What a difference a century makes. 100 years ago...
 

NOTE: This topic has been posted by me but made by BaB

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* Only 14 Percent of the homes in the US had a bathtub.

* Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three-minute
call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.

* There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of
paved roads.

* The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.

* Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more
heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million
residents, California was only the 21st most populous
state in the Union.

* The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.

* The average wage in the US was 22 cents an hour. The
average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year.

* A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per
year, a dentist $2,500 per year, a veterinarian between
$1,500 and $4,000 per year, and a mechanical engineer
about $5,000 per year.

* More the 95 percent of all births in the US took place
at home.

* Ninety percent of all US physicians had no college
education. Instead, they attended medical schools,
many of which were condemned in the press and by
the government as "substandard".

* Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents
a dozen. Coffee cost fifteen cents a pound.

* Most women only washed their hair once a month and used
borax or egg yolks for shampoo.

* The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New
Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the
Union yet.

* The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was 30. The remote
desert community was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers
and their families.

* Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the
counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist,
"Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind,
regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is, in fact, a
perfect guardian of health."

* Punch-card data processing had recently been developed, and
early predecessors of the modern computer were used for the
first time by the government to help compile the 1900 census.

Those are some pretty far-out statistics nowadays. It'll all be the same in another 100 years though.

Re: What a difference a century makes. 100 years ago...
 

These three were the most unbelievable.:eek:

Re: Re: What a difference a century makes. 100 years ago...
 

I think the Las Vegas one is unbelievable but not so with the others.... IMO anyway.... :unsure:

Re: What a difference a century makes. 100 years ago...
 

Woah ...... I wonder what it will be like in the next hundred years.


Thats disgusting :green: :Puke:

i find the vomiting smiley more disgusting..

something about a smiley... throwing up....

Man, that's weird.

"Sir, I would like some heroin."

"Here ya go!"


Hehe.

Too bad they don't have that now ;)

are you crazy?

*yeah, I know you winked, but still...

Well, as to all the ones involving money and prices...

I bet you could account for all of them with inflation.

yeah it'll probadly be another hundread years before Xanny finishes his Fan Fic. ;) j/k


but I'm not surprised at any of this.....however i think the herion thing is quite funny. lol

yeah,it is funny...........








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