Steps to the horse-drawn

It's sweet little things like this that you encounter on a long Friday night walk up through Evanston. Steps that used to get people up into the turn-of-the-century carriages. 

The first 45 seconds of the following video show just how I imagine Evanston to have been each and every day in 1904. Back when women fainted often, men gathered at the parlor for sodas, and gleaming bleach white was the only color ever worn. (You might have tied a pink sash around the waist. But only if you were a floozy.)