Video: Street scenes and daily life in actual film from the 1890's

I agree. I’m from Chicago. You can take a carriage ride for 45$ that is slower than walking. What’s interesting from these films is how fast these teamsters have their carriages going. The horse are all in a fast trot.

121 years ago...and as i always say, at whatever moment you are in, like the folks in these movies, you/they were at what was considered the top of civilization at that time...

no muzzies, no blm, no liberal deebags....it was an amazing time.....

Bookmarking to watch later in its entirety after work.

I'm fascinated with vintage photos and video of "everyday life" from long ago.

Even in my own lifetime, everyday life has changed so much since I was a boy. The newspaper was my main source of news. There was no such thing as 24-hour news cycles. If a major news event happened, it might get five minutes on the 7 o'clock news. Go to YouTube and search say "1975 news broadcast" and you will be amazed how primitive and bare-bones it all was. That was the world I grew up in. Lots of time for hobbies, book reading and just playing outdoors. We did not sit in front of a screen all day.

If a snowstorm was coming our way, the friendly local weatherman on the local 6 o'clock news would tell us to get our shovels ready and sure enough, my mother would put the snow shovel by the front door before bedtime. That was my signal that snow was coming and I'd better plan on setting my alarm clock a little earlier the next morning so that I could shovel us out. These days, you get wall-to-wall 24 hour TV coverage of even the most minor snowstorms and people huddle inside like zombies to watch it all.

What’s amazing is that there are still parts of the world that are less developed and civilized even today.

Extra points for everyone who can spot Forest Gump and specify the video time when he appears!

coca cola had still had cocaine in it as that point.

They were all engulfed with clothing. Can you imagine the b.o.? Worse than the horse and other animal manure on the streets.

Speaking of the horses. Poor things. Having to pull those heavy, heavy trollies and carriages.

Wow, no one swinging an ax at the train station. No pussy hats. No drive by shootings. No lorries plowing through crowds. No bombs on trollies.

One hundred years of Lipton Tea!

Wow, those people walking across the draw bridge (or whatever you call it) had a death wish.

Makes you appreciate modern traffic laws. And washing machines.

No one is walking around oblivious to the world with their nose stuck in their iphone.

They were all engulfed with clothing. Can you imagine the b.o.? Worse than the horse and other animal manure on the streets.
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‘We’ used to have a saying.....

Put a group together - say aboard ship - and put them on VERY restricted water hours for say 7 days and EVERYONE starts to REALLY stink ....

However, since EVERYONE smells the same, no one smells.

OR

If you have an olfactory problem and your nose stops working that says you CAN’T smell.

The question is if you CAN’T SMELL, does that mean you DON’T SMELL???

ALSO

You must realize that once you start ‘smelling yourself’, others have been smelling you for a while.

In Australia, there was a drought going on.

The farm I was on relied on rain water for showers and kitchen use.

For a week, we greatly reduced shower usage.

My friend developed a serious case of B.O.

Had to be about 3 feet from him to notice...

Of course there are exceptions to everything.

What I was trying to point out (in a sort of ‘light’ manner) was that if EVERYTHING around you smells like $hiite, someone taking a $hiite doesn’t really do that much to the existing smell.

In outdoor work there is a saying that if it starts to rain the ‘First drop is the Lords fault, all after that is your own doing’

Amazing! Thank you for posting it!

I wasn’t criticizing, just adding from personal experience.

We are living in a golden age.

I say it started about the same time as the American revolution.

Some would claim it started about 1500....

My grandfather would have been 11 when the films were made. But he was in a small town in Indiana.

A friend of mine said his great grandfather would walk nearly 30 miles to the mines, where he worked for 5 days. Then he would walk home, much of it at night, to spend a day or so with his family. When he saved up enough to buy a horse, he thought he was a deity! The luxury of being able to ride a horse 30 miles instead of walking it...in the 1880s.

Almost no restrictions on personal arms at all, but I did not see any armed persons.

Derringers were a thing then so hard to know how many were armed. I wonder how many people regularly carried a derringer? I tried to get an actual number but just came up that they were popular, might be interesting to know.

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About Golden Age -

I am as much for border security as anyone

BUT

just imagine if the Mayflower had been greeted with a mined beach, and machine gun fire with air strikes etc..

Also ‘good’ thing the original landing wasn’t around the Ocean City MD area.....

After trekking for a few days they would have ended up at the Chesapeake Bay and may have figured that was all there was to the ‘New World’.

Really have to ‘admire’ ALL the original pioneers that set out by sea - especially when it was common knowledge that the earth ended at the point where one stopped seeing. And those that left and came back were probably ‘accused’ of getting to the end and turning around(which is almost what they did)..((see my tag line))

Took a few dreamers and a lot of ‘Shanghaied Drunks’ hmm when CC took off what did they call HIS ‘forced volunteers’

Derringers were a thing then so hard to know how many were armed. I wonder how many people regularly carried a derringer? I tried to get an actual number but just came up that they were popular, might be interesting to know.

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Lots of small revolvers about at that time, and relatively cheap.

Free Pistol with San Francisco Newspaper Subscription (1887)

Using guns as a marketing bonus has a long history in the United States. Guns have always been valued. A free firearm with a car or to open a bank account has been fairly common in the last few years.

The usual system, in our over regulated age, is to give a coupon to be redeemed at a gun shop, which has made a deal with the car dealership or the bank.

But things were simpler in 1887, when the San Francisco Chronicle a weekly, offered a pistol along with a years subscription, for $3.90. That did not include mailing the paper. If you lived where the paper was delivered, you could pay the delivery charges separately. To have the paper mailed was another $5 a year, or about 10 cents a week.

When you use constant dollars to correct for inflation, $3.90 in 1887 would be $96 today. If you use gold as as the standard, $3.90 was .195 ounces in 1887, or $253 at today's price of $1300 an ounce. It is still cheap for an inexpensive pistol and year of weekly newspapers in a major city.

The .38 S&W cartridge is still loaded. The H&R American Double Action advertised has a solid frame. It was stronger than many of the top break designs in common usage at the time. It is a pull pin design. To load it, pull the cylinder pin and remove the cylinder. Fill the chambers with cartridges, then replace the cylinder and the cylinder pin. Here is a picture of one in decent condition, chambered in .32 S&W long.

It is a simple, solid, design. Old ones often have spring breakage, but parts can be found, and a gunsmith can make a replacement spring.

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“Almost no restrictions on personal arms at all, but I did not see any armed persons.”

Dueling was still practiced. Probably a lot of of walking sticks concealed blades.

Yes, I know, it's hard to believe that we actually still have video that shows how people lived way back in the 1980s.

What's that? The 1890s? That's even more remarkable. Video cameras and mobile phones must have been very large and bulky back then.

Fantastic, thank you! I absolutely love photos/video like this. I try hard to put myself in that place, to not see it as “idyllic” as it may appear. For example — the smells without decent public sewerage systems, the diseases without modern antibiotics, even fashion (long sleeves, long skirts, suits & ties in a city summer? no thanks) But overall, it’s just mesmerizing to see how people went about their lives — lives as ordinary to them as ours are to us.