" FIFTH AVENUE AMERICA! " 1960s NEW YORK CITY / FIFTH AVENUE DOCUMENTARY 95774
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2023
- This episode of the 1960s TV show “America!” looks at the diverse attractions of New York’s Fifth Avenue. It starts with some well known buildings like the Rockefeller center and the Empire state building. This is followed by a lineup and peak into some fine shops such as Steuben glass, the House of Revlon, Tiffany and Co., and Schwarz toy store. This is followed by some of the main cultural attractions, such as the New York public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim museum. It then looks at the religious sights, including the St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the St. Thomas Church, and the Temple Emmanuel Synagogue. It concludes with the festivities surrounding the annual Columbus Day Parade.
0:07 “America!” Opening sequence, 0:36 Jack Douglas introduces himself, 0:55 Title “Fifth Avenue America”, 1:02 historic sketches of the 5th Avenue Hotel, 1:38 Modern 5th Avenue with lots of traffic, 2:05 a horse drawn carriage driving down the road, 2:15 Rockefeller center with Atlas in front of it, 2:38 the Empire State Building, 2:54 a lineup of fancy shops on 5th Avenue, 3:26 Steuben Glass’ main showroom with different glass bowls shown, 4:23 Saks 5th Avenue with new elegant dresses being presented to two potential customers, 5:41 House of Revlon, 6:04 main entrance of the salon, 6:35 man applying makeup to a woman, 7:22 another man places a hair piece on the woman, 7:52 woman receives a manicure and pedicure, 8:08 woman admires herself in the mirror, 8:20 Tiffany and Co., 8:35 different pieces on the counter including a shovel, frying pan, an owl, cactus, flower, or a walnut, 9:33 more fancy objects on display including a gazelle, sea horse, broche, necklace, and ring, 10:05 the Tiffany Canary diamond, 10:30 Tiffany’s Table Manners for Teenagers excerpts, 10:46 people on Washington Square, 11:05 people listening to a band playing, 11:24 view from the observation deck of Rockefeller tower onto Central Park, 11:59 the Central Park Zoo, 12;19 F.A.O. Schwarz toy store with large animals, 13:00 antique toys that move on display including several antique toy banks, 14:05 Metropolitan Museum of Art, 14:20 Egyptian Sculpture room, 14:38 Armor gallery, 15:00 collection of different art forms including paintings and sculptures, 15:55 New York Public Library, 16:10 Mr. John Kory Librarian Interview, 17:10 treasures at the library including a letter by Columbus, a historic painting, a historic paining of New York, a Gutenberg Bible, and an original Winkel drawing, 17:53 Guggenheim Museum on the outside and inside, 18:30 different paintings in the museum, 19:00 St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 19:39 an interview with the Bishop, 21:05 St. Thomas Church Gothic elements, 21:13 Temple Emmanuel Synagogue, 21:27 the annual Columbus Day Parade, 21:53 heavy traffic on 5th Avenue, 22:10 summary footage of what has been seen so far, 22:31 Longchamp Restaurant with a lobster meal shown.
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Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane when I was a fashion illustrator in NYC in the late 60s and 70s before I raised a family! One of our great assignments in fashion art school was to walk up and down Fifth Ave. sketching the fashions and describing them in detail that were in all the store windows! Fun assignment and I got an A plus on my report! Sadly, many of the great famous dept. stores are gone now like Best and Co., Bonwit Tellers, B. Altmans and one of my all time favorites, beautiful Lord & Taylors that had the best creative magical Christmas windows! Interesting to see the cars back then that looked like Godzilla had stepped on them, low and squat looking! I used to hang out at the MET almost every weekend! Great beautiful historic and cultural city with many cherished memories!
Best and Co. was bought by Nordstroms (Nordstrom Best).
Lord & Taylor was my favorite store too. Someone should have saved it. People would flock to it now. Nordstrom should have bought Lord &Taylor. One had an unexplainable great feeling when walking into that store, every time.
When I was younger child all of my clothes came from Best and Co. My great Uncle worked there for many years .
It could change, when we get back into dresses/ skirts as standard
Pants wasn't supposed to be all the time
@@kbunky69 Back in the mid 60s, my mother was shopping at Best's famous children's department. The sales women were so excited because only a few minutes before Jackie Kennedy (she wasn't yet an Onassis back then) and her daughter Caroline were in the department shopping for children's clothes.
In the late 60s, I was shopping at Best's junior department, and the singer Leslie Gore (It's My Party and I'll Cry if I Want to) was narrating a fashion show. The models were dancers from the Joffrey Ballet.
In the late 60s, I was walking through the first floor of Saks Fifth Avenue when I spotted Helen Gurley Brown (Sex and the Single Girl, Cosmopolitan Magazine) buying leather gloves.
My dad loved the 60s. He told me that time was fashionable and music was great . I wish I lived in that time .
It's important I think that if we miss a better, fashionable time with good music, the way we act should reflect that. As in, be the change you wish to see and dress up better when we go out and have good manners.
@23sexycutie, if you’re a millennial or Z then no you don’t wish you lived in the 1960s. You wouldn’t last five minutes then - racism and misogyny were very rampant and, believe it or not, socially acceptable at that time.
He wasn't in Hanoi??? Lot of young men were fighting in the war and unlike the past 20 years there was a draft for military service.
As a native New Yorker back in the 60's 70's My wallet may not had matched the 5th ave demands, but it didn't cost anything to walk up and down and window shop. It didn't matter too much back then, as a New Yorker, You belonged!
I grew up in 1960's Manhattan and it was magical. We were a middle class family on the UWS, but everyone took pride in their appearance. My Mother still dresses like the cover of Talbot's in her 80's. I'm so glad I had the chance to see this period of time! I just wish people would still put thought into their appearance... perhaps, I'm biased?! 😉
@@ericcoverdale9523 Pride is when you are confident in who you are and when you stay true to yourself. It is unique and inspirational, rather a considerable contrast from aspiration. It is much more internal and individualized than what you’re suggesting, thus not always popular. Look at your profile picture, tell me why you can’t set a better example for your beliefs?
@@ericcoverdale9523My mom is in her 80’s as well. Still stylin
I was born and raised in what was once the most fabulous city in the world…New York. So many of these wonderful retail shops are gone. These stores provided service that was second to none. The sales staff knew many of their customers by name. The great hotels have been replaced by cookie cutter generic buildings that do not reflect the service of the old grand hotels. Fifth Avenue, though still beautiful, is not what it once was. So glad that Macy’s 34, which once rivaled Harrod’s, remains along with Bergdorf Goodman. Time marches on and elegance, manners and grace right along with it.
Breaks my heart that we don't have true America any more . I use to get y shoes fitted to my feet. The people were so nice and helpful ..my Grands no nothing of what I tell them about these things.
Online shopping has ruined the store experience
WOW lucky you, I'm from Adelaide south Australia 🇦🇺 along way away from you I think the good old day's are far gone my mothers time sad 😮
Wonderful. For those asking for an exact date, probably spring or early fall of 1963. I see a 1963 Cadillac and a 1963 Oldsmobile 98.
That's how I try to guess vintage video's without a date on it by fashion and old cars. There were quite a few 1964 Ford Galaxie's and I saw two 1965 Dodge Coronet's as well.
@@paul28fo I also place this at about late-1964... mainly because of the women's coiffures...
I also saw 1964 Ford Galaxies (taxi's) which definitely gives the time range from the Fall/1963 (when 1964 models were introduced by manufacturers) to sometime in early 1964.
@@gabrielhalston6726 I would say that this was 1964 (in which year I was seven.)
After this early mid-60s time period Fifth Avenue declined rapidly. By early 73 when I worked around the corner on W.49th st, the luxury stores left and it became populated by foreign airline ticket offices, travel offices and even discount stores. There was an air of faded, sad decline much like a lot of NY then. The decline seemed fast.
I loved the fashions of the 60’s.
How I was raised in Baltimore. Dressing for shopping downtown at all the big elegant stores. So sad to see things fall away. I miss it all ❤
It was so beautiful back then…glamorous elegant and prestigious!We love 60s 🎉!
Behind all that "glamour" ... Men were alcoholic and cheating on their wives, women popped pills to deal with depression, were treated like objects and house servants, racism and segregation rampant, no individualism.. lol fun indeed.
I think it’s so refreshing to see a man or woman well dressed and well groomed. Sorry we don’t see to much of it anymore. ❤
I so wish we could go back to that.🙄 If those people could see the appearance of most people these days, I would imagine they'd be horrified.
almost as refreshing as the sexist comment at the end about girls 'putting it away without putting on an ounce'... what is truly refreshing is being able to dress how you want to and not be judged or pressured to looking a particular way and spending your money on the attire dictated by the expectations of the era
@@Deepal-6991 Not true. you are judged, rightly or wrongly, partly based on the appearance you wish to present to the world.
@@ArnoldSommerfeld you are funny 😄
@@Deepal-6991and correct. Just because you want to be oblivious to it doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
In my opinion the 60s will always be the best decade ever. Fashion was nice, everything was organized, the streets were clean and safe, people tended to be polite, things were cheap, and life just seemed so much better back then. It was in the 70s, particularly in NYC, that things took a turn for the worse.
Now NYC is the Tird World
yes everything was great....just dont ask african americans or anyone who dared to be born a different shade of color 😅
@@thebajancambrian2141 Why don't you ask them, you may be surprised.
not for women @@thebajancambrian2141
The 60's TV program "The Naked City" was much more true of the times in NYC then.
My grandmother is african american and she was born in detroit, she used to own and run her own wig store and i remember getting so many of those wigs from her as a gift when i was a kid! I absolutely loved the 50s style bob wigs and the bee hives...so fun and elegant. My grandfather still tells me today how much he misses those days, back when you can afford a middle class home on a auto manufacturers salary. Back then grandma could have been a stay at home mom if she wanted....nowadays you couldnt even make it with 4 incomes under one roof =\
Goodness! Looking back it really was wonderful! At 80! This is elegance personified! What a great era. That was the America I love and want to see return.
I was born in the sixties not far from NYC. America has lost something, we're going to hell in a handbasket. I'm embarrassed for our time.
So you're embarrassed for our time? You see it as inferior. And you probably are "kind" to your inferiors. One wonders where you find them.
@@andream8234the west
The events of 2020 have taken our spirits . The people who are to blame - need to be punished. @@trevormichael4906
Yup. Born in ‘66. The 80’s was WONDERFUL! So optimistic about the future. And it was great!! Sadly the past 10 yrs have been a twisted nightmare. I feel for my kids!
I am in SHOCK at how many people decided to have babies during the lockdown. @@maguffintop2596
This was really fun to watch. The Revlon salon was super fancy with the antique foot tub! I loved how Carol stepped behind a privacy screen to remove her coat and scarf 😂
Hahaha
Right?!! 😅
The America I was born into. Glorious!
Lol! Good luck. It’s even better now.
@@christopherwelch136 ‘better’. Hobos sh!t openly in the streets. And corrupt Uniparty sells us out.
@@christopherwelch136 Not so great...I've never seen our country as screwed up as it is now..Thank the current President for that..
Me too! Born Feb. 1963
@@zorkwork3841 lol! Get the orange petulant child back. That will help.
Makes me sad to see what we once were compared to what we've become
What have we become? Everything changes. The 1960s weren't like the 1940s and that wasn't like the 30s and so on back in history.
@@413smr Homeless degenerate methheads, but yeah everything changes so it's all good.
@413smr: Exactly. And let's not forget we were still hanging black people from trees during this time period. Southern trees do indeed "bear strange fruit". And a host of other issues, not to mention the difference in medicine then and now. People like to look at the past through rose-colored glasses. It makes them feel better about their past and justifies their dislike of anything that has changed since their "glory days". But they often forget that life, in fact, becomes harder the further back in time you go. Also, ask any person who ISN'T a cis gendered white person, particularly male, if THEY would like to go back in time and live in the 1960s or earlier. I feel that you would largely get a response of "hell no!"
That said, it is illuminating and informative to take a glance back at these artifacts from the past because it gives us a glimpse into how people of that time period, for good or for ill, thought about the world they lived in.
@@KevinSigman yeah a tiny segment of Democrats were still hanging black people, that being said everything else in society was better. But yeah I guess things can’t be better because some asshole racist democrats were acting like they still do.
My how the world has changed, even though many of the buildings remain the same, the world around them is vastly different
Sad that so many of these 5th Avenue businesses no longer exist. Much of it today looks like the mall with the usual chain stores.
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
What a shame. I remember being shocked when Barney’s went. 😢
Wow!!...Was that NYC?! Such glamour and service! Hard to believe ...😢
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
I miss this America.
This is the life of the 1 percent not the average middle class American at the time. Despite all the whining most Americans got it better now than back then.
Spectaculaire . Unfortunately, this is nevermore. Bygone era. Such a shame.😢
What do you think happened?
Plutocracy happened and wiped out the middle class.
@@marylou3995 One % own everything.
Hart Cellar act of 1965, no fault divorce, feminism, abandonment of the gold standard and a dozen other things....
Вот и нас это в России растраивает, тоже всё одеты как в Европе одинаковые, и редко элегантно.
Being ones best, enhances ones self Image, confidence, value, and Wellbeing.
What a great country we used to have!
Once upon a time, long ,long ago....
I was born in 1955. The America of my youth feels more like a fuzzy dream today.
@@AFAskygoddess Born in 1948, I certainly know how you feel.
Ah yes, the great country where black people were still in segregation.
The USA was the manufacturing capital of the world, what China is today. Money poured into the country. We had genuine progressive redistributive taxation on the richest American, 92% marginal rate on the Richest Robber Barons under Eisenhower. 80% under Kennedy and Johnson! (Today the richest Americans pay something like 3%!) We had high paying UNION jobs more than HALF the workforce was represented in collective bargaining. Today we have the worst wealth inequality in the nation's history. Homelessness is the face of wealth inequality. And many millions of manufacturing jobs have been "offshored" and "outsourced" to Asian sweatshops where the average industrial wage is somewhere between $1 and $3 an hour. Harbor Freight Tools, Lowe's, Home Depot, Wal-Mart etc. are traitors to the nation. And the vampires on Wall Street and the private equity ghouls like Paul Singer and Steven Schwartzman.
This is the middle of the last century and you see traffic almost bumper to bumper. High speed chases with the paps H&M? I think not.
My family was in the retail business. I loved this New York. The post war years were exciting. Gone forever.
I love how people use to dress for work in Manhattan. people took pride in how they looked. Streets were cleaner too.
Were people whiter too?
@@melb2336 does it really matter?
@@gretchenking5952 Yes it does .
@@melb2336 No, not really. Decent people who are clean and take pride in the way they look and carry themselves come in all races and colors. Don't make this about race.
@@gretchenking5952 I see you had trouble answering the question and wanted to switch the topic lol.
My mom dressed my sister and myself in our Sunday best, including hats and cloves to shop at Bullocks and Buffums dept. stores (Long Beach Ca) it was a very special time.
Watching this film was like watching a movie from the 60's with all the glamor and sophistication of the old Hollywood movies. I half expected to see Doris Day at any moment!
Love the ending, “Ladies & Gentlemen, boys & girls”! That’s it, no confusion, no extra letters, plain, simple & truthful.
I lived most of my life in Manhattan and it’s amazing how not much has changed in terms of how it looks. It’s beautiful seeing spaces I’ve shared being enjoyed before my time. I love how Central Park even then was a “go in the day time” place.I loved watching this. I hope Amanda Blake continued to have a beautiful life full of memories at FAO. That place is really magical. Manhattan in general is magical when you really take in the sights
I grew up in NYC & always dressed going to midtown. I remember returning to the city in the late 1970’s after a long absence & being surprised when I saw people wearing very casual clothes in midtown & on 5th Nowadays … 😢
“5th Avenue’s prestigious shops”. Virtually all gone now. A pale shadow of its former self 😩
Sad and ironic that the rich and powerful brought that on to themselves with their corruption and twisted ways
@@stevenpivornik9982 Yeah, that is the reason.
@@stevenpivornik9982you are so brainwashed by the leftist media. It was the Democratic Party running big cities that caused it to become crime ridden dirty ghettos.
@@allenatkins2263LoL, right?
@@stevenpivornik9982 and the poor people on the comments are complaining lol
What a wonderful trip back in time!
Hi how are you doing?
To Jim Crow.
I was a kid back then, but how I long for those days! Most people seemed to take pride in the way they presented themselves, and were so much more civilized....
We were all polite and had manners.
@@suzanneterrey4499 You took the words right out of my mouth!!! 😅
I grew up in Canada in those years. Yes, it was so much more civilized and even the poor had class. So sad to see the downfall of our nations.
@@bonniebluebell5940 civilized and segregated! 😁👍
The Revlon salon looks expensive even by 1960s standards.
How fun to see this colorful glimpse into the past. I very much enjoyed this video!
I was born in Manhattan in the early '60s and have some nice memories of the city. I love seeing these old films!
I am so jealous of this era of NY. Looks American of all backgrounds
love this, love 5ave
I used to work in Lord&Taylor loved it. I see it used to be two way traffic then. One question when and why did we stop dressing up to go to the theatre 😢?
Because Woman Fought To Wear Pants 👖 that what changed back in those days it was unheard of for a woman to leave the house without her purse and gloves
@RugbyFootballer - I don't know why women wanted to wear pants so bad, I find them constricting and uncomfortable.
@@RugbyFootballer there are dress pants, so that can’t be the reason
@@kristinazubic9669 I am talking about jeans and such
@nathalienurse3336 I still dress up to go out to the theatre, the ballet, or the opera. 😊
People were well dressed, had manners and spoke coherently.....
I look back at our family photos & all my brothers had little sports jackets. We always dressed to go into the Circus, Ice Capades, Radio City & the Nutcracker. My sister & I always wore matching dresses. Not twins 😂
These are times many of us remember fondly. I have to wonder what…if anything…today’s children will remember fondly when they’re 60+ years old.
2000 and before when we could enjoy life as a kid like baby boomers got to, if only as children; drinking out of a hose that kids would think is gross not knowing bottled water is from the same source! Haha. Maybe less fluorine. Riding in the back of a truck..then there was 2001 and it’s unrecognizable..
I bet the Black children who were terrorized by white adults and watched their parents being lynched from trees and tortured don't look back on the 60s fondly. You can try to ignore the truth of the horror of this time by looking through rose colored glasses, but the moral rot of America still taints and stains this country.
@@rafaeltorre16432001 was certainly the turning point.
they'll remember raging, poorly dressed! 🤣 MAGA hicks trying to overthrow our government
@@icecreamforcrowhurst The 90s began the downturn.
I had a tear when I saw Bon Wit Teller was an amazing store.
Loved Bonwit Teller!
The original was torn down for Trump Tower. Moved around the corner on 57th for awhile and closed for good in 89 or 90.
I used to model for Bonwit Teller in Chicago. Fabulous store!
I found this relaxing.
A Columbus day parade?!? Different times indeed. 😢
I was a child and teenager during the fifties and sixties in my native city. Civility in dress, manners and fine comportment common . As child of working class family, I was expected to live up to these expectations. I recall all of these lovely shops. What I missed were B. Altman and Company. Rizzoli Bookstore, Hallmark Gallery, etc. A few years ago I showed my dear friend where I worked during one summer after I graduated from high school at Tiffany & Co. on the 3rd floor, the crystal and china dept. During that era of the sixties, all salespersons were tastefully dressed, extremely courteous to customers and clients were so presentable. I was totally appalled when I led my friend into the store a few years ago and found most clients dressed in jeans, running shoes, quilted jackets, sales people were few on the third floor which no longer was the china and crystal dept. But is was almost like a gallery of handbags and other knick-knacks. It was deeply sad. Thank you for presenting the New York that I love so much.
I agree with you and feel the same way about current life versus what we had in the 50's and 60's.
Y’all always worry about the wrong things.
@@melb2336Did you ever think about the fact that YOU are out of step and need to concern yourself with your own appearance. Leaving a good first impression can affect your life and your future by showing how you view yourself and if you have high standards.
@@suzanneterrey4499 I concern myself more with my own mind and my own agenda. Times have changed 😂
@@melb2336 Ignorance is bliss.
Very interesting document. The 60s in USA were a hell of a decade
Brought back so many memories! Fifth Avenue was a two-way street then - I used to ride the Fifth Avenue bus from 14th street to my high school on 135th street! All those now gone department stores - DePinna, Bonwit's, Lord and Taylor; and Longchamps, which I never went into because it was too "touristy", which I now regret.
My mom often spoke of DePinnas
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Wow, been seeing images of New York all my 61 years in pictures , movies, tv shows, tv commercials, newspapers , magazines and everything else, finally visited NY for the first time in April 2023, don’t know what took me sooo long!
Well, how was it?
@@pepsiq11965 man, it’s was mind blowing , the only part we reality saw was part of Manhattan and we rode through Queens neighborhoods going back to LGA airport, but Manhattan was the perfect introduction to NYC , we felt safe, clean streets, nice hotels and eateries , a few nice parks, and we took a tour bus to see a lot of it. We stood inside the lobby of the iconic Empire State Building , but we didn’t get a chance to go up to the roof. Maybe next time. We saw my inspiration for wanting to come to NYC, the 9/11 Memorial area, that was mind blowing and heartbreaking at the same time. We saw Time Square twice but not at night. And we ended up taking a ferry tour out on the water and saw the iconic NYC skyline and everything else around us, and saw the legendary Statue Of Liberty up close! We could have seen more but we were really only there three and a half days , so we didn’t see Central Park , Brooklyn and other sites, so like any other city(like Vegas and L.A.) we have to come back again and again to see more sites and other parts of the area. It’s true what they say, once you’ve walked the streets of New York City you’re not the same, we see why people love it, especially Manhattan!
@@Lovejazz01 New Yorkers usually avoid Times Sq (with good reason, ha!) but it's absolutely magical on a rainy day at night, everything glows and it's quiet for once! I hope you can come back soon to experience more of the great things this city has to offer.
@@Lovejazz01C’mon back, my friend! There’s lots more to see and jazz joints all over.
Love the narration!
Looking back, NYC was much civilized, peaceful & respectful city to live, wondering why today’s the same city is totally opposite, should we all wake up to find the reasons?!
Many sad reasons...a lot to do with politics...others with dramatic changes in culture and lower standards of morality...
Lower income blacks & Puerto Ricans nearly destroyed the city with crime back in the 70s through the early 90s. Companies and people moved out in droves. Now Queens, Brooklyn, and almost all of the Bronx are populated with 3rd world immigrants that have replaced the Americans that have left. New York now are 70% people of color. Yes, a dramatic change
I miss the days when people actually paid attention while they were walking instead of walking down the street with their faces glued to their damn cell phones.
Lovely video!!!😍 Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful piece of history!!!🤗👏🏼👏🏼
This was a really good one. I used to love Fifth Avenue I won't go to New York anymore the only place they didn't mention was Steinway piano
I remember Steinway being on 57th street off 5th ave.
@@flashflame4952 Yes, on 57th St.
@Flash Flame it was steinway hall. Maybe your right.
@@bertram46 I remember seeing it there because on my lunch hour I used to like just walking around the area. I always stopped in front of Steinway, they had an interesting glass in front of the featured piano in the window (it was on the North Side of 57th street). Then I would cross over to the South side because I would turn on 6th ave and head back down to my office. :) Either way, it was just a great place to walk around.
Why won't you come here anymore? I live in the South Bronx, and I find the city remains stimulating, exciting, fun and enriching (if something of a hassle at times).
7:00 OMG, I recognize the woman being made up at Revlon -- she's Carol (Knox) Digges, before I knew her as Mrs. Digges! She and her husband, Sam Digges, head of CBS radio, were close friends of my parents. My father and Sam played golf together at Woodway Country Club in Darien, CT. Sam was a gentleman of the old school and Carol was (and is) a lovely woman who encouraged me to go to UMichigan, her alma mater. (I didn't.) Today, she is a realtor in Palm Beach, FL, who has sold properties to and for the likes of Donald Trump. Thanks for posting this time capsule!
all into the past along with the real class, style, grace, common courtesy, and manners and respect for each other i would go back to that time in a minute
10:06 That breathtaking million-dollar Tiffany canary diamond is now worth $30 million
Such a different world now 60 years later.
"Those were the days, my friend"...
Love these nostalgic trips into another world. Life was so much more enjoyable back then
With more love, fun & respect.
Reminds me of the hippie revolution and yet the sadness of twin towers. Oh how far we've come. Only visited once but love to go back at Christmastime!!
I would like to know the cost of Carol’s beauty treatments at the Revlon Palace. Amazing service and beautiful building.
Ah, my home from the age of 10 to 26 in that time and at that place. What a beautiful memory.
That was incredible thank you for sharing!
There were a lot fewer of us back then, and we were better dressed, too.
Such elegance and class back then. America is sliding down hill.😢
Imagine! Nobody is obese, everyone is well dressed, nobody is taking a selfie, the streets are clean. Incredible how far everything has fallen. 🤡🌎
still looks like that in our bourgeois sections of town
@@kimanikurt465 Yeah you gotta be rich nowadays to be anywhere close to living the american dream . most americans are scraping by today. Back then the middle class was booming and everything was high quality and well made and you can actually move up the social ladder.
Mom was a model for Ben zuckerman for many years. Those were the days my friend!
@@waterissogood this is New York City though, not a “sundown town”
@@waterissogood the OP said “nobody is obese, everyone is well dressed, nobody is taking a selfie, the streets are clean” in this film of NYC back then. They were comparing present day NYC on these four points, not bringing in any other topic.
Haute Couture in the 60's was unmatched.
I’m turning 61 in August. I’m so happy that I have some memory of these days.
In my youth would go on the New Haven Train into NYC, sure brings back flash memories of those times. Like any thing, nothing ever stays the same. always, Tommy🤠
Even back in the 1950s NYC had the most beautiful modern architectural landmarks: the Seagram Building (1958) and Lever House (1951-52). Both on Park Avenue. Those two are classics that have maintained their sublime elegance -- perfect proportions and clean detailing.
Ugh... modern Architecture... depressing glass boxes, a city full of beautiful pre war architecture and you mention those courses cultureless cubes? Architecture like that is a crime against the people of a society, especially considering the real architecture that was likely destroyed to build it. There hasn't been beautiful architectural styles since WWII, 99% of it all is disgustingly ugly and cheap drek devoid of place or soul.
This is FABULOUS!
Brilliantly done... The beauty of New York City.🙏🏾👍🏾
You have magnificent taste! Everything is so elegant . Bravo!
Watching this film is to know what it felt like to be a barbarian walking through the ruins of ancient Rome and marveling at what a once great civilization was able to acheive.
Some of my best memories ever going on shopping spree on 5th Avenue…when in NYC. I had a bit too much wine at Christmas and ordered from Bergdorf’s ……my credit card bill will take months to pay off….was nice to pamper myself and be surprised bc I didn’t know what I bought.
Funny story 😂
Priceless..
Many of my parents' generation, the WW2 generation, obtained numerous items of expense and beauty during their years, sets of China, Silver flatware, a Silver Tea Set, marble top tables and more, and yet they're gone.
Wise men ponder what truly matters in this Life.
That’s whose China I have. My uncles Royal Doulton
Grew up in NYC and worked in this neighborhood. By this time NYC was in decline, but still much more classier than today.
So true, then the drugs , mob and gangs took over .
Fifth and Madison are still my favorite areas
I cannot even imagine some of the people around today walking around then. Underwear hanging out, tattoos all over, pajama bottoms in the middle of day...sigh. I wonder what people then would have even thought?
Sorry, but 3rd world immigration has made New York to a dump
Our country is unrecognizable today.
Sad what NYC has become.
This was spectacular to watch, thank you!! ❤❤❤
I hope St Patrick’s Cathedral is still open 24/7.
This is a very informative feature…it brings anyone to wonderful memories over the evolution of Fifth Avenue, NY
That was just wonderful 😊
This certainly is a bygone era.😢
BEAUTIFUL!!
Thank You !!!
3:45 the bowl was gifted from President Eisenhower to Ethiopia Emperor Haile Selassie... extremely interesting, enough to research. Thanks for this piece of history❤
Stuban glass was fantastic. Not sure if it still exists. You could stand right next to the most incredibule sculptures. There was one piece named The Wave which was the most glorious piece of art I've ever seen.
Pride in Amercia caused pride in self and work ethic. Once pride in country goes it takes the rest with it.
Just lovely. 🌸🌸🌸
Thanks Periscopes!
Very enjoyable documentary. Thank you!
I think the narrator made a mistake about the Tiffany's diamond being mined in 1978, since this was filmed in the sixties. Even the Twin Towers hasn't been built yet.
I noticed that too. Maybe 1878?
Simply wonderful!!!!!Thank you for sharing...love the video!!!!xxx
I miss our department stores here UK 🇬🇧 😢 😪
Thank you for uploading. Anyone got a time machine please !
Amazing ! America 60s !
Even the dummy kids are better dressedthan half of the people today ✨
And no tattoos. Except sailors
@@kathleenking47 Exactly. People have trashed their bodies and dress like trash.
@@areguapiri And the powers that be WANT it that way. They are throwing young mothers holding children with tattoos in your face in commercials to normalize this fad. they also are trying to normalize birth control, abortion and lowering the age of consent for children. The schools are complicit. Darkness is being highlighted and encouraged by endless murder shows, horror movies, occult practices being normalized and trying to push it on the kids who are not being protected by parents. Parents, are you aware what your children are watching?
60s Tiffany prices 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Hello hope all’s well with you?
I was a kid living in NYC then, I remember this well...
The director of beauty ❤