Old Photos from the 1940s

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Love the photo's thanks for posting them. I see history is soon about to repeat itself, only we have no manufacturing jobs now.
 
Photo #33....notice the number of stars on the flag...........AK and HI were not states yet.
 
Those are...

...amazing slides. A lot of them look like Kodachrome in 4x5 format. The color saturation is really high, as Kodachrome always did.

Can you imagine the size of the enlargement? 16x20, at the least.
 
Boy howdy, those bring back a lot of memories. The cars, the clothes, and the faces all remind me of growin' up.

Thanks for sharing.
 
I was just a kid in the early 1940s, but I do remember scenes like these. During WWII, the country was trying to recover from the Great Depression, and a lot of folks had to save up to be poor...

I sure hope history is not trying to repeat itself - those days were really tough on the country.

John

Waiting not-so-patiently for November, 2012.
 
I was born in 1940, and the images in those photos were the same things I remember from rural Oklahoma during the War years.

I've seen this same set of photos before, but I'm always intrigued every time I look at them.

I started life in Dover and Kingfisher, Oklahoma, very near Vance AAFB in Enid. I remember the training aircraft in the sky all the time. I remember the war materials and troops passing on the trains daily. The "rural poverty" as seen in those pictures was quite familiar.

My very first memories were from around one year old....and those were the images I saw.
 
Extremely difficult times.

My mom grew up in that period, never wasted a thing at home.
She smoked 3 cigarettes a day her entire life, Chesterfields. I guess I know why, they really had it bad. We all should count our blessings.

Great photos, thank you for posting
 
Gorgeous pics!! That early Kodachrome was exceptionally slow (ASA 10 or so) and gave a very fine detailed picture.(Lots of pixels.... so it enlarges well)
 
tops said:
I was born in 1941 and I remember. I didn't see any pictures from NC but it was the same here. Some of the good old days were not so good. Larry
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Maybe the times weren't good, but it built you to become a great American. I love those people in these photos. God Bless them all.
 
Huh, That's Strange...

In all those pictures, I did not see anyone with pink and green hair,
flashing a peace sign at the photographer. Think maybe that wasn't so healthy back then? Or maybe, everybody knew what the problem was?
TACC1
 
Thanks for posting, Back when times were tough and men and women actually worked for a living, not like now when they complain about everything.
 
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