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Nuestra querida Cuba 🇨🇺

Y beloved country Cuba and Habana how it hurts to be apolitical refuge in another country and you can’t go back to yours it hurts and tears you apart. 🇨🇺 😢😢😢😢😢😢 🇨🇺

Thanks for posting these beautiful videos. What a great time to be there.

Where does the the peple live? Ghettos?

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You're welcome! Thank you for sharing. Machado was the president of Cuba until August 1933. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerardo_Machado

Who ruled the country then? Back in the 30’s? I heard it was rough back then too politically… I guess our country always was in political turmoil which is a shame. If the Castro gang would not have existed I often wonder what would it be like today? The Americans surely made their mark in the island, I went to an American school in the 50’s, and I remember a very happy life. We belonged to a beach club, my mother drove a car! It was a happy life for me till I was 7 when my entire life was interrupted and uprooted. I often look back and ask what if????

Te sea looks angry in the malecón area! Must be winter! I remember as a little girl walking the sea wall with my dad!

The men looked elegant and so did the women, the kids looked happy with their nannies and those homes were spectacular!! They are still around probably in ruins although I have seen some on video redone and for sale in the middle of Havana! I was born in the 50’s and for me to see all of this before I was born is priceless to me! Thank you for posting!

Definetly your grand parents like Cuba a lot, at the end the only difference at that time was the freedom of alcohol in the island. the rest was the same except for the language and the climate.

iNCREIBLE

Probadly the only video with a trimotor plane (most likely a Fokker) landing in havana. What a epic video of the 30's in cuba, so natural. The person who made this video should have an important position to be in the island and with a camera to record this footage

I recently founded the house where your family stayed in havana,which is located at vedado,adress is calzada street and j.i was passing by there and bingo.

That's the RMS Mauretania at 11:07

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0:17 Santa Maria del Rosario, Cotorro, La Habana 2:12 Paseo del Prado 2:42 Faro del Castillo del Morro 3:42 Hipódromo de Marianao (still visible / google map.: 23.0739, -82.4208) 4:46 "Marianao" 5:28 Linea street (one can see the monument to the Maine in the background) 6:55 Bahía de La Habana from parque Antonio Maceo (hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras) 10:29 shot from La Piragua into Calle 17 (no Focsa building - built 1956) 10:53 Avenida de los Presidentes (not sure) 12:28 the Malecon 14:53 office Asociación “Automóvil y Aéreo Club de Cuba (on the Malecon) 15:21 San Ignacio / Empedrado street (Habana Vieja) 15:28 La Catedral de la Virgen María de la Concepción Inmaculada de La Habana 17:13 Obispo street 18:03 Monument to the Maine with the old eagle (destroyed in 1926, rebuild in 1927, 1st eagle now at the residence of the US ambassador) 19:03 Quinta Avenida close to the bell tower 19:24 Bell tower (Torre del reloj)

5:07 The 'bandstand of el Prado' at the intersection of the Malecon and Paseo del Prado was severly demaged by the 1926 cyclon and demolished in 1928. 5:23 Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta 5:58 Paseo del Prado, hotel Sevilla 6:12 Intersection Paseo del Prado / San Lazaro from hotel Miramar (now the new hotel Paseo del Prado La Habana) 12:23 Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine (with 2nd eagle) 18:42 Havana Yacht Club 27:21 Bahia de Matanzas 28:45 Manzana de Gómez (Parque Central) now hotel Manzana Kempinski 28:53 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana

Amazing video. True gem.

From 5:OO on one can see Havana carnival with its floats. These carnival parades used to go along Havana malecón (the Embankment). And when they got the corner of Prado Promenade they usually turn right and the parade went along Prado. While the parade was going along Malecón one can see beyond the wall and the entrance of the bay, different colonial fortresses such as The Morro Castle, and La Cabaña Fortress. One can also see just beside the wall La Punta Castle. When the promenade just turned right at El Prado, the old Havana Jail can be seen on the left. This building doesn't exist anymore. The promenade sided by trees is El Prado. Sevilla Hotel is seen to the left, and in the distance one can see The Capitol which has been beautifully restored. The Capitol was inaugurated in 1929.

Dear John, may you tell me how is possible to receive your permission to use a footage of this video in a documentary about Patti Smith? Thanks a lot.

Great video, I'm Cuban (I continue living in the island) and I was surprised to see how was like the country decades ago in Machado's regime. To be an island it had an economic system superior to many countries

One Black Cuban?

Beautiful trip back in time.

DE ESA CUBA NO QUEDA NADA HOY ES UN PAIS DESTROZADO ECONOMICA POLITICA Y SOCIALMENTE POR EL REGIMEN ASESINO DE LOS CASTROS

Very interesting to know about the past, saludos desde Peru...

Google: " Cuba: The Lost Paradise." by Aldo Rosado

My grandfather used to tell me stories like when the government of Gerardo Machado fell in '1933 he saw how those who supported the president were thrown into the void from the balconies in the old havana

Thank you for sharing.. Love to see my country in those good old days. :)

Nice images of the well off minority of those living in Cuba - perhaps those of a US sugar baron? comfortable house, paved streets, private tennis court healthy well-dressed children .... no sign on the horizon of the political instability that would bring Fulgencio Batista to power in 1933. In 1931 Fidel Castro was 4 years old. He would grow up to be the fiery revolutionary who would lead Cuba to its definitive independence.

Cuánta maravilla! Muchas gracias!

Wow, before socialism made it a workers paradise. Thanks for the images.

Fidel destruyó esa isla hermosa

Truly enjoyable video. Thank you for sharing.

With all my respects for your family and the people in the videos.....The most interesting thing to me from this video is race relations between you know who, don’t you?

The first phase of the sea wall from Castillo de la Punta to where the Maine monument is was built by the Americans between 1899 and 1901. The new established Cuban government finished years later the second phase, the end is by Rio Almendares. Beautiful! Take good care of those videos.

Wonderful video! Mr, Redshaw, would you like to share who the Zieleys were? Why they went to Cuba so frequently? Did they own property in Cuba?

To look back and see how communists and socialist destroyed so many lives as well as such a beautiful country

Si hubiera seguido a si hoy fuera una tasa de oro y no hubiera ningún cubano pasando tanto trabajo

My beautiful loved country is ashamed that now is a communist disaster

Before communism destroyed my country

Wow amazing

I will not condone any racist comments. Please do not argue, just enjoy.

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Thanks John for sharing this beautiful film of tour family in Cuba, it remained me how beautiful wasHavana AT that time, And algo brought me good memorias of my grandparents

Most of the activity is in Vedado area. The parade on the Malecon is near where the U.S. Embassy is now located.

Wowww I love this film. its incredible to see vivid images of those years. when I see it, I feel nostalgic as if I lived in that moment. I loved, thank you so much.

I believe this parade at 12:23 was to commemorate the sinking of the battleship Maine on Feb. 15, 1898. If anyone can tell me any other information, please do so.

At 12:38 in the video, you can see in the reviewing stand, the then President of Cuba, Gerardo Machado, a white-haired man in glasses, the fifth president of Cuba. He was President of Cuba from 1925 to 1933. He was succeeded by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada.

Fascinating!