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Men work to clear the streets after a blizzard hit New York City in this undated photo. |
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NYC Department of RecordsA snow plow in March 1921. |
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NYC Department of RecordsA truck towing carts loaded with snow |
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NYC Department of RecordsBefore motorized snow plows, horse carts towed wooden wedges to clear snow from the streets. |
(Notice the "steering wheel" for the plow....cm)
Wonder what they did when the snow was too deep for the horses....
Wonder what they did when the snow was too deep for the horses....
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(The hems on those long dresses must have frozen!)
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and finally...
(Notice the lanterns on the carriage?)
Maybe those days weren't so good after all!
You think chicken poop is bad? Just think of all the horse poop.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in marching band the first question when we were told we were going to be in a parade was are we in front of or behind the horses.
Terry
Fla.
I was always told that stepping in horse poop bought you good luck. Have I've been lied to all these years????? :0)
DeleteLike all eras, I reckon it had its good points and its bad.
ReplyDeleteWonder what will be said about this era, Gorges. Good, bad or OMG what were they doing!
DeleteBet there were a lot of chickens in NYC in those days
ReplyDeleteProbably was a lot in back yards - not too many supermarkets back then!
DeleteWow, what an amazing lot of work it must have been to manually shovel that snow away. Thank God for the internal combustion engine!
ReplyDeleteSure made getting rid of it a lot faster! A lot of places just probably let it melt away.
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