 3 года назад

      Most of these are all dead now.

    • @dwightpowell6673
      @dwightpowell6673 3 года назад

      Where are the "colored" people.?

  • @bluesquirrel3919
    @bluesquirrel3919 3 года назад +5

    Missed you 💖 40s had the best clothes and shoes 💜🤗

  • @reubensane5539
    @reubensane5539 2 года назад +1

    I love these pictures that are like a window in time ,I just wished they would of matched it w music from its time as well to give me an even more feel of that era.

  • @williamschlenger1518
    @williamschlenger1518 3 года назад +21

    Show these cities today & you'll see dirt&& bums.Thanks for the memories.

    • @wacobob56dad
      @wacobob56dad 3 года назад +3

      Low lives moved in so people moved to the suburbs.

    • @dwightpowell6673
      @dwightpowell6673 3 года назад +1

      @@wacobob56dad what you really mean is diversity came...then white flight to the suburbs.

  • @lisah1077
    @lisah1077 2 года назад

    Very nice presentation, thanks very much!

  • @jasondaniel918
    @jasondaniel918 3 года назад +25

    2:36 - Cripes! Talk about being old before one's time! In this era, many women were old by age 25.
    We need to remember the 1930's were the era of the Great Depression. My parents and grandparents lived through that time and it left an indelible mark on all of them.

    • @harrybriscoe7948
      @harrybriscoe7948 3 года назад +4

      Pregnant by the age of 17 and living in a tent . The good old days

    • @SmokinGun55
      @SmokinGun55 3 года назад +5

      @@harrybriscoe7948 The big difference is that back then they were ashamed of themselves, the dirtbags of today strive for that kind of lifestyle and are proud of it.

    • @georelbonai8244
      @georelbonai8244 3 года назад +2

      @@SmokinGun55 yep

    • @rudolfschenker
      @rudolfschenker 3 года назад +9

      Poverty ages you.

    • @jasondaniel918
      @jasondaniel918 3 года назад +2

      @@rudolfschenker Amen to that!

  • @ljonljon8949
    @ljonljon8949 2 года назад +8

    Stunning pictures. To be able to look back on specific pieces of time and view others' lives as they were happening. I wonder what these folks would have thought of life today. The things i noticed and appreciated, people seemed to care about their appearance. it doesn't appear as trashy as today is. Not a cell phone could be seen.

  • @robertmasina4610
    @robertmasina4610 3 года назад +8

    Whoever invented what's called "colorized" deserves recognition.

  • @mickeyduke1910
    @mickeyduke1910 3 года назад +28

    I wish America went as far as THIS and stopped. .
    I'd love to live during this time.

    • @MGood-ij1hi
      @MGood-ij1hi 2 года назад +10

      Let's see, the Depression, Nazi Germany, Jim Crow , the most vicious war in history, good times

    • @jameswalden353
      @jameswalden353 2 года назад

      @@MGood-ij1hi oh shut up dude I understand those were bad things but it wouldn’t have been that bad to live in this time period. Stop being so negative

    • @jameswood231
      @jameswood231 2 года назад +6

      @@MGood-ij1hi Every generation has its troubles to endure. We were a stronger nation morally, spiritually and economically (lower inflation). Our people would not have endured, and ultimately prospered through a Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and fighting on 2 Fronts during WWII. People knew their neighbors. Children were taught manners and were really educated not indoctrinated. Yes we have our faults, but America was and still is a great nation🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

    • @fapollock7523
      @fapollock7523 2 года назад

      You must be white and not a jew

    • @fapollock7523
      @fapollock7523 2 года назад

      Ignorant comment

  • @lukewarmwater5320
    @lukewarmwater5320 3 года назад +25

    People seemed so much more connected and present and proud and stronger back then for some reason, there is a very soft, disheveled, hopeless, olive-drab spirit about people now that's disturbing to see, like all the fight has gone out of us...

    • @gabrielguzman6018
      @gabrielguzman6018 3 года назад +4

      There was also racism back then

    • @lukewarmwater5320
      @lukewarmwater5320 3 года назад +6

      @@gabrielguzman6018 Yeah no shit Sherlock...

    • @1MinuteFlipDoc
      @1MinuteFlipDoc 3 года назад +4

      the gold old days were a nightmare for most people.

    • @louisecoffey9843
      @louisecoffey9843 3 года назад +3

      @@gabrielguzman6018 and whats your point??

    • @gabrielguzman6018
      @gabrielguzman6018 3 года назад +1

      @@louisecoffey9843 my point is these days were hell

  • @DanielGlenTimms
    @DanielGlenTimms 3 года назад +1

    Fantastic!

  • @mariacullati2371
    @mariacullati2371 3 года назад +1

    Love these shots

  • @NEMO-NEMO
    @NEMO-NEMO 2 года назад +1

    Such beautiful people, poor yes but they were still healthier than us in complexion and the beauty of plainness.
    So many worn out shirts and shoes.
    Woman so young with children.
    And they were shy of the camera.
    Thank you

  • @MissysDomain
    @MissysDomain 2 года назад

    Fantastically mesmerizing music! :)

  • @CombatTalkRadio
    @CombatTalkRadio 3 года назад +22

    When everyone dressed like they cared.

    • @mr.nugget8412
      @mr.nugget8412 2 года назад

      I think the more hardships you have, the more you actually care, thats why so many people wanna live in that time

    • @xx_cassidy_xx9221
      @xx_cassidy_xx9221 2 года назад

      fr

  • @bestpossibleworld2091
    @bestpossibleworld2091 3 года назад +38

    One cannot help notice a few things. First, no obese people. Imagine what the average "Joe" or "Jane" would look like today in comparable street scenes. Second, people dressed better than today even though they were less affluent. Third, people looked like they were used to hard work. Even the so-called "bums" were work-ready. These are all attributes of a nation becoming great. Ours is a period of sad decline.

    • @Rob-yk1jw
      @Rob-yk1jw Год назад

      No lgbtq and no BLM... no maga..m

  • @rebeccagutierrez1960
    @rebeccagutierrez1960 3 года назад +5

    I was really digging the music too.

  • @otiebrown9999
    @otiebrown9999 3 года назад +15

    Great idea.
    Only yesterday, for me.
    1939.

    • @paulwilliams8555
      @paulwilliams8555 3 года назад

      God bless you sir

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar 3 года назад

      Only a bit after
      1937. And yes more existed on the street than a Model T coupe from 1924 in the creative color of black.

  • @bertiewooster3326
    @bertiewooster3326 3 года назад +5

    How slim the women are today they are massive!

  • @drpeterc12
    @drpeterc12 2 года назад

    Great photographs. Even the lamp posts remain today on high St hollyoke. Amazing!!

  • @JohnNorris411
    @JohnNorris411 3 года назад +7

    Very well done colorizing.

  • @joycejackson9315
    @joycejackson9315 3 года назад +5

    You can differanly tell the posed and imposed pics. Kinda like today two different worlds . Presented by the media of the time. Great video

  • @LearnwithJanice
    @LearnwithJanice 2 года назад +1

    Hello from Kansas🇺🇸

  • @sparrow28045
    @sparrow28045 3 года назад +7

    It would be very interesting to see the black and white version first to see if the impact of the lighting and composition was enhanced or reduced by the colorization

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar 3 года назад

      7:35 I was amazed by this one in particular. I mean really, the effort put into the colors is just impeccable. Also It's a color camera and they just took Kodachromes and called them colorizations. Naive idiots who can't even believe color cameras existed. The 1940's were a very special time, beautiful colors, very American colored automobiles. The Cadillacs and Nash's, and Hudson, and we'll alright a few lot but typically the higher end models had the two tone colors, done wonderfully as well. The 1942 Cadillac in Oceana blue metallic and Pearl irid was a dream combination. And the sophistication of white walls and glossy city Firestones was a match made in heaven.

  • @petebromel6865
    @petebromel6865 3 года назад +21

    Why would anyone give this presentation a thumbs down? Are they that petty?

    • @susanclark6987
      @susanclark6987 3 года назад +2

      I'm sure the thumbs-down are from the trolls that are everywhere now... commenting on things they know nothing about...

  • @samg8012
    @samg8012 3 года назад +3

    How refreshing! All those pictures and not one person with their face buried in a cell phone!

    • @vintagerecordambassadeur4098
      @vintagerecordambassadeur4098 8 месяцев назад

      Only because they didn’t yet exist. It would be no different if they had existed then. Guaranteed

  • @williamhabermann2395
    @williamhabermann2395 3 года назад +2

    I wished i lived back then :( I'm 17 and i love 1920s and 1930s cars, fashion and music. i was born in the wrong era, my grand parents and great grandparents lived in the most beutifull time of the 20th century thank you for showing us these photos, it makes me feel i am there until an add comes up hahahaha thanks again.

    • @sivan7438
      @sivan7438 3 года назад

      *cough* *cough* WW2 *cough* *cough*

    • @williamhabermann2395
      @williamhabermann2395 2 года назад

      @taun I rather back then than today because everything was just basic back then. oh well its your decision if you don't like it

    • @electricbuffalo3301
      @electricbuffalo3301 Год назад

      *cough* *cough* Great Depression *cough* *cough*

  • @markfortin421
    @markfortin421 3 года назад +17

    Yes...believe it or not...EVERYBODY'S dressed up, all the time, regardless of what they were doing. And money was scarce...we were at war!
    Thanks for posting this, as a reminder of what our ancestors lived like. Wish I was there.....

    • @frankbutaric3565
      @frankbutaric3565 3 года назад +2

      You may have missed the farm workers pictures. Poverty was real then as it is today

    • @harrietfishlow685
      @harrietfishlow685 3 года назад

      They were dressed up all the time because society was more formal and they had many fewer clothes. The dressier clothes were a necessity for middle class life and that’s all they had to wear. And we had one or two pairs of shoes at a time.

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar 3 года назад +1

      @@harrietfishlow685 so dismal, could you even go to a store and purchase clothing like a normal human being does. Your like the people in 1960 talking about finally buying a refrigerator or getting a television set in 1968. As though they hadn't existed since the late 1920's for just an extra penny.

    • @dwightpowell6673
      @dwightpowell6673 3 года назад

      @Anaja Simbashu you sound jealous.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 2 года назад

      People took care of things & they were made better.

  • @EricLehner
    @EricLehner 3 года назад

    Fantastic quality!

  • @vladnemin6730
    @vladnemin6730 3 года назад +3

    I hope the biker girl (3:02) has realized soon that high heels aren't really good for riding a bike. Anyway she's so cool.

  • @asaadabdullah1990
    @asaadabdullah1990 3 года назад +1

    Amazing photos...

  • @corineusa1454
    @corineusa1454 3 года назад +14

    Some of the photos were of places that are now extremely dangerous.

  • @marknorris3769
    @marknorris3769 3 года назад

    breathtaking photography

  • @hellie_el
    @hellie_el 3 года назад +3

    wonderful

  • @vickyvaughan5013
    @vickyvaughan5013 2 года назад +1

    The streets were so nice and clean.

  • @danielalvarado9019
    @danielalvarado9019 3 года назад +2

    Ooh the LIFE cover is Brenda Frazier! I just love her! ☺️

  • @dougmorris9317
    @dougmorris9317 3 года назад +2

    My God these were wonderful! 👍🙂

  • @flybyairplane3528
    @flybyairplane3528 2 года назад

    Thanks at this ‘look back, in time,,,,,,,,🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @JohnSmith-zw8vp
    @JohnSmith-zw8vp 3 года назад +9

    I really hope this continues to progress to point where we can in the next few years or so be able to easily convert any b/w photo or film to color...and be able to do the latter without that weird purple effect.
    Haven't you ever wondered what your favorite 50s/60s b/w would look like in full proper color?

    • @amandasteven1400
      @amandasteven1400 3 года назад +1

      . . . and without CAPTiONS superimosed over the photo (that should be illegal!)

    • @WitchKing-Of-Angmar
      @WitchKing-Of-Angmar 3 года назад

      Guess what Johnny smith, color has existed since 1923. In fact, that "colorized" photo by the ingenious idiot who made up the stories of other's lives in this gallery, that says "Magazine stand, Omaha, Nebraska, November 1938 is not colorized. It is a Kodachrome.

    • @avalondreaming1433
      @avalondreaming1433 3 года назад +1

      That would be wonderful to do that with old family photos!

  • @JayTee0007
    @JayTee0007 3 года назад +1

    Who is this playing this music? Nice sound!

    • @JayTee0007
      @JayTee0007 3 года назад

      @@YesterdayTodayTribute Thank you!

    • @mikkiismyname
      @mikkiismyname 2 года назад

      Merci beaucoup! I came to the comment section searching for Intel on the music 🙏

  • @susanboyd5471
    @susanboyd5471 3 года назад +11

    The world has certainly changed. My mother was born in 1931, my dad in 1930. You could walk down the street in Chicago then. Not so sure about now.

  • @williamkeith8944
    @williamkeith8944 3 года назад +6

    My favorite 06:40 is the three women in hats on Easter Sunday. The center woman is wearing the wildest sombrero!

    • @SunriseLAW
      @SunriseLAW 3 года назад

      0:56 mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    • @Inkling777
      @Inkling777 3 года назад

      That was the heyday of hats for both men and women. When I was a kid in the late 1950s, men rarely wore dress hats and only the older women did. Now the hats that are worn, mostly by men, are typically advertising something.

  • @alanhillier1033
    @alanhillier1033 3 года назад

    Really enjoyed 👍🏼

  • @simoneleme8014
    @simoneleme8014 Год назад +3

    Como e lindo de ver coisas do passado 🥰🥰🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

  • @debbiehardy8962
    @debbiehardy8962 2 года назад +7

    Amazing how clean and nice everything was. No dope. No creeps on the streets. No litter. No illegals. No homeless people living in tents on the streets. Just nice Americans living their lives.

    • @carlosurquia2128
      @carlosurquia2128 2 года назад +1

      Had WW2 Veterans saw Europe today, they would have fought against Bolsheviks rather than Nazis.

  • @januarioqueiroz3122
    @januarioqueiroz3122 3 года назад +1

    The background music is soothing

  • @flower1990-B
    @flower1990-B 3 года назад +1

    A picture for eternity. This people are looking into the future eyes , our eyes.

  • @catman8670
    @catman8670 3 года назад +22

    Most of these people are gone now, but they would be shocked and angry if they saw their country today! 💔

    • @gabrielguzman6018
      @gabrielguzman6018 3 года назад +3

      Most of those people were racist

    • @zamblammer5659
      @zamblammer5659 3 года назад +2

      @@gabrielguzman6018 Bring up the big bad R word at any chance right?

    • @howl_with_the_wolves2861
      @howl_with_the_wolves2861 3 года назад +4

      @@gabrielguzman6018
      So are you,but,unlike you they had class dignity and intelligence.

    • @gabrielguzman6018
      @gabrielguzman6018 3 года назад +3

      @@howl_with_the_wolves2861 Lmao, you don't know these people just because they dressed well means nothing it's called a wolf in sheeps clothing

    • @howl_with_the_wolves2861
      @howl_with_the_wolves2861 3 года назад +3

      @@gabrielguzman6018 You don't know any of them either,didn't stop you from making a uninformed comment.Your dismissed.

  • @yankeewatchdog7299
    @yankeewatchdog7299 3 года назад +2

    what is the title of the background music? Where can I find it? Thanks in advance

  • @kimberlykasimoff1447
    @kimberlykasimoff1447 3 года назад +15

    What is so sad about these pictures is that everyone in them, possibly not the babies is dead, and cannot see the photos colourised. These are people who actually lived.

    • @webstercat
      @webstercat 2 года назад

      Other than people “who actually lived” what other people are there?

    • @Hal09i
      @Hal09i 2 года назад +2

      It is a fact of our mortality. We are born, we grow and mature, and then age and die. We are only passing through this life...we are part of long line that steps out on the stage, tarries for a brief moment, and then moves on. The people in the images had their lives, as we have ours now. And so it goes. Soon enough it will be us in the images. The lesson I think is not despair but joy...we too, were alive, and made our mark. We must seize the day and make the most of the time given us. As for the rest, what will be, will be. We can smile across the years to our fellow brother and sisters...

    • @gearhead000TV
      @gearhead000TV 2 года назад

      @@webstercat illustrated pictures as in most magazines of that time. Most people pictures would probably be in black and white.

    • @samanthab1923
      @samanthab1923 2 года назад

      My mom & her brother were 37 & 39. Still going strong.

    • @kimberlykasimoff1447
      @kimberlykasimoff1447 2 года назад

      @George Vinson Yes, people were used to seeing photographs in black and white, but did they get the chance to see colour pictures of themselves and others?