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- Mootabolife, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30Unless it's old porn.
- readme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I used to live on the street where the second shot was taken. Has not changed much in 100 years.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/designwallah/257446352/ - ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Old pictures are almost always worth looking.
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10No crowds?
Great photos though. - ascolti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It's interesting to see the Caissons being made. They enclose the workers as they dig down into the bedrock and protect them from the river. When they hit the water table they are capped and pressure is used to keep the water from coming up from the ground, like holding an upside down bucket under water. Problem is, the deeper you get, the higher the pressure you need to keep the weight of the water of the river out and at the time nobody understood the problems of air under pressure. As a result, quite a number of diggers were killed or rendered disabled due to Caisson's disease, or as we know it today 'the bends'. Where air bubbles would form in the blood as they moved from the high pressure in the Caisson to normal atmospheric pressure.
- WanderLink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sometimes I think it would be awsome living in that era, pre-Depression though.
- ed2hip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5awesome pics, wish there were more of them
- buildmorerobots, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I love how everybody back then wore a suit all the time, even when painting and shoveling sand.
- BowieX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Very interesting, indeed.
This digg entry proves how similar "sideshow" and "slideshow" are. - Mc_Carter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3the shot with the bi planes is cool.
- acomj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You might want to explain what "DUMBO" is though. Its an area of Brooklyn (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass? something like that). Its a warehouse/artist rapid gentrifying area.
http://www.plocp.com/display_image.php?folder_name=/NYC_DUMBO_FALL_2005&user_dir=aramc&image_name=18.jpg
http://www.plocp.com/display_image.php?folder_name=/NYC_DUMBO_FALL_2005&user_dir=aramc&image_name=37.jpg - LiquidTim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21900-1930's New York is one of the most interesting and crucial points in American history.
That period in New York was much like Paris during the renaissance. - Tetranitrate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm pretty sure the second to last photo is 103 Clinton St. in Brooklyn. I buy beer from the store that is there now.
- np374, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Start spreadin' the news....
- joerod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i wish i can go back in time and buy all the real estate along the east river. that picture taken of the Manhattan bridge from Washington street, AKA DUMBO. the real estate there is ridiculous.
- Surfer51, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This rocks! Dugg.
- TheKingInYellow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1while these are great photos to make them even better they need to be over 2000 pixels wide and 300dpi.
- jobo5432, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Two comments:
1. Sideshow means "slideshow" in the description right?
2. Are we immediately going to start questioning the integrity of the articles we find here on digg going forward? Are we immediately going to assume that anything which isn't groundbreaking or profound has been submitted and dugg by some digg syndicate? - VampTheChamp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I think I'd rather watch King Hong in HD.
- Ayavaron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I don't think this is a pay-for-digg kinda deal. These are from the New Yorker.
- masgrada, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Yea, until you realize these pictures were probably made for terrorists!!! everyone panic!
- paperon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0nice pinture
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1EDIT: Nevermind, I decided to submit it as an article instead.
- poohat1000, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2http://www.picli.com - beta launches soon, so sign up now.. closes soon - will be full of this kind of content tho
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