Another selection of carefully colourised photos from those two decades. The video runs for 8 minutes and includes 40 photos.
Another selection of carefully colourised photos from those two decades. The video runs for 8 minutes and includes 40 photos.
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That was terrific, Pete.
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Glad you enjoyed the photos, Jennie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Always! Best to you, Pete.
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I expected more cigarette smoking. Warmest regards, Ed
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I can see why you would have.
Best wishes, Pete.
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We have many images from that period, although most are from movies, and many in black and white. The colours look pretty nice as well. Thanks, Pete.
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Thanks, Olga. New technology is making colourised photos so much better.
Best wishes, Pete.
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The colorization is done very well in his set. The photos really bring a bygone era to life. It was fun to see some from New Hampshire and Vermont. My husband lived in Southington, Connecticut for a while when he was a kid.
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The more I see of these colourised photos, the better they get. The techniques used are so much better than they were 10 years ago.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I agree. I remember how bad colorized movies were when they first came out.
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Dancing cheek to cheek…so much nicer! The shift between late 19th and early 20th centuries…stunning. Women shed all those volumes of clothing and became visible. It’s always good to look back and remember. Nice collection.
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Glad to hear you enjoyed the photos, Carolyn.
Best wishes, Pete.
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The generation before mine, but it still brought back a great deal of nostalgia. thanks, Pete.
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I’m sure it did, Don. Glad you enjoyed them.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Despite my love of B&W photography, I am enjoying these colorized images, they bring a reality to the times in a unique way.
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I feel the same way, Dorothy. After looking at so many historical B&W photos for decades, the colour makes them look new and fresh.
Best wishes, Pete.
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That colourisation is really quite good. When I see the photos of small towns, they remind me of Back to the Future, and how accurate they were with their realisation of 1950s America, which doesn’t look so very different from these photos. Cheers, Jon.
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Early colourisation of photos was just awful. New techniques have improved it so much, it looks as if the photos were taken yesterday.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I was going to comment on the great colorization of these photos. But I’ll just agree with you here. The photos bring these people to life, even though the vast majority of them (if not all of them) are no longer with us today.
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Mostly all dead and gone now …and we are next in line .. but the nostalgia is pleasing
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It always occurs to me that the people in old photos are long dead. Visions of the past, preserved forever in time by photography.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I enjoy the warm feelings that the nostalgia brings but I dread the fact that I too am standing on the precipice of becoming history.
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The colorizations always does tricks on the mind, making the photos look more current. I find them evocative and I wonder what became of the people. The look of rural America was quite different.
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When I look at photos taken a very long time ago, I am always remided that everyone in them is no longer alive. They are like photos of ghosts.
Best wishes, Pete.
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A great find, Pete! I think they might show us to be a bit more affluent during that era than we actually were though.
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The photographers may have deliberately chosen some subjects of course. But it is strange how most people look to be healthier and better off in colour.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Before my time but not by much…..to tell the truth not much of those look like the town I was born into. Good collective chuq
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America is such a huge country, it must be hard to capture an ‘overall’ feel of the period.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yep….even then it was diverse chuq
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The top shelf of that magazine rack looks pretty tame compared to today’s standards.
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I think most stuff was sold ‘under the counter’ in those days. 🙂
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They surely knew how to dress up😊
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People dressed very respectably back then, Arlene.
Best wishes, Pete.
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