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Reminds me of the raising of Chicago in the 1850-60s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
by linkmotif 9y ago
Reminds me of the raising of Chicago in the 1850-60s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
- ashleyn 9y agoI was floored to see shopkeeps still open while they moved the building. Today, OSHA would have a heart attack.
- linkmotif 9y agoCrazy huh? > Consequently, the practice of putting the old multi-story, intact and furnished wooden buildings—sometimes entire rows of them en bloc—on rollers and moving them to the outskirts of town or to the suburbs was so common as to be considered nothing more than routine traffic.