You really know how to use your technique to get fantastic results.
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They look different from the ones you see nowadays.

Those two guys look like they could use a break with a hot cup of coffee and cigarette - nice choice of colors Rob - Superb work as per usual!!!!!!!!!!

I particularly like that you chose to color one portion of this photo. Works perfectly, and your colors, really fit the times. Such interesting scenes to view, original and highly successful!

Such distinction throughout the picture. From the label on the catsup bottle to the grains of salt on the counter, the details are remarkable.

Another good example of your perfect way of selective colorization, Rob. Think that the 'colorized' driver is asking to light his cigarette to his left hand neighbor. By your editing you've placed him even more into the center of the attention than he already was in the B&W version. Because of his pretty indifferent gaze, he doesn't seem to care much, ☺ .
Very good one, reflecting the spirit of the age very well.

There are so many elements here that take me right back to my youth. My mother was a head waitress for many years in a cafe that she eventually owned (and in which I worked my touchas off) and my father, for a year or so, was a cab driver: while the style of glassware on the counter was current for the mid-1940's, small cafes were in business, often from month-to-month, and not prone to updating their equipment for years, sometimes decades. In my early memories of her cafe, the beer stein-handled sugar shaker, salt shaker, and cup-and-saucer were exactly what was used there, as well as the steel napkin holder (I still have one from the old place). By the latter 1950's, though (when I was about six), soda pop wasn't sold in glass bottle in the cafe (but was still available in the small upright machines) but rather was the newer fountain dispenser we have today. Even the ceiling lights were almost exactly the same but the subway tile walls, in the background, was a common feature of large cities, not small towns in North Dakota. As for my father's temporary occupation as cab driver, in the 1940's and even into the early 50's, cab and truck drivers commonly wore visored hats like these, a throwback to the regimentation of the military. When I was a youngster of 5 or 6 I would often play with his hat and his small badge (for cab drivers. The one big change here, other than a truck driver wearing a tie, was the allowance of smoking in a cafe, something that, although I smoked for 20 years myself, I was glad when it was banned.

-Nik

Another outstanding work, really like the colours and they make this image come to life