Iconic Pixs from the Depression Dustbowl Colorized

[packman]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4632182/Newly-colourised-photos-Dust-Bowl-refugees-shacks.html

[syringis]

1. The result of...

...colourised photos is not often very happy. But this pics are just amazing.

[Skittles]

2. us kids of Depression-era parents

we know that kind of trauma never leaves people

[syringis]

3. True

But for the others, memory must kept alive and show them where disastrous policies can bring them.

[eleny]

4. amen

[madokie]

5. Somehow my parents

survived to live here in OK during the dust bowl days. Maybe because they lived in the far northeast section of OK where its more hills with trees than plains with grass

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. I have a diary of my great aunts from that era.

and some pics of their life.
The sad part of the story is that she complains of her husband drinking all the time, with MY Grandad, so saving money was very hard.
( family alcoholism and violence was never discussed, I put it together slowly, over years).

My G'ma and her sisters, at least 2 of them, lived either in the same house or next to each other.
They all lived close to where I was born years later, near the Kitsap Peninsula/Gray's Harbor part of Washington state, and lots of day labor jobs were available, plus it was not a heavily populated area, I think that helped them get thru the times.
also, none of the women in that generation were very happy, most of them had 3-5 kids by the Depression. I imagine what would be pretty common for most, back then.

[NobodyHere]

7. I always like the colorizing of old photos

It makes the people seem more human

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. The woman in the picture was 32 years old

Florence Owens Thompson

https://g.co/kgs/NKogWN

[Behind the Aegis]

9. Great show on The Smithsonian Channel....

"America in Color". It goes decade by decade, in hour long segments, and colorizes famous and some never-before-seen shots. It is really quite interesting.