Contrary to popular belief, they DID have colour back in the day, as these colour-rendered images of famous landmarks from all around the world show.
Before digital cameras and the selfie epidemic, people actually had to store their travel memories in-between their ears.
Shocking, I know.
Cameras were expensive back in the day, and they could only produce black and white images.
But a new book, called The Paper Time Machine, has brought these old dreary images back to life, and we’re happy to share a handful of them with you today – it being Throwback Thursday and all that jazz.
Let’s take a trip down memory lane, shall we?
A view of a trilithon being re-erected during renovations at Stone Henge in 1919 and 1920.
Scaffolding surrounding the bell-tower of the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris in the 1880s.
This picture was taken in 1942, during the restoration of the Taj Mahal in Agra, India, as a soldier tries to grab a goldfish from the pond.
The Eiffel Tower was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower in 1889.
Officials sit in one of the pipes of the Hoover Dam, Arizona in 1935, before it was constructed.
French workers build the Statue of Liberty at a workshop in Paris in 1882, with an arm visible in the background.
Check out some of our other nostalgic trips down memory lane: Cruising back in the day, a Travel Agent’s office back in the day, vintage airline ads, and old-school flight attendant uniforms.