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23rd Street and Broadway in 1898. 

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23rd Street and Broadway in 1898. 

Wow, I used to walk by that intersection every day on the way to college.  Looks like we are looking east.  That clock, I believe, is still at the southwest corner of Madison Square Park. The Flat Iron Building is unseen to our right.

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Imagine how this looked from their point of view.  Just the immensity of the ship before them as they entered the nose. 

To think that they originally designed the Empire State Building to have a mooring mast replete with a gangway for passengers to embark/disembark.  Even if the winds up there weren’t crazy, can you imagine walking a gangway, like this one, over 102 floors in the sky?  No thanks.

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23rd Street and Broadway in 1898. 

Wow, I used to walk by that intersection every day on the way to college.  Looks like we are looking east.  That clock, I believe, is still at the southwest corner of Madison Square Park. The Flat Iron Building is unseen to our right.

Always neat to get commentary from someone who knows the area personally as it currently is.  Neat that the clock is still there, that's kinda amazing.  Over 126 years old, does it still operate, do you know?

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Imagine how this looked from their point of view.  Just the immensity of the ship before them as they entered the nose. 

To think that they originally designed the Empire State Building to have a mooring mast replete with a gangway for passengers to embark/disembark.  Even if the winds up there weren’t crazy, can you imagine walking a gangway, like this one, over 102 floors in the sky?  No thanks.

There's a piece in the documentary sections of Peter Jackson's "King Kong", where they actually do a personal visit to the top of the Empire State Building, and yeah, I was pretty impressed with how windy it was.  Peter Jackson and some of his personal crew signed the inside of the top cone, and went out on the roof where the antennas come out, scary as hell.

So, I agree with you 100%, there's no way in hell I'd be walking a gangplank at that kind of height, especially how shaky it would be as well.   

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23rd Street and Broadway in 1898. 

Wow, I used to walk by that intersection every day on the way to college.  Looks like we are looking east.  That clock, I believe, is still at the southwest corner of Madison Square Park. The Flat Iron Building is unseen to our right.

Always neat to get commentary from someone who knows the area personally as it currently is.  Neat that the clock is still there, that's kinda amazing.  Over 126 years old, does it still operate, do you know?

Hah!  I’m an idiot and totally screwed up where that clock was!  LOL!  The picture is actually looking north on 5th Ave (it’s a three way intersection with B’way and 23rd Street).  The park is on our right across 23rd street.  The Flat Iron Building is probably directly on our right (still unseen in the pic, of course).  For some reason my menory said that that clock was on the same side of B’way as the Park, but it’s not.  I have no idea if it still works and don’t recall if I noticed even 40 years ago. But, I wouldn’t have been walking on the clock’s side of the street.  I would walk down B’way from Penn station and then make a left onto 23rd street.  My school was several blocks east of the Park. 

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That’s cool.  From back in the day where small localities had three or four digit phone numbers.

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That’s cool.  From back in the day where small localities had three or four digit phone numbers.

And people actually developed friendly relationships with their telephone operators.   

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Built between 1888 and 1895, she was sent to Havana, Cuba, in February of 1898, to protect American citizens due to the Cuban war of independence from Spain. On the evening of February 15, 1898, an explosion, which most likely came from the ammunition storage compartment, sank the ship and this caused a war between the United States and Spain since the Americans thought that the Spaniards had launched a mine to it. Most of the crew died and after the Spanish-American war, the United States defeated Spain and it got the Spanish colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam. To this day the USA still has the territories of Puerto Rico and Guam. If you visit the Arlington National cemetery near Washington DC, the mast of the Maine is there, or at least it was when I visited Arlington back in 1997.   

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You know, for the time, women's clothing at the time required assistance to put on due to the multiple layers of clothing and how difficult they were to put on unassisted.

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On May 6, 1937, a disaster that still reverberates to this time and reason that airships don't use hydrogen as a lift gas to this day, the Hindenburg disaster. 

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Beachwear from 120 years ago. 

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Hong Kong in 1904. 

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Detroit 100 years ago well before it turned into today's shithole.