The history of American cities is a treasure trove of historical inaccuracies.
In the photographs and newsreels of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there are incredible buildings, commensurate with our 25-30-storey buildings, and strollers are driving along the square on shaking thin spoked wheels. At the base of the houses there are blocks of 18-70 tons, how were they moved? really transported in these strollers?
The historical events that took place in this territory can even be called mystical. Starting with fires that happened once a year for almost a hundred years, now in one city, then in another.
Their striking frequency and similarity, because they all happened according to a similar scenario. As a result, the city was almost completely destroyed, the buildings burned out in blocks, in the photographs of the ruins of cities, a huge number of stone buildings. Although historians write that wooden houses were on fire, so cities flashed like matches, and the photo clearly shows the remains of stone buildings.
Also in the photographs are completely burnt brick buildings, but at the same time a surviving tree or pillar may stand alone.
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Another unique feature is the incredible rate of recovery of burnt cities. They were rebuilt incredibly quickly, thousands of buildings built, and an incredible time to clean up after a garbage fire.
And all this incredible work was done in a short time with the help of horses and carts. The photographs show the stages before and after, but there are no photographs of the intermediate stages of construction. First it was devastation and after a couple of years we see a photograph of a completely rebuilt city.
Judging by the photographs and timing, the garbage was cleared by bulldozers.
Another feature is the lack of documents and drawings for thousands of buildings restored after the fires. The people in the photographs walking through the ruins look more like tourists, not fire victims.
As if they had come on an excursion. The characters in the photo, clean, looking at the city rather with curiosity, are not associated with the inhabitants of these burnt houses. And all these fires, which have been going on for almost a hundred years, have such features.
After the end of the fire in Chicago, according to historical documents, it was impossible to move around the ruins, because they were not cold yet, but there are ruins and there are trees nearby next to heated stones, adding an unrealistic pace of city construction in just a few years. Even modern technology does not clear the rubble at such a rate. This is hard, long and hard work.
In San Francisco, thousands of buildings have already been rebuilt in three years. Despite the colossal destruction and the rubble left after them. Modern technology today does not work so quickly, it works much slower.
The photographs show the period of inspection of new territories, destroyed cities, inspection and appropriation of territories, new settlers collect souvenirs of the past civilization.
These trees may have already grown after the fire, and have been standing for several decades. Wooden poles may have been supplied. If it was a fire at all, because by the nature of the destruction it looks more like a fire at all.
Tower cranes, brick and glass factories should have stood. The amount of recovery is amazing. It can be assumed that the cities were burned on purpose to cover up the traces of the previous civilization.