Originally published at: Check out this collection of archive footage from New York in the 1960s | Boing Boing
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I wanted to like this, but the huge watermark right in the middle really detracts from the experience.
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Back then everywhere you went you would see a watermark. The human brain adapts and blocks it out though so most people have no memory of seeing watermarks. Cameras are not so easily fooled though.
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“ the mob ran every back then.”
Including all the queer bars. But that wasn’t just New York.
That reminds me of when everything was black and white. I’m too young for it, but it must have been a shock when my grandparents woke up one day and everything was color. Or maybe it gradually eased in.
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Your main page thumbnail for this post is a photo of a telephone exchange from the 1920’s.
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