awesome pictorial of the USA 1940's

[OldPaint]

check out the signage in these photos, just amazing.
Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 | Plog — World news
photography, Photos — The Denver Post
http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/2363/

 

[petesign]

That is awesome! Love the PBR sign, and the planes.

but.. i have to ask...

Coincidence?

 

[shakey0818]

Cool signs & picts.Did you take those pictures OP?

 

[Marlene]

those are some cool photos. some are from my neck of the woods. those women from the girly show at the Rutland Fair were pretty strange as they had on more clothes then you think they would have.

 

[OldPaint]

nope didnt take the pictures, but i have been in that same spot in caribou maine where that old starch factory was.

 

[gabagoo]

wow they look so clean.

 

[Signguyno1]

nope didnt take the pictures, but i have been in that same spot in caribou maine where that old starch factory was.

Pick'n up starch for you speedoo's?:Oops:

 

[jiarby]

WOW! They had lowballers even in the 1940's....

Someone posted these last year... I think they were the same?

 

[Dave Drane]

I love nostalgia even if it is not in my part of the world..
http://www.shorpy.com/node?page=4

 

[K Chez]

This thread has a lot of great pics also. And i mean a lot-over 20,000 posts in the topic and 2.6 million views!

Vintage shots from days gone by...

Edit: Just realized alot of the same photos from the o/p were added here recently.

 

[Craig Sjoquist]

Interesting shots of years ago how did we survive see some of those eating food.