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Hawkwing74 wrote:Pretty interesting.
UberGerbil wrote:That picture from 1940 looking south on 6th Ave from 40th street (Jumbo Malted Milk, 5¢!) -- look at the equivalent view today (or, whenever Google Street View was last updated). You don't see much that has survived... except the street light, which apparently is the same one that was there 70 years ago. The subway stair "box" looks intact and original too.
Hawkwing74 wrote:Especially in New York. Lord only knows what it's been sitting in.10 cents is barely worth picking up off the ground.
Nutmeg wrote:I think the advertising hoardings of old are much more attractive than modern ones.
just brew it! wrote:Something like this maybe? Realistically, printed signage isn't going anywhere any time soon, even with location-aware crap being pushed to smartphones. Heck, even if augmented reality becomes a, uh, reality, you're still going to have signage on stores and lost cat posters stuck to poles.What would a modern advertising hoard even look like? A snapshot of a web browser cache?
Vrock wrote:To each their own. I'd rather spend time in NYC than most small towns I've visited. (It's also much less of a cesspool than it was a generation ago; much of its dirtier and grittier side was Disneyed and Guiliani'd away long ago)So it was a cesspool then, too. I thought so.
Jambe wrote:Bunches of grisly images of murdered folk and suchlike...
Vrock wrote:So it was a cesspool then, too. I thought so.
Corrado wrote:Its not even CLOSE to the same city it was 15-20 years ago. MUCH safer, much cleaner, and just over all, much more pleasant. I walked all around Manhattan and some parts of Queens and Brooklyn and was surprised at how much more friendly and clean it is since last time I spent this much time there back in the early 90's.
Captain Ned wrote:You should have seen it in the late '70s.
just brew it! wrote:Nutmeg wrote:I think the advertising hoardings of old are much more attractive than modern ones.
What would a modern advertising hoard even look like? A snapshot of a web browser cache?
Captain Ned wrote:Corrado wrote:Its not even CLOSE to the same city it was 15-20 years ago. MUCH safer, much cleaner, and just over all, much more pleasant. I walked all around Manhattan and some parts of Queens and Brooklyn and was surprised at how much more friendly and clean it is since last time I spent this much time there back in the early 90's.
You should have seen it in the late '70s.
Corrado wrote:I already have that and more in my town of ~8,000. Color me unimpressed.Vrock wrote:So it was a cesspool then, too. I thought so.
Its not even CLOSE to the same city it was 15-20 years ago. MUCH safer, much cleaner, and just over all, much more pleasant.
trackerben wrote:Disney finally ran the prostitutes out of Times Square.Captain Ned wrote:I remember being shepherded then by my parents through Times Square as a kid. Dark and unappealing place even during the day.Corrado wrote:You should have seen it in the late '70s.Its not even CLOSE to the same city it was 15-20 years ago.
JustAnEngineer wrote: