1910


- lit candles on the tree
- dudes up front seem mighty friendly
- big ass pitcher is almost empty, they fucked up

[Edited on November 26, 2009 at 8:53 PM. Reason : better?]

11/26/2009 8:51:11 PM

old timey red x on my end

now i'm just thinking about the massive fin de siècle bush that those women most certainly have

[Edited on November 26, 2009 at 8:55 PM. Reason : ]

11/26/2009 8:52:04 PM

that guy in the back right has a REALLY small head.

11/26/2009 8:56:53 PM

1910, I am assuming thats a gas chandelier, Christmas tree with candles, on a tiny table, directly underneath a gas lamp with drunks surrounding it...

11/26/2009 9:00:05 PM

^ Maybe this picture was taken right before the place burned down

11/26/2009 9:05:15 PM

Santa, 1902


-Santa was skinny, and an elf wizard (before Coke ads Americanized him)
-That building with the Presto sign is one of New York's great architectural "holdout" buildings. Macy's couldn't acquire that one corner when it built its current store, so there's a notch in the building. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/21/realestate/streetscapes-the-macy-s-notch-how-a-thorn-got-in-the-lion-s-paw.html
-The Presto billboard is based on the style of Gelett Burgess' "The Goops and How Not to Be Them," a bestselling book of the time that was still in print in the 1950s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goops

11/26/2009 9:09:11 PM

neat

11/26/2009 9:28:23 PM

MOAR

11/26/2009 9:33:39 PM

this feels like some marko shit

gg

11/26/2009 10:04:52 PM

-shittiest tree ever
-100 years later, Timmy would be doing the same thing, ignoring the family while listening to his ipod
-cant tell if they are rich or poor. Clothes look nice, but check out the leg of the chair mom is sitting in, and the walls look a little rough

11/26/2009 10:45:47 PM

I'd say at least kinda rich because those look like nice presents for back in the day.

11/26/2009 11:11:11 PM

what's with the tiny bed against the left wall? i guess that was for a baby doll

11/26/2009 11:12:12 PM

^that would be my guess. I had a bed about that small for my American Girl doll.

11/26/2009 11:13:01 PM

Quote :

"what's with the tiny bed against the left wall? i guess that was for a baby doll"

how'd you figure out that one, ace?

11/26/2009 11:13:43 PM

some ages have a type of face that just fades with the era. some of those old 20's and 30's portraits feature people with faces that just look like they spent their lives doing exactly what they spent their lives doing

11/26/2009 11:15:18 PM

i just think it's strange because a baby would go in a crib

11/26/2009 11:15:23 PM

Quote :

"before Coke ads Americanized him"

Nice try but...

Quote :

"Images of Santa Claus were further popularized through Haddon Sundblom's depiction of him for The Coca-Cola Company's Christmas advertising in the 1930s. The popularity of the image spawned urban legends that Santa Claus was in fact invented by Coca-Cola or that Santa wears red and white because they are the Coca-Cola colors.[27] In reality, Coca-Cola was not the first soft drink company to utilize the modern image of Santa Claus in its advertising – White Rock Beverages used Santa to sell mineral water in 1915 and then in advertisements for its ginger ale in 1923. Furthermore, the massive campaign by Coca-Cola simply popularized the depiction of Santa as wearing red and white, in contrast to the variety of colours he wore prior to that campaign; red and white was originally given by Nast."

I just had to research this for a class I'm teaching next week

11/26/2009 11:17:29 PM

this one is awesome, paint and body shop, 1926


-fuck a mask, I just paint
-love the newspaper covering the windows
-The single overhead bulb wouldn't produce much light
-"You'll never meet an old painter. They all die a terrible death and a young one at that"
-How long did they have to hold their breath? Is there even an exhaust fan in that place? Is that guy washing off overspray with his hands? Does the place explode when you flip on the overhead light?"
-No mask being worn and it's a wonder one of them isn't smoking. Also a puddle of possibly oil in the floor. Looks like the cover for the ceiling light electrical box has fallen down. Just noticed a fourth guy behind the car on the righ
-love the deep tread on the car tires in the middle

^ doesnt exactly rule out what I said, could have still been Coke that popularized the image even if someone else came up with it, and that doesnt even really matter, the important point was a difference between the "Old World Santa" and our modern one

[Edited on November 26, 2009 at 11:19 PM. Reason : d]

11/26/2009 11:17:35 PM

I like how you mention lack of masks three times

^ If it wasn't important, you wouldn't have mentioned Coca-cola as part of your reasoning and just left it as "Santa wasn't a fatass back in the day, respect "

[Edited on November 26, 2009 at 11:22 PM. Reason : .]

11/26/2009 11:20:26 PM

its just nuts, even if they didnt know about the health concerns it seems like the smell/headache would drive you to wearing a mask just for comfort's sake

^ like I said, I would assume Coke was responsible for the image spreading around the world, even if they didnt come up with the image to begin with they definitely used it. What the fuck bitch?


[Edited on November 26, 2009 at 11:24 PM. Reason : d]

11/26/2009 11:21:40 PM

how about how the guy to the left is wearing dress shoes?

or how they left the light bulbs/windshield uncovered and the license plate on the car while spraying paint on?

11/26/2009 11:23:12 PM

^ hahaha, didnt notice the lights or license plate

11/26/2009 11:24:55 PM

id be wearin gloves for sure, i dont care what year it was.

11/26/2009 11:25:54 PM

Quote :

"In the United States, Stepan Company is the only manufacturing plant authorized by the Federal Government to import and process the coca plant,[28] which it obtains mainly from Peru and, to a lesser extent, Bolivia. Besides producing the coca flavoring agent for Coca-Cola, Stepan Company extracts cocaine from the coca leaves, which it sells to Mallinckrodt, a St. Louis, Missouri pharmaceutical manufacturer that is the only company in the United States licensed to purify cocaine for medicinal use.[29] Stepan Company buys about 100 metric tons of dried Peruvian coca leaves each year, according to Marco Castillo, spokesman for Peru's state-owned National Coca Co."

lol nice

11/26/2009 11:31:24 PM

What will people say 100 years from now about our pictures? Especially the girls with the duck face and peace sign.

11/26/2009 11:34:52 PM

thats super interesting about the coke/cocaine thing. i guess i never put the two together past the fact that coke used to actually have cocaine in it.

theres no way the process removes 100% of the cocaine, i wonder what PPM count of cocaine it does have

11/26/2009 11:38:22 PM

I'm guessing more houses didn't burn down back then because they didn't leave a christmas tree in the house for 2 months to become a giant stack of kindling like they do these days.

11/26/2009 11:41:23 PM

Yeah you figure there has to be trace amounts at least. Maybe that's why Coke taste so good

11/26/2009 11:42:03 PM

^^back when people would only celebrate Christmas for the 12 days that it's supposed to be celebrated.

11/26/2009 11:51:04 PM

Detroit 1917, corner of Woodward and Fort


So much going on here, I could look at this pic for hours, not sure how much detail will come through with TWW's size limit
-Detroit would kill to be this busy now haha
Go to Google Earth and visit the corner of Woodward and Fort today -- a dreary, faceless, lifeless desert of glassy highrises without a pedestrian in sight
-The movie theater sign says "All Next Week, Somewhere in Georgia". According to IMDB.com "Somewhere in Georgia", starring Ty Cobb, was filmed in the winter of 1916 and released in June 1917
-Traffic signal is just "stop", "go", and you have umbrellas for peds... transit shelters arent new!
-1917 and already not a horse in sight

11/26/2009 11:56:55 PM

Camping out for Black Friday at Woolworths in 1919.

11/27/2009 12:05:09 AM

I like this thread, but I don't like TWW's image destruction.

11/27/2009 12:21:36 AM

^ yeah... better place to host them? Tried flickr but didnt really work either


Office, 1926

-safe on wheels
-pneumatic message tube (always loved these)
-woman with ipod charging on desk with nice legs
-one phone
-windows in your office that you can actually open


[Edited on November 27, 2009 at 12:29 AM. Reason : c]

11/27/2009 12:25:40 AM

I thought Flickr allows you to keep original resolution?

11/27/2009 12:30:12 AM

Pretty sure its only original res if you're a member. How big are the pics? Evan has hosting up to 1mb: http://www.e00.us/tww

11/27/2009 12:33:43 AM

most bigger than that

11/27/2009 12:35:14 AM

Oh lol, I am a member so I guess that's why

11/27/2009 12:35:17 AM

you will all grow up to be good little neo-nazis - 1910

11/27/2009 12:41:17 AM

^I would hate for my chair and desk to be bolted to the floor at a certain distance like that.

Pics can't be hotlinked from wherever?

11/27/2009 12:43:11 AM

nope, red x

11/27/2009 12:44:57 AM

tinypic?

11/27/2009 12:45:40 AM

Shit that girl in the middle is a ghost

11/27/2009 12:48:17 AM

tinypic test... 1910 Tenement



notice the kitty?



[Edited on November 27, 2009 at 12:50 AM. Reason : d]

11/27/2009 12:48:55 AM

i like this thread, keep fightin the good fight, JB

11/27/2009 12:51:23 AM

That's a lot better!
Creepy kitty
Is that sprinklers or gas lighting, hanging from the ceilings?

11/27/2009 12:51:39 AM

I would imagine gas lighting, you can see the shutoff valve, of course I guess sprinkles could have had them too, but I am thinking light



Creeepy 1915, the grave of Henry Adams' wife (suicide)


Saint-Gaudens's name for the bronze figure is The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding, but the public commonly called it Grief—an appellation that Henry Adams apparently disliked. In a letter addressed to Homer Saint-Gaudens, on January 24, 1908, Adams instructed him:

"Do not allow the world to tag my figure with a name! Every magazine writer wants to label it as some American patent medicine for popular consumption—Grief, Despair, Pear's Soap, or Macy's Men's Suits Made to Measure. Your father meant it to ask a question, not to give an answer; and the man who answers will be damned to eternity like the men who answered the Sphinx."


[Edited on November 27, 2009 at 1:00 AM. Reason : f]

11/27/2009 12:56:07 AM

adding to my topics

11/27/2009 1:02:50 AM

I love Shorpy.

Why not just post the link to them at Shorpy? You can view them in their highest resolution there.

11/27/2009 1:04:09 AM

because it sucks to have to go out of the thread to see the pics

11/27/2009 1:09:24 AM

at least post a link with the pic, then

11/27/2009 1:11:14 AM