When I think of the 1940’s my mind’s eye memories are of my Grandfather’s complete collection of Life Magazines loaded with black and white pictures. As a child I remember reading them in great detail, with my siblings, as we retrieved them from huge boxes in the barn on his Grass Valley California Ranch. With morbid fascination we read and perused the black and white pictures of World War Two.
I also remember the day my Father set the magazine’s to a bonfire in response to us spending our vacation time reading about the London Blitz, Iwo Jima and the liberation of the death camps….and the resultant poison Oak reactions from the smoke of the fire.
I find it fascinating to re-visit that era via color photos, as released by the Library of Congress to a flicker site. Continue reading ‘1940’s Colors…’
