Go way back in the Big Apple! Stunning high-quality video shows 1911 NYC when horses [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | April 19, 2018 | Minyvonne Burke

[C19fan]

New York City has gone through a lot of changes - and now people are getting a the chance to see what the Big Apple looked like more than 100 years ago.

The Museum of Modern Art released surprisingly clear footage of what life was like in New York in 1911.

The video, a part of the museum's June 2017 collection, was filmed by a team of cameramen with the Swedish company Svenska Biografteatern. The cameramen were sent around the world to take photos and videos of well-known places.

[Howie66]

In the article, it is mentioned that the film was slowed down and that sounds were added for ambiance. :-)

[oh8eleven]

if you want to really f**k up something, then you put Liberals in charge of it
I grew up in NYC area and the first I remember reading/hearing about flaming Libs was NYC Mayor John Lindsay in the early 60s. The rest is history.

[xkaydet65]

That would be true up through the 1950s.

[Howie66]

I do remember that douchebag. I kept asking myself “What are those people smoking?”

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks C19fan.

[stanne]

More expensive? No. If i put a chicken ( back then all chickens were free range) into my slo cooker ( back then it was a stove top pot - people were at home) with onions carrots and celery i can feed aix teens for ten dollars and its the best food you can eat health wise

[Pride in the USA]

MUST see video.

[C19fan]

Back in 1911 people spent 40% of their income on food.

[stanne]

Whatever they spent, did they eat a lot of non food and or chemically altered food as we do?

I wonder how much they spent on pharmaceuticals and medical procedures

[dsc]

That was the year my mother was born. I guess we’re two lifetimes away from those scenes.

[Crucial]

And they spent 1% on entertainment unless they were gamblers or drunks.

[Oatka]

My granmother, born in 1888 in a small town in illinois, grew up in a world of horses and carriages. She also saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon.

Back in the '50s I worked in a print shop in New London, CT, where this "little old lady in tennis sneakers" worked a Heidelberg press.

I was always interested in people who lived in an age where technilogical changes came back-to-back. When she mentioned that her mother, as a kid, saw President Grover Cleveland, I asked her to check with her mom about what made the biggest impression on her. (I'm thinking airplanes, radio, telephone, TV, etc.)

The next day she said, "You're not gonna believe this." All agog, I waited. "Mom said it was people watering their lawn. She had grown up in a 'sodbuster' family in Nebraska and remembered how they 'prayed for rain for the crops, and now you just turn a handle and get all you want.' "

It put things into perspective for me.

[doorgunner69]

It's a bigger shame that NYC didn't sink into the Atlantic

The Pollution!

Think of the fishes, though any around that massive hellhole are probably too contaminated to eat anyway.

[lonevoice]

Thanks, that’s amazing! Did you check your email this morning?

[ThanhPhero]

And hats. Everybody wears a hat.

[oh8eleven]

Good point.