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December 3, 2007 at 11:30 pm
· Filed under Signs and Wonders
Via Google Video: 1940s people riding bicycles, cars + double decker bus in heavy traffic on city
In not-so-olden days, motorised and non-motorised transport freely shared the road. Peruse these amazing short colour films from the Getty Images library.
Look! there’s even a copper with no helmet - and he’s lanesplitting. Good gracious me, we can’t allow behaviour like that to go unchecked in these fast-paced times. The cars go far too fast now and modern people are so selfish and far too busy and important!
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hippy wrote @ December 4th, 2007 at 6:35 am
Bugger. None of those vid links work for me.
cfsmtb wrote @ December 4th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Check your browser settings -worked for me on two different computers so far.
Not to mention all those “jaywalkers”!
cfsmtb wrote @ December 4th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Isn’t it astonishing? People just getting on with moving around their city. Seems like a fascinating look back to a time before the Chicken Littles took over.
takver wrote @ December 6th, 2007 at 12:25 am
For some 1970s cycling retro, you can’t beat the 1977 Ride against Uranium film. That was the critical mass of the time. Before helmets, and helmet legislation. When cycling was just starting to make a comeback, before the rise to prominence of the bicycle Institutes. When cycling really was pretty much restricted to some school kids, a few weirdo commuters, hippie ferals associated with Friends of the Earth and dedicated cycling sports nuts.
Guess I’m an unreconstructed weido hippie feral FOE cycling nut then, and I guess my prognosis then on the limits to growth and the necessity for moving to a low energy sustainable lifestyle are at last proving reasonable with the onset of global warming and peak oil. Somehow I just don’t feel smug saying “I told you so”.
will wrote @ December 6th, 2007 at 9:28 am
depressing how fast history is moving. Any Alien would assume w were a planet run by big metal 4 wheeled masters.
Crowlie wrote @ December 13th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
That’s gorgeous. Thanks so much.
Matt wrote @ April 4th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
First few are of my home town Dublin. Loved the ‘messenger boys’ with their baskets. My first job!! Great memories.
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