loc.gov — In the spirit of a previous digg'd post of London in 1949, here are some pics from the Library of Congress of America in the 30s and 40s. Gives you nostalgia about a period way before most (dare I say, ALL?) of us were born...
Aug 13, 2006 View in Crawl 4
thebigbrotherAug 13, 2006
It's weird because when I try to visualize past events (the 30s and 40s in this case), I would just think of black and white images.
rhesuspieces00Aug 14, 2006
Man, the '40s had some ugly ones.Yeah, I'm an assh**e.
rawsewageAug 14, 2006
They're not dead. The year 3000 exists now, and theyre looking at pictures of you thinking you're dead. ALL TIMES EXIST simultaneously and eternally. You will always be alive looking at those pictures.
lowtechAug 14, 2006
amen bratha, I sit here with my pc and self-indulging on technology, fat as ever. We don't know what an honest days work is. As we bitch about our hand outs, higher wages and people south of the boarder picking our gardens, cheaning our houses because our kids are too cool for that! kind of sad really, these pic put it in perspective.
flameboyAug 14, 2006
Seeing those pictures has confirmed that good looking people were not invented until the 70s.
v3rocityAug 14, 2006
Apparently muaddib420 has no idea what the phrase "Hi-res" means. All of the photos I viewed were 640x480 or less. Oh wait, maybe that's hi-res if you're working on a 386. No Digg.
mike325Aug 14, 2006
I sent this picture to my father and it triggered a long forgotten memory of my grandparents taking him to London in 1950. He was amazed back then by Piccadilly Circus.Massive Diggs for this find.
schdaAug 14, 2006
Sorry to post so high and off-topic to this conversation thread, but if you want the hi-res versions check out: <a class="user" href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsowhome.html">http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsowhome.html</a> It is a bit more of a manual search but has some archival quality resolutions.