Friday, January 18, 2019
Modern? Not exactly
Vintage.es has a set of street scenes from Cuba in 1976. The cars, of course, are '50s US cars plus a few VWs. But the buses are strictly modern. For instance.
USA street scenes in the '70s were the exact opposite. Our cars were up to date, and our buses were all '50s leftovers. For instance. We didn't see modern buses here until the '90s.
So it's not really a question of a modern country vs a left-behind country. It's just a question of priorities. Public use vs private use.
Closely related: EnglishRussia just posted a large set of pix showing INTERURBANS in Russia. These electric trams run through the countryside serving small towns. The pictures are unquestionably present-day, not Soviet era. For instance.
We used to have interurbans serving small towns. We lost them around 1920.
Labels: Natural law = Soviet law
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