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Film of New York Street Scenes and Ordinary Life in 1911 (High quality footage appx 7 mins)
Youtube ^ | 04-07-2018 | Guy Jones

Posted on 04/09/2018 12:53:13 PM PDT by NRx

1911- William H Taft is President. Both the income tax and Federal Reserve Bank are a couple years off. Motor cars are still mostly the odd play things of the rich. Most folks use coal to heat their home and gas to light it. Air conditioning does not exist. People apparently did know how to dress well. On the downside, life expectancy is 47.

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To: henkster
Based on the apparent age of the one-legged man on crutches at 2:20, it is probable he is a Civil War amputee.

It's possible, but he would have been in his sixties when the film was taken. The war had been over for forty six years in 1911.

41 posted on 04/09/2018 8:12:31 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

When he is closest to the camera you get a good look at his face and the age seems about right. There were still plenty of them around 2 years later at the 50th Anniversary of Gettysburg.

https://youtu.be/mVjD2DaB4bY


42 posted on 04/09/2018 8:49:21 PM PDT by henkster (Monsters from the Id.)
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To: jonno
I’m guessing it’s not the original, but it would be cool. All the people looking at the camera are thinking, “People filming in public will never be a thing!” 🤔
43 posted on 04/09/2018 9:13:21 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: NRx

I wonder how many of those men wound up fighting and dying in WWI?


44 posted on 04/09/2018 9:16:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: NRx

So cool. As if folks weren’t familiar with camera....most didn’t even notice. Those who did notice barely smiled at it.

The Flatiron building, with carriages riding past, is great.

Thanks for posting.


45 posted on 04/09/2018 9:19:45 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: damper99

I wonder who was in charge of cleaning up after the horses, on the ferry. Not the carriage driver :-)


46 posted on 04/09/2018 9:21:40 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Windflier
Every adult in that film was born in the nineteenth century, and some of them lived to see the moon landings on television.

One of my aunts was born in 1889 and witnessed most of the 20th century, dying in 1991. She graduated from college in 1910. I asked her in 1985 what she remembered about Haley's comet as she was alive to witness it twice, once in 1910 and again in 1985. She said that it was not a big deal to her at the time. However, she followed politics closely and was a staunch conservative. She knew a lot of politicians and some famous judges and attorneys, such as Thurgood Marshall. After she passed, I found an invitation to the Inauguration of Calvin Coolidge among her things.

47 posted on 04/09/2018 9:37:17 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: henkster
Based on the apparent age of the one-legged man on crutches at 2:20, it is probable he is a Civil War amputee.

If you didn't turn off YouTube at the end of the video, it autoplays a couple more items. The first is grainy short scenes from 1895 to 1900. The second is colorized photos of the era.

In one of those colorized photos, some urchins are sitting around an old man with a long beard... and a union Civil War cap with a "139" on it... probably his regiment.

48 posted on 04/10/2018 6:45:21 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: dfwgator

Far more of these people would end up dying from the influenza in late 1918.


49 posted on 04/10/2018 6:46:41 AM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: henkster

Quite possible. But bear in mind that amputations were much more common back then and people lost limbs as a result of all manner of accidents. Until the early 1900’s there was basically no work place safety laws. It was estimated that in 1890 one in every eleven workers in steel foundries ended up being killed or crippled on the job. The owners didn’t care. Labor was cheap (11 cents per hour on average) and there was no shortage of people waiting for work given the choice of starving.


50 posted on 04/10/2018 6:52:10 AM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: Yo-Yo

Bkmk


51 posted on 05/04/2021 9:15:44 PM PDT by southland ( I have faith in the creator Republicans freed the slaves. Heb 13:2 )
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To: Jamestown1630

And they did it all while still eating bread and drinking booze. Take THAT, Keto homos.


52 posted on 05/04/2021 9:18:14 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: Clemenza

I don’t think any one diet is right for everyone; I know a lot of people who swear by ‘keto’ and low carb diets.

And a lot of the old folks probably died of diet-caused diseases that we hadn’t yet identified or found solutions for.


53 posted on 05/05/2021 7:58:50 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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