This is amazing! Not sure if you would be interested, but my father is a Coney island collector and historian. Not only does he have the world largest collection of physical pieces, photos and souvenirs, he also has an extensive collection of film from Coney. Maybe something in his collection could be a project for you?!
This is 1932, considered the worst year of the Depression. Sure can't see it in the pictures but 30% of the men in the country were out of work and this was an era of single-breadwinner families, so 30% of the people were without income. Terrible time. Looks picturesque now. The place buying cars for cash and the store that buys up nearly-worthless stock (can't remember the exact terminology) show what's going on.
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My Great Grandfather was born in Mississippi and grew up in New York his family were apart of the Great Migration. He was actually an ironworker(which was rare for black people) he worked with the Scottish, Irish, Italians etc. this channel means so much to me, I can see what my great grandfather always loved about this era.
My dad was in New York in the early 30s when this was filmed. He was a music major at Columbia University. Even so, I would not have wanted to live in that era. The Depression, and the looming war in Europe were extreme hardships for many people.
This is incredible! My Grandmother moved to New York in 1926 from South Carolina. A farm girl who became one of the original Lindy Hoppers at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, where my mother was born in the early 30s. This is the world they lived in. I just dreamed about my mother last night, and then I see this today. I was born in The Bronx in the early 50s, and I'm getting homesick after being away for almost 20 years. Once a New Yorker, always a New Yorker! I hope to spend some time there this summer. I would love to move back, but we'll see.
The actor John Gielgud was on Broadway in 1937 and wrote letters to friends saying how the Depression was behind them and marvelling at how modern and sophisticated NYC was. He was dazzled by the Rockefeller Centre and subterranean shopping malls as well as ‘moving staircases’ as well as the gleaming skyscrapers of Manhattan and seemingly endless choices of places to eat, drink and party. New York was dazzling and futuristic to a European eye then.
Pls enlighten us mere plebes about how sophisticated NYC was back then. IRL the German American Bund, an organization with HQ's in Manhattan and thousands of members across the United States. In the 1930s, the Bund was one of several organizations in the United States that were openly supportive of Adolf Hitler and the rise of fascism in Europe. Yep they had parades, bookstores and summer camps for youth. Their vision for America was a cocktail of white supremacy, fascist ideology
Great film quality, really brings that era to life. I love how the city seemed so energetic. Everyone looked like they had something to do or somewhere to be. Even the cat carrying her kitten looked like she was on her way to something important .
I really love how the cameraman who was filming played around with so many different angles. I like to think there was someone else capturing plenty of postcard worthy still shots as well. 🎞 ❤
Feb 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at Madison Square Garden, organized by the German American Bund. More than 20,000 people attended, pro-hitler themes & Amerika first rally event featured huge swastikas .@@Indiansareallpajeets
How cool was that? I enjoyed it so much I had to watch it twice. Thank you NASS for bringing this living history to us in such splendid detail. You never fail to impress.
Everyone in this hustle and bustle video are long gone but the hustle and bustle style of life have been passed on to those of us who now toil in NYC. This is a good reminder as to how short life really is.
These videos are great. What would be fantastic would be to get someone to lip-read some of these clips. Seen it done on a 1st world war documentary on the BBC of soldiers in the trenches. Adds a whole new perspective to the clips. Great work... Thanks 👏👏👏
This work of enhancing, coloring and giving natural rythm to the movements is literally gods work. You are binging back to life people lost in time and lost in our faulty perception to see people from the past similar to ourselves.
What an age for stylish hats. How is it that in the middle of the worst depression in the country's history everybody is dressed better than most people are today for Easter?
that is the inmediate conclusion .......it seems with time and in small steps we accept a deterioration of everything.....from the way we dress, to architecture or urban landscape.
@@fluffy1931 do you think ww2 or the holocaust happened suddently without an incremental deterioration of humanity, respect or responsability? Frankly I dont get what its rhe relation about a comment of aesthetics of the 1930's with the explosion of ww2 or the horrors of the holocaust. If you want give an opinion of those topics how about finding a comment which states that those events were irrelevant.
Feb 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at Madison Square Garden, organized by the German American Bund. More than 20,000 people attended, pro-hitler themes & Amerika first rally event featured huge swastikas .@@harlhequim
Okay! My guess is 1932. At 2:29-an aerial of the Ninth Avenue Elevated looking South down Broadway toward Columbus Circle at 59th Street SW corner tip of Central Park. This was probably taken from the top of the famous Ansonia Apartment House where Broadway intersects with Amsterdam Avenue at West 72nd Street looking South (downtown). At 3:10, we can see the Empire State Building in background completed in 1931 and at 4:35 a streetcar going uptown on Broadway in Times Square with original facade of Times Building from circa 1904 in background. It was redesigned mid-sixties and original beauty of building destroyed as was done to many ornate buildings in 1950‘s through seventies. Later part of production is lower Broadway financial district at tip of Manhattan by Battery Park where you see policeman and another aerial of elevated from South Ferry terminal. I believe they dismantled that in the late 1930‘s. The police officer‘s cap and badge are the original crest from City of New York founding still used to this day! I had to laugh at Now Entering New York City“ at West 241st Street and Broadway! That’s right! Would I love to have that sign today!!! I remember a more modern sign when I was a child but that sign brought me a smile!!! Bless Momma cat and her baby!!!! Lookin Pretty Lookin Pretty, New York City, New York City! Good job NASS. I’d say 1930 or 1932 from the old familiarity with New York license plates.
Also the name of the performers at 4:15 . Patsy Kelly, Eddie Leonard and Dave Apollon at the Palace, put the date to April 1932 ( NY Times) one of the last vaudeville performances , a few months later the Palace turned into a a movie theatre.
By reading your comment, you make it sound like you know NYC like the back of your hand. It is sad though that most NYC residents do not know the original name of NYC.
NASS, another valuable video, which should be shown in American classrooms, so that youngsters will understand history did not start with their birth... Bravo to you!
1:14 is looking south on Broadway at 156th St 1:19 is looking north on Broadway at 158th St 1:36 is looking south on Broadway at 129th St 1:43 is driving south on Broadway at 125th St 1:57 is looking south on Broadway at 122nd St 2:03 long-demolished entrance for Columbia University on Broadway at 119th St 2:17 is driving south on Broadway at 72nd St
If I’m not mistaken , building at 1:03 is what we now know as Columbia Presbyterian Milstein. As a native NYr raised on W111/ Broadway, I love these old films ! Kudos to those who filmed them and you who has resurrected them.
This footage is great, so much better than I expected, it's great seeing the buildings, the cars, and people as they were. I've seen old footage, but the people moved fast and it all looked unreal, this is just amazing, so very well done in every way.
Having been born in 1948, gone to university, worked and lived in Manhattan for a few years and having gone into NYC as a child a lot when I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s, I've always wanted to go back in a time machine to the 1930s and even before! I have some great books with photos of old NYC from the 19th century by Dover publications. They also have a book with photos from the 1930s when my late parents were in their 20s. I remember in the 1950s the seats on the subways were pale yellow whicker rattan before they put the plastic seats in! Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane~ I ♥ New York!
This period is supposed to be the height of the Great Depression. Yet, the imagery doesn't seem to indicate much of a depression. The city looks as energetic and bustling as it usually does, with everyone having something to do and somewhere to go. People are well-dressed. Businesses are hopping. No one looks like they're clinging to economic survival by their fingernails.
Feb 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at Madison Square Garden, organized by the German American Bund. More than 20,000 people attended, pro-hitler themes & Amerika first rally event featured huge swastikas .
If people realize for a moment the value of all those footages for us and future generations and if the American school system was capable to fix the horrible and poor curriculum to creat thinkers and not video games players and at the same time start value the History of the country?! As always ,thank you for your fantastic job .!👏👏👏💐
Thanks! I love this! Aside from being a huge NY buff (and New York-ER), I'm reading a book that takes place in the 30's & this totally helps me visualize it. Good work!
thanks for an actual glimpse into the past. having spoken with folks including relatives who have now passed but were there, it is true that they really liked the New York of that era. in strict contrast to this period, my aunt who lived there at that time was depressed by the New York she encountered when she visited it in the late 60's and early 70's. it was like what happened to my city and the vibe that existed there.. she said that before the late60's/early 70's that she always liked coming back to New York to get recharged, rejuvenated and to remember how good it was..
I immediately recognized 72nd and Broadway by the train station, I grew up on the upper west side. I also lived in the Bronx and recognized the last stop and Van Cortlandt Park,. Amazing to see people were still farming there. Thanks for all the work you do!
I’m thinking, judging by the cars, the latest this could be is 1932. Possibly 1933. In 1933 the automobile started to get more softer, rounder styling.
Agreed. Also based on the hats the women are wearing. They seem to have moved on from the helmet style that was popular in the late twenties up to around 31.
Based on the women's hats, I agree that it's around 1933. There are still a few women wearing cloche hats, which makes me think it's no later than '33 - the year my father was born in Queens.
@@jec1ny 1:30 3:20 cloche style was extremely popular in winter and is showcased here. What do you mean by helmet style going away, this is the exact same thing. 1926 was the big cloche year for the hair fitting cloche that became less of a hat and more of a hair fitting. 1924 was the first big year for the cloche aka the fashionable sailor hat that started turning into this style for women, popularized in 1915.
From research, it appears this was shot the last week of April 1932. According to the NY Times, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley, Benny Rubin, Patsy Kelly and Dave Apollon all appeared in a review at the Palace Theater that only played for one week then (the Palace changed shows weekly at the time!). The clothes and cars look more like 20's than 30's.
@@BlueSky-gu2bx Well, it's not like I've never been wrong about anything, that's for sure. I was kind of shocked to find the Times mention but it specifically listed the lineup and stated that the Palace changed shows each week at that time. I carefully said 'it appears'--I've left myself a fig leaf just in case, but it does seem likely...
@@liblit What is 20s and 30s is the biggest question? Do you just imagine 20s fashion and 30s fashion in your head to come to some immediately conclusion because last I checked an outfit in 1922, is not remotely similar to an outfit in 1928, and an outfit in 1930 is so far from similar to an outfit in 1937. Everyone has a winter cloche on, and that style trend with a super hair tight cloche became popular in 1930. The depression cloche. A 1924 Cloche is different than a 1925-1926-1927-1928 & 1929 (all seperate) cloche hats. This is a 1930s era cloche but naming specific years is easily the best way to identify.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar If we're talking about dating the video, I think the Times review pretty much locks it in. The marquee is an unusual group, they only played one week so it all fits. As to the clothes, I understand what you're getting at, but I find in our time--and so I suspect it to be true in the recent past, like this--that the lines aren't that sharp in practice. In fashion, there are always women ahead of and behind the curve, those who dance to their own drummer and those who are just cautious. I tend to look at the overall mix instead of details. I think, in particular in this case, it's pretty accurate simply because the national mood changed after the Crash in '29. There's a giddiness to the Twenties that disappeared on the streets by '33, '34. Anyway, I was just making a generalization to support the dating, but to me the review is pretty conclusive.
Another excellent gift shared by Nass Thank you for your work, contribution and dedication. Otro Excelente regalo que nos comparte Nass Gracias por tu trabajo, aporte y dedicación
INCREDIBLE VIDEO THANK YOU. MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS GREW UP IN NEW YORK CITY I AM THIRD GENERATION. AND MANY PICTURES FOR MY GRAND AND GREAT GRANDPARENTS DAYS SHOW UP IN THIS VIDEO. THIS VIDEO MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE RIGHT THERE IN THAT TIME AS IT WAS IT IS AMAZING. I WAS ACTUALLY ABLE TO LINE UP MANY PICTURES WITH MY GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT-GRANDPARENTS STANDING IN CERTAIN AREAS AND THE PICTURES WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO LINE UP WITH THE BUILDINGS. SO SURREAL I TELL YOU
It's crazy how not much has changed, apart from taller buildings and railroads. WOW i live 10 blocks away from that bridge that's broadway 225th st called the Broadway Bridge! Today's trains feel very old and they need an upgrade. i live on Broadway and watching the train run just reminds me of the 1 train today. People dressed better back then always well dressed it didn't matter where they were going, i like that. We really haven't advanced much we could be a lot more advanced today in my opinion.
That's quite an odd vantage point at 06:05, but it appears that is of the old Post Office that was torn down in 1939. That fits in at the right place in our "drive down Broadway" that this film shows. For some reason, New Yorkers hated it, but it was pretty cool.
20 sec. & 33 sec... Is the future site for 3424 Kingsbridge Gardens hoisting (back entrance) est. 1960. 7 mins & 27se.. .. Thats the vancourtlandt house. 7mins & 32sec. .. That the Dikemen st. House WONDERFULL !!
Beautiful i simply love watching these good old days, and the old vintage cars, and horse and cart, and trams, and the hussle and bussle of those times.better times back then, before things took a turn for the worse, people were more respectful to each other❤❤
I LOVE these vid's. It's amazing to watch & listen to something that can put you right smack-dab back in another era. Totally fascinating to imagine walking around back in these days. This particular period was a couple of decades before i was born, but still there's alot that's familiar to me that carried on into the 1950's. Like trolley cars for instance. We had them in Wash DC in the 50's. It wasn't until the early '80's that the city had the last of the tracks torn out. I remember jumping on and off a trolley! Great invention .... we should bring them back, they'd save alot of money, congestion, and lives too.
@ 7.36 one could buy a car off of the front row for a couple hundred bucks up to 600,800,or off of thw back row for as little as 20 bux to 40 bux and all of then started and ran with little to no issues other than being the most basic automobiles ever manufactured including points,manually adjusted timing,very little air filtering,very archaic clutches,and transmissions,rear diffs were straight cut gears with the driveshafts enclosed inside of a tube with zero greaseable points,or adjustable places... the interiors consisted of plank flooring covered by either leather or a wool type covering and the bodies being literally stamped sheetmetal over wood,or wood over sheetmetal depending on the model.. Seat were often whatever the manufacturer dreamed up,or sub co tracted and accepted..
My Grandfather was a member of the NYPD during this era. I always wanted to know how he did it because he was black 🤯 His badge number was 8988. How can I find out more information on his NYPD career?
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Would you like to live in the 1930s??
This is amazing! Not sure if you would be interested, but my father is a Coney island collector and historian. Not only does he have the world largest collection of physical pieces, photos and souvenirs, he also has an extensive collection of film from Coney. Maybe something in his collection could be a project for you?!
This is 1932, considered the worst year of the Depression. Sure can't see it in the pictures but 30% of the men in the country were out of work and this was an era of single-breadwinner families, so 30% of the people were without income. Terrible time. Looks picturesque now. The place buying cars for cash and the store that buys up nearly-worthless stock (can't remember the exact terminology) show what's going on.
Living in the 1930s would have been fantastic for many different reasons. But not in NY. Too big, too loud, for me. greatings from Switzerland
@@justaseagull8406this movie is in colour yet very white.
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4:46 - "Papers from other cities". I love that stand! That was their internet back then! I love these old films. Keep up the good work!
That was called an advertisement genius. We have everything before the internet, you can't relate because you wouldn't understand
My Great Grandfather was born in Mississippi and grew up in New York his family were apart of the Great Migration. He was actually an ironworker(which was rare for black people) he worked with the Scottish, Irish, Italians etc. this channel means so much to me, I can see what my great grandfather always loved about this era.
Thank you
Seu bisavô viveu no seio da modernidade daquela época na cidade mais famosa do mundo moderno.
Тоже хочется побывать в США, всем удачи!
Mais où est King Kong ?
NASS La meilleure chaîne spatio-temporelle de youtube 👍👍👍👍👍
@@Albert-so3jzМне хочется побывать именно в том старом NY, современный меня совсем не привлекает, как по мне, в 60-е его стали сильно уродовать.
My dad was in New York in the early 30s when this was filmed. He was a music major at Columbia University. Even so, I would not have wanted to live in that era. The Depression, and the looming war in Europe were extreme hardships for many people.
I don’t know. Even with their ‘hardships’, it seems they had it better.
Seems even with their “hardships “ they had it better. They were resourceful and knew how to have a good time without a lot of money
This is incredible! My Grandmother moved to New York in 1926 from South Carolina. A farm girl who became one of the original Lindy Hoppers at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, where my mother was born in the early 30s. This is the world they lived in. I just dreamed about my mother last night, and then I see this today. I was born in The Bronx in the early 50s, and I'm getting homesick after being away for almost 20 years. Once a New Yorker, always a New Yorker! I hope to spend some time there this summer. I would love to move back, but we'll see.
Lovely words.
@@hmq9052 Thank you so much, Be well and prosper!
thank you
@@NASS_0 Well deserved. Beautiful restoration!
That’s lovely.
Oh sooo cute with the cat and her kitten ❤
Everyone looks so beautiful in this film. And city looks wonderful.💙💙💙
The actor John Gielgud was on Broadway in 1937 and wrote letters to friends saying how the Depression was behind them and marvelling at how modern and sophisticated NYC was. He was dazzled by the Rockefeller Centre and subterranean shopping malls as well as ‘moving staircases’ as well as the gleaming skyscrapers of Manhattan and seemingly endless choices of places to eat, drink and party. New York was dazzling and futuristic to a European eye then.
Yes, and this was filmed in 1932
Pls enlighten us mere plebes about how sophisticated NYC was back then. IRL the German American Bund, an organization with HQ's in Manhattan and thousands of members across the United States. In the 1930s, the Bund was one of several organizations in the United States that were openly supportive of Adolf Hitler and the rise of fascism in Europe. Yep they had parades, bookstores and summer camps for youth. Their vision for America was a cocktail of white supremacy, fascist ideology
Great film quality, really brings that era to life. I love how the city seemed so energetic. Everyone looked like they had something to do or somewhere to be. Even the cat carrying her kitten looked like she was on her way to something important .
thank you very much
Those last shots are gold...
I really love how the cameraman who was filming played around with so many different angles. I like to think there was someone else capturing plenty of postcard worthy still shots as well. 🎞 ❤
I've visited New York a few times in my life and it looks so incredibly different now. I love how well dressed people were back then.
What does New York look now?
Feb 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at Madison Square Garden, organized by the German American Bund. More than 20,000 people attended, pro-hitler themes & Amerika first rally event featured huge swastikas .@@Indiansareallpajeets
Like shit- trust me- (I'm here)@@Indiansareallpajeets
Most of what's in the film is still there.
@@Indiansareallpajeets A third world country.
How cool was that? I enjoyed it so much I had to watch it twice.
Thank you NASS for bringing this living history to us in such splendid detail. You never fail to impress.
thank you ^^
It is so wonderful that so many people are interested in history and want to preserve it. These videos help so much. Thank you. :)
thank you very much
Everyone in this hustle and bustle video are long gone but the hustle and bustle style of life have been passed on to those of us who now toil in NYC. This is a good reminder as to how short life really is.
They were already senior citizens by the time I was born in 1980
Приезжай когда нибудь в Москву , у нас похоже как на видео.ну по крайней мере можно пройтись и не бояться что ограбят или еще чего
Stunning work. Surprising how busy the scenes are when you consider the US population back then was only 120m people, 64% lower than today
Thank you
Love all the old vehicles in this. 👍😊
These videos are great. What would be fantastic would be to get someone to lip-read some of these clips. Seen it done on a 1st world war documentary on the BBC of soldiers in the trenches. Adds a whole new perspective to the clips.
Great work... Thanks 👏👏👏
thank you very much
That sweet mama cat carrying her kitten to a safer place tugged at my heart. I hope she and her kitten (s) were kept safe.
This work of enhancing, coloring and giving natural rythm to the movements is literally gods work.
You are binging back to life people lost in time and lost in our faulty perception to see people from the past similar to ourselves.
thank you very much
What an age for stylish hats. How is it that in the middle of the worst depression in the country's history everybody is dressed better than most people are today for Easter?
Great point!
that is the inmediate conclusion .......it seems with time and in small steps we accept a deterioration of everything.....from the way we dress, to architecture or urban landscape.
How stylish ffs dude. Literally the entire planet during 30's era was in the process of dropping off the abyss into a World War 2 dumpster fire.
At that time WW2 & Holocaust entered the chat ffs no small steps.@@harlhequim
@@fluffy1931 do you think ww2 or the holocaust happened suddently without an incremental deterioration of humanity, respect or responsability?
Frankly I dont get what its rhe relation about a comment of aesthetics of the 1930's with the explosion of ww2 or the horrors of the holocaust.
If you want give an opinion of those topics how about finding a comment which states that those events were irrelevant.
Time for me to get in a my time machine as I watch thse videos to travel back
Everything looks aesthetically better. People used to put so much care into how things looked.
it should be mandatory to show this in schools.......it would be useful to learn how can we go backwards in plain sight.
Feb 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at Madison Square Garden, organized by the German American Bund. More than 20,000 people attended, pro-hitler themes & Amerika first rally event featured huge swastikas .@@harlhequim
And do you dress that nice when you go out now? Be the change you want to see
@@bonniegaither3994 yes, I take pride in what I wear and how I do things.
05:28 Wonderful shot : rescue of kitten by his mother, among cars and buzy crowd ! Many thx for the beautiful job.
Beautiful restoration ❣️
So glad you do this work for all of us to see- history come to life- thank you NASS🥰
thank you very much ;)
What a wonderful interlude.
Okay! My guess is 1932. At 2:29-an aerial of the Ninth Avenue Elevated looking South down Broadway toward Columbus Circle at 59th Street SW corner tip of Central Park. This was probably taken from the top of the famous Ansonia Apartment House where Broadway intersects with Amsterdam Avenue at West 72nd Street looking South (downtown). At 3:10, we can see the Empire State Building in background completed in 1931 and at 4:35 a streetcar going uptown on Broadway in Times Square with original facade of Times Building from circa 1904 in background. It was redesigned mid-sixties and original beauty of building destroyed as was done to many ornate buildings in 1950‘s through seventies. Later part of production is lower Broadway financial district at tip of Manhattan by Battery Park where you see policeman and another aerial of elevated from South Ferry terminal. I believe they dismantled that in the late 1930‘s. The police officer‘s cap and badge are the original crest from City of New York founding still used to this day! I had to laugh at Now Entering New York City“ at West 241st Street and Broadway! That’s right! Would I love to have that sign today!!! I remember a more modern sign when I was a child but that sign brought me a smile!!! Bless Momma cat and her baby!!!! Lookin Pretty Lookin Pretty, New York City, New York City! Good job NASS. I’d say 1930 or 1932 from the old familiarity with New York license plates.
Also the name of the performers at 4:15 . Patsy Kelly, Eddie Leonard and Dave Apollon at the Palace, put the date to April 1932 ( NY Times) one of the last vaudeville performances , a few months later the Palace turned into a a movie theatre.
By reading your comment, you make it sound like you know NYC like the back of your hand. It is sad though that most NYC residents do not know the original name of NYC.
Your best yet!
Parts of it make New York look like a BIG, fun toy!
thank you very much
@@NASS_0 Sure thing. I've watched it four times. It's my go-to when I went to feel good.
Another great video from Nass loved the horse drinking from the water fountain and the cat with the kitten
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Superb upload, in them days even not having much money did not stop you from having style it seems❤
Thank you
NASS, another valuable video, which should be shown in American classrooms, so that youngsters will understand history did not start with their birth... Bravo to you!
Thank you
@@NASS_0 You're welcome.
An excellent point.
NASS ! Thank you for posting.
Thank you bro !
Just incredible for us to witness this. Thank you so much for your work.
thank you very much
1:14 is looking south on Broadway at 156th St
1:19 is looking north on Broadway at 158th St
1:36 is looking south on Broadway at 129th St
1:43 is driving south on Broadway at 125th St
1:57 is looking south on Broadway at 122nd St
2:03 long-demolished entrance for Columbia University on Broadway at 119th St
2:17 is driving south on Broadway at 72nd St
If I’m not mistaken , building at 1:03 is what we now know as Columbia Presbyterian Milstein. As a native NYr raised on W111/ Broadway, I love these old films ! Kudos to those who filmed them and you who has resurrected them.
Yes!!! It is !!!
People knew what true style and manners were. I love this channel!❤
thank you very much 🙏
This footage is great, so much better than I expected, it's great seeing the buildings, the cars, and people as they were. I've seen old footage, but the people moved fast and it all looked unreal, this is just amazing, so very well done in every way.
Many of the old buildings at Bowling Green and Broadway still standing to this day. time: 6:54
Another great job Nass...thanks!
Hi Dear, thank you very much ;)
5:27 poor kitty 😢
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Having been born in 1948, gone to university, worked and lived in Manhattan for a few years and having gone into NYC as a child a lot when I was growing up in the 1950s and 60s, I've always wanted to go back in a time machine to the 1930s and even before! I have some great books with photos of old NYC from the 19th century by Dover publications. They also have a book with photos from the 1930s when my late parents were in their 20s. I remember in the 1950s the seats on the subways were pale yellow whicker rattan before they put the plastic seats in! Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane~ I ♥ New York!
Amazing footage! Thank you so much!
They could dress in the 30s 40s and 50s. Boy what eras. That jazz music. Was off the charts🎉😆🤔👍
This period is supposed to be the height of the Great Depression. Yet, the imagery doesn't seem to indicate much of a depression. The city looks as energetic and bustling as it usually does, with everyone having something to do and somewhere to go. People are well-dressed. Businesses are hopping. No one looks like they're clinging to economic survival by their fingernails.
Feb 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at Madison Square Garden, organized by the German American Bund. More than 20,000 people attended, pro-hitler themes & Amerika first rally event featured huge swastikas .
Scared me @ 1:08 thought that was a real person..
Because it hit the cities later than it hit the rural areas.
If people realize for a moment the value of all those footages for us and future generations and if the American school system was capable to fix the horrible and poor curriculum to creat thinkers and not video games players and at the same time start value the History of the country?! As always ,thank you for your fantastic job .!👏👏👏💐
I am just mesmerized by your videos. Thank you so much for the work you put in and for making them available to us.
A elegância das pessoas daquele tempo é o que mais me chama a atenção, aliás tudo me chama muito a atenção... magnifico video obrigado por postar.
Thank you
Lubię to ogladac stare czasy fajnie że ktoś to kiedyś nakręcił 😊
A beautifully edited source video, thoughtfully colorized. Many of the streets and squares look remarkably the same, as in every great city.
While technically not your best, it was chockfull of super shots and had plenty of superlative evocative footage. Thank you!
Thank you for making these video's 👍👍👍👌
Thank you
Thanks! I love this! Aside from being a huge NY buff (and New York-ER), I'm reading a book that takes place in the 30's & this totally helps me visualize it. Good work!
This is so cool !! This city has always been a beast
Thank you Nass doing this
thank you very much
thanks for an actual glimpse into the past. having spoken with folks including relatives who have now passed but were there, it is true that they really liked the New York of that era. in strict contrast to this period, my aunt who lived there at that time was depressed by the New York she encountered when she visited it in the late 60's and early 70's. it was like what happened to my city and the vibe that existed there.. she said that before the late60's/early 70's that she always liked coming back to New York to get recharged, rejuvenated and to remember how good it was..
I immediately recognized 72nd and Broadway by the train station, I grew up on the upper west side. I also lived in the Bronx and recognized the last stop and Van Cortlandt Park,. Amazing to see people were still farming there. Thanks for all the work you do!
2:19 72nd street subway station. I was born and raised in 71st Street. Wow! What a sight.
Ottimo video, come sempre.
Fenómeno Nass!! Fenómeno. 👏👏👏From Spain Saludos.
thank you ;)
1:08 - Sandwich Board man. A popular form of advertising. Also seen at 2:46.
Imagine hanging out in front of a nude theater and people watching you on RUclips 90 years later.
I’m thinking, judging by the cars, the latest this could be is 1932. Possibly 1933. In 1933 the automobile started to get more softer, rounder styling.
Agreed. Also based on the hats the women are wearing. They seem to have moved on from the helmet style that was popular in the late twenties up to around 31.
Yes!!
Based on the women's hats, I agree that it's around 1933. There are still a few women wearing cloche hats, which makes me think it's no later than '33 - the year my father was born in Queens.
I took another look and found that it is definitely a 1932 Ford sedan zipping by at 1:25.
@@jec1ny 1:30 3:20 cloche style was extremely popular in winter and is showcased here. What do you mean by helmet style going away, this is the exact same thing. 1926 was the big cloche year for the hair fitting cloche that became less of a hat and more of a hair fitting. 1924 was the first big year for the cloche aka the fashionable sailor hat that started turning into this style for women, popularized in 1915.
From research, it appears this was shot the last week of April 1932. According to the NY Times, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley, Benny Rubin, Patsy Kelly and Dave Apollon all appeared in a review at the Palace Theater that only played for one week then (the Palace changed shows weekly at the time!). The clothes and cars look more like 20's than 30's.
Wow you know how to research. I'll go with your research April 1932. I thought it might have been shot up until 1933, but I think I'm wrong.
@@BlueSky-gu2bx Well, it's not like I've never been wrong about anything, that's for sure. I was kind of shocked to find the Times mention but it specifically listed the lineup and stated that the Palace changed shows each week at that time. I carefully said 'it appears'--I've left myself a fig leaf just in case, but it does seem likely...
@@liblit What is 20s and 30s is the biggest question? Do you just imagine 20s fashion and 30s fashion in your head to come to some immediately conclusion because last I checked an outfit in 1922, is not remotely similar to an outfit in 1928, and an outfit in 1930 is so far from similar to an outfit in 1937. Everyone has a winter cloche on, and that style trend with a super hair tight cloche became popular in 1930. The depression cloche. A 1924 Cloche is different than a 1925-1926-1927-1928 & 1929 (all seperate) cloche hats. This is a 1930s era cloche but naming specific years is easily the best way to identify.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar If we're talking about dating the video, I think the Times review pretty much locks it in. The marquee is an unusual group, they only played one week so it all fits.
As to the clothes, I understand what you're getting at, but I find in our time--and so I suspect it to be true in the recent past, like this--that the lines aren't that sharp in practice. In fashion, there are always women ahead of and behind the curve, those who dance to their own drummer and those who are just cautious. I tend to look at the overall mix instead of details. I think, in particular in this case, it's pretty accurate simply because the national mood changed after the Crash in '29. There's a giddiness to the Twenties that disappeared on the streets by '33, '34.
Anyway, I was just making a generalization to support the dating, but to me the review is pretty conclusive.
Another excellent gift shared by Nass
Thank you for your work, contribution and dedication.
Otro Excelente regalo que nos comparte Nass
Gracias por tu trabajo, aporte y dedicación
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INCREDIBLE VIDEO THANK YOU. MY GREAT GRANDPARENTS GREW UP IN NEW YORK CITY I AM THIRD GENERATION. AND MANY PICTURES FOR MY GRAND AND GREAT GRANDPARENTS DAYS SHOW UP IN THIS VIDEO. THIS VIDEO MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE RIGHT THERE IN THAT TIME AS IT WAS IT IS AMAZING. I WAS ACTUALLY ABLE TO LINE UP MANY PICTURES WITH MY GRANDPARENTS AND GREAT-GRANDPARENTS STANDING IN CERTAIN AREAS AND THE PICTURES WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO LINE UP WITH THE BUILDINGS. SO SURREAL I TELL YOU
Great work! So amazing!!
thank you very much
Instantly reminds me of the Mafia game. They did an excellent job recreating the 1930s
thank you very much
My grandfather actually lived in NYC 1911-22, so this is from after his time there, but still interesting to see. I love scenes of old New York.
Saludos y felicitaciones muy bonito y facinante video, 👍👏🤗❤️🇲🇽
thank you
My Grandpa was a district manager for Montgomery Ward & lived very well during the depression, That I would have liked very much. In poverty? No.
This is incredible! Thank you
what a lovely video. Usually I want to do my car spotting, but here I am limited to big car , small car, luxury model, etc., nothing more
Memories.so many memories............Thank you for posting !
It's memories we are watching.
It's crazy how not much has changed, apart from taller buildings and railroads. WOW i live 10 blocks away from that bridge that's broadway 225th st called the Broadway Bridge! Today's trains feel very old and they need an upgrade. i live on Broadway and watching the train run just reminds me of the 1 train today. People dressed better back then always well dressed it didn't matter where they were going, i like that. We really haven't advanced much we could be a lot more advanced today in my opinion.
Great job, looking forward to your next video! 🎉
Great restoration. It’d take 50 years to get it looking like that again.
Why don't I see any commercials on your videos? Your videos are great btw!
That's quite an odd vantage point at 06:05, but it appears that is of the old Post Office that was torn down in 1939. That fits in at the right place in our "drive down Broadway" that this film shows. For some reason, New Yorkers hated it, but it was pretty cool.
20 sec. & 33 sec... Is the future site for 3424 Kingsbridge Gardens hoisting (back entrance) est. 1960.
7 mins & 27se.. .. Thats the vancourtlandt house.
7mins & 32sec. .. That the Dikemen st. House
WONDERFULL !!
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Beautiful i simply love watching these good old days, and the old vintage cars, and horse and cart, and trams, and the hussle and bussle of those times.better times back then, before things took a turn for the worse, people were more respectful to each other❤❤
5:25 Is that a cat or dog carrying the cat! Hilarious!
It’s a Mama cat carrying her kitten 😂
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Pretty cool seeing the old neighborhood and building I leaved in on Broadway and 156th St for 25 years and how it once looked.
-- No litter.
-- No graffiti.
-- Roads are entirely smooth.
-- Everyone is dressed elegantly.
Everything is clean.
-- No one is twerking.
I LOVE these vid's. It's amazing to watch & listen to something that can put you right smack-dab back in another era. Totally fascinating to imagine walking around back in these days. This particular period was a couple of decades before i was born, but still there's alot that's familiar to me that carried on into the 1950's. Like trolley cars for instance. We had them in Wash DC in the 50's. It wasn't until the early '80's that the city had the last of the tracks torn out. I remember jumping on and off a trolley! Great invention .... we should bring them back, they'd save alot of money, congestion, and lives too.
Jumping on and off the trolley cars--so you were a trolley dodger. Which is how Brooklyn's baseball team got its name.
Thanks for the great video!It 's nice to see beautiful , neat people , a wonderful era !
Spectacular !
@ 7.36 one could buy a car off of the front row for a couple hundred bucks up to 600,800,or off of thw back row for as little as 20 bux to 40 bux and all of then started and ran with little to no issues other than being the most basic automobiles ever manufactured including points,manually adjusted timing,very little air filtering,very archaic clutches,and transmissions,rear diffs were straight cut gears with the driveshafts enclosed inside of a tube with zero greaseable points,or adjustable places... the interiors consisted of plank flooring covered by either leather or a wool type covering and the bodies being literally stamped sheetmetal over wood,or wood over sheetmetal depending on the model.. Seat were often whatever the manufacturer dreamed up,or sub co tracted and accepted..
Wow back in those days did all men wear suits and hats when they went out in public very nice 😊
4:10 The names in the marquis place this in the spring of 1932.
Let's check it out, remember, back then video was mad money mad expensive to get.
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2:20 72nd street subway station for 1/9 train
There was a certain amount of respect people had for each other. I don't see it any more.
Love the shot of the cat carrying her kitten through traffic at 5:28
Lovely street scenes
Everyone was Dressed ❤
Remastered in. COLOR
Ok
But i. LOVE if this was. BLACK AND WHITE
Great. Job
You did a excellent job thanks.
It’s so cool to see my neighborhood and how little the buildings have changed even to this day
Thank you 😉👍
To look at this and imagine the elders that were around during things like Lincoln's presidency. So surreal
My Grandfather was a member of the NYPD during this era. I always wanted to know how he did it because he was black 🤯 His badge number was 8988. How can I find out more information on his NYPD career?