BRC (Circa 1905)

Homiesinheaven · Post by **Homiesinheaven** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 5:37 pm

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aboard the Neverwas Haul?

Post by **Sham** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:29 pm

Thanks for sharing that very cool drive down a 1905 street. I really enjoyed it. Just think that every person in that film and from that era is now dead. What a very simple and easy time to be living. Now the world has been passed on to the present generation and boy oh boy did we fuck things up.

goathead · Post by **goathead** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:31 pm

did you notice how slow the pace of things where.

Deb Prothero · Post by **Deb Prothero** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:23 pm

Noticed a lot of public transit being used. There was a time when that was done real well - convenient, timely and plentiful - before GM bought up all the street railways.

Post by **Elderberry** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:03 pm

Things always look better in pictures than they actually were.

JK

TomServo · Post by **TomServo** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:43 pm

Deb Prothero wrote:Noticed a lot of public transit being used. There was a time when that was done real well - convenient, timely and plentiful - before GM bought up all the street railways.

And all the subways in LA. Who knew LA had subways??? The Bastards! I remember the traffic jams in the 70's...and vaguely, the fuel shortage. To think what could have been....

Post by **Sham** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 12:58 am

jkisha wrote:Things always look better in pictures than they actually were.

That's not always true JK, have you ever looked at a picture of yourself?

In 1905, telephones were just 30 years old and not in widespread use. Mail was the main for of communicating and Western Union was used to get ugent messages across the country.

How did people drive without GPS units or use public toilets without a cell phone to their ears? There were no TVs, iPods, iPhones, internet, computers.

People actually had to talk to each other and basic courtesies were taught by the parents. Things were much nicer back in 1905, they just didn't know it.

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:17 am

jkisha wrote:Things always look better in pictures than they actually were.

JK

Yes... that's exactly right! 1905 SUCKED in many ways. Ha! You think health care is bad now... and yeah a lot of public transportation was used, because there was little option of any private transportation. The Model T wasn't in production yet - and by the way, the automobile was seen in those days as a solution to the pollution problem! In 1905 many city streets were piled deep with horse shit.
Wanna make a phone call? In those days the different phone companies weren't interconnected. You could only call people on your same service.
A 5-day work week with overtime and vacation pay? Nope.
Refrigerators became popular about 20 years later.
Music really stunk! And you had to play it on a wax-cylinder Edison Talking Machine... which did not have a subwoofer or 5.1 surround... there was no broadcast radio at all.
Bathing and general sanitary progress wasn't what it is today.

Hell I could go on and on... 100 years ago was no party.

Fire_Moose · Post by **Fire_Moose** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:30 am

GET OFF THE FREAKIN" TRACKS!!! god dammit

Homiesinheaven · Post by **Homiesinheaven** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:33 am

almost like running over passed out ravers after sunrise on the playa.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 12:45 pm

Was that Market Street?

Bounce530 · Post by **Bounce530** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:42 pm

Fire_Moose wrote:GET OFF THE FREAKIN" TRACKS!!! god dammit

Moose tracks?