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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
This image of 1920′s New York City from the Staten Island Ferry sent chills up and down my spine.
It's more than 100 years old. But it's instantly recognizable as NYC. It would have sounded and felt much the same. Modernity is so old. The modern city, the grid, New York grit and fast walking are all older than anyone who is alive today.
The premodern world is beyond human memory.
*shudder*
Of course it was also very different in some ways... but every one has legacies.
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- Sepia-toned photo of people looking over the rail of the Staten Island ferry as it nears the tip of Manhattan, already an island crowded right to the shore with skyscrapers in the 20. The people have on hats, the city emerges from a haze of mist, pollution and the limitations of old photographs. (remote)
