My mother passed away 2 weeks ago. She graduated high school in Brooklyn in 1950. This is the NYC she was experiencing in her late teens, early 20’s. Thank you for this. It’s a little bit like seeing what my mom saw in her time.
@@mr.bnatural3700 talking about petrol...those cars would drink plenty of it! and having driven behind old American cars, you can smell the fumes. not good on a still day or in fog...but people survived
I'm not sure if you would though. So many things that we take for granted you'd miss. Being able to hop onto a plane and travel anywhere in the world for a $1500. Being able to call loved ones at any time. Not dieing from simple diseases. Being able to date someone of a different race. It wasn't as wonderful as it seems.
And they would say the exact opposite probably. "Cool to see people with a device that has all information they need at their fingertips, that can make high definition pictures, video's and everything else. They would probably be amazed by all the flashy ads and bright lights too and would call our age the golden times with all the oppertunities there are (or should be). If humans still had the mentality and ethics of the people back then and the tech and innovation of today the human race would be a rediculously well oiled machine right now. I think it's clear we f*cked up somewhere along the way..
Random observations and thoughts while watching this history capture: it was just before the hippie 60s and 50s women still dressed like during WWII years, cars were parked with front wheels turned to the pavement so they didn't trust their brakes much, only some apartments had AC units so they must have been very expensive, there was street trash but mostly degradeable cardboard and paper, there were a few what looked like loitering Teddy Boys, a horse and cart passed by so it was one of the very few anymore, there were no electronic toy gadgets so children healthily played outdoors in large groups, children had bubblegum so the disgusting urban scourge of gum on sidewalks had already started, rail tracks had those wooden sleepers and gaps so were very clickity clackity, safety windows for highrise apartments were yet to be invented. Thanks NASS for uploading this. Your films always sobering put life as we know it now into histrorical context.
@Vive === Read your comment of that 1050s video and you were SPOT ON!!!! And one item we NEVER HEARD of was the RECALLS RECALLS RECALLS as of 1995 tru 2024s DEFECTIVE week after week of CARS***APPLIANCES***FOOD PRODUCTS***EXPLODING BATTERIES***MEDICAL ITEMS*** BUT NEVER ANY RECALLS on AMERICAN MANUFACTURED GOODS BACK THEN****
Its always a good day when I get a notification from NASS. But today was extraordinary. That film was fantastic. Couldnt even tell it was shot on film, looks like it was shot this afternoon!!!! The sharpness was unbelievable. That was fun to watch. You're still the best NASS. Thank you.....
I came to New York in 1952 as a baby, i dont remember much, but in about 1959, i do remember the cars, they all had lots of chrome, & were very wide, & stylish, my old man had a buick, & i remember the seats being huge, & my 7 year old legs could,nt reach the floor, oh what happy memories.
@@NASS_0 It Is All Good But The Trains Are Not Going With Steampunk Here You Can See By The Rails A Trolley Contact Rail From This All Of These Sections Are Feeded With Electric Power Till Our Days Please Pay Attention! :)
Awesome video.... Looks like it was taken yesterday... Beautiful cars, everyone is dressed so beautifully, + the streets look so clean.. A step back in time.. I was born in the early fiftes, + can remember the late 1950s very well... Life was so very different back then.. Beautiful buildings... Oh yes, no cell phones, + that's when we always sat around the table talking to each other 😀. Hanging clothes on the clothes line... Kids playing in the streets ... Want to go back.. Thanks for posting. 🙏😀
It's funny because the cinema and also television have spent years and years trying to make the new look like something old, and now I see something old as if it were something that is happening right now. The quality of the images and especially the speed that adjusts to the normal movements of people, cars, etc. is really impressive. Excellent work. Many congratulations and greetings from Argentina.
This is amazing! This is exactly the kind of content we need in this crazy upside down world we live in today, to give us some warm fuzzies of yesteryear. Well done, and many thanks!! 😊
It may give you the warm of fuzzies from yesteryear, but those folks you see in the video are thinking the same thing you are, reminiscing about yesteryear in the same nostalgic way.
Pretty sure the 50s weren’t all warm with fuzziness. Poverty, extortion, violence and depression was still present as it is today. Just cause this was 70 years ago doesn’t mean life was simple. World War 2 just relatively finished up and civil rights for minorities weren’t taken serious yet. Mccarthyism and the red scare was happening and WW3 with the Russians was a constant talking point. Hard to say this was a peaceful time for everyone.
This was the spring of our generation or the first turning the summer was between 64-84 and then the fall and now we are in the winter or fourth turning where everything from the old world dies and is replaced with the new generation and so on it goes for another round at life.
The little boy pushing the baby carriage 😍 It's so fascinating seeing real people out and about, instead of movie scenes. The contemporary 1950s movies went above and beyond to make everyone look fabulous, but even in more modern movies where they try to be more realistic, it's never going to be *truly* realistic. Wardrobe and hair and makeup people will try to create "aesthetic poverty" with stuff like faded or frayed clothes, but the clothes always fit perfectly, the hair is always perfect, etc. I love seeing what normal people looked like on just a random day.
Almost feels futuristic in a way. The body style of the cars. The technology free people. An alternative universe where calmness strives and the sound of the everyday man can be heard eternally.
@@Man.Well93 I'm getting kinda' tired of this comment in every video like this. 99% of people who comment about earlier times are well aware of the problems that abounded then. They're wishing for a more respectful time. Also, the civil right and women's movements didn't suddenly spring out of the 1960s overnight. Their 'growth began in the 1950s in the churches and work places. My grandmother WAS battling sexism in the work place in the 1950s but she had plenty of allies.
This must be the best and most realistic video posted by NASS. The time machine gets better and better... my god.. now we can look in the past like it was yesterday.. thxs a lot
What is admirable in this vision of New York in the 1950's, is to note all that is missing compared to New York today; a clean city, without graffiti on the walls and other forms of urban violence, such as gangs of young delinquents in the streets, drug addicts shooting up, but women peacefully pushing baby carriages in 1950, no trace of the rabble hanging out in the streets today, but gentlemen in suits and hats! Children playing safely in the street! One has the impression that in 70 years since 1950 New York has gone from the highest civilization to a fall into decadence and barbarism!
Barbarism? That is an exaggeration+ look up 1960’s New York that’s when society peaked in terms of balance between individuality and respect for the community. If only people treated the hippies right, the culture war wouldn’t have grown until how big of a divide it is today! People like you, like to compare 50’s America to today, but it’s in the 70’s when all went loose, it’s the 60’s that we should compare today’s society to
Your description matches some (emphasis on SOME, not all) of New York in the '70s and '80s. Not as much now. And there definitely was urban violence, gangs, and drug addicts shooting up in the 1950s. Actually more then than now when you look at the statistics. But it's very clear you haven't been to New York recently. That's just not the impression you get in most of New York City. And who the heck wants to wear Suits, especially in the summer? That's torture! And people still wear hats. That's always been true in every era of 20th and 21st Century New York.
Yes even more rapidly with two years since the Communists took over they don't want us like that civilizing decent human beings looking forward to making the world better tomorrow that is a strong Nation they cannot control dirtbags who care about nothing but drugs I sex and partying makes America week easy to control. They're doing now
the 60s was the beginning of the end. it was the start of the decline, all of the liberal policies that plague us today which lead to all of the degradation of society began in the 60s, I wish we were frozen in 1955 would've been much better for civilization. @@yosefmekouar
The uploader tried his darn best to enhance this video as perfectly as possible so that the viewer could capture the essence of the past one more time. I don't think inadequate sounds coming from steam engines and electric trains of a different sequence would alter the beauty and glory of generations gone by.
It's just so refreshing to see what they were like without phones back then. You can see people having conversations, playing games with each other and some just there walking around with their thoughts and the big city
HAVING GROWN UP IN THE FORTIES AND FIFTIES, I CAN PRETTY MUCH SIGHT DATE EVERY CAR THAT I SEE OF THAT ERA ! MY DAD WAS A CAR GUY, HE CHALLENGED ME TO LEARN CARS BY SIGHT ! IT IS SOMETHING I AM GOOD AT ! REALLY ENJOY THESE !
@@sonnycorleone3251 Probably August 1950. O'Dwyer resigned that month, but he was still mayor here. I assume you could get a '51 model the preceding August.
Because I live on Park Avenue, I know many of these buildings and street corners. Midtown Park Avenue (40th Street-57th Street) was transformed by post-War office buildings, only one of which was standing when the film was made,. It's among New York's first "International Style" skyscrapers (at 2.04). Sadly, none of midtown Park Avenue's beautiful hotels remain (with the exception of the Waldorf, currently undergoing conversion to condominiums.) Also changed is the juxtaposition between upper-class apartments and working-class tenements. Many of the latter still stand, but as Manhattan has grown more expensive, they''re rented to higher-income people, reducing the area's density and numbers of children, who are happily at play in the film (except for the two boys fighting each other, reminding me of my brother and me; my guess is their fight wasn't terribly serious). It may be that because Manhattan's richer than it was then, Park Avenue is currently cleaner than it appears in the film. It now has a private association of surrounding apartment owners that keeps the malls neat and tidy and plants them with seasonal flowers.
Agreed Roy Strickland. Shame the Drake and The Ambassador Hotel the latter visible in this clip are now gone. Park Avenue above 96th Street was the dividing line between wealthy and disadvantaged. I wish Manhattan would go back to those street signs that’ve been replaced a good sixty years ago now. Remember the yellow and black street signs?
The character of the city was so much better back then. I was born on the other side of the river from Manhattan in 1951, and this video reflects how ancient I am.
@@TGWMPE Really? What's all of that trash and litter the camera purposely zooms in on and slowly pans past starting at around 3:50? Whoever made the film was apparently making it a point to show how dirty it was. In fact, all through this film, any place you can see the sidewalks, gutters or streets, there's litter.
OMG! I attended kindergarten in Central Park near this area. A lot of my playmates there came from these blocks around 96th and Park (I came from the West side). Some of them may be in this footage. It really takes me back.
@@margaretduffy4990 Thank you for your response. It is great to hear from you, a person, who has lived the era filmed in this video. I wish I could live even a fraction of that era. I look at everything shown this video, trying to pay attention to all the details, using my imagination to transport myself back into those days, I kind of try to live those moments (captured in this video) in my imagination. such videos of past make it so easy for me to understand that this worldly life is actually too short. In every 50 or 100 years, almost everything changes, even generations come and go, and it keeps going on and on.
That’s true and not true. The exterior of our lives changes, with different cars, trains, buses, etc., but we don’t change that much. The little girl who walked on those streets is the older woman who still walks them. I’m still the same person inside. The memories of playing with friends from those streets haven’t changed, though the physical surroundings where we played have. I revisit that area of the park on and off and the major difference I notice is that the trees seem much taller. But they’ve had 70 years to grow! The cars, trains and buses, etc. are different, but they are still cars, trains and buses. In the area covered by the film there have actually been very few physical changes, even to the buildings. I’ve lived through the a lot of political changes in the world, but it is still recognizably the same world. I’ve gone from an era in which children spent a lot of time learning to write longhand to the era of the smart phone where one types instead of writes. But my grandmother went from a world that moved only as fast as a horse could run to the jet age, where people could move thousands of miles in a few hours. In her childhood one could communicate with a few people face-to-face or by telegraph. Before she died people were able to speak across continents by phone, radio was already eclipsed by television and international TV using satellites was just starting. I think those changes were much more startling than anything I have lived through.
Assuming this footage was around 1951, or 1952, my mother and father, (father now deceased, and mother turns 79, this coming autumn, 2024), would have both been around the age of 6 or 7. Amazing how mankind figured out a way, after thousands of years on planet earth, to "capture time", on film, so generations later can "see" how things used to be. Think about, just how amazing it is...mankind can "freeze" time, in film and pictures. Absolutely astonishing when one thinks about it.
You did an amazing work on this video. Everything seems to be so real !!! The cars are beautiful and because of them I think this film is from 1950-1951. Congrats from France!!!!.
Wouldn't that be crazy if someone happened to watch this video to recall a few good memories of growing up there during that era, and then see themself... Which now I gotta ask, have you ever had an elderly person comment about one of your videos, saying they watched it and one of the kids in it was either them, a reletive, or someone they grew up with? (EDIT: Oh, and great work as always, gotta give credit where credit is due.)
for history buffs like me, this is exciting to watch. Most of theses OLD CITIES are gone. For someone like myself who was born in the 70"s, I missed all of this!❤
Excellent time machine of the Upper East Side/96 St and Park Ave. It was so simple back then. I love footage of old New York City. I'm starving for more. 🙏👍
This had to be before August 31, 1950. Because that’s the date NYC Mayor William O’Dwyer resigned after being confronted with police corruption allegations. At 0:44 theres a big sign about Lexington Houses and there is the name of William O’Dwyer Mayor of the City. He hadn’t resigned yet.
How much i love these beautiful seasons... everything was so romantic, so simple,so melancholic.... This season we live now is out of me... Thanks mr.Nass for this so adorable video 🌷❤️ Really for a few minutes i believed how i lived to this video 😐😐😐🌹🌹🌹😔😔😔🙏🙏🙏
Oh man, this is TRULY UNBELIEVABLE!!!. at 6:28-6:29, that could have been my great uncle in the second car of that train. The detail is amazing. ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE.
I really find these videos fascinating. I really like the period 1930-1950. Type of dressing, cars, music. That's why I also love the Mafia game series. It fascinates me to see the people in these videos walking along the roads, how children are playing together in the streets. How they look at the camera and take it as something fascinating. It's beautiful.
In summer when it was real hot we went to sleep at night with the windows and apartment door open to enjoy a possible cool breeze. Imagine doing that today. You would find your apartment half empty in the morning.
How nice to see people busy at work and no one staring at their iPhone كم هو جميل ان ترى الناس مشغلوين في اعمالهم ولا ترى احدا يحدق في الآيفون الخاص به
awesome Footage, amazing Videoquality 👌👍, look how the Children used to play outside, today they only play with their mobile phones and not with eachother 🤷♂
Daweisstebescheid, Hi so true. I was born later than this video. But I can relate. I was a kid in the 1970's and 1980's and that was before computer, cell phone,VCR and Answering Machine too. And my brothers, myself and friends used to be outside all the time playing baseball, football, or soccer in my neighborhood. We did not have computers and such. But when you don't have it. You do not miss it!
@@sonnycorleone3251 I'm 15, born in 2007. I know I am very fortunate to have the things now, that they didn't have then. But people seemed so much happier, and more kind to each other. Things weren't as fair then, but it just seems better than things are now. 😔
@@CamcorderHomeVideos Samuel, Yes. I agree with your thoughts. That is another thing about the 1970's in general. People were nicer to each other back then. They really were. I lived it. All the best to you. :)
Amazing footage , how wonderful we can look back at life before time. OK one thing that did make me laugh was the electric trains where the dubbed sound was a steam loco
Being close in age to that era I would go back in a flash and stay there, far, far better than today. Not a fraction of the drama. People mostly respected each other, life was simple. You cannot miss what you did not have. Phones, elctronic comms a hassle. We done very well without it. You did not see people walking about with bottles of water and cups of coffee everywhere. Nor buried in their phones. Silly. Everything has value and was not taken for granted. The simpler things is life meant more. Minds were applied more. When you listened to a story on the radio, you had to conjure a picture of it happening. A door closing, a bottle being opened, whatever. Now your mind does not have to do a thing, tv does it for you.
Great video! I grew up a half mile away on East 84th Street and 3rd Ave in the 1970s. I had several friends whom I visited on Park in the upper 80s and lower 90s. 96th Street might as well have been the Berlin Wall for us. No white kids ventured north of 96th Street in the seventies. We all got mugged from time to time, no big deal and no real damage done. I never even heard of a kid mugged the evening before who didn't head off to school on his own the next day. I would love to time travel to the early fifties, scope out my parents as college age students, check out some jazz on 52nd Street, and some art, fresh abstract expressionist works, on 57th Street!
0:19 - Interesting to see fences in the middle probably to deter jaywalking. Also, interesting to see the use of awnings on the windows of tall buildings. There is nothing better to keep rooms cool than awnings on the windows.
Amazing how the Park Avenue (and the entire neighborhood) changes right at E97th St where the Metro North suburban trains emerge from the tunnel - at 1:48.
@Lucien Indeed! I have for a long time noted that the 19th century housing stock on the Upper East Side was, and is, nothing special as you go east from Lexington Ave. as you note.
I took that to represent the banging sound of the train's metal wheels hitting a joint in the tracks, which isn't necessarily inaccurate for an electric locomotive but it shouldn't be the predominant sound, let alone the only sound. Electric locomotives/subway trains are pretty loud passing by that closely, with a multitude of whooshing, humming, squealing, vibrating, and other sounds.
I had the feeling I could remember seeing these steel beams at some point during my childhood, but I couldn't be 100% sure. Maybe we drove past them sometime or other in the car with our dad.
Beautifully done! The only thing I can criticize are the added sounds for the trains coming out of the Park Avenue Tunnel. The New York Central and New Haven electric locomotives and Mutiple Units did not sound like a steam locomotive.
I think that rhythmic noise was supposed to represent not steam chuffing but the train's wheels going over a joint in the tracks. If so, that's not necessarily inaccurate, but the absence of any other noises even for an electric train isn't very realistic. Having been around many electric trains/subways over the years, I know they make a lot more noise than that. The rushing wind sound of them passing through the air, the hum and whir noises of their motor(s), the high pitched squeals and other racket made by all of their wheels on the tracks, and the rumble and vibrations of them passing by that you can feel and hear.
In my beautiful country everything is just like this; people dress nice; the women are beautiful and so friendly. Everyone drives 1950 & 1940s cars. Children can play safely outside until the street lights come on.
@@thetapheonix Why all the nasty bitter hate toward me? You have no idea what country I live in and the complete freedoms and prosperity we enjoy. ✌️ Peace.
I agree, the country should have stayed European. Africans in America earn 10 times more than Africans living in African societies and enjoy hugely better life standards. I think that’s more than enough. Why should they even have equality?
Most vintage street lights on selected streets in New York City are Westinghouse Type OV-20, remote ballast and they are Gumball style in the early 1950s. On the other hand, they are vertical model of Westinghouse Type OV-20 with a more rounded shape instead of slightly concave shaped globes.
As a kid, I can remember my dad had bought a used Mint green 1954 Ford...he loved that car so much he would open the fire hydrant, which required a special wrench 🔧 just so I could give it it's daily wash, floor mats and all.. 😂
Nice video. Colors are off and not lifelike. At 01:10, the camera is at 97th st and Park Ave. The camera is initially looking west towards Central Park, before it pans CCW to look south on Park Ave and 96th st. At 01:55 we are now looking east to the East River and you can just make out part of the Triboro Bridge. We then seem to pan back to looking south on Park Ave, though looking up a bit. The no commercial traffic sign is on Park. At 03:01 we are still on Park, but now looking far north, probably from 94th st, as that's the peak of the hill on Park and on the upper east side in general.
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Can you do historical events from the 1900s? Or would copyright/ownership be a problem?
I want you to remaster 60fps this one. It's Seoul in 1938.
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BACK WHEN MINORITIES KNEW THEIR PLACE AND WOMEN DIDNT HAVE MUCH SAY; MAKING IT A CLEAN SAFE AND WONDERFUL PLACE!
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My mother passed away 2 weeks ago. She graduated high school in Brooklyn in 1950. This is the NYC she was experiencing in her late teens, early 20’s.
Thank you for this. It’s a little bit like seeing what my mom saw in her time.
I’m sorry to hear about your Mom.
Damn, I feel sorry about your loss.
What a wonderful time for her, right?
Sorry for your loss , she must have had a good , long life , maybe 90 years old ?
@@normhanson981 Yes. She was exactly 90. And thank you.
my mom graduated HS in 1949 also in Brooklyn !
Like it was shot yesterday... Like stepping back into a virtual time machine. Awesome vid!
My country is still just like this. So beautiful, 40s & 50's cars. Petro is so cheap.
Babe, so true!
@@mr.bnatural3700 Cuba?
@@mr.bnatural3700 what's your country? Cuba or Venezuela?
@@mr.bnatural3700 talking about petrol...those cars would drink plenty of it! and having driven behind old American cars, you can smell the fumes. not good on a still day or in fog...but people survived
my favorite thing is the sound. the fact that you dont add music makes it brilliant
Ironically every sound here is not from the original video but added to it to recreate the atmosphere.
I'm so fascinated about time travel that if I could only force my way inside the video and stay in that era forever.
@PJM1 Now that makes a lot of sense!
I'm not sure if you would though. So many things that we take for granted you'd miss. Being able to hop onto a plane and travel anywhere in the world for a $1500. Being able to call loved ones at any time. Not dieing from simple diseases. Being able to date someone of a different race. It wasn't as wonderful as it seems.
mybigbluetoad, in that case, I have to assume that you are neither of Colour nor of Asian descent
You'd be crying to come back to the present after a few hours I bet, most of us would.
@@anthonydpearson, you are correct
Wow, Loved to see people without mobile phones snapping pic, streets without bright flashy ads, and aesthetic buildings. Truly the golden times!
And they would say the exact opposite probably. "Cool to see people with a device that has all information they need at their fingertips, that can make high definition pictures, video's and everything else. They would probably be amazed by all the flashy ads and bright lights too and would call our age the golden times with all the oppertunities there are (or should be). If humans still had the mentality and ethics of the people back then and the tech and innovation of today the human race would be a rediculously well oiled machine right now. I think it's clear we f*cked up somewhere along the way..
@@troye1740 let them swap one year to 2023 let's see how quick they want to go back to the 50s.. Today live sucks
@troye1740 I agree with the smartphones but I don't think that even they would want the super aggressive advertising that people have nowadays
@@israelbuzzofftothemoon Meh, I'll take today every time.
@@TheGeorgeD13 you're probably Gen z is why
Random observations and thoughts while watching this history capture: it was just before the hippie 60s and 50s women still dressed like during WWII years, cars were parked with front wheels turned to the pavement so they didn't trust their brakes much, only some apartments had AC units so they must have been very expensive, there was street trash but mostly degradeable cardboard and paper, there were a few what looked like loitering Teddy Boys, a horse and cart passed by so it was one of the very few anymore, there were no electronic toy gadgets so children healthily played outdoors in large groups, children had bubblegum so the disgusting urban scourge of gum on sidewalks had already started, rail tracks had those wooden sleepers and gaps so were very clickity clackity, safety windows for highrise apartments were yet to be invented. Thanks NASS for uploading this. Your films always sobering put life as we know it now into histrorical context.
@Vive === Read your comment of that 1050s video and you were SPOT ON!!!! And one item we NEVER HEARD of was the RECALLS RECALLS RECALLS as of 1995 tru 2024s DEFECTIVE week after week of CARS***APPLIANCES***FOOD PRODUCTS***EXPLODING BATTERIES***MEDICAL ITEMS*** BUT NEVER ANY RECALLS on AMERICAN MANUFACTURED GOODS BACK THEN****
Its always a good day when I get a notification from NASS. But today was extraordinary. That film was fantastic. Couldnt even tell it was shot on film, looks like it was shot this afternoon!!!! The sharpness was unbelievable.
That was fun to watch. You're still the best NASS. Thank you.....
thank you so much 🙏 🙏
I came to New York in 1952 as a baby, i dont remember much, but in about 1959, i do remember the cars, they all had lots of chrome, & were very wide, & stylish, my old man had a buick, & i remember the seats being huge, & my 7 year old legs could,nt reach the floor, oh what happy memories.
Good shit, Francis. You still live in the city?
WOW! You can never really go wrong when NASS uploads another one of his masterpiece videos. LOVE these New York scenes! Thank you! 😊
Thank you!
@@NASS_0 It Is All Good But The Trains Are Not Going With Steampunk Here You Can See By The Rails A Trolley Contact Rail From This All Of These Sections Are Feeded With Electric Power Till Our Days Please Pay Attention! :)
Awesome video....
Looks like it was taken yesterday...
Beautiful cars, everyone is dressed so beautifully, + the streets look so clean..
A step back in time.. I was born in the early fiftes, + can remember the late 1950s very well...
Life was so very different back then..
Beautiful buildings...
Oh yes, no cell phones, + that's when we always sat around the table talking to each other 😀.
Hanging clothes on the clothes line...
Kids playing in the streets ...
Want to go back..
Thanks for posting.
🙏😀
Simply another masterpiece in remastering history! Thank you.
thank you so much 🙏 🙏
It's funny because the cinema and also television have spent years and years trying to make the new look like something old, and now I see something old as if it were something that is happening right now.
The quality of the images and especially the speed that adjusts to the normal movements of people, cars, etc. is really impressive. Excellent work. Many congratulations and greetings from Argentina.
Those kids if alive now, would be around 80 years old, time waits for no one
Time does not move, we move thru time.
@@canuckprogressive.3435Wise man
@@canuckprogressive.3435 it is the same thing.
@@falahalhajri5067 Well all motion is relative but still, not really.
My mom was born in 42. She’s 82 years old , born in Manhattan, raised in. Astoria. Still alive 🙏🏼
This is amazing! This is exactly the kind of content we need in this crazy upside down world we live in today, to give us some warm fuzzies of yesteryear. Well done, and many thanks!! 😊
It may give you the warm of fuzzies from yesteryear, but those folks you see in the video are thinking the same thing you are, reminiscing about yesteryear in the same nostalgic way.
Pretty sure the 50s weren’t all warm with fuzziness. Poverty, extortion, violence and depression was still present as it is today. Just cause this was 70 years ago doesn’t mean life was simple. World War 2 just relatively finished up and civil rights for minorities weren’t taken serious yet. Mccarthyism and the red scare was happening and WW3 with the Russians was a constant talking point. Hard to say this was a peaceful time for everyone.
fuzzy for some people, the back of the bus for others.
This was the spring of our generation or the first turning the summer was between 64-84 and then the fall and now we are in the winter or fourth turning where everything from the old world dies and is replaced with the new generation and so on it goes for another round at life.
@@discodirk48 thank you mr. philosopher, now it's time to rake up the leaves until the next caretaker.
The little boy pushing the baby carriage 😍
It's so fascinating seeing real people out and about, instead of movie scenes. The contemporary 1950s movies went above and beyond to make everyone look fabulous, but even in more modern movies where they try to be more realistic, it's never going to be *truly* realistic. Wardrobe and hair and makeup people will try to create "aesthetic poverty" with stuff like faded or frayed clothes, but the clothes always fit perfectly, the hair is always perfect, etc. I love seeing what normal people looked like on just a random day.
Boys became father at young age
Almost feels futuristic in a way. The body style of the cars. The technology free people. An alternative universe where calmness strives and the sound of the everyday man can be heard eternally.
BACK WHEN MINORITIES KNEW THEIR PLACE AND WOMEN DIDNT HAVE MUCH SAY; MAKING IT A CLEAN SAFE AND WONDERFUL PLACE!
@@Man.Well93wow thanks, we all needed that 🤦♂️
@@Man.Well93 I'm getting kinda' tired of this comment in every video like this. 99% of people who comment about earlier times are well aware of the problems that abounded then. They're wishing for a more respectful time. Also, the civil right and women's movements didn't suddenly spring out of the 1960s overnight. Their 'growth began in the 1950s in the churches and work places. My grandmother WAS battling sexism in the work place in the 1950s but she had plenty of allies.
This must be the best and most realistic video posted by NASS. The time machine gets better and better... my god.. now we can look in the past like it was yesterday.. thxs a lot
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Finding these buildings on Google Maps made this video a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing!
Hello! Thank you always for your hard work. Your effort shows in these timeless archives. It isn’t overlooked by me ! Have a great day 👍🏽
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Yes car ownership was higher then in the city. A sign of economic boom!!!
It is sheer ecstasy whenever I watch your videos of past history.
The clarity is really incredible on this one.
thank you so much
I bet the camera used to record this footage was the size of a fridge.
What is admirable in this vision of New York in the 1950's, is to note all that is missing compared to New York today; a clean city, without graffiti on the walls and other forms of urban violence, such as gangs of young delinquents in the streets, drug addicts shooting up, but women peacefully pushing baby carriages in 1950, no trace of the rabble hanging out in the streets today, but gentlemen in suits and hats! Children playing safely in the street! One has the impression that in 70 years since 1950 New York has gone from the highest civilization to a fall into decadence and barbarism!
True but is it still true that many tourists go there?
Barbarism? That is an exaggeration+ look up 1960’s New York that’s when society peaked in terms of balance between individuality and respect for the community. If only people treated the hippies right, the culture war wouldn’t have grown until how big of a divide it is today! People like you, like to compare 50’s America to today, but it’s in the 70’s when all went loose, it’s the 60’s that we should compare today’s society to
Your description matches some (emphasis on SOME, not all) of New York in the '70s and '80s. Not as much now. And there definitely was urban violence, gangs, and drug addicts shooting up in the 1950s. Actually more then than now when you look at the statistics.
But it's very clear you haven't been to New York recently. That's just not the impression you get in most of New York City. And who the heck wants to wear Suits, especially in the summer? That's torture! And people still wear hats. That's always been true in every era of 20th and 21st Century New York.
Yes even more rapidly with two years since the Communists took over they don't want us like that civilizing decent human beings looking forward to making the world better tomorrow that is a strong Nation they cannot control dirtbags who care about nothing but drugs I sex and partying makes America week easy to control. They're doing now
the 60s was the beginning of the end. it was the start of the decline, all of the liberal policies that plague us today which lead to all of the degradation of society began in the 60s, I wish we were frozen in 1955 would've been much better for civilization. @@yosefmekouar
The uploader tried his darn best to enhance this video as perfectly as possible so that the viewer could capture the essence of the past one more time. I don't think inadequate sounds coming from steam engines and electric trains of a different sequence would alter the beauty and glory of generations gone by.
It's just so refreshing to see what they were like without phones back then. You can see people having conversations, playing games with each other and some just there walking around with their thoughts and the big city
HAVING GROWN UP IN THE FORTIES AND FIFTIES, I CAN PRETTY MUCH SIGHT DATE EVERY CAR THAT I SEE OF THAT ERA ! MY DAD WAS A CAR GUY, HE CHALLENGED ME TO LEARN CARS BY SIGHT ! IT IS SOMETHING I AM GOOD AT ! REALLY ENJOY THESE !
I was trying to date the cars too. Looking at the Fords and Chevys, I would date this as ‘49 or ‘50. Watcha think?
@@sfeddie1 Hi, One person saw the newest car was a 1951 model. My best guess would be years 1948-1951.
@@sonnycorleone3251 Probably August 1950. O'Dwyer resigned that month, but he was still mayor here. I assume you could get a '51 model the preceding August.
Danke für den Einblick/Eindruck. - Thanks for the insight/impression.
Because I live on Park Avenue, I know many of these buildings and street corners.
Midtown Park Avenue (40th Street-57th Street) was transformed by post-War office buildings, only one of which was standing when the film was made,. It's among New York's first "International Style" skyscrapers (at 2.04). Sadly, none of midtown Park Avenue's beautiful hotels remain (with the exception of the Waldorf, currently undergoing conversion to condominiums.)
Also changed is the juxtaposition between upper-class apartments and working-class tenements. Many of the latter still stand, but as Manhattan has grown more expensive, they''re rented to higher-income people, reducing the area's density and numbers of children, who are happily at play in the film (except for the two boys fighting each other, reminding me of my brother and me; my guess is their fight wasn't terribly serious).
It may be that because Manhattan's richer than it was then, Park Avenue is currently cleaner than it appears in the film. It now has a private association of surrounding apartment owners that keeps the malls neat and tidy and plants them with seasonal flowers.
Read your post Mr.
Agreed Roy Strickland. Shame the Drake and The Ambassador Hotel the latter visible in this clip are now gone. Park Avenue above 96th Street was the dividing line between wealthy and disadvantaged. I wish Manhattan would go back to those street signs that’ve been replaced a good sixty years ago now. Remember the yellow and black street signs?
Thank you for the info.
The clarity of the video is really good for this time period.
Your masterpiece to date! Unsurpassed clarity and nostalgia of a bygone era. Many thanks!
You do a vatastic job restoring and adding color. Keep up the great work and thank you for posting them they need to be enjoyed
Stunning footage ......thanks top notch image restoration as always .........feels like HD video from 75 years ago
thank you so much
As usual, another incredible NASS video takes us back in time 👍
Thank You for sharing it with us!
The character of the city was so much better back then. I was born on the other side of the river from Manhattan in 1951, and this video reflects how ancient I am.
Everything was so clean.
wow I must be ancient too born 50 ib NYC
Yes. It was very clean. No litter.
@@TGWMPE Really? What's all of that trash and litter the camera purposely zooms in on and slowly pans past starting at around 3:50? Whoever made the film was apparently making it a point to show how dirty it was. In fact, all through this film, any place you can see the sidewalks, gutters or streets, there's litter.
OMG! I attended kindergarten in Central Park near this area. A lot of my playmates there came from these blocks around 96th and Park (I came from the West side). Some of them may be in this footage. It really takes me back.
In which year did you attend Kindergarden
@@pervaizshiekh07 Around 1952
@@margaretduffy4990 Thank you for your response. It is great to hear from you, a person, who has lived the era filmed in this video. I wish I could live even a fraction of that era. I look at everything shown this video, trying to pay attention to all the details, using my imagination to transport myself back into those days, I kind of try to live those moments (captured in this video) in my imagination.
such videos of past make it so easy for me to understand that this worldly life is actually too short. In every 50 or 100 years, almost everything changes, even generations come and go, and it keeps going on and on.
That’s true and not true. The exterior of our lives changes, with different cars, trains, buses, etc., but we don’t change that much. The little girl who walked on those streets is the older woman who still walks them. I’m still the same person inside. The memories of playing with friends from those streets haven’t changed, though the physical surroundings where we played have. I revisit that area of the park on and off and the major difference I notice is that the trees seem much taller. But they’ve had 70 years to grow! The cars, trains and buses, etc. are different, but they are still cars, trains and buses. In the area covered by the film there have actually been very few physical changes, even to the buildings.
I’ve lived through the a lot of political changes in the world, but it is still recognizably the same world. I’ve gone from an era in which children spent a lot of time learning to write longhand to the era of the smart phone where one types instead of writes. But my grandmother went from a world that moved only as fast as a horse could run to the jet age, where people could move thousands of miles in a few hours. In her childhood one could communicate with a few people face-to-face or by telegraph. Before she died people were able to speak across continents by phone, radio was already eclipsed by television and international TV using satellites was just starting. I think those changes were much more startling than anything I have lived through.
@@margaretduffy4990 I love this thoughtful response.
60fps conversion turns these old films into a time machine, great work!
thank you so much ;)
Assuming this footage was around 1951, or 1952, my mother and father, (father now deceased, and mother turns 79, this coming autumn, 2024), would have both been around the age of 6 or 7. Amazing how mankind figured out a way, after thousands of years on planet earth, to "capture time", on film, so generations later can "see" how things used to be. Think about, just how amazing it is...mankind can "freeze" time, in film and pictures. Absolutely astonishing when one thinks about it.
You did an amazing work on this video. Everything seems to be so real !!! The cars are beautiful and because of them I think this film is from 1950-1951. Congrats from France!!!!.
I'm sure Nass goes back in time once a week with his digital camera to bring us back living memories!!
yeah, and nass films it all in about 8 mins. and 3 secs....aprox., give or take a few mins.
I used to work in the Carnegie Hill section (shown in this footage) and most of it still looks the same!!! This is awesome
Every time I think this is your best video yet, you convince me otherwise...great job😀
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Wouldn't that be crazy if someone happened to watch this video to recall a few good memories of growing up there during that era, and then see themself...
Which now I gotta ask, have you ever had an elderly person comment about one of your videos, saying they watched it and one of the kids in it was either them, a reletive, or someone they grew up with?
(EDIT: Oh, and great work as always, gotta give credit where credit is due.)
Honestly I looked just for that, but no chance as I grew up on the other side of Central Park. However one can never know.
for history buffs like me, this is exciting to watch. Most of theses OLD CITIES are gone. For someone like myself who was born in the 70"s, I missed all of this!❤
Excellent time machine of the Upper East Side/96 St and Park Ave. It was so simple back then. I love footage of old New York City. I'm starving for more. 🙏👍
This had to be before August 31, 1950.
Because that’s the date NYC Mayor William O’Dwyer resigned after being confronted with police corruption allegations.
At 0:44 theres a big sign about Lexington Houses and there is the name of William O’Dwyer Mayor of the City.
He hadn’t resigned yet.
Good call! I was just about to look him up.
Ir says mayor Robert Wagner on the Lexington Housing. He was mayor 1954-1965
How much i love these beautiful seasons... everything was so romantic, so simple,so melancholic.... This season we live now is out of me... Thanks mr.Nass for this so adorable video 🌷❤️ Really for a few minutes i believed how i lived to this video 😐😐😐🌹🌹🌹😔😔😔🙏🙏🙏
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Oh man, this is TRULY UNBELIEVABLE!!!. at 6:28-6:29, that could have been my great uncle in the second car of that train. The detail is amazing. ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE.
Thank you very much.
Amaizing ❤️❤️❤️
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So cool!, My maternal grandpa was born in '51 and my grandma in '55, My Grandpa remember much the 50s than my grandma, What a beautiful time, right? ♥
Excellent! Love the cars and fun to see the way styles of clothing have charged. Thank you!
O'Dwyer was New York's Mayor from 1946 until August of 1950 when he resigned due to being linked to the mafia. He was NY's 100th mayor.
I really find these videos fascinating. I really like the period 1930-1950. Type of dressing, cars, music. That's why I also love the Mafia game series. It fascinates me to see the people in these videos walking along the roads, how children are playing together in the streets. How they look at the camera and take it as something fascinating. It's beautiful.
Yes, I agree, and the Mafia games gives a glimpse of it.
@@josefnitervol6415and L.A. Noire
haven't played that ill check it out thanks@@epice6463
i can’t believe i found the video that we watched in class at school today and it’s this one
This is just beautiful. Thank you Nass for a great job.
thank you so much ;))
Wow. This is amazing - so clear. Thanks for sharing.
One of your best! Very few air conditioners back then, open windows! How we have gotten spoiled.
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In summer when it was real hot we went to sleep at night with the windows and apartment door open to enjoy a possible cool breeze. Imagine doing that today. You would find your apartment half empty in the morning.
you wouldn't say that if you had to open your window for ventilation.
How nice to see people busy at work and no one staring at their iPhone
كم هو جميل ان ترى الناس مشغلوين في اعمالهم ولا ترى احدا يحدق في الآيفون الخاص به
awesome Footage, amazing Videoquality 👌👍, look how the Children used to play outside, today they only play with their mobile phones and not with eachother 🤷♂
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Daweisstebescheid, Hi so true. I was born later than this video. But I can relate. I was a kid in the 1970's and 1980's and that was before computer, cell phone,VCR and Answering Machine too. And my brothers, myself and friends used to be outside all the time playing baseball, football, or soccer in my neighborhood. We did not have computers and such. But when you don't have it. You do not miss it!
@@sonnycorleone3251 I'm 15, born in 2007. I know I am very fortunate to have the things now, that they didn't have then. But people seemed so much happier, and more kind to each other. Things weren't as fair then, but it just seems better than things are now. 😔
@@CamcorderHomeVideos Samuel, Yes. I agree with your thoughts. That is another thing about the 1970's in general. People were nicer to each other back then. They really were. I lived it. All the best to you. :)
It's a great idea to record those moments in the past. It's also amazing that the image has survived to the present day. Greetings from Turkey.
Es un trabajo genial, se ve tan actual que parece que fue grabado ayer. Felicitaciones! Amazing job you are doing!
thank you so much ;)
Please re post this video again with the Title ( Newyork 1950s ), You will get way more views , I just love this so much
Fantásticos tus videos, gracias por tu gran trabajo.
thank you so much🙏
Love these videos. Hard to find good quality pictures taken from that time let alone video with the added color.
Amazing footage , how wonderful we can look back at life before time.
OK one thing that did make me laugh was the electric trains where the dubbed sound was a steam loco
Omg, this is fantastic. Thank you.
Being close in age to that era I would go back in a flash and stay there, far, far better than today. Not a fraction of the drama. People mostly respected each other, life was simple. You cannot miss what you did not have. Phones, elctronic comms a hassle. We done very well without it. You did not see people walking about with bottles of water and cups of coffee everywhere. Nor buried in their phones. Silly. Everything has value and was not taken for granted. The simpler things is life meant more. Minds were applied more. When you listened to a story on the radio, you had to conjure a picture of it happening. A door closing, a bottle being opened, whatever. Now your mind does not have to do a thing, tv does it for you.
Great video! I grew up a half mile away on East 84th Street and 3rd Ave in the 1970s. I had several friends whom I visited on Park in the upper 80s and lower 90s. 96th Street might as well have been the Berlin Wall for us. No white kids ventured north of 96th Street in the seventies. We all got mugged from time to time, no big deal and no real damage done. I never even heard of a kid mugged the evening before who didn't head off to school on his own the next day. I would love to time travel to the early fifties, scope out my parents as college age students, check out some jazz on 52nd Street, and some art, fresh abstract expressionist works, on 57th Street!
WOW! SO CLEAR! JUST LIKE A DIGITAL CAMERA...
Amazing that this was 70 years ago yet it feels like yesterday
The good old days may be gone but not forgotten 😢
At 2:30, I was fascinated by those 2 color traffic lights as a kid. In one part of the Bronx, 2 intersections had them up until 1984.
That intro shoot is simply beautiful, just how it looks like the road continues on an on ❤
A window into the past! Great footage!
Great video nass incredible footage 👌👍😀
thank you so much
I wish I could go back there for about a week. I'd have a great time.
0:19 - Interesting to see fences in the middle probably to deter jaywalking. Also, interesting to see the use of awnings on the windows of tall buildings. There is nothing better to keep rooms cool than awnings on the windows.
Another great one. This is what I call real America 👍
Thank you so much that is brilliant everybody's interested in this!
Amazing how the Park Avenue (and the entire neighborhood) changes right at E97th St where the Metro North suburban trains emerge from the tunnel - at 1:48.
@Lucien Indeed! I have for a long time noted that the 19th century housing stock on the Upper East Side was, and is, nothing special as you go east from Lexington Ave. as you note.
Look how clean, presentable, proud people were back then. Different times and different people I suppose.
Love the New York vids. ❤
I love your Videos ♥ Oh, was that the slum ?
Loved the steam train sound effect on the electric trains :)
I took that to represent the banging sound of the train's metal wheels hitting a joint in the tracks, which isn't necessarily inaccurate for an electric locomotive but it shouldn't be the predominant sound, let alone the only sound. Electric locomotives/subway trains are pretty loud passing by that closely, with a multitude of whooshing, humming, squealing, vibrating, and other sounds.
Wow, I know the area. In the early 70s my Aunt lived in the Lexington Houses. I would watch the trains come out of the tunnel on Park Ave..
Time and history are such fascinating things.
Color quality is really well done. Interesting how this has progressed over the past few years.
Огромное спасибо за Вашу работу! Чудесный, потрясающий город!
7:32 - William O'Dwyer was mayor of NY from 1946 to 1950. Good video.
Yes, interesting that the caption says there is a 51 Oldsmobile in the video. Either the car was early or the sign hadn't yet been replaced.
it was so clean and nice. Best of all not a single "you know what" to be seen at all. No wonder it was so much nicer back then
1:17 it is absolutely insane to believe that this baby is now at the age of 70+!
I had the feeling I could remember seeing these steel beams at some point during my childhood, but I couldn't be 100% sure. Maybe we drove past them sometime or other in the car with our dad.
way more than 70
Beautifully done! The only thing I can criticize are the added sounds for the trains coming out of the Park Avenue Tunnel. The New York Central and New Haven electric locomotives and Mutiple Units did not sound like a steam locomotive.
I think that rhythmic noise was supposed to represent not steam chuffing but the train's wheels going over a joint in the tracks. If so, that's not necessarily inaccurate, but the absence of any other noises even for an electric train isn't very realistic. Having been around many electric trains/subways over the years, I know they make a lot more noise than that. The rushing wind sound of them passing through the air, the hum and whir noises of their motor(s), the high pitched squeals and other racket made by all of their wheels on the tracks, and the rumble and vibrations of them passing by that you can feel and hear.
In my beautiful country everything is just like this; people dress nice; the women are beautiful and so friendly. Everyone drives 1950 & 1940s cars. Children can play safely outside until the street lights come on.
Are you in Cuba?
@@tml184 North Korea
@@EtoRom You have that maniac for a leader though.
Yup and no food, medicine, or freedom to criticize your own government too.
@@thetapheonix Why all the nasty bitter hate toward me? You have no idea what country I live in and the complete freedoms and prosperity we enjoy. ✌️ Peace.
I wish this scene was today. Great video!
It's safe to say America began to die in the 1960s.
I agree, the country should have stayed European. Africans in America earn 10 times more than Africans living in African societies and enjoy hugely better life standards. I think that’s more than enough. Why should they even have equality?
Most vintage street lights on selected streets in New York City are Westinghouse Type OV-20, remote ballast and they are Gumball style in the early 1950s. On the other hand, they are vertical model of Westinghouse Type OV-20 with a more rounded shape instead of slightly concave shaped globes.
As a kid, I can remember my dad had bought a used Mint green 1954 Ford...he loved that car so much he would open the fire hydrant, which required a special wrench 🔧 just so I could give it it's daily wash, floor mats and all.. 😂
Nice video. Colors are off and not lifelike.
At 01:10, the camera is at 97th st and Park Ave. The camera is initially looking west towards Central Park, before it pans CCW to look south on Park Ave and 96th st.
At 01:55 we are now looking east to the East River and you can just make out part of the Triboro Bridge.
We then seem to pan back to looking south on Park Ave, though looking up a bit.
The no commercial traffic sign is on Park.
At 03:01 we are still on Park, but now looking far north, probably from 94th st, as that's the peak of the hill on Park and on the upper east side in general.
There is no graffiti and no drug dealers or homeless people
I like those old classic cars they had back in the 1950s they are extremely beautiful cars.
My mother used to clean the windows like that at 4:17. Gave me immense anxiety as a kid
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