Reminds me of this video: http://www.wimp.com/sanfrancisco/ -- uninterrupted San Francisco footage from 1905. Very surreal, extremely captivating.
Good to know that driving on the road was a bloodsport in SF even a hundred years ago.
Video reveals NYC subway ride 108 years ago from Union Square to Grand Central
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Re: Video reveals NYC subway ride 108 years ago from Union Square to Grand Central
#22In Buenos Aires (Argentina) we used the same wood railcars for 99 years in the first subway line of the city "Subte A". We changed all of them this January and the last day was a big event.
Some trains in use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot1Lzgiy13s
Professional edited video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEoFmGMkRlY
Inside the train in the last travel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L_G6WTL2nQ
Re: Video reveals NYC subway ride 108 years ago from Union Square to Grand Central
#23I envy the time when everyone is wearing a suite and a tophat with an awesome mustasche, aswell as acting like a true gentlemen.
Re: Video reveals NYC subway ride 108 years ago from Union Square to Grand Central
#24Reminds me more of the London tube stations than any of the NYC subway stations of today, likely due to a combination of respect and lack of bodily waste/trash.
I ride the NYC subway every day and am always surprised at how poorly the stations are treated. People throw wrappers on the tracks so calmly and confidently as if they were designated to collect waste. Puddles of urine are not uncommonly found. It baffles me. I don't know where that attitude comes from.
Re: Video reveals NYC subway ride 108 years ago from Union Square to Grand Central
#25I envy the time when everyone is wearing a suite and a tophat with an awesome mustasche, aswell as acting like a true gentlemen.
looking at all those people, thinking how each is busy with their day, their plans, their hopes - then realizing all of them had already lived their lives and died, including the odd child also in the video... Nothing deep to say - this can be said about every old media showing people - just for some reason, perhaps the portrayed routine, this made me reflect on that fact
Re: Video reveals NYC subway ride 108 years ago from Union Square to Grand Central
#26Reminds me more of the London tube stations than any of the NYC subway stations of today, likely due to a combination of respect and lack of bodily waste/trash. I ride the NYC subway every day and am always surprised at how poorly the stations are treated. People throw wrappers on the tracks so calmly and confidently as if they were designated to collect waste. Puddles of urine are not uncommonly found. It baffles me…
New York in general is just dirty. It's a place to visit, not to live in.
Re: Video reveals NYC subway ride 108 years ago from Union Square to Grand Central
#27What really struck me was the lack of those those safety bumps and lights on the ground near the edge of the platform. It's such a basic part of what I think of as a subway platform but clearly took a while before they showed up.
No yellow safety line! The madness of it all
Re: Video reveals NYC subway ride 108 years ago from Union Square to Grand Central
#28I envy the time when everyone is wearing a suite and a tophat with an awesome mustasche, aswell as acting like a true gentlemen.
looking at all those people, thinking how each is busy with their day, their plans, their hopes - then realizing all of them had already lived their lives and died, including the odd child also in the video... Nothing deep to say - this can be said about every old media showing people - just for some reason, perhaps the portrayed routine, this made me reflect on that fact
I've thought about that watching old movies from even as late as the '30s - that every single person I'm watching (scenes with 10s if not hundreds of people) are long dead.
Re: Video reveals NYC subway ride 108 years ago from Union Square to Grand Central
#29Reminds me of this video: http://www.wimp.com/sanfrancisco/ -- uninterrupted San Francisco footage from 1905. Very surreal, extremely captivating.
Anyone know what the music in this video is?
Re: Video reveals NYC subway ride 108 years ago from Union Square to Grand Central
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a third train running parallel to the train that is ahead of the camera train, throughout the entire trip. It almost looks like it has an array of fluorescent tubes or mercury vapor lamps. Sometimes the train with the lighting rig gets a little bit ahead of its subject, which is why the train being filmed gets dark from time to time, but you can see this rig clearly at the beginning, and towards the end, the…
You can clearly see the third train providing lighting at 3:10. Very interesting.
It looks like the third train is pulling some kind of open car behind it that has the lights mounted on it. At about 3:50, you can see a guy step from this rig into the back door of the train that's pulling it.