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What's the Difference

posted Tuesday, 26 February 2008

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Above is a photo of a street scene, taken around 1912 or so. There was one element of this photo that struck me as being quite different from a typical city street scene of today.

Can you guess what it is?

 

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1. Easy left...
Wednesday, 27 February 2008 7:02 am :: http://brokedownpalace.blog-city.com/

Everyone is wearing a hat, and there are no cars parked.


2. Neal left...
Wednesday, 27 February 2008 7:21 am :: http://watzman.wordpress.com

If that were my home town of Steubenville Ohio, the difference would be that in this picture there are people on the streets. In my hometown, as in many small towns, the streets are empty.


3. --W-- left...
Wednesday, 27 February 2008 8:15 am

I was going for the hats angle. Lack of cars was an expected technological difference, but the mass conformity and uniformity of everyone wearing hats, without exception just boggled my mind.

So many people on the sidewalk no doubt is directly related to the relative rarity of cars at that time.


4. Paula Reed left...
Saturday, 1 March 2008 2:53 pm :: http://paulareed.blog-city.com

I like hats. My son often wears them. He has one fedora for his debate suit and another for jeans, along with an Irish driver's cap. The school doesn't allow them, but he likes to wear them otherwise.


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