Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Tax-chick
Megatons of horse manure, everywhere.

Yeah, I noticed that too. Usually the viewer misses that when viewing old movies but this one was set at a slower speed plus the images were quite sharp. Paris was beautiful...but must have also stunk of horse manure.

11 posted on 09/17/2018 9:01:35 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (The FBI recommends you do your fishing with an OCONUS lure)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]


To: PJ-Comix

Horse manure, flies on everything, contaminated water, no germ theory of disease, and an unsatisfactory answer to “Where is the bathroom?” most of the time.

However, it’s true that the people were tidily dressed (if not clean). I think it would be nice if we could have modern sanitation *and* tidy standards of dress in public.


17 posted on 09/17/2018 9:07:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

To: PJ-Comix

The manure issue was one of the reasons public health advocates of the time urged the adoption of motor vehicles. Today’s environmentalist wackos are too unread to know that.


20 posted on 09/17/2018 9:08:05 AM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson