Since my last post was sad, here's something happy I found. The poster states it was an Edison film experiment which sounds plausible. It's a recording of (you guessed it) 23rd street in New York City in 1901 (specifically August 21st, 1901). As many comments exclaim, it really is one of the closest things we have to a time machine. Watch for the lady on the grate. Marilyn was not the first, it appears. ^_^
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Still jonesing for a bit of the past? Here's another Edison film from May 11th, 1896, this time in Herald Square.
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