Cities in the late 1800s, early 1900s

[muppet]

Originally Posted by hauntedheadnc

Every time I look at 1920's pictures of European cities, especially London or Berlin, I get a little nervous. You know that something more horrible than most anyone can imagine is coming in a couple of decades, and the people in the picture have no clue.

Same for old pictures of Japanese cities, come to think of it, but there don't seem to be as many of those.

Add to that Warsaw (then considered most romantic city in the world), Milan, Vienna (thankfully rebuilt), Hamburg, Manila, Volgograd (Stalingrad), St Petersburg (the worlds worst siege with 1.1 million starving to death), Nanjing (300,000 killed in a few days), Tokyo (worlds worst air raids) and of course the cosmoploitan European styled cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[peo]

Santiago in the early 20th Century.

[AuxTown]

Ottawa, Canada

Intersection of Rideau St. and Sussex Dr. (1865-1870)

Sparks St. at Metcalfe

VE Day on Sparks St.

The old Albion Hotel on Nicholas St.

VE Day at Parliament Hill

[rockyi]

^ I can't believe how wide those streets are in Ottawa in your first picture from the 1860's.

[Wheelingman04]

It is ashame what the automobile and "urban renewal" has done to our cities.

[dfane]

Found some old Philly pics.

I think it would have been fun riding a trolley back then it would probably be faster crawling since the streets looked packed and nothing could move on them lol



outside of Shibe park in North Philadelphia


South Broad st.


Center city 1939


Market st in 1900

[yakumoto]

SANTA CRUZ

These are mostly from the mid to late 1800s...















and the Boardwalk, obviously...

[keninhalifax]

Originally Posted by rockyi

^ I can't believe how wide those streets are in Ottawa in your first picture from the 1860's.

Only Rideau Street was that wide; it served as the main thoroughfare through 'Lowertown' and connected the east and west parts of the city. I don't think it's any wider today than it was in the 1860s!

[Sacto]

Life sucked back then...

[CGII]

Wow...That looks like some sort of movie backdrop from the era.

[CGII]

More Milwaukee (or, I can't let this thread die):

1885


























1895

[st steven]

I frequently complain that I was born too late. This thread is only a painful reminder.

These are great! Thanks for sharing, everybody.

[Taller Better]

I think most cities looked much more beautiful back then.... however, I would not want to be transported back to the old days! I like the mores of modern day much better!

[Boris2k7]

Fort Calgary founded by North West Mounted Police 1875

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Canadian Pacific Railway reaches tent city near Fort Calgary 1883
Town of Calgary established 1884 - Population ~1000

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City of Calgary established 1894 - Population ~3900

1894 First City Council


1897


October 4, 1897 -Just after the Death of Sam Livingston, Calgary's First Settler


1898



Sometime in the late 1890's, Fire Hall #1 erected in 1887


EDIT: More Calgary, now some pictures up to 1920

1900-1903







Calgary's first City Hall and Police building


1906



1907-1908


1910's






May 20, 1910 - Memorial Procession for the death of King Edward VII


1920 - Population around 75 000




LOL, sorry about posting so many pics, but I find Calgary's early history fascinating. Not only because of the astounding early growth, but also because we lost so damn much of what we built. In the 70's and 80's we lost the vast majority (let's say 85-90%) of our original downtown, which gives the downtown an appearance of being entirely modern. It's sad really, a lot of those old buildings were gorgeous and I would surely trade away a dozen parking lots and several brutalist blocks if I could get them back. The street life on 7th and 8th was also astounding, and tons of street car lines who can only be remembered by the names of the districts they ran through.

[Edan]

wow! these cities weren't always dull, lifeless ghost-towns... can you imagine the insane sensory experience one would have experience every day on those streets? now we have cars, ipods, few pedestrians, and zoning laws up the ass. granted life was harder back then, but we've lost something huge in our "progress" -- we've lost the satisfaction that comes from being a thread in the fabric of humanity.

[Moty_The_Undead]

Quebec City,

Quebec's Old Town, the only North American fortified city north of Mexico whose walls still exist, was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1985 as the "Historic District of Old Quebec". It is also one of the oldest city in Canada. However Quebec city is the first to have been founded with the explicit goal of receiving permanent settlement and not as a commercial outpost, and therefore is often considered to be the first city in Canada.

Quebec City 1608


1700


During the attact of the British on the summer of 1759


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Carnaval of Quebec 1894




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Now

[BTinSF]

Early 1900's you say? Well, see, San Francisco had a little problem then:

Fire:








The aftermath: aerial




Sacramento St.


Market St.




Stockton at Geary


City Hall



U.S. Mint


Embarcadero


Sansome St.


The Palace Hotel (Jessie St.)


Kearny & Columbus (North Beach)


Mason at Post


Franklin & Bush: Relief HQ and temporary City Hall


18th St.


Valencia St.


Refugee feeding station: Jefferson Square


Refugee Camp: Golden Gate Park

[Comrade]

Salt Lake City:

200 South and West Temple 1918.



Downtown in 1920:



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Auerbach Company 1912, demolished.



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A pan of SLC in 1908:



Main in 1916:



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It's fireproof!



Walker Bank Building on Main in 1914, still standing.



Walker Bank entrance.



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1940s:

[GVNY]

New York City

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[Exodus]