1930's/1940's Cleveland Ohio Vintage Black & White 8mm Footage Video
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- Опубликовано: 13 янв 2019
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Step into a bygone era with this exquisite collection of vintage 8mm footage, capturing the essence of Cleveland, Ohio in the 1930s and 1940s. 🎥🏙️ This rare and timeless stock video is a treasure trove for filmmakers, historians, and creatives seeking genuine, historical urban scenes.
This black and white footage offers a window into the everyday life and the architectural grandeur of Cleveland during an era of significant transformation and resilience. From the bustling streets to the iconic landmarks, each frame provides a glimpse into the past, showcasing the city's unique character and the spirit of its people during the Great Depression and World War II.
Perfect for documentaries, period pieces, or any project requiring authentic, retro American cityscapes, this footage is rich with history and charm. It's not only visually captivating but also an important historical document, reflecting the urban landscape and social dynamics of the time.
Elevate your project with this authentic visual journey into 1930s and 1940s Cleveland, and let your audience experience the allure and nostalgia of this pivotal period in American history.
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This made me cry. This is my hometown. This is where my relatives worked, raised their families and eventually passed away. I miss them so much.
This is incredible! I watched in absolute EXCITEMENT! My father was born in 1916 and grew up in and around Cleveland. He went to Case when he graduated high school in 1936. My father and his cousin ran the streets of Cleveland. I was so excited to watch as there was a chance that he could be in the film. There is no way to know if he was one of the people in the distance, in a passing car, on the transit, in a house, etc. This film took me back to HIS time and what he saw! Time captured on film 90 years ago....
I am in my sixties now and was thinking the same thing that I might see somebody I knew.
I surly was at and in some of those buildings shown in this video.
I wish I knew what street those guys were working on.
0:17 This street here kinda looks like my grandparents street called, Stone Ave.
I wonder if it is?
That house in the background sure looks a lot like I remember my grandma's place back in the fifties when I was under the age of ten.
That empty lot next to it also looks familiar.
If it is my grandparents home, it's gone now and a factory took over the land to expand.
My 2x 1x and grandfather all went to Case. Same deal. One a Dr. one a lawyer, one a electrical engineer. 2x great uncle was President McKinley's physician. 2x lived in Canton area, 1x and my grandfather lived in Lakewood/Bay Village. My great grandfather played football at Case and is in their hall of fame. He also played pro football in the Ohio League with Thorpe and Rockne. He quit to enlist in WW1 where he was a Maj. earned himself a Silver Star and a few Purple Hearts. My grandfather graduated from Lakewood in 42, enlisted in the Navy and fought in the Pacific. I too looked to see if I saw any of them but clearly wouldn't know exactly if they were in frame unless standing in front of the lens.
Same for myself,....Dad was born in 1911, and Mom was born in 1922, they lived near the east of downtown. The went to Case, they married in 1946, moved to Cleveland Heights, and eventually to University Heights, where me and my sister were born.
As a lifelong Clevelander, this was AWESOME
My parents were born in the early 1920's in Cleveland. They were from the greatest generation. My dad landed on Omaha Beach the morning of D-day. He and my Mom were outstanding people. I'm so proud of them & miss them so much.
Thanks for sharing 😀
Although I grew up in Cleveland in the ‘50’s, this film is so wonderful and reminiscent of my youth. And folks, that is not the Rapid. Those are electric street cars. I remember riding downtown on them. The Rapid didn’t come until much later.
Hmm looks a good taste
The Rapid started from Windermere in 1955. East Cleveland to the Terminal Tower.
Grew up in the Cleveland suburbs in the 1950s also!
You know, when this film was taken, the reaction could have been “Boring! Why are you wasting film on ordinary stuff?” But now, it is a rare visit to a time gone by! And then you get a glimpse of something like the Art Museum or Severance Hall and it gives you an anchor. Magnificent!
Why boring? BORING?? I don’t think so- these people led important lives that helped make this nation what it is today. Only maybe Cincinnati is even more moving.
My Alma Mater, Case, before it joined with Western Reserve; Severance Hall (home of the Cleveland Orchestra, one of the world's finest) and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Wonderful!
My dad ran Kendall's Radio Repair on Euclid Ave and spent 8 years at Case night school to earn his electrical engineering degree. A fellow Alma Mater man. Mom played from the start of the Cleveland Women's Orchestra at Severance Hall. They met at Interlochen 'band camp' as my Mom used to say. He played viola, she the bass trombone which I still have. Like your cat photo.
@@CJ-bu8mh Thank you on behalf of my 17 year old kitty. I graduated the Oberlin Conservatory about 30 miles southwest of Cleveland. Originally from Texas, I absolutely fell in love with Ohio and Cleveland and returned to get my law degree at Case. I never heard anything as beautiful as the Cleveland Orchestra, came to study and remained. I live in Southern Ohio now and love it. Be safe!
@@rwolfson1935 Great! My maternal grandmother Florence Bushnell Merkle studied music at Oberlin from 1909-1911. I have an autographed hand written piece of music called Harriet Beecher Stowe “Still, Still with Rhee,” signed with “ For his esteemed pupil Miss Merkle Jan 1911.” In archival framing. As is original 1934 photo of mom’s orchestra at inaugural concert. Wish I could send you photos.
On top of that she was a relative of Simeon Bushnell. Our family is proud to have a felon as he was one of 2 who served time for driving the “getaway buggy” back to Oberlin after the posse recaptured the escaped slave John Price. I’m retired and learning more every day.
@@CJ-bu8mh I am class of '81 from the Conservatory and '88 from CWRU Law. Thank you for sharing your wonderful family history. Wonderful schools in a timeless and beautiful area. We are blessed!
My Aunt Christine Uhl lived in Oberlin for many years before her passing. it's a beautiful town. I can see why you fell in love with it. Coincidentally my brother now lives only a few miles away in Carlisle Township ☺
When I see old film footage of places like Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Flint, Fort Wayne, Gary, Chicago, Milwaukee etc., they look like wonderful places to live. What changed? Then I look at newer film footage of all the poverty and dilapidated buildings and realize that it's the people. The people are different. We have seceded our civilization to people who are unable to maintain it.
Those were the better days! 👍The cars were well built!👊
The cars were built? You mean they weren't hatched?
yes, Yvette. and everything was made in America then, with good jobs for working class people of all colors. We have lost that
My mother was born in 1934...Truly amazing film footage of 1930's-1940's...This has given me a glimpse of what she saw as a child in Cleveland, Ohio!! Totally amazing!!❤❤❤
My father too. He was born in San Diego Street. I wonder if he’s in one of those cars or streetcars even a bus!
My city! Yay! My paternal grandfather sold carpet in a store in the Terminal Tower downtown. I was raised in the same suburb as Paul Newman. Shaker Heights.
Shakerite also!
@@Ms.HistoryBuff433 greetings fellow Shakerite!
These are the years when my parents were young, growing up in Cleveland. Thank you for this.
Such awesome footage. Wishing I had grown up in a time like this in ohio (30s-40s). Makes me homesick for a place that no longer exists.
ProjectHangEm in the great depression?...
I’m sure you don’t want to live in this time. Medical was horrible
yea with no ps5 💀
i wish i grew up in the 70s, but this footage is cool asf anyways
I really love this kind of era from the development of filmography to 1950s. The style, creativity resilientsy through non-advance period, everything. Hope I could encourage every vintage stuff lover (like this stuff) to just give up a try to my video. I post 1950s theme blog and my intention was just to please everyone with this same interest I have. So it'll be grateful for me to have some of your time to visit my channel. Thank you very much 😅😅😊😊❤❤❤
This make me long for simpler times. May not have been easier like today, but none the less simpler.
My parents migrated from Louisiana in 1948 when dad got outta army. We were raised on East 105th, Superior Ave. CLEVELAND WAS SO NICE THEN, EVEN FOR AFRICA AMERICANS.
Wow. I totally understand the nostalgia. I'm new here and still in awe of it all.
At 2:00, the vintage street light a front of the round building, does came from Outer Drive in Detroit Michigan and in Dearborn Michigan between Ford Road and back then Southfield Road before it became the Southfield Freeway in the early 1960s. Now the vintage street lights are at the parking lot near the Henry Ford Museum, and partially of Greenfield Road near Greenfield Village in Dearborn Michigan.
I so enjoy watching these little snippets of the past. Thank you.
My father was born in 1921 so I think of him roaming these streets great video.
My dad was also born in 1921 and grew up in the Collingwood area.
@@Ms.HistoryBuff433 my dad I think maybe 110 and then Murray Hill
@@vincentscibana856 Little Italy! Great area!
Loved this. In 2008 we posted all kinds of cool stuff like this. RUclips is mostly trash now so this is really refreshing. Even the music wasn’t too annoying. Nice job mate !
I'm from Cleveland Ohio this is nice to see footage from Cleveland, thanks for sharing this footage G Cast
Lemme visit 🤗 I'll bring the Nintendo 🧳
This was my dad's world , ty for sharing ❤️
People from the 30's or 40's, probably long gone, waving to us in the future.
Very fun to watch this! This was my grandparent's era - both born in Cleveland and my parents too in '46 (Rhodes HS class of 65). Our first home was a condo they rented on Gifford Avenue. I checked it out on Google Earth and the entire neighborhood looks like a dive now. All the large shade trees along the streets cut down, many homes look dilapidated. I wonder if that Pizzeria at Gifford/Pearl Road is still in business. We moved to Texas in '80, so I missed many of the changes over the years.
It was probably a great place to live back then
I enjoyed looking at that 8mm movie of the 30s , my father's youthful era. I liked seeing the cars, the clothes, landmarks around Cleveland. I don't know anything about construction but it was interesting to see the hard labor involved. Wonder what they were building. I hope visuals like you showed are preserved in some way for history.
Luv the cars from this era
Very beautiful adore the black and white video
Just sublime.
Just some guesses-----the owner of the movie camera and many of the well dressed people in the film, are rich----you did not own a movie camera or a new car in the 1930s unless you were rich !----the streetcar scenes are on Euclid Ave. near Univ. Circle-----the color film of the road construction, I am guessing, is up the hill from the University Circle scenes that were also filmed-----the development of Ambler Heights around Fairmount Blvd. and Cedar took place in the 1920s, and this might have been further development going on the the east and south of Ambler.---Big pond near the end might be Shaker Lakes.---Shaker Heights population inceased by 33% in the 1930s, so the color film might be work on the final phase of the city moving into rural land.----Truck near end has words Huber Motors on it---Charles Huber was a land developer who created Huber Heights down near Dayton----Huber Heights was created in the mid 1950s, so perhaps the film is of an earlier Huber project here in Cleveland and Shaker Heights?----One final little clue----in Clev. Hghts., there is a Howard Hanno real estate broker named....Timothy Huber....
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That's not entirely true. My grandfather was really into technology back in the 40's & 50's. They lived on E79th street and had the first TV in the neighborhood. He had an 8mm camera as well, and the first on the street to have a microwave. They were not rich by any means, just a working class family. He was an "early adopter" before that phrase came into wide use :)
@@rmeyer4948 He must have been a very interesting person for you to know!
This kids in the thumbnail are more gangster than anyone currently on the planet.
I went back and examined the thumbnail and, as it turns out, you're totally correct, great call
social media and technology have emasculated men
Why? Were they selling Crack or distributing bootleg Liquor?
I grew up there. It has been a long since I saw the rapid transit.
@Repair right roofing thank you for the correction.
@Repair right roofing Solon, Chagrin, Bedford Heights, East side. W.117th
@Repair right roofing currently I live in northwest Georgia. Do you still live in Beechwood? I remember in Solon High School that sometimes the Comets would play a outside division game with Beechwood.
Amazing
In those days.....everyone wore a hat !!
At 2:46 is the Helen M. Smith House, which stood on Euclid in University Circle.
Great video
Great fucking video. I Miss Cleveland! Some of the best people in the world💯
Now that’s America!
Born in Kenton Ohio in 79. Have family still there. But would of liked to grow up in this time period anywhere in the 🇺🇸.
It’s cooling knowing my Spanish grandfather could be anyone in this video
I don't get it, the people didn't have their noses crammed in their cell phones,?
Captions would be nice. Still, I love it.
Wow cool footage! 👍 and man times have changed in cleveland. I am from cleveland ohio. But live on the east side of cleveland.
Nice video I live in Cleveland it’s nice to see what it looked like to my great grandparents who came here from the “free” city of Danzig
ah, Poland! good country
I love it. The grainier the better
0:17 This street here kinda looks like my grandparents street called, Stone Ave.
I wonder if it is?
That house in the background sure looks a lot like I remember my grandma's place back in the fifties when I was under the age of ten.
That empty lot next to it also looks familiar.
If it is my grandparents home, it's gone now and a factory took over the land to expand.
I love this stuff I know the case campus and University Circle very well fun to watch this old stuff
Omg I love this video
Glad you enjoyed it. I also have another channel that includes all the videos on this channel and more at ruclips.net/channel/UC1537DwFsost4QvAghOxcbw
So many questions.
Love the cement loader-mixer. It would be awesomer if you went to the exact spot of the movie reel and show how it looks now. I also spotted time travelers at 8:30-44. Wearing t-shirts (1) looks to be sporting an iphone on his belt !!!
Cool video
Thanks!
My great grandfather lost his business during this time and moved to California
Sublime
I've always wondered why those formal hats from the early 1900s went away.
People started washing their hair regularly, I think is a big reason.
Styles come and go.
john f Kennedy didn't, so he changed the style for men
@@juliek266 Hmm, I think there's probably more to it than one person changing the fashion status quo. Plenty of prominent figures don't wear ties, but for whatever reason, regular joes are still required to wear them at job interviews and professional settings. On the other hand, the fedora type hats have been rendered completely obsolete, outside of third wave coffee bars.
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Yes, but this is the only film you have of Cleveland.
@@williamanthony9090 Good point.
This is when my father grew up.
Great video..really enjoyed it..thanks for posting...Consider changing the music to it...
looks life real life footage of the Christmas Story
the best living style
I see me in this in so many ways
Black and White, quite simply...i guess many didn't know their roots.
Todos mortos. A vida é como um jogo , em que várias versões são lançadas e atualizadas.
Podemos achar esse vídeo nostálgico, a época , as roupas , as pessoa. E pra eles era apenas um dia comum , um tempo comum , como nós hoje , ao caminharmos na rua e ver as coisas de sempre. Daqui a algumas décadas um passeio nosso na rua será nostálgico pra as gerações que virão. Seremos uma nostálgica versão absoleta no joguinho.
A reminder of the backbreaking labor that working men of my father's generation accepted as normal.
people still do labor like that, look around at some construction sites
Cars need to have running boards again.
Am of the opinion that if that's the way life was now, we'd be much happier.
You see those guys building the road. Fast forward to today and look at a road construction site. Orange barrels replaced actual work. No wonder it takes 2 years to do anything.....progress? We went backwards. Give those same guys the new equipment of today and people would say its a Miracle.
It would be really cool to find out where that construction footage was taken.
I think I saw one of them say "You don't have permission. If you post that on RUclips I'll sue"
😂😂😂😂
Awesome! May i use some of this footage for my video?
Anyone get the feeling everyone saw in black & white during these times or am I the only one? 😂😂
Cleveland stand up
It makes you think. these construction workers building these Houses are dead and the people who purchased the houses and chances are there children if they had any. Time screws everyone.
It’s weird to say but pretty soon someone will be filming in the 30s again!
and when 2030s get here you can come back and say I told you so.
Digitizing the Destruction...
@@ami2evil after the Trumptards destroy it.
@@davidbrawn2828 there always has to be some douchebag drag politics into a video that has absolutely nothing to do with it. Get a life!
@@cgustafson240 o did i say something about your lord Jesus Trump poor snowflake.
this video is so awesome!! how did you upload the footage and do you know what kinda of camera this was filmed on?
I digitized the film using a Wolverine 8mm/Super 8 Digitizer I bought on Amazon. amzn.to/2tHBZDG
G Cast wow thats a sweet set up! i need to get one!
@@GCast Cool.
good old days...
WOW, where did you find This??
Is there anywhere on Earth that looks like that today and if so that's where I want to live
There are rural locations in Russia that would look similar to these 30's-40's US locales. Putin will send you a ticket very soon.....
Maybe you should go to Willoughby....In The Twilight Zone.
What is the name of the first song?
the 40s-50s were the closest thing we got to the fallout universe
Fallout was based on the 50’s, you got the correlation backwards.
What’s the name of the song?
Great video, except for music.
Thanks, it's taken me a bit to figure out the music part.
A lot of what could have been interesting RUclips videos unfortunately ruined by the music.
The music doesn’t match otherwise great video
It match ... Lol its a funny music just like looking back in time
Yeah pretty sure they didn’t have the piston the 30’s lol
Interesting time for colored people though: People of color, including Asians, Latino's, and Blacks were outlawed to be on film during this era. Furthermore, the Chinese were still enslaved in lots of rural era's and many others were in internments camps from the war. Cleveland wasn't fully desegregated in schools until the late '70's. It was only in Oberlin College of OH back in 1834 that allowed the first people of color to attend a university. Case University (as formerly known) was one to step up to the plate to fight against discrimination: "During the 1820s and the 1830s, Western Reserve College became an important center for anti-slavery sentiment in Ohio. During the early 1830s, abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld visited the school and recruited several faculty members to the anti-slavery cause. In 1833, Western Reserve College organized the first abolitionist society in the former Connecticut Western Reserve. The school's anti-slavery activities upset many white residents of northeast Ohio. Some of these people believed slavery was wrong but feared that large numbers of African Americans would move to the North, including Ohio, if slavery ended."
Any idea what road they we're building at the end?
No idea, I hope someone is able to recognize it.
@@GCast Boy I have done that job. Two portland, six sand , six gravel. Doesn't the telegraph poles layout suggest railroad? Looks like sturdy poured concrete abutments for a riveted steel RR overpass, but I don't see enough of the location to guess where. The assumed time period of the film does narrow the choices down a lot however.
Theres not any points of reference but if I were to guess, east side was all built up by the 40s, but by the rual layout, westside, maybe westlake or north olmsted
It is hard to tell but I was thinking SOM Center Road.
i'd say up in Cleveland Heights, up the hill from University circle and to the South, as Cleveland Heights expanded...there was a big development being build up there called Ambler Heights in the 1920s-30s
This was during the torso murderer era
i was there
Based
These people will have the shock of their lives in a few years when WW2 begins.
Lil Herb on da Curb 216 CLE LEL FOREVER...Mr. Forever
Right about the time the Mad Butcher was terrorizing the city....Good Times!
The Home Of Untouchable Elliot Ness Who investigated Al Capone And Italian gangsters Mafia
In Chicago yes. but in Cleveland he didn't have much luck against organized crime. He did have an impact on lowering vehicle fatalities as city safety director...he also was involved in a car accident on the Shoreway while he was intoxicated.
where's video of those huge concrete government buildings being laid
Too bad we can't go back to those days. Back then we could leave our doors open do not have to lock down everything. People had respect, which we do not have today. People are out of control nowadays.
In Cleveland at that time there was someone killing people and hacking them up he was called The Torso Killer....you didn't want to leave the door open to him.
I wonder how much money would I have if I go back in time in the 1940. And put $100 in the bank until 2021 ?
$100 in 1940 money would buy gods that, today, would cost you about $3000
I would have $3000 today? Nice
who got aux
Cleveland is now a cesspool 😂
I remember using the old trolley on bridge avenue. On saturdays immigrant ladies would get on with a live chicken wrapped in newspaper . That was 1952. A lot of the same cars were still around. No welfare ,very little crime, no blame or victim games , just honest work for those that wanted it. A year later a massive tornado would destroy trees and houses on Franklin ave where I lived.
Honest work for those who wanted it, if you were a white man.
@@juanggamboa1 Very efficient of you to use hate and racism at the same time.
@@hi13760 how am I using hate or racism?
@@hi13760 maybe you didn’t learn the same American history that I was taught. Brown and black people didn’t have it so great in the 50s. World war 2 just ended, Japanese families were rounded up and put into camps. Slavery may have been abolished in this country but racism was heavily present. Many businesses only employed white males and at the doors there would be signs reading, “No Blacks, or “No Mexican”. Shit even women didn’t have rights. Just imagine being a woman of color. This is a nice video, from not so good times for us people of color. I’m sure life was great for you back then, but you don’t know the life of a colored person.
@@juanggamboa1 you’re talking to a dumb hick who used every advantage in their life yet still failed, in other words they’re very angry and irrational.
...before "Coco Crisp" joined the Indians.
Just shortly...
Jimi Hendrix
Dang, they were littering it and trashing it our in the 30’s !
All amateur film makers out there, keep the camera steady, it makes it so much more interesting to the viewer, imagine it like this, you are looking at a photograph, that is how the film should look, let the movement in the frame move, the camera stays still.