What great shape this footage is in! Thanks for uploading 'n sharing this 😊! The only thing that saddens me is that nobody (or living creature) is alive today as this footage is either nearly 100 yrs ago or is already 100 yrs, or is already more than 100 yrs old 😲! Hope ppl 100 plus yrs from now will appreciate footage from our time as well ✌🏾!
very cool! you can narrow it down to post-1926, as that was the year the Delaware River/Ben Franklin Bridge was opened. And I love the little girl on the ferry at 08:10 who nudges her sister....."Look! He's filming!"
Like traveling back in a time machine. It's fascinating seeing familiar structures like Independence Hall and the Ben Franklin Bridge in the world as it existed a century ago. Thanks for sharing!
Small note: see how the early Ben Franklin Bridge (called Delaware River Bridge then) has the outer lanes blocked off, they were supposed to be for trolley tracks that were never installed (tracks WERE installed outside the bridge deck, but never used for the trolleys; used for Bridge Line & PATCO later).
@@davehorner8126 Wooo! Mine lived on Orthodox St, on the other side of Aramingo from Overington - attended St. John Cantius. Definitely a small world. But now I can't get that *&^# Disney song out of my mind, hah!
Wonderful and fascinating. Sad to see all the lovely trolleys rolling to and fro, all gone now. Also to see the big cats in tiny cages. But awesome to have documentary footage of our great city a century ago!
Our 'great' city?? Ya have ta be from Philly, just to say that. Have you Philly people, looked around recently?? What has happened, to your city?? What have you done, to it🤔????
@@yvonneplant9434 I think they'd met the actual trolly cars themselves & not speaking to any trolly lines. Septa is bringing back the old PTC style tollies, but with modern amenities such as air conditioning.
People dressed much more formally a century ago. Just like how in the 1920's, men in this film footage are wearing suits and ties to go to the Philadelphia Zoo. Men also wore suits and ties to go to ballgames back then. In sharp contrast in 2019, just before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the entire world, many office workplaces allowed for casual dress at the office.
@@paulluchter137 At the same time, the people of the 1920's were used to wearing these hot and heavy clothes in the summertime. But, in contrast we as people of a century later, would find wearing such hot and heavy clothes in the spring and summer an unbearable torture. Just imagine what if a century from now, with climate change and if laws against public nudity have long since been repealed, people in such a future will then consider our casual summer clothes to have been hot, heavy, and bearable!
@@paulluchter137 Not all of them. Ppl in this footage were dressed accordingly as it appears to be early spring or late fall. Summertime attire usually consisted of seersucker, summer linens & cottons. Fall/winter attire consisted of wool & wool-blends, winter linens & cotton. Folks seen in this footage were wearing winter attire which suggest this footage was shot either March/April or Oct/Nov as the young woman is seen carrying her coat on the bridge & a few vehicles had their convertible tops down.
Fascinating to see travel by rail along the Schuylkill instead of that blasted expressway! Too much footage of the Ben Franklin Bridge (then the Delaware River Bridge), but it was new then (1926). It would have been interesting to see some defunct transit routes, like the Delaware Avenue Elevated and the Fairmount Park trolley but no such luck here.
The title of this video has very little to nothing to do with it’s content. I still love the old videos anyway. I was hoping to see my grandparents, aunts and uncles going to Philly from the Dephi train station, that’s along the perkioman creek. Next stop would be Shwenksville.
So nice to see people dressed nicely on the streets. No ripped up jeans, no pants hanging below the butt, no baggy sweatpants, or metal snot and booger catchers hanging out of people's noses.
I assume that was, the Ben Franklin bridge. But, it looks like there were fewer lanes, back then. Was the bridge width, widened later?? Philadelphia before, 'Filthadelphia'!!! Why?? What's the one element, omitted from this footage😏??? Before someone thinks I am, I'm NOT………
You are, you just aren't as clever and witty as you think you are. Racists think they are smarter than everyone else, when in fact they are the most stupid. Case in point.😂
So grateful these rare films still exist today.Thank You
There's talk that Septa might run a train from Philly to Reading again. Thanks for this video. It's incredible❤
What great shape this footage is in! Thanks for uploading 'n sharing this 😊! The only thing that saddens me is that nobody (or living creature) is alive today as this footage is either nearly 100 yrs ago or is already 100 yrs, or is already more than 100 yrs old 😲! Hope ppl 100 plus yrs from now will appreciate footage from our time as well ✌🏾!
As close to a time machine as we are going to get folks! Thank!
Wow, great shot of the train going thru Black Rock Tunnel in Phoenixville at 14:28.
This is a real treasure, thanks for posting.
Filming and processing this footage in 1926 cost the equivalent of over $400 today. Hats off to that filmmaker!
Yes the credit goes to him😢😢
very cool! you can narrow it down to post-1926, as that was the year the Delaware River/Ben Franklin Bridge was opened. And I love the little girl on the ferry at 08:10 who nudges her sister....."Look! He's filming!"
Yes....suppose they're both dead 'n gone now (or close to it) 😔.
Ironically, I was born on the Delaware River Bridge over 70 years ago and I now live on the hill that overlooks downtown Reading.
Like traveling back in a time machine. It's fascinating seeing familiar structures like Independence Hall and the Ben Franklin Bridge in the world as it existed a century ago. Thanks for sharing!
Small note: see how the early Ben Franklin Bridge (called Delaware River Bridge then) has the outer lanes blocked off, they were supposed to be for trolley tracks that were never installed (tracks WERE installed outside the bridge deck, but never used for the trolleys; used for Bridge Line & PATCO later).
IIRC a never-used trolley station still exists at the base of the bridge.
Never knew that, thx!
Great! Like stepping back in time. And so neat to see the Hall signals in use. Thanks many times over.
Great film!
Love the elegant young lady in the cloche hat. She reappears several times.
Thankyou. Respect. Always
very cool to see the city as my grandparents would have. They lived in Bridesburg.
There was a lot of coal dust in the air. But, otherwise, seeing this footage is great.
So did mine! I sometimes try to imagine what their experiences were.
@@Poisson4147 They lived on Overington St. Small world.
@@davehorner8126 Wooo! Mine lived on Orthodox St, on the other side of Aramingo from Overington - attended St. John Cantius. Definitely a small world.
But now I can't get that *&^# Disney song out of my mind, hah!
Awesome footage of the Reading Railway!
this is magnificent 😍 thanks for posting such a incredible video 👏👏👏👏
Great vid! Thanks fur uploading.
I have some old photos of my grandparents at this same time in Philadelphia. My mother's family is from there.
Wonderful and fascinating. Sad to see all the lovely trolleys rolling to and fro, all gone now. Also to see the big cats in tiny cages. But awesome to have documentary footage of our great city a century ago!
Luckily there are still trolleys but they are, on the surface, in W. Phila only. The 10, 13. 34 and 36. In Center City they run underground.
Our 'great' city?? Ya have ta be from Philly, just to say that. Have you Philly people, looked around recently?? What has happened, to your city?? What have you done, to it🤔????
@@yvonneplant9434 I think they'd met the actual trolly cars themselves & not speaking to any trolly lines. Septa is bringing back the old PTC style tollies, but with modern amenities such as air conditioning.
People dressed much more formally a century ago. Just like how in the 1920's, men in this film footage are wearing suits and ties to go to the Philadelphia Zoo. Men also wore suits and ties to go to ballgames back then. In sharp contrast in 2019, just before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the entire world, many office workplaces allowed for casual dress at the office.
That clothing was hot and heavy
@@paulluchter137 At the same time, the people of the 1920's were used to wearing these hot and heavy clothes in the summertime. But, in contrast we as people of a century later, would find wearing such hot and heavy clothes in the spring and summer an unbearable torture. Just imagine what if a century from now, with climate change and if laws against public nudity have long since been repealed, people in such a future will then consider our casual summer clothes to have been hot, heavy, and bearable!
When unfortunately, Christianity reined. Hence all, the facade-like amenities.
@@paulluchter137 Not all of them. Ppl in this footage were dressed accordingly as it appears to be early spring or late fall. Summertime attire usually consisted of seersucker, summer linens & cottons. Fall/winter attire consisted of wool & wool-blends, winter linens & cotton.
Folks seen in this footage were wearing winter attire which suggest this footage was shot either March/April or Oct/Nov as the young woman is seen carrying her coat on the bridge & a few vehicles had their convertible tops down.
Fascinating to see travel by rail along the Schuylkill instead of that blasted expressway! Too much footage of the Ben Franklin Bridge (then the Delaware River Bridge), but it was new then (1926). It would have been interesting to see some defunct transit routes, like the Delaware Avenue Elevated and the Fairmount Park trolley but no such luck here.
So cool!!!! Late 20s Philadelphia WOW!
Great video.
I miss the old Philadelphia and Reading
Someone took the “slow train from Philly!”
My grandparents were born in 1893.... lucky them 😊
No television!!! How unlucky is that. Back then, you died just from the first small ailment, that came along. Lucky???
Who filmed this?
love to see more footage of the MFL from this time frame or pre 50s & 60s
It's kinda sad to see what Philly and Reading used to be like compared to the way it is now
@@paulluchter137 - There was an unstoppable Republican machine run by the Vares that stayed in power until corruption toppled them in 1952.
Reading Terminal Market is filled with tourists from all over.
Yeah, what have you 'Filthadelphians' done, to your fair city???
@@paulluchter137Allow the OP to live in ignorance.
Hmmm. Even then ? Pennsy drivers clogging up the left lanes....lol.
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so sweet!!!!
We need these amateur movie makers back now!
Those Cards seem out of era?
The title of this video has very little to nothing to do with it’s content. I still love the old videos anyway. I was hoping to see my grandparents, aunts and uncles going to Philly from the Dephi train station, that’s along the perkioman creek. Next stop would be Shwenksville.
The zoo doesn't look that different. They took care of the animals as best they could at the time.
So nice to see people dressed nicely on the streets. No ripped up jeans, no pants hanging below the butt, no baggy sweatpants, or metal snot and booger catchers hanging out of people's noses.
ok nobody cares
You're incredibly old, ain't you☺️??? Stop living, in the past.
7:33 its insane the way they drove then. and here I thought people today were stupid.
'Philadelphia driver's'🤭😆!!! We're stuck dealing with them in the summer, down here, at the South Jersey shore🙄👎……….
The air quality seems so horrible. Imagine if we had never done anything to help clean up the air.
Decision/uncommon mule costume
I assume that was, the Ben Franklin bridge. But, it looks like there were fewer lanes, back then. Was the bridge width, widened later?? Philadelphia before, 'Filthadelphia'!!! Why?? What's the one element, omitted from this footage😏??? Before someone thinks I am, I'm NOT………
You are, you just aren't as clever and witty as you think you are. Racists think they are smarter than everyone else, when in fact they are the most stupid.
Case in point.😂
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These attractions are still, for the most part, extant.....only the “players” are gone........
Was hoping to see my Gramma as she was a teen ager there
Eururur
Has to be later since the Ben Franklin bridge was opened in the 30's
July 1, 1926
And now look what some people have turned Philly into. A bum city!
its still had poverty and crime and homelessness dumbass
'Some' people…………
Democrats