Pre-WWII Color Photos
 

Before US involvement. A period in America usually seen in black & white...quite amazing to see it in color for the first time.

http://www.ccbirding.com/p%26b/temp/WWII_Photos/

pretty cool

That was great....thanks for sharing.

that was awesome

Looks like it was cut off at the end at WW2 pix...

Woulda liked to see those too.

Beautiful images. 8-)

An amazing set of pictures.

That was incredible.

that was very cool, thanks. im gonna have to go through my history of photography book and see if i can find more by them.

Nice, it's cool lookin into the past now and again.

You're welcome everyone. When I look at those photos, I automatically think of John Steinbeck novels. Reminds you of the innocence we once had.

I also found this thread that has TONS of old pictures of NYC, around 45 pages. You can literally spend all day here:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=34300

Those are some great pics there. A few are miss labeled though. It'll take a while to look at all of them

Wow, that's a cool find!!!

wow that was really neat. Would've been sick if there were photos of WWII

wow! the color sky line of ny in the first post is amazing.

there are some really amazing pics in there the more I look through them.

this place is still there
http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/101.bmp

old Ebbets Filed, where the Brooklyn Dodgers played.
http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/112.jpg


the Polo Grounds, where the New York Giants played (the baseball team). Also where the Yankees played before they built Yankee Stadium. These were the days of the stadiums when they had 78,000 seats, and 500 foot outfields. None of this new sissy crap of 48,000 seats and 360 foot outfields. Really makes Babe Ruth's 714 home runs a lot more impressive. The Giants threw the Yankees out of the Polo Grounds because more fans were showing up for the Yankees than for the Giants in their own stadium, so, the Yankees built their new stadium right across the water there and you could see and hear Yankee Stadium from the Polo Grounds.
http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/71.jpg


old Yankee Stadium before they remodeled it in the mid 70s. It is a true shame that it will meet the same fate as both Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds just eight weeks from now :(
http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/113.jpg

the old West Side El. I used to live not too far from the old highway. Here it is abandoned in the late 80s

http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/199.jpg
http://66.230.220.70/images/post/ny/200.jpg

thats why we still have to go sometime between now and then

yea we should look this weekend and see what we can get. We'll bring cameras and take lots of pics.

I was looking online for the picture of the three B-17's flying over manhattan in the 40's that I have in my room but cant find it, i did however find some others here...

http://fiveprime.org/hivemind/Tags/b17

http://www.theautomat.net/images/machinebank.jpg

The inside of one of the city's many old Horn & Hardart automats. Be awesome if they brought these back.

I remember as a kid my mom took me to the last one in the city. That was so much fun. A few months later I saw on the news that it was closing :(

'55 Belvedere :rofl:
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