My colorization of this Shorpy original. View full size.

My colorized version of this Shorpy original. View full size.

Colorized from this Shorpy original. Colorized with Gimp. This took me about twelve hours. I hope the resolution stays sharp after the upload. You can zoom in even on little dogs running around, all of the differently-colored window sills with people sitting on them, and various people and workers. I tried to make every person different, each of the boats different, and every building a slightly different color of brick or wood. View full size.

Colorized from this Shorpy original. I have been tweaking the color on this one every now and then over the course of a couple of years. The Tiller Girls were forerunners of modern stage dancing, and the Rockettes were one of the resulting dance groups. I feel a very tenuous connection to this picture because someone I barely knew in high school danced for the Rockettes in the mid 1960s. There is a part of my brain that I call the "girl detector". Adding color to the picture really turns up the volume on the "girl detector". View full size.

My colorized version of this Shorpy original. View full size.

A colorized version of this Shorpy original. View full size.

Colorized from this Shorpy original. View full size.

Colorized from this Shorpy original. View full size.

The original is here.

I originally started this image coloring the hotel a brilliant blue. *Then* I decided to do a little research.

One colorized postcard from the era showed the hotel as all red. One postcard showed it as all green. *Two* postcards from back then showed a tan color with a green top. The votes were in. Unlike in many of my colorizations, therefore, the color scheme here is probably more or less accurate.

As with all of my images, this functions as wallpaper for my desktop, and has been cropped to those dimensions. View full size.

Colorized from this Shorpy original. Her smile is in such contrast to what we might expect of the period. Now she needs a name. I'm thinking Gloria. View full size.

The original is here.

It's been a few years since I've done a colorization; finally the itch grew strong enough that I needed to scratch once again.

The image has been heavily cropped, so as to function as wallpaper. It took about ten hours of work, of which about two hours was spent on the awning stripes alone. View full size.

Colorized from this Shorpy original. View full size.

Colorized from this Shorpy original. View full size.

Colorized from this Shorpy original. View full size.

Colorized from this Shorpy original. I started to wonder what she looked like in color. Well now I do. View full size.

UPDATED: I found a mistake on the shoulder of this one that I cleaned up [BAXADO]