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re: A 4K 60fps trip through New York in 1911
Posted on 2/29/20 at 11:55 am to Street Hawk
Posted on 2/29/20 at 11:55 am to Street Hawk
What was the bathroom situation like in 1911? Where did people shite?
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Posted on 2/29/20 at 11:59 am to Street Hawk
It’s a trade off. People dressed nicer and had a better work ethic. However living conditions were worse, you could get flu and die for example. Also if you were European you had a pretty good chance to die in a war and if you were black your life was pretty shitty.
Posted on 2/29/20 at 12:11 pm to red sox fan 13
At the 5:25 mark, two women walk by and two dudes give the look back. 
Posted on 2/29/20 at 12:15 pm to danilo
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What was the bathroom situation like in 1911? Where did people shite?
Household plumbing has been around since at least Roman times, but more importantly, flush toilets have been widely available since the late 1800s. My guess is that in 1911 in the lower class apartment buildings, they had to use shared bathrooms on each floor like a dorm.
Posted on 2/29/20 at 1:06 pm to hombreman9
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I’m driving my car and some buggy merges in like that and forces me into the trolley line, that bitch is getting pulled off. In 1911, horse buggies were the equivalent to cyclists today.
Imagine watching that video and taking the side of automobiles.
Posted on 2/29/20 at 1:12 pm to Street Hawk
I love how traffic flow was just a free for all
Posted on 2/29/20 at 1:12 pm to Street Hawk
Replace all the honest hard working blue collar people with panhandling illegal immigrants plus ugly architecture and you have NYC in 2020.
Posted on 2/29/20 at 1:14 pm to Flyingtiger82
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People (women) used umbrellas even when it didn’t rain.
It's called a parasol you uncultured shite.
Posted on 2/29/20 at 1:15 pm to LordSaintly
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Man, that chauffeur at 4:00 was in a cheery mood.
A black man getting the opportunity to drive a car in 1911 was probably pretty rare. I bet he loved that job
Posted on 2/29/20 at 1:16 pm to Street Hawk
Nothing but good people in the entire film. My God, we had paradise and the liberals ripped it away 
Posted on 2/29/20 at 1:17 pm to Street Hawk
The best part of that scene was no income tax.
Posted on 2/29/20 at 1:17 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82
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My guess is that in 1911 in the lower class apartment buildings, they had to use shared bathrooms on each floor like a dorm.
That's exactly what it was like. Tenement tours are great if you ever visit NYC. Really eye opening. Even "poor" people today have it great compared to a hundred years ago. I'm just starting out in my career yet here I am typing this very sentence on a nice computer I built for myself (a device that allows me to access essentially the entirety of human knowledge in seconds) sitting in a somewhat spacious apartment in a good neighborhood with air conditioning and basically everything I want/need right now (single no kids FTW!). Life is infinitely better now for everyone.
Posted on 2/29/20 at 1:22 pm to Jcorye1
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lot less smoking than I would have thought.
Cigars were more popular then.
Regular cigarette smoking became way more popular about a decade or so later during the roaring 20s with tobacco companies running huge ad campaigns.
Posted on 2/29/20 at 1:23 pm to East Coast Band
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Were women not allowed outside?
Seems like everyone of those scenes had a 50:1 ratio of men to women
Men worked then. Women stayed home and tended to kids and housework
Posted on 2/29/20 at 1:24 pm to Kentucker
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Every person in that video is dead. Humanity is such a fragile and short-lived species.
Funny to think that 109 years later we are watching those people on a screen. Bet they never figured that when the film was made
Posted on 2/29/20 at 10:20 pm to Street Hawk
Babe Ruth was 16 years young
This post was edited on 2/29/20 at 10:28 pm
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