people watching at the 1939 Worlds Fair in color!

[Blackjack]

Must have been hot, look at the absence of hats on the men, the women are wearing most of them...

[video=youtube;3dyQe1sWKPE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dyQe1sWKPE&feature=related[/video]

 

[Gingerella72]

Thanks for posting! I always love these windows into the past showing real people and not stylized actors and models.

 

[Atticus Finch]

Thank you for posting. I watched it several times thinking I might get a glimpse of my father, uncle and grandfather. The three of them were there sometime that summer. Dad was fifteen and Uncle Jule was nineteen.

AF

 

[Atomic Age]

I'm not sure that hats on men were quite as ubiquitous as the movies of the day would have us believe. Much like cigarettes, hats were there to be use as a prop, and a style choice, as much as to reflect reality.

Doug