What do you miss most from 1893?

[Seneca]

I have a DeLorean, and like to play around with the space-time continuum.




Me? Having a president named after a muppet.





I bet you didn't know that Grover was the original tinfoil-hat muppet, did you?

[azmouse]

1. The comfortable clothing.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

2. a US population count of ~55 million.

the Chicago World's Fair.

Nature.

[phasma ex machina]

14. Whoops, overlooked your reply at first. See my reply 12 for a fair link to the fair. LOL nt

[BrklynLiberal]

3. The absence of automobile traffic

[Crabby Appleton]

4. US cities then had severe horse manure pollution

http://www.uctc.net/access/30/Access%2030%20-%2002%20-%20Horse%20Power.pdf

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Free Fertilizer..everywhere!!!!!

As with so many other problems..the root of the problem was basically too many people...

[Brother Buzz]

6. My Grandmother

She was born in 1893.

[Moondog]

7. As was mine. And I miss her. +1 n/t

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. my innocence.

[Systematic Chaos]

9. Definitely the original zipper!

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml


Whitcomb L. Judson was an American engineer from Chicago, Illinois, who invented the zipper. Judson patented his "clasp-locker'' on Aug. 29, 1893; later in 1893, he exhibited this new invention at the Chicago World's Fair. He and Lewis Walker founded the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture these fasteners. They never succeeded in selling Judson's new device. Judson died in 1909, before his device became commonly used and well known.

The zipper was improved in 1913 by the Swedish-American engineer, Gideon Sundbach (a former employee of Judson). Sundbach was successful at selling his invention, which he called the "Hookless 2." He sold these fasteners to the US Army, who put zippers on soldiers' clothing and gear during World War I.

The word zipper was coined by B.F. Goodrich in 1923, whose company sold rubber galoshes equipped with zippers. Goodrich is said to have named them zippers because he liked the zipping sound they made when opened and closed.

[Seneca]

10. I gave Goodrich the "zipper" idea

I also told him he should use a blimp as a marketing tool, but he ignored that suggestion, which was picked up by some rival. Dumbass.

I get around in my DeLorean.

[FarLeftRage]

11. My Grandpa...

He was 4 years old for most of 1893 and turned 5 in November.

[phasma ex machina]

12. Chicago World's Fair of 1893

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The Columbian Exposition

[DFW]

13. Hey, that was my choice, too!!

[phasma ex machina]

15. .

:fistbump:

[BlancheSplanchnik]

21. I like those pics you pulled. :)

really, what I meant by my post was a world with far fewer PEOPLE, and a LOT more nature and animals.......

we are so damned destructive, and so damned fertile. :(

But yeah, the Chicago World's Fair must have been sooooo much fun!!

(have you read "The Devil in the White City" ? A considerably darker take on the events, and a great true crime story)

[phasma ex machina]

24. Re: have you read "The Devil in the White City" ?

This is the first I've heard of it. Looks interesting.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

27. Yes, a very good read

I liked Isaac's Storm, too
About the Galveston hurricane of '06

[pokerfan]

16. SCOTUS legally declares the tomato to be a vegetable

:wtf:

In other news, they declare dragonflies to be small birds and that hamsters are actually tiny dogs.

[struggle4progress]

17. I missed most of 1893

[Dr Morbius]

18. Well, gee, it was the Gilded Age.

Enormous concentration of wealth.
Millions living in abject poverty.
Government rank with corruption.
Discrimination written into the law and daily life.
Most of the people: wage slaves.

I'm sorry, were we talking about 1893 or 2010?

[Tabasco_Dave]

19. They had great over the counter drugs

Heroin cough syrup, patent medicine with morphine and Coca Cola with real cocaine. :hippie:

[Bucky]

20. Jim Crow, child labor, unregulated drug & food industries, and guilt free Indian slaughter

The world was our oyster. What's not to miss?

[Seneca]

23. Unregulated food and drugs are back

Happy days are here again!

[tigereye]

22. my grandparents!

:D

[NoGOPZone]

25. Baseball teams with nicknames like BeanEaters, BrideGrooms and Orphans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1898_Boston_Beaneaters_season#regular_season

[Old Troop]

26. The Columbian Exposition in Chicago

[Ishoutandscream2]

28. Dysentery