[sebastian]

Originally Posted by sidious

well i allways think of this, America, yip the land of the free etc etc.........

Well what allways fries my brain is how America came to be so big so fast, and i don't mean people wise, i mean building wise and city wise..............the way i see it, it was the late 1800's and people were still in places like tombstone etc, with wooden houses, and tumbleweed blowing by, but by the time of prohibition, there were skyscrapers and shit.............HOW THE HELL????

i mean in like 30-50 years there were cities and skyscrapers all over the place, i mean look how long it takes to build a skyscraper now, and that's with tried and tested techniques...........but to go from saloons to skyscrapers.............who had that knowledge, like to allow for the sway etc, massive engineering feets, and never done before, now i know most of the steel came from a Scot named Carnagie, and now they have Carnegie hall in NY city...........but just HOW...........SO MANY SO FAST.............well that one allways gets me maybe somone could put my poor little overworked brain to rest and fill me in on what i'm missing, or did aliens beam down skyscrapers overnight????????.........lol

Peace out...........Sid

it was the industrial age, nearly everyone was working on shit like that at that time.