I like the fresh meat market, with regular flies or blue flies, or both. Good old days.
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it." Francis Marion - The Swamp Fox
When I see photos like this, I wish I could go back in time and just look around. I bet the meat market in the picture would give today's health inspectors the big one!
Turn the corner and walk down the alley behind those buildings. Outhouses and dump heaps. Hold your nose! For that matter, hold your nose when walking through that crowd. "A bath once a month, whether you need it or not!"
"You can lead a man to logic, but you cannot make him think." Joe Harz "Always certain, often right." Keith McCafferty
Turn the corner and walk down the alley behind those buildings. Outhouses and dump heaps. Hold your nose! For that matter, hold your nose when walking through that crowd. "A bath once a month, whether you need it or not!"
The underbelly of the romantic notions of old west towns...
I can smell that hanging meat from here. Cholera was not unheard of in these old mining towns and settlements and miners and prospectors often died from scurvy. Seems the as the years pile up the distance has a way of making such conditions seem romantic.
I do like my central AC and heat just fine today. Grew up in the Everglades 7 miles from the nearest neighbor, was 14 when we got electricity. I do remember the first time I saw a TV, it was in the Sears store in West Palm Beach. Had to leave the store, it was too cold inside. Got my the first AC in the new house my dad and I built, we, wife, son and me, moved in on Christmas day 1971.
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it." Francis Marion - The Swamp Fox