I Colorized 30 B&W Photos Of New York From Years Ago

Well minimum wage was like 50 cents an hour.

The tax bracket with the highest number of filing households for 1938 was the $1000-$2000 income level, the average return filing income of $1700. Divide that by the household members, and things don't really look that cheap anymore.

Brown is just nor right for this.

its probably because the tone is more somber. and less saturated. i may play with that in the future.

I will agree with the colorizer's addition of the sky features. One of the limitations of film photography is that some elements of an image will always be under- or over-exposed. In these cases, the photographer was interested in the street scene, and the sky was completely washed out. The original photographer could have captured "high dynamic range" like a modern digital camera, but it would have required taking multiple images in quick succession, and stitching them together later on. The figures in the lower right are underexposed, the awnings and sky are overexposed, etc.

It most likely leads to an elevated train. We had these in Philadelphia.

Incandescent lamps cast a pretty yellowish light. The shine may be gone, but the color probably isn't too far off.

yeah, i like to add some kind of depth to the scenes, though i don't do it as much as i did in the past, i have newer methods of sunrays these days. i think i made that when i first started.

they had 3 versions. a smallish mansion, a larger building and the current one.