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American cities in the 20th century from LIFE Magazine
All photos are from LIFE Magazine through Google from multiple photographers.

Philadelphia, PA

Different vantage point/sources:
http://images.google.com/hosted/life...c4932d697de223
http://images.google.com/hosted/life...life%26hl%3Den

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...373cc41d72ff98

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...b4e085dc114c3a

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...ab8050d7355b47

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...40c6af9ba03b12

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...1caa7ee04f72f6

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...life%26hl%3Den


San Francisco, CA

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...life%26hl%3Den

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...36862512e075bd

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...7d4a6cc6b9dc8f

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...%3Den%26sa%3DN

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...3da5b6d2375a6f

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...1476e8ff197989


Los Angeles, CA

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...life%26hl%3Den

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...f08379ea270a61

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...20cc178e3c6720

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...%3Den%26sa%3DN

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...life%26hl%3Den


New York, NY

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...life%26hl%3Den

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...%3Den%26sa%3DN
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Love to see the old pics, thanks.

This is crazy:

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Good stuff BigKidD. It's amazing how much the Hobart and Shell buildings once stood above their neighbors. Did you catch the story behind the LA shot with all the moving vans? I've never seen anything quite like that.
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Good stuff BigKidD. It's amazing how much the Hobart and Shell buildings once stood above their neighbors. Did you catch the story behind the LA shot with all the moving vans? I've never seen anything quite like that.
You're welcome brickell. San Francisco was a different city back then. The moving vans shot is from the community of Lakewood, CA, and the photo states, "Expansive view of newly-built houses jammed side-by-side, divided by a never-ending street clogged w. moving vans incl. Pan American Van & Storage, Bekins Van & Storage & McCallson Van & Storage, unloading families' possessions on moving day in this housing development."


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Nothing, but nothing beats old black and white urban shots from before 1960. Just the best. I want to go back in time and experience it all.
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^Me too.

Thanks again BigKidD. It's wild that everyone is moving in on the exact same day. It's also sad that there isn't a single tree anywhere in sight.
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I think some of the captions and dates are suspect, but for the most part seem ok.

New York, New York
3rd Ave line of the Manhattan Elevated Railway running on tracks constructed alongside the Bowery which is being utilized by both horse drawn and mechanical traffic. - 1922

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What were all of those low rise buildings in the first picture? Are they still there, Ive never seen them. Thanks for those pics of Houston, you rarely ever see old pics like that of H town floating around.
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They look like apartment buildings, and im pretty sure they're not there anymore.
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What were all of those low rise buildings in the first picture? Are they still there, Ive never seen them. Thanks for those pics of Houston, you rarely ever see old pics like that of H town floating around.
They do appear to exist:



Just west of downtown, south of the river.
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^Me too.

It's wild that everyone is moving in on the exact same day. It's also sad that there isn't a single tree anywhere in sight.
Perhaps that was the case when they first built this planned city. Today it's a different story. Lakewood is next door to Long Beach, so I often pass through the city. Today its loaded with tree lined streets, and blvds, plus there is plenty of greenery. It also has it fair share of parks, and golf courses. For a suburb, and being its a inner ring burb, I find it rather pleasant.

Also Lakewood is a pretty diverse suburb today, although majority is white, there still is sizeable group of other races to represent the city well. Its one of the few planned suburbs built in such a massive scale all at once. Levitttown in the suburbs of New York was another of a similar model.
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Levittown was the first urban sprawl like development that appears similar to todays crap suburbia right? Im sure today Levittown is probably a ghetto or something.
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^you are sure? why not check out first? According to Wikipedia:

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The median income for a household in the community is $69,923, and the median income for a family is $73,851. Males have a median income of $50,603 versus $35,962 for females. The per capita income for the CDP is $25,917. 2.9% of the population and 2.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 3.6% of those under the age of 18 and 1.9% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
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^^^^It is a ghetto, but not in the sense I believe you are using it....it is a "white" ghetto in that it demographics are almost entirely white....using ghetto in the older sense (somewhat modified from its strict historical sense) of areas where certain ethnic groups cluster

the demograpics per wiki:

As of the census[4] of 2000, there are 53,067 people, 17,207 households, and 14,109 families residing in the community. The population density is 7,717.5 per square mile (2,978.1/km²). There are 17,410 housing units at an average density of 2,531.9/sq mi (977.0/km²). The racial makeup of the area is 94.15% White, 0.50% African American, 0.07% Native American, 2.85% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.27% from other races, and 1.15% from two or more races. 2.79% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.

In the community the population is spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 31.4% from 25 to 44, 23.0% from 45 to 64, and 12.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 37 years. For every 100 females there are 94.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.4 males.

The median income for a household in the community is $69,923, and the median income for a family is $73,851. Males have a median income of $50,603 versus $35,962 for females. The per capita income for the CDP is $25,917. 2.9% of the population and 2.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 3.6% of those under the age of 18 and 1.9% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.

As you can see this would hardly qualify as "ghetto" in the sense I believe you are using it....meaning economically depressed.....

It is actually quite affluent, and dense at 7700 p/sq mile....aproxx the same as LA proper
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