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This picture reminds me of how far my simcity cities ever get:

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The 20 largest cities in North America 1930* (arguably the awesomest time for many cities)

1. New York - 6,930,446
2. Chicago - 3,376,438
3. Philadelphia - 1,950,961
4. Detroit - 1,568,662
5. Los Angeles - 1,238,048
6. Montreal – 1,100,000
7. Cleveland - 900,429
8. St. Louis - 821,960
9. Baltimore - 804,874
10. Boston - 781,188
11. Toronto - 631,200
12. San Francisco – 630,000
13. Milwaukee - 578,249
14. Buffalo - 573,076
15. DC - 486,869
16. Minneapolis - 464,356
17. Cincinnati – 451,160
18. Newark - 442,337
19. Seattle - 365,583
20. Rochester - 328,132

*Just a few things to note..
1. Missing Mexico City and many Canadian and some US cities, which would have definitely affected this list.
2. These are inner city populations, though for most cities metro wouldn't have made much of a difference.
3. Montreal and San Francisco are approximations and could vary by a few thousand more or less people.

Anyway, time for more pictures.

Tokyo


Toronto


Budapest


Portland


Enschede


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In 1936 Richmond, Virginia had a population of 255,426. Today the city population is only about 192,000 although the metro population is around 1.2 million. Here are two pics from http://www.rootsweb.com

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Year 1939 Picture from http://www.chpn.net/archives/2006/02...eys_of_chu.php


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I'll share some from my hometown, the Valley of the Sun. Since Phoenix is such a young city, and didn't grow until after WW2 (do to the popularization of Air conditioning), you can see how sparse it once was, and finding old (turn of the century) photos is tough:

Downtown Phoenix circa 1908:


More downtown, date unknown:


Notice, we were trying to sell Cactus Candy even back then:


These are a bit later, Phoenix 1917-18:




Tempe Normal Teachers College (now known as ASU):


So I guess those aren't quite as interesting as other cities, since there isn't much there...but knowing how much it changed is pretty incredible.
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CGII, I want to know EXACTLY what happened to this Milwaukee beauty - tell me she's still alive. If not we have to fucking resuscitate
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More Stockholm...

aerials ca. 1936


1907


ca. 1900



At one point Stockohlm had more telephones than London, so all those wires had to go somewhere...
1886, 45m tall, first steel framed "building" in Sweden.

People thought it looked ugly tho, so after a competition a few decorations were added

Lots of wires... (with frost on, winter pic)

by 1913 all the wires had been buried underground instead but the tower stayed up til 1953 when it was torn down after a fire.
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Had to bump up this thread just for this pano of Tokyo.

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CGII, I want to know EXACTLY what happened to this Milwaukee beauty - tell me she's still alive. If not we have to fucking resuscitate
It is still very much alive. It was just recently refurbished.
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Milwaukee looked positively amazing back then...how much of what we see in those pictures still exists today? (forgive my ignorance)
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The 20 largest cities in North America 1930* (arguably the awesomest time for many cities)
Here's the list using SF's actual listed census population and corresponding rank:

1. New York - 6,930,446
2. Chicago - 3,376,438
3. Philadelphia - 1,950,961
4. Detroit - 1,568,662
5. Los Angeles - 1,238,048
6. Montreal – 1,100,000
7. Cleveland - 900,429
8. St. Louis - 821,960
9. Baltimore - 804,874
10. Boston - 781,188
11. San Francisco – 634,394
12. Toronto - 631,200
13. Milwaukee - 578,249
14. Buffalo - 573,076
15. DC - 486,869
16. Minneapolis - 464,356
17. Cincinnati – 451,160
18. Newark - 442,337
19. Seattle - 365,583
20. Rochester - 328,132
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Dammit, those bastards and their extra 3,000 people

I was just going by a graph on Wikipedia..
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Here's the list using SF's actual listed census population and corresponding rank:

1. New York - 6,930,446
2. Chicago - 3,376,438
3. Philadelphia - 1,950,961
4. Detroit - 1,568,662
5. Los Angeles - 1,238,048
6. Montreal – 1,100,000
7. Cleveland - 900,429
8. St. Louis - 821,960
9. Baltimore - 804,874
10. Boston - 781,188
11. San Francisco – 634,394
12. Toronto - 631,200
13. Milwaukee - 578,249
14. Buffalo - 573,076
15. DC - 486,869
16. Minneapolis - 464,356
17. Cincinnati – 451,160
18. Newark - 442,337
19. Seattle - 365,583
20. Rochester - 328,132
Where is Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh had over 600,000 people in 1930.
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Milwaukee does most certainly look extremely beautiful. So that means, of course, it must be nearly totally destroyed today.
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Lots of terrific photos. I especially liked Santiago!
US and Canadian cities look amazing as well. What happened? Maybe fluoride in the drinking water killed off our sense of aesthetics.
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Where is Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh had over 600,000 people in 1930.
Not sure. I just inserted SF's proper population into a list someone else had already posted.
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Here's some good ones I found on the Oregon Historical Society website of P-town. Thanks to everyone else for posting some amazing photos.

















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