1929 - New York City
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1929 was also the start of the great depression. People were leaping from some of those very buildings.
The depression hit just after those shots were taken, and yep you are correct, mighty different video if those shots were from 6 months later:scared
No crosswalks back then huh, people just ran out in the street and hoped for the best:lol:
Thanks for sharing the kickserve.. I learned something.. I never knew they had double Decker buses in NYC...my grandfather came over here from Italy with his father in 1910...my grandfather drove for the NYC transit..he drove a trolley car for 10-15 years and then a NYC bus until he retired 25 years later..we have pictures of him in front of his trolley and his buses...but I never saw a double decker bus...in your film you see about 5 or 6 in the backround...his father, my great grandfather was killed by a drunk driver on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx...think most people didn't know they had drunk drivers back then....he just got off a bus and started crossing the street when a car hit him...he was in Fordham Hospital for a few weeks before he passed away...my grandfather also died there many years later and his wife my grandmother too...all in there 80's....and my fathers father died there in 1953..he was young and had a heart attack...and his wife died there at Fordham Hos many years later......thank god they knocked the hospital down and its now a parking lot now .....right next to Rose Hill { where the Fordham Rams play their basketball games} Can you see why I always take Manhattan over Fordham...it wasn't just because my father went to Mnhattan College...my whole family died there...thanks for sharing...have to send that clip to my cousin who has all the photos and history...he also has my grandfathers original chain watch that he wore throughout his career..he was 1st grandson...
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Note: The first engine-powered double-decker bus appeared in London, England in 1923, NYC got em a short time after that.
