May 24, 2013

London 1927 in colour.
posted by bobboggis 11 years ago
  • Remarkable how little the look of most of these streets has changed: almost nothing seems to have been lost, but many huge new buildings have been added. The vehicles are all different, of course. And everyone wore hats.
  • The brits tell the soviet union to fuck off, the soviets kill a bunch of brits for spying and the brits ban support strikes. The aristocracy was winning even then. The proles only seem to gain ground by surviving mass scale death. Black death and the second world war. If we want to improve the conditions of the poorest maybe we should have a die off. Even the kids by the pond are dead now. Omnibus drivers, traffic cops, men with hats. Corpses dessicated. I suppose there's a statistical chance some of the people visible or hidden behind windows still breath. But not long now for them. What you get- what you are apportioned -is so tiny it seems a trifle, hardly worth fighting about or for. It is everything. It is everything you have.
  • Where's that banana button for this?