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"But what a visual blight on the riverfront and the city streets." A very late-20th and current 21st century perspective. This is 1902; if you were actually th

by jerf 6y ago

"But what a visual blight on the riverfront and the city streets." A very late-20th and current 21st century perspective. This is 1902; if you were actually there your first impression would probably be more like "wow, that's a lot of horse crap on the roads". If you look you can see quite a bit of it in the roads in the video... if you know what you're looking for. 21st century eyes are not looking for that in the video and probably just assumed it was noise or rocks. I'm not saying you're right or wrong in that persective; just observing it is a product of your time and probably not something they'd agree with.

m4rtink 6y ago
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by jerf 6y ago

m4rtink 6y ago

I think its magnificent, beautiful! And people back ten apparently thought so as well, as they even "photoshoped" these monorails, airships, cablecars, baloons, trams, motorcycles and other gadgets on top of real photos and sold the result as postcards (best link I could find, sorry): https://www.burda-auction.com/en/mail-auction-29/show/2207/picture-postcards-topography-czech-republic-district-of-znojmo/ https://www.burda-auction.com/en/mail-auction-29/show/2207/p... https://www.burda-auction.com/en/public-auction-62/show/1390/picture-postcards/ https://www.burda-auction.com/en/public-auction-62/show/1390... https://www.burda-auction.com/en/mail-auction-19/show/2168/picture-postcards-topography-czech-republic-district-of-most/ https://www.burda-auction.com/en/mail-auction-19/show/2168/p... https://www.burda-auction.com/en/mail-auction-27/show/2158/picture-postcards-topography-czech-republic-district-of-kladno/ https://www.burda-auction.com/en/mail-auction-27/show/2158/p... This is how people viewed progress and looked forward into the future back then. And it still makes me sad when some nice and intricate industrial infrastructure is simply razed and replaced by anonymous blocks of flats or clone-like office building. This stuff has soul!