San Francisco street corner on Dec 8, 1941

[green papaya]

Morning after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Corner of Sutter and Kearny Street, San Francisco, Ca.

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[Tiki Tom]

Amazing photos, thanks. This perfectly illustrates the tag line that "the 1940s had so much style that even war looked good." The world was going to hell most horribly...but at least a certain dress standard was maintained in certain quarters. I love the guy's hat/tie combination in the top photograph.

 

[Wells]

Beautiful photos. Thanks for sharing!

 

[mikespens]

+1!

 

[filfoster]

The focus and color clarity of these pictures look like stills from a Hollywood movie. Brings yesterday to today.

 

[DesertDan]

The colors and coordination of hats to suits is really an eye-opener! Being used to nothing but black & white photography from that era I never imagined that.

 

[Frunobulax]

The colors and coordination of hats to suits is really an eye-opener! Being used to nothing but black & white photography from that era I never imagined that.

Me too. It's a little bit of a surprise!

 

[Fastuni]

Except these are not period color-photos, but recently colorized black&white photos.

The choice of colors is guesswork/fantasy. Some of them are certainly realistic and probable.
Others are rather fancy and IMO not entirely convincing (the purple suit and matching hat i.e... maybe this was just grey or light brown.)

 

[filfoster]

Had no idea 'colorizing' could be so effective. Really impressive.

 

[p51]

Good job on the coloring, but I picked up on that right away. I've studied a lot of era color photos over the years and I can pick out 40s color easily.

 

[Otter]

Well composed photos, nice someone took them to show people's reaction.