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Feb 7 • 12 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X

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This is what great American cities looked like a century ago, in video (thread):

1. San Francisco, 1906

2. New York City, 1911

...and Broadway in 1896

...and the waterfront in the 1930s

3. Los Angeles, 1930s

...and a residential suburb in the 1940s

...and Westwood around the same time

4. Detroit, 1920s

5. Chicago, 1930s

6. San Antonio, 1940s

Back in NYC, it was the norm to dress with decorum during the 1920s:

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