You can see some interesting "old" stuff in classic films

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You can see some interesting "old" stuff in classic films Aug 3, 2018 20:19:36 GMT

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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 3, 2018 20:19:36 GMT

Aug 3, 2018 3:35:06 GMT ZolotoyRetriever said:

Aug 3, 2018 2:14:14 GMT london777 said:

Neighbors racing out of their houses after the horse-drawn milk or coal carts had passed to shovel up any horse-dung for their roses.

I don't think I've ever seen that in a movie.

Me neither …. What movie ?

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You can see some interesting "old" stuff in classic films Aug 3, 2018 20:26:27 GMT

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Post by WarrenPeace on Aug 3, 2018 20:26:27 GMT

Jul 31, 2018 19:46:39 GMT BATouttaheck said:

Men wearing a shirt and tie and a fedora to a baseball game and women there wearing a dress and hat

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Maybe not this fancy a hat as in The Natural, BUT hats anyway.

Yeah, interesting how now you see fans wearing casual clothes adorned with their team colors and logos.

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You can see some interesting "old" stuff in classic films Aug 3, 2018 20:28:04 GMT

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Post by WarrenPeace on Aug 3, 2018 20:28:04 GMT

Jul 31, 2018 18:45:30 GMT ZolotoyRetriever said:

I was re-watching Dark Passage (1947) last night, and noticed a brief scene, inside a San Francisco apartment, where Bogart's character wrapped up some clothing in butcher paper, then dropped the bundle down a chute marked "incinerator." So I guess the clothes dropped down to a building incinerator, probably down in the building's basement, which burned peoples' discarded trash? Interesting... I suppose that practice has long since been abolished - at least here in the U.S.

What other old, antiquated, obsolete things do you notice in classic films? (and I don't mean "old cars," "old fashions," necessarily, but practices or certain types of technology that have long since become passé).

For the first time, I noticed an ice truck and the worker grabbing a huge block of ice with tongs in the background of the movie Ragtime.