Interesting Website - Retronaut

[AdrianLvsRocky]

I wasn't sure where to post this so please move if necessary.

Discovered this website today:

http://www.retronaut.co/category/1940s/

It has sections for each decade of the 20th Century plus a WW1 and WW2 section. It contains things like scans of magazines and catalogues and a whole host of photos/ other info about the different decades.

Well worth a browse!

 

[AdrianLvsRocky]

Not Golden Era I know but I particularly like the 'Smiling Victorians' section:

http://www.retronaut.co/2010/06/smiling-victorians/

I think it goes to show that, while a lot of people have the perception that people in eras gone by were somehow less fun loving or youthful, they were just like we are. Every generation thinks it's the first to feel any emotion but these photos show our ancestors were having a whale of a time before we were twinkles in our parent's eyes!

 

[Marzena]

Fantastic! Here is what really gives one a taste of the eras long gone by - ordinary people getting on with their ordinary lives.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I love this one!

The Plus Fours Routefinder (circa 1920s)

 

[MissMittens]

I've NEVER seen one of those before - that's awesome

 

[Katinka von K.]

Thank you very much for the link. So many nice pictures.

Adrienne Nichols, you are cool!

 

[Dan'l]

Thanks for sharing, I now have this site in my favorites list.

 

[MissMittens]

Thank you very much for the link. So many nice pictures.

Adrienne Nichols, you are cool!

Forget skinny women.......another reason I don't like today's Hollywood. Women with no shape.

 

[ZombieGirl]

Not Golden Era I know but I particularly like the 'Smiling Victorians' section:

http://www.retronaut.co/2010/06/smiling-victorians/

I think it goes to show that, while a lot of people have the perception that people in eras gone by were somehow less fun loving or youthful, they were just like we are. Every generation thinks it's the first to feel any emotion but these photos show our ancestors were having a whale of a time before we were twinkles in our parent's eyes!

So funny... I was just looking at that section when I flipped back to this thread! I particularly like the couple at the end. I bet they were quite a pair!

 

[dhermann1]

This is great, but please, ladies! If you find something of general interest, don't keep it to yourselves! The Lounge is for the Boys, too!

 

[rue]

But boys have cooties



Seriously, great site! Thank you ALR

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

But boys have cooties

Circa 1949

 

[rue]

:eeek: See??

 

[FraeuleinBerlin]

I LOVE THIS SITE! Wow, wow wow wow wow wow! Thank you!

 

[HadleyH]

Well worth a browse!

Yes indeed! Thank you very much!



When i saw these photos in color from before WWI - the year is 1913 I was totally amazed! Like one comment says " So awesomely beautiful..and modern. Could be a shot from any high fashion magazine.."



The caption : "Lieutenant Colonel Mervyn O’Gorman, a distinguised Aeronautical engineer, took these autochromes of his daughter Christina at and near Lulworth Cove in Dorset, in 1913."

 

[AdrianLvsRocky]

This is great, but please, ladies! If you find something of general interest, don't keep it to yourselves! The Lounge is for the Boys, too!

Sorry dhermann1, I didn't mean to exclude the boys - honest!

I just didn't really know where else to put it. Admin/ Moderators - please could you move this thread to somewhere more appropriate and less exclusive?

Thank you!

Laura

 

[AdrianLvsRocky]

So funny... I was just looking at that section when I flipped back to this thread! I particularly like the couple at the end. I bet they were quite a pair!

That couple were my favourite! They look so mischevious and full of life and love. A gorgeous set of photos.

 

[Gingerella72]

OMG, this site is awesome!

I love the Smiling Victorians capsule. Sometimes it's so hard to relate to the people in the conventional, staid, posed, unsmiling photos from that era. These just bring it home that they were just like us, in different clothes and without iphones.

 

[Treetopflyer]

That is a very cool website! Thanks for sharing.

 

[AdrianLvsRocky]

Thought I'd post on the same thread to save room!

Another great website here:

http://www.shorpy.com/

Linked from Retronaut, it's a website with high resolution Golden Era photographs that you can zoom in on to see all the details.

Laura