Captured: America in Color 1939-1943

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/


Pretty excellent pictures there.  We have it very, very easy in the year 2010.

[TMM]

amazing, absolutely amazing. the last photo of the worker from the "carbon black plant" was especially striking.

tmm

[BMacklem]

A very different time, but still one of those old sayings comes to mind... "when men were real men...."
What we have today (painted with a broad brush) would make these people cringe with disgust.

The more I see daily , the more I want to scream at people and ask "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THIS COUNTRY?!?"

A perfect example would be the kid who attached clamps to his nipples, and had a "friend" attach and plug in an electrical cord who is suing the school and the teacher for not warning him that he could electrocute himself.

What a dismal future to look forward to, compared to the sort of sturdy stuff people were made of back then.

[Ryan in Maine]

Thanks for sharing. Caribou, ME is the next town north of me. You don't see many kids that young working the potato fields these days. Family only at that age.

I watched a program about the Dust Bowl last night on the History Channel. Coupled with these photos, I think it's, sadly, safe to say that the resolve of the citizens of this country has been watered down.

I'd like to point out everything that I think is wrong with this country from a cultural responsibility aspect, but there's so much. When did we burn the blue collars?

[Nitrogen]

You should check out all the photos in the library of congress.
There's lots of good stuff in there.

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

Tallpine in picture 58. At least my mental picture of him.

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

When I first saw these pictures, I thought the same thing you all did.  What happened to us? What happened to all those people I see every day who are too soft to do real work.  Then I looked down at my fat ass, and realized that I work at a desk, on a computer.  I'm just as soft as the rest, or almost so.  I at least plan for my future financially and don't expect others to take care of me.  But when I look into the eyes of the carbon black work, I feel small.  I make much, much, MUCH more money than he ever dreamed of making, I live a lifestyle that he couldn't imagine, but I fear he was the more successful man.

[Waitone]

I make much, much, MUCH more money than he ever dreamed of making, I live a lifestyle that he couldn't imagine, but I fear he was the more successful man.

Somehow I think Carbon Black Man slept soundly at night. 

[BMacklem]

Probably because he knew that the nation had men such as it did that protected it on the ground, and in politics.
Nowadays, we have more people in power that seem to hate this country.