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What America Looked Like The Last Time The Cubs Won The World Series

As if you needed more proof it's been a while.
Gabriela Landazuri Saltos
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Photo Editor, HuffPost

Group portrait of the Chicago Cubs posing for a photograph at West Side Grounds, Chicago, 1908.
Group portrait of the Chicago Cubs posing for a photograph at West Side Grounds, Chicago, 1908.
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The world has changed a lot since 1908, when the Chicago Cubs last won a World Series.

Back then, Orville Wright was trying to fly a plane. Henry Ford had just produced his first Model T automobile. The radio was only a few years old (and podcasts were but a dream).

With the Cubs back in the World Series for the first time since 1945 ― trying to end the longest championship drought in all of the American professional sports ― we decided to pull together some photos to show just how long it has been.

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The annual horse show on Main Street in Waitsburg, Washington on April 25, 1908.
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Walter Davidson, the first president of the Harley Davidson Motor Company, poses with his bike after winning the 1908 Federation of American Motorcyclists' endurance run.
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An Italian woman, Anna Schiacchitano, and her children, Paolo (eldest), Mary and Domenico (in Anna's arms), arrive at Ellis Island in May 1908. They are arriving from Sicily to join Anna's husband, Giovanni Gustozzo, in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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Load of logs being pulled by two horses in winter, circa 1908.
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Messenger boys stand outside a telegraph office in Indianapolis, Indiana, in August 1908.
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A man and woman display their fish catch, circa 1908.
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Orville Wright demonstrates the Wright bi-plane in Fort Myer, Virginia, in 1908.
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Excavation for Grand Central Terminal in New York City, circa 1908.
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American inventor and manufacturer Henry Ford drives an early tractor, which he called an "automobile plow," powered by a 1904 Model-B-type engine on one of his farms near Dearborn, Michigan, circa 1908.
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Luna Park, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, 1908.

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