When you look back at these old photos of skyscraper construction, you’ll see men way up high without harnesses, walking along beams suspended hundreds of feet above the street, and swinging on cables.
See damage caused by the St Louis tornado in May 1896 – considered one of the deadliest on record with at least 255 lives lost – and get the whole story.
Take a little 60-year leap back in time, and see how San Francisco looked back in 1955 in this video homage to the city by the bay.
In 1906, a short film called ‘A Trip Down Market Street’ ended up being a valuable record of San Francisco just before the huge earthquake and fire destroyed much of the city.
Never having to come up from underground? Cars routinely going 130 MPH? Completely automated cleaning? Solar power dominant? See these and many more predictions from 1906!
Early in the 20th century, there was an interesting development in American home life — people started moving from the city out to the suburban districts and small towns. See some classic All-American suburban houses from that era here!
Predictions of the future from the early 1900s included the idea that a subway shuttle across New York City would be replaced with a moving sidewalk built in three sections, one of which would offer seating.
How high will the skyscraper of the future be? Higher even than the Empire State Building, which towers 1250 feet above the base mark in the center of the curb at Fifth Avenue?
Uncle Sam’s scientists, armed with every known precision test instrument, have set out to answer the much-debated question of “How safe are skyscrapers?”
Los Angeles in the ’50s Easy Guide to a Cool Southern California Summer Vacation (1953) Metropolitan Los Angeles in the ’50s Around town, you’ll find
Texas – The Summerland of Wintertime Thirty or forty years ago, Texas was the dream-objective of every American boy. For him, a seemingly endless plain
Down California St, from Fairmount Hotel, the fire-swept district of San Francisco 1906 earthquake and fire wreck of the Magnificent Huntington and Flood Palaces and
There is, without question, more work to be done in New York than in any other place in America – which means it’s a good place to start a career. There are also more persons looking there for jobs than in any other place in the world.
What TRACE will do for energy cost savings downtown… The Trane comfort corps brings home to you TRACE (our acronym for Trane Air Conditioning
The “new” New Orleans: Comeback of a southern city A reawakened city is bidding strongly for leadership among growth centers of the South. The challenger
Lincoln highway is national need So says secretary of Argonaut Trail committee in urging project Benefits from great road second to those of the Panama
Highways of US 2,000,000 miles Plans for national roads made extensive by national association Campaign for better conditions being pushed by large concern There are
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