Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland
Auckland Town Hall ~1910
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On the right side there are power lines but I am not sure if the thin cables on the left are power lines. They are very thin. Maybe phone lines or telegraph cables.
Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland
Auckland Town Hall ~1910
Archaeopteryx
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Yeah. On my phone it looks also more like water than just a wet road.
... but also I presume road building techniques have come a long way in the last 100 years.
That's what I find so fascinating about old photos. You can see how quickly technology has developed in 100 years. And the development is progressing faster and faster every year.
Archaeopteryx
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Yeah. Totally agree :).
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Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland
Auckland Town Hall ~1910
Archaeopteryx
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To me it looks a bit like a wet and worn out bitumen road after heavy rain.
Most streets built before the early 1900s in NZ were made of macadam, which was highly suitable for horse-drawn vehicles. However, with the rise of motor traffic in the 1920s, many areas had to seek more durable options for road surfacing. The most frequently used material became asphalt or bitumen, which gained widespread use starting in the 1920s.