The photo of the dead horse reminded me of the story about the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. At the time, there was a car dealership there, but no one was buying cars. When the earthquake happened, they worked every horse in San Francisco, hauling injured people to hospitals, hauling away debris, bringing supplies, and by the third day, every horse was dead from exhaustion or injury. Then the owner of the car dealership donated the cars he had in his showroom to the city, and after that, the city decided to buy cars. The car dealership owner was Charles Howard, the future owner of Seabiscuit.
As to the dead horse: As the 20th Century began, there were by one estimate at least one million horses in Manhattan alone, leaving behind many tons on excrement and thousands of gallons of urine, resulting in major health and sanitary issues particularly in the summer. Since most of these horses were not well cared for, often malnourished and diseased, especially in the summer thousands would drop dead on the streets, so many that private contractors made a good living removing the rotting carcasses, but depending on traffic and location it could take several hours for them to do so, resulting in further disease, again especially on hot summer days. Thousands of New Yorkers died of horse-related diseases each year. This is why, strange as it seems today, advocates for improved health and sanitation actually welcomed the coming of the automobile, or the "horseless carriage, "as the 1900s progressed...
You are 100% correct the filth and squalor from horse crap, poor sanitation and living conditions, rank poverty and the indifference by the upper classes made living there almost unbearable. Surviving past childhood was a roll of the dice.
Wonderful window back into time. It's sobering to realize that every single person in these fabulous photos has now passed away - yet their memory stays alive in these presentations !
I totally have the same thoughts about all of these faces and people when I'm compiling these videos. These people lived at a time when today's technology was unimaginable. To think back at that moment when their photograph was taken over 100 years ago that they would be appearing on miniature "movies" that would be seen by thousands of people in the future. It's kind of crazy!
Yes, it is sobering. I have this thought everytime I watch a video from back then. You HOPE they had long, joyful lives. That's probably not the case. It would be very interesting if someone with far more talent than I could embed links to the faces in these videos, to websites that talk about the lives of these people. Where they were born, what they did during their lives, and where they are buried.
Yeah, of course. Here's what they dealt with that we pretty much don't: TB, diptheria, polio, smallpox( sometimes), infant deaths, tainted food, horse feces( which they never show in these videos), tenements with tons of poor people.
The improvements of colorization of photos from the past has become stunningly realistic! It changes everything! Instead of being "quaint" pictures of not "real" people, to realizing that anyone of those people could have been YOU!! They were "blood and bone" people, just like ourselves. It was just the limitation of the "black and white" era, that made everything and every person seem like a world far, far away...and one that was not truly related to the peoples of today. Thank you so much for truly making history come alive, before our very eyes!!
I enjoyed this video as 3 of my 4 grandparents were born in Manhatten in the 1885-1895 period , making them teens and young adults by 1900-1910 period. My parents were born in NYC in 1920 and I myself, was born in NYC during WWII. So much family history to explore with this video. Thank you.
That's so cool that your family has such a connection to the city. I'm glad you were able to look back in time a bit at how things were for your older family members. Thanks for your comments!
My family so similar ! My grandfather took me on tours of NYC often and told me so much about history. Such good memories and these videos bring things to life.
I have some of these photos reproduced in books I own. They are colorized here in the video. One of the glaring issues around 1900 was the child labor problem. Children were used in factories as a cheap form of labor, as young as five years old.
It's so strange to see so much life in these photos and then you realise, every. single. person, including the babies, are now dead. Every person had a life - friends, family, jobs, ups and downs with periods of good fortune and bad, some may have lived long, others were only a fleeting life, but they were all there on the days all these photos were taken, and now they're not. It's hard to wrap my head around that fact when, looking past the clothing and carriages, the clarity of these images gives them the appearance of having been taken last week.
Life is fleeting my friend.. So, enjoy each moment. I am constantly reminding myself to live and find my being in the present moment. Ultimately, that's the only sensible way to truly live our lives.
And why are blacks, Chinese, Mexicans, Indians, Arabs and others not visible on the streets ??? Where did they all hide? Probably, when they saw the photographer, they were very scared! After all, everyone knows that it was they who built modern America!
I've existed back to within some 40 years away from the world of those pictures (and not in N.Y.C.) and I can say that a lot of that grim-looking world was still around in my time, with many people having their lives abbreviated by an inescapably-polluted environment.
Interesting to see the city at this time and what it must have looked like to my grandfather, who arrived in 1903 or 1905 from Eastern Europe. Amazing to see NYC without a skyline.
The colorization and refinements to these great old photos is remarkable. Must be AI assisted technology. The result is a feeling like never before of relating to the people and places as if we are there. Thank you for this wonderful experience. Seems like yesterday.
Well, do me they unfortunately look like, that they are ONLY done by AI. I like the normal black & white, that you can see it is old. That looks fake as f..... I do not like that! You all lost the touch to realism and nature. I hate this planet and hope that I am soon gone of this disconnected people on that cold rock! You can not see real from unreal anymore. What a sad race the humans are.
I get the impression that people back then were just much more positive than we are today, Even despite hardships like disease and poor living conditions in cities things were just more simpler.
I think it depends on the generation and decade. The silent generation is generally documented as having a similar absurdist or dark sense of humor that millenials and later gen z expressed through internet memes. Which makes sense when living through and surviving a World War, Flue Pandemic, insanity of 1920s, and then a Great Depression. Dadaism was a pretty popular art form. And some modern humor and art has similarities to it The real up and up positive attitude would probably be pre-WW1 and then 1950s US bc its living off the high of victory and economic recovery. Roaring 20s a bit too, though that was a little unhinged bc Unresolved Traumas
The colorization in these images looks notably more authentic than what I've seen elsewhere. Is it a new generation/sophistication/upgrade? Reducing the preponderance of purple and finding some good yellows should probably be next on the list, understanding that implementing these changes is MUCH more easily suggested than accomplished!
I agree. I colorize old family photos via MyHeritage with similar results, then correct them with Photoshop. The results are excellent but time-consuming.
THANK YOU for a glimpse of the City that never sleeps..once my hometown. The coloration is fantastic and brought "life" into these amazing photos. I had to laugh when I saw the photo of The Met..how small it was then and how it is so impressive now as one of the finest museums in the world. I ❤NY
Thank you for your kind words. While the colorization isn't perfect - I agree that it really makes some of these images look so lifelike, in a way that I've never seen before for images of this era. It's almost a little eerie! And The Met - Yes! It looks like a small college library building sitting way out in the country!
I can’t believe those kids were playing in the sewer gutter and that poor horse dead in the street. Who picked it up? Someone with the city would have to no doubt. I love the colorized photos!!
Children allways everywhere play....with anything they can lay their hands on. They run, yell, laugh, talk, sing, whether rich or poor. But when they grow older.......
So cool. I went to Columbia University in New York, born and raised in Cleveland.. It's still the hub of the world anyway. Great video my friend keep him up you do really fantastic work.
Do you have any pictures or old movies of men building the first buildings like Macy’s, the post office any of these big beautiful buildings that men built from scratch. I’d love to see them. They’re so intricate , massive and beautiful. You never see them in the midst of being built. I love these pictures. Thank you for sharing these with us. ❤️
Wonderful. Thank you for making this historical documentary. This pics are just fab. The colorization of those pics are stunning. Wow. And amazing how white and how short people were! (One minor thing: it is not "metropolises" but metropoles, and it is pronounced like north "pole")
Great video. -- In the first shot, with the Brooklyn Bridge, all the way to the right, the last white boat with a large cement patch at its bow. That's still there. It's called "Old Slip. It was one of the original boat landings in NYC. (Google Old slip NYC) I live 2 blocks from there directly across. It's amazing to see this photo how it was as I type this from a modern high rise. - Thanks
Great video living in New York City and then living in Boston part-time it was wonderful to see the old days I used to live in delancey Street area the Jewish area. Glad you showed Coney Island but I didn't see the 🎢🎡 amusement park.. the Brooklyn bridge 🌉 was one of my favorite Bridges to walk over.. Time Square in our times in the 80s was great 👍👍.. thanks for the video..
Hey Ronald - It sounds like you've lived in some cool places and seen some cool things. Good point about Coney Island. I have more pictures of the amusement park, which I'll hopefully be able to use in a future video.
He most likely died of old age or illness. Not uncommon to just leave them where they died. Don't forget....the City was full of horses...everything was horse-drawn back then.
How civilized was this society? A poor horse dies from so much work and exhaustion and he is left to rot in the street after his death. Everyone behaving like it's just a piece of s**t. The human race was and still is a monster.
People were so well dressed back then. People used to dress to look good now people dress to look bad. Maybe that's one of the few good thing s about the past
Back in those days NYC had a major horse problem. Merchants would come into town w a horse & cart and stop on some street corner & sell their goods. Being merchants and not horse people, they would make the poor horse stand all day long in harness w no water nor food. It was common for a horse to drop dead on the spot. The merchant would unhitch his cart, walk down the street to a livery stable and buy another horse leaving the dead horse in the gutter. The problem was so bad NYC had to create a city dept of men who cruised around the town & collected these dead horses. In addition to the smell, just imagine how much horse poo must have been lying on NYC streets. Eventually, Horses were banned from NYC streets. !
The scene of the kids sitting on the side of the street next to a dead horse, is just disturbing. I'm hoping that at that point there wasn't any stench. :(
Do you ever get that feeling that New York and other cities around the world with so much poverty but magnificent buildings is a juxtaposition - it's as if another Humanity existed before and these people were just dropped in there. ...and when I say *magnificent buildings* I am referring to the columned beautiful ones not the skyscraping monstrosities that were being built at the time.
My thoughts exactly. These edge of poverty people didn't build these magnificent buildings. And how did the wealthy build them with primitive tools and horse and carts? As some have said elsewhere, even the logistics of food, water, and feces clean-up for 1000's of horses needed to haul the millions of bricks and other materials, are ridiculous.
@@rzella8022 Oh FFS saying "I don't believe it" isn't proof. There were *massive* numbers of horses to haul things, as well as a LOT more railroad lines than we have today. And tools were hardly primitive. It wasn't the Stone Age - there were STEAM-driven cranes, tractors, excavators and even drills. How do you think the transcontinental railroad was built? The Eiffel Tower? The Brooklyn Bridge? We have PHOTOS of these great projects being built. Hell I had ancestors who worked in construction back then. They weren't using stones as hammers and they certainly didn't have any special powers. But they knew how to build [stuff], no more & no less. Read some tech history and pull yourself outta the conspiracy rathole.
The best I've seen of this type of video. It always amazes me how people survived then. Some, very rich; most, very poor. What a blessing to live now, thanks to government and the progressive thinking of Teddy Roosevelt and the like: decent hourly wages, 40 hour work weeks, retirement...yep, very lucky.
Not many people know the stripes on the US flag were actually purple at the turn of the century. So was the blue part. The white bits were still white.
Sure glad you put that huge arrow over that dead horse. I never would've seen it😂😂. Also kinda distracts from the narration saying how advanced the city was 😂😂
This may have been the "progressive era" but it was a time when old buildings built as far back as the 17th century (when NYC was settled) was being knocked down rapidly in favor of big wooden houses. Yes telephone, power and new sewer lines were being built but the little quaint pockets NY had was being made extinct. By the 1920s NYC was all traffic and skyscrapers. Too much commercialism which we millenials are trying to undo more than a century of!!!
Well said. Early in the video, when the view is from up high, you can see a scene not much different than the 1700's to 1800's. Progress that doesn't really progress the common man.
My grandmother was born to Irish immigrants in NYC (1909). She told me horses would die in the street and the kids would jump on the bloated bellies like a trampoline....
Always that at least one kid with an angry look on their face. 02:46 You see that look on the older boy standing next to his goat carriage and the little girl sitting in the next one over.
My maternal grandparents came over from Austria at this time. From there they moved clear across the country. Today that is a horrible way to live then it was just life
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Just to be able to walk around for one day would be incredible
The photo of the dead horse reminded me of the story about the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. At the time, there was a car dealership there, but no one was buying cars. When the earthquake happened, they worked every horse in San Francisco, hauling injured people to hospitals, hauling away debris, bringing supplies, and by the third day, every horse was dead from exhaustion or injury. Then the owner of the car dealership donated the cars he had in his showroom to the city, and after that, the city decided to buy cars. The car dealership owner was Charles Howard, the future owner of Seabiscuit.
Probably isnt true!
As to the dead horse: As the 20th Century began, there were by one estimate at least one million horses in Manhattan alone, leaving behind many tons on excrement and thousands of gallons of urine, resulting in major health and sanitary issues particularly in the summer. Since most of these horses were not well cared for, often malnourished and diseased, especially in the summer thousands would drop dead on the streets, so many that private contractors made a good living removing the rotting carcasses, but depending on traffic and location it could take several hours for them to do so, resulting in further disease, again especially on hot summer days. Thousands of New Yorkers died of horse-related diseases each year. This is why, strange as it seems today, advocates for improved health and sanitation actually welcomed the coming of the automobile, or the "horseless carriage, "as the 1900s progressed...
Maybe it was sleeping 😴
Thank you for explaining the picture.
@@johnlavery6116So who was getting the diseases, the ppl hauling away horse carcasses, or the ppl living in the immediate area?
@@johnlavery6116I think ppl handling the dead horses!
You are 100% correct the filth and squalor from horse crap, poor sanitation and living conditions, rank poverty and the indifference by the upper classes made living there almost unbearable. Surviving past childhood was a roll of the dice.
Wonderful window back into time. It's sobering to realize that every single person in these fabulous photos has now passed away - yet their memory stays alive in these presentations !
I totally have the same thoughts about all of these faces and people when I'm compiling these videos. These people lived at a time when today's technology was unimaginable. To think back at that moment when their photograph was taken over 100 years ago that they would be appearing on miniature "movies" that would be seen by thousands of people in the future. It's kind of crazy!
Yes, it is sobering. I have this thought everytime I watch a video from back then. You HOPE they had long, joyful lives. That's probably not the case. It would be very interesting if someone with far more talent than I could embed links to the faces in these videos, to websites that talk about the lives of these people. Where they were born, what they did during their lives, and where they are buried.
Yeah, of course. Here's what they dealt with that we pretty much don't: TB, diptheria, polio, smallpox( sometimes), infant deaths, tainted food, horse feces( which they never show in these videos), tenements with tons of poor people.
@@atlantic_love Not sure what the life expectancy was but it was probably about 50.
50 would be average, Some people would become 100 years old even back then. Yet a lot died within the first 5years or in child birth.
The improvements of colorization of photos from the past has become stunningly realistic! It changes everything! Instead of being "quaint" pictures of not "real" people, to realizing that anyone of those people could have been YOU!! They were "blood and bone" people, just like ourselves. It was just the limitation of the "black and white" era, that made everything and every person seem like a world far, far away...and one that was not truly related to the peoples of today.
Thank you so much for truly making history come alive, before our very eyes!!
I enjoyed this video as 3 of my 4 grandparents were born in Manhatten in the 1885-1895 period , making them teens and young adults by 1900-1910 period. My parents were born in NYC in 1920 and I myself, was born in NYC during WWII. So much family history to explore with this video. Thank you.
That's so cool that your family has such a connection to the city. I'm glad you were able to look back in time a bit at how things were for your older family members. Thanks for your comments!
My family so similar ! My grandfather took me on tours of NYC often and told me so much about history. Such good memories and these videos bring things to life.
Don't forget the music credits . . . great sounds!
I have some of these photos reproduced in books I own. They are colorized here in the video. One of the glaring issues around 1900 was the child labor problem. Children were used in factories as a cheap form of labor, as young as five years old.
Thank you for making the past live again!
It's so strange to see so much life in these photos and then you realise, every. single. person, including the babies, are now dead. Every person had a life - friends, family, jobs, ups and downs with periods of good fortune and bad, some may have lived long, others were only a fleeting life, but they were all there on the days all these photos were taken, and now they're not. It's hard to wrap my head around that fact when, looking past the clothing and carriages, the clarity of these images gives them the appearance of having been taken last week.
Life is fleeting my friend.. So, enjoy each moment. I am constantly reminding myself to live and find my being in the present moment. Ultimately, that's the only sensible way to truly live our lives.
I assume your an adult and understand the cycle of life so don't know why you can't wrap your head around that.
@@BiffJackson-o4i Rude. The OP's comment revealed how she humanized the people in the photos. Maybe you should give it a try. And it's "you're".
Even with the horses etc it still looks cleaner than some of the streets in NY in 2023 ! :(
These photos are fascinating. I would love to go back and live just one week in this time just to see what it was like.
And why are blacks, Chinese, Mexicans, Indians, Arabs and others not visible on the streets ??? Where did they all hide? Probably, when they saw the photographer, they were very scared!
After all, everyone knows that it was they who built modern America!
I've existed back to within some 40 years away from the world of those pictures (and not in N.Y.C.) and I can say that a lot of that grim-looking world was still around in my time, with many people having their lives abbreviated by an inescapably-polluted environment.
It's all relative.
No a/c, no toilet bidets, horse feces on streets.
Make sure you get your shots before you go back ..disease was rampant!
Interesting to see the city at this time and what it must have looked like to my grandfather, who arrived in 1903 or 1905 from Eastern Europe. Amazing to see NYC without a skyline.
Yeah, you’re right! No skyline. Just hundreds upon hundreds of dust colored buildings.
Wonderful color and clarity!
The colorization and refinements to these great old photos is remarkable. Must be AI assisted technology. The result is a feeling like never before of relating to the people and places as if we are there. Thank you for this wonderful experience. Seems like yesterday.
Well, do me they unfortunately look like, that they are ONLY done by AI. I like the normal black & white, that you can see it is old. That looks fake as f..... I do not like that! You all lost the touch to realism and nature. I hate this planet and hope that I am soon gone of this disconnected people on that cold rock!
You can not see real from unreal anymore. What a sad race the humans are.
I get the impression that people back then were just much more positive than we are today, Even despite hardships like disease and poor living conditions in cities things were just more simpler.
I think it depends on the generation and decade. The silent generation is generally documented as having a similar absurdist or dark sense of humor that millenials and later gen z expressed through internet memes. Which makes sense when living through and surviving a World War, Flue Pandemic, insanity of 1920s, and then a Great Depression. Dadaism was a pretty popular art form. And some modern humor and art has similarities to it
The real up and up positive attitude would probably be pre-WW1 and then 1950s US bc its living off the high of victory and economic recovery. Roaring 20s a bit too, though that was a little unhinged bc Unresolved Traumas
@@Joyride37 Or 1980s too
Many were immigrants who arrived here with breast hope and dreams of fulfillment.
All I can say about the color is WOW!
Love to have a time machine..looks extraordinary..
Awesome Video!😍ThankS deeply foR sharinG thiS time pieCe with your wonderful JaZZ music to get a person to relaX as they watch about the paSt!✌🤓🌹🌞🌹☕🍵☕
Thanks - I’m glad you liked it!
@@TheHistoryLounge ✌🤓🌹🌞🌹☕☕☕
LOVE the music!!!
Great images of a bygone world. The one with the dead/dying horse was rather disturbing but probably not uncommon for that time.
They also don't show the tons of manure either.
Being colorized it makes them seem almost Human. Thank you.
🤣 They were.
Sad that so many of those young men would go to war, never to return. As usual great pictures.
I WISH I LIVED BACK THEN INSTEAD OF NOW!!!
Me too
The colorization in these images looks notably more authentic than what I've seen elsewhere. Is it a new generation/sophistication/upgrade? Reducing the preponderance of purple and finding some good yellows should probably be next on the list, understanding that implementing these changes is MUCH more easily suggested than accomplished!
I agree. I colorize old family photos via MyHeritage with similar results, then correct them with Photoshop. The results are excellent but time-consuming.
THANK YOU for a glimpse of the City that never sleeps..once my hometown. The coloration is fantastic and brought "life" into these amazing photos. I had to laugh when I saw the photo of The Met..how small it was then and how it is so impressive now as one of the finest museums in the world. I ❤NY
Thank you for your kind words. While the colorization isn't perfect - I agree that it really makes some of these images look so lifelike, in a way that I've never seen before for images of this era. It's almost a little eerie! And The Met - Yes! It looks like a small college library building sitting way out in the country!
absolutely amazing ....
2 thumbs up (really nice videos), be good, be safe !
Thanks 👍
Great job. My question is was there this much purple wore back then? Or is it just the photo reworked?
Nicely done !
Love ❤❤❤ as a native NY’er I adore it’s history
I can’t believe those kids were playing in the sewer gutter and that poor horse dead in the street.
Who picked it up? Someone with the city would have to no doubt.
I love the colorized photos!!
I agree - that horse picture makes you think - who had to pick it up, and who was the person who just unhitched it and left it there?!? Poor horse!
@@TheHistoryLounge Most likely the Sanitation Dept. had to pick that up.
Children allways everywhere play....with anything they can lay their hands on. They run, yell, laugh, talk, sing, whether rich or poor. But when they grow older.......
Crazy to believe I walked the beach and had a dog and egg cream at Coney Island for my 62nd birthday, 2018. Wanted to go there all my life.
Yeah that is crazy…. Probably the place I would like to go least on planet earth
So cool. I went to Columbia University in New York, born and raised in Cleveland.. It's still the hub of the world anyway. Great video my friend keep him up you do really fantastic work.
Cool - Glad you liked this one, Joey!
@The History Lounge absolutely, always fascinating. Keep them coming.
Wow everything was so purple back then 😮
Awesome !!!
My great-grandparents began living in Brooklyn at about the turn of the century. Grandma was born in 1906.
Do you have any pictures or old movies of men building the first buildings like Macy’s, the post office any of these big beautiful buildings that men built from scratch. I’d love to see them. They’re so intricate , massive and beautiful. You never see them in the midst of being built. I love these pictures. Thank you for sharing these with us.
❤️
Great images !
amazing! Thanks for sharing these. Looks like everyone wore hat back then!
I love the video and information. It must take a lot of time to do research. Thank you so much for putting this information together for us.
Wonderful clarity, true time travel material there!
Thanks, Wayne! The colorization looked quite realistic on some of these pics. It shows the era in a way I've never seen. Fun to look at.
Wonderful. Thank you for making this historical documentary. This pics are just fab. The colorization of those pics are stunning. Wow. And amazing how white and how short people were!
(One minor thing: it is not "metropolises" but metropoles, and it is pronounced like north "pole")
I’ve been sneezing in a couple of these a day …this one was captivating with very impressive photos
So you just sneeze, and the videos go right up your nose? :D
Great video. -- In the first shot, with the Brooklyn Bridge, all the way to the right, the last white boat with a large cement patch at its bow. That's still there. It's called "Old Slip. It was one of the original boat landings in NYC. (Google Old slip NYC) I live 2 blocks from there directly across. It's amazing to see this photo how it was as I type this from a modern high rise. - Thanks
Great video living in New York City and then living in Boston part-time it was wonderful to see the old days I used to live in delancey Street area the Jewish area. Glad you showed Coney Island but I didn't see the 🎢🎡 amusement park.. the Brooklyn bridge 🌉 was one of my favorite Bridges to walk over.. Time Square in our times in the 80s was great 👍👍.. thanks for the video..
Hey Ronald - It sounds like you've lived in some cool places and seen some cool things. Good point about Coney Island. I have more pictures of the amusement park, which I'll hopefully be able to use in a future video.
@@TheHistoryLounge I see you didn't include any people of color, wonder why
Is it just a spooky coincidence that the bread peddlers are outside a shop selling bicycles?
Purple was definitely a popular colour for clothing!
What happened to the horse though?
He most likely died of old age or illness. Not uncommon to just leave them where they died. Don't forget....the City was full of horses...everything was horse-drawn back then.
He got whipped too many times, and after he died they beat him :(
My Italian ancestors came to the USA in about 1915. And bought a house in Manhattan in the country.
Il mio bisnonno ,arrivò a New York nel 1903,aveva moglie e figli in Italia. Purtroppo, non tornò più per portarli con lui. Un saluto!
Lovely
5:58 The kid with the rod. I know everybody is thinking it. It's his turn to...
beat a dead horse 😁
Fascinating!
2:11 Five Points Neighbourhood referenced has the setting for the movie Gangs of New York.
Mauve was a very popular color back then, everyone is wearing it.
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Excellent and the narration was too. No SO's, Gottens, or off ofs just very clear diction.
How civilized was this society? A poor horse dies from so much work and exhaustion and he is left to rot in the street after his death. Everyone behaving like it's just a piece of s**t. The human race was and still is a monster.
thanks!
Good one.
Love the video
Where did the images come from?
I really like watching these old footage of stuff but without commentary is better
People were so well dressed back then. People used to dress to look good now people dress to look bad. Maybe that's one of the few good thing s about the past
Nobody is stopping you from wearing a suit next time you go grocery shopping.
Such beautiful stone buildings…
Must of been hard work
Just think, all those people lived their lives, died and are now totally forgotten. Just a meaningless pawns of time, that will also be true for us.
Yes they c us on the bank of the stick living vicariously threw us till we to join them so next time you feel like giving up there eyes are on you
That’s what people,do. Theyndie.
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And I decided to subscribe without any hesitation, so I can visit this channel oftenly.
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@@spleeeen4it/ yes, "open" is correct, for which I thank you.
If you enjoyed this, you might also enjoy a book I recently read called the big oyster. All about the importance of the oyster to New York City
Back in those days NYC had a major horse problem. Merchants would come into town w a horse & cart and stop on some street corner & sell their goods. Being merchants and not
horse people, they would make the poor horse stand all day long in harness w no water nor
food. It was common for a horse to drop dead on the spot. The merchant would unhitch his cart, walk down the street to a livery stable and buy another horse leaving the dead horse in the gutter. The problem was so bad NYC had to create a city dept of men who cruised around the town & collected these dead horses. In addition to the smell, just imagine how much horse poo must have been lying on NYC streets. Eventually, Horses were
banned from NYC streets.
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Looks so peaceful and safe compared to diversity today.
It wasn't. Crime was a serious problem in much of the city. And the filthy slums were breeding grounds for all manner of pestilence.
@@jec1ny At least they didn't have the racial animosity we deal with now. i.e. blacks committing a majority of violence despite being just 13%.
"Peaceful and safe" Lmao you are as clueless as they come.
so different world
What's this music? Who's playing, etc?
The scene of the kids sitting on the side of the street next to a dead horse, is just disturbing. I'm hoping that at that point there wasn't any stench. :(
Do you ever get that feeling that New York and other cities around the world with so much poverty but magnificent buildings is a juxtaposition - it's as if another Humanity existed before and these people were just dropped in there.
...and when I say *magnificent buildings* I am referring to the columned beautiful ones not the skyscraping monstrosities that were being built at the time.
My thoughts exactly. These edge of poverty people didn't build these magnificent buildings. And how did the wealthy build them with primitive tools and horse and carts? As some have said elsewhere, even the logistics of food, water, and feces clean-up for 1000's of horses needed to haul the millions of bricks and other materials, are ridiculous.
@@rzella8022 Oh FFS saying "I don't believe it" isn't proof. There were *massive* numbers of horses to haul things, as well as a LOT more railroad lines than we have today. And tools were hardly primitive. It wasn't the Stone Age - there were STEAM-driven cranes, tractors, excavators and even drills.
How do you think the transcontinental railroad was built? The Eiffel Tower? The Brooklyn Bridge? We have PHOTOS of these great projects being built. Hell I had ancestors who worked in construction back then. They weren't using stones as hammers and they certainly didn't have any special powers. But they knew how to build [stuff], no more & no less.
Read some tech history and pull yourself outta the conspiracy rathole.
Was it that clean ?
2:23 little did they know that there hotel was gonna be full of ads screens in the next 117 years
It wasn't only horse people were using the streets to go to the bathroom and they also didn't have good sewer systems
The state that used to my state off and on for 3 years!!! From Northern California !!!!
I'm curious about the aerial shots like near the end. 7:45 Were they from an airplane, or, given the time, a balloon?
They were taken from the Singer building!
@@justdoingitjim7095 Thanks. Had to look it up. Very striking architecture. Shame it was demolished.
The photo at 5:09 is probably the oldest photo of the sport of curling in the United States known to exist.
Years?
Poor horses...back then,worked
and starved to death. Left to rot in the street.
(Yes, I know,people suffered too)
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Some people took good care of their horses.
If there's one good thing about this past, it's that it's finally over.
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That & the dead I men right nitty gritty real world stuff
I used to work there at the banana dock ... Don't pay much.
The best I've seen of this type of video. It always amazes me how people survived then. Some, very rich; most, very poor. What a blessing to live now, thanks to government and the progressive thinking of Teddy Roosevelt and the like: decent hourly wages, 40 hour work weeks, retirement...yep, very lucky.
You said it!
Super cool 😎
Tennis must’ve been tough back then
Not many people know the stripes on the US flag were actually purple at the turn of the century. So was the blue part. The white bits were still white.
NOI NCOME TAX BACK THEN!!!
Eerie feeling, knowing every living thing in this video - is dead.
That's when New York was still wonderful.
Unlike now. What a overcrowded dump.
Central Park looks like winter day Victoria Maidan of Kolkata 2005.
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Use the captions.
Sure glad you put that huge arrow over that dead horse. I never would've seen it😂😂. Also kinda distracts from the narration saying how advanced the city was 😂😂
This may have been the "progressive era" but it was a time when old buildings built as far back as the 17th century (when NYC was settled) was being knocked down rapidly in favor of big wooden houses. Yes telephone, power and new sewer lines were being built but the little quaint pockets NY had was being made extinct. By the 1920s NYC was all traffic and skyscrapers. Too much commercialism which we millenials are trying to undo more than a century of!!!
Well said. Early in the video, when the view is from up high, you can see a scene not much different than the 1700's to 1800's. Progress that doesn't really progress the common man.
Muito bom
My grandmother was born to Irish immigrants in NYC (1909). She told me horses would die in the street and the kids would jump on the bloated bellies like a trampoline....
Always that at least one kid with an angry look on their face. 02:46 You see that look on the older boy standing next to his goat carriage and the little girl sitting in the next one over.
This is a wonderful video with lots of beautiful shots digitally restored and altered. However the mid 20th century jazz music does not actually fit.
My maternal grandparents came over from Austria at this time. From there they moved clear across the country. Today that is a horrible way to live then it was just life
And we went from this to a rover on Mars in little over 100 years ? Alien intervention!