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I'm astounded by the interesting material that Atlas Obscura reports on; they make history that much more fun to learn about! Also, is this a German flag (alon

I'm astounded by the interesting material that Atlas Obscura reports on; they make history that much more fun to learn about! Also, is this a German flag (alongside the U.S. flag) at the top of a "Chop Suey" sign (lower-left section of the photo)?? If so, why a German flag??? https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/lg/73195/image.jpg https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/lg/73195/imag... Finally... > "...A lot of the people in these photographs, we’ll never know their names... " My hope with facial recognition technology - and in my opinion one of the very, very few acceptable/responsible uses of this tech. - is when descendants of these workers can pair their own family photos with these publicly-available photos to learn more about their own families, but also - if they so choose - to share the names of these anonymous workers with the world (to give them the credit that they so richly deserve for building our essential infrastructure).

ta1234567890 7y ago
> Also, is this a German flag (alongside the U.S. flag) at the top of a "Chop Suey" sign (lower-left section of the photo)?? If so, why a German flag??? Maybe it's a Dutch flag: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Netherlands#/media/File%3AFlag_of_the_Netherlands.svg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Netherlands#/med... New York was originally Dutch, and before being called New York, it was part of what was called New Amsterdam: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam
- mxuribe 7y ago
  Ah, ok. I guess that would make better sense than German flag.
dhathorn 7y ago
It's a chinese flag, the old republic of china flag. Also known as the five races flag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Races_Under_One_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Races_Under_One_Union
- mxuribe 7y ago
  Ah-ha, weird, after immediately seeing the flag, I went to Wikipedia...but on the Chinese flags page they didn't list the flag that you found...which does answer the mystery for me! Thanks!
- rolltiide 7y ago
  It's like a precursor to the "one country two systems" moniker, which is really one country five systems if you actually count.

ta1234567890 7y ago

> Also, is this a German flag (alongside the U.S. flag) at the top of a "Chop Suey" sign (lower-left section of the photo)?? If so, why a German flag??? Maybe it's a Dutch flag: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Netherlands#/media/File%3AFlag_of_the_Netherlands.svg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Netherlands#/med... New York was originally Dutch, and before being called New York, it was part of what was called New Amsterdam: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam

mxuribe 7y ago
Ah, ok. I guess that would make better sense than German flag.

dhathorn 7y ago

It's a chinese flag, the old republic of china flag. Also known as the five races flag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Races_Under_One_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Races_Under_One_Union

mxuribe 7y ago
Ah-ha, weird, after immediately seeing the flag, I went to Wikipedia...but on the Chinese flags page they didn't list the flag that you found...which does answer the mystery for me! Thanks!
rolltiide 7y ago
It's like a precursor to the "one country two systems" moniker, which is really one country five systems if you actually count.