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On the date

Saturday, May 6, 1905

From the day

Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight

The morning light catches the sharp creases of wool waistcoats and the stiff, starch-white collars of the gentlemen crowding the newsstand. Blimey, the headlines are a mess of graft and gas trades, yet those corrupt senators still have the coin to fill their motorcar tanks at **$0.10** a gallon without a second thought. I steady my lens on a woman in a sweeping silk skirt, her silhouette framed against a brick wall plastered with theater bills. She ignores the shouting newsboys to hum a bar of that "Merry Oldsmobile" tune, her shadow lengthening as the spring sun cuts through the city’s rising grit.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

In My Merry Oldsmobile

Gus Edwards

The must-have

Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead

Aristocrat

capitalmy wordbally

Working Class

gadzooksblimeychump

Catchphrases of 1905

  • E=mc2

Tech Check

Jukebox, Silencers & Novocain.

Cost of Living (1900)

Loaf of Bread

$0.05

Gallon of Gas

$0.10

Average Home

$3,200

New Car

$1,000

Time Elapsed

44,225 days ago

(121 years, 60 days)