90 years ago and 99.9% of these Americans are now dead....
Everybody, and I mean everybody in either full suits or dresses. Even the children. Almost everybody in a hat.
Instead of Uber, you had pushcarts (called rolling chairs). Hundreds of pushcarts that are especially prevalent towards the end of the video. All pushed by men in suits. Even today, the push carts persist on the Atlantic City boardwalk.
I might be mistaken but I believe that the wooden planks you see in the video are pretty much the exact same wooden planks that are still on the boardwalk today. Except those planks are trod on mostly by sloppily dressed people in flip-flops, sweatpants and t-shirts. The people from 1928 would likely be horrified with how we dress today.
One thing that struck me about the video is that the novelty of it fascinated those walking in front of the cameraman. They kept turning around to mug for the cameras. They could have no idea that 90 years later, thousands of people would be viewing them as they walked down the boardwalk on what was for them just a normal day.
Everybody, and I mean everybody in either full suits or dresses. Even the children. Almost everybody in a hat.
Instead of Uber, you had pushcarts (called rolling chairs). Hundreds of pushcarts that are especially prevalent towards the end of the video. All pushed by men in suits. Even today, the push carts persist on the Atlantic City boardwalk.
I might be mistaken but I believe that the wooden planks you see in the video are pretty much the exact same wooden planks that are still on the boardwalk today. Except those planks are trod on mostly by sloppily dressed people in flip-flops, sweatpants and t-shirts. The people from 1928 would likely be horrified with how we dress today.
One thing that struck me about the video is that the novelty of it fascinated those walking in front of the cameraman. They kept turning around to mug for the cameras. They could have no idea that 90 years later, thousands of people would be viewing them as they walked down the boardwalk on what was for them just a normal day.