Further to my meditation of a couple of weeks back on how much more lively and vibrant old street scenes were then than now, here's New York ca. 1908:

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[Photo: Shorpy/Detroit Publishing Co.]

Click to enlarge. This is just a portion of the much larger original which was digitally combined at Shorpy from two original glass negatives, taken some 80 minutes apart.

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    Danny Lucas

    It all depended on what part of a big city you were. Jack London dared to risk asking a cabby head the horse towards the east end:
    http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/PeopleOfTheAbyss/

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