100 Years Ago...
A lot of this is applicable to our grandparents, and even some of our parents.
It May Be Hard to Believe That A Scant 100 Years Ago...

• The average life expectancy in the United States was forty-seven.
• Only 14 percent of the homes in the United States had a bathtub.
• Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone. A three minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.
• There were only 8,000 cars in the US and only 144 miles of paved roads.
• The maximum speed limit in most cities was ten mph.
• Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the twenty-first most populous state in the Union.
• The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
• The average wage in the U.S. was twenty-two cents an hour. The average U.S. worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
• A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2500 per year, a veterinarian between $1500 and $4000 per year, and a mechanical engineer about $5000 per year.
• More than 95 percent of all births in the United States took place at home.
• Ninety percent of all U.S. physicians had no college education. Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard."
• Sugar cost four cents a pound.
• Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
• Coffee cost fifteen cents a pound.
• Most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
• Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason, either as travelers or immigrants.
• The five leading causes of death in the U.S. were: 1. Pneumonia and influenza 2. Tuberculosis 3. Diarrhea 4. Heart disease 5. Stroke
• The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
• Drive-by-shootings, in which teenage boys galloped down the street on horses and started randomly shooting at houses, carriages, or anything else that caught their fancy, were an ongoing problem in Denver and other cities in the West.
• The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was thirty. The remote desert community was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers and their families.
• Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn't been discovered yet. Scotch tape, crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented.
• There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
• One in ten U.S. adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
• Some medical authorities warned that professional seamstresses were apt to become sexually aroused by the steady rhythm, hour after hour, of the sewing machine's foot pedals. They recommended slipping bromide, which was thought to diminish sexual desire,into the woman's drinking water.
• Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and the bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health.
• Coca-Cola contained cocaine instead of caffeine.
• Punch card data processing had recently been developed, and early predecessors of the modern computer were used for the first time by the government to help compile the 1900 census.
• Eighteen percent of households in the United States had at least one full-time servant or domestic.
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i thought oklahoma became a state in 1907! that's 103 years from your post! lol, i kidding, im kidding

 

first television in my house .. I was 8 and it had 3 channels.
first MaBell wired phone.. I was 12.
first car in my family household.. mine, I was 15
first time I eat in a restaurant, I was 17.. Arby's.

I remember the party line phone
I remember and apartment building only have One restroom per floor.

 

Fun read but must be old. I'm guessing about 2005 based upon only 8000 cars in the US.

There's an older saying, "a hundred years ago everyone had a horse and only the rich had a car. Now everyone has a car and only the rich have horses. Oh how the stables have turned."

 

Wow. I wander where we'll be in another 100 years. Well....i know where WE'LL be

 

flying cars and a colony on the moon! lol i think that's what they said about the year 2000 back in the early 1900's right? lol

 

Dick Tracy wrist Television... 2 way radio ..

full automatic Robots... aka... the Jetson's.

 

I heard on the radio the other day that the CEO of Amazon believes that by 2040 everybody will have their own robot sevant that can read their wants and feelings. Maximum Overdrive here we come

 

Fun fact: My dad's '10 T has 20 HP. A hundred years later my Shelby has 30 times that much. If a car 100 years from now has 30 times as much as my Shelby, it'll have over 18,000 HP !!!

Freeze me now.

 

Nearly a 100 years ago now, my dad was a teenager working in the fields.

He went in a store and saw bananas for the first time -- had no idea what they were.

Told the clerk "give me one of those yellow things"

hj

 

lol my grandmother told us about her first experience on a telephone, and that was about 1940 lol! said she was nervous! things went pretty slow in oklahoma in those days right after the great depression, then the dust bowl, then the smart ones leaving for greener pastures lol! i'm sure glad she stayed though.