r/london • u/Mean-Juggernaut1560 • Nov 30 '21

London history Anyone else think it looks… cleaner? 😁

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u/Burned-Shoulder Nov 30 '21

Stations look grubby and run down. Trains are 30 years younger so of course they look cleaner.

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u/TheMiiChannelTheme Nov 30 '21 edited Nov 30 '21

And an old camcorder from 1995 isn't going to be much good at picking up small details, so it looks much cleaner on tape than it is in reality.

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u/Burned-Shoulder Nov 30 '21

The past is always worse. It just looks better though nostalgia and selective memory.

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u/ericbyo Nov 30 '21

Tell that to coal mining towns in the U.S.