why does a brass door knob 1920s look so different than one from the 1980s?

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why does a brass door knob 1920s look so different than one from the 1980s?

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Aside from the other reasons mentioned — 1920s ***doors*** were pretty different from 1980s doors. I lived in a building from the 20s, you could have killed somebody with those doors. Forget wood laminate hollow core ‘boxes’, this building had solid solid blocks of wood hung on hinges. This was an era where a dental extraction was performed using a string tied to a doorknob.

I have no idea why those people thought they needed closet doors that would take a lumberjack to get through, but if you’re gonna have doors like that, you’re gonna need knobs to match.