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Film of New York Street Scenes and Ordinary Life in 1911 (High quality footage appx 7 mins)
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| 04-07-2018
| Guy Jones
Posted on 04/09/2018 12:53:13 PM PDT by NRx
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posted on
04/09/2018 12:53:13 PM PDT
by
NRx
To: NRx
I remember the year 1911 for a very different reason...
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posted on
04/09/2018 1:07:45 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: NRx
I love all the hats. Just about everybody’s got a hat.
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posted on
04/09/2018 1:09:33 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: NRx
Amazing how ordinary folks dressed back then vs. what you see today.
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posted on
04/09/2018 1:12:15 PM PDT
by
Signalman
To: Jamestown1630
hats and suits and dresses - and no fat people or very few
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posted on
04/09/2018 1:12:48 PM PDT
by
ezo4
To: Yo-Yo
In later incarnations they slanted the slide serrations which ‘looks cooler’ but is actually inferior to the original vertical placement for maximal grip along the line of action.
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posted on
04/09/2018 1:14:33 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: ezo4
They got a lot of exercise back then; and not so much junk food.
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posted on
04/09/2018 1:20:08 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: ezo4
Kept thinking to myself: every living thing in this footage has passed on. Grants me some perspective.
There were some overweight people, but not nearly as many as you see today. In 1911 there were few cars, no television, no Internet, good quality food was cheap, and most food was fresh.
Nowadays you have 500 channels, high speed Internet, 4G wireless phones, everything cheap to eat comes in a box or a bag, and you’re consuming more unpronounceable chemicals in a meal than likely even existed then. People have no reason to manually labor. Handouts are abundant on the backs of those who toil.
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posted on
04/09/2018 1:20:36 PM PDT
by
rarestia
(Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
To: NRx
What a difference a century makes!
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posted on
04/09/2018 1:21:18 PM PDT
by
Paulie
(America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
To: NRx
Wow, they must have done a great deal of digital cleanup on the footage. Looks pristine!
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posted on
04/09/2018 1:23:51 PM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
To: NRx
Lots of road apples to clean up every night.
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posted on
04/09/2018 1:26:55 PM PDT
by
damper99
To: SpaceBar
The astute observer will notice that I posted a picture of a 1911A1 formally adopted by the U.S. Army in 1926.
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posted on
04/09/2018 1:35:07 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: ezo4
"...and no fat people or very few"
President Taft
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posted on
04/09/2018 1:36:49 PM PDT
by
NRx
(A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
To: NRx
Great film! The quality is outstanding.
To: NRx
Ugly Mortality statistics, relative to modern times
Treated water and sewage
Antibiotics (~1940)
Suppression of parasitic diseases
Adequate surgical techniques
No, 1910 was not a great time to be alive
But it was an improvement over the 1800's
To: NRx
Even spotted the power plant made famous in “Conspiracy Theory”...
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posted on
04/09/2018 1:52:57 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: NRx
The added sound contributes to the ambiance, but my understanding is that the first actual movie w/ sound was made in 1927.
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posted on
04/09/2018 1:59:20 PM PDT
by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: NRx; All
Somebody help me out; at ~7:30, what is that rocking device on the boat - some kind of pump??
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posted on
04/09/2018 2:07:42 PM PDT
by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: rarestia
good quality food was cheap, and most food was fresh.
Unless it spoiled from being out in a market stall all day without refrigeration.
To: Buckeye McFrog
Indeed. By and large most people’s diet back then sucked compared to ours. Most people were still eating what was available by the season and health regulation was virtually non-existent compared to 2018 (or even 1958). Nice clothes and better manners aside, life was hard and often short back then.
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posted on
04/09/2018 2:26:33 PM 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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