New York in the 1940’s and fifties and Berlin or London in the 1920’s and maybe Moscow or Saint Petersburg, Russia up until recently. San Francisco in the 1950-1960’s must’ve been pleasant. I haven’t seen South American cities but Montevideo, Buenos Aires and perhaps Santiago would be interesting too.
Magnificent flick. I was born in N.Y. July, 1940. Am a youthful 83 now. Bought an around the world ticket and traveled for 7 months in 1960. My entire perspective was transformed thereafter. It was as if I was in these video scenes again. Time passes rapidly & having experienced a collage of numerous endeavors & global lifetime experiences in China,, Taiwan, South America, Carribean, and USA-SFO/LAX/PS/ S.Florida, I look back and reminisce what a wonderful life I had growing up in N.Y.'s renaissance 40'-50's era..The whole world is a mess now. Live in MBeach
Well all we can say between me and you, is that we both had the best years, I'm not old as you but I'm up there in age born in the 50s, yea those were the days, but it's sad how it all turn to crapola now.
Its weird that we look at these people as "history" but to them it was just the present. They werent attempting to live a documentary. They were just people going about their lives just like us.
In the late 40s ( 1948?)there was a smallpox outbreak in NYC. 😮 Polio outbreaks every summer. Measles could be deadly. I know about that personally because it almost killed me a decade later in 1959.
Allah سبحانه وتعالى said, (Interpretation of the meaning) Then We made you successors after them, generations after generations in the land, that We might see how you would work. [Yunus 10:14] Then after them succeeded an (evil) generation, which inherited the book, but they chose (for themselves) the goods of this low life (evil pleasures of this world) saying (as an excuse): "(Everything) will be forgiven to us." And if (again) the offer of the like (evil pleasures of this world) came their way, they would (again) seize them (would commit those sins). [Al-A'raaf 7:169] If only there had been among the generations before you persons having wisdom, prohibiting (others) from Al-Fasad (disbelief, polytheism, and all kinds of crimes and sins) on the earth, (but there were none) - except a few of those whom We saved from among them! Those who did wrong pursued the enjoyment of good things of (this worldly) life, and were Mujrimun (criminal polytheist disbelievers). [Hud 11:116] And every nation has its appointed term; when their term comes, neither can they delay it nor can they advance it an hour. [Al-A'raaf 7:34] The Romans have been defeated. [Ar-Rum 30:2] And We made them a precedent (as a lesson for those coming after them), and an example to later generations. [Az-Zukhruf 43:56]
I have seen about 175 or more videos in historical archives of varying quality and to be honest this is absolutely stunning. Because of the intimate nature of the camera in juxtaposition with the everyday life of the people. As a New Yorker all these sites are amazing to see as some of them still stand the test of time. This is the closest you have to taking a time machine! Truly remarkable. Thank you.
It’s impressive how well developed New York was in the 1940’s, imagine you’ve come from Belfast or Liverpool, you’ve never seen a megalopolis like this before in your entire life, and the awe you feel from the view.
@stevenstirling8474, the internet, especially RUclips, has opened up the World to be viewed from all corners of the World, which is of course awesome. However, it does have its drawbacks. When we were children, we would hear older folks talk about wonderful places to which they had been and we would be left in awe whilst allowing our imagination to run free and wild as to what those places looked like. So, technology is awesome, but it takes some imagination away from us
Fritz Lang was inspired to make his silent movie sci-fi classic METROPOLIS from his visit to NYC in the early 1920s. He said New York at night was like a city of the future.
This video takes my breath away. Men worked so hard. Everyone dressed up classy and appeared well groomed. Children played with one another so joyfully. No phones in anyones hands. No one was overweight. It makes me cry 😢 to see what technology has done to humans. Of course technology has done some good. But mostly it has harmed humans. Most of these beautiful people are elderly or deceased. It’s a shame what this world turned into. 😞🤗 Thank you for making and posting this awesome video.
for the buildings, that looks like it could have been filmed today, imo its just mind blowing to see such a skyscrapery city in the 1940s, imagine being from some regular 1940s city which might or might not have even had paved roads and then seeing this futuristic thing which calling city would be an insult, you cant just not record it
The Loew's Criterion theater marquee at 1:15 advertises a movie named Tap Roots; it was released in the autumn of 1948, so this footage probably dates from about that time.
This is really beautiful. Probably late forties as nobody in uniform. These people had pride and class and are dressed beautifully. People looked happy, kids were playing, there is an innocence which has been lost forever.
@@faustinreeder1075 What we had was generally people that came in became Americans. Not used the USA as a way to make money and send it back to their home country while often receiving tax paid services in the process.
People back then acted classy and behaved in a classy manner because that's what was customary and what American society expected of them. Decorum in American society has dropped off considerably since then.
@@faustinreeder1075 Now, I wouldn't say that. Our border was more porous then. Seems folks didn't assault our border in droves. It's that our politicians weren't encouraging and rewarding illegal immigration back then like they do now
I was born in’55 and have often thought that I was born 20 years too late. Aside from war, some of the most wonderful times in and around a city like NY (I grew up in the northern burbs) were in the 40’s (Big Band music, Broadway), 50’s (Beat poetry, Lenny Bruce, recognition and appreciation of blues music, birth of rock and roll), 60’s (the whole age of aquarius/flower power/psychedelic music-San Francisco would have been great to be a young adult in the 60’s). By the 70’s and 80’s rock music was peaking out. I would have been satisfied making it until the turn of the millennium. Nothing today has very much interest, and the world seems to be coming apart. I’d hate to be a young person today.
An old friend of mine who came from a prosperous family background once told me that New York was at its best in the 1930s and 1940s. I also like to watch New York in the 1950s in the Hollywood movies of that time!
I was born the same year as you and we escaped the draft. 10 or 15 years earilier you would be in Vietnam or Korea. There were no deferments. I agree that life is not like it was back then.
Don't be fooled by the "clean" thing ---- American cities were actually MUCH dirtier back then. There were no anti-pollution laws on the books yet, so factories could just spout as many toxic smoke and chemicals into the air as they pleased, and tons of garbage were being dumped into the harbor every single day.
Magnificent! My great-grandparents were kids in the early 1940s and teens in the late 1940s, So cool to see the world they grew up in! And they're still alive ♥
The video of the kids playing stickball in the street and bouncing the Spaldeen off of the stoop were the highlights for me. My dad was a city kid doing just that in those days, and I must have heard him reminisce about playing with his buddies in the neighborhood dozens of times. To see it was wonderful.
@@devonmitchell5294 Lol. As a kid, I always thought my dad was mispronouncing it with his NY accent. Then I played with one, and what do you know, he’d been saying it right.
same with me growing in st. louis in the 70s. we played this and bottlecaps (same thing but using bottlecaps instead of a ball). also played a game called indian ball.
Wow, I love the cars and how the ladies dress so elegant. No glass towers anywhere! Not a single piece of plastic on the plant. The food market only used natural packaging. I enjoyed seeing this wonderful world. I imagined that Louis Armstrong was singing.
Actually, they had an early form of plastic that was called Bakelite. They used it to make telephones amongst other things. It was not practical as any kind of packaging though
No cell phones, no tattoo. no smash and grab, no homeless on the streets. Life was better and simple back then. Thank you for the wonderful restored video.
1:04 yyou can see people reading the newspaper and a book. Basically the same thing. 1:24 of someone reading the paper while crossing the street. A lot of people with books and papers in their arms.
You mean Jim Crow & segregation and strict race laws of that time. And of course forced internment of japanese americans . Ku Klux Klan & german american bund marched in public celebrated.
You are getting better and better at this. In the beginning the dominant color of your videos was beige. Now the colours are more varied and bright. You are honing your skills. Thanks for all the work.
Penn Station being torn down was a tragedy as it was due to the onset of Air travel & the increase of more people having their own cars as it fell into years of disrepair & the cost of maintaining such a huge building was prohibitive & before preservation efforts took place that saved Grand Central Terminal from the same fate years later 👍🤔😃
@@None-zc5vgno retard this is capitalism right here what your watching. What we have now it basically socialism which is why our country is going down the gutter.
I know every street on video. It's given me a glimpse into the beauty NYC was. It saddens me to see the change. The kids played on fire hydrants was a way for us all to cool off. Everyone swam in the Hudson River. Thank you for these beautiful shots, and memories ❤
Wait, people were actually swimming in the Hudson River in the '40s? I'm pretty sure that was NOT a smart thing to be doing. The pollution was already through the roof.
at 4:43 look how clean the Hudson was!! WOW!! born and raised in CHICAGO but this is a really cool video to watch!! Ladies in dresses and men in suit ties/Bow Ties. this is awesome!!!
Just the way I rember it as a kid in the ‘40s. It was very safe and we used to walk the Williamsburg bridge to Manhattan. Also, we felt safe riding the subway to Coney Island on a summer day..
Yea now kids today just have a phone and when mom tell u food is ready not have to yell at street lol 😆 just used text message or a friend wants be friends with u just used name drop send phone number or what ever
NYC was so advanced back then. It’s amazing that within a few decades or within one lifetime we went from reading by candles and traveling by horseback to electricity, lightbulbs, telephones, phonographs, automobiles, airplanes, television, movies and the atomic bomb. One person born around 1860 and blessed with a long life could’ve easily witnessed the birth of some of the most significant technological advancements in human history.
Excellent summary of the industrial and technological progress made since the 19th century! "New York City was so advanced back then." People all over the world marvelled at the Empire State Building and other skyscrapers in New York which were unique in the world at that time!
My great grandfather was born in 1874, 2 years before Custer's last stand to give you reference, he saw all major developments including Man Walk on the Moon, he passed away in 1970.
I was born in NYC in 1971 (Gen X), so by the time I was teen in the early 1980s, all those movie palaces in Time Square in the 1940s had turned into X-Rated Live peep shows and bargain adult video store warehouses (in the 50s/60s they had turned into live burlesque and jazz clubs, and in the 1970s they became dirty "grindhouse" cinemas showing Kung Fu and Blaxploitation films). By the mid 1990s Mayor Guiliani had cleaned it up and returned it back into family friendly Disneyworld tourist hub. Well its 2023 and I can't help but see the deterioration and decline happening again. But it has been truly fascinating seeing an area transform itself again and again throughout my lifetime!
@9cross It wasn't normal, though. In the 90s the area became like a Disneyworld theme park on Broadway. Fine for some, but it didn't feel like "NYC" either.
Unless you were black,the white people or 80% of them had no moral code when it came to hating people of color.........they were truly EVIL....but " they " THOUGHT, IMAGINED that they were good citizens...😂🤣
Absolutely fascinating. Another time, another world. I can watch this over and over again. My mom was born in Manhattan. She met my dad during the war. When he came back they spent their honeymoon meandering all over NY. They often spoke about it. I've always wondered what it was like. This was an excellent look at it as it was then. Thank you for this.
An old friend of mine who came from a prosperous family background once told me that New York was at its best in the 1930s and 1940s. I also like to watch New York in the 1950s in the Hollywood movies of that time!
I admit I was looking for my folks, both city kids born in '35, and grandparents. If they had gone to John's of Bleeker Street, my dad probably would have been there.
Bull. This is colorized and “cleaned up” by AI. It’s told roads are gray so it makes them uniform gray. It’s told the sky is blue, so it colorized the smog.
Piacere di conoscerti.scusa se è poco quello che sto x dire: è un vero spettacolo,mamma che che bellooooo!!i i miei più vivissimi complimenti x quello che ha realizzato questo video.ancora grazie mille 😊😊❤❤
I was a 1040 child but in Finger Lakes area of NY. Fascinating video and hard to think about the fact that most of the people in this have all left the world.
Thanks so much for doing this. Seeing this in color really humanizes the period and people. The three things that really stood out 1) I didn't see any obese people. Everyone is medium weight or thinner. 2) The racial stratification. The few black folks seen, except for one are in lower caste jobs, and in the subway shots of people on their way into midtown, it's all white people. Very few latinos as well. And finally, everyone is well dressed. There are no shlubs walking in the streets.
Да, тоже обратила внимание, что нет ни одного полного человека. Все люди обладают хорошим здоровьем. Приятно одеты, аккуратно причёсаны, с прекрасным настроением. И жизнь кипит!
The skyline of New York only had a few really tall buildings in those days, and yet it was so much more imposing! Just look at that magnificent urban beauty at 0:20!
This was great. But one thing I noticed is that you added the sounds of a steam locomotive to an elevated train. But those elevated trains were electric self-propelled by that time. Otherwise the sounds seemed perfectly normal, as if it was a sound film when recorded. I love the old views of New York.
Do you know that if you would’ve committed a crime in most these neighborhoods you would’ve had to deal with some people that weren’t friendly and it wasn’t the police that’s why people behaved and dressed appropriately. It was probably a good time to be alive, except for the war in Europe.
@@richardlacey4923Are you blind?there are visibly blacks in this video, and most Hispanic immigrants have more work ethic then white and black people combined so what are you on about??
This is a wonderful peak at our past, nicely done, I could not but help notice how many people are not overweight like they are today, it is striking. 400 years of continuous change no other American city like it.
Absolutely stunning. I have no words to describe the importance of this short film. What happened to America? We were so united then. Hardworking. Moral. Decent. The attire! No cell phones. No internet. Interaction with people only. Freedom rings!
Just fantastic, one of your very best. The first half really gives the feel of the city as I recall it going into city in the 60's. I've been on many of those subway platforms. You're really "in there" with the hustle & bustle, even down to the fish market. The second half is more touristy, panoramic, from a distance.
Although the description says this is a hurried life, to me it looks like everyone is quite laid back and moving at a leisurely pace, in spite of it being extremely crowded. I found this very interesting to watch especially for the cultural information, entertainment, fashions and families seen. Thank you so much for sharing this.
It is just marvelous to watch this technology advance. Just imagine what it will look like in say 2 to 3 more years. I bet it looks something just like colored video. Thank you for sharing this!
Well what do you expect? This is the city and country that destroyed Germany, when they warned us what would happen if the ppl who founded these nations started becoming minorities in their own homelands! Karma. We were warned N.Carolina and the country will not be escaping what’s happening, anymore than the big cities
The skyline was so beautiful - each building with an impressive crown. Space between the towers with light passing through. Now so many gorgeous buildings big and small are gone, replaced with sterile cold glass monoliths devoid of character, blocking out light and each other.
Im 52, my mother recently passed away, i remember her telling me stories about life when she was a kid, smh so hard but simple, more family values then now, more life!
This is absolutely remarkable. The only imagery of time that far back is all black and white. It's almost as if you're there watching this video on color as its always been and as we see it today.
Looks to be 1948 -- At the end you can see a movie marque with Rita Hayworth "The Loves of Carmen" which was released in 1948. I really enjoy your work on these restorations. Very fun to watch.
Everyone all dressed up because if you were going out or to work that's the way people dressed back then - no casual clothes if you were going downtown to shop or work. No shoving, pushing, lewd behavior and everyone is alert and relaxed at the same time.
Nass, Great upload. Thanks. Hey! This is the Sonny Corleone time period, 1940's New York! Haha. Plus look at all the men in fedora hats at 7:57. You know it's 1930's-1940's! Plus cute scene with father & son at 9:39 looking in window at boat!
Looks like August 1948 ["Tap Roots" with Van Heflin and Susan Hayward] -a time within memory of many still alive and well in 2024 yet somehow as distant as the Andromeda galaxy. Thanks to all involved in the genesis, preservation, presentation and posting online of this glimpse into the past ...
It's amazing how developed, how clean, how orderly, and how prosperous New York City looked. Everyone was well dressed and seemed hard working. America had pride in NYC and its other cities then. It's too bad our current political leaders, especially those from the South, treat New York City like trash.
💙💙💙💙 Beautiful, wonderful images!! I sooo wish that New York City STILL was this way! Life was so much more innocent.... so much nicer & sweeter back then.😪
Very! nice pictures. The scenery looks so surreal, especially with those new added colours to it. Almost like cartoons inside of a D.C. Marvel comic strip. It's almost as though you're in a dream and all the people around you are just like walking ghosts, from another time.
"It's almost as though you're in a dream, and all the people around you are just like walking ghosts, from another time." Excellent impression! I feel the same. When I look back on my long life, it looks like a DREAM! "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
Imagine coming from a European town with the tallest building being the church and then seeing this when arriving at the harbour. Still feels unreal, like the Earth's piece of a science fiction metropolis. New York's an icon.
@@andreamlongmire1066 NYC's African-American population in 1940 was about 5%. Racial issues did not flare up until massive Black migration from the South had occurred. Many Blacks, who were badly mistreated in the South, brought their contempt for Whites with them. There was a lot of reverse racism, a phenomenon that has not been well researched.
Wow, astounding footage, so fascinating. Great to see the original Pennsylvania Station. The REAL Penn Station, not the basement station under Madison Square Garden & Penn Plaza, not the Moynihan Train Hall....but the authentic McKim, Mead & White masterpiece.
Wow. Just amazing to see this, I am so blown away with how prosperous and beautiful life looked in those days. Before the sinister ways of our modern times. The culture, the people, the architecture of the city as just something else back then. Lord knows I wish I could have seen life back then. New York now a days looks like an apocalyptic societal nightmare unfolding.
4:25 In our little penthouse we'll always contrive to keep love and romance forever alive In view of the Hudson just over the drive When we're alone. Penthouse Serenade 1933
dear progressivism, thank you so much that you freed me from the abhorrent burden of walking around in clean streets all while wearing confining clothes. now, we can finally walk in our PJs tiptoeing around the homeless. well done 👍 (or so I was told)
" freed me from the abhorrent burden of walking around in clean streets" - you're into a fantasy. In the old days the streets were covered with horse sh*t until the sweepers could come by. Then with the invention of the automobile the air became thick with pollution until laws and regulation (i.e. that nasty "progressivism" at which you so reflexively hate) reduced that pollution tremendously. This video is made from a very low resolution film, then it is highly manipulated. You can't see any detail of what was on the streets.
@@TheDanEdwards I can clearly see that the streets now aren't clean. how many horses did you see in this video? the resolution is at least good enough to recognize the clothing style (and to compare with today's standards.) lastly, I'm old enough to have personally witnessed six decades and despite my eye resolution being in a constant state of decline, I can still confidently vouch for which way we developed during this period. the advent of catalytic converters was a true blessing! but this fact doesn't allow you to equate everything that undeniably didn't improve with one that did as the ultimate reference for everything.
Go to MAGA territory in flyover states and see the clean streets. Oh wait, they are made of dirt. Which also covers the people, who abuse meth and live in mobile home parks. The same dirt covers their rusty old pickups. They have no retirement fund or healthcare. Trump told them to blame it on immigrants, because poor immigrants, not billionaires, provide healthcare to people.
@@texaswunderkindThis is called cognitive dissonance to anyone unfamiliar with the Progressive mind. They simultaneously claim that Republicans are the rich, greedy ones while also claiming Republicans are the poor, stupid ones. All you need to know about the Democrat party is one thing- They are the party which provides entitlements for people who cannot survive and feed their children without government assistance. That’s it. That’s the Democrat party. Progressives also lump “flyover territory” in with places like Orange County California and countless upper class suburbs nationwide while claiming the cities are blue because of intellectuals and not endless welfare plantations. The two largest demographics voting Republican- white men and white married women. In 2016, Pew research showed that the majority of college graduates voted for Hillary while concealing the fact that the same Pew research poll showed white college grads Trump. Democrat voters are needy and entitled or young and brainwashed.
Only been to NYC once in my life and from TV & the movies this basically semi-filltered perception of what real day-to-day life was like back then is simply mind blowing when compared to what has changed over time. No doubt that it's been through a lot since time has passed. Society seemed so tame back then. Nostalgic indeed!
Yeah! everyone was tall and slender…not glued to a cell phone , sitting and getting fat. They all walked blocks and blocks every day. Even now city ppl are generally slim.
A masterpiece. I've never laid eyes on New York City, but it makes me desire it. It was so orderly. Were there problems? Sure. But the order of life comes through. Especially for the young. Kids never change. They are the same from generation to generation. Watching them play makes me feel younger.
Believe me, you would not want to visit NYC these days. High crime in the streets.Shoplifting is legal. You can get pushed onto the tracks in the subway or mugged. Illegals sleeping on the sidewalks. Walk in Tomes Square, and you smell pot. No bail law. Commit a crime. you're out on the street next day!!
@@roncaruso931 I was born in NYC in 1971 (Gen X), so by the time I was teen in the early 1980s, Time Square was quite dangerous with high crime and prostitution, and all those beautiful movie palaces in the 1940s had turned into X-Rated Live peep shows and bargain adult video megastores (in the 50s/60s they had turned into live burlesque and jazz clubs, and in the 1970s they became dirty "grindhouse" cinemas showing Kung Fu and Blaxploitation films). By the 1990s Mayor Guiliani had cleaned it up and returned it back into a family friendly Disneyworld-type tourist hub that lasted till the mid 2000s. Well its 2023 and I can't help but see the deterioration and decline happening again. But it has been truly fascinating seeing an area transform itself again and again throughout my lifetime!
It's so amazing, and to see people who were with joys, worries, thoughts, all kinds of things, and today they are no longer with us, it gives proportions not to worry too much, and to spend life having fun, because everything passes in the end
I like how nobody be robbing peeps or pushing peeps onto the tracks, no car jackings, no one jumping the turnstiles or peeps blasting rap crap. I saw not one smash and grab store robbery.
i lived in nyc in the 1980s, its amazing how similar it was 40 ish years ago, if time travel were possible you wouldn't be too lost, there is also a NASS of NYC in the 1930s, and it looks more foreign. Not as many people wore hats now compared to the 1930s too.
Gotta love those yellow cabs! I was born in 1948 and grew up in beautiful northeastern NJ and used to go into Manhattan almost every weekend because in the 1950s they were just beginning to build the big outdoor shopping malls and you still had to go into the city to do much of your shopping! Along with going to Radio City Music Hall and out to lunch or the famous Central park Zoo and merry-go-round! I remember Best and Co. and beautiful Lord & Taylors that had those gorgeous elevators and the BEST beautiful Christmas windows that I took my three daughters to see as well, along with the famous Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center! My late father worked around Wall Street and I remember the West Side Highway and going over the George Washington Bridge so many times, more than I can count! Sad that Lord & Taylor's and B. Altmans where I used to shop doesn't exist anymore! Another great era! smdh Years later in the late 1960s and 70s, I lived on the Upper East side and worked as a fashion illustrator, studied at Parson's School of Design and went to New School University formerly The New School for Social Research where I met my husband of 42 years. Used to hang out at the MET and Guggenheim all the time and gorgeous Central ParkI remember the warm bags of hot chestnuts we used to eat in the winter from the street vendors and the subways that had pale yellow whicker rattan seats before they put in the plastic and metal ones! Would love to go back in a time machine to the 1930s and 40s, my late parent's era when they were young! Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane and for doing a great job here, much appreciated! I ♥ New York!!
Gracias Nass por subir estos videos. Merece la pena ver a todas estas personas en esta maravillosa ciudad. Es una lástima que hoy día la gente haya perdido el sentido de la decencia en el vestir, en el caminar y en el comer.
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Which city in the world would you like to live in the 1940s?
in Berlin or Hiroshima 🥰
New York in the 1940’s and fifties and Berlin or London in the 1920’s and maybe Moscow or Saint Petersburg, Russia up until recently. San Francisco in the 1950-1960’s must’ve been pleasant. I haven’t seen South American cities but Montevideo, Buenos Aires and perhaps Santiago would be interesting too.
warsaw, grochów
Coshocton, Ohio
San Diego.
Magnificent flick. I was born in N.Y. July, 1940. Am a youthful 83 now. Bought an around the world ticket and traveled for 7 months in 1960. My entire perspective was transformed thereafter. It was as if I was in these video scenes again. Time passes rapidly & having experienced a collage of numerous endeavors & global lifetime experiences in China,, Taiwan, South America, Carribean, and USA-SFO/LAX/PS/ S.Florida,
I look back and reminisce what a wonderful life I had growing up in N.Y.'s renaissance 40'-50's era..The whole world is a mess now. Live in MBeach
Must have been amazing growing up in NYC without all the 3rd worlders there like now. You couldn’t pay me to step foot in New York City today.
So true! Oh, and glad you are a youthful 83 !
These old films take us back in time. I love them too. Stay strong my friend.
Wonderful words
Well all we can say between me and you, is that we both had the best years, I'm not old as you but I'm up there in age born in the 50s, yea those were the days, but it's sad how it all turn to crapola now.
Its weird that we look at these people as "history" but to them it was just the present. They werent attempting to live a documentary. They were just people going about their lives just like us.
But they were relatovely still normal in those days. No gender identity crisis.
Some day people will view us as history too.
Nosotros igual formaremos parte de un documental para los años 3000 y nuestros descendientes dirán,que tiempos aquellos de mis parientes,quien sabe
Yeah, business as usual
@@jordangoat2654our history was on Nov 5th 2024. We can say, we were there😁👋
You could almost shed a tear for what's been lost.
The beautiful, original Penn Station. 😢
In the late 40s ( 1948?)there was a smallpox outbreak in NYC. 😮
Polio outbreaks every summer.
Measles could be deadly. I know about that personally because it almost killed me a decade later in 1959.
@@wildsmileyYes, Sigh.😢
The new Moynahan Train Hall is very nice though.
Allah سبحانه وتعالى said,
(Interpretation of the meaning)
Then We made you successors after them, generations after generations in the land, that We might see how you would work. [Yunus 10:14]
Then after them succeeded an (evil) generation, which inherited the book, but they chose (for themselves) the goods of this low life (evil pleasures of this world) saying (as an excuse): "(Everything) will be forgiven to us." And if (again) the offer of the like (evil pleasures of this world) came their way, they would (again) seize them (would commit those sins). [Al-A'raaf 7:169]
If only there had been among the generations before you persons having wisdom, prohibiting (others) from Al-Fasad (disbelief, polytheism, and all kinds of crimes and sins) on the earth, (but there were none) - except a few of those whom We saved from among them! Those who did wrong pursued the enjoyment of good things of (this worldly) life, and were Mujrimun (criminal polytheist disbelievers). [Hud 11:116]
And every nation has its appointed term; when their term comes, neither can they delay it nor can they advance it an hour. [Al-A'raaf 7:34]
The Romans have been defeated. [Ar-Rum 30:2]
And We made them a precedent (as a lesson for those coming after them), and an example to later generations. [Az-Zukhruf 43:56]
diversity ruined it
I have seen about 175 or more videos in historical archives of varying quality and to be honest this is absolutely stunning. Because of the intimate nature of the camera in juxtaposition with the everyday life of the people. As a New Yorker all these sites are amazing to see as some of them still stand the test of time. This is the closest you have to taking a time machine! Truly remarkable. Thank you.
Thank you 👍
It’s impressive how well developed New York was in the 1940’s, imagine you’ve come from Belfast or Liverpool, you’ve never seen a megalopolis like this before in your entire life, and the awe you feel from the view.
@stevenstirling8474, the internet, especially RUclips, has opened up the World to be viewed from all corners of the World, which is of course awesome. However, it does have its drawbacks. When we were children, we would hear older folks talk about wonderful places to which they had been and we would be left in awe whilst allowing our imagination to run free and wild as to what those places looked like. So, technology is awesome, but it takes some imagination away from us
Fritz Lang was inspired to make his silent movie sci-fi classic METROPOLIS from his visit to NYC in the early 1920s. He said New York at night was like a city of the future.
NYC was already well developed in the 1890s. the main difference was the vehicle transportation and fashion styling.
Yeah, you can stand in the middle of Belfast and still smell the cows shit.
Parts of Liverpool didn't have inside toilets until the 1980s. Why was that?
This video takes my breath away. Men worked so hard. Everyone dressed up classy and appeared well groomed. Children played with one another so joyfully. No phones in anyones hands. No one was overweight. It makes me cry 😢 to see what technology has done to humans. Of course technology has done some good. But mostly it has harmed humans. Most of these beautiful people are elderly or deceased. It’s a shame what this world turned into. 😞🤗
Thank you for making and posting this awesome video.
do you think overweight people didn’t exist back then? look up ugly laws
😂@@strawberrigirl
THATS NOTHING COMPARED TO NOW ...ITS ACTUALLY GLORIFIED TO BE OBESE
No more organic food
I did notice ladies were more polite in their dresses no naked dresses, tight pants or short skirts 😁
It's easy to idolize the past from the comfort of your PC
@@carad26 facts
Kudos to whoever had the foresight in 1940 to record this.
Your most welcome, and thank you!
😄@@CatherineKellerUSA
Only white toilets that are long gone in the toilets
for the buildings, that looks like it could have been filmed today, imo its just mind blowing to see such a skyscrapery city in the 1940s, imagine being from some regular 1940s city which might or might not have even had paved roads and then seeing this futuristic thing which calling city would be an insult, you cant just not record it
The Loew's Criterion theater marquee at 1:15 advertises a movie named Tap Roots; it was released in the autumn of 1948, so this footage probably dates from about that time.
This is really beautiful. Probably late forties as nobody in uniform. These people had pride and class and are dressed beautifully. People looked happy, kids were playing, there is an innocence which has been lost forever.
Back then we had a secure border.
@@faustinreeder1075 What we had was generally people that came in became Americans. Not used the USA as a way to make money and send it back to their home country while often receiving tax paid services in the process.
1948-- perhaps late August/early September. Wasn't that movie showing Rita Hayworth in The Loves of Carmen?
People back then acted classy and behaved in a classy manner because that's what was customary and what American society expected of them. Decorum in American society has dropped off considerably since then.
@@faustinreeder1075 Now, I wouldn't say that. Our border was more porous then. Seems folks didn't assault our border in droves. It's that our politicians weren't encouraging and rewarding illegal immigration back then like they do now
The clothing styles -- elegant!
Yep, look at women now, covered in grotesque tattoos with very little on.
That's because people were God fearing back then. Jewish women in Israel still dress like this today.
Upsolutely! Unlike today, when big Asses in tights are in your face. Nothing feminine about that. All it does, is put me off my evening meal. 🤮🤢
I was born in’55 and have often thought that I was born 20 years too late. Aside from war, some of the most wonderful times in and around a city like NY (I grew up in the northern burbs) were in the 40’s (Big Band music, Broadway), 50’s (Beat poetry, Lenny Bruce, recognition and appreciation of blues music, birth of rock and roll), 60’s (the whole age of aquarius/flower power/psychedelic music-San Francisco would have been great to be a young adult in the 60’s). By the 70’s and 80’s rock music was peaking out. I would have been satisfied making it until the turn of the millennium. Nothing today has very much interest, and the world seems to be coming apart. I’d hate to be a young person today.
انت رائع يا رجل👌
Gen Z young people are very jealous that you older folks grew up in much more abundant times.
I was born in '56. Don't delude yourself, it was also very difficult for boomers, we didn't have hen parties in Prague and our clothes had to last.
An old friend of mine who came from a prosperous family background once told me that New York was at its best in the 1930s and 1940s. I also like to watch New York in the 1950s in the Hollywood movies of that time!
I was born the same year as you and we escaped the draft. 10 or 15 years earilier you would be in Vietnam or Korea. There were no deferments. I agree that life is not like it was back then.
The people looked so much nicer back then and everything is so clean and orderly.
Nice like in Jim Crow & segregation and strict race laws. Ku Klux Klan orderly with sundown towns and internment camps for japanese americans.
And mostly white))
"They" make the populace how they want us to be. The way we are now is what "they" want
Don't be fooled by the "clean" thing ---- American cities were actually MUCH dirtier back then. There were no anti-pollution laws on the books yet, so factories could just spout as many toxic smoke and chemicals into the air as they pleased, and tons of garbage were being dumped into the harbor every single day.
@nov the good old days.
Magnificent! My great-grandparents were kids in the early 1940s and teens in the late 1940s, So cool to see the world they grew up in! And they're still alive ♥
The video of the kids playing stickball in the street and bouncing the Spaldeen off of the stoop were the highlights for me.
My dad was a city kid doing just that in those days, and I must have heard him reminisce about playing with his buddies in the neighborhood dozens of times.
To see it was wonderful.
Same here. Loved it. So many memories 😢
Stoop ball …
And its Spalding , not Spaldeen :)
@@devonmitchell5294
Lol. As a kid, I always thought my dad was mispronouncing it with his NY accent. Then I played with one, and what do you know, he’d been saying it right.
same with me growing in st. louis in the 70s. we played this and bottlecaps (same thing but using bottlecaps instead of a ball). also played a game called indian ball.
Wow, I love the cars and how the ladies dress so elegant. No glass towers anywhere! Not a single piece of plastic on the plant. The food market only used natural packaging. I enjoyed seeing this wonderful world. I imagined that Louis Armstrong was singing.
Louie Armstrong or Big Band, Swing, all would have been great sound tracks…
Actually, they had an early form of plastic that was called Bakelite. They used it to make telephones amongst other things. It was not practical as any kind of packaging though
Moisture-proof Cellophane was introduced in 1927. This was created
with food packaging in mind.
Yes the simpler times
@@richm9455 ditto. clocks, radios, office intercoms, etc.
No cell phones, no tattoo. no smash and grab, no homeless on the streets. Life was better and simple back then. Thank you for the wonderful restored video.
1:04 yyou can see people reading the newspaper and a book. Basically the same thing. 1:24 of someone reading the paper while crossing the street. A lot of people with books and papers in their arms.
life was not better back then, maybe for cis straight white men but life for everyone else especially women and minorities was hell
@@circleinforthecube5170weirdo
Or overweight people
@@circleinforthecube5170 Sure Buddy
Love this video!! Made when people valued life and took pride in what we had in this country. Very refreshing! Thank you for sharing. 😊
Thx ;)
You mean Jim Crow & segregation and strict race laws of that time. And of course forced internment of japanese americans . Ku Klux Klan & german american bund marched in public celebrated.
You are getting better and better at this.
In the beginning the dominant color of your videos was beige.
Now the colours are more varied and bright. You are honing your skills.
Thanks for all the work.
Thanks 🙏
Arriving as an immigrant on Ellis Island and seeing the New York skyline for the first time must have truly been a sight to behold.
Thanks for posting these videos of the demolished Penn Station. New York really lost a masterpiece when it was destroyed.
That's Capitalism for you !
Penn Station being torn down was a tragedy as it was due to the onset of Air travel & the increase of more people having their own cars as it fell into years of disrepair & the cost of maintaining such a huge building was prohibitive & before preservation efforts took place that saved Grand Central Terminal from the same fate years later 👍🤔😃
Grand Central very nearly suffered the same fate.
@@None-zc5vgno retard this is capitalism right here what your watching. What we have now it basically socialism which is why our country is going down the gutter.
I know every street on video. It's given me a glimpse into the beauty NYC was. It saddens me to see the change. The kids played on fire hydrants was a way for us all to cool off. Everyone swam in the Hudson River.
Thank you for these beautiful shots, and memories ❤
Thx ;))
3rd world pillagers have destroyed the US
Wait, people were actually swimming in the Hudson River in the '40s? I'm pretty sure that was NOT a smart thing to be doing. The pollution was already through the roof.
Would you be so kind as to fill us in on which streets they are?
at 4:43 look how clean the Hudson was!! WOW!! born and raised in CHICAGO but this is a really cool video to watch!! Ladies in dresses and men in suit ties/Bow Ties. this is awesome!!!
How beautifully dressed all the women were and the men so smart. People certainly took a pride in their appearances in those days.
yes very nice dress
Women's skirts keep getting shorter and shorter showing more body
So many of them wearing animal pelts like the Flintstones.
This duplicate comment on EVERY video...
Nice to see everyone dressed in "street" attire instead of pajama pants and slippers!
Just the way I rember it as a kid in the ‘40s. It was very safe and we used to walk the Williamsburg bridge to Manhattan. Also, we felt safe riding the subway to Coney Island on a summer day..
Sounds like a dream
Yea now kids today just have a phone and when mom tell u food is ready not have to yell at street lol 😆 just used text message or a friend wants be friends with u just used name drop send phone number or what ever
Ooh my! Beautiful and so amazing. Slices of life in 1940's New York. Just an absolute pleasure. Enjoyed every minute of this video.
NYC was so advanced back then. It’s amazing that within a few decades or within one lifetime we went from reading by candles and traveling by horseback to electricity, lightbulbs, telephones, phonographs, automobiles, airplanes, television, movies and the atomic bomb. One person born around 1860 and blessed with a long life could’ve easily witnessed the birth of some of the most significant technological advancements in human history.
Especially mind you, people were living well into their 70's-90's. Definitely can see alot of progression
Excellent summary of the industrial and technological progress made since the 19th century! "New York City was so advanced back then." People all over the world marvelled at the Empire State Building and other skyscrapers in New York which were unique in the world at that time!
Thats true, but we still lived through the digital revolution. I remember when mobile phones were as big as a brick.
Yes and by 2024, looting of retailers daily....As the Empire declines, so does the people within it.
My great grandfather was born in 1874, 2 years before Custer's last stand to give you reference, he saw all major developments including Man Walk on the Moon, he passed away in 1970.
I was born in NYC in 1971 (Gen X), so by the time I was teen in the early 1980s, all those movie palaces in Time Square in the 1940s had turned into X-Rated Live peep shows and bargain adult video store warehouses (in the 50s/60s they had turned into live burlesque and jazz clubs, and in the 1970s they became dirty "grindhouse" cinemas showing Kung Fu and Blaxploitation films). By the mid 1990s Mayor Guiliani had cleaned it up and returned it back into family friendly Disneyworld tourist hub. Well its 2023 and I can't help but see the deterioration and decline happening again. But it has been truly fascinating seeing an area transform itself again and again throughout my lifetime!
I also was there before the Disney thing started. I saw the change too.
Don't use the term "disney". Use the term "normal".
@9cross It wasn't normal, though. In the 90s the area became like a Disneyworld theme park on Broadway. Fine for some, but it didn't feel like "NYC" either.
Where is NYC please?
@@ahmadrahimi8598 NYC = New York City
Those people that lived in the 1940 decade and are still alive today can REALLY say how much better it was then compared to the times of today. 😢.
Unless you were black,the white people or 80% of them had no moral code when it came to hating people of color.........they were truly EVIL....but " they " THOUGHT, IMAGINED that they were good citizens...😂🤣
Um not many would still be alive, maybe the babies
I disagree... trying to find information back then was impossible now i can get instant info...times are better now
Absolutely fascinating. Another time, another world. I can watch this over and over again. My mom was born in Manhattan. She met my dad during the war. When he came back they spent their honeymoon meandering all over NY. They often spoke about it. I've always wondered what it was like. This was an excellent look at it as it was then. Thank you for this.
An old friend of mine who came from a prosperous family background once told me that New York was at its best in the 1930s and 1940s. I also like to watch New York in the 1950s in the Hollywood movies of that time!
Amazing video, NASS! It's cool to imagine my parents in their teens, before they knew each other, living life in NYC.
I admit I was looking for my folks, both city kids born in '35, and grandparents. If they had gone to John's of Bleeker Street, my dad probably would have been there.
@@shardanette1 I too look for my father, who would have been in his early 20s at the time of this video. These videos are such a treat. Thank you.
Awwwww 🥰 your comment so heart warming and heart touching, Nice reading your comment, how are you doing
9:14 That woman with the sunglasses was absoultely breathtaking.
The city looked so clean back in those days.
It's as if they only recorded the nicer areas!
Bull. This is colorized and “cleaned up” by AI. It’s told roads are gray so it makes them uniform gray. It’s told the sky is blue, so it colorized the smog.
That's because Rap wasn't invented yet.
Well yeah notice who is missing.
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Absolutely amazing as usual! Thanks for letting me travel back in time again NASS!
Thank you
@@NASS_0 of course!
Oui c est le même profond ressenti...merci Nass de nous faire un peu oublier juste un court instant le monde dans lequel nous vivons....
Et ce malgré la tragédie de la guerre en Europe à cette époque là
À l image de toutes les tragédies...
Piacere di conoscerti.scusa se è poco quello che sto x dire: è un vero spettacolo,mamma che che bellooooo!!i i miei più vivissimi complimenti x quello che ha realizzato questo video.ancora grazie mille 😊😊❤❤
I am a native New Yorker and I LOVE , this film . Some times the ghost of the 40' s working class would walk on the sidewalk , and I wouldn't mine .
I love these old videos. please don't stop. your work is appreciated;
Thx ;)
I love the sound added. I think it sounds very real . Wonderful job. I enjoyed that so much.
Look at all these people just living their lives. Not a single phone in sight.
If they had phones of today they’d be using it definitely.
Конечно не видно. Это же было 85 лет назад
If you watching this right now
And had cell phones been invented back then they would’ve had them. It’s called human nature.
YESSSSSS, MAN!! Ahhh, to be able to turn back the clock, or return to those care free days!!
I was a 1040 child but in Finger Lakes area of NY. Fascinating video and hard to think about the fact that most of the people in this have all left the world.
Я,разделяю Ваше мнение,некоторые из маленьких детей присутствующих на этом видео есть в живых остальных увы уже нет.
We're next.
Sad indeed, a lot of their stories now gone. I love hearing stories of the 1950's which I could've lived then
The boys in the video might very well still be alive. They'd be in their 80s now.
This country is unrecognizable
No longer a country. It’s a mere economic zone.
Thanks so much for doing this. Seeing this in color really humanizes the period and people.
The three things that really stood out 1) I didn't see any obese people. Everyone is medium weight or thinner. 2) The racial stratification. The few black folks seen, except for one are in lower caste jobs, and in the subway shots of people on their way into midtown, it's all white people. Very few latinos as well.
And finally, everyone is well dressed. There are no shlubs walking in the streets.
Thx ;)
And alot of Woman with stroller )
Да, тоже обратила внимание, что нет ни одного полного человека. Все люди обладают хорошим здоровьем. Приятно одеты, аккуратно причёсаны, с прекрасным настроением. И жизнь кипит!
You, my friend, are absolutely amazing. Keep it up. Truly a breath of fresh air compared to today's times.
Thx ;))
The skyline of New York only had a few really tall buildings in those days, and yet it was so much more imposing! Just look at that magnificent urban beauty at 0:20!
This was great. But one thing I noticed is that you added the sounds of a steam locomotive to an elevated train. But those elevated trains were electric self-propelled by that time. Otherwise the sounds seemed perfectly normal, as if it was a sound film when recorded. I love the old views of New York.
Скоро будут из нейросети делать видосы и не отлечить настоящее или нет)
I was struck by how much cleaner it was then. No graffiti. Kids jumping off the pier. Less traffic congestion. Ah well. Beautiful restoration NASS!
Ty 👍
Do you know that if you would’ve committed a crime in most these neighborhoods you would’ve had to deal with some people that weren’t friendly and it wasn’t the police that’s why people behaved and dressed appropriately. It was probably a good time to be alive, except for the war in Europe.
Duh.. no blacks or Hispanics, of course it looks clean and civilized
@@richardlacey4923Are you blind?there are visibly blacks in this video, and most Hispanic immigrants have more work ethic then white and black people combined so what are you on about??
@@bigstyx I’m not sure if all this footage was shot during the same year, but I believe I spotted a post war Studebaker.
This is a wonderful peak at our past, nicely done, I could not but help notice how many people are not overweight like they are today, it is striking. 400 years of continuous change no other American city like it.
Born in the
Bronx July 1940 love this video, stickball, stoopball, open hydrants, brings back lots of memories. GREAT JOB!!
Thx ;))
Absolutely stunning. I have no words to describe the importance of this short film.
What happened to America? We were so united then. Hardworking. Moral. Decent.
The attire! No cell phones. No internet. Interaction with people only. Freedom rings!
Diversity happened
Liberals ruined it all, now society is given over to promiscuity, without purpose and more unhappy than ever in history
@azmike1, you are forgetting about racism, which made life an absolute nightmare to many people, and still does
In these socialist cities, crime has become so bad that it's too dangerous to visit, let alone live in. JoAnn
" We were so united then."
It's like stepping back in time, absolutely mesmerizing.
Just fantastic, one of your very best. The first half really gives the feel of the city as I recall it going into city in the 60's. I've been on many of those subway platforms. You're really "in there" with the hustle & bustle, even down to the fish market. The second half is more touristy, panoramic, from a distance.
Thank You ;))
Thank you for this new video, Nass. I love watching this kind of video and see how people lived at that time.
Thx ;)
I LOVE your videos! Man I would love to see one of these on 52nd street, where jazz ruled. So many clubs. Anyways, keep up the great work!
Although the description says this is a hurried life, to me it looks like everyone is quite laid back and moving at a leisurely pace, in spite of it being extremely crowded. I found this very interesting to watch especially for the cultural information, entertainment, fashions and families seen. Thank you so much for sharing this.
❤
Because no internet
Technology has increased the pace of life
It is just marvelous to watch this technology advance. Just imagine what it will look like in say 2 to 3 more years. I bet it looks something just like colored video. Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you
No pajamas, no crop tops, no women not wearing bras, no flip flops. Everyone dressed with such authority and dignity back then... miss it..
They had genuine pride and self-respect. They lived in a civilized society and the greatest country on earth. That was then.
@@MikeConrad-oj6seprecisely!
Beautiful to see but heartbreaking what we've turned it into and how far it's fallen.
diversity ruins everything
Well what do you expect? This is the city and country that destroyed Germany, when they warned us what would happen if the ppl who founded these nations started becoming minorities in their own homelands!
Karma. We were warned
N.Carolina and the country will not be escaping what’s happening, anymore than the big cities
The US has been a 2nd world country since the 1970s
Patton said it best.
@@gello8518 yes. He did.
The skyline was so beautiful - each building with an impressive crown. Space between the towers with light passing through. Now so many gorgeous buildings big and small are gone, replaced with sterile cold glass monoliths devoid of character, blocking out light and each other.
Im 52, my mother recently passed away, i remember her telling me stories about life when she was a kid, smh so hard but simple, more family values then now, more life!
Beautiful
In spite of the war , these were better times for New York. Great footage.
Wojna wtedy tyłki w Europie ,ucz się
@@bozenasteiner8261
This was AFTER that war.
Better times for some...
America made a fortune out of the war
This is absolutely remarkable. The only imagery of time that far back is all black and white. It's almost as if you're there watching this video on color as its always been and as we see it today.
Thx❤️
Looks to be 1948 -- At the end you can see a movie marque with Rita Hayworth "The Loves of Carmen" which was released in 1948. I really enjoy your work on these restorations. Very fun to watch.
I am pretty sure I saw a 1948 Packard taxi a few times and what I felt was a 1948 Studebaker rear
"The Loves of Carmen" of Rita Hayworth Yes! 13:37 I can see. Is 1948 😊
Amazing and beautiful. The 1940s certainly had its share of hard times, but I do wish I had a time machine. Great job on remastering this film!
Everyone all dressed up because if you were going out or to work that's the way people dressed back then - no casual clothes if you were going downtown to shop or work. No shoving, pushing, lewd behavior and everyone is alert and relaxed at the same time.
You're so out to lunch. Are you not familiar with the NY mafia families?
Nass, Great upload. Thanks. Hey! This is the Sonny Corleone time period, 1940's New York! Haha. Plus look at all the men in fedora hats at 7:57. You know it's 1930's-1940's! Plus cute scene with father & son at 9:39 looking in window at boat!
Thanks
Yeah and the man at 9:56 looking a those flowers maybe thinking about his wife or something
Looks like August 1948 ["Tap Roots" with Van Heflin and Susan Hayward] -a time within memory of many still alive and well in 2024 yet somehow as distant as the Andromeda galaxy. Thanks to all involved in the genesis, preservation, presentation and posting online of this glimpse into the past ...
It's amazing how developed, how clean, how orderly, and how prosperous New York City looked. Everyone was well dressed and seemed hard working. America had pride in NYC and its other cities then. It's too bad our current political leaders, especially those from the South, treat New York City like trash.
Duh.. no blacks or Hispanics.. of course it does
Thank you for making these video's.
Thank you
💙💙💙💙 Beautiful, wonderful images!! I sooo wish that New York City STILL was this way! Life was so much more innocent.... so much nicer & sweeter back then.😪
Very! nice pictures. The scenery looks so surreal, especially with those new added colours to it. Almost like cartoons inside of a D.C. Marvel comic strip. It's almost as though you're in a dream and all the people around you are just like walking ghosts, from another time.
"It's almost as though you're in a dream, and all the people around you are just like walking ghosts, from another time." Excellent impression! I feel the same. When I look back on my long life, it looks like a DREAM! "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
Looks amazing - would love to have been around there back in the day - men and women beautifully dressed
yeah!
Look how clean it was, people respected their environment….
lol 🤦♂
Imagine coming from a European town with the tallest building being the church and then seeing this when arriving at the harbour. Still feels unreal, like the Earth's piece of a science fiction metropolis. New York's an icon.
Watching this ,tells me the best times are well and truly behind us .
Sorry your life didn't turn out as you expected...
Except for the racism and misogyny, it was great.
so much safer back then without the 'vibrants'@@andreamlongmire1066
did yours loser?@@tycanuck
@@andreamlongmire1066 NYC's African-American population in 1940 was about 5%. Racial issues did not flare up until massive Black migration from the South had occurred. Many Blacks, who were badly mistreated in the South, brought their contempt for Whites with them. There was a lot of reverse racism, a phenomenon that has not been well researched.
From Saudi Arabia please don't stop downloading such wonderful videos about NY. I really enjoy it
Wow, astounding footage, so fascinating. Great to see the original Pennsylvania Station. The REAL Penn Station, not the basement station under Madison Square Garden & Penn Plaza, not the Moynihan Train Hall....but the authentic McKim, Mead & White masterpiece.
Muito obg por esse excelente trabalho prestado pra humanidade ❤
thank you so much
Wow. Just amazing to see this, I am so blown away with how prosperous and beautiful life looked in those days. Before the sinister ways of our modern times. The culture, the people, the architecture of the city as just something else back then. Lord knows I wish I could have seen life back then. New York now a days looks like an apocalyptic societal nightmare unfolding.
4:25 In our little penthouse
we'll always contrive
to keep love and romance
forever alive
In view of the Hudson
just over the drive
When we're alone.
Penthouse Serenade 1933
dear progressivism,
thank you so much that you freed me from the abhorrent burden of walking around in clean streets all while wearing confining clothes.
now, we can finally walk in our PJs tiptoeing around the homeless.
well done 👍
(or so I was told)
" freed me from the abhorrent burden of walking around in clean streets" - you're into a fantasy. In the old days the streets were covered with horse sh*t until the sweepers could come by. Then with the invention of the automobile the air became thick with pollution until laws and regulation (i.e. that nasty "progressivism" at which you so reflexively hate) reduced that pollution tremendously. This video is made from a very low resolution film, then it is highly manipulated. You can't see any detail of what was on the streets.
@@TheDanEdwards I can clearly see that the streets now aren't clean. how many horses did you see in this video?
the resolution is at least good enough to recognize the clothing style (and to compare with today's standards.)
lastly, I'm old enough to have personally witnessed six decades and despite my eye resolution being in a constant state of decline, I can still confidently vouch for which way we developed during this period.
the advent of catalytic converters was a true blessing!
but this fact doesn't allow you to equate everything that undeniably didn't improve with one that did as the ultimate reference for everything.
Go to MAGA territory in flyover states and see the clean streets. Oh wait, they are made of dirt. Which also covers the people, who abuse meth and live in mobile home parks. The same dirt covers their rusty old pickups. They have no retirement fund or healthcare. Trump told them to blame it on immigrants, because poor immigrants, not billionaires, provide healthcare to people.
@@texaswunderkindThis is called cognitive dissonance to anyone unfamiliar with the Progressive mind. They simultaneously claim that Republicans are the rich, greedy ones while also claiming Republicans are the poor, stupid ones. All you need to know about the Democrat party is one thing- They are the party which provides entitlements for people who cannot survive and feed their children without government assistance. That’s it. That’s the Democrat party. Progressives also lump “flyover territory” in with places like Orange County California and countless upper class suburbs nationwide while claiming the cities are blue because of intellectuals and not endless welfare plantations. The two largest demographics voting Republican- white men and white married women. In 2016, Pew research showed that the majority of college graduates voted for Hillary while concealing the fact that the same Pew research poll showed white college grads Trump. Democrat voters are needy and entitled or young and brainwashed.
Can we please go back to these days? I can’t get over how civil, well dressed and clean everyone and the city appears.
Yessss!!!! I SOOOOOO agree!!
The hard part of living is often not recorded. I liked the part of the kids playing with the water on the street the most tbh
Too bad liberals ruined everything
From the few movie marques I saw. Part of the video is 1943 and on Times Square at night at the last segment was 1948.
I Noticed The Back End Of A 1948 Mercury On The Street In One Clip.
If you get a chance and you visit NYC, a must see is the NYC transit museum in downtown Brooklyn. All the old train.
Only been to NYC once in my life and from TV & the movies this basically semi-filltered perception of what real day-to-day life was like back then is simply mind blowing when compared to what has changed over time. No doubt that it's been through a lot since time has passed. Society seemed so tame back then. Nostalgic indeed!
Coney Island. Great place to go. See the parachute jump? The structure is still there to this day. A memorial to the days of fun.
Skinny people, just before big pharma and the fast food industry, fattened us up for the kill.
The wives were home cooking things in lard!
Yeah! everyone was tall and slender…not glued to a cell phone , sitting and getting fat. They all walked blocks and blocks every day. Even now city ppl are generally slim.
White Castle was founded in 1921. Stop blaming fast food when it's fat people who are accountable for their lifestyle decisions.
The New York was so developed at that time too .
Just look at these buildings and these big, wide roads 😮
Just amazing💕😍
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*The small boys playing with boats on the lake are in their late 80s now. I hope they had happy and healthy lives.*
A masterpiece. I've never laid eyes on New York City, but it makes me desire it. It was so orderly. Were there problems? Sure. But the order of life comes through. Especially for the young. Kids never change. They are the same from generation to generation. Watching them play makes me feel younger.
Thx ;)
Believe me, you would not want to visit NYC these days. High crime in the streets.Shoplifting is legal. You can get pushed onto the tracks in the subway or mugged. Illegals sleeping on the sidewalks. Walk in Tomes Square, and you smell pot. No bail law. Commit a crime. you're out on the street next day!!
@@roncaruso931 I was born in NYC in 1971 (Gen X), so by the time I was teen in the early 1980s, Time Square was quite dangerous with high crime and prostitution, and all those beautiful movie palaces in the 1940s had turned into X-Rated Live peep shows and bargain adult video megastores (in the 50s/60s they had turned into live burlesque and jazz clubs, and in the 1970s they became dirty "grindhouse" cinemas showing Kung Fu and Blaxploitation films). By the 1990s Mayor Guiliani had cleaned it up and returned it back into a family friendly Disneyworld-type tourist hub that lasted till the mid 2000s. Well its 2023 and I can't help but see the deterioration and decline happening again. But it has been truly fascinating seeing an area transform itself again and again throughout my lifetime!
And everyone was tall and slender…not glued to a cell phone either.
It's so amazing, and to see people who were with joys, worries, thoughts, all kinds of things, and today they are no longer with us, it gives proportions not to worry too much, and to spend life having fun, because everything passes in the end
I like how nobody be robbing peeps or pushing peeps onto the tracks, no car jackings, no one jumping the turnstiles or peeps blasting rap crap. I saw not one smash and grab store robbery.
Man I wish I could as naive as you
i lived in nyc in the 1980s, its amazing how similar it was 40 ish years ago, if time travel were possible you wouldn't be too lost, there is also a NASS of NYC in the 1930s, and it looks more foreign. Not as many people wore hats now compared to the 1930s too.
Gotta love those yellow cabs! I was born in 1948 and grew up in beautiful northeastern NJ and used to go into Manhattan almost every weekend because in the 1950s they were just beginning to build the big outdoor shopping malls and you still had to go into the city to do much of your shopping! Along with going to Radio City Music Hall and out to lunch or the famous Central park Zoo and merry-go-round! I remember Best and Co. and beautiful Lord & Taylors that had those gorgeous elevators and the BEST beautiful Christmas windows that I took my three daughters to see as well, along with the famous Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center!
My late father worked around Wall Street and I remember the West Side Highway and going over the George Washington Bridge so many times, more than I can count! Sad that Lord & Taylor's and B. Altmans where I used to shop doesn't exist anymore! Another great era! smdh
Years later in the late 1960s and 70s, I lived on the Upper East side and worked as a fashion illustrator, studied at Parson's School of Design and went to New School University formerly The New School for Social Research where I met my husband of 42 years. Used to hang out at the MET and Guggenheim all the time and gorgeous Central ParkI remember the warm bags of hot chestnuts we used to eat in the winter from the street vendors and the subways that had pale yellow whicker rattan seats before they put in the plastic and metal ones! Would love to go back in a time machine to the 1930s and 40s, my late parent's era when they were young! Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane and for doing a great job here, much appreciated! I ♥ New York!!
Beautifully done, excellent work. ❤
Thank you 👍
Medical advancements aside, dear God I hate the modern world.
My mother was in nursing school at the time at Brooklyn Hospital. She said penicillin was delivered with a police escort.
you would hate a 1900s outhouse more than the modern world.
As many advancements as we have there are more diseases and ailments to cure….never ending 😢
@@paul7TMnuclear war that’s where we are headed..
Don’t let them lie to you. Life was way better back then.
Gracias Nass por subir estos videos. Merece la pena ver a todas estas personas en esta maravillosa ciudad. Es una lástima que hoy día la gente haya perdido el sentido de la decencia en el vestir, en el caminar y en el comer.
I love these videos, it’s like hopping in a Time Machine!❤❤❤
Don’t let them lie to you. Life was way better back then.
WAY better
Defenetely not, but the old archiecture is defenetely preferable
@@wutrudoin Well I don’t mean 100 years ago. I’m talking about in 90s and stuff.
Not if you black.
@@nicknite10 Funny, because I came to America in the 90s and I remember the 90s and early 2000s being much much much much less divisive and racist.
❤Absolutely fantastic era!! ❤love from Finland
Born and raised Upper West side of Manhattan. Yep. Stick ball in the Street and off the point was a past time with the kids on the block.