Cities Around the World – 1890s – IOTW Report

Cities Around the World – 1890s

23 Comments on Cities Around the World – 1890s

  1. Notice regardless of what country? Well dressed people and men (and woman) with hats and mustaches and beards, smiling.

    @8:33 the cinematographers assistant, in Paris, uses an umbrella to poke the boy out of the way of the central shot.

    The Czech Republic, everyone is having FUN.

    Fantastic vid and nice soundtrack.

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  2. I wear a suit and hat in public, and I did at work. It often confuses people.

    “Why is the telephone man on a ladder wearing a tie whilst pulling cables in the ceiling?”

    I’m not really sure what’s wrong with me. Maybe those old Western Electric films with the CO Tech wearing a wool suit, or the Freight Man wearing a tie with his biballs?

    But don’t catch me at home on the pastures… then I will have no shirt, no hat, busted trousers, gum boots, and a S&W 1917.

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  3. I can only imagine what was accumulated on the bottoms of those long dresses. Perhaps that is how perfume got popular.

    The hats camoed the hair that got washed every 2 or so weeks.

    Totally enjoyed the video, Sir Hat.

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  4. Anon, mine was a 1917 Civilian. I lost it when my sink got stopped up. That was a fine gun. It looked like ass. Had no finish, the grips were all grooved and tore up. That was an excellent pistol.

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  5. Imagine their horror of seeing 130 years into the future, 2020.

    Bearded men wearing dresses, gay pride parades (open air sex festivals) MS-13 tattooed freaks, obese people in electric scooters, youths beating adults at malls, purple haired lesbos screaming in the street….

    They would realize just how many years would exist before society collapsed.

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  6. Homosexuality was not just largely closeted, it was largely nonexistent. They were relatively few indulging it back then. People were not necessarily smarter but they were informed by superior morals … unlike today, which proves it is not an innate abberation (best case) but a bad choice that is contagious when allowed to spread in population centers.

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  7. By the 1890s industrialization and moral stability had vastly improved the lives of westernized nations and even parts of the third world. Better hygiene, more educational opportunities and potential economic prosperity and autonomy were the results. No wonder people looked so content in the video.

  8. Canada got lost on the cutting room floor…..

    Also, JFK killed hatz. It’s true. Men wore hatz until he ditched his. So that’s why men don’t wear hats anymore.

    Also…..people may look well dressed….. but it’s not like they had a lot of different cloths. So I’m thinking the whole movie smelled like……bad.

    Melbourne made me laugh out loud though, I went to the Melbourne Cup once. Had about the same number of people in the crowd…

    Great movie. Can’t wait for the sequel.

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