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A place to appreciate the twentieth century comic character Everett True of "The Outbursts of Everett True." Feel free to check out the sticky.

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Everett vs New York Street Magician (1906-12-25) (infosec.pub)
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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Wagon, because trucks didn't really exist yet to any wide extent.

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 11 points 6 months ago

It's these old timey things that I like so much

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm overthinking this but where is True supposed to be here? Did people work in offices with a lot of public foot traffic? Or is this supposed to be a library?

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I'm guessing the hotel lobby had desks for some office work like how we'd have some public PC today

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Ah, good thought!

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Given the look of things, maybe a letter writing station? I don't even know if those were a widespread thing.

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Every hotel had a quiet writing room with the many accoutrements needed to write, seal and mail letters.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

And, of course, a spittoon.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Indeed they did! For example this fancy room: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2RGD7JF/the-strand-palace-hotel-the-strand-london-the-writing-room-2RGD7JF.jpg

Or, with the double desks featured in this comic, but somewhat less fancy: https://www.cardcow.com/images/set1016/card00039_fr.jpg

[–] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I'd like to think the people in the doorway in frame 2 told this guy to show Everet the trick, and they were hiding in wait for him yo get clapped