Flashback: Headlines From Different Times
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<p>In 1910, we were "fortunate that tree hoppers don't grow to be as big as elephants and suddenly appear from time to time in our streets looking for prey." WHAT?</p>
<p>"How much can Gotham afford to give thirsty neighbors?" 1910.</p>
<p>"A glimpse of New-York's great canyon, called Nassau-St., which it is proposed to arcade." January 1904.</p>
<p>"New small buildings upon costly sites in Manhattan." 1907.</p>
<p>The city that never sleeps. "An indispensable commodity of which the typical New Yorker gets too little." February 1908.</p>
<p>What's for dinner? Possum!</p>
<p>This was for the Westminster Kennel Club Show at MSG from the February 7th, 1904 edition of the New York Tribune... where Photoshop did not yet exist.</p>
<p>"Cathedral of St. John the Divine after ten years' work-may need a century to finish." December 1902.</p>
<p>SIGH. "Interior views of the huge new station of the Pennsylvania railroad in this city." April 1910.</p>
Serious question: why aren't we living in aerial houseboats yet?
<p>How New Yorkers say Merry Christmas ("or the equivalent").</p>
<p>The Ansonia, "the largest and most original apartment hotel in the world." August 1902.</p>
<p>Sometime in 1906 New Yorkers got really into ballooning.</p>
<p>"Bird's-eye view showing why Morningside Heights is often called the Acropolis of New York." 1910.</p>