A small series by illustration Alex Solis remembering those things that used to rule the world.

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circa 1930: The neon illuminations of a wedding Chapel in Las Vegas.

A couple throw themselves into an energetic jive at a studio in London.

Esau the ape at the piano. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). Circa 1900

A worker pauses for a sandwich, resting on a girder during the construction of a skycraper. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1930