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The Closest We May Ever Get To Time Travel

by lanfear63
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Archive footage of New York street scenes from 1911. Color added, sound added, speed corrected, 60 frames per second in 4k.

Shown these before but they have obviously worked on this one some more. Amazing clarity.

Everyone is well dressed, not seemingly in a hurry. And of course, everyone is now deceased.

https://youtu.be/FWtWJAmHuc8
  • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
    Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

    Archive footage of New Your street scenes from 1911. Color added, sound added, speed corrected, 60 frames per second in 4k.

    Shown these before but they have obviously worked on this one some more. Amazing clarity.

    Everyone is well dressed, not seemingly in a hurry. And of course, everyone is now deceased.

    https://youtu.be/FWtWJAmHuc8
    It's interesting to me how our cultures change over time.

    People used to get dressed in their best clothes to walk downtown.
    People used to dress up to take an airplane/jet or eat in a restaurant.

    I'm assuming people still dress up to attend church.

    I remember watching TV shows that were in the 1950s, and everyone dressed up to eat their dinner at home.

    I thought about getting dressed up to eat my dinner...but I found I couldn't shovel food in my mouth while I was changing my industrial strength clothing.
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

      It's interesting to me how our cultures change over time.

      People used to get dressed in their best clothes to walk downtown.
      People used to dress up to take an airplane/jet or eat in a restaurant.

      I'm assuming people still dress up to attend church.

      I remember watching TV shows that were in the 1950s, and everyone dressed up to eat their dinner at home.

      I thought about getting dressed up to eat my dinner...but I found I couldn't shovel food in my mouth while I was changing my industrial strength clothing.
      Perhaps just 10 years earlier, they would have to send teams out daily to pick up all the horse droppings, The gasoline emissions were polluting but at least the streets were clean.
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      • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
        Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

        Perhaps just 10 years earlier, they would have to send teams out daily to pick up all the horse droppings, The gasoline emissions were polluting but at least the streets were clean.

        I was thinking about what life must have been like.

        They had electricity.
        But these people worked in factories and offices without air conditioning, wearing suits.

        Most people smoked, even in crowded bars and offices.

        Life expectancy was 49.

        There were lynchings.

        Women couldn't vote.


        There were people alive in 1910 that knew Abraham Lincoln.

        Cars were new enough that they were just starting to look like something other than buggies.

        Airplanes were brand new. Polio was a real threat.

        And in just a few years...a World War...a Great Depression.
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    • Profile picture of the author Frank Donovan
      Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

      It's interesting to me how our cultures change over time.
      People used to get dressed in their best clothes to walk downtown.
      People used to dress up to take an airplane/jet or eat in a restaurant.
      Some of us still get dressed up to post here. I usually wear a jacket for the main section, a t-shirt and baseball cap for the Social Media forum and, of course, my tin foil hat for the Mind section.

      As we know, in the Off Topic forum, it's anything goes. At the moment, I'm dressed as Napoleon.
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  • Profile picture of the author Janice Sperry
    What struck me was...

    ...almost no overweight people.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    This morning I woke up - let the dog out - showered and washed my hair and 20 minutes later I was dressed and starting on my day.


    I cannot even imagine dressing like the women in the film...How long did it take them every day to put on so many clothes?



    How did they stand summer heat dressed like that? What i did notice is that everyone seemed to 'stroll' - not much of the walking-fast-to-get-somewhere that is common now. The faces of men and women seemed so serious....
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  • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
    So here we are in New York in 1926, just 15 years later, not anything in the way of cars here in this brief clip but see the clothing has changed, almost no more boater hats and the women's clothing is different. More practical. A bit of calf showing.

    Standard dress and fashion was still more regimented back then and even more so in 1911. But now, anything goes.

    https://youtu.be/iVv6S6v2Y_g

    Moving on we have the 1930's. Look at the cars, big change. Notice also the sidewalks are more deserted. Less people walking around, more driving around.

    https://youtu.be/65Deh9u2pLw
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

      So here we are in New York in 1926, just 15 years later, not anything in the way of cars here in this brief clip but see the clothing has changed, almost no more boater hats and the women's clothing is different. More practical. A bit of calf showing.
      If I could go back in time, I think I'd pick the 1930-1950 timeframe.

      I could make a great living then, and the best part? I'll die before Dan Riffle is ever born.


      Originally Posted by Janice Sperry View Post

      What struck me was...

      ...almost no overweight people.
      In my business, I meet people from all over the world. I like to ask them the big differences they see between North Americans and the rest of the world.

      I hear a lot of things, but the main one is that we are so fat, and that we eat such large meals.
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      • Profile picture of the author Odahh
        Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

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        In my business, I meet people from all over the world. I like to ask them the big differences they see between North Americans and the rest of the world.

        I hear a lot of things, but the main one is that we are so fat, and that we eat such large meals.
        Although portion sizes are different. I'd say much of the world live in walking distance of many of their daily needs. While zoning and convoluted culdasack street layouts. The also mean horrible public transit systems.

        Mean Americans can't walk to anything in a few minutes in much of the country so they need cars.

        The portion sizes are not as bad as the add fat from dressings and dipping sauces.

        I put 60 pounds on over ten years ago when I went on medicine for bi polar disorder . I went from borderline overweight to obese in under 2 years.

        The times I do a lot if walking it much easier to take off weight.

        I could go into the crops the us has been subsidizing the last few years are the crops that go into highly processed foods.
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      • Profile picture of the author Dan Riffle
        Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

        If I could go back in time, I think I'd pick the 1930-1950 timeframe.

        I could make a great living then, and the best part? I'll die before Dan Riffle is ever born.
        A win-win if I ever read one...
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        • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
          Originally Posted by Dan Riffle View Post

          A win-win if I ever read one...
          Did I mention that I would find your grandmother and Woo her?

          And then we would never have children.
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          • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
            Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

            Did I mention that I would find your grandmother and Woo her?

            And then we would never have children.
            When Dan's mother married she longed to hear the patter of tiny feet. She still hears them today.
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    Next time I peel a banana, I am wearin' a cape, tellya.


    It is all I can do to SET TIME TROOLY RIGHT.


    Hey, bcs people gonna look in on our 2021 stuffs a hundert years from now an' mock our ass in a gasmness of wonderment.
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  • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
    "If I could go back in time, I think I'd pick the 1930-1950 timeframe.

    I could make a great living then, and the best part? I'll die before Dan Riffle is ever born."

    Don't be surprised if Dan thanks your post

    Added: I see he did
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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    It is possible that the film is mostly richer people. Ford had not started mass production of automobiles yet.
    So those cars where owned by rich people . In the 1911 film
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    However, necessity is the mother of invention, and the invention in this case was that of motor transport. Henry Ford came up with a process of building motor cars at affordable prices. Electric trams and motor buses appeared on the streets, replacing the horse-drawn buses.
    https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryU...risis-of-1894/

    You wouldn't go back in time to the late 1800's.
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