One for the New Yorker's or historians

[dingoEsride]

Wish they could do this for all cities

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -City.html

[Lock]

Awesome!
Note from the site:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/misc/luna.shtml

Due to overwhelming demand, the New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery is unavailable at present. Maintenance activities are underway to address this issue.

[dogman]

Stuff like that is cool. There is a pretty good collection of pics like that from my area, but mostly the pics are 1900 on, with a few from the 1880's when the trains came. The history (of europeans) here goes back to the 1500's but of course no pictures of that.

Most interesting to me was the many photos of the building of Elephant Butte dam, and the channelizing of the river downstream. Big ol steam powered walking beam draglines dug the new river channel and the irrigation ditch system.

Finished in 1918, it was for about 10 years the worlds biggest man made lake and dam. The methods developed at Elephant Butte made Hoover dam possible in the 30's.

It truly transformed the valley from a marginal place for a few vegetable patches subject to yearly floods to agricultural powerhouse. And became the model for other projects later, in California.

[Dauntless]

Days before the San Francisco earthquake, a camera crew filmed Market Street. The film was shipped to New York for processing just in time to survive the disaster. Market Street did not. How many of these people were dead before the film reached the lab there's no way to say, but the buildings were all gone.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... 87.4j2.6.0.

[kevo]

Very cool archives Thanks for posting the links

[e-bike-is-fun]

Tax law needs to change.
City takes land if not in use after X time, charges owner to demolish.
Or just have it nuked with nod from Washington for practice sake.
Works Nationwide.

[dingoEsride]

Awesome!
Note from the site:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/misc/luna.shtml

Due to overwhelming demand, the New York City Municipal Archives Online Gallery is unavailable at present. Maintenance activities are underway to address this issue.

Real bummer about that, hope they can fix it love old archives

Stuff like that is cool. There is a pretty good collection of pics like that from my area, but mostly the pics are 1900 on, with a few from the 1880's when the trains came. The history (of europeans) here goes back to the 1500's but of course no pictures of that.

Most interesting to me was the many photos of the building of Elephant Butte dam, and the channelizing of the river downstream. Big ol steam powered walking beam draglines dug the new river channel and the irrigation ditch system.

Finished in 1918, it was for about 10 years the worlds biggest man made lake and dam. The methods developed at Elephant Butte made Hoover dam possible in the 30's.

It truly transformed the valley from a marginal place for a few vegetable patches subject to yearly floods to agricultural powerhouse. And became the model for other projects later, in California.

Yeah! great to see how things were done in the past, the New York buildings during construction is incredible, safety what safety

[dingoEsride]

Seems like they've fixed it,

http://a860-nycma.nyc.gov/luna/servlet

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[Lock]

Public School 104, 1930:

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2011, now with fewer horse-drawn vehicles...

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[Lock]

Board of Education
Bureau of Plant Operation and Maintenance, Lafayette Street Shops, Manhattan. Clock shop.

Really important to train the little ones to conform to the 9 to 5, for the rest of their productive lives...

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[dogman]

Yeah, love those clips on the history channel of the big jobs in the thirties. Safety? Tossing around all those hot rivets on the NY skyscrapers etc. Holy cow.

I think it was the building of the Golden Gate where the workers themselves invented the hard boiled hat. It was two hats of some kind, dipped in hot tar. The result was stiff enough to be a helmet of sorts.

[The fingers]

We're pioneers in the days of the "electric horse"!

[dingoEsride]

Days before the San Francisco earthquake, a camera crew filmed Market Street. The film was shipped to New York for processing just in time to survive the disaster. Market Street did not. How many of these people were dead before the film reached the lab there's no way to say, but the buildings were all gone.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... 87.4j2.6.0.

Thats an awsome vid. and so sad,

They've released more photo's of old New York and some good ones can be seen here

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012 ... es/100318/

I'm not a fan of big cities but to see the way it was in a fast growing one like NY amazes me, crimes scenes can be a bit gory, shame I cant see many bikes