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Offline Joe Messinger

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Re: Neat pictures
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2010, 10:24:53 PM »
Scott,

They are "neat" pictures!  Thanks for posting them.  They bring back some of my childhood memories.  I was born in 1944, a bit later than these photos, but everything still looks familiar.  I wonder if today's generation(s) could muster the skills that were needed to survive during the depression of the 1930's?  Hope they never have to!!

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Re: Neat pictures
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2010, 11:47:50 PM »
Scott,

They are "neat" pictures!  Thanks for posting them.  They bring back some of my childhood memories.  I was born in 1944, a bit later than these photos, but everything still looks familiar.  I wonder if today's generation(s) could muster the skills that were needed to survive during the depression of the 1930's?  Hope they never have to!!

   Heck, we are in about the 1930-equivalent time frame now. And repeating all the same mistakes that made it last through 1941 instead of recovering by 1931.

   More pictures (perhaps the source of the others) on glorious Kodachrome 4x5:

    http://www.shorpy.com/4x5-large-format-kodachromes

    I would love to get my hands on a few of the original slides. If you think 35mm Kodachrome was awesome, try something with 16x the surface area! 

     Brett

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Re: Neat pictures
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2010, 07:18:28 AM »
Wonderful pics. Great contrast, isn't it, between the folks who work and the folks who scheme to leach off their labor.

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Re: Neat pictures
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2010, 08:43:55 AM »
Great look back to a time that my brothers lived thru.  I was or came into this world on December 10, 1941.  So by the time I was old enough to remember much things wer improving.  Thanks for the pic. H^^
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Re: Neat pictures
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2010, 03:21:14 PM »
Scott,
Thanks for a heads up on the wonderful pictures. The photography is exceptional to say the least. It makes us appreciate the hard times of the past. Most of us can't relate when we talk about any current problems.
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Re: Neat pictures
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2010, 04:50:21 PM »
It is an exceptional collection. When you're through looking at it, go to some of the links on the bottom of
the same page, and look at the incredible sets of photos on other pertinent subjects (Afghanistan, Gulf oil spill, etc.)

An outstanding feature of the 1939-1943 series is the general level of poverty. It's something few nowadays can
begin to relate to, just as those of us not living on the Gulf coast cannot fully appreciate the devastation of the oil
spill and its ultimate affects on people's lives and livelihood.

Count our blessings, even considering the mess the planet is in nowadays.

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Re: Neat pictures
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2010, 09:11:43 PM »
Yeah, I wasn't around back then and only read about it in books but the pictures really bring it home. Things were really different in those days.


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