Anti Federalist
07-13-2011, 03:53 PM
Big Brother tells me, lacking his glorious leadership of course, that, among other things, the skies would be foul with smog and filth and unfit to breath.
How is it that these vintage color photographs of NYC in the 1940s (a NYC filled with non computerized, non emission controlled cars and trucks, coal burning steam powered trains and vessels, and thriving industry, you see this was before we sent it all to China, contributing it's share of power plant emissions) show a sky that is more blue and more clear than I can recall seeing on a summer day in NYC for a long long time.
I feel like Winston Smith, realizing that we had, in fact, been at war with Eastasia.
Many more pictures here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-1940s-photos-2011-7?op=1
http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/4e1b37314bd7c8412e080000-900/east-river-below-brooklyn-bridge-1941.jpg
http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4e1b375949e2ae8b1f200000-900/looking-up-into-financial-district-from-south-ferry-1941.jpg
http://static7.businessinsider.com/image/4e1b370949e2ae7221120000-900/looking-up-riverside-dr-just-north-of-george-washington-bridge-1941.jpg
http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4e1b3765cadcbb420b070000-900/horse-drawn-carriage-bowling-green-1942.jpg
How is it that these vintage color photographs of NYC in the 1940s (a NYC filled with non computerized, non emission controlled cars and trucks, coal burning steam powered trains and vessels, and thriving industry, you see this was before we sent it all to China, contributing it's share of power plant emissions) show a sky that is more blue and more clear than I can recall seeing on a summer day in NYC for a long long time.
I feel like Winston Smith, realizing that we had, in fact, been at war with Eastasia.
Many more pictures here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-city-1940s-photos-2011-7?op=1
http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/4e1b37314bd7c8412e080000-900/east-river-below-brooklyn-bridge-1941.jpg
http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4e1b375949e2ae8b1f200000-900/looking-up-into-financial-district-from-south-ferry-1941.jpg
http://static7.businessinsider.com/image/4e1b370949e2ae7221120000-900/looking-up-riverside-dr-just-north-of-george-washington-bridge-1941.jpg
http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4e1b3765cadcbb420b070000-900/horse-drawn-carriage-bowling-green-1942.jpg