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Bucky

(53,936 posts) Fri May 20, 2016, 12:12 PM May 2016

Jerusalem in 1900

lots of great shots from before cars showed up -- You can still see the medieval castles wrapped around the Hellenistic Age city

http://mashable.com/2016/03/29/ottoman-jerusalem/#aHyXrxgO8kqQ

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Jerusalem in 1900 (Original Post) Bucky May 2016 OP

Shortly before the Holocaust lunatica May 2016 #1

Look - there were asses in the street back then too! GreydeeThos May 2016 #2

I probably wouldn't get lost... bikebloke May 2016 #3

lunatica

(53,410 posts)

1. Shortly before the Holocaust

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 03:24 PM

May 2016

I always try to put old photographs in perspective with the history that was happening or about to happen around the same time.

They couldn't have possibly imagined what would come, or even what the rest of the 20th Century would bring. They probably thought life would always be the same as it was then.

GreydeeThos

(958 posts)

2. Look - there were asses in the street back then too!

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 06:30 PM

May 2016

bikebloke

(5,260 posts)

3. I probably wouldn't get lost...

Reply to Bucky (Original post)

Fri May 20, 2016, 09:45 PM

May 2016

...if I found myself there in 1900. I used to the the human GPS in Jerusalem's medina.

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