I had to post this here as it's, without a doubt, the best video I've ever seen of lower Manhattan in the 1930s.
Can you imagine what this must have looked like to an immigrant coming from Europe? Riding in on a ship after weeks at sea, and this is what you see. It must have been mind-melting.
I had to post this here as it's, without a doubt, the best video I've ever seen of lower Manhattan in the 1930s.
Can you imagine what this must have looked like to an immigrant coming from Europe? Riding in on a ship after weeks at sea, and this is what you see. It must have been mind-melting.
I had to post this here as it's, without a doubt, the best video I've ever seen of lower Manhattan in the 1930s.
Can you imagine what this must have looked like to an immigrant coming from Europe? Riding in on a ship after weeks at sea, and this is what you see. It must have been mind-melting.
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"The destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building" - Jane Jacobs 1961ish
My God, Lower Manhattan -- it's kind of the reason we're all here. I mean, it turns into "we are getting a new 13-storey Holiday Inn in Barrhaven", but at the origin-point it's this video.
I just spent the last 20 minutes watching that video on repeat, should probably do some work now...
The colourization was top notch and really makes everything seem so much more... real. It's easy to have an idea of the classic Manhattan skyline but it actually feels like you could be there watching that.
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It's funny to think that while we see this as a glorious showcase of the art's founding masterpieces, at the time there were many people who saw it as an absurd Babylon of toilet brush kings piling palace-fragments on top of each other all willy-nilly until their money ran out.
I can ALMOST see it, like, what exactly goes on inside an insurance company's Halicarnassus Mausoleum, built halfway to God? I can almost hear the ancien regime's protest of meaninglessness.
But in the end I was born to American turbo-modernity and this is the best thing ever.
My God, Lower Manhattan -- it's kind of the reason we're all here. I mean, it turns into "we are getting a new 13-storey Holiday Inn in Barrhaven", but at the origin-point it's this video.
Post of there year LOLZ
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"The destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building" - Jane Jacobs 1961ish
I had to post this here as it's, without a doubt, the best video I've ever seen of lower Manhattan in the 1930s.
Can you imagine what this must have looked like to an immigrant coming from Europe? Riding in on a ship after weeks at sea, and this is what you see. It must have been mind-melting.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is how you do a skyline. So beautiful. So classy. Best ever. Way, way, way better than the current version of the lower Manhattan skyline.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell). Sweet Loretta fart thought she was a cleaner, but she was a frying pan. (John Lennon)
Dominion Public Building, revealed from under the scaffolding not too long ago. Citadel ramparts visible at the top. Queen's Marque shows what the scale of the older Art Deco buildings is like. The 6th or 7th floor of the Bank of NS is taller than the 10th floor of a new residential building. Those white balconies seem like an oversight.
Mohkínstsis — 1.6 million people at the Foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 400 high-rises, a 300-metre SE to NW climb, over 1000 kilometres of pathways, with 20% of the urban area as parkland.
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