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A real picture of what NY City Street used to be like before cars

archives.gov — Full of carriages and horses....

Who dugg this? Made popular Aug 24, 2007

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  • DiggsOnlyJew, on 10/23/2007, -12/+269Please, trade in your car for a horse. Do you realize the environmental impact of the entire nation or world owning horses. They ***** 9 tons of manure each year, that's about 50 pounds a day. You also have to stockpile their ***** and you can't have it close to any water sources, so anyone living in rural areas with a well wouldn't have a place for that, if the water source comes near the stockpile, all local water sources will be contaminated. Then you have to worry about feeding your ***** horse, which requires approximately 25-30 pounds of dry food per day and we have to clear out significantly more land for farms to accomodate for our 300 million new horses (there are approximately 5.5 million horses in the United States) which in turn will destroy the environment and ecosystem as it is. Not only that, but your dumbass ***** horse can only go about 9 mph for 25 miles before having to break, it would take me over 3 hours to get to work which is 30 miles away from where I live instead of the 30 minutes it takes right now. So instead of an hour of driving every day, I'd have 6 hours of riding and 2 hours of ***** stockpiling and 2 hours of feeding my ***** factory. Not only this but I have to build an accomodation so it can ***** all day, and buy a ridiculous amount of feed and have more land... but I guess I wouldn't care about money at this point since I spend 10 hours of my non-working day taking care of my crappy horse.

    We have technology for a reason and the environmental impact of 300 million horses, and 300 million horse pens and 2.7 billion tons of horse ***** every year would be absurd...
  • Error601, on 10/10/2007, -3/+201So, basically the same but more horse crap than human crap.
  • crashbang, on 10/10/2007, -3/+117Can you imagine NYC about mid-August with that much ***** on the streets? The funkatude would be off the meter.
  • Anrkist, on 10/10/2007, -5/+80I hate it when people beat me to a poop joke.
  • BrutusCirrus, on 10/10/2007, -4/+71Feels like *****, eh?
  • consoneo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+61Can I vote this for best comment ever?
  • Charlatan22, on 10/10/2007, -5/+42im curious as to how the horse eats 25-30 lbs of food a day yet manages to ***** 50 lbs a day?
  • scott12087, on 10/10/2007, -5/+42Or, you know, those who didn't go to high school in America. Welcome to the Internet, a very International place where assumptions that the whole world is american will be shot down.
  • JackyAppleJones, on 10/10/2007, -10/+44I can imagine that, actually. It's called the GOP national convention.
  • inurb, on 10/10/2007, -2/+36That pic must have been taken with a real crappy camera phone.
  • DiggsOnlyNeoCon, on 10/10/2007, -12/+42Eat it, treehugger.
  • 10goto10, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29A lotta horsepower back in the day
  • Twinked, on 10/10/2007, -3/+29***** CLASSIC!! I had to login just to Digg this comment. Thanks for the late afternoon laugh.
  • bsonline, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26The food isn't dry when it comes back out. The water has weight, also.
  • mortigon, on 10/10/2007, -4/+25Yea, it stinks.
  • chillmandan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20New York before the car was a city of candy cane forests and gum drop mountains.
  • neilbaylor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20he probably should have mentioned that this picture is in response to this:
    http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/cars_a_scourge.php
  • Joe_rigby, on 10/10/2007, -6/+24As opposed to a fake picture of what NY city street looked like before cars.
  • jledesma, on 10/10/2007, -11/+28lmao!!! this is one of the best comments i have ever read ....
    "2 hours of feeding my ***** factory"
    LMAO!
  • loganhid, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18what? Black and White
  • mrgreenjeans, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17And the lack of deodorant?
  • kingvik, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16i like turtles
  • gbarger, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1425-30 lbs of dry food. That doesn't include grass or water intake which would certainly come out.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1330 lbs dry food + water = 50 pounds of wet *****.
  • lyg82, on 10/10/2007, -5/+17if the horse in front took a *****, was that considered an accident?
  • Rileyper, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11best conversation on digg EVER!!!!
  • sloppychris, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13As opposed to an unrepresentative picture posted yesterday. Hilarious, though.
  • brianbb98, on 10/10/2007, -6/+17omg.. a REAL picture???
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12"Nobody drives in New York, theres too much traffic"
  • Guroom, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Don't kid yourself - this is BS - I can totally see the pixelation - this was photoshopped!

    :)
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11People sure wore a whole lot of black back then...
  • danconia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10So did they have government-funded people who picked up the leftover ***** or did the bums just collect those like they do cans today?
  • nhassan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11um, go to central park, near the 5th ave. apple store, bunch of horses and whatnot there.
  • Jeffler, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11....shouldn't this be digg.us then?
  • lordmetroid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Yes. horse ***** everywhere and it was causing diseases. You know, cars became popular in the cities because it was much cleaner.
  • j0hnc0ry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9And what's more crap is that in the middle of the picture there is a car. Either that or an invisible horse.
  • RenZ87, on 10/10/2007, -2/+11You mean it was enhance with Adobe Photosh... nevermind.
  • markp93, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Disgusting... "In 1880, New York City removed 15,000 dead horses from its streets."

    from ( http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/578.html )

    cars seem so much better, relatively.


  • nonnald, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8your mom had a fetal accident
  • Pureeviljester, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9got em!
  • CIAVT, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I hope in 100 years the future version of digg has a headline:
    What NYC Streets looked like in 2007 [PIC]

    And the comments start out with:

    Wait, are those cars? When did we get rid of those things again?
  • zadadka, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7.....and a few years later : http://www.archives.gov/research/american-cities/images/american-cities-108.jpg
  • arraz, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9Others aspect compared to the earlier Park Street picture.
  • tech42er, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6DIdn't you get the memo. '.com' == '.us' ;)
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Why not become Amish?
  • DeskFlyer, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7This comment is bash.org worthy.
  • WhiteIce89, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Oh there was quite a bit of human crap too. There was no plumbing in many cases, especially in the tenement housing, so people would fling their crap from the window.
  • mrhaines, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Doesn't actually seem to be that many carriages. More people walking.
  • randomhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5where the hell is everyone going too?
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