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saarnok · 4/3/2025, 3:26:37 AM · permalink

I can answer that question. Early construction considerations did not take into account the future drainage needs of the growing city and the need to run sewer lines very long distances.  
  
In some cases the buildings were actually jacked up and new foundations built, but mostly they just used retaining walls and filled in the street until sewer pipes could be run.  
  
In one of the many "Mud Flood" videos I was watching the narrator completely skipped over the sewer pipe obviously crossing the space between the old building and the retaining wall exposed when that section of sidewalk was taken out.  
  
Even fairly small towns will often have these modifications to street level, like a little old town not too far inland from the Oregon coast where my family and I stopped for a burger. The restaurant had several old photos displayed on the walls which showed the building before the city changed the street.  
  
My father did this sort of work and I grew up doing it. I'll grant you that it seems really weird, but I can assure you, it's really common.  
  
Also: Before AC the only way to reliably get a reasonably cool part of a building was to dig it part way into the Earth. If you wanted something like a cool basement, but also wanted to have natural light, you dug it in far enough to still allow windows for air and light.  
  
As a society we've been conditioned to imagine the past was essentially like today, but with clean air and water.  
  
Furthest thing from the truth. The past was dirty beyond your ability to imagine and opening a window might actually let *worse* air in. The house I live in did not have electricity or running water until at least the 40's and it wasn't even slightly unusual.  
  
My father grew up without electricity for the most part, and when they got electricity it powered a light bulb and a radio. My wife's family came out of Missouri and were pretty excited when they got so well off they had tents. My mom's mom lived in a tar paper shack and in general I've personally known any number of people who grew up in the time when the "Tartarian" pushers would suppose they had to know what was going on.  
  
It's not really a mystery. Most people were not well off, a few were, and the incredible advances in infrastructure, water, sewage, etc. as that majority of people went from having nothing to having "luxuries" the wealthy of the past could scarcely dream of pretty much explains everything.  
  
Except for why "we" could build such extraordinary things in the past, but it's now too expensive. And for that I suggest we look at how the previously sound money of the era was debased beginning in 1913.

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