Above: Giddy London. Circa 1949.

John Lunney‘s happened upon a nice collection of old Kodachrome images on wikipedia uploaded by the photographer’s son (user sba2). John says:

This Wikipedia user has scanned and uploaded some of his father’s old photographs, from America and Europe, seemingly from the 1960s. What strikes me is the difference that still existed between places, a far cry from the homogenous urban and suburban landscapes of today.

See the collection here.

As usual, the most recent postings on Shorpy represent a spate of historical images similarly fascinating. Here’s a row of tenement housing in New York from 1900:

Fantastic! Though you have to see it full-size.