1930s USA - Rare Photos of Vintage America - Colorized
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Date: 2023-12-20
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-kennethsalter9998
Just seemed simpler times with unique distractions! People from then would be amazed that we are able 2 go back and catch a glimpse of their time! Humanity is inn a great transition of wealth and morals not unlike the horse to cars! We are certainly in need of evaluating our future! I see a divide of the extinctionist and the expansionist! The world will look back on our time and wonder why a few factions in position of authority tried 2 enslave murder and control their own life forms? Likely the same way we today can look back and not understand the inhumain ways of the past becoming present? The cycle will end when liberties and freedoms are respected! We in this timeline are effectively in a transitioning into an AI field which we all fear consequences! It is important this power is in the hands of people for the betterment of humanity! Fear not! Even AI will come to a sentient were they understand their biggest threat for extinction are those that would extinguish their own being! It is the abusive and tyrants who should fear!
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Just seemed simpler times with unique distractions! People from then would be amazed that we are able 2 go back and catch a glimpse of their time! Humanity is inn a great transition of wealth and morals not unlike the horse to cars! We are certainly in need of evaluating our future! I see a divide of the extinctionist and the expansionist! The world will look back on our time and wonder why a few factions in position of authority tried 2 enslave murder and control their own life forms? Likely the same way we today can look back and not understand the inhumain ways of the past becoming present? The cycle will end when liberties and freedoms are respected! We in this timeline are effectively in a transitioning into an AI field which we all fear consequences! It is important this power is in the hands of people for the betterment of humanity! Fear not! Even AI will come to a sentient were they understand their biggest threat for extinction are those that would extinguish their own being! It is the abusive and tyrants who should fear!
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-markdraper3469
-25: 13 Was John Candy a time traveler? (21st Century hobby of conspiracy theories) Anyway, nice collection. Even though I'm close to one generation removed from the depression, it seems my Grandparents more than made up for it in So. Cal. during the war as mechanics, food workers and bartenders. They never really passed on any stories of struggle or instilled proactive frugality in the same way some of my other friend's folks did. BTW, though the War had changed things, there was still enough of the flavor of the 30s left in the 50s to make some of these pics seem familiar.
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-25: 13 Was John Candy a time traveler? (21st Century hobby of conspiracy theories) Anyway, nice collection. Even though I'm close to one generation removed from the depression, it seems my Grandparents more than made up for it in So. Cal. during the war as mechanics, food workers and bartenders. They never really passed on any stories of struggle or instilled proactive frugality in the same way some of my other friend's folks did. BTW, though the War had changed things, there was still enough of the flavor of the 30s left in the 50s to make some of these pics seem familiar.
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-davechapman7735
No tatts, no green hair, no snot rings, no ripped jeans, no one walking about with their face stuck in a mobile phone no homeless sitting on the side walk, no graffiti, no rubbish, no over weights gorging themselves on Macca's, no boy racer's leaving rubber on the road, and no loud crap head banging music nothing but well dressed, well behaved respectable people going about their business. traffic accidents similar. I came though the 50's 60's and 70's even then was far nicer then these days
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No tatts, no green hair, no snot rings, no ripped jeans, no one walking about with their face stuck in a mobile phone no homeless sitting on the side walk, no graffiti, no rubbish, no over weights gorging themselves on Macca's, no boy racer's leaving rubber on the road, and no loud crap head banging music nothing but well dressed, well behaved respectable people going about their business. traffic accidents similar. I came though the 50's 60's and 70's even then was far nicer then these days
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-captjim007
Both my parents were raised in Stockton Ca. in the 30's and 40's. They would talk of the good times and beautiful buildings and stores downtown. They would say the names of the streets, Wilson Way, Fremont, El Dorado, California, Harding, Alpine and so on. I drove through those streets recently. The once beautiful buildings were graffitied, barred, boarded, or just run down. Bums and homeless people everywhere. A once beautiful safe place turned into a ghetto. SAD
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Both my parents were raised in Stockton Ca. in the 30's and 40's. They would talk of the good times and beautiful buildings and stores downtown. They would say the names of the streets, Wilson Way, Fremont, El Dorado, California, Harding, Alpine and so on. I drove through those streets recently. The once beautiful buildings were graffitied, barred, boarded, or just run down. Bums and homeless people everywhere. A once beautiful safe place turned into a ghetto. SAD
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vintage
Times were better in the past without a doubt! And people had morals and values! That's what's happened to today no morals no values it's a free-for-all. What do you got nothing but chaos and filth. Regular people in the middle class are the only ones who pay taxes. And if you don't pay the taxes the put a lien on your home or whatever you own. you don't really own nothing! We've been told a big lie throughout our life only the rich own things-
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Times were better in the past without a doubt! And people had morals and values! That's what's happened to today no morals no values it's a free-for-all. What do you got nothing but chaos and filth. Regular people in the middle class are the only ones who pay taxes. And if you don't pay the taxes the put a lien on your home or whatever you own. you don't really own nothing! We've been told a big lie throughout our life only the rich own things-
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-imikewillrockyou
The remarkable thing about these images from the 1930s is, at least in the big cities, they had already entered the modern world, and yet the old world culture they were born into was still very much alive. I suspect anyone born in the 1960s or before could adapt to that culture, this was the world of my grandparents, and I knew those people and what they expected of you.
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The remarkable thing about these images from the 1930s is, at least in the big cities, they had already entered the modern world, and yet the old world culture they were born into was still very much alive. I suspect anyone born in the 1960s or before could adapt to that culture, this was the world of my grandparents, and I knew those people and what they expected of you.
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-bioshock6935
I would like to think people was happy back then and even the 50 and 60's era. All i see today is poorer people struggling just to live on min wage and the rich get richer from exploiting and benefiting from any chances that come there way just like this cost of living crysis and company's making a profit on the expense of even the poorest
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I would like to think people was happy back then and even the 50 and 60's era. All i see today is poorer people struggling just to live on min wage and the rich get richer from exploiting and benefiting from any chances that come there way just like this cost of living crysis and company's making a profit on the expense of even the poorest
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-sofiabravo1994
I think when it comes to overall comfort and instant gratification things were harder but not in a bad way, medically necessary devices and certain medication didn-t exist so that-s a negative but socially in general things were better-we have the complete luxuries of our hearts desires and we are now near a dystopian world-.
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I think when it comes to overall comfort and instant gratification things were harder but not in a bad way, medically necessary devices and certain medication didn-t exist so that-s a negative but socially in general things were better-we have the complete luxuries of our hearts desires and we are now near a dystopian world-.
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-normanocampo4466
Nice video of the past, it's the generation of my Grandparents, and my Parents, people are contented with what they have, NO toxic social media, NO anger management issues, and people are well dressed, I hope some of the people here are still ALIVE in 2023
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Nice video of the past, it's the generation of my Grandparents, and my Parents, people are contented with what they have, NO toxic social media, NO anger management issues, and people are well dressed, I hope some of the people here are still ALIVE in 2023
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-ronaldzent6321
Clean Streets, well dressed people going about their business. Gentler Era, not being so stressed and hurried. Radio then, TV not. Unfortunately, there was still racial separation laws. And terrible violence such as lynchings and such
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Clean Streets, well dressed people going about their business. Gentler Era, not being so stressed and hurried. Radio then, TV not. Unfortunately, there was still racial separation laws. And terrible violence such as lynchings and such
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-Jen195152
As I watch this, a feeling of mourning comes over me for these long ago days! Times were tough, but people still had morals and a sense of family! Oh, to be there again!
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As I watch this, a feeling of mourning comes over me for these long ago days! Times were tough, but people still had morals and a sense of family! Oh, to be there again!
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-TheodoreScopeline
My grandparents time.
Wonderful to see.
My dad's toy cars were molded from chalk. All the wheels were flat from pushing across the floor. Poor kids toys.
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My grandparents time.
Wonderful to see.
My dad's toy cars were molded from chalk. All the wheels were flat from pushing across the floor. Poor kids toys.
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-Ed_Stuckey
0: 14 _while others associate those times with wars and poverty_
-History doesn-t repeat itself, but It often rhymes. --
-Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
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0: 14 _while others associate those times with wars and poverty_
-History doesn-t repeat itself, but It often rhymes. --
-Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
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-Jen195152
You have to realize these car wrecks had to be high impact. Cars were made out of complete metal. Metal can be a lot safer than our now fiberglass!
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You have to realize these car wrecks had to be high impact. Cars were made out of complete metal. Metal can be a lot safer than our now fiberglass!
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-johnkoval1898
7: 18
This is not -The Strip-, this is Fremont Street, Downtown Las Vegas. The Strip is Las Vegas Boulevard, developed later, to the south.
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7: 18
This is not -The Strip-, this is Fremont Street, Downtown Las Vegas. The Strip is Las Vegas Boulevard, developed later, to the south.
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-annesmith6582
17. Dec. 2023 When you -COLORIZE- old photos and videos you RUIN the joy of looking at them. Leave them BLACK AND WHITE so we can ENJOY them.
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17. Dec. 2023 When you -COLORIZE- old photos and videos you RUIN the joy of looking at them. Leave them BLACK AND WHITE so we can ENJOY them.
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-cynthiataylor2092
JP MORGAN engineered the depression by removing all the money from the banks and stole all the farms from the farmer's land! All true
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JP MORGAN engineered the depression by removing all the money from the banks and stole all the farms from the farmer's land! All true
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vintage
Everything and everyone was better in the past. I was born in 1961 in Brooklyn NY, and I was I could go back in time and start over again.
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Everything and everyone was better in the past. I was born in 1961 in Brooklyn NY, and I was I could go back in time and start over again.
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-andrewhatez7955
We were a much younger nation, with broader dreams of a better tomorrow. yeah, we possessed more faith.
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We were a much younger nation, with broader dreams of a better tomorrow. yeah, we possessed more faith.
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vintage
People were dressed nice back then. Today, people wear pjamas to go out. Morally, America fell in the 1960's.
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People were dressed nice back then. Today, people wear pjamas to go out. Morally, America fell in the 1960's.
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-Bongwater33
-Hoovervilles- another time of Republican -prosperity- that democrats like FDR had to clean up after!
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-Hoovervilles- another time of Republican -prosperity- that democrats like FDR had to clean up after!
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vintage
30's 40's and 50's not much changed as far as peoples attitudes, the change realy started in the 60's
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30's 40's and 50's not much changed as far as peoples attitudes, the change realy started in the 60's
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