Posted on 05/13/2007 3:07:47 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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And SHOW this to your children and grandchildren !!!!
THE YEAR 1907
This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine! The year is 1907. One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some of the U.S. Statistics for the Year 1907: ************************************
The average life expectancy in the U.S. Was 47 years old.
Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. Had a bathtub .
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
A three-minute call from Denver to New York City Cost eleven dollars.
There were only 8,000 cars in the U.S., and only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more Heavily populated than California.
With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21st Most populous state in the Union.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower!
The average wage in the U.S. Was 22 Cents per hour.
The average U.S. Worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, A dentist made $2,500 per year, A veterinarian $1,500 per year, And a mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. Took place at HOME.
Ninety percent of all U.S. Doctors had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION! Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which Were condemned in the press AND the government as "substandard."
Sugar cost four cents a pound.
Eggs were fourteen ce nts a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from Entering into their country for any reason.
Five leading causes of death in the U.S. Were: 1. Pneumonia and influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke
The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was only 30!!!!
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and ice tea Hadn't been invented yet.
There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
Two out of every 10 U.S. Adults couldn't read or write.
Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over The counter at the local corner drugstores. Back then pharmacists Said, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, Regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian Of health."
There were about 230 reported Murders in the ENTIRE U.S.A.! Now I sent it to you and others all over the United States, Possibly the world, in a matter of just Seconds !!!!!!!!!
PASS THIS ALONG!!!!! Just Try to imagine..... What it may be like .... In another 100 years !!!!!!!
IT STAGGERS THE MIND !!
How much was postage?
The bums are hiking it to 41 cents tommorrow.
Excellent!
Look at the cRAP that’s selling big today
And the illiterate criminals making CDs and DVDs
And making millions a year from “ringtones”
When I see someone in a store jabbering loudly on a cellphone - or while walking on the sidewalk - or driving
I tend to instantly dismiss them as non-entities
“Look at me! I’m important!”
The last thing in the world I need is to be carrying a stupid phone so somebody can call me or I can call them
If it’s not an emergency it is unimportant
But - the very young people nowdays think of it as a convenience. They spend more time on the cell phones and text messaging than ‘with’ their friends.
The oddest thing to me is to see two people walking along together and both of them are on their cell phone! That’s REAL companionship, lol.
Hope all my mail from a couple days ago cleared the post office already.
It’s very strange
And lonely too
They need to have a voice available at any second to “complete” them
Two side by side on cellphones
Yes I’ve seen that too!
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txt msg
Yikes!
Tiny screens
Movies on tiny handheld gizmos
immaPOD people
A car radio is great
But I don’t want a set of headphones on listening to an .mp3 when I walking somewhere
Lol, and YouraPOD, we'reaPOD and theiraPOD too.!
In the comic strips I believe Jerehmy [sp] in ZITS, developed a problem with his thumb from constant text messaging.
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SOME FACTS FROM THE YEAR 2007
The average life expectancy in the U.S. Was just 78 years old. That's right, many people old enough to remember living in that year had no idea they'd still be around today!
Only 14 percent of the homes in the U.S. had more than three computers. And they were extremely slow back then, the fastest of which had a clock speed of just 4GHz!
Only 3 percent of the households had an airplane - and those that did had to travel to an "AIRPORT" to use them!
An airplane flight from Denver to New York City lasted over THREE HOURS!
There were only 8,000 cars robots the U.S., and only 144 of them could understand spoken language.
The maximum speed limit in most areas was 65 mph.
California, Texas and Florida were all more populous than Montana and Alberta.
With a mere 515,000 people, Wyoming was the least populous state in the union (only 50 states at the time).
The tallest building in the world was the Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia!
More than 95 percent of all births in the U.S. took place in HOSPITALS.
High Fructose Corn Syrup was still legal and used as substitute for sugar in nearly all processed foods (no wonder life expectancy was just 78 years!)
People still thought eggs were bad for you.
Coffee was still mostly served in shops and people had to stand in line and pay for it.
Most women still applied their own cosmetics and washed themselves every day, sometimes taking more than an hour each day to do so.
United States allowed millions of Mexicans (Mexico was still it's own country then) to cross its borders illegally and work there.
Five leading causes of death in the U.S. Were: 1. Heart Disease 2. Cancer 3. Strokes 4. Diabetes 5. Accidents (in fact over 55,000 Americans died each year in automobile accidents alone!)
The American flag had just 50 stars. The Canadian Provinces, Mexico, Central America, Cuba and Puerto Rico still hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
The population of Casper, Wyoming was only 50,000!!!! (Bet you wish you could go back 100 years and buy some real estate there!)
Skycars, household robot servants, virtual reality vacations and regenerating organs and body parts hadn't been invented yet.
If you wanted to see a movie, read a book, listen to some music or just look something up, you had to actually go and obtain these things separately.
There was no V-T Day. The war on terror was only in its beginning phase and would rage on for 15 more years.
Two out of every 10 U.S. Adults couldn't write even a simple line of code.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Marijuana were still put through the body wreaking all sorts of health problems. The ability to remove these substances from the body after achieving the desired effect was still decades away.
Weapons control (back then primarily firearms) still prohibited most Americans from protecting themselves and as a result, thousands of law-abiding Americans were killed each and every year!
So as you can see, life back in 2007 (just 100 years ago) was barbaric and prehistoric.
Just Try to imagine..... What it may be like .... In another 100 years !!!!!!! IT STAGGERS THE MIND !!
I edit both those for spelling and sent them out as a before/after emailing to my friends.
...and the toilet paper... by 2107 no one will be allowed to use toilet paper...
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over The counter at the local corner drugstores
I question the marijuana being available at the local drugstore. At the ROPES-R-US outlet perhaps, but not at the drug store
...due to the Sheryl Crow Memorial Act of 2055...
...or sooner, I hope.
- George W. Bush was President. Now regarded as one of the most brilliant presidents of all time, he was lambasted in the press on a regular basis. The press actually claimed that the Iraq war was unnecessary!
- One of the major political parties of the time, the “democrats” (roughly equivalent to today’s Marxist party) was lead by Nancy Pelosi, which is where the term “pelosify” came from (meaning: to destroy an organization by forming a subgroup and ignoring the rules or standards of the main group).
- People thought that carbon dioxide was a pollutant!
- Homosexuality was thought by many to be untreatable. Some people even sought to preserve homosexuality!
- Francostan was known as “France” and Muslims made up only 12% of its population.
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