A Trip Through New York City in 1911
An evening pause: I’ve posted similar early 1900 film footage for Paris and San Francisco. My one reservation about this restoration is the adding of color. They don’t over do it, but adds an element of inaccuracy to the footage.
Hat tip Mike Nelson, noted some of the same things I did with the previous examples.
What strikes me is how well dressed everyone was, how there was no trash on the streets (despite no obvious public trash cans), no graffiti, no road rage despite the complete lack of traffic control, and the air quality looked significantly worse than today. Other than cleaner air I’m not so sure we can call today a big improvement.
I personally am not sure the air quality was worse either. Watch, and get a sense of what America was once like.