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(65,483 posts)Glorfindel
(9,733 posts)The cheeky street kids were probably part of the Baker Street Irregulars.
TxGuitar
(4,209 posts)Ended up buried in France 15ish years later? Very sad.
But I love this and all other colorized old film!
sarge43
(28,945 posts)jpak
(41,759 posts)Very strange
HipChick
(25,485 posts)KentuckyWoman
(6,692 posts)She died in 1953 in Cincinnati. I never saw her go in public without a head covering. It was both cultural and practical. Especially in Berlin, the air was not good and it was a lot of work to wash hair. "Bird baths" daily were the norm.
Scarves would certainly work better than a fancy hat and eventually, practicality becomes fashion.
For instance gloves in public went out of fashion once good antibiotics were available ....
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,434 posts)I really like when people find and post old historic videos like that. It's interesting that nearly all the women in that video have their heads covered, and their coats are similar to a muslim hijab. Rightwingers today would probably be outraged
This one was posted a few years ago. The camera was mounted on the front of one of San Francisco's street cars in 1906. It's 14 minutes long, and I have only watched it all the way through a couple times. Usually I skip around. The traffic, clothes, behavior and everything is so interesting.
indigoth
(137 posts)pedestrians everywhere. Cars everywhere. Horses and wagons everywhere. All going about their business with seemingly no care as to where anyone else is traveling.
Pretty amazing compared to todays traffic control.
KentuckyWoman
(6,692 posts)Oh the stories he tells about traffic in some areas. It has been so fascinating to me.
I joke that the traffic in Atlanta is not a whole lot different.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,633 posts)I didn't realize they'd colorized this. Thanks for posting.
yonder
(9,671 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)malthaussen
(17,216 posts)Sancho
(9,070 posts)...and it must have taken a long time to get the kids dressed too.
Hekate
(90,788 posts)Thanks
bucolic_frolic
(43,280 posts)I can hardly recall, now, how poor the information flow in the 1970s, the limited minds of my parents, let alone pre-cars, pre-toasters, pre-radio or tv, when few opportunities existed for anyone getting much of anywhere.
elleng
(131,087 posts)erronis
(15,328 posts)Nowadays we'd just tell the computer to find faces, hands and add some color (whatever the preference.) Oh, and please choose some nice pastels for the ladies' clothes.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)The stains, dirt and crud, everything from coal dust to dried horse manure, didn't show as much.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Hard to imagine anyone going frame by frame
YoshidaYui
(41,861 posts)This is so very cool thanks for posting. Love it
MustLoveBeagles
(11,633 posts)The children are adorable. Thanks for posting.
David__77
(23,498 posts)Apparently average life expectancy was then under 50. Such poverty existed then. It is interesting, and Im not sure whether urban or rural life would be worst then.
KT2000
(20,586 posts)All of the garments look like they are brand new. In reality they would be much worn looking.
Walleye
(31,045 posts)peppertree
(21,664 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,641 posts)He has that puzzled furrowed eyebrow face.
That's pretty amazing. Thanx for posting.
peppertree
(21,664 posts)Might explain his fixation with being on camera (he loves those close-ups).