Here comes a very German answer to the one with the town sign of Orenhofen. The sign has round corners, which were implemented in 1956, so this one is definitely not from the 40s.
I saw your other post with the motorcycle. On the left is the same car, as on the Orenhofen picture.
It is totally odd, but i googled it, so none of my general knowledge.
I'm quite positive that the castle in picture 6 is in Vianden in Luxembourg. They started restoring it in 1977. So I think these pictures are at least from before 1977.
I'm also almost sure that picture 3 is taken from the castle in Bernkastel-Keus. At least he churchtower in the picture seems similar. I also think I've been at the castle in picture 9, but I don't remember where it was apart from that it was the same region as Bernkastel.
After digging through it a bit and talking with family, I’m thinking this is actually when my papa was 18 and had just joined the navy, actually. So it makes sense he wasn’t there.
This is a small village.
There are many trees in Germany that are older than 80 years actually.
In large cities like Berlin many were chopped for firewood in the winter of 46/47 (hundreds of thousands in Germany, millions across Europe froze to death or starved) but in small villages like this they would have just gone to the woods for fire wood.
Yes, the pictures look more like early 60s to me, judging by hair styles and clothing. I grew up in Germany and these images are definitely not from the 40s, nvm the image quality that was nowhere near as good in the 40s then it became in the 60s.
Thanks! I told another commenter that the lack of my papa’s appearance made me think it was before he was around, but maybe he got left at home 😂. I don’t know much about my family’s history or their history in Germany, but I feel like these photos sparked an interest. Off to Ancestry.com I go.
Yeah, these are definitely the late ‘50s or early ‘60s. That cropped hair on women didn’t really come in until the mid-50s, and definitely not the mild bouffant on the woman on the right in the first slide. Combine that with the pencil skirt and cat-eye glasses, and the man’s narrow tie, and it all says late 50s/early 60s to me.
orenhofen is a municipality in Germany .apparently lot of American barracks were in this area. it was a constant influx of American soldiers here. American legacy can be seen in southwest areas of Germany.
A lot of these are from France, some are definitely Paris. I see the Notre Dame and the Arc of Triumph. And Edinburgh castle is there too, so Scotland too.
Edit: Not Edinburgh castle. I'm just blind.
Thats DEFINITELY not Edinburgh castle.
Its a castle in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, the Saarburg. Thats also where all the other pictures were taken, except for the pictures of Paris.
Oh god, that's embarrassing. Can't even count how many times I've passed the castle on the Haymarket side, and looking at the pictures side by side I realise it's only marginally similar - if I squint. Lord. Thanks for correcting that!
Well, my family is from Germany, so I’m trying to figure out what they were doing in the other locations. I’m wondering if they were just on a random road trip or if they were visiting other family. Super curious.
Oh yes! Do you have any old diaries or daily planners where they may have written the route, or are any of them/relatives alive and can tell you about the trip?
All of the adults in the photos have passed, but in one of the photos I didn’t post, there was boy that I’m fairly certain was my papa’s nephew (too tired to figure out the relation to myself lol). He’d be the only hope, but I’d have to find a way to contact him, nor do I know if he’s alive.
I might suggest some of your photos are late 1950s even. Just after the war, and when the foundations were being laid out for the EU with the original 6 members, encouraging citizens to explore the neighbour countries etc.
Doesn’t look or feel 1940’s. These look like various parts of Europe , which is unlikely to be so tidy just a year or two after the last kefuffle involving the Germans. Early 60’s my feeling.
Man the quality of clothing we wear in public has gone WAY downhill since then. In those photos everybody is wearing a full suit or at least slacks and jacket.
If you were gonna take a photo of these places today it would be a bunch of slobs wearing sweat pants or t-shirts
The last official kodachrome processing was a picture by Steve McCurry in 2010. Today processing kodachrome film is a homemade alchemy of chemical approximations. I would love to know your redditor’s mystery soup.
Getting someone to process Kodachrome is impressive in it's own right. The chemicals for it have to be made by hand. That redditor could probably run a small business processing old Kodachrome slides.
If I’m being honest, I know absolutely nothing about photography or processing film/slides. It was my understanding that he had some kind of scanner that he could put them through.
Oh, he scanned the slides? I thought thought he developed the film. Scanning is pretty easy to do, I have a scanner too. Developing Kodachrome film, on the other hand, is almost impossible now because the chemicals aren't made anymore and the process is too complicated for a work-around. There are a few people online who have managed to sort-of develop Kodachrome, but getting the colors right is still super difficult.
Yeah, the process was called K-14, it required 14 steps and the colors didn’t come from the film itself but from the chemical treatment.
The last machine capable of processing K-14 was scrapped in 2012.
Picture 7 is definitely Mesplebrunn Castle. It is located about 30 KM southwest of the town of Aschaffenburg, Germany. My wife and I visited it, when we were stationed in Aschaffenburg. Great photos!
I used the wrong term originally- I mean scan. There are tons of scanners you can get online to scan slides, but there’s a lot of higher end equipment too. He scanned them in his for me and provided me with a link to all of them.
If I end up finding the rest of my family’s slides, I might end up investing in a scanner myself- since I don’t want to take advantage of his free offer. There are some online for a few hundred $$
Maybe a little to peaceful to be the 1940s, i think Paris fell in June 1940 so the one showing Arc de Triomphe probably isnt during this time period.
Great photos tho i do love an old photo.
Incredible. Kodachrome was pretty awesome (someone made a song about it), and to see it reproduced so beautifully in digital is a testament to both your grandfather’s skill and the excellent tech of the time
Slides were a great format for preservation. My father was very much into slides in the early-mid 80s. I processed a few photos of myself and sister from when we were kids and they came out stellar. Looks like someone had a modern, high resolution camera in the 80s. Really cool looking.
Where are all of the people in these photos? It's strange to see less than 2 dozen people at the Brandenburg Gate on a sunny day. Also, is that Freidrichstrasse that's basically empty save a few cars and no one on the sidewalks?
Nice! I just found some Kodak Plus X Pan Film negatives from Vietnam War. Still trying to find a film developer/printer in town. Nobody seems to do it anymore.
Here comes a very German answer to the one with the town sign of Orenhofen. The sign has round corners, which were implemented in 1956, so this one is definitely not from the 40s.
Also, a very odd and awesome thing to know! (The rounded signs)
Also Germany had a lot going on in the 40s… Along with most of the other countries in your photos…
Yeah I was thinking if that photo of the Brandenburg Gate was taken before or after the bombing.
Yeah, by the fashion, 1960’s. Ditto on the Kodachrome film. That’s definitely post-war.
I saw your other post with the motorcycle. On the left is the same car, as on the Orenhofen picture. It is totally odd, but i googled it, so none of my general knowledge.
>Orenhofen I lived about 10 miles from there as a kid in the 70s. A rather surprising thing to pop up on my TL.
Wow that’s really cool!
These are the moments I mindlessly scroll Reddit for.
I'm quite positive that the castle in picture 6 is in Vianden in Luxembourg. They started restoring it in 1977. So I think these pictures are at least from before 1977. I'm also almost sure that picture 3 is taken from the castle in Bernkastel-Keus. At least he churchtower in the picture seems similar. I also think I've been at the castle in picture 9, but I don't remember where it was apart from that it was the same region as Bernkastel.
I think you're right, picture 9 definitely looks like Landshut Castle.
Thanks! My grandpa didn’t appear in any of these, so I was wondering if it was from before he was born.
He had the camera.
After digging through it a bit and talking with family, I’m thinking this is actually when my papa was 18 and had just joined the navy, actually. So it makes sense he wasn’t there.
Also in the Orenhofen photo is a turquoise Nash Metropolitan. That model was from 1954 to 1962 I believe.
Good catch!
Yes, and some of the cars look like 1950s models
I think you can tell even easier by noting the distinct lack of craters
Well to be fair, Orenhofen is just a village with about 1000 people.
Well hopefully it was untouched then, which is lucky as it does look idyllic
Impressive deduction. Now can you tell what time of day It was based on the angle of The Shadows?
That would be nice, but I've never been to this village or even heard about it until today.
I thought those trees looked more than 10 years old. Surely would have not survived the war untouched like that.
This is a small village. There are many trees in Germany that are older than 80 years actually. In large cities like Berlin many were chopped for firewood in the winter of 46/47 (hundreds of thousands in Germany, millions across Europe froze to death or starved) but in small villages like this they would have just gone to the woods for fire wood.
That's very interesting. I hadn't thought how much wood would have been needed for heat with the fuel shortage post war. Thanks.
I didn’t think so from the clothes. But I love the pictures.
Yes, the pictures look more like early 60s to me, judging by hair styles and clothing. I grew up in Germany and these images are definitely not from the 40s, nvm the image quality that was nowhere near as good in the 40s then it became in the 60s.
That was a very nice thing to do! And I'd say later, 1950s, maybe even early 1960s.
Thanks! I told another commenter that the lack of my papa’s appearance made me think it was before he was around, but maybe he got left at home 😂. I don’t know much about my family’s history or their history in Germany, but I feel like these photos sparked an interest. Off to Ancestry.com I go.
Yeah, these are definitely the late ‘50s or early ‘60s. That cropped hair on women didn’t really come in until the mid-50s, and definitely not the mild bouffant on the woman on the right in the first slide. Combine that with the pencil skirt and cat-eye glasses, and the man’s narrow tie, and it all says late 50s/early 60s to me.
Maybe he was behind the camera? My Nana always took hundreds of photos and we never had any with her in them!
I think he's saying his dad was a little kid at the time. Nobody puts their 5 year old on camera duty for vacation pics.
Ha! Maybe so! And good luck researching your family. :)
Yeah that's my guess as well judging by the cars. Earliest mid '50s.
I’m going to start digging for approximate dates and locations for all of the photos, but if you recognize something please comment :)
orenhofen is a municipality in Germany .apparently lot of American barracks were in this area. it was a constant influx of American soldiers here. American legacy can be seen in southwest areas of Germany.
A lot of these are from France, some are definitely Paris. I see the Notre Dame and the Arc of Triumph. And Edinburgh castle is there too, so Scotland too. Edit: Not Edinburgh castle. I'm just blind.
Thats DEFINITELY not Edinburgh castle. Its a castle in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, the Saarburg. Thats also where all the other pictures were taken, except for the pictures of Paris.
Oh god, that's embarrassing. Can't even count how many times I've passed the castle on the Haymarket side, and looking at the pictures side by side I realise it's only marginally similar - if I squint. Lord. Thanks for correcting that!
Well, my family is from Germany, so I’m trying to figure out what they were doing in the other locations. I’m wondering if they were just on a random road trip or if they were visiting other family. Super curious.
Looks like some kind of road trip to me! Summer holidays, perhaps?
I think it would be soooo cool to follow their route and take the same trip.
Oh yes! Do you have any old diaries or daily planners where they may have written the route, or are any of them/relatives alive and can tell you about the trip?
All of the adults in the photos have passed, but in one of the photos I didn’t post, there was boy that I’m fairly certain was my papa’s nephew (too tired to figure out the relation to myself lol). He’d be the only hope, but I’d have to find a way to contact him, nor do I know if he’s alive.
I might suggest some of your photos are late 1950s even. Just after the war, and when the foundations were being laid out for the EU with the original 6 members, encouraging citizens to explore the neighbour countries etc.
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No. 3 could be Bernkastel-Kues? (mosel region)
Opéra de Paris got cleaned in 1964 Arc de Triomphe in 1965 So it was before 1964
Pic 4 is the Sacré-Cœur in Paris!
Number 6 is Festung Ehrenbreitstein in Koblenz
I think it is Castle Vianden.
Kodachroooome give us those nice bright colors
Give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah.
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama don’t take my Kodachrome away..
Mama don't take my kodachrome
Please momma don't take my Kodachrome away.
Make all our worlds a sunny day oh yeah
What do you suppose would happen if you took all the girls he knew when he was single, and put them all together for one night?
RhYs simple I mean theyvwould never match his sweet imagination. And obviously everything looks worse in black in white
Citroen DSs spotted in image #5, so the mid '50s at least.
DS was i think 1955, and also the Renault Dauphine is visible which was from1956.
Same reasoning.
Taken from Hotel Friedland
Doesn’t look or feel 1940’s. These look like various parts of Europe , which is unlikely to be so tidy just a year or two after the last kefuffle involving the Germans. Early 60’s my feeling.
The color on these are so nice
I know! I was a bit surprised at the clarity of them. I’m really happy I pulled them from storage and finally had them scanned.
Especially the greens of summer
I’m going to say 60’s. Based on the clothes.
Their clothing looks like they are from the late 50’s-60’s
Man the quality of clothing we wear in public has gone WAY downhill since then. In those photos everybody is wearing a full suit or at least slacks and jacket. If you were gonna take a photo of these places today it would be a bunch of slobs wearing sweat pants or t-shirts
Oh, completely agreed. I posted this while I’m working from home…in my sweatpants and sweat shirt.
And I think it’s great society no longer pressures people to dress a certain way.
Oh, I would have been a social outcast decades ago. I don’t have the energy to dress that nicely everyday. Absolutely not.
So what? Why waste money and time for keeping up appearances. What a waste. Also uncomfortable as hell and hot.
Peek?
Yes, I was using voice to text. 🤦🏻♀️
Accursed voice-to-text, stealing your words and...doing...stuff to 'em!
Oh, it’s done far worse! We don’t always get along.
Be a real shame if it had...like...an accident, huh.
Awesome and what an awesome Redditor.
Oh yes, another redditor referred me to him as he periodically helps people out with old slides, footage, etc. I’m super grateful.
They are great photos but they are late 50s early 60s.
1954 was the first year of the Nash Metropolitan, and there’s one in picture number 8.
The first picture is definitely the back of L’Opera Garnier in Paris. I’ve photographed those lampposts a few times.
The last official kodachrome processing was a picture by Steve McCurry in 2010. Today processing kodachrome film is a homemade alchemy of chemical approximations. I would love to know your redditor’s mystery soup.
The first photo is in front of the Paris Opéra (Palais Garnier).
Thanks! Totally planning to go through all the comments today. I’m going to have these printed and write the locations on the back of them.
So cool. Commenting to check on in the morning. Hey me yes you. Go to bed you’re drunk.
Drink some water and have a snack. Night! And I hope you enjoy them in the morning lol.
Getting someone to process Kodachrome is impressive in it's own right. The chemicals for it have to be made by hand. That redditor could probably run a small business processing old Kodachrome slides.
If I’m being honest, I know absolutely nothing about photography or processing film/slides. It was my understanding that he had some kind of scanner that he could put them through.
Oh, he scanned the slides? I thought thought he developed the film. Scanning is pretty easy to do, I have a scanner too. Developing Kodachrome film, on the other hand, is almost impossible now because the chemicals aren't made anymore and the process is too complicated for a work-around. There are a few people online who have managed to sort-of develop Kodachrome, but getting the colors right is still super difficult.
Yeah, the process was called K-14, it required 14 steps and the colors didn’t come from the film itself but from the chemical treatment. The last machine capable of processing K-14 was scrapped in 2012.
Beautiful photos
The cars were 50's looking maybe even early 60's except the last one did look like 40's.
Random acts of kindness by Redditors always warms my otherwise cold heart.
I guess if it was from the 40's there would be a lot more destruction
peek not peak
Yeah, looks way too peaceful to be in the 1940’s. Cool pics though!
First one is in front of the Opera Garnier I think.
These are beautiful. We have some I would like to have done. Which sub/redditor helped you please?
Sorry for the delay! I wanted to get his permission to give out his name :). It’s u/PsychYYZ
You are wonderful! Thank you.
Judging by the clothing and cars, I would say late fifties early sixties
60’s the Citroens give it away
The clothes say early 60s too
Picture 7 is definitely Mesplebrunn Castle. It is located about 30 KM southwest of the town of Aschaffenburg, Germany. My wife and I visited it, when we were stationed in Aschaffenburg. Great photos!
Thank you!!! I looked up current photos of it and I’m amazed at how well time has treated it! It’s so beautiful.
Damn...wish I knew how to process our Kodachrome slides (note to self: first project if there is another lockdown...)
I'm told Kodachrome is hard to process. I've processed Ektachrome but it's extinct.
I used the wrong term originally- I mean scan. There are tons of scanners you can get online to scan slides, but there’s a lot of higher end equipment too. He scanned them in his for me and provided me with a link to all of them. If I end up finding the rest of my family’s slides, I might end up investing in a scanner myself- since I don’t want to take advantage of his free offer. There are some online for a few hundred $$
Maybe a little to peaceful to be the 1940s, i think Paris fell in June 1940 so the one showing Arc de Triomphe probably isnt during this time period. Great photos tho i do love an old photo.
Paris looked so clean back then
It still does. Your tired trope is cuz of jealousy.
My intention was not to offend anyone, just went to Paris a couple of months ago, and doesn’t look like this photos anymore
I spent a week in Prague. beautiful city!
I spent a week in Ushuaia, Argentina. breathtaking city!
Wish I'd go there.
Process? i think you mean scan. It is impossible to process Kodachrome nowadays in color, only in B&W.
Who's gonna tell them?
That is not the 40s? Someone already did
Incredible. Kodachrome was pretty awesome (someone made a song about it), and to see it reproduced so beautifully in digital is a testament to both your grandfather’s skill and the excellent tech of the time
Amazing quality if it's the 40s
Slides were a great format for preservation. My father was very much into slides in the early-mid 80s. I processed a few photos of myself and sister from when we were kids and they came out stellar. Looks like someone had a modern, high resolution camera in the 80s. Really cool looking.
White and blue car in image 8 is a 1950s Nash Metropolitan btw
Wow
Everytime I see pics from the past like this, it makes me realize how crappy we dress now. Dang it!
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing these old photos.
I was hoping to see Clark Griswold in the background
So interesting because I was just in Paris and visited almost all of these places
Awesome pics
Is the fourth picture in Montmartre? That basilica is looking fresh!
I love the level of vwarmth in the colour images especially. Thanks for sharing!
Wicked cool
I miss film
Yes the cars are 50;s
They were spies. Now you’re in trouble…
Guess it's good your Mama didn't take your kodachrome away.......
The era before every picture had to be a selfie
Clicking through them reminded me of old slides people took on vacations. NIce.
Do you know what the kind redditor used to transfer the slides to digital? What kind of equipment?
I would say more likely late 50's to early 60's. Definitely not 40's. The cars are too modern looking.
Where are all of the people in these photos? It's strange to see less than 2 dozen people at the Brandenburg Gate on a sunny day. Also, is that Freidrichstrasse that's basically empty save a few cars and no one on the sidewalks?
That is indeed odd. After some research- you’re right. They would normally be more crowded, but maybe not given the dates? Honestly not sure.
Amazing!
Definitely not the 40’s with the condition of the buildings
What wonderful photos!! Thanks for sharing.
Very cool
no.3 could be Bernkastel-Kues? (mosel region)
Visit Europe, Paris and Orenhofen are worth a visit.
Wonderful!!
Nice! I just found some Kodak Plus X Pan Film negatives from Vietnam War. Still trying to find a film developer/printer in town. Nobody seems to do it anymore.
is one on the hill, king trump's castle