Back when America was beautiful. The Gilded Age the best time there ever was. Prosperity, growth, good paying jobs, lots and lots of jobs. Normal society and good communities. All gone now.
@@dawudjtownsville I know My history very well thank you. I also had lots of family I grew up with that lived in the Gilded Age. Those who lived it are also more reliable than only a history book by itself. As for today's history books those are lies of revisionist history. Best to purchase a history book pre WW2 for truth or earlier on the gilded age.
In the year 1900, about 2 out of every 1000 Americans died of consumption (tuberculosis) and of “pneumonia or influenza.” These were the leading causes of death. This rate exceeds the rate of death in 2018 for heart disease, today's leading cause, and it's roughly twice the rate at which Americans died from Covid-19 in 2020. In 1900, 25,000 of the nearly 100,000 textile workers in the South were children under 16, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Infant mortality in the US was165 per 1,000 in 1900. In other words, more than 3 out of 20 births. The figure is now below 10 out of 1000. www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/dmortality.htm As for employment, it's likely that the unemployment rate was higher in the first decade of the last century than in the 2010s. www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c2644/c2644.pdf Even more clearly, the economy was subject to much greater fluctuations. There were more frequent recessions. Panics in 1893 and 1907 wiped out banks and therefore many depositors, because there was no deposit insurance. There were no monitors of worker safety in 1900. According to a CDC report, www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm4822.pdf, in “Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, from July 1906 through June 1907…, 526 workers died in “work accidents”; 195 of these were steelworkers. In contrast, in 1997, 17 steelworker fatalities occurred nationwide.” Average work weeks for manufacturing employees were close to 60 hours. eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/ In 1900, there were 115 lynchings in the United States, mostly of blacks, but a few whites as well. Of course, each of these lynchings stands for thousands of lesser instances of abuse and mistreatment, not only of black people, but of Jews, of women, and many others who did not conform. When Gallup began polling in 1937, only 60% of Americans surveyed said they would vote for a Catholic for president. A majority would not vote for a Jew. A third would vote for a woman. I don't mean to suggest every last thing is better today. The murder rate in 1900 looks pretty good, although it spiked later in the decade. www.jrsa.org/projects/Historical.pdf But it's ridiculous to compare using a lens that filters out the bad (or the good). In reality, the conditions of life in 1900 and the lack of modern amenities would make it rather unattractive for the vast majority of people today. But really, why not just look to improve the problems that exist today rather than pretend there was some idyllic period in the past?
Marker Street? You mean Market Street. East of City Hall, facing West toward City Hall. The one tall white building on the left ( 13th and Market) is still there.
Last shoot seems at Woodland Avenue junction 36 Street looking southeastern at the then Logan Hall, the background is probably the western facade of College Hall (Houston Hall is too low to be seen). app: 39.951774, -75.195094 See www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/view-image.cfm/BRM1910.Phila.025.Plate23 too.
Beautiful! The music was perfect too, thank you. We need to honor the past, what a time it was and what a time it was it was.
My great grandfather owned the Rathskeller in the basement of the Betz Building!
Very very nice! The footprints of our past
Back when America was beautiful. The Gilded Age the best time there ever was. Prosperity, growth, good paying jobs, lots and lots of jobs. Normal society and good communities. All gone now.
For who?
@@dawudjtownsville for Americans duh. The rest of the world doesn't matter. Just your own country. Its their job to make their place a nice place.
@@steamgent4592 read up on history
@@dawudjtownsville I know My history very well thank you. I also had lots of family I grew up with that lived in the Gilded Age. Those who lived it are also more reliable than only a history book by itself. As for today's history books those are lies of revisionist history. Best to purchase a history book pre WW2 for truth or earlier on the gilded age.
In the year 1900, about 2 out of every 1000 Americans died of consumption (tuberculosis) and of “pneumonia or influenza.” These were the leading causes of death. This rate exceeds the rate of death in 2018 for heart disease, today's leading cause, and it's roughly twice the rate at which Americans died from Covid-19 in 2020.
In 1900, 25,000 of the nearly 100,000 textile workers in the South were children under 16, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Infant mortality in the US was165 per 1,000 in 1900. In other words, more than 3 out of 20 births. The figure is now below 10 out of 1000. www.pbs.org/fmc/timeline/dmortality.htm
As for employment, it's likely that the unemployment rate was higher in the first decade of the last century than in the 2010s. www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c2644/c2644.pdf Even more clearly, the economy was subject to much greater fluctuations. There were more frequent recessions. Panics in 1893 and 1907 wiped out banks and therefore many depositors, because there was no deposit insurance.
There were no monitors of worker safety in 1900. According to a CDC report, www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm4822.pdf, in “Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, from July 1906 through June 1907…, 526 workers died in “work accidents”; 195 of these were steelworkers. In contrast, in 1997, 17 steelworker fatalities occurred nationwide.”
Average work weeks for manufacturing employees were close to 60 hours. eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history/
In 1900, there were 115 lynchings in the United States, mostly of blacks, but a few whites as well. Of course, each of these lynchings stands for thousands of lesser instances of abuse and mistreatment, not only of black people, but of Jews, of women, and many others who did not conform. When Gallup began polling in 1937, only 60% of Americans surveyed said they would vote for a Catholic for president. A majority would not vote for a Jew. A third would vote for a woman.
I don't mean to suggest every last thing is better today. The murder rate in 1900 looks pretty good, although it spiked later in the decade. www.jrsa.org/projects/Historical.pdf But it's ridiculous to compare using a lens that filters out the bad (or the good). In reality, the conditions of life in 1900 and the lack of modern amenities would make it rather unattractive for the vast majority of people today. But really, why not just look to improve the problems that exist today rather than pretend there was some idyllic period in the past?
I was born in Philadelphia
Same here.
BEAUTIFUL!!!!! LOVELY!!!!!
When these pics were taken, the civil war was only 50 years ago, the 1790s only 100-110 years ago. Crazy.
Why is Philadelphia so hood now
Influx of poor immigrants exslaves and no opportunities for them set up by the American government aka those who came from Europe
drugs
@@mikek736 put there by the American government aka the ones from Europe
drugs and money i was born there
drugs and money i was born there
Marker Street?
You mean Market Street. East of City Hall, facing West toward City Hall.
The one tall white building on the left ( 13th and Market) is still there.
My mom's birthplace.thanks.
For u future tourist. Ima say a good 90% of these buildings are still up.
Easily, even some of the unpaved roads are still available to walk on
Beautiful
makes me cry a little
Wish there was one video that showed Philly as it once was without horribly sappy music playing in background
No volume control? You make your own misery....quite well I might add.
I can take a 10min train ride and visit all of these places 🥺 and they still look the same minus the streets
yessssss
that music...
Last shoot seems at Woodland Avenue junction 36 Street looking southeastern at the then Logan Hall, the background is probably the western facade of College Hall (Houston Hall is too low to be seen). app: 39.951774, -75.195094
See www.philageohistory.org/rdic-images/view-image.cfm/BRM1910.Phila.025.Plate23 too.
Isn’t that supposed to be Market Street, Not Marker Street?
Looks like Berlin or Warsaw at the same time.
cca 1900 lol lmao ..1900 before the reset or i wonder on what calendar ...
Facts how old are the buildings really and who built them
Do videos
Everyone in this video is dead....wtfff
mud flood
Gotta move the filfth out somehow
Now Detroit East.