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Before The Quake: Look At San Francisco Now And Then

There's one event that acts as a demarcation line in San Francisco's history: The Great 1906 Earthquake. Which is why it's fun to dive back 150 years

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Fabulous Fashions Of 19th Century NYC Revisited In COPPER

While nailing 19th century conventions and language are critical to replicating life in 1860s New York City, the new BBC America crime drama COPPER has another edge: Clothes painstakingly hand-tailored and sewn

Arts & Entertainment

How New Yorkers Lived 150 Years Ago: From The First Hipster Bar To The 70-Pound Bike

Ever wonder what this website would look like if it were written in the 1860s? Well, first of all, it'd probably only be a weekly, and when we complained about the

Arts & Entertainment

"From Beautiful Pond To A Ghetto": Tom Fontana's Walking Tour Of Gritty Five Points

Known for groundbreaking television like Homicide: Life On The Streets and OZ, acclaimed writer-producer Tom Fontana has, with Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson, now developed a crime show about his own hometown,