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Neil Lindholm
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Fascinating. And so loud!
New York City 1929
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John Byrne
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Hats!Staggering to think that none of those people are likely still alive. Not even children. But think of all they saw.
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Michael Penn
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Nedick's!
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Eric Sofer
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Hats, suits, ties, nice dresses... even to the idea that on days when someone didn't need to go to work or some important business, the first thing they wore in the morning was a suit or dress, and wore it until they went to bed as night. Going to the theatre, an amusement park, a restaurant, or just a walk in the park... and dressed up to what we'd consider the nines today. That's why dressing gowns and smoking jackets, etc. were so popular then... it was "dressing down" from the usual formality.
It seems like a lot of entertainment venues, but A) I've never been to NYC - so that might be how it's always been, and B) with only radio as home entertainment (plus whatever else one did at home), it seems that movies and plays WOULD have a lot of audience.
It was such a different and distinctive era, even for it being New York. Of course, those poor scoundrels didn't know what was just around the corner... but even so, what could they have done?
And NINETY YEARS AGO. Have we ever been in an era when we had such exacting records of so long a time in the past?
Nifty link, Neil. Thanks.
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John Byrne
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Yes, what lies ahead! An explosion of technology like nothing seen before -- albeit largely powered by the Second World War, just ten years hence. How many of those men and women -- and grown children -- died in that war?
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John Byrne
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A quick google tells me that more than 400,000 Americans died in WW2. So many paths not taken!
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Matt Reed
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Both fascinating and eerie all at the same time. Can't escape the feeling that I'm watching ghosts of a different time walk down the same streets and living in the same city that I've visited so often.
Thanks for sharing, Neil!
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Robbie Parry
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Great link, Neil.
I can't explain it, but I feel like I've been there. No, Robbie hasn't been reincarnated (nor does he believe in that), but there's something familiar about it all.
I do wonder, at times, what it'd have been like to be alive during that period.
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John Byrne
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If you were upper middle class, male and White, it would have been a fine time to live.
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Gundars Berzins
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Thanks for sharing that. Those construction workers on the corner of the unfinished edge of the building, gasp! I was woozy just looking at that clip. Great stuff.
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Michael Arndt
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Many thanks, Neil.
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Eric Ladd
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They had some interesting parties as well.
(Rare) Early Sound Footage, NIGHTCLUBS (1920s-1930s)
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