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Old hi-res color photograph of London

I found this high resolution picture of London via Digg and it was taken sometime around the 1930s. I really love it. Notice how everyone is wearing the same black and beigh colors and how all the cars are also similar in colors. [Link]


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  1. moocherx says:

    it looks like you’re looking down Shaftesbury Avenue from Picadilly Circus. I’d say it hasn’t changed much apart from the cars, fashion and blatant cigarette advertising!

  2. Blogs R Us says:

    Not to mention a palpable absence of people of colour!

  3. moayad says:

    It’s beautiful, It looks as if it was taken of a movie set :)

    1930s, to think of it.. we used to live in mud houses back then ;)

  4. Entrepreneur says:

    Lots of men, looks like Kuwait

  5. Blogs R Us says:

    Ah, but they are mostly gay men you see in the picture…looks quintessentially the West End, and it should do too!

  6. 1949-1950…those were the heady days of our youth; of an unbridled innocence when yes, please! and cheers, actually meant something, when they didn’t use to punctuate every third sentence with a bugger this, or a bugger that.
    (thankfully, the popularity of the f word was
    still in its infancy).
    I just can’t take my eyes off this vintage picture you have here; love the smell of it to bits.
    Oh bring back ,bring back, oh bring back my classy baby to me, to me!

  7. mooodi says:

    Around a year ago I found a post on a forum with high-res WW1 photos, in colour.
    But for now, this is all I could find.
    http://www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com/

  8. omar says:

    I never knew 1949 is in the 30′s…
    interesting…


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