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Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927

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Re: Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927

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Post by neals »

zerooneinfinity wrote: post #44
neals wrote: post #33

I wish hats would come back like in the video. Almost everybody wore a hat in 1927. I bought a hat a few weeks back. It's so great to wear, it's safe and warm. However, everybody looks at me as if I am some crazed hipster with my "fedora". If everybody would wear a hat like in the video, life would be so much nicer.

The trick is not giving a shit what people think with a healthy balance of trying to define your own style.

I think that you should care at least a little about what others think. I go around to clients and run a business.

Re: Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927

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Post by jchrisa »

iaskwhy wrote: post #39

The thing that stood out the most for me is the complete absense of bicycles, I even went out to check when was its invention (apparently around one century before this footage). Something else I noticed is how much cared after is Hyde Park right now, although it doesn't look bad at all on the footage. I can't say I was surprise as the Central Park in New York City also changed a lot (probably even more than Hyde Par…

There are some cool cargo bike on the right hand of London bridge at 1:26

Re: Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927

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Post by NAFV_P »

jws wrote: post #37
NAFV_P wrote: post #11

About three quarters through you see a gasometer, they're still a fairly common site around the UK.

Gasometers have largely passed as a result of high pressure distribution systems. Ours are disused or removed in St. Louis. Wikipedia explains that they are rare in the U.S. and those were some of the only ones. The UK gasometers are largely disused, but the sites are expensive to decontaminate and reuse since they were frequently used to produce "town gas" from coal.

There was one down the road from me until just last year:

http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Gloucester-s-Skyline-Vani...

I don't think it had been used for years, but it was a notable part of the Gloucester landscape.

Re: Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927

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Post by lkozma »

Alexx wrote: post #9

That's fantastic, the very first shot is of my street, filmed next to the building I live in. I can't quite make out the sign on the building corner - but I'm pretty sure it's the exact same pub that's there now. It's also odd seeing trams in London.

jacko0 and ksrm [EDIT: and icecreampain], you seem to be under some kind of ban - what you write appears gray, and is invisible when I log out - despite them appearing to be perfectly valid contributions.

I really hate this whole banning on HN - the fact that people get banned and continue posting without knowing it (sometimes for months) - seems to me like the elementary school bullying technique of putting a post-it on someone's back and letting them walk around with it.

Re: Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927

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Post by omegant »

Pacabel wrote: post #41
neals wrote: post #33

I wish hats would come back like in the video. Almost everybody wore a hat in 1927. I bought a hat a few weeks back. It's so great to wear, it's safe and warm. However, everybody looks at me as if I am some crazed hipster with my "fedora". If everybody would wear a hat like in the video, life would be so much nicer.

Deserved or not, fedoras and similar hats have become associated with hipsters today. The public at large generally does not like to deal with hipsters, for a variety of reasons (their typical attitude is a big one). It's really no different than how many people distrust others who wear extremely baggy clothing. Clothing like that has become, rightly or wrongly, associated with gang culture. Most everyday people do n…

Honest question: how do hipsters behave? Wthey have appeared in mass just the last year here in Spain(just very unusual before ). So I've had no oportunity to interact with them (just with some friends that are in a rock group, they have to keep an "attitude", but I think is mostly to keep the artist behaviour that people expect)

Re: Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927

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Post by mseepgood »

csomar wrote: post #22

I find this interesting. Even though we think our lives did change a lot with Technology; in appearance the change is minimal. This is almost 100 years old. 100 years ago, there were cars, roads and buildings. After 100 years, there is cars, roads, and also buildings. There are certainly changes: The cars are more comfortable, there is traffic lights, the buildings are higher... But they didn't change the way our liv…

> This is almost 100 years old. 100 years ago, there were cars, roads and buildings

But soon we'll have nuclear-powered flying cars and colonies on the moon.

Re: Rare color film shows what London looked like in 1927

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Post by crazygringo »

w1ntermute wrote: post #38

I noticed that there weren't any lanes painted on the streets. Does anyone know when that practice started?

I was wondering the same thing! Wikipedia says: [1]

> In the United States, the first documented use of a painted center line was in 1911... According to the state of Michigan, the idea of using a painted center line was conceived in 1911 by Edward N. Hine...

> In the UK, the first "white line" road markings appeared on a number of dangerous bends on the London-Folkeston road at Ashford, Kent, in 1914, and during the 1920s the rise of painted lines on UK roads grew dramatically. In 1926 official guidelines were issued by the Ministry of Transport that defined where and how white lines on roads should be used.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_surface_marking

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