Color pictures from the Great Depression

[giza]

Here are two of storefronts that I especially liked:





There are 68 more pictures on the Denver Post. The photographs encompass everything from people to places to farms to train yards.

Looking at some of the pictures, it's pretty amazing to see how people lived back then. And all the advertising in the picture with the school children? Yeah, I don't think that'd go over too well today.

Comments

[spottacus.livejournal.com]

The sadness in the faces matches what I see around unemployed friends in silicon valley these days. Also, amazing to see how hand-lettered all the signs are, and primitive the machines are (even the flying machines). It's a miracle that this society was only 30 years from the moon.