American life in 1914: How we lived a century ago (Photos)

[yuiyoshida]

Majestic Vaudeville billboard, 1914, in Houston at the corner of Main and Texas.


Charlie Chaplin makes his film debut in "Making a Living." (February)
President Woodrow Wilson orders troops to take military action against Mexico following the Tampico Incident. (April)
Mother's Day is recognized as a national holiday in the U.S. (May)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated, unofficially beginning World War I. (June)
Babe Ruth makes his debut with the Boston Red Sox. (July)
The Panama Canal is inaugurated. (August)
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is established. (September)
The Federal Reserve opens (November)

(Check out the photos..awesome)
http://www.sfgate.com/life/article/American-life-in-1914-How-we-lived-a-century-ago-5075997.php

[Egalitarian Thug]

1. The backlash against the American people was in full swing in 1914.

The chickens from our Imperial meddling were just coming home to roost, The global forces of community had been jailed and executed here, and a generation of poor young men were snatched from their homes and sent to die in the Old World to distract the rest of us from what was going on.

[yuiyoshida]

4. ...

An American Marine sharpshooter aims a 1903 Springfield rifle at opponents during the American intervention in the Mexican Revolution in Vera Cruz, Mexico in 1914. Photo: Time Life Pictures, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

[Pretzel_Warrior]

17. Huh? Not even close

[oneshooter]

41. He really should learn history.

That way he won't sound so ignorant when he speaks.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

42. at least get it right that the U.S. didn't send troops to "The Great War" until 1917

[MADem]

51. I can't abide high drama in a thread that should be all about great photographs of a bygone era.

I am a Shorpy fan, so I get a few pics in my in box every day!

[Pretzel_Warrior]

52. Agreed

[F. Kafka]

2. Great post!

And wonderful pics, too.

[yuiyoshida]

3. Wonderful is right.. amazing photos!

American industrialist Henry Ford and inventor Thomas Edison, seated in the back, are seen on one of Ford's automobiles at an unknown location in Florida in this 1914 photo. The man on the left is unidentified.
Photo: AP

[Nye Bevan]

5. Henry Ford: "you can have any color you want, as long as you're not Jewish" (nt)

[yuiyoshida]

6. play ball!

George Burns, left, and Art Fletcher leap and stretch during spring training drills for the New York Giants in Marlin, Texas on March 14, 1914. Photo: Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images


An aerial view shows Wrigley Field in Chicago. Wrigley Field opened April 23, 1914 as the home of the Chicago Cubs. Photo: MLB Photos, MLB Photos Via Getty Images



Johnny Evers, captain and second baseman for the Boston Braves, goes over the ground rules at Fenway Park with Ira Thomas, Athletics captain and the umpiring crew before the start of game three of the 1914 World Series on October 12th. Photo: Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images

[JVS]

7. hmmmmm

That airplane looks too modern for 1914

[Brother Buzz]

11. I believe that's a Ford tri-motor - "The Tin Goose"

First produced in 1925

[Drew2510]

14. Doubt it. Dont see a third motor on the nose. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

16. Funny, I see the radial engine quite clearly

[Drew2510]

18. I believe you are correct.

Downloaded the pic and enlarged it. Darn old eyes!!

[Brother Buzz]

22. I've bracketed the photo between 1925 and 1937

The curved concrete bleachers (and famous scoreboard), today's configuration, was constructed in 1937.

[yuiyoshida]

12. I am sure you are correct that the photo was taken after 1914...

The photo info says: Wrigley Field opened April 23, 1914. I think they were pointing out that in 1914 the stadium opened and that was the earliest shot of it they could find. But, good catch!

[Drew2510]

13. Humm, could that possibly be Bell? He was alive then. n/t

[yuiyoshida]

15. Alexander Graham Bell

Maybe?

[yuiyoshida]

8. Got a favorite picture? Post it!!

Swept off her feet...

Legendary ballroom dancer Vernon Castle lifts his wife and partner Irene as they dance before a large mirror in a dance studio in New York in 1914. Photo: FPG, Getty Images




note>> I was kinda hoping I would see something like this..

[ananda]

9. Wow, those were very interesting.

I looked at everyone. They are all so great and many of them
capture truly historical moments, including women's suffrage,
child labor, the union movement, types of cars and planes,
and most interesting, Byrd Winters, who I think was in on the
murder of her 9yo stepdaughter, Catherine, though the case
was supposedly never resolved after charges were dropped.

[yuiyoshida]

10. This too...

Reputed gangster James Franche and a policeman a walk toward an automobile parked along the street in Chicago, 1914. Franche, nicknamed, Duffy the Goat, confessed to murdering Isaac Henagow in the Roy Jones Cafe, located at 2037 South Wabash Ave. in the Near South Side area of Chicago. From the Chicago Daily News collection. Photo: Chicago History Museum, Getty Images

[teach1st]

19. Ludlow Colony

A group of people examine the ruins of the Ludlow colony in Colorado. Built as a temporary shelter for striking coal miners and their families, it was attacked by militiamen and company detectives who shot and burned to death eighteen people including eleven children, the youngest of whom was only three months old. Photo: MPI, Getty Images

[teach1st]

20. Wikipedia on the Ludlow Massacre

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

The Ludlow Massacre was a watershed moment in American labor relations. Historian Howard Zinn described the Ludlow Massacre as "the culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history".[3] Congress responded to public outcry by directing the House Committee on Mines and Mining to investigate the incident.[4] Its report, published in 1915, was influential in promoting child labor laws and an eight-hour work day.

[yuiyoshida]

21. I saw that...this stuff is gold..

Aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss flies a modified version of Samuel Langley's 'Aerodrome' over Kenka Lake, New York. Photo: Hulton Archive, Getty Images

Bet you never saw this before!

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. Having just covered the auto show, where electrics are ALL THE RAGE

This did not fail to get my attention. This is an EV

Noted electrical engineer Charles Steinmetz in his 1914 Detroit Electric, with grandchildren (left to right) Midge, Billy and Joe, and his adopted son, Joseph Hayden in this undated photograph. (Union College archives)

[yuiyoshida]

28. Interesting that the photo

was taken from the Union College archives...in Schenectady New York, and a city that houses a huge General Electric plant.

[Jessy169]

24. Not wanting to offend anyone, but isn't it amazing..

.. how few overweight people there were back in 1914. In fact, looking back at my high school year books (1970 - 1973), I find out of thousands of students only a few overweight. The implications are clear. Between "then" and "now", the food that we consume as a nation has led to increased weight gain and unhealthy populace. That, and perhaps the amount of television and/or video game activity we engage in. I have seen DU discussions where people are claiming that the overweight epidemic in America is due to genetic reasons, but I'm not so sure about that.

[yuiyoshida]

25. It seems SLIM WAS IN...back than too..

Dressing Up to an Ideal Photo: Buyenlarge, Getty Images

[Kaleva]

38. Back then, it was fashionable for the wealthy to be overweight.

[robertpaulsen]

26. Great post, yuiyoshida! Here's some color photos from 1914 you might like.

Not American, but some excellent shots of Paris 100 years ago, including the original Moulin Rouge!



Fascinating Color Photos of 1914 Paris

By Caroline Stanley on Nov 21, 2012 3:30pm

A boy pushes an overloaded cart through a picturesque city square. A soldier with a wooden leg stands next to a cannon, his uniform covered with medals. A group of young performers in period costume assemble around a statue. Then there’s this shot of the original Moulin Rouge, an architectural gem of the Belle Époque that would be destroyed in a fire the following year. Unearthed by Retronaut, these color photos of Paris back 1914 are not only lovely to look at, they’re incredibly narrative, like a visual prompt for the kind of stories that Hemingway would write about the city in the decade to come. If you need an escape from the impending holiday drama, or you’d just like travel over a hundred years back in time, click through our slideshow now!

?w=600

MORE...

http://flavorwire.com/348800/fascinating-color-photos-of-1914-paris/view-all/

[yuiyoshida]

27. I have seen that windmill some where....here in San Francisco.

Aw that's it. Golden Gate Park!

Edited to say..That photo of yours looks like Solvang, California. If you have never been there, google photos of it!

[robertpaulsen]

31. What a coincidence! I was just in Solvang on Sunday!

My wife and I enjoyed a wonderful cream-puff pastry there, as well as a great wine tasting at Byron in nearby Los Olivos.

[yuiyoshida]

34. Solvang had some of the best

tasting salt water taffy I have ever eaten, other than on the board walk in Atlantic city.

[yesphan]

29. Nice find.

[yuiyoshida]

30. I love stuff like this... and

SF GATE, AKA the San Francisco Chronicle, always has some great features. A paper that once
had the great

[yesphan]

35. It's been a few years since I was

in the Bay Area. Like you, I am a long time Raiders fan and as such, the last 11 years have been a little frustrating.

[yuiyoshida]

36. You know whats frustrating?

Talking to former Raider big Jeff Barnes...


My neck hurts from looking up at him, while chatting...

[madokie]

32. thanks

My Dad was born in 1897, died in 1979

[yuiyoshida]

50. you're welcome

All of this intrigued me, like that video of Market Street in San Francisco before the 1906 earthquake, or the World's Fair after that.

[treestar]

33. 100 years ago, women were still fighting for the vote!

Amazing study!

[yuiyoshida]

37. absolutely!

Society women wearing sandwich boards to publicize a talk at Cooper Union by the governors of the states that have granted the vote to women. Photo: Paul Thompson, Getty Images


I think I would fight to get out of wearing those outfits!

[treestar]

39. That hats on the first four

[Blue_In_AK]

40. That's the year my father was born.

Hard to believe he would have been 100 this year.

[oneshooter]

43. In 1914 this ship was commisioned into the US Navy.

She was, at that time, the most powerful ship afloat.


She is still afloat, as a museum ship.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=uss+texas&id=62D4EEFE039EBA86AB21AB089E7EAFC2068E5BE3&FORM=IQFRBA#view=detail&id=62D4EEFE039EBA86AB21AB089E7EAFC2068E5BE3&selectedIndex=0

[yuiyoshida]

44. Very impressive looking..

I was once invited to go aboard the wooden decks of the USS Missouri. Biggest guns I ever saw...

[Brother Buzz]

47. 68 feet long and weighs 120 tons

The 16-inch on the left of your photo is now on display in the Marin headlands.



http://www.nps.gov/goga/historyculture/new-gun.htm

[oneshooter]

48. The only ship with bigger guns was the IJN Yamato. Sunk on 7 April 1945.

[yuiyoshida]

49. I knew about the Yamato...

But of course you don't mean this one..

[oneshooter]

54. No, I believe this is the one.

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=ijn+yamato+wreck&id=23BD6F6D023CB601976AF4A64316369748FDFCD7&FORM=IQFRBA#view=detail&id=23BD6F6D023CB601976AF4A64316369748FDFCD7&selectedIndex=0

[Packerowner740]

45. Amazing photos, thanks for sharing.

[yuiyoshida]

46. The photos came from

The San Francisco Chronicle.. I thought it was great someone pulled them all together for a nice photo essay.

[Douglas Carpenter]

53. it seems like the whole world has gone to hell in a hand basket ever since men stopped wearing hats

just when and why did that happen, anyway?

[ananda]

55. I forgot how popular the handlebar mustach was though.

They're so trippy.

[yuiyoshida]

57. Only one GUY ever looked good in a hat..

"Its not the Years, its the millage"

[flamingdem]

56. Fantastic photos

Bookmarked