Archive Photos: Armistice Day Celebrations 1918

[Donkees]

[dalton99a]

1. 116,516 Americans died in WWI

https://www.enewscourier.com/news/state_and_nation/armistice-day-in-the-final-hours-of-world-war-i/article_d5a994ea-e478-11e8-8481-5fc841a05a84.html

[Harker]

2. The marquee in the first photo mentions Technicolor...

so it appears to be from a later date.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Good catch. Also the 40s car and attire of the people.

VE-Day 1945?

[Donkees]

6. I'll delete it...

[Donkees]

5. ''Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916''

The Technicolor Motion Picture Corporation was founded in Boston in 1914 (incorporated in Maine in 1915) by Herbert Kalmus, Daniel Frost Comstock, and W. Burton Wescott.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor

[Harker]

7. I had no idea.

I love learning. Thanks!

I didn't really look at anything else prior to squawking.

[Donkees]

8. Me either :) You were right about the photo though :)

[Harker]

9. Every now and then.

Thanks for the cool post celebrating the end of the war to end all wars.

Peace is a beautiful treasure.

[Donkees]

10. Someday there will be archived photos of us joyfully celebrating in the streets too

[Harker]

12. Yes!

I'll be the guy drinking and dancing with one hand free, letting the world back into me. Oh, we'll be a sight to see... back in the high life again!

I hope I never again take for granted the value of being represented by a basically good person.

[Donkees]

19. It's gonna be wild :)

[NurseJackie]

11. The movie on the marquee is "Salome, Where She Danced" ... released 1945

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salome,_Where_She_Danced

And... waaaaay way back in the photo is a marquee for the film "Salty O'Rourke" starring Alan Ladd and Gail Russell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salty_O%27Rourke

[Dennis Donovan]

13. The OP corrected...

[NurseJackie]

15. Yes, I know. The original photo is still exceedingly interesting...

... and worth exploring.

[Harker]

17. Very. n/t

[Harker]

14. Nice work.

I went back for detail and context only after the photo had been deleted.

[NurseJackie]

16. One of my favorite "hidden" moments in that photo...

... is the view through the open window, seeing the secretary sitting at her desk that's appears to be covered with papers. All the celebrations down below, and she's working hard. (Or, maybe it's an optical illusion because of the angle of the photo... perhaps she's at the edge of the window looking out at the activity.)

[Harker]

18. Thank you.

A valuable reminder for me to slow down and take more of the subtler details in. It's glorious how photography allows us to be in others' moments.

I think we are freed to scrutinize by looking closely in a way that few would do in person were they then and there.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. That last picture was taken from here in Philadelphia

with that replica Statue of Liberty in front of City Hall. Another view -