What I like is the way the people appear to know how to behave.  Like Lake Wobegon, they are all handsome, well dressed, carry good posture and appear comfortably social.
 
No traffic lights, no parking meters, no traffic lanes marked, people everywhere in spite of planners' painted cross walks.  Everyone knows how to park their wagons neatly without lines on the pavement to tell them.   Reason, rationality and common sense prevail.
 
If only we men now all had hats and the women all had flowers on their bonnets, perhaps life would be better and decent architecture would flourish once again.   However, Philadelphia would still get the prize for ultimate ugly.
 
cp in bc
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Subject: [BP] 100 years

what I like is the masonry ;how proud ; how wonderful ; Detroit looks new because it was new ...even the beach at Atlantic city 
or downtown Montgomery was so full of promise ........what happened ? xoxoPy






American Cities a Century ago
A selection of photos of the largest U.S. cities, made about 100 years ago.
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Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, in 1917.
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Atlantic City, 1910.
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The main street of Memphis, north of Avenue Gayoso, 1910.
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Station Louisville-Nashville, Florida, in 1910.
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Forsyth Street, Jacksonville, Florida, in 1910.
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The beach          in Atlantic City, 1915.
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Grant Avenueafter an earthquake in San Francisco in 1906.
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Carts for transporting dairy Thompson, Washington, 1927.
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Washington, DC, 1914.
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Cadillac Square, Detroit, Michigan, 1916.
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Ninth Street, Washington DC, 1915.
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Corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, 1910.
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Broad Street north of Spruce Street, Philadelphia, 1905.
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View of Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn in 1909.
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Fire at 55th Street, New York, 1915.
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Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913.
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Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 1907.
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The New York Public Library, New York, 1915.
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Wall Street, New York, 1911.
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Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913.
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Manhattan, 1907.
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The northern part of Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913.
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City Hall City Hall in New York.
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Dexter Avenueand the Capitol, Montgomery, Alabama, in 1906.
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Walnut Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1910.
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Washington, DC, 1913.
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Broadway          and the building of The Times, New York, 1915.
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Size of Government in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1905.
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Boston, MA, 1906.
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New York,          1905.
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Grand Central Station and Hotel, Manhattan, New York,          1903.
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Treasury Building, Washington, DC, 1913.
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Post Office, Brooklyn, New York, 1906.
 










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