The Curtiss Motorcycles building in New York 1909
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just a look at the early 70s car carcasses of New York. Must have been too difficult to get them to a junkyard?
The above isn't photo shopped. It's the West Side Elevated highway, that was designed so damn badly, that by the time they finished making it ( 22 year long project finished in 1951) it was already falling apart and unable to handle long truck and trailer combos due to narrow on-ramps and extremely tight turns. No doubt it was a windfall contract to reimburse unions for election results, and it then was an eyesore for another couple decades (shut off in 1973 not destroyed until 1987) until they figured out what to do to get rid of it and replace it with another highway. http://urbancentury.tumblr.com/post/116402025484/the-west-side-elevated-highway-west-side-highway http://forgotten-ny.com/2001/06/millers-crossing-the-west-side-elevated-highway/
4 things you don't find in America 100 years later.
Orphans that can be adopted, double decker buses on solid rubber tires, Coney Island, and taking disadvantaged kids to a theme park out of kindness https://onceuponatown.tumblr.com/post/127603951200/children-in-two-double-decker-buses-at-coney Children in two double-decker buses at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York during the 1910 annual excursion for orphans sponsored by the Orphan’s Automobile Day Committee of New York.
National car passing streetcars on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1913
https://onceuponatown.tumblr.com/post/127827275310/national-car-passing-streetcars-on-the-brooklyn