Comments on: LIFE Archive | Pacific Theater in Color (Part I)

By: Fabio

Fabio — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:53:35 +0000

As a child born in ’84 I always enjoy a sneak of the daily life’s of people living in earlier times then I here in America. One thing I must say that, I do feel a bit melancholic about how drastically style changed. I know it will always continue but I just have some nostalgia about missing old world glamour and sophistication.

By: David V

David V — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:54:14 +0000

What always grabs me about these color images from the past is how, suddenly, they seam more immediate. They don’t have the same “old photo” quality that a B/W image from the time gives you because , I imagine, most of us were raised as post war children and were used to seeing this as from the past.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:30:12 +0000

Does anyone else think the bar in that one picture is incredibly cool.
Looks very current, especially the little two lights above the painting.

They had electricity back then? huh.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:14:55 +0000

Thanks for the tip. These pictures are really amazing.

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:38:02 +0000

Here is the link to the original: http://tinyurl.com/a7jbop

By: Arturo

Arturo — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:14:19 +0000

Michael Williams,

My brother brought these spectacular images to my attention as the fellow sitting under the “barber shop” sign (2wii) bears a striking resemblance to our still-living father who fought in the Pacific theater during WWII.

Is there any chance that additional information is available?

Thanks!

By: Michael Williams

Michael Williams — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:25:56 +0000

I fixed the link. Thanks for the heads up.

ACL

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:49:13 +0000

The link to the baseball one is wrong. It links to the truck driver photo. Not the full size baseball pic.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:37:02 +0000

For the record, I, too, was not making light of the sacrifices made by any of these men.

I am glad they looked like they were having a good time. You don’t really see that these days.

By: sam

sam — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:06:18 +0000

Remember that WWII media and documentation was as sculpted/scripted and managed as either of our gulf misadventures. Most of this kind of photogrpahy was meant to evoke the very feelings we are talking about here: laconic grit, sullen swagger and an esprit de corps. Not that these feelings are/were fake, just that they were also useful.

On top of that my grandfather used to talk about taking and clearing a beach so the cameras could be set-up to record the “official” landing of the main force.

And man those denim shirts in the barber photo are fly as hell.