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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Aug 13, 2006
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9 Comments, add your own...
1. moocherx | August 13th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
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 | August 13th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
Not to mention a palpable absence of people of colour!
3. moayad | August 13th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
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 | August 13th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
Lots of men, looks like Kuwait
5. Blogs R Us | August 13th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Ah, but they are mostly gay men you see in the picture…looks quintessentially the West End, and it should do too!
6. KtheKuwaiti | August 13th, 2006 at 5:07 pm
1949-1950
7. Hibs Don't Lie | August 13th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
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!
8. mooodi | August 14th, 2006 at 12:02 am
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/
9. omar | August 21st, 2006 at 7:56 am
I never knew 1949 is in the 30’s…
interesting…
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