Wonderful footage and storytelling. I wish I could have experienced it back then! It's still a wonderful place with lots of natural beauty and human quirkiness, but much less of a "working" town and more catered to tourists and wealthy summer home owners than to working-class people and fledgling artists.
Thanks for the feedback, I think you might be incorrect, however the provenance of the film is credited in detail here archive.org/details/ProvincetownTheFirstSummer1953 and the date is put in context several times. Perhaps double check...
@@ChristopherSeufert17 I saw a few late 50's cars but so what if there is some mixed footage. Provincetown had the same sequences of events every year.
Like the East Village in Manhattan, the culture is all different today. There isn't a house under a million in town. When the young artists with no money are squeezed out, the place isn't nearly as interesting. I guess it's not the place, but the time I miss.
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Wonderful footage and storytelling. I wish I could have experienced it back then! It's still a wonderful place with lots of natural beauty and human quirkiness, but much less of a "working" town and more catered to tourists and wealthy summer home owners than to working-class people and fledgling artists.
Freedom. Bring it back.
Very interesting video.
Very nice but the video is newer. I saw a 1961 Pontiac Tempest on Bradford Street.
Thanks for the feedback, I think you might be incorrect, however the provenance of the film is credited in detail here archive.org/details/ProvincetownTheFirstSummer1953 and the date is put in context several times. Perhaps double check...
@@ChristopherSeufert17 I saw a few late 50's cars but so what if there is some mixed footage. Provincetown had the same sequences of events every year.
Like the East Village in Manhattan, the culture is all different today. There isn't a house under a million in town. When the young artists with no money are squeezed out, the place isn't nearly as interesting. I guess it's not the place, but the time I miss.