I think I will jump in when I see Joan Collins!
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Posted on 04/30/2019 3:34:35 PM PDT by NRx
A phenomenon I saw more in UK movies from the era, but occasionally in this film is guys walking like they have no heels on their shoes. While Chaplin’s hobo exaggerates it, it might not have been so much an exaggeration back then.
That might be a disabled civil war veteran on crutches from 0:49-1:04.
I think I will jump in when I see Joan Collins!
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Heck, I’d jump for Uhura...
Agree on both points. Thanks for posting this.
I also enjoyed another video there of really old photographs.
Thank you for that wealth of information.
In the only photograph I have of my maternal grandfather (b. 1872) he is wearing a boater.
If you check the video at Post #20, you’ll see that in 1896, the boater was new. Most men were still wearing bowler hats.
I met her a long ago DragonCon.
She was very pleasant to talk to.
We even discussed the then fairly recent Captain Zoom.
I also muted the music.
I was surprised to see that the cars had the steering wheel on the right side. Was that typical of cars in that era?
Thanks for that informative post.
If only NY could go back in time. By about a century :-)
Indeed.
Thank you. This is the year my paternal grandparents came from sicily on separate boats, through Ellis island, settled on Little Italy, and finally met in Switzer WV.
It wasn’t standardized yet. Cars were a very new thing and there were a lot of start up car companies all doing their own thing.
Bad idea. Tammany Hall ran the city in 1919. Over at the New York City Civil Service, Robert Moses was trying to reform operations, but the Tammany people ran rings around him. It wasn't until Gov. Al Smith took Moses under his wing and taught him how power operated in New York that he became effective.
The best time would have been after December 1933 when Republican candidate Fiorello La Guardia was inaugurated mayor. His first words after being sworn in were in Italian: "E finita la cucagna!" ("The free lunch is over!") La Guardia, with the able assistance of Thomas Dewey, Robert Moses and FDR, castrated Tammany and cleaned up the city.
LH drive didn’t become standardized until the Model T’s popularity grew. Some US manufacturers made RH drive cars into the ‘20s.
Nice to see that most everyone was well dressed and seemed to have a purpose in life.
No slackers or layabouts to be seen. (Although they were probably extant - a few streets over).
Okay, okay.....I like your suggested time period MUCH better. Thanks for another NY/NYC history lesson :-)
Also....were you born and/or raised in NY?
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