NYC Of Yore
Here’s a little bit of history, specifically the history of New York City. It’s only 8:28 out of your day; give it look.
[youtubegallery thumbwidth=450]
[/youtubegallery]
Oldest Known Footage Of New York City
(Click to Enlarge and Play)
(Click to Enlarge and Play)
Things were both very different and very much the same in NYC a century ago, so there’s something to the adage, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
Interestingly – to me, at least – that adage, an epigram by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, was only 50 years old when the earlier clips in this video were shot.
March 6th, 2015 at 6:40 am
Thank God I don’t live anywhere near N.Y. with all it’s crime and filth! I pity anyone trapped in such conditions.
March 6th, 2015 at 6:45 am
Truth be told, the crime’s not bad in most areas. The filth I’ll give you, as it were.
I wouldn’t live anywhere else and I’ve lived what seems to be everywhere else except Antarctica (I turned down the job).
March 6th, 2015 at 6:53 am
Whoops. Forgive me for disparaging your home town. I just couldn’t live somewhere where everyone is so rude!
March 6th, 2015 at 8:15 am
S’OK, Buffet. NYC is a special sort of place that one has to get used to. Frankly, I felt the same way as you about the city until the 1st time I lived here part-time.