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Look at this 104 year old movie from 1904
This is in San Francisco. It is amazing that for a major street (Market street), in a major city people are all over the place!!! No stop signs or traffic lights anywhere. No normal flow of traffic, no pedestrian rules, just people swarming all over the place like at a park at a picnic. Chaos!!! It is long, but mesmerizing to watch.
Uh , . should say that the movie was from 1906 http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k . |
Ed,
That is a good video. I have seen some more from back then when they were first starting to become a city of types with muddy streets and such. Horses and carriages and people all mixed together. Maybe they should go back to that. Ron :) |
An interesting point noted in the comments ....all vehicles were driven from the right-hand side:confused:..
..Educate me with a bit of history..WHEN,HOW AND WHY did this change in the U.S.???...... OZ |
OZ,
If you look carefully you'll see a few of the cars are already left hand drive; most are indeed right. From Wikipedia: Quote:
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Thanks Tom,
Appreciate the history lesson.:) Some great footage of a wonderful time in history, OZ |
A couple of things strike me when watching this movie. Telephones although invented about 20 years earlier had obviously not yet made it to San Fran in 1906 or there would be wires all over the place overhead. I look at all those office buildings with countless offices in them and wonder, . . how the hell could anyone conduct business with no computers, no xerox machines, and most of all, no telephone!!! What did they do just sit there all day and wait for letters to arrive ?????
Also, what was the deal with hats !!!??? All of the men seem to have been pre-occupied with hats given that no one was without one!! . |
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Makes you wonder how far in the future the Great Earthquake was???
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Dark suits and clothes for hiding dirt/dust. Lots of woodsmoke and coal dust I imagine.
Amazing that the streets seem so clean given the number of horses using them. Looks like the Dan Ryan on any weekday, only slower. |
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