Main Street, Pie Town, New Mexico (1940)
At the Pie Town Fair in New Mexico (1940
Serving the barbecue dinner at the Pie Town, New Mexico Fair. Pie Town is a community settled by about 200 migrant Texas and Oklahoma farmers who filed homestead claims
General Merchandise store, Main Street, Pie Town, New Mexico
Jack Whinery, Pie Town, New Mexico, homesteader, with his wife and the youngest of his five children in their dirt-floor dugout home
On the Main Street of Cascade, Idaho (1941)
Santa Fe streamliner Super Chief being serviced at the depot in Albuquerque. Servicing these Diesel streamliners takes five minutes (1943
40th Street Shop, Chicago & Northwestern R.R. (1942
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06-07-2013, 11:04 AM #1Registered User
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The United States in the 1940's(In Color) *Large Pictures*
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06-07-2013, 11:06 AM #2Registered User
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Looks awesome.
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06-07-2013, 11:07 AM #3Registered User
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Women employed as roundhouse wipers having lunch, Chicago & North Western Railroad, Clinton, Iowa (1943)
Chicago & North Western rail-yard, Chicago (1942)
A winter afternoon in the North Proviso yardmaster's office, Chicago & North Western Railroad (1942)
Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the Chicago & North Western roundhouse, giving a giant "H" class locomotive a bath of live steam at Clinton, Iowa (1943)
Freight depot of the Army consolidating station at Chicago (1943).
B-25 bomber assembly hall, North American Aviation, Kansas City (1942).
Engine inspector for North American Aviation at Long Beach, California (1942)
Riveter at Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant in Long Beach, California (1942)
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06-07-2013, 11:07 AM #4Registered Abuser
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wow
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cool pics OP, strange seeing them in color☆☆☆Misc Dad Crew☆☆☆
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B-25 bomber final assembly line at North American Aviation works, Inglewood, California (1942).
A painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 Mustang fighter prior to spraying with olive-drab camouflage. North American Aviation plant, Inglewood, California (1942).
Final assembly for a B-25 bomber at North American Aviation, Inglewood, California (1942).
"Big Pete" Ramagos, a rigger at work on the TVA's Douglas Dam in Tennessee (1942
Touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Consolidated-Vultee's Nashville division (1943)
Servicing an A-20 bomber at Langley Field, Virginia (1940).
Assembling switchboxes on the firewalls of B-25 bombers at North American Aviation's Inglewood, California (1942
Workers installing fixtures and assemblies in the tail section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach, California (1942
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06-07-2013, 11:11 AM #7No f*cks given
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Thanks OP, that was awesome. Would rep if I could.
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wonder how they do this..
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Students at Washington High School in Los Angeles training for specific contributions to the war effort (1942)
Working on the horizontal stabilizer of a "Vengeance" dive bomber at the Consolidated-Vultee plant in Nashville (1943).
A mechanic cleaning an air box for the engine of the truck. Fort Knox, Kentucky (1942)
Goodyear Aircraft, Akron, Ohio. Formerly an aircraft dock, this huge building, thought to be the largest in the world with no interior supports (1941)
Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron (1942).
Douglas Aircraft Co. at Long Beach, California. Carefully trained women inspectors check cargo transport inner-wings before they are assembled on the fuselage
Fort Knox, Kentucky. Infantryman with half-track. A young soldier sights his Garand rifle like an old-timer. He likes the piece for its fine firing qualities and its rugged, dependable mechanism (1942)
Kansas City, Kansas. B-25 bomber plane at North American Aviation being hauled along an outdoor assembly line (1942).
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06-07-2013, 11:13 AM #10Salt Life
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cool as ****.
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06-07-2013, 11:14 AM #11Banned
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the women looked horrid back then....eish
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06-07-2013, 11:14 AM #12Amphibious Green Phaggot
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In4 later. Have to see these on PC
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awesome pictures.
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I see what you did there, and I like it.Originally Posted by stevenmurray198
cool pics OP, strange seeing them in color
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P-51 "Mustang" fighter planes being prepared for test flight near the North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, California (My personal favorite WW2 era aircraft)
Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City
A new B-25 bomber is brought for a test hop to the flight line at the Kansas City, Kansas, plant of North American Aviation
Lucille Mazurek, age 29, ex-housewife, husband going into the service. Working at the Heil and Co. factory in Milwaukee on blackout lamps to be used on Air Force gasoline trailers (1943
Feeding an SNC advanced training plane its essential supply of gasoline is done by sailor mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas
Rita Rodriguez. Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports at Consolidated Aircraft, Fort Worth, Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas. Women from all fields have joined the production army (1942)
Fruit Store and Capital Hotel at 10th and P, Lincoln, Nebraska (1942
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nice OP! moar
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Columbia Steel Co. at Geneva, Utah (1942
Columbia Steel at Geneva, Utah. Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day on the construction site of a new steel plant needed for the war effort (1942)
Naval Air Base at Corpus Christi, Texas. Jesse Rhodes Waller, aviation ordnance mate third class, tries out a 30-caliber machine gun he has just installed in a Navy plane (1942)
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surpringly mind boggling
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always forget to add 10lb to one side crew
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06-07-2013, 11:20 AM #19Beer, coffee, drugs, and more beer. 'Murika!Originally Posted by Jkether
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On the Main Street of Cascade, Idaho (1941)
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06-07-2013, 11:20 AM #20Registered User
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Man it looks so surreal and cool back then. 'Mirin the women putting in work, unlike today bishes couldn't handle 5 mins. of manual labor. Also 'mirin black mechanic, I thought that wouldn't have been possible in the 40's.
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neat
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06-07-2013, 11:25 AM #22User Title
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So weird trying to imagine a country built on manufacturing rather than service industries.
i'm finished
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mind blown seeing this in colour
can only every imagine that far back in black and white (3/4 srs)Sig line can't be a novel
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^This picture blows my mind for some reason..I think its the War bond posters.
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06-07-2013, 11:31 AM #26Team Rewarding
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Good thread! Reps!
What's your sauce btw?how can she neg... HOW CAN SHE NEG!!! HOW?!
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I love this thread man. God damnit, there's something about the mid 1900's America that I f*cking love.
Repped hard OP.
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love the style of everything back in those days.
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06-07-2013, 11:35 AM #30hehe ty men
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Its amazing how much more real color makes those old pictures seem. Especially WW2 pictures and video of dead soldiers
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