Even though we all know times have changed drastically, you can't help but be surprised at the photographs offering evidence of just how drastically times have changed.
No history test will follow. :)
The upper deck promenade of the Brooklyn Bridge, NY 1910
Women assembling dolls for the Shrenhat Toy Company, Philadelphia PA 1912
A Pittsburgh PA factory where limousine bodies were built from wood. 1912
South Water Street, Chicago, IL, 1915
The narrow street in front of New Orleans' French market, 1915.
Center Market, Washington DC 1915 (see the boy with the newsboy cap on?)
The burned out Monticello Hotel in Norfolk, VA. Fire fighting apparatus frozen with icicles. This New Years Day 1918 fire was thought to be the work of enemy agents.
Pickwick stages awaiting passengers headed for points in south. Union Station, Los Angeles, CA, 1920.
Bathers at Lake Michigan Beach, Chicago, IL 1925.
Workers hand dipping candles a a St Louis MO candle company, 1927
Ticker tape parade held for the crew of the Bremen on Broadway in NYC, 1928
A worker sitting on the end of a beam during the construction of the Empire State Building, NYC 1930
Folks assembled outside a soup kitchen opened by Al Capone in Chicago, 1931. (Who knew??)
Painting the gold dome of the Denver Capitol Building, Denver, CO 1931
Full house at the Metropolitan Opera House in NY, 1937
Heading west out of Amarillo Texas, 1941
Manhattan 1942
Greyhound Bus Station 1947
Maze of stockyard pens at the Chicago stockyard, 1947
Workman operating a loom at the Olsen Rug Company, Chicago, IL 1950
My favorite was the one of the guy sitting on the beam of the Empire State Building. I'm so afraid of heights, I can't believe someone could do that!!
