I love this – Gawker’s pic of the day is a shot of a darkened Manhattan, circa 1943, due to power shortages to conserve energy. A kind of Earth Hour in reverse – as there was really no choice. Cast your mind back to what a power outage of this size would have done to Gotham’s inhabitants in an age before TV, Internet, and all the other mindless and sometime useless palava we take for granted these days.
Comden and Green’s lyrics (about New York) never seemed more prescient;
A town’s a lonely town
When you pass through
And there is no one waiting there for you
Then it’s a lonely town
