This picture is the equivalent of all of New York waking up with a hangover - but they'd still have reason to be cheerful. This is the morning of August 14th, 1945. The Japanese had surrendered the day before, and the Second World War was over.
At the news of the war's end, crowds of people ran out onto the streets with ticker tape and streamers. By the next morning, the debris was ankle deep. It might have been the greatest victory party of all time.