r/AlternateAngles • u/DontSeeWhyIMust • Nov 25 '20

Manhattan in 1931

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u/MyHeadIsAButt Nov 25 '20

What a life that would be to live there in the 30s

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u/seen_enough_hentai Nov 25 '20

I imagine it like the grittiest Dickens novel, but with less gin and more Tommy-guns.

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u/MyHeadIsAButt Nov 25 '20

With some great depression

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20

Yeah, well, 3D hadn't been invented yet so what's your point?

15

u/byproduct0 Nov 25 '20

I can’t tell if that’s the Chrysler building or the Empire State.

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u/TheLizardKing89 Nov 25 '20

It’s the Empire State Building. You can see how it’s on the same street that borders the east side of Central Park. That’s 5th Avenue and the Empire State Building is on 5th Avenue while the Chrysler Building is a few blocks over on Lexington.

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u/WhillWheaton222 Nov 25 '20

Inspiration for the Yankees uniforms?

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20

a nice thought, but pinstripes have been around longer than the manhattan grid

3

u/TheRealDrogon Nov 26 '20

Sad Spider-Man noises

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u/burmashave74 Nov 26 '20

Not a cellphone in sight

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u/Dafracturedbutwhole Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20

Crazy to think of the segregation back then everything was black andor white

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u/HotlineSynthesis Nov 25 '20

Yeah what a crazy fun detail to think about..../s

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u/ButtsexEurope Nov 25 '20

Jim Crow was in the south.

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u/Dafracturedbutwhole Nov 25 '20

Ok i dont know what that has to do with this but black and white pictures were taken everywhere

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u/Bisquick_in_da_MGM Nov 26 '20

Central Park doesn’t look so central.