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Urban Lifestyle in the 1890s: City Living Advantages and Challenges

Explore the vibrant city living of the 1890s and uncover the benefits and drawbacks of urban lifestyles. Discover the evolution of entertainment, popular sports, transportation methods, and city growth factors, alongside the issues faced in rapidly expanding cities. Compare the ways people spent their time then and now, highlighting the similarities and differences between city life in the 1890s and modern urban living.

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Urban Lifestyle in the 1890s: City Living Advantages and Challenges

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  1. City Living Essential Question: What were some benefits of city living?

  2. Types of entertainments • Dance and music halls • Roller skating rinks • Theaters • Retail stores

  3. Entertainment • Opera house and symphony orchestras • Museums • Circus • “Moving pictures”- Thomas Edison 1880s • Rise of movies

  4. Popular Sports • Baseball • 1876: National League started • American League followed shortly after • First World Series 1903 • Basketball • Invented by James Naismith 1891 • Needed an indoor game/winter sport

  5. Popular Sports • Football • Take off of rugby (English) • 1869- First college football game ever played • Golf • Tennis FOR WEALTHY • Bicycling

  6. How did city people spend their time? • Restaurants • Public libraries • Convenient stores • Museums, concert halls, sporting events

  7. How Did People Travel? • By foot (walking) • Carriage • Trolleys- pulled by horses • Carried 10-15 people at a time • Became known as streetcars in America

  8. Negatives of Travel & Rapid City Growth • GARBAGE! • Garbage lay in streets– no landfill • Horse manure lay in streets • Insufficient sewer system to handle human waste • DISEASE! • Whooping cough, diphtheria, measles, tuberculosis

  9. Streetcars • Invention of electric motor = electric streetcar • Able to carry 45 people at one time • Electricity from overhead wires

  10. How Did Streetcars Influence City Growth? • Houses and business along routes • Ran on scheduled times • Inexpensive • Allowed people to commute to work and travel within the city.

  11. Emergence of the Subway • Subway- underground transportation • Boston 1897- first subway in America • New York 1904- subway opened

  12. Problems in the City Let’s review tenement living. 1). Cheap housing urban poor and immigrants 2). Noisy 3). Dirty 4). Poor ventilation 5). Dark 6). No/few fire escapes

  13. Does your brain feel like this??

  14. Or do you feel like this?

  15. WORK TIME!! • Answer these questions • 1). What forms of transportation were used in cities? • 2). Which spectator sports were started at this time? • 3). Why were tenement buildings needed? • 4). Compare city life in the 1890s to city life today. How is it the same? How is it different?

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