1940s Florida in the Glorious Colors of Kodachrome

The 1940s weren't all shades of brown, ravaged by war, shaped by fear and filmed in black and white. In Florida, USA, there were holidays in the glorious colors of Kodachrome.

The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.
– John Updike, Rabbit at Rest

 

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

St Pete Beach, Florida – 1948

The 1940s weren’t all shades of brown, ravaged by war, shaped by fear and filmed in black and white. In Florida, USA, there were holidays in the glorious colors of Kodachrome.

 

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

1948

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

Weeki Wachee Springs, Florida 1949

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

Florida 1940

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

1941 Buick – Clearwater Beach Causeway

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

1948

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

Clearwater 1940

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

1949 -Lake Wales, Florida

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

St Petersburg 1948

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

Bok Tower, Carillion, Lake Wales 1949

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

At Augustine 1949

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

Clearwater Beach 1947

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

Clearwater 1947

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

‘Dad’ – Clearwater Beach 1949

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

Dragon Racing 1948

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

1947

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

Jacksonvill 1940s

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

1949

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

1949

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

1948

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

‘Mom’ Clearwater Beach 1949

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

1948

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

Steger Pedal Car 1949

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

Tarpon Springs 1947

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

Tarpon Springs 1947

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

Thomas Edison’s Winter Home 1949

Thomas Edison's Winter Home 1949

Thomas Edison’s Winter Home 1949

Thomas Edison's Winter Home 1949

Thomas Edison’s Winter Home 1949

Florida 1940s Kodachrome

 

Via: Elektrospark

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