This is the best 1930s picture show I have ever seen, absolutely freakin awesome! I just can get enough of watching these good black and white picture shows. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😁
Vraiment incroyable ! Je ne pensais pas qu'on verrait encore des images de cette époque en si bon état. C'est vraiment une véritable promenade touristique dans le New York des années 30. C'est vraiment un document exceptionnel à voir absolument à tout prix !
Thanks for sharing this great trip down Broadway from ye olden days. As a lifetime New Yorker it's always fun to look back into my city's fascinating past.
Fascinating. Much has changed but I am surprised I was able to follow the film all the way downtown and still recognize where I was. Riverdale looked like farmland! What a trip.
Sorry for the quibble, but the Dyckman House at 0.37 is out of sequence. If the trip is southbound, the Dyckman house should come after crossing the Broadway-225th Street bridge. Instead, this film places the Dyckman house north of West 242nd Street! The Dyckman House is near West 204th Street.
Believe me, Philadelphia could not compete with my old hometown of NYC even back in those days. I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era even though me and my parents were born in another country! 😊
The nostalgia for the "old days" is probably by the people who didn't live in them. The city back then was dirty, smelly, and crime-ridden. When I arrived in NYC in the 70's it was dirty, smelly and crime-ridden. Today it's clean, well-kept, and crime is at very low levels. All eras have their problems, but NYC today is terrific!
Great assemblage of memorable slices of Americana. I love this vid. So heartwarming and cool at the same time. Nice background music also. 15 stars ***************, tried to but could only give 5.
Just a side-note you history buffs might enjoy researching: During the 1930's, the WPA sent out scores of photographers to take pictures of every block throughout NY City. One of our co-op Board guys a few years ago, actually looked into it, and there is indeed a photo archive. He had the picture printed and natch, it was a huge hit at the co-op meting!! (We lived for years on 15th street and Third Avenue). A neighbor was able to find a picture of the block. The house next door had a front staircase in the 30's, that is long gone now. During 'modernization', many of those front entry stairs which looked like tenements, were upscaled and, replaced. But it is still so cool to see those old houses, and the way they once appeared. Another delightful book - VANISHED NY - or LOST NEW YORK...I think it the title. On the left hand page it shows, for example, Times Square 1930. Then the right, in color, Times Square, 1990. Also a fascinating trip down memory lane.
My guess would be that these movies were taken in 1932. A theater marquee shows "Grand Hotel" playing, and there is a glimpse of the Empire State Building, completed in 1931. I believe "Grand Hotel" won the Oscar for 1932.
Very cool... hated the horn honking in the first part! Love the little mother kitty at 5:24!! Since there was a title card in the film I'm guessing it was originally a silent film. I think the sound track was added in the early '30s based on the song selections.
The No. 1 Train's stations at Van Courtlandt Park and at the 125th Street viaduct are the same today as then. They did a good job in restoring them in recent years.
The header says this is from 1940,but the womens' clothes and the cars ( and the fact that the film is silent) leads me to belive the time frame is more likely the late 1920's -mid 1930's.Nevertheless, it's still a wonderful chance to look at how things have changed in New York City.
@Gossage54 No seriously, this is 7 minutes of video with music and no sound. We could easily do the same thing in 2010, even use the same areas of the city, and send them back in a time machine to the 1930's, and hide all the economic problems, the social/racial/political tension, and the debauchery, and the people of the 30's would think it's a utopia. The only thing they might wonder about is the obesity, but they'd probably just think "looks like they are eating in the 21st century."
Yeah all the intricacies of regular life back then at times looks almost 3-D so this was quite real also how the accents back then in a way it was actually just a stereotype of that how they spoke then but it's not totally a stereotype. There's a lot of things we don't understand, and a lot of things that were simply different then I try to bridge the gaps on historical impasses & the like. I wish they had ones out there for other towns like my family has lived at in vintage times and stuff
Yeah, but they won't bother with small towns - yours and mine will never be recorded! No one would be interested! No one wants to watch a video on Small-town USA!
I love NYC, love its history. I do agree that it's safe now but seems less exciting and edgy. Times Square needed help in the 80s but they gave it far too much 'help' IMHO! Rip out all of the history and character and turn it into a shiny mall. Well, it works I guess but they lost the soul of it. Art also flourished back in the day but now everything seems so corporate and planned. Still, I do love NYC and am glad I at least got to go there last year.
@Gossage54 And as for the debauchery, I'm sure a lot of the men in the 30's wouldn't have much of a problem with it. Even if they complained about it vocally, it would be a guilty pleasure for them.
jsg6532774 Quality people then ? Hmmmm ? what you mean by that I wonder. In 1930 racism was at a all time high.Hollywood had black actors only playing butler and maids roles and slow shuffling slow talking lazy Uncle Toms.In the South they was lynching black people like it was tomorrow.What quality people where or when ?
What in the world do Hollywood and the deep South have to do with the everyday New Yorkers shown in the video????? From your initial comment - "Where the black people", and NOT "Where ARE the blcack people?" - it sounds like you were looking to make waves.
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Mother cat carrying her baby across the busy street. Priceless.
This is the best 1930s picture show I have ever seen, absolutely freakin awesome! I just can get enough of watching these good black and white picture shows. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😁
Vraiment incroyable ! Je ne pensais pas qu'on verrait encore des images de cette époque en si bon état. C'est vraiment une véritable promenade touristique dans le New York des années 30. C'est vraiment un document exceptionnel à voir absolument à tout prix !
Thanks for sharing this great trip down Broadway from ye olden days. As a lifetime New Yorker it's always fun to look back into my city's fascinating past.
this is amazing...i can recognize many locations near where i live (ex. the 72nd street subway stop). thank you!
I don't know how you do it but I am sure glad you do! Thnx for this wonderful piece of history!
Fascinating. Much has changed but I am surprised I was able to follow the film all the way downtown and still recognize where I was. Riverdale looked like farmland! What a trip.
AMAZING.....the couple on the motorcycle say's everything you need to know about new york traffic.
As the late great 3 Stooges who were born and raised in NYC would say......And how! 😊
Wonderfully evocative! tvdays, your channel is an absolute treasure, one of the jewels in youtube's crown!
Many, many thanks for all the great vids!
Sorry for the quibble, but the Dyckman House at 0.37 is out of sequence. If the trip is southbound, the Dyckman house should come after crossing the Broadway-225th Street bridge. Instead, this film places the Dyckman house north of West 242nd Street! The Dyckman House is near West 204th Street.
BEAUTIFUL WAY TO GO BACK IN TIME HAN SCHENK
Believe me, Philadelphia could not compete with my old hometown of NYC even back in those days. I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era even though me and my parents were born in another country! 😊
thanks Ira, great fashion, it brings my past lives alive again,
Ah ha, finally someone who gets it.
3:05 this scene makes me want to go there, looks awesome
it WAS awesome!
The nostalgia for the "old days" is probably by the people who didn't live in them. The city back then was dirty, smelly, and crime-ridden. When I arrived in NYC in the 70's it was dirty, smelly and crime-ridden. Today it's clean, well-kept, and crime is at very low levels. All eras have their problems, but NYC today is terrific!
Great assemblage of memorable slices of Americana. I love this vid. So heartwarming and cool at the same time. Nice background music also. 15 stars ***************, tried to but could only give 5.
Very quickly concrete blocks became the most-used construction unit in the world. Thanks for posting.
This was originally released in 1932; a similar short in this series, "Manhattan Medley", was released a year earlier.
I'm 13 and I love the song Puttin' on the Ritz, own a newsboy cap, love Gone with the Wind, loved this video, and wish I lived in the 1930's!
Just a side-note you history buffs might enjoy researching: During the 1930's, the WPA sent out scores of photographers to take pictures of every block throughout NY City. One of our co-op Board guys a few years ago, actually looked into it, and there is indeed a photo archive. He had the picture printed and natch, it was a huge hit at the co-op meting!! (We lived for years on 15th street and Third Avenue). A neighbor was able to find a picture of the block. The house next door had a front staircase in the 30's, that is long gone now. During 'modernization', many of those front entry stairs which looked like tenements, were upscaled and, replaced. But it is still so cool to see those old houses, and the way they once appeared. Another delightful book - VANISHED NY - or LOST NEW YORK...I think it the title. On the left hand page it shows, for example, Times Square 1930. Then the right, in color, Times Square, 1990. Also a fascinating trip down memory lane.
Omg!Omg! This remembers me of a Mafia game,placed in mid-30 has all places in video,cars,everything,that game was too realistic!
Loved the period music!
I would have loved those days...No speeding limits, no
traffic lights.
No tickets!!!
Great stuff!
Thanks for posting!
This was very enjoyable.
This has got to be at least 1931 as you can see The Empire State building at 3.06 in 1930 it was half built.
Muito bom gostei amo história
Looks so clean - much different than today, and the people seem warmer .....
Fantastic !!! Didn't know there was an El down by Bowling Green !!!
Manhattan had a number of Els that were later demolished.
My guess would be that these movies were taken in 1932. A theater marquee shows "Grand Hotel" playing, and there is a glimpse of the Empire State Building, completed in 1931. I believe "Grand Hotel" won the Oscar for 1932.
Great film.
Very cool... hated the horn honking in the first part! Love the little mother kitty at 5:24!!
Since there was a title card in the film I'm guessing it was originally a silent film. I think the sound track was added in the early '30s based on the song selections.
that was momma kitty with the horn.
@hallj100
It is the Broadway IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) train running from South Ferry to Van Courtlandt Park.
The No. 1 Train's stations at Van Courtlandt Park and at the 125th Street viaduct are the same today as then. They did a good job in restoring them in recent years.
Great.
I'm surprised at the many apts..
It was the good time
I'm 18 and this looks like a dream to me! :D If only I had been born 80 years ago lol
The header says this is from 1940,but the womens' clothes and the cars
( and the fact that the film is silent) leads me to belive the time frame is more likely the late 1920's
-mid 1930's.Nevertheless, it's still a wonderful chance to look at how things have changed in New York City.
@Gossage54
No seriously, this is 7 minutes of video with music and no sound. We could easily do the same thing in 2010, even use the same areas of the city, and send them back in a time machine to the 1930's, and hide all the economic problems, the social/racial/political tension, and the debauchery, and the people of the 30's would think it's a utopia. The only thing they might wonder about is the obesity, but they'd probably just think "looks like they are eating in the 21st century."
Yeah all the intricacies of regular life back then at times looks almost 3-D so this was quite real also how the accents back then in a way it was actually just a stereotype of that how they spoke then but it's not totally a stereotype. There's a lot of things we don't understand, and a lot of things that were simply different then I try to bridge the gaps on historical impasses & the like. I wish they had ones out there for other towns like my family has lived at in vintage times and stuff
Yeah, but they won't bother with small towns -
yours and mine will never be recorded! No one
would be interested! No one wants to watch a
video on Small-town USA!
At 3:06 there appears to be a transparent "ghost skyscraper" in the background.
If that was 1930, the Great Depression was in its early stages.
nyc traffic has always been a thing!
What is 'real sound'? How did you arrive at this conclusion? Do you have technology skills?
It's hard to believe that this is New York City. It looks so pristine.
(1:52)..just imagine. That cute infant in the carriage the lady is pulling? Today, in 2019..would be 90!
I love NYC, love its history. I do agree that it's safe now but seems less exciting and edgy. Times Square needed help in the 80s but they gave it far too much 'help' IMHO! Rip out all of the history and character and turn it into a shiny mall. Well, it works I guess but they lost the soul of it. Art also flourished back in the day but now everything seems so corporate and planned. Still, I do love NYC and am glad I at least got to go there last year.
Agree about Broadway.
Weird times
The beginning of New Yorks traffic problems
When the people of off white moved in it got all F%$# UP......LOL
@Gossage54
And as for the debauchery, I'm sure a lot of the men in the 30's wouldn't have much of a problem with it. Even if they complained about it vocally, it would be a guilty pleasure for them.
I'd love to see images like this with out the silly music. And with real sound you get a better feel for the time.
you cant have everything.
Is this particular clip available on DVD without the annoying logo in the corner. Can't find it on the website?
Thanks anyway
Probably wasn't by choice. Rigid unspoken dress codes were ingrained in the psyche of the day.
Oy, such a righteous judge of character... NOT.
All the people were watching are Dead though
Where the black people ?
It was a better time believe me!!! Quality people then just look at the faces and the clothes, i wish i could go back!!!!
jsg6532774 Quality people then ? Hmmmm ? what you mean by that I wonder. In 1930 racism was at a all time high.Hollywood had black actors only playing butler and maids roles and slow shuffling slow talking lazy Uncle Toms.In the South they was lynching black people like it was tomorrow.What quality people where or when ?
What in the world do Hollywood and the deep South have to do with the everyday New Yorkers shown in the video?????
From your initial comment - "Where the black people", and NOT "Where ARE the blcack people?" - it sounds like you were looking to make waves.
On the cutting room floor?
@@jsg6532774 Yea for your people not mine.