So many of these were just before Pearl Harbor.
There was nothing like Kodachrome, as everyone now knows.
Want to check out one of the great photographers of NYC
life check out Helen Levitt.
Yep. Kodachrome in a large format camera created photographic detail that cannot be recreated with any digital camera marketed to the general public.
I still have a box of 35mm ASA 10 Kodachrome slides of Times Square at night, from a 3 day pass spent at the Y in 1951. My first visit to the Big Apple, I didn't have much time to see the sights, probably would have been too scared anyway. I do remember with anger being admonished to "move on" by some foreign uniform in front of the UN building. I was wearing my summer suntans too. At least, I wasn't spit on by any Americans; there was no "peace" movement during the Korean war.