Well, the post allows all pre-70 decades right  :D

What was pop culture like then and was it still like the 1800s?  I've heard the Wild West was dying down by then but was still around.

It's funny how 30's Wild West movies took place often less the 40 years ago.  Things sure changed alot from 1900-1930, perhaps more then from 1970-2000.

-FHF  ;)

Wanted to bring this back up :)

Well, the post allows all pre-70 decades right  :D

What was pop culture like then and was it still like the 1800s?  I've heard the Wild West was dying down by then but was still around.

It's funny how 30's Wild West movies took place often less the 40 years ago.  Things sure changed alot from 1900-1930, perhaps more then from 1970-2000.

-FHF  ;)


Hi Devo, maybe I'm missing something here , but what exactly are you looking for? wild west movie input? or good old fashion history input? if it's your favorite coyboy character, mine are Hop Along Cassidy and Lash LaRue.

maybe other will pick up on it, I'll touch back with you later.

Hot wax

Roy Rogers(all the best cowboys have chinese eyes..Pete Townsend" 
The culture in the early 1900's is a huge one, you should narrow it down.  The called
it the "gay nineties"  but gay had a different connotation then, meaning light-hearted. Of
course it was generally anything but.

Is this before the 1900's? ???



Howard

Hi Devo, maybe I'm missing something here , but what exactly are you looking for? wild west movie input? or good old fashion history input? if it's your favorite coyboy character, mine are Hop Along Cassidy and Lash LaRue.

maybe other will pick up on it, I'll touch back with you later.

Hot wax


Basically, was the 1900-1909 any different from the 1800s?

Another cool thread!

I've often wondered about this myself. I have a pretty good feel for what the Old West was like (say 1850-1900) -- especially from BTTF Part 3, which takes place in 1885 Hill Valley. ;)

I know the Model-T came out in 1908, but cars were only owned by the rich until around the 1930's. My grandpa was actually born in 1900, and didn't drive until he was in his 40's - by 1940/45, I think just about everyone drove.

True, it's just a fictional town in a movie, but just look at the difference of 1885 Hill Valley and 1955 Hill Valley. If someone took Mad-Dog Tannen 70 years ahead, imagine how shocked he'd be, LOL! In any event, I'd always tried to imagine it around 1925. It was probably culturally closer to the 1950's, but technologically closer to 1885. Aside from cars, we also got electricity, indoor plumbing, etc. in the same time frame.

If we compared 1890 to 1910, just that 20 years was a HUGE shift. Kind of like the old-fashioned difference of 1996 and '97. ;D

I do think people rode horses as a typical mode of transportation as far ahead as the 1910's, but I'm not sure. It'd be cool to see any further input.

PS: Thinking about this, it's actually kinda sad that there's probably almost no one in the world anymore who's old enough to remember 1900. Let's say to remember it well, you'd have to be 10 (b. 1890) and someone of that age would now be 115. There's a few left, but I highly doubt they'd be looking at message boards. :(

Another cool thread!

I've often wondered about this myself. I have a pretty good feel for what the Old West was like (say 1850-1900) -- especially from BTTF Part 3, which takes place in 1885 Hill Valley. ;)

I know the Model-T came out in 1908, but cars were only owned by the rich until around the 1930's. My grandpa was actually born in 1900, and didn't drive until he was in his 40's - by 1940/45, I think just about everyone drove.

True, it's just a fictional town in a movie, but just look at the difference of 1885 Hill Valley and 1955 Hill Valley. If someone took Mad-Dog Tannen 70 years ahead, imagine how shocked he'd be, LOL! In any event, I'd always tried to imagine it around 1925. It was probably culturally closer to the 1950's, but technologically closer to 1885. Aside from cars, we also got electricity, indoor plumbing, etc. in the same time frame.

If we compared 1890 to 1910, just that 20 years was a HUGE shift. Kind of like the old-fashioned difference of 1996 and '97. ;D

I do think people rode horses as a typical mode of transportation as far ahead as the 1910's, but I'm not sure. It'd be cool to see any further input.

PS: Thinking about this, it's actually kinda sad that there's probably almost no one in the world anymore who's old enough to remember 1900. Let's say to remember it well, you'd have to be 10 (b. 1890) and someone of that age would now be 115. There's a few left, but I highly doubt they'd be looking at message boards. :(


Yup the oldest person of proven age is 1890, although I bet there's a few born in the 1880s or even 1870s around in third-world countries.  I've though about that too, 1800ers becoming extinct in 10-12 years. Sad.  :\'(

My father was born in 1907. He told me that they usually walked unless it was some special occasion, like a funeral, or had a longer  trip to make when they wanted to make better time. Rest of the time, even Sundays, they walked. Most farmers only had work horses, and you saved them to do the heavy work, not to ride around. Better off people maybe could afford to keep driving horses. That's why most people with any money had a town house, to be close to entertainment and transportation. Most people didn't travel more then 10 or 20 miles from home. Unless they worked as salesmen or for tranportation companies like the canals or railroad.