[solvegas]

There are people on top of one of the POWER POLES.   
I guess some people will do anything to get a good view!   

Yes, and they can suffer a lot if they are not careful. Every year on New Year's eve here in Vegas, The Strip, aka Las Vegas boulevard, gets crowded with 300,000 people or so and there are always mostly dr8nk idiots that climb traffic lights or light poles to get a better view of the fireworks which are launched from the roof of the casinos, and every year we have one fool that will fall off and die when his head hits the pavement. Several more fall off and they hurt other people. The cops are constantly trying to prevent such actions, but they can be overwhelmed by the huge crowd. 

[gOOber]

 

[solvegas]

That's a great find Goober. 

[solvegas]

1913 electric trolley on Congress Avenue in Austin Texas and you can see the single largest state capitol of the USA in the background. 

[Shadowmuse Blown]

Where?  Is that the US Capitol?
 When?

[Shadowmuse Blown]

Samuel Longhorn Clemens in 1906


aka Mark Twain

[solvegas]

Where?  Is that the US Capitol?
 When?

Yes. It's Washington D.C. The year is 1896 and it is a parade of the GAR (Grand Army Republic). They are veterans of the Union army of the Civil war.

[gOOber]

 

[solvegas]

From 1911. 

[Shadowmuse Blown]

From 1911. 

That looks like Wall Street.

[Shadowmuse Blown]

NYC 1939

[solvegas]

Farmers in the 1880's. 

[gOOber]

 

[solvegas]

Both of my parents lived during the Great Depression of the 1930's and my mother lived in West Texas during the Dust bowl time period and so they had a different attitude about life.