Doc Brown retired and moved to Florida, Marty McFly took a job teaching history at Hill Valley High School, and the DeLorean blew a head gasket and got sent to the junkyard. So for all the wannabe time travelers like me, this is as close as you'll ever get. These videos are amazing!!!! It must have taken a long time to put them together.
I am Singapore-born and bred. I belong to the early 1950 era during the British administration of the tiny state. I am thrilled to watch how New York looked in 1930. Buildings were not so tall. There was no rush and life was easygoing. I watched it repeatedly and literally felt as if my soul and body were being transported to that period. I could sense the calmness in people who looked so neat and without any sign of worry on their faces. The way people walk was so different too. It was the era of my parents. It is truly an inspiration to keep watching this clip. Thank you for bringing me back to New York in the good old days.
The first 5 minutes or so are traveling around Central Park, as noted via several monuments. I was able to start ID'ing buildings at the following timestamps. Please comment corrections. 5:46 Grand Army Plaza 6:08 Hecksher Building 6:41 The Peninsula 6:56 on wards is 5th Avenue on the east side of Central Park 7:05 915 Fifth Avenue (Currently co-op) 7:18 900 Fifth Avenue 7:26 Frick House Now a museum, it may have still been the Frick family residence here. 7:34 E. J. Harriman Mansion on 69th street. The railroad baron's private residence (!) 8:12 854 Fifth Avenue, a private home. 8:25 Temple Emanu-El 8:30 834 Fifth Avenue, an apartment building with an impressive list of historical tenants 8:35 828 Fifth Avenue, home at the time of a coal magnate. It later became famous for renting apartments for $80,000 USD a month 8:51 2 East 62nd Street. (Yes that lonely brick wall still stands) 9:02 Pierre Hotel, 5th Avenue 9:31 The previously mens-only New York Metropolitan Club 9:39 Sherry-Netherland Hotel 9:54 Bergdorf Goodman (Former FAO Schwartz location)
There were far fewer people then. Many died in infancy or childhood because of the lack of vaccines. And there were fewer products available to create litter. And, this is an affluent crowd which wasn't typical. Most of the country was in the midst of the Great Depression. It's easy to imagine earlier years as golden ages. They weren't. In some ways they were better, in some ways worse.
@Popa Judging from the automobiles seen driving, I'd say this was filmed in the mid to late 1930s. Could not find one postwar (WWII) car in the film. If I had to pick a year, I'd say 1937.
I love the 1930's style of dress. Everyone looked very nice with their hats, suits, dress and cars looked great too. The stylish dress is something sadly lacking in todays society. Thanks for the upload.
My Italian grandma was driving around in her new 1937 Ford Deluxe in this city from 1937-1945... I wonder if she was in any of these cars that drove by, I can only imagine!
At 3:50 a man does a double take at the camera as he crosses the street, looks around, and jumps over the wall into the park. Maybe he was on the lam, or just liked jumping over walls into bushes for exercise. One interesting cameo in this great film
Off into the distance future when all of the living have now become all of the ancestors, people will appreciate your efforts with these compilations. Good work, a pleasure to watch.
After viewing many of these videos, I can't get over how major cities didn't have designated traffic lanes during this period. Both here and in LA there seemed to be one line down the middle of the street to separate traffic moving in opposite directions. Beyond that people just seemed to make up lanes to suit themselves. Like the car early in the video that's travelling next to the curb and has to dodge around a parked car. I also thought there'd be traffic lights in the late 30s. Other than an occasional traffic cop standing in mid-intersection there doesn't seem to be any traffic control at all.
There wouldn't have been the money to put-in automatic traffic-control lights at most of N.Y.C.'s many street intersections, so using cops would have been the only solution.
As a native & current New Yorker the first thing I noticed was how CLEAN and well maintained the streets and sidewalks were back then compared to now. I realize this footage was shot in the pricier areas by Central Park but it still looks much nicer than today.
How native are you? Were you born in NYC? And your parents? Most so called natives of today are transplanted mid-westerners and other parts. Plenty of fake New Yorkers today.
@@failyourwaytothetop Three of my four grandparents, my parents, and myself were born in NYC. The family has been in NYC since my great grandparents emigrated here from Southern Europe in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
It kind of is! Very few left alive from this time (who would have been small children then), and generations that grew up subsequently were only influenced by this time indirectly, through their ancestors.
This has to be the late 1930's, judging by the cars. A very clear view of a 1937 Ford couple at 7:04. To think, this was the height of the Great Depression, obviously not all commerce was effected equally.
The radio in the background is playing Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, however it appears this music has been added after the fact. I know this because it’s a recording of a nighttime radio broadcast the Ellington band played March 18, 1937 live at the Cotton Club in NYC. This recording has circulated as a bootleg for many years. I own an mp3 copy of it.
I love watching these old videos. I'm currently restoring a 1947 Lincoln convertible and I get Hyped when I see an old Lincoln....Thank You, Much appreciated.....
Comparing to Fifth Avenue today on Google Streetview, a lot of those fine brownstone buildings are gone. Too bad, because they added a lot of character.
Thank you for posting ! Pride in our American way of life. The music is a great addition to this beautiful era, once the depression year’s were over. I love the car’s from this era, the streets are so clean. An era when street cleaner’s and garbage men took pride in keeping their city clean. NO PARKING METER’S !
On the Central Park stretch there seem to have been plenty of light-controlled pedestrian-crossings. The wider stretches of road, further down, seem to have relied on cops directing traffic (a risky job).
Just visible at 5.50 is the "Grande Maison de Blanc" exclusive bedding shop which sold sheets and stuff to the wealthy, including the Rothschilds. The N.Y.C. shop moved to a nearby address and has now gone but the business name is used currently by a shop in Rodeo Drive, Hollywood
Wonderful time travel video. My parents worked in New York during those years at Radio City Music Hall and I have so longed to see what they might have seen and feel what life was like then. Of course this was filmed in the posh Central Park neighborhoods but still took me back and allowed me to get a feeling of what my parents saw. Thanks so very much.
NYC looks beautiful in the video. All the pedestrians are dressed so nice. I don't see any trash. There's even room to walk on the sidewalks. Thanks for posting.
The guy climbing over the wall to reach [the park?] is so funny. Who knows, maybe he was fleeing a crime scene haha. Also the kid skating on the same sidewalk is just awesome!
Amazing to see the Frick museum when it was most likely still a home. But a little shocking to see how many old 5th ave mansions boarded up ready for demolition.
@@lorenzoblum868 Many of the people living on that exclusive stretch of highway had only acquired their wealth by being thoroughly rotten and ruthless: there's no other way to a fast buck.
QUE ÉPOCA MARAVILHOSA!!! Sou espírita e reencarcionista e tenho quase certeza de ter vivido nos EUA nessa época! Sou apaixonadíssimo pela cultura do final dos Anos 30 e início dos 40!!! Principalmente a Música, notadamente o Jazz. Meu Grande Ídolo é GLENN MILLER! De repente era um pracinha americano durante a Segunda Guerra e pereci em combate na Europa ou na Ásia! E reencarnei pouco tempo depois na Europa(Lisboa) em 1951. As impressões dessas reminiscências são extremamente fortes em mim desde criança! Hoje estou com quase 72 anos! Obs: Coloquei um CD da Orquestra de Benny Goodman com os refrões vocais de Helen Ward para criar uma atmosfera musical dessa Época de Ouro e vou fazendo a "viagen" através desse vídeo! Inclusive tem-se a nítida impressão dessa filmagem ter sido produzida à muito pouco tempo dado a boa qualidade e nitidez!!!
I recognized the area immediately. Almost all of those buildings are still there. Central Park is on the left. That hasn't changed. 5th Ave. Is 1 way today. Do we know what year this was? Thank you!
Whenever I see films from Manhattan in the 1930s I think about the Catcher in the Rye and about JD Salinger who must have been a teenager while walking these streets.
Wow just amazing, no hoodies, baseball caps, big logos, vests, baggy jeans. Women dressed modestly with class, no skirts, tights and bits hanging out. Just amazing.
How are you doing this? Did you figure out a way to travel back in time? I know they didn't have camcorders, or video tape recorders back in the 30s! My grandpa had one of the first video tape recorders and it came out in the early 1950s. So that means you have discovered a way to travel back in time. Hmm...
@@miguelmejia4656 This is what was called a "background plate". It was stock footage filmed by a movie company when making a movie where the actors were supposed to be driving a car down the street. The car was actually sitting in a studio, and they had a big projection screen behind the car showing this footage to make it look like the car (which was sitting in one place, along with the camera filming the actors) was actually moving. Of course this film was black and white. NASS has used some software to colorize it. He has the link to the original film in the notes if you want to see that.
Man at 3:49 is acting suspiciously. He looks hard at the camera as he crosses the street. He then steps up on a park bench and scales the wall. He then jumps down the other side and is out of sight. I wonder was going on back there? Maybe he lived back there? It was the depression after all and many were out of work and poor.
Thank you for this wonderful insight into the past. I must think, that all this people I can see walking over that pretty boulevard are now not longer alive. Where are they all now? This reminds me to the bibel word: „Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.“(Joh.3,36)
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Your gotta wrong year but it’s 1938s in color New York’s.
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Who cares. Say thanks instead😀
I want to see some 60's and 70's sometime. =)
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This clip more like we're in 90s xD
Doc Brown retired and moved to Florida, Marty McFly took a job teaching history at Hill Valley High School, and the DeLorean blew a head gasket and got sent to the junkyard. So for all the wannabe time travelers like me, this is as close as you'll ever get. These videos are amazing!!!! It must have taken a long time to put them together.
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@@NASS_0 you're breathtaking
I am Singapore-born and bred. I belong to the early 1950 era during the British administration of the tiny state. I am thrilled to watch how New York looked in 1930. Buildings were not so tall. There was no rush and life was easygoing. I watched it repeatedly and literally felt as if my soul and body were being transported to that period. I could sense the calmness in people who looked so neat and without any sign of worry on their faces. The way people walk was so different too. It was the era of my parents. It is truly an inspiration to keep watching this clip. Thank you for bringing me back to New York in the good old days.
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The first 5 minutes or so are traveling around Central Park, as noted via several monuments. I was able to start ID'ing buildings at the following timestamps. Please comment corrections.
5:46 Grand Army Plaza
6:08 Hecksher Building
6:41 The Peninsula
6:56 on wards is 5th Avenue on the east side of Central Park
7:05 915 Fifth Avenue (Currently co-op)
7:18 900 Fifth Avenue
7:26 Frick House Now a museum, it may have still been the Frick family residence here.
7:34 E. J. Harriman Mansion on 69th street. The railroad baron's private residence (!)
8:12 854 Fifth Avenue, a private home.
8:25 Temple Emanu-El
8:30 834 Fifth Avenue, an apartment building with an impressive list of historical tenants
8:35 828 Fifth Avenue, home at the time of a coal magnate. It later became famous for renting apartments for $80,000 USD a month
8:51 2 East 62nd Street. (Yes that lonely brick wall still stands)
9:02 Pierre Hotel, 5th Avenue
9:31 The previously mens-only New York Metropolitan Club
9:39 Sherry-Netherland Hotel
9:54 Bergdorf Goodman (Former FAO Schwartz location)
JB, you passed with a 100 score!
Which one is 834 Fifth avenue? Is it the soot-covered building to the left, or the hotel-looking building to the right?
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I noticed how clean the streets and side walks are back then. No candy wrappers blowing around in the wind.
Society had mutual respect
or homeless people having crap in front of you as you eat
There were far fewer people then. Many died in infancy or childhood because of the lack of vaccines. And there were fewer products available to create litter. And, this is an affluent crowd which wasn't typical. Most of the country was in the midst of the Great Depression. It's easy to imagine earlier years as golden ages. They weren't. In some ways they were better, in some ways worse.
before tom hoving opened up central park for better or worse-
@Popa Judging from the automobiles seen driving, I'd say this was filmed in the mid to late 1930s. Could not find one postwar (WWII) car in the film. If I had to pick a year, I'd say 1937.
I love the 1930's style of dress. Everyone looked very nice with their hats, suits, dress and cars looked great too. The stylish dress is something sadly lacking in todays society. Thanks for the upload.
Thx ;)
Yes agreed
I was going to post the same thing. You beat me to it.
CERTAINLY RIGHT I AGREE TOO WITH YOU SONNY💯👍
Because it's too hot and uncomfortable! No way am I dressing like those fools, and you can't make me too, so bleh.
Sht looks 1000x better than my city today.
Then your city must be NYC?
Shut ur mouth KUUUUMAR! 🤣
@@JR-jk5wz That's what NYC has become in the last 4-5 decades. Of course, looked a bit cleaner during the COVID lockdown.
BLM and ANTIFA was not around then either.
@@matrox Can we stop with these kinds of comments on these videos? No one wants to talk politics here!
This is the closest I'll ever come to time travel. More please!
My Italian grandma was driving around in her new 1937 Ford Deluxe in this city from 1937-1945... I wonder if she was in any of these cars that drove by, I can only imagine!
@Dan Cooper definitely
At 3:50 a man does a double take at the camera as he crosses the street, looks around, and jumps over the wall into the park. Maybe he was on the lam, or just liked jumping over walls into bushes for exercise. One interesting cameo in this great film
Hahaha... what the heck was that lol!?
Maybe he was going to meet another 'man' in the seclusion of the Park's shrubbery: we'll never know.
There's so much to look at in these films. Not just the cars, but also the people, the buildings. Every day life in all its glory.
Yes there is. There is a Gal Roller Skating on the sidewalk.
Off into the distance future when all of the living have now become all of the ancestors, people will appreciate your efforts with these compilations. Good work, a pleasure to watch.
I like the addition of the radio playing in the background.
After viewing many of these videos, I can't get over how major cities didn't have designated traffic lanes during this period. Both here and in LA there seemed to be one line down the middle of the street to separate traffic moving in opposite directions. Beyond that people just seemed to make up lanes to suit themselves. Like the car early in the video that's travelling next to the curb and has to dodge around a parked car. I also thought there'd be traffic lights in the late 30s. Other than an occasional traffic cop standing in mid-intersection there doesn't seem to be any traffic control at all.
There wouldn't have been the money to put-in automatic traffic-control lights at most of N.Y.C.'s many street intersections, so using cops would have been the only solution.
The cars are so kool looking! They definitely had style!
As a native & current New Yorker the first thing I noticed was how CLEAN and well maintained the streets and sidewalks were back then compared to now. I realize this footage was shot in the pricier areas by Central Park but it still looks much nicer than today.
thank you for the information ;)
THAT’S BECAUSE THESE WERE HARDLY ANY HOMELESS FOLKS BACK THEN. THEY’RE THE ONES WHO KEEPS THE STREET UNKEMPT LOOKING.
Don't forget the street sweeper
How native are you? Were you born in NYC? And your parents? Most so called natives of today are transplanted mid-westerners and other parts. Plenty of fake New Yorkers today.
@@failyourwaytothetop Three of my four grandparents, my parents, and myself were born in NYC. The family has been in NYC since my great grandparents emigrated here from Southern Europe in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
Extraordinary footage here! Grabs a hold of you from the first frame and won't let go. You've done a great job. Thank you!
thank you ;)
It's like a different civilization altogether.
It kind of is! Very few left alive from this time (who would have been small children then), and generations that grew up subsequently were only influenced by this time indirectly, through their ancestors.
This has to be the late 1930's, judging by the cars. A very clear view of a 1937 Ford couple at 7:04. To think, this was the height of the Great Depression, obviously not all commerce was effected equally.
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To be fair. They are driving on 5th avenue which is kind of swanky. If they were further east, things would look different.
The radio in the background is playing Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, however it appears this music has been added after the fact. I know this because it’s a recording of a nighttime radio broadcast the Ellington band played March 18, 1937 live at the Cotton Club in NYC. This recording has circulated as a bootleg for many years. I own an mp3 copy of it.
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I love watching these old videos. I'm currently restoring a 1947 Lincoln convertible and I get Hyped when I see an old Lincoln....Thank You, Much appreciated.....
At 3:49, a man looks at the camera and jumps over the Central Park wall.
I had to laugh when I watched that.
Maybe he is wanted by the cops. Been a naughty boy🤣. He is still in hiding after been filmed 😜
@@ctwentysevenj6531 😁
So great! I will watch this over and over. I always loved cars from back in those years.
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How clean are those streets!!!
Comparing to Fifth Avenue today on Google Streetview, a lot of those fine brownstone buildings are gone. Too bad, because they added a lot of character.
I have no words to thank those who did this great job.
Thx ;) 👍
Thank you for posting ! Pride in our American way of life. The music is a great addition to this beautiful era, once the depression year’s were over. I love the car’s from this era, the streets are so clean. An era when street cleaner’s and garbage men took pride in keeping their city clean. NO PARKING METER’S !
The Upper East Side is still very clean.
I guess the closest things you had to parking meters back then were those little signs on the edge of the sidewalk as seen in 7:06.
Beautiful old classic cars; cool!!👏👍
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The car turning into our view at 1:03 is a 1935-38 Checker Model Y Taxicab. I believe less than 10 exist today, mostly in museums.
Thank you for that bit of info. I was wondering what Brand and Model those Cabs were.
@@OldDood Soneone explained that those cutaway wings were a styling feature but I wonder if was a practical way of avoiding repairs.
On the Central Park stretch there seem to have been plenty of light-controlled pedestrian-crossings. The wider stretches of road, further down, seem to have relied on cops directing traffic (a risky job).
Just visible at 5.50 is the "Grande Maison de Blanc" exclusive bedding shop which sold sheets and stuff to the wealthy, including the Rothschilds. The N.Y.C. shop moved to a nearby address and has now gone but the business name is used currently by a shop in Rodeo Drive, Hollywood
WW2 (1939-1945) changed everything and not for the better!
Love seeing the old-style traffic signals with only two aspects, red & green. Probably Crouse-Hinds.
just amazing...please keep doing this forever.
Excellent HD Conversion . Thanks for sharing .
Thx ;)
Happy to watch your latest time trip. I can not wait to watch your next time travel video...
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V-12 Packard limo with the black leather padded top looked to be in good shape.
Wonderful time travel video. My parents worked in New York during those years at Radio City Music Hall and I have so longed to see what they might have seen and feel what life was like then. Of course this was filmed in the posh Central Park neighborhoods but still took me back and allowed me to get a feeling of what my parents saw.
Thanks so very much.
this looks much more cleaner than 99% of all cities in asia, africa, middle east etc today. crazy
NYC looks beautiful in the video. All the pedestrians are dressed so nice. I don't see any trash. There's even room to walk on the sidewalks. Thanks for posting.
This is the wealthy part of manhattan. Check out the the downtown manhattan. You'll see the disparity.
Really cool-the sound is great! That Lincoln at the beginning was sweet-brand new!
90's years ago! Fantastic!
The guy climbing over the wall to reach [the park?] is so funny. Who knows, maybe he was fleeing a crime scene haha. Also the kid skating on the same sidewalk is just awesome!
Bart Simpson's great-grandfather
I would give and do anything to go back in 1930s... What a lovely era... 😍😔
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I mean it looks pretty, but as a gay dude in a relationship with a person of color I'd prolly find it a little bit different
and no more fatsos
@@ThePanicPuppet probably because they caught you saying prolly like the next 11 year old
@@miguelmejia4656 it's not so nice to fat shame others
Beautiful look back. No garbage all over the place, no graffiti, people dressed nicely.
I love those old cars!
Amazing to see the Frick museum when it was most likely still a home. But a little shocking to see how many old 5th ave mansions boarded up ready for demolition.
The Frick mansion was probably in the middle of being converted into a museum when this was filmed.
Someone roller skating?! That was a surprise....😁
Wonderful, like a time machine.
Grab a tea and travel back in time:)
Awesome job!
Thx ;)
My grandparents on my mother's side met in NYC in 1929 and married in 1929... around the time the video was shot
I’m amazed how this kind of remastering can even exist.
How did the 1930’s feel mr time traveler?😂
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Back when an "Apple Store" was a wooden pushcart!
Actually the radio and phonograph stores like RCA were the high tech retailers.
@@warrendelay Plus full electronic television became a reality in the later part of the 1930s.
Back when the Big Apple wasn't too rotten...
The new apple. That's it, just an apple back then lol
@@lorenzoblum868 Many of the people living on that exclusive stretch of highway had only acquired their wealth by being thoroughly rotten and ruthless: there's no other way to a fast buck.
It's nice to know that Fifth Avenue hasn't changed much at all. 🤗
Those buses seen in the clip were of an advanced rear-engined design and were used in N.Y C. and in Chicago from the late '30s until the early '50s.
If I had a previous life, that was probably me driving that jalopy with the bumper falling off at the beginning of the reel.
Truly amazing. Capital of the World.
This is something really special. Thanks!
Wow, Wonderful restoration skills. Thank sharing.💖 my friend 💕 👍.💖
Thx!!! 👍
Somebody roller skating in the few seconds of this video.
How I wish go back to this day.
Its like you are actually there. A time machine!
This must be Upper east side. Still an expensive area within Manhattan. Central Park next to the road. High 60s streets.
thanks for the information ;)
A Bergdorf Goodman ad came up for me right after the store was shown in the video! Great timing!
It's all o. FIFTH Avenue on the Park!
Another great video. BTW how did you colorize black and white video, it's amazing.
thank you ;)
Hermosa ciudad, en esa década, llena de serenidad, sin stress, limpieza en sus calles, me gustaría estar en esas calles para dar un largo paseo.
QUE ÉPOCA MARAVILHOSA!!!
Sou espírita e reencarcionista e tenho quase certeza de ter vivido nos EUA nessa época!
Sou apaixonadíssimo pela cultura do final dos Anos 30 e início dos 40!!!
Principalmente a Música, notadamente o Jazz. Meu Grande Ídolo é GLENN MILLER!
De repente era um pracinha americano durante a Segunda Guerra e pereci em combate na Europa ou na Ásia!
E reencarnei pouco tempo depois na Europa(Lisboa) em 1951.
As impressões dessas reminiscências são extremamente fortes em mim desde criança!
Hoje estou com quase 72 anos!
Obs: Coloquei um CD da Orquestra de Benny Goodman com os refrões vocais de Helen Ward para criar uma atmosfera musical dessa Época de Ouro e vou fazendo a "viagen" através desse vídeo!
Inclusive tem-se a nítida impressão dessa filmagem ter sido produzida à muito pouco tempo dado a boa qualidade e nitidez!!!
Awesome late 1930's video. Thank you
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feels like you could just climb through the screen and stroll down the sidewalk!! Its like its been captured with an iPhone
Wonderful. Congratularions,
Propre de chez prope👍 ❗ superbe epoque américaine difficile d imaginer qu'il y a presque 100 ans, 🤔 92 ans en 2022, superbe images 👍❗
1930's drivers. "Lines? We don't need no stinkin' lines!"
I want to see urban blight in the 1930s. These videos are all the nice part of town.
From Spain there is BRAVO!!!.
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Just what l needed before sleep
I don't understand only one thing ... who and why filmed it in 1930. Do you have information about who it was filmed?
I recognized the area immediately. Almost all of those buildings are still there. Central Park is on the left. That hasn't changed. 5th Ave. Is 1 way today. Do we know what year this was? Thank you!
Whenever I see films from Manhattan in the 1930s I think about the Catcher in the Rye and about JD Salinger who must have been a teenager while walking these streets.
Amazing my dad grew up in NY !! Thanks for this truly amazing video!
Thankyou. Respect
thank you ;)
It looks so clean ...
Cleaner than now
Wow just amazing, no hoodies, baseball caps, big logos, vests, baggy jeans. Women dressed modestly with class, no skirts, tights and bits hanging out. Just amazing.
At 7:22 you can see a man doing a wave to the camera!
Как прекрасно окунуться в то время...
3:50 sketchy looking dude scoring drugs in the park.
He was up to something.
How are you doing this? Did you figure out a way to travel back in time? I know they didn't have camcorders, or video tape recorders back in the 30s! My grandpa had one of the first video tape recorders and it came out in the early 1950s. So that means you have discovered a way to travel back in time. Hmm...
I used NASS Time Machine 😊😍👌
@@NASS_0 serious question, how did you get footage from 1930?
@@miguelmejia4656 This is what was called a "background plate". It was stock footage filmed by a movie company when making a movie where the actors were supposed to be driving a car down the street. The car was actually sitting in a studio, and they had a big projection screen behind the car showing this footage to make it look like the car (which was sitting in one place, along with the camera filming the actors) was actually moving.
Of course this film was black and white. NASS has used some software to colorize it. He has the link to the original film in the notes if you want to see that.
those traffic cops back then standing in the middle of the street would be ROAD KILL today...
Man, I just loved how they drove back then, 1 lane, then 2 lanes followed be 3 trying to overtake one another lol
That was a cool classic car
It is surprising that our Overlords have not censored the subversive ideas found in this video.
3:50 Check this weird guy he is jumping on the bench👍😆🤣
Man at 3:49 is acting suspiciously. He looks hard at the camera as he crosses the street. He then steps up on a park bench and scales the wall. He then jumps down the other side and is out of sight. I wonder was going on back there? Maybe he lived back there? It was the depression after all and many were out of work and poor.
So strange seeing 5th Ave a two way street!!
baby in pram at 5:10 is now in their mid-to-late 80's.
Notice how clean it is.
Awesom artistic work!!!
thank you ;)
00:20 Check out the woman on skates.
3:59 guy jumps over a wall
Looks great
NEWEST CARS SEEN, THIS FILM, 1937 FORD, CHEVY, OLDS, BUICK, DODGE, PACKARD, DESOTO !
What a beauty!
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Thank you for this wonderful insight into the past. I must think, that all this people I can see walking over that pretty boulevard are now not longer alive. Where are they all now? This reminds me to the bibel word: „Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.“(Joh.3,36)
Lady in rollerskates at 4:28 :)