What a time if you were British! Living the high life off the sweat of the local people and making sure they lived in shanty towns while Trinidad's British masters lived the high life in lovely homes and estates. No mercy was given to locals who could no accept their role as subservient dogs for the English. Ahh the joys of colonialism.
Very accurate description of Trinidad.I can't believe I actually learned the real story from this early 1930s video about the"Hosay" festival that I knew about while growing up in the 1990s.
this was a lovely video. Wow can't believe how different Maqueripe bay looked back then, I used to go there almost every weekend as a child in the late 80's and early 90's. Soooo different now. Even had a diving spring board, lol.
I miss coconuts right from the tree in the backyard. I went to the country club alot growing up. As a dual citizen, I had to take my U.S. passport to get my friends in.
In the 70's and 80's I grew up in the residential area that replaced the golf course. All the streets are named after golf terms. I knew it was a golf course but it was a great surprise to actually see it on film. I was trying to see where my house be.
03:32 Trinidad Government Railways signal box at centre of frame. Gates can be seen in the open position. Trinidad's railways were abandoned between 1965 and 1968.
Well I laugh when he said how easy it is to get to trinidad and then proceeded to call how many days before you arrive. That trip would require a month vacation time from work now with those travel times lol
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How pleasant is was and is to have money. When this was made (mid-1930s) infant and child mortality was high and, esp. on sugar-estates, health conditions - as Lord Olivier of the 1929 Sugar Commission reported - scandalous.
When my ancestors arrived here in 1834, they worked hard as indentured laborers and decided to settle here and so my grand parents and their prodigy, when they were alive, they enjoyed living in a well kept Country, a paradise island with well appointed landscaped villages, there were clean smooth roads, steam locomotives, flourishing orchards, and coconut groves, we shipped asphalt abroad and we ran oil refineries 24/7, people had jobs and they were prospering, there were beautiful golf courses, shops and, fishing markets, and schools with neatly dressed orderly students. The current state of our country is without a doubt disappointing and dangerous.
😂 old t&t as a British colony advertised by the British as there paradise only mostly whites on the land at that time. Oh how times has changed. Don't know how to feel about this video. 🇹🇹
I don't know where you get that idea, I lived there as a child in the late 50s/early 60s. School was mixed races, and whites were very much in the minority. My family had friends of all types.
Ah yes the time where the Syrians came to Trinidad and allegedly established the drug cartel here. I mean they were amazingly successful at business yet they couldn't speak one word of English LMAO
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If the soundtrack is the original soundtrack then this film is not older than 1950. The first tune is an instrumental version of 'A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes' from Disney's Cinderella, released in 1950.
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes! After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in 2012. Geneva M. NEALE (AUDAIN).
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes! After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in 2012. Geneva M. NEALE (AUDAIN).
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes! After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in 2012.
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes! After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes! After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in .
Unfortunately that wonderful place seems to have disappeared. How sad that the only leisure pursuit for many now is of killing people. One cannot get rid of the beauty but few are brave enough to look for it and especially to explore or be on their own. Carnival may still be there but it is no more than expensive beats and feathers and few of them worn. The creativity, fun and variety of costumes that indicated depicted other lands and traditional costumes are rarely seen, if at all.
What a time if you were British! Living the high life off the sweat of the local people and making sure they lived in shanty towns while Trinidad's British masters lived the high life in lovely homes and estates. No mercy was given to locals who could no accept their role as subservient dogs for the English. Ahh the joys of colonialism.
Melvin Johnson Well said my lord
Paradise lost for whites lol. Colonial days where cities were a white joy and a black labor are done
Yeah, And look how wonderful it is now! No killings, no drugs and no corruption! You've really done well. CONGRATULATIONS!!
Melvin Johnson 🙌🏾 I couldn’t have even say it better, I just wanna go back to cut-some azz🥋🏏
Yep but to hold on to such negative views is pointless. Trinidad today is a crime ridden wasteland.
Very accurate description of Trinidad.I can't believe I actually learned the real story from this early 1930s video about the"Hosay" festival that I knew about while growing up in the 1990s.
love learning new things about my country.
this was a lovely video. Wow can't believe how different Maqueripe bay looked back then, I used to go there almost every weekend as a child in the late 80's and early 90's. Soooo different now. Even had a diving spring board, lol.
I miss coconuts right from the tree in the backyard. I went to the country club alot growing up. As a dual citizen, I had to take my U.S. passport to get my friends in.
Hi
In the 70's and 80's I grew up in the residential area that replaced the golf course. All the streets are named after golf terms. I knew it was a golf course but it was a great surprise to actually see it on film. I was trying to see where my house be.
03:32 Trinidad Government Railways signal box at centre of frame. Gates can be seen in the open position. Trinidad's railways were abandoned between 1965 and 1968.
Very sad.
36 hrs by plane , wow
Well I laugh when he said how easy it is to get to trinidad and then proceeded to call how many days before you arrive. That trip would require a month vacation time from work now with those travel times lol
Same! We laughed too!
My dad was good friends with the Seigert boys (ages ago) good people. Great video.
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Great again? Wtf
Trinidad is the real food paradise!
PS I Live here?
Kris 2004 Seek God Jesus, not physical things.
Perry Froze true, true
@@perryfroze shut up
@@perryfroze seek knowledge, Jesus is the name of a slave ship not God. Can you say Yashuah?
Rich with words eh. Media marketing by British standards for British people.
Oh the joys of colonialism and lets not forget the whites only Country Club!
I know right, the privilege of having pale skin. Colonial tendencies still continue today but in different forms.
Thanks for sharing !
Great video!!
This country never will be the same
Politicians ruin beautiful country.
How pleasant is was and is to have money. When this was made (mid-1930s) infant and child mortality was high and, esp. on sugar-estates, health conditions - as Lord Olivier of the 1929 Sugar Commission reported - scandalous.
It is accurate to GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS TODAY 👍 🙏
When my ancestors arrived here in 1834, they worked hard as indentured laborers and decided to settle here and so my grand parents and their prodigy, when they were alive, they enjoyed living in a well kept Country, a paradise island with well appointed landscaped villages, there were clean smooth roads, steam locomotives, flourishing orchards, and coconut groves, we shipped asphalt abroad and we ran oil refineries 24/7, people had jobs and they were prospering, there were beautiful golf courses, shops and, fishing markets, and schools with neatly dressed orderly students. The current state of our country is without a doubt disappointing and dangerous.
The great days of Trinidad. Yeah !
Great video
Climbing the coconut tree to pick for MASA
this warms my heart
😂 old t&t as a British colony advertised by the British as there paradise only mostly whites on the land at that time. Oh how times has changed. Don't know how to feel about this video. 🇹🇹
I don't know where you get that idea, I lived there as a child in the late 50s/early 60s. School was mixed races, and whites were very much in the minority. My family had friends of all types.
Very nice! Bring it back bring it back , hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Back to the old time days!
no thank you
Back to the days of colonialism? Wtf
After Independence T&T no longer safe country for any visitors or tourists.
Are you dumb 🤦♀️
Trinidad look much nicer back then.. Than how it is to date
01:52 Dent Ma Teteron (Lady Teteron's Tooth)
Ah yes the time where the Syrians came to Trinidad and allegedly established the drug cartel here. I mean they were amazingly successful at business yet they couldn't speak one word of English LMAO
The beauty and safety that was..
very good
Groovy
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If the soundtrack is the original soundtrack then this film is not older than 1950. The first tune is an instrumental version of 'A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes' from Disney's Cinderella, released in 1950.
That's ridiculous! The theme of that song was taken from Franz Liszt's Etude No. 9 Ricordanza of the Transcendental Etudes.
Yes of course, my mistake.
The swimsuits at the end though, definitely not 1930's, more like 1950's.
OK EVERYONE GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS TODAY 👍 🙏
:55 yeah we know and the Venezuelans toooo.......
Who don't like Trinidad
travis dubraj Me... Too much CRIME
@@minayolaclevers9687 so I guess you live in Denmark, Iceland or new Zealand .
why does everyone have this weird scary accent back then?
No mention Of Carnival.
we are just changing bodies... a repeated cycle so it goes
I am not seeing any of the people who built Trinidad and Tobago where are the AFRICANS.?Only seeing white people and Indians.
Look for them in Flatbush or Queens, NY
@@AlphaBeta-to1un Low IQ
Paradise lost and never to be regained until the small boy politics that passes for informed action comes to an end.
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes!
After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in 2012. Geneva M. NEALE (AUDAIN).
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes!
After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in 2012. Geneva M. NEALE (AUDAIN).
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes!
After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in 2012.
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes!
After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in
Thanks for your sharing this account of Trinidad 1948. was born in 1940 these relics were around. Oh gosh man the language of the time when I was growing up 1948. gul listen nah we was real happy in dem days when gay meant being really happy yes!
After High School I must speak good English. Eh heh! My book THE PASSION &THE POETRY published in
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Hot Dogs on Sundays.
I never seen Soo many white people in one place in Trinidad 😂😂😂
Lol so true.
Ikr
they said 450k lives omg lol now its like over an m
Indeed So give Your life to Jesus Today 👍 👍 👍
but how did we develop our accent?
Unfortunately that wonderful place seems to have disappeared. How sad that the only leisure pursuit for many now is of killing people. One cannot get rid of the beauty but few are brave enough to look for it and especially to explore or be on their own. Carnival may still be there but it is no more than expensive beats and feathers and few of them worn. The creativity, fun and variety of costumes that indicated depicted other lands and traditional costumes are rarely seen, if at all.
"the only leisure pursuit for many now is of killing people" you need to get out more.
@@qjitsu no shes right
What was the wallaby's name ?
36 hours by air from New York?! 😂
Ehhhhh.........mmm............I...don't really know what to think about that.