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<blockquote data-quote="Opmmur" data-source="post: 77922" data-attributes="member: 13"><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><em><strong>From the archives: Shovels, not plows, cleared snow off NYC streets</strong></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 26px"></span></p><p><img src="http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-131216-snow01-plow-usq.photoblog900.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Bain News Service / Library of Congress file</p><p></p><p>Snow plow during storm, New York City, January 1910</p><p></p><p>By Stokes Young, Executive Producer, NBCNews.com</p><p>This weekend's storm made for messy travel in Gotham, but at least we're armed with modern snow removal equipment. That wasn't the case in New York City in 1908, when horse-drawn wagons were used to remove the white stuff:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-131216-snow02-wagons-removing.photoblog900.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Bain News Service / Library of Congress file</p><p></p><p>And shovelers cleared streets by hand:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-131216-snow03-shovel02.photoblog900.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Bain News Service / Library of Congress file</p><p></p><p>Lots of New Yorkers were ready to bend their backs to the hard labor, though--this picture is captioned "Seeking employment as snow shovelers:"</p><p></p><p><img src="http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-131216-snow04-shovel-unemployed.photoblog900.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p>Bain News Service / Library of Congress file</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Opmmur, post: 77922, member: 13"] [SIZE=7][I][B]From the archives: Shovels, not plows, cleared snow off NYC streets[/B][/I] [I][B][/B][/I][/SIZE] [IMG]http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-131216-snow01-plow-usq.photoblog900.jpg[/IMG] Bain News Service / Library of Congress file Snow plow during storm, New York City, January 1910 By Stokes Young, Executive Producer, NBCNews.com This weekend's storm made for messy travel in Gotham, but at least we're armed with modern snow removal equipment. That wasn't the case in New York City in 1908, when horse-drawn wagons were used to remove the white stuff: [IMG]http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-131216-snow02-wagons-removing.photoblog900.jpg[/IMG] Bain News Service / Library of Congress file And shovelers cleared streets by hand: [IMG]http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-131216-snow03-shovel02.photoblog900.jpg[/IMG] Bain News Service / Library of Congress file Lots of New Yorkers were ready to bend their backs to the hard labor, though--this picture is captioned "Seeking employment as snow shovelers:" [IMG]http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-131216-snow04-shovel-unemployed.photoblog900.jpg[/IMG] Bain News Service / Library of Congress file [/QUOTE]
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