"American Cities of Yesteryear"

[joka]

Stumbled across this awesome collection of color-photos from 1940's-1970's. Thought someone else might enjoy them.
I just love early color photos, they just have so much more depth than B&W photos. Somehow my brain just doesn't register a human as a human on B&W old photos.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?threadid=91984

PS. At the bottom of the post there's links to similar threads of other cities.

[Rantanplan]

nice. thanx

[askDNA]

nice. thanx

thats the first nice thing you've said on here

[<Gypsum Fantastic>]

I just love early color photos, they just have so much more depth than B&W photos. Somehow my brain just doesn't register a human as a human on B&W old photos.

I know what you mean. I never really appreciated WW2 until I saw the 'Colour of war' documentary. Adds a whole new level of realism to the footage, it seemed such distant time period but the colour makes you realise how similar things are today.

[toki]

know the site, go to
http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/
there you can type various cities and the buildings will show. It's a huuuge collection. Even small places will show up. You can also for example type in one special kind of building ("tower") and the country and it will give you the listing you wished in correct scale!!! (all the tower-diagrams sorted by height for example)

[GeraldDuval]

great find...Like everyone else, i love early color photos.

[szr]

Excellent links! Lots of interesting stuff. This picture (http://www.pbase.com/jivecity/image/27307865/original.jpg) of the St. Louis arch blew my figurative hat off!

[Zarathustra]

Washington is really wonderful... I think it worth a visit.

[pathfinder82]

Since Chicago was missing somehow...

vintage: http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t3432.html
http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t3433.html
http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t3434.html
http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t3435.html
http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t3436.html
http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t3437.html
http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t3438.html

new building proposed: http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t14154.html

some modern night shots: http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t7279.html

modern day shots: http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t4055.html
http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t14560.html
http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t14013.html
http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t6959.html
http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t11448.html

[Ratamacue]

I know what you mean. I never really appreciated WW2 until I saw the 'Colour of war' documentary. Adds a whole new level of realism to the footage, it seemed such distant time period but the colour makes you realise how similar things are today.
That was the series of shows that focused on the Pacific campaign, right? If so, absolutely excellent. You're right about color making it seem more real, but at the same time, the way that color footage was saturated back then also added a strange sense of surrealism to it, almost dream-like.