Israel 5 years 8 months ago wrote:

100 Years Ago


It May Be Hard to Believe That A Scant 100 Years Ago...


The average life expectancy in the United States was forty-seven.
Only 14 percent of the homes in the United States 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 ten mph.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the twenty-first most populous state in the Union.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
The average wage in the U.S. was twenty-two cents an hour. The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2500 per year, a veterinarian between $1500 and $4000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5000 per year.
More than 95 percent of all births in the United States took place at home.


Ninety percent of all U.S. 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.
Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason, either as travelers or immigrants.
The five leading causes of death in the U.S. were: 1. Pneumonia and influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke
The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
Drive-by-shootings, in which teenage boys galloped down the street on horses and started randomly shooting at houses, carriages, or anything else that caught their fancy, were an ongoing problem in Denver and other cities in the West.
The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was thirty. The remote desert community was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers and their families.


Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn't been discovered yet. Scotch tape, crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented.
There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
One in ten U.S. adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
Some medical authorities warned that professional seamstresses were apt to become sexually aroused by the steady rhythm, hour after hour, of the sewing machine's foot pedals. They recommended slipping bromide, which was thought to diminish sexual desire,into the woman's drinking water.
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.
Coca-Cola contained cocaine instead of caffeine.
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.
Eighteen percent of households in the United States had at least one full-time servant or domestic

kersheys 5 years 8 months ago wrote:

And the point of this is...?

Kinju 5 years 8 months ago wrote:

S/he's looking for excuses on how to bring up his spam counts. Not that I'm bringing his name down or anything though but I should admit, I don't think anyone's quite interested much in the topic...

kersheys 5 years 8 months ago wrote:

Yeah. And s/he? He says that's his girlfriend in his avatar btw. But I'm still not sure whether he/she is a he/she.

This is going too far Israel. 11 of the 49 topics in this forum is yours. And honestly they are a bit useless.

IdyotAko 5 years 8 months ago wrote:

Well... it is in the Off-Topic section... and it is little tidbits of information.

I don't consider this spam at all... although some of the other stuff he's posted is fairly questionable.

Actually... I do like topics like these. It may be fairly useless information to some right now, but you never know. If he posts topics like these, I have no beef with it.

tuikyuo 5 years 8 months ago wrote:

wow you people must hate jeoperdy, and who cares as long as it's not useless spam

fuse 5 years 8 months ago wrote:

It's interesting. But I consider this spam unless you post your own opinion on the matter Israel... I think we get the idea already, you figured out how to use ctrl+a, ctrl+c and control+v combo!

Israel 5 years 8 months ago wrote:

oh cmon, im just trying to show u guyz how lucky we are.we have those stuffs today. cant u imagine how unlucky our grandpas and grandmas are and im just trying to show the diffrnce between the yesterday nd today, we will never know this facts might be questiond on a tv show and ur the only one who can aswer it.afterall its an offtopic thread anyway

Runagi 5 years 8 months ago wrote:

I found it interesting. Runagi gives this thread a /no1 . Also, you guys have like 300+ more posts than Israel. Give him a break, lol.

IdyotAko 5 years 8 months ago wrote:

300 more posts?

Wha?

Someone pushed the big reset button on Israel? Whoa... even I wouldn't do something like that. I may say it, but I would never actually have done it.

Honestly, Israel's spam is like... fat-free compared to the likes of Asin and stuff back then.

fuse 5 years 8 months ago wrote:

I did it to illustrate a point.

@ Israel
Please be more contructive when you copy and paste from now on please! I know people won't have a problem with it if you add your own opinion to the table, and hopefully it's at least a few sentences in length.

Israel 5 years 8 months ago wrote:

its like my original post count divided by 3 so bring back my original post counts ifu guyz dont mind /heh

kersheys 5 years 8 months ago wrote:

Why do you think he did it if he didn't mind you having spam post counts.

Israel 5 years 8 months ago wrote:

ooh yeah, thanks! i feel like a complete person now. hehehehe, just kiddin

fedrikwhite 2 years 4 months ago wrote:

Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason, either as travelers or immigrants. Hi dear friends, Have You any suggestion about law prohibitions ?