Mildly interesting
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This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850 ( NY Archives)
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wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 11:50 last edited by jon-nyc
Kareem Abdul Jabbar at 16.
It doesn’t say but he looks like he’s already 6’7”.
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This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850 ( NY Archives)
wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 13:36 last edited by George K@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850 ( NY Archives)
Notice there are no or few people?
I remember reading an article about an old photo in Paris. In midday, there was not a person to be seen.
The explanation was that the exposure time on the photograph was so long that when people moved in the street, they essentially disappeared and were not captured on the plate.
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From a Nate Silver newsletter.
Somewhat surprised by the magnitude of the blip around the Rodney King incident and subsequent riots. But then again I was living in Mexico and the internet wasn’t really part of our lives back then.
wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 13:43 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
From a Nate Silver newsletter.
Somewhat surprised by the magnitude of the blip around the Rodney King incident and subsequent riots. But then again I was living in Mexico and the internet wasn’t really part of our lives back then.
The OJ case compounded it.
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This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850 ( NY Archives)
wrote on 24 Jan 2025, 13:49 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
This Is Believed To Be The Earliest Photograph Of NYC. Taken At Broadway Between Franklin And Leonard Streets, May 1850 ( NY Archives)
While we were in NY for the few days, I was really astonished at thinking about how much of it grew in such an unbelievably short time (just a few decades, really). I spent as much time looking at the older buildings as I did the modern skyscrapers. You could really see where they realized they couldn’t expand horizontally, and started going up…. I even loved the smaller shops and places on 36th where the stores were thin little retail shops with lofts…
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I love old photographs like that. I have this romantic notion of walking the streets of a town back then, but I am sure that the reality would be that the streets were dirty, dusty, stinky smelly, etc.
(As an aside, a movie I liked by Woody Allen was called Midnight in Paris,
"It's about a young man's great love for a city, Paris, and the illusion people have that a life different (and in an earlier time) from theirs would be much better."
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There has never been a US president that has been an only child.
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B2 Spirit and Peregrine Falcon.
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I don’t know… Need @Aqua-Letifer s take…
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Explains how humans got to Australia.
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I’m surprised Dunkin Donuts is that far from Fenway. There’s 2-3 Dunkin Donuts every block in Boston.
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I’m surprised Dunkin Donuts is that far from Fenway. There’s 2-3 Dunkin Donuts every block in Boston.
wrote on 29 Jan 2025, 20:21 last edited by@LuFins-Dad said in Mildly interesting:
I’m surprised Dunkin Donuts is that far from Fenway. There’s 2-3 Dunkin Donuts every block in Boston.
Good point.
There used to be a Dunkin in the alley, just to the left. But it's closed now, I'm sure they'll be a replacement in the future.
To the right is an entrance to Fenway that will bring you to 3rd base.
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Busch Beer was created to spite Major League Baseball. STL Cardinals owner August Busch Jr was told by MLB he couldn't name their ballpark Budweiser Stadium. He got approval to name it after his family, and then ordered his brewers to create the new beer.
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