If we could travel back 100 years and land on a typical city street, we'd probably be mightily discombobulated. Some things would seem familiar: the buzz of the urban environment, people walking this way and that, and buildings with facades that could well still exist today.

7 Things You Would Find on a City Street 100 Years Ago

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I f we could travel back 100 years and land on a typical city street, we'd probably be mightily discombobulated. Some things would seem familiar: the buzz of the urban environment, people walking this way and that, and buildings with facades that could well still exist today. But looking around, we'd soon realize that we weren't in Kansas anymore — or if we were, it would be Kansas City in the 1920s. 

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