Kodachrome, give me those nice, bright colors

Wardner · Dec 28, 2010

70 full-size prewar and war-time vibrant color pictures with one click. Mostly farmlife. An amazing collection. This is your parents and grandparents early life. Enjoy.
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bill mart · Dec 28, 2010

photo 9, chopping cotton? looks more like hoeing cotton,although we dont do much cotton growing in western NY., bill m.

Fergienewbee · Dec 28, 2010

Nice look at American life from the '40s. I enjoyed them a lot.

Larry

jim johnson · Dec 28, 2010

Thank you Wardner, those were very good. Look at how everyone dressed up just to go to a farm sale then. Very good look back at the era.

Jim

Anonymous-0 · Dec 28, 2010

Photo 12 the girls identical print dresses most likely made from feed bags.

thurlow · Dec 28, 2010

Sure looks like they're chopping cotton to me...........

cshess · Dec 28, 2010

Great photos!Did you ever ask why in those days when we ate everything such as real milk,an all the other foods that had not been modified in some way or other we seemed to be not nearly as fat as today. There is not one person in these an other photos of that area that have overweight kids or adults.I know some is lack of activities but is that real reason?

Mike M · Dec 28, 2010

No wonder they called it the great depression,no one was even smiling for the camera.

greenbeanman in Kansas · Dec 28, 2010

Kodachrome has been an excellent film for many decades.

As a side story here is an article telling of the last Kodachrome roll of film being processed.
Last Kodachrome film processed.

jwmfarms · Dec 28, 2010

It's called "chopping cotton" because they are chopping the weeds out of a cotton field, not the cotton itself. It's a southern thing!

GeneMO · Dec 28, 2010

I have been told that "chopping" cotton is not actually weeding. They planted it too thick back then so they would be assured of getting a stand. Then they came back through and thinned it out.

At least that's what I have heard.

Gene

Bret4207 · Dec 28, 2010

Great pics. I find it ridiculous that they have to label the pictures as "...African American children fishing..." DUH! We can see they're black, why create more divisiveness by labeling people? Why not "...po'white trash eating meal in dugout..."???

Stuff like that just gets my goat.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 28, 2010

The adults did real physical labor, and the older children helped. I'm pretty sure the younger children, that were not old enough to help, played outside becase there were no TV's or computers to sit in front of. In other words, yes, physical labor and active playing.

kyplowboy · Dec 28, 2010

#21 shows some good look'n tobacco plants. Who whould have thought it would grow that good in NM?

Murray Hebblethwaite · Dec 28, 2010

Blocking sugar-beets is similar to "chopping" cotton, if two sugar-beet plants are too close, they will NOT develop properly, so one has to go!

Hoeing sugar-beets comes later when the weeds begin to grow!

That is also similar to "thinning" apples on the trees. When the apples are developing in the early stages, if two are touching, one is removed, so when you go to pick/harvest the apples, you have a much better quality apple!

I trust this helps clear up the picture, Mr. Bill Smart!

D Slater · Dec 28, 2010

Wardner first thought was one of the old trucks belonged to your grandparents. Must be wrong didn't see one with a bunch of modifications.

Wardner · Dec 28, 2010

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PJH · Dec 28, 2010

Thanks for the nice pictures Wardner.

I've got a torch head exactly like the one in pic #49.

Paul

smallercrawler · Dec 28, 2010

Wardener, many thanks for the photos. I"m not an optical expert but to me these "old" Kodachrome pics have a "solidity" and "snap" that is unequalled in digital stuff.
Lots of character and dignity in those folks faces.

Anonymous-0 · Dec 28, 2010

Did you pay a royalty to Paul Simon for using the subject title. Few if any musicians today can equal the great stuff he and others in his generation scripted. Instead we have Lady Gaga and others that are little if any better.

bill mart · Dec 28, 2010

so they are thinning cotton,got it,still dont see why they just dont call it thinning but it must be a southern thing. Bill sMart, kinda like that! bill m.

Murray Hebblethwaite · Dec 28, 2010

Has difficult as times were in those days, some persons stood beside their partners through thick and thin making the best of what they had, being very proud, even if they did not have much!

Murray Hebblethwaite · Dec 28, 2010

These children seem to be, very bewildered and full of amazement with their surroundings as if they do not believe what they are looking at!

I have to agree, this is a great collection of pictures depicting an era gone by!

I have to wonder, how would today's society adapt to such a situation which the "Great Depression" presented?

Case e · Dec 28, 2010

dont think the cigarette in the last picture is going to hurt that guys lungs. Any body know what exactly he did?

Weldon K · Dec 28, 2010

Anyone recognize their Grandma in photo #11 ?

muleboss · Dec 28, 2010

(quoted from post at 10:17:38 12/28/10) Great pics. I find it ridiculous that they have to label the pictures as "...African American children fishing..." DUH! We can see they're black, why create more divisiveness by labeling people? Why not "...po'white trash eating meal in dugout..."???

Stuff like that just gets my goat.

They did not call them that back then, Why not call it as it was,
I agree

M Diesel · Dec 29, 2010

(quoted from post at 16:11:04 12/28/10) dont think the cigarette in the last picture is going to hurt that guys lungs. Any body know what exactly he did?

Hard to say about a carbon black plant. They burn and handle a lot of stuff. Charcoal plants used to have guys that looked like that too. Sometimes missing a finger or two as well. Wasn't a job I wanted.

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