Sleighing in Central Park, 1898

A view taken on the West Side Drive in Central Park. Shows a continuous stream of handsome rigs and turnouts passing in both directions. Only two pedestrians appear.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Old New York
• rare footage
• New York City
• 1898
• Thomas Edison

[amazing763]

The sound effects are incredibly accurate. (Yes, silence.) I've driven a sleigh in about a foot of snow, and there is almost no sound at all. The snow muffles the hoofbeats. Horses put to a sleigh wear bells so people won't get run over .

Anyone who cares to make the effort can drive a sleigh today. Horses still exist, and sleighs can be found. As the Holocene period ends and the Ice Age returns, we may all of us drive sleighs.

[SuperXPEHH]

@amazing763 Thank you! That was beautiful.

[Talulah1997]

i wished i had lived back then and among people like that ....instead of today and today s scum!!

[SuperXPEHH]

@Talulah1997 People are always the same even when they dress and talk differently. :))

[xdavidcx]

my god thats so eary

like when the 2nd person walked by

he was like a ghost

[SuperXPEHH]

He's surely one now. :)

[youtuuberoxx]

wow 50 seconds and no one got mugged or shot at

[critterrescue1]

Four pedestrians if you count the two shoveling snow in the background :-) And I agree, man in foreground crossing left to right is a police officer.

[ryanmshepard92]

@youtuuberoxx Yeah because I see that about 15 times everytime I go for a walk now. -_-

[ryanmshepard92]

@SuperXPEHH @Talulah1997 Yes, thank you! It really annoys me when people think people were somehow "kinder" or "smarter" than nowadays. They weren't.

[poopmcscoopface]

@youtuuberoxx staged probably

[Tettuli]

@Talulah1997 you say that now, but if you could go back in time, you probably would start to miss 2010's

[scorpietta]

@JudgeJulieLit Fascinating to see people in their daily lives just like us nowadays.

[JudgeJulieLit]

@scorpietta Yes the strolling man is a policeman . . . his helmet the giveaway clue.

[LoveGaneva]

@gallantman44 grow some balls and say it without hiding.