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Never-before-seen photos from 100 years ago tell vivid story of gritty New York City
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| april 24, 2012
Posted on 04/27/2012 1:25:02 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
To: SkyDancer
Lookin' at those old pics rang a bell....my uncle built a brick home in Mobile, Alabama about 40 years ago; when he heard about an old warehouse set for demo, he ran down and bought enough bricks to build the house - they were handmade by slaves.
I have one and a half that I codged from his spare pallet.
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posted on
04/27/2012 2:51:47 PM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(A conservative, a liberal and a moderate walked into a bar; barkeep said "Hi Mitt")
To: lowbridge
No fat people in the pool picture in 1940....no blacks either.
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posted on
04/27/2012 3:06:34 PM PDT
by
JeanLM
(Obama proves melanin is not enough)
To: lowbridge
To: TexasTransplant
our Patriarch was a Hessian Conscript fighting for the British.
Mine escaped the potato famine in Ireland.
I thank him every day for allowing me to live my life in the greatest country in the world.
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posted on
04/27/2012 3:23:02 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: ErnBatavia
Too bad you can’t prove those bricks’ provenance. Some museum would love to have a few.
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posted on
04/27/2012 3:24:03 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
To: popdonnelly
My great grandparents and my grandfather lived at the other end of the Manhattan Bridge, on Catherine Street.If they lived there today, they'd be speaking Chinese.
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posted on
04/27/2012 3:30:54 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Beowulf9
That’s infamous “Bandits’ Roost” photo from Jacob Riis’ “How The Other Lives.” I’ve stood on the spot it formerly occupied. I’m trying to remember where that was.
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posted on
04/27/2012 3:42:15 PM PDT
by
Oratam
To: Oratam
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posted on
04/27/2012 3:57:05 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: TexasTransplant
he was given the choice to return to Europe or stay ... he stayed ... and I get to speak English I know how you feel. If it hadn't been for the revocation of the Edict Of Nantes, Catholics declaring open season on protestants, I'd be speaking French right now.
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posted on
04/27/2012 4:23:23 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(Romney vs. Obama? One of them has to lose, rejoice in that fact, whichever it is.)
To: Oratam
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posted on
04/27/2012 4:33:21 PM PDT
by
lowbridge
(Rep. Dingell: "Its taken a long time.....to control the people.")
To: TexasTransplant
our Patriarch was a Hessian Conscript fighting for the British... his tour of duty ended as a Prisoner in New York.. he was given the choice to return to Europe or stay ... he stayed ... and I get to speak English And best of all, you're blessed to live in the Great State of Texas!
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posted on
04/27/2012 5:09:58 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: oh8eleven
Mine escaped the potato famine in Ireland. I thank him every day for allowing me to live my life in the greatest country in the world. I thank my ancestors for my great fortune too, but heck, they came from Western Europe, Africa, and North America, so I's cornfused! LOL
God Bless the USA!
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posted on
04/27/2012 5:14:57 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: EyeGuy
as scripture says.....he who does not work, does not eat...nothing wrong with hard work....
To: lowbridge
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posted on
04/27/2012 6:18:07 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Beowulf9
That photo made me think of a cops complaint about female cops, he pointed out that they look down a street, see tough men, and move on to something else rather than enter the situation, he said that after a few years of lacking that male willingness to challenge, to engage, and assert authority and power, we lose that street to the hard men.
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posted on
04/28/2012 1:25:31 AM PDT
by
ansel12
To: lowbridge
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posted on
04/28/2012 1:38:33 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
('People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
To: Beowulf9
Lower right - young guy looks like Leonardo Decaprio’s great grand father!
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posted on
04/28/2012 2:15:05 AM PDT
by
21twelve
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