100 year old pictures

Some of the other gents post some neat pics now n then, heres an e mail I just received for those who like pictures of big citys 100 years ago

John T
100 year old city pictures

Thank you

thanks John, that was real cool - never seen Detroit look so clean.

Awesome photos. Especially sharp crisp, clear considering the era, and the cameras of the day. Most of today"s photography is not near as impressive. Also impressive is the massiveness of the buildings and the archetecture.

Fascinating photos John - thanks for sharing the link!

Our local paper does a "then and now" article once a week. They print run a photo of a city building, street, bridge, etc. from 70 - 120 years ago alongside of a photo taken from the same spot today. Interesting stuff.

Bob M

beautiful pictures , I'm don't think we have improved our lives in the last 100 years are you ?

Love the pictures. I could look at those all day. So clear, too.

I"d like to see some pictures of Detroit, then and now.

A few months ago I took a wrong turn and ended up in downtown Manhattan... still looks very much like this, but I think the long porches? steps to the street are gone. In some spots, there are more horses and less cars than there was then!
The 'subway' fire is interesting to me. It was a steel grate like that my mother and another red cross worker fell into near the world trade center. Apparently the towers shook the town like an earthquake, all those vents and freight elevator grates dislodged...The feds wouldn't let rescue workers down till everyone took off their respirator and had 'facial identification'... well, they all inhaled a fatal dose of grey dust by then, bottom of a hole or not, not just her were on borrowed time... I was watching a guy deliver food down one of those sidewalk elevators in Chinatown... it reminded me of ol Laurel and Hardy movies!!
That railroad station in Florida is the best! Dollars to donuts that's Pensacola. The steamer in the background still has a woodburner diamond stack, cars are still open vestibule, and the end of the caboose opened up like a barn door! And one of the guys crossing the road is wearing a 10 gallon Stetson... who sez Florida don't have class??? Thanks for posting these!

Last time I was in Manhattan, it was much like any other very small town in Montana. I understand they have a Manhattan in New York now, too.

Great pictures John!
I haven't seen that many cigarette ads in a long time! LOL
I like the traffic "jam" picture, #23 there in NY.
Sure seems like that's been a problem for a while!
Thanks for posting those.

Many eye ctching things to see in those pics, the formal clothes everyone wore, the beach shot was good example of a more modest time. My favorite pic is the fire horses galloping with their wagon. thanks for posting

John T,

Great link! I saved it.

Buildings used to have such beautiful detail.

(quoted from post at 20:26:19 06/17/13) Last time I was in Manhattan, it was much like any other very small town in Montana. I understand they have a Manhattan in New York now, too.

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Haha! Love it Big Fred!

I, too would like to see the then and now pics. We could see how that whole integration, melting pot, welfare state, thing is working out.

Love old pictures. Some real revealing swim suits in that 1915 beach shot.....not!

I'll bet the "Hudsons" building in the first picture is a Hudson's department store. The Hudson automobile, of which I am an enthusiast, came out in about 1914, IIRC, and instead of naming it after the inventor, they named it after Mr. Hudson, the department store magnate, because he financed the project.

Enjoyed all the pics- it was sure a different time.

What strikes me is Detroit was a booming place, WHAT HAPPENED?

Loved the pictures. My mom worked at the Lansburg Department Store in Wash. D.C. few years after the picture taken. She would have been 102 years old two days from today. Many Thanks for the reminder

Look at all the hats!