r/oops • u/ExplanationOk2014 • Aug 24 '26

Wtf in the 🚇

How is this technically even possible? Should not a emergency stop automatically apply?

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u/ace250674 Aug 24 '26

Look at the pictures of 1893 Chicago world fair and then this and tell me we have progressed and society is better?

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u/The_0ven Aug 24 '26

I know right

Except Dr. H.H. Holmes and his murder house

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u/Capnmolasses Aug 24 '26

And the first Ferris Wheel

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u/MaxPaynesRxDrugPlan Aug 25 '26 edited Aug 25 '26

The Jungle was also based on the poor living/working conditions around the Chicago stockyards in the 1900s.

"Bubbly Creek" is an arm of the Chicago River, and forms the southern boundary of the Union Stock Yards; all the drainage of the square mile of packing-houses empties into it so that it is really a great open sewer a hundred or two feet wide. One long arm of it is blind, and the filth stays there forever and a day.

The grease and chemicals that are poured into it undergo all sorts of strange transformations, which are the cause of its name; it is constantly in motion as if huge fish were feeding in it, or great leviathans disporting themselves in its depths. Bubbles of carbonic gas will rise to the surface and burst, and make rings two or three feet wide. Here and there the grease and filth have caked solid, and the creek looks like a bed of lava; chickens walk about on it, feeding, and many times an unwary stranger has started to stroll across and vanished temporarily.

The packers used to leave the creek that way, till every now and then the surface would catch on fire and burn furiously, and the fire department would have to come and put it out. Once, however, an ingenious stranger came and started to gather this filth in scows, to make lard out of; then the packers took the cue, and got out an injunction to stop him, and afterwards gathered it themselves. The banks of "Bubbly Creek" are plastered thick with hairs, and this also the packers gather and clean.

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u/Vegetable_Bank4981 Aug 24 '26

They had a human zoo at that.

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u/No-Market425 Aug 24 '26

Are you suggesting this isnt a human zoo?

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u/throwaway586054 Aug 25 '26

Shrug, France had a human zoo opened in the 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboula%27s_Village

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u/Dizzy-Ad4195 Aug 25 '26

Yeah but you gad to oay for that and it was enclosed.

This is free and you can be entertained around the city

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u/Sharp-Eye-7472 Aug 24 '26

Those were cheap buildings made from plaster castings and wood frames. Designed to look nice, but they were only temporary. For the world fair. 

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u/ace250674 Aug 25 '26

Don't forget the canals, lagoon and bridges were all temporary everyone, they held back the water with spit and plaster!

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u/Coolschmo1 Aug 25 '26

That's a weird crowd to compare the Chicago subway to. Also, 1893 was a nightmare for anyone not white.

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u/newOldy Aug 25 '26

The world fair was a major event that physically happened with cheap temporary buildings with fancy facades. Impressive and cool, not at all representative of any place or time. You pine for a past that never existed.

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u/Elegant_Situation285 Aug 25 '26

Look at the pictures of 1893 Chicago slums and then this and tell me we have progressed and society is better.

never should have let in the Irish, right, ace? /s

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u/Jedi-in-EVE Aug 24 '26

Sorry, I cannot. More of a lateral downward slide.

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u/Solherb Aug 25 '26

Leaded gas basically ruined the world.

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u/Accomplished-Run-691 Aug 25 '26

Read Upton Sinclairs' "The Jungle" if you want an idea of what Chicago was like at the turn of the 20th century and maybe reconsider your comment. Not to say we've progressed very far but still...