This is Kodachrome 10 used in 1946 at Santa Cruz, CA. To me it could have been taken yesterday. Photo credit W. K. Amonette.
Kodachrome from 1948 by W.K. Amonette by
John Carter, on Flickr
Thanks to everyone so far, this has turned out to be a remarkable thread for me. Not only because of wonderful images posted, and Larry, that is indeed a Kodak Moment shot you posted... but I have learned that all these years, I have been looking at black and white family photos from my parents' which ended sometime in the 1960s. After that, my old family photos were color mostly and shot on cheap film with cheap cameras that left images that are now fading and were not that good a quality to begin with... no wonder I always thought of the family times before I was born as depressing, and somehow so out of touch! The photos are not quite as bad as those on the walls at Cracker Barrel, LOL, but all of them left me with a depressed feeling until I saw the Kodachrome Slides posted here, dated 1940, 1947, 1948 and in the 50s.
Not only were the images in remarkable condition with a beauty of their own but the times, the clothing, the people, their homes, their yards all were in COLOR!!!! Holy crap, it is amazing that after all this time, I can now remember those times, in COLOR!!! I did not grow up as a kid in a black and white world, it was colorful and our homes had colorful rooms and furniture, and our cars were not all "Henry Ford Model T BLACK"! No, they were red, blue, green, yellow, and two-tone pastels, and colorful!
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So, "thank you" to all of you posting and if you have some really old Kodachrome images to post, please continue to do so. If this old dog can be reminded that life was exciting and colorful when I was growing up, which was no different for my parents and their parents, then, maybe there are others who will wake up as I have just done.
Dang, this is so cool!:angel:
