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Posted on 04/30/2019 3:34:35 PM PDT by NRx
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To: Jane Long
Philadelphia. But I went to New York often and read the definitive book on how New York City operated in those days: The Power Broker, by Robert Caro.
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posted on
04/30/2019 5:52:21 PM PDT
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Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
To: NRx; jjotto
To: Publius
Thanks much....I am going to look for that book :)
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posted on
04/30/2019 6:09:07 PM PDT
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Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: Jane Long
It reads like a great novel. At the end of every chapter, there is a stinger, and you can’t help yourself. You have to turn the page.
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04/30/2019 6:11:15 PM PDT
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Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
To: upchuck
Observation: Virtually no one casually dressed. Not even street vendors. There was literally no such thing as casual dress in those days. It was also not uncommon for a man to only own one suit. He would wear the same suit day after day for years, having it repaired as needed and sometimes even washed.
When at the beach, men had the option of renting a "bathing suit" at a bathhouse. That was probably the only time in a man's life when he was seen in public without a full dress suit.
To: Beowulf9
Ah, when New York was still New York and America was still America...pre Bloomberg.
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posted on
04/30/2019 6:39:39 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: SamAdams76
Actually there WAS "casual" dress; however, it wasn't what one might call "casual" clothes today. And I suspect that only upper middle and upper classes had these type of clothes too.
People did NOT have as many clothes back then, as most people have today. Even in the 1920s, closets in very expensive apartments and houses were smallish; though there tended to be somewhat more of them, than in less expensive homes. There were cedar closets too, because people had summer clothes and winter clothes, which were moved in and out of these different kinds of closets, depending upon the season.
To: NRx
The streets look cleaner then, for one thing!
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posted on
04/30/2019 8:58:39 PM PDT
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mikeIII
To: Beowulf9
Where are the homeless and other bums?
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posted on
04/30/2019 9:57:19 PM PDT
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luvbach1
(I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
To: NRx
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04/30/2019 10:14:52 PM PDT
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Beowulf9
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