No Automobiles!!

[Ken N Tx]

This is what NYC looked like in the late 1800’s. A busy place. I wonder who had the job
of picking up all the road apples from the horses?
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New Orleans circa 1906. "Italian headquarters, Madison Street." The streets were still dirt!


Then came the Autos!!

Here is the way they parked cars in NYC during the 1930’s. Wouldn’t you love to own this group of cars today?
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[SifuPhil]

This is what NYC looked like in the late 1800’s. A busy place. I wonder who had the jobof picking up all the road apples from the horses?
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[Ken N Tx]

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[SifuPhil]

:lofl:

 

[Pappy]

:sentimental:

 

[Capt Lightning]

If they had computers in those days, they would probably have predicted that by now the world would now be covered 6 feet deep in horse ****.

 

[Don M.]

We have a lot of Amish in this area....and they still go to the stores with their horse and buggy. The local Walmart has a "hitching post" at one end of the parking lot, for their "vehicles"...and the Walmart janitor gets to "police" that area every night.

 

[jujube]

When I was young, my grandmother used to go out in the street after Gus, the fruit and vegetable man, would go by with his horse-drawn wagon. She'd collect any dropping she could find and put them on the base of her "snowballs" (don't know what the proper name is for the plant). It would turn the blossoms from white to blue.

 

[Susie]

Without cars you would have to rely on public transport (if available) or horrors of horror, you would have to walk! Now wouldn't that be something!!!

 

[Underock1]

I walked nine blocks to grammar school in the Bronx around 1940 or so dodging horse manure all the way. We still had milk delivered by horses and a number of fruit and vegetable peddlers with horse and wagon. The ice wagon had only disappeared a couple of years earlier.

 

[SeaBreeze]

 

[Underock1]

Yes! I can hear the clinking of milk bottles outside our fourth floor walk up apartment door. A strangely pleasant sound to wake up to at 6AM. Thanks, SB. I enjoyed that.

 

[Manatee]

In the 40s and possibly later, there were Sanitation workers with 2 wheel carts with a barrel on them and broom and shovel to do the clean up.