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I guess back in 1906 people had no concept of "get out of the way"...just run out in front of oncoming traffic with other motorists pulling out in front of one another. Reminds me of the traffic roundabouts in Qatar.
What's up with the guy in the car with plate number 4867?
He passes the trolley several times. At first I thought the film was a loop that kept playing the same stuff...but the building at the end of the line keeps getting closer...???
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Besides the traffic chaos, another thing I noticed was HATS were WAAAAAAAAY more popular back in those days!!!
My father made a good living selling hats in NYC, Philly, and Dallas until the late sixties. It is said that JFK changed mens fashion but not wearing hats...
That is pretty neat. Yes there were alot of people jumping in and out of traffic, no signs, no lights, no marked lanes, no laws but people had common sense. The trolley is coming GET OUT OF THE WAY. It was survival of the smartest. Today we have to have all the laws and signs and fences because some people don't know any better to get out of the way and worse their family will sue and win because the warning sign wasn't big enough.
Sure alot of people and horses were hit by cars and trolleys back then but for the most part people knew to stay out of the way because they were smart and knew they were taking their own lives in their hands.
Nice video.
My father made a good living selling hats in NYC, Philly, and Dallas until the late sixties. It is said that JFK changed mens fashion but not wearing hats...
By JFKs presidency, hats were already pretty well gone.
Here's Sanmdy Amoros making a game-saving catch in the 1955 World Series at Yankee Stsdium. Only about a quarter of the men are wearing a hat, although nearly all are in coat-and-tie, and very few women in the picture, none at all in halter tops..
President Truman was in the retail hat business before going into politics, so he was one of the last to abandon the hat etiquette. Eisenhower didn't wear a hat much, and the steep decline in hat fashion was around 1950. Here's a hatless Ike (with Nixon) throwing out the first ball in 1960, before JFK was elected.
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My father made a good living selling hats in NYC, Philly, and Dallas until the late sixties. It is said that JFK changed mens fashion but not wearing hats...
