100 years ago

[SoCalDem]

New York City

RV8863-6 - New York (United States). Panorama with, to the second plan, Manhattan (of Harlem until Battey Park) with East River Bridge and, to the 1st plan, Hell Gâte Bridge. Drawing of R. Rummell. 1907. RV-475102


More pics of how we lived back then..

Would we want to go back?
Will we even have a choice?
http://www.topfoto.co.uk/gallery/1907/default.htm

[Glorfindel]

1. That was the year my father was born!

He grew up in a very small town in the mountains of north Georgia, and frequently waxed nostalgic about "the good old days." At that time, there were no livestock laws, meaning the cattle roamed free and people had to fence their vegetable gardens. Both of my parents remembered their childhoods as happy years of relative prosperity. They got married in 1930, after the awful crash of 1929, and the name of "Hoover" was anathema to them. Needless to say, FDR had almost godlike status in their eyes (mine too!)
I wouldn't like to go back to those days, but it was possible to live comfortably and enjoy life then.
Thank you for posting those fascinating pictures.

[NYC]

2. The foreign consulate in Basra, 1907.

[NYC]

4. Shatt al Arab harbor, Basra, 1907.

[leomcgarrysghost]

3. Theodore Roosevelt was President

and he called himself a Progressive.

[blues90]

5. Good question

My parents managed to live through the great depression and the second world war .

They did bring up both good times and rough times . Being frozen in a job and coal shoveling into the basement for the furnace .

I can only compare then to now through photo's and their experience so being that as it may I would choose back then .

I have a feeling the way things are heading in america that we may be in a similar situation once again although quite different since it's such a different world now .

One thing I do know is if I were born then I would not be looking at this bush madness now , I would have been spared this and I could certainly live without bushs horror and this high tech global economy .

[pscot]

6. It was a beautiful world

We should have quit when we were ahead.

[blues90]

8. Yes , it certainly looked alot better than it does now .

Now we have built just about everywhere and the grand old automobile seems to cover most of the land along with their highways .

The railroads where quite good enough and boats and ships .

But then man has to progress to the point of destruction .

[ikojo]

7. St Louis' Union Station in 1907

Back when it was used as a train station.

http://www.bfcollection.net/cities/usa/mo/stlouis/St.%20Louis,%20MO.%20%20Union%20Station.%201907.jpg