This photo was taken over 100 years ago in New York.
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Gangs of New York vibes.
The loss of hats in men’s fashion was a real loss to individuality.
Damn loko at how thin everyone was before high fructose corn syrup and fast food (which are vry yummy, but just sayin’)
All of those bananas are probably brown by now. Really makes you think
Those probably are a different type of banana than the type we eat tday too.We have had a banana apocalypse since then.
There were more people living on Manhattan then than now (or even 2019 pre COVID)
Weird to think about how all those bananas have long been ate.
You can tell by the way that it is.
1906 Banana Docks, hi rez versions of original photo available here: https://www.loc.gov/resource/det.4a13501/ eg, [this fella eating a nana](https://imgur.com/a/7gEkKPl)
Is that Sam Eliot in the lower right, dark suit and bowler hat?
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/0L2yRwO.jpg) is a higher quality version of this image in the original black and white. [Here](https://www.loc.gov/resource/det.4a13501/) is the source.
> Banana docks, New York, N.Y.
> Contributor Names
Detroit Publishing Co., copyright claimant
> Created / Published
c1906.
Credit to /u/stennesrc for [colorizing this image](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/35gccw/banana_boat_1906_colorized_by_me/). A higher quality version of this image can be found [here](https://i.imgur.com/fPgMn7H.jpg).
I bet it smelled wonderful
I wish I could wear a bowler hat and suit about town like a fine gent. Those should make a come back.
So, why did everyone wear hats back then?
It’s amazing that fashion always goes full circle
The ship on the right, Disa from Gävle in Sweden was sunk by a mine placed by a German submarine 9 years after this photo was taken. And is now on the bottom of the sea off the coast of England
Wow that’s bananas
That serial killer looking guy at the bottom, though.
Osha woulda had a shit fit
Half of the men on that boat died from slipping on bananas. Makes you think
Where exactly was this taken? I can’t quite figure it out.
try to find a man without a hat
You tell young Vallon I’m gonna paint Paradise Square with his blood. Two coats
It was taken before 1915.
> SS Disa, built by O. A. Brodin, Gefle in 1903 and owned at the time of her loss by Rederi A/B Disa (G. Brodin), Gefle, was a Swedish steamer of 788 tons. On August 25th, 1915, Disa, on a voyage from London to Hernösand with a cargo of salt, was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-6 (Matthias Graf von Schmettow), 5-6 miles NxE of the Shipwash lightvessel. There were no casualties. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?70026
It looks like this was moments before they broke out into organized song and dance
Beautiful scene, but I bet it stunk. Horses, inadequate refrigeration, and a lot of hard working people without deodorant.
Not a woman in sight.
It’s a man’s world.
“One of the serious problems in planning against American doctrine is that the Americans do not read their manuals nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine”
“The reason that the American army does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the American army practices chaos on a daily basis”
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“If we don’t know what we are doing the enemy certainly can’t anticipate our future actions!”
I can smell this photo.
Crazy how we were like “this is the apex of human civilization”