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Reminds me of my parents story. Both were from East Texas and met in Colorado. Dad was an orderly at the state mental institution and Mom was a waitress at the cafe across the street. 🙂👍🏻
Note that the Washington D.C. (Capital Transit Co.) electric street cars drew their 600 V dc power from a slot between the rails when they ran in the "downtown" area of the nation's capital (this avoided the clutter of overhead electric wires). Capital Transit purchased their first PCC streetcars (streamlined ones seen running in this film) in 1937. Streetcar service came to an end in Washington D.C. on January 28, 1962. Thanks for sharing!
@@user-qd6qo2sq1w To be sure, it would have been dangerous if someone intentionally put their hand, if they could (you can see the slot is quite narrow), down into the slot to complete a circuit through their body. This practice of electric traction supply was seldom used elsewhere in the U.S.
Thanks for clearing that up. At first I thought they were cable cars like those in San Francisco because of the slot between the rails. But that didn’t make sense because of the trolley on top of the streetcars that could be used for overhead electric connection. Also the length of a cable system didn’t seem practical to me. I remember when S.F. got its streamliner streetcars, but of course they used the overhead trolly system as they still do today.
@@WAL_DC-6B The same was true for NYC in Manhattan for the New York Railways and the 3rd Avenue Railway. In upper Manhattan near the Bronx they pulled up the trolley poles for the overhead wires in front of the bridges. The center rail system ended in 1947, and the Railway was renamed to the 3rd Avenue surface lines.
Here is another reason that I am so glad I subscribed to this channel.... It's absolutely amazing. Many of us who are older (yes, I am referring to myself) really appreciate this; not many remember how things were 'back in the day'. Lots of great memories come rushing back, and complete astonishment when some of the much older footage is uploaded. I really cannot find the words...but THANK YOU.
I rode that system in the Georgetown ares when my family moved to Arlington VA in the summer of1961, thank you to the channel, and I see DC drivers drove like their hair was on fire sometimes, even then.
0:13 What looks like two Capitol Transit single-end PCC cars passing the camera in the opposite direction definitely make this 1939 on forward. Note that although the cars are equipped with overhead trolley poles, here within city limits they rely on a conduit rail located between the running rails for their power (No catenary to spoil the city's aesthetics.) 0:43 This double-end car also has its poles down. Edit: Should have written, "...make this 1936 on forward." Apologies for the typo.
Growing up just miles from D.C., I enjoyed this video. I remember riding the street cars from Mt. Rainer, Maryland, station to 5th and G St. N.W., where my mother worked.
Consititution avenue if you go to the 2 minute mark you can see the constuction of the National Gallery of art, I was born in D.C. in the 50's and vaguely remember riding on the street cars with my mom which ran till about 1961 great video thanks
Thank you so much for posting this, Washingtonian myself this is very interesting to see the forties considering this is the years that my dad was a young man he enjoyed the video thoroughly and I did subscribe to your Channel have a blessed day
I don't think I saw one car with headlights built into the fender, so I agree that this video was filmed no later than 1937-38, certainly not into the 40's
From about the 2:00 minute mark (for about nine seconds), you can see, on the right side, the steel frame of the National Gallery of Art Building being erected (what is now known as the West Building). The National Gallery of Art opened in March of 1941. So, if this footage is from the 1940s, it must be from the very early 40s at that...when construction of the National Gallery of Art was in progress.
Right down the middle of the Nation’s Main Street Pennsylvania Avenue. Too bad they demolished the old Raleigh Hotel in the mid to late 1960’s which comes into view at 3:45 on the left above the tree with the domed roof. It’s across from the old Post Office that became a mall circa 1990’s and then Trump’s Hotel the past eight, ten years or so. The columns of the beautiful Willard Hotel which still stands are on the left before the streetcar turns. Great video of the U.S. Capital and wish it showed more from about 1938.
I’m of the belief this is the Spring or Summer of 1937. The license plates have a dark background and the District of Columbia’s plates for that year were school bus yellow on black for 1937. In the film, it reflects white on the plates. Nice beginning from the West Front side with the Capitol in the background. I wish the one filming had kept rolling as one sees the Treasury Building with the columns and looks as if they continue to drive toward The Ellipse along the South Lawn of the White House if they turned the camera. Sadly, they closed that off to traffic after 9/11. It provided a great view of the White House for anyone visiting the small but beautiful city.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar It might be 1936 as my prior post in trying to identify the year by the license plates which the District and virtually all States indicated the year on their plates and changed every year back then. However, the fullness and green of the trees might possibly be October but not November given this is D.C. and autumn colors would be evident. It definitely is not 1940 yet.
the grill on the light colored Chevrolet 1/2 ton panel truck in the beginning, and the beer truck, indicates they are 1938 models. Then at 1:15, out of nowhere pops a 1935 or 36 (near identical) Chevy 1/2 ton panel, just like mine, then another at 6:56. Man I love watching these!!
Please let me off this bus ?I want to stay here and buy a good ten cent hot dog with a tall glass of National Beer. Said folks I can predict the future , but you won`t like it .
Debatable honestly, there were NASTY fights between Congress and FDR over the status of the Supreme Court, power sharing, etc by this time. Regardless of party, DC has been a mess of corruption and controversy for most of the last 110 years.
I didn't spot any cars newer than 1938. Those were a couple Chevys. The taxicabs were all 1937 models, mostly Chevys , Plymouths & Dodges. I wish they'd bring back the streetcars.
I always like these but I sure wish people would have filmed other parts of the city. Pennsylvania Avenue has looked mostly the same for well over a hundred years
That would be great! I’m sure 16th street and 14th St would look so different! I’m curious to see how that area where Florida, U st and 18th all intersect looked like!
This can't be later than 1940. The light traffic and some shadow angles seem to point towards an early weekend morning. Full seemingly green leaves on trees, would say late spring or summer. Of course NASS chose the colors of those leaves! Nice job.
I live in Silver Spring, Maryland in the border of Washington DC we go a lot around the area showing here in this video It's amazing how it all has changed😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Many people say fewer cars on the road back then. Yes true! But in the 1930's to 40's the only car most families had was the one the father drove to work everyday and that was it ! . Unlike today with every family member having their own car. Plus back then more public transportation like you see in this video with the trolleys, bus, and Taxi cabs, not everybody had a car ! Thanks for the upload.
DC native here, and live about 1 mile north of the U.S. Capitol building. and live in the home my mother, older parent, she would have been in her 20s in when this was filmed (1921-2007), who birth me in 1996 at 44 and older brother age age 42, bought with her first husband, back in 1945 for 10K. 1912 federal style end unit row house. The house I think was vacant or being rented when she left my father and moved back into the house in 1973 after some remodel updates. I had it gutted remolded 2016/2017. I'm sure it's now worth around $900k+ - $1 million. Yes I'm blessed. 🤗 I'm so used to seeing those old vehicles in movies. They almost seem like movie props. 🤗🤗🤗
Nass, Thanks for another fabulous upload into the past. I really love the 1930's-40's cars you show and the men and ladies in their nicely dressed clothes. I know the 1940's surely was NOT all bed and roses back then with WW2, Hitler, The Holocaust, Pearl Harbor, Etc. But I love the dressy style back then better than today. Plus anybody know the year about of this video? Who was in the White house Franklin D. Roosevelt or Harry S. Truman ? When this video was shot ? Guess maybe both in white house FDR President and Truman Vice President. Haha.
El edificio en 3:57 Hotel Occidental.. Aún existe? Y el gran edificio en 4:05 es una Biblioteca Pública? Cómo se llama la avenida cuando comienza el video? Saludos a todos desde Maracaibo, Venezuela.
I think the video is more from the mid to late 1930s. At least from the collection of cars. By 1939, there was a trend of modernization. Not all cars, but some with more streamline and incorporation of headlights into fenders. I did not see any 1940 cars nor any of the 1939 cars that were showing more modernization. I would think the latest date for the clip is 1938, based on the cars.
you're lucky i live in Alexandria so its not that far from me i either take the train or drive there all i have to do is get on this one highway and im there but id love to live in DC to see the sunsets there.
My home town I was born in the late 50s and still reside in DC. This is amazing to see. My maternal grandparents brought my late mom and her siblings from a little town in SC in the early 1940s as part of the great migration of African Americans getting away from the brutal Jim Crow south...only to find it was not too different even in DC at that time...funny how history is now trying to repeat itself with Jim Crow 2.0 not from the left in the 21st century but squarely from the right wing.
Exactly...Democrats instituted Jim Crow laws. Pres, Woodrow Wilson was the Dem president who actually put into law govt, segregation for federal workers around 1913 or 14. FDR was president when this film was made, he was also a racist president though his wife Eleanor was just the opposite and was sympathetic to the black plight. FDR himself totally ignored the black plight and maintained segregation and Jim Crow laws despite the slow moving push for civil rights.
@@matroxRepublicans now have flipped that script in terms attempting to institute Jim Crow 2.0 that is firmly in the lane of Republicans. White Southerners who were Dixiecrats used Jim Crow laws after Slavery to control African Americans and attempt to keep them in fear and see us as less than... The study of Jim Crow laws is an essay onto itself. the history of FDR and his pattern of racist stench perpetuated on African Americans (Dixiecrat) and so many continue to be a prevalent thread woven into the fabric of America. Now the mantel is squarely picked up by the right wing. Now that stench comes from Many in the Republican party and the others in the Republican party who are to complacent/scared to call them out.
@@RB-gt8bf Thats always been the Dem narrative...don't fall for it. Dems just took advatage when the saw the writing on the wall. Wake up dude. President Ike a republican was the one who had the balls to stand up and openly fight the racism when he sent the troops down south in the late 50s to kick open the school house doors that were being blocked by DemocRATS like Orville Faubus or George Wallace segregationist. Ike cleaned that sh!t up. Then we had more closet racist Dems like JFK who was openly racist against Sammy Davis Jr. especially when Sammy married a white swedish actress. Its all in Frank Sinatra's Bio. He and Sammy were like brothers. Frank kicked Kennedy's freindship to the curb because he didn't like the way Sammy was treated. Fast forward to racist LBJ. He got smart and took full advantage of the shift of the black vote to Dems when he enacted the welfare programs. "Give those N%^rs welfare and we will have them voting Dem for the next 200 years" -LBJ. Smart move if you are a racist as the laws put in place for welfare were "No Male Head of Household". That removed the father. "For each child born out of wedlock the more money you qualify for". It was all the systematic destruction of the black family leading to the sh!thole senseless crimes, lack of culture and ghettos we have today.
@@matrox that explains a lot. However, I personally don't believe in the two party system. Think it's all an act. They're all buddies. But you make some really good points.
@@matrox Time To Smarten Up And Get Out Of Your Racist Blaming HOLE, Trying Desperately To blame Racism on The Democrats. Obviously You Are Completely Blind To the FREEDOM Rides of the Early 60's, when the Kennedy's Had To Intervene to Stop Hateful Racial Beatings and even A Grayhound Bus Burning in the south, just so Black Folks Could ride Safely on a Bus trip. It was under the Kennedy's that Interstate De-Segrsgstion of Ridership was Established. And then Later, it was LBJ That Continued JFK's Push to Get Civil Rights Laws Established Nation Wide. THAT Caused All to he Racist Dixiecrats to LEAVE The Democrat Party, AND INFEST The Republican party As It REMAINS TODAY. Get You Head Out Of Your A** And Go Back To School. You're Making YOURSELF Sound Short Sighted And Stupid.
I'm not supposed to think there ain't time travel all of a sudden these videos are popping up and great quality they didn't have good quality back then I don't care how many times they cut the film you're not going to get quality like this we definitely have time travelers.
The enjoyment may be that this film was intended to provide a Washington D.C. background scene for when a movie being produced needed such as scene when showing two people (actors) riding in the backseat of a car.
The black levels looks crushed, No detail in the shadows, hoping you can possibly perhaps raise it some? Nevertheless, I still Love this! This is a great look of Pennsylvania Ave.
The lettering on the license plates on the taxi's and on the side of the van is so clear. The only shame is, I don't think anybody has kept records that far back! That dear people is the Smithsonian, where I think these films are stored! 3:25
It's strange to think how many people at this time came from a time before cars, planes, paved roads, electrification, and etc. Well, I guess that's like me coming from a time before home computers, cell phones, and giant flat screen TVs.
Nice historical find, but to me a very tedious video to watch. It would have been nice if the cameraman would have strayed away from the federal district and its wide avenues with hardly any people or life. I would find the everyday Washington beyond the marble halls much more interesting! (At the time there were both elegant homes and segregated slums just a few blocks from the Capitol.) At least this is a snapshot of Washington transportation in the late 1930's. In fact, it's so totally focused on cars, buses and streetcars that I have a suspicion that is why it was filmed.
While I do appreciate the work you do, re mastering in color these movies, would you consider posting them without the sound? Every time I keep hearing this, for lack of a better explanation, motorccyle sound, that sounds more like someone starting a handheld buzz saw, than an actual motorcycle which, by the way, never shows up in a video when the sound comes on, and it is very distarcting. When you add sound to a period movie, the viewer kind of expects it, to jive with what they're actually seeing and not, what they would imagine is going on at the time since, again, most people watching these, were'nt alive then.
Fortunately your electronic device has a mute button. Use it. Then everybody is happy. I truely find it hard to believe somebody would complain about the sound.
My anus just prolapsed and a bunch of liquid shit flew all over the chair I was sitting in. NASS, please make sure my anus does not prolapse again in the next video.
DCer myself. Penn crossing Con. Capitol past the National Archives, the Washington Star, The Post Office (now Trump Hotel), Willard Hotel and Treasury Department.
Sad to see how much more control we have allowed those who we let rule over us. I don't see any traffic lights but yet people are capable of driving carefully and so much more!
I recall DC looking almost identical in the 50's. Sadly, the city is nothing like her former self. She was a grand showcase during my parents generation.
No post war cars, so this is definitely before 1945, since there are not a lot of military vehicles, I would guess late 1930’s, to late 1940 at the latest. I absolutely love this series, but this is the second or third one where the title time is off…
A cada video do Nass que assisto, dedico total atenção e admiração de uma época que não era a minha....mas que adoraria poder ter vivido ao menos alguns dias !! Porquê não inventam logo uma maquina do tempo ?? 😂😂
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My mom and dad met in D.C. in 1945. He was an airline pilot and she worked for the airlines. Amazing to see the world they lived in at that time.
Reminds me of my parents story. Both were from East Texas and met in Colorado. Dad was an orderly at the state mental institution and Mom was a waitress at the cafe across the street. 🙂👍🏻
Note that the Washington D.C. (Capital Transit Co.) electric street cars drew their 600 V dc power from a slot between the rails when they ran in the "downtown" area of the nation's capital (this avoided the clutter of overhead electric wires). Capital Transit purchased their first PCC streetcars (streamlined ones seen running in this film) in 1937. Streetcar service came to an end in Washington D.C. on January 28, 1962. Thanks for sharing!
and that was not dangerous for people ?
@@user-qd6qo2sq1w To be sure, it would have been dangerous if someone intentionally put their hand, if they could (you can see the slot is quite narrow), down into the slot to complete a circuit through their body. This practice of electric traction supply was seldom used elsewhere in the U.S.
Thanks for clearing that up. At first I thought they were cable cars like those in San Francisco because of the slot between the rails. But that didn’t make sense because of the trolley on top of the streetcars that could be used for overhead electric connection. Also the length of a cable system didn’t seem practical to me. I remember when S.F. got its streamliner streetcars, but of course they used the overhead trolly system as they still do today.
I was wondering whee the trolleys got their power from and though it might be that slot between the tracks. Thanks for clearing that up.
@@WAL_DC-6B The same was true for NYC in Manhattan for the New York Railways and the 3rd Avenue Railway. In upper Manhattan near the Bronx they pulled up the trolley poles for the overhead wires in front of the bridges. The center rail system ended in 1947, and the Railway was renamed to the 3rd Avenue surface lines.
Here is another reason that I am so glad I subscribed to this channel....
It's absolutely amazing. Many of us who are older (yes, I am referring to myself) really appreciate this; not many remember how things were 'back in the day'. Lots of great memories come rushing back, and complete astonishment when some of the much older footage is uploaded. I really cannot find the words...but THANK YOU.
How old are you? Are you in your 70's, 80's?
I rode that system in the Georgetown ares when my family moved to Arlington VA in the summer of1961, thank you to the channel, and I see DC drivers drove like their hair was on fire sometimes, even then.
Excellent video, Nass. This could be film
For the 1939 movie " Mr. Smith goes to Washington " staring James Stuart.
0:13 What looks like two Capitol Transit single-end PCC cars passing the camera in the opposite direction definitely make this 1939 on forward. Note that although the cars are equipped with overhead trolley poles, here within city limits they rely on a conduit rail located between the running rails for their power (No catenary to spoil the city's aesthetics.)
0:43 This double-end car also has its poles down.
Edit: Should have written, "...make this 1936 on forward." Apologies for the typo.
Growing up just miles from D.C., I enjoyed this video. I remember riding the street cars from Mt. Rainer, Maryland, station to 5th and G St. N.W., where my mother worked.
If your Mom worked in 5th and G Street she must have worked for Federal Power Commission in that building
@@georgekraus9357 Yes, she worked at the Federal Power Commission, later the name changed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
This is awesome, like looking into a time machine.
Where are the Stop signs and street lights?
One of the best videos yet.
Consititution avenue if you go to the 2 minute mark you can see the constuction of the National Gallery of art, I was born in D.C. in the 50's and vaguely remember riding on the street cars with my mom which ran till about 1961 great video thanks
I love watching these , this one unfortunately turned out too dark. Thanks so much!
I wonder if it could be lightened up?
Thank you so much for posting this, Washingtonian myself this is very interesting to see the forties considering this is the years that my dad was a young man he enjoyed the video thoroughly and I did subscribe to your Channel have a blessed day
The newest cars I saw were 1937 so I'm think that's the year. I love the trolleys, too.
The beer truck, the 1/2 panel in the beginning are both 1938 Chevrolet,,, well done though
I was thinking 1938!
I don't think I saw one car with headlights built into the fender, so I agree that this video was filmed no later than 1937-38, certainly not into the 40's
From about the 2:00 minute mark (for about nine seconds), you can see, on the right side, the steel frame of the National Gallery of Art Building being erected (what is now known as the West Building). The National Gallery of Art opened in March of 1941. So, if this footage is from the 1940s, it must be from the very early 40s at that...when construction of the National Gallery of Art was in progress.
I really love the shots starting about 6:35 of the newspaper blowing across the street for some reason, and the truck swerving to not run over it
Very cool & interesting.. How different things were back then.. so few cars on the roads.. so many parks & green spaces
Awesome work!
GREAT VIDEO NASS
A beautiful city.... with a lot of class.. thanks for sharing.
Was.
Thanks for the lift. Great ride
Right down the middle of the Nation’s Main Street Pennsylvania Avenue. Too bad they demolished the old Raleigh Hotel in the mid to late 1960’s which comes into view at 3:45 on the left above the tree with the domed roof. It’s across from the old Post Office that became a mall circa 1990’s and then Trump’s Hotel the past eight, ten years or so. The columns of the beautiful Willard Hotel which still stands are on the left before the streetcar turns. Great video of the U.S. Capital and wish it showed more from about 1938.
I’m of the belief this is the Spring or Summer of 1937. The license plates have a dark background and the District of Columbia’s plates for that year were school bus yellow on black for 1937. In the film, it reflects white on the plates. Nice beginning from the West Front side with the Capitol in the background. I wish the one filming had kept rolling as one sees the Treasury Building with the columns and looks as if they continue to drive toward The Ellipse along the South Lawn of the White House if they turned the camera. Sadly, they closed that off to traffic after 9/11. It provided a great view of the White House for anyone visiting the small but beautiful city.
the grills on the Chevy trucks, well that light colored 1/2 ton panel, and the beer truck, are 1938 grills.
Your belief is incorrect my good sir
@@SuperAussie999 Elaborate if you know when it was made. It's definitely pre-W2. Perhaps it's 1938.
Could be October or November of 1936 when new models were making way on the road.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar It might be 1936 as my prior post in trying to identify the year by the license plates which the District and virtually all States indicated the year on their plates and changed every year back then. However, the fullness and green of the trees might possibly be October but not November given this is D.C. and autumn colors would be evident. It definitely is not 1940 yet.
the grill on the light colored Chevrolet 1/2 ton panel truck in the beginning, and the beer truck, indicates they are 1938 models. Then at 1:15, out of nowhere pops a 1935 or 36 (near identical) Chevy 1/2 ton panel, just like mine, then another at 6:56. Man I love watching these!!
LOL! Some of those pedestrians running through traffic have squirrel-like reflexes. 😂👀
Please let me off this bus ?I want to stay here and buy a good ten cent hot dog with a tall glass of National Beer. Said folks I can predict the future , but you won`t like it .
Back when Washington was safe and government institutions were highly trusted to do right by the people. Always great stuff at NASS.
I was thinking the same thing.
Debatable honestly, there were NASTY fights between Congress and FDR over the status of the Supreme Court, power sharing, etc by this time. Regardless of party, DC has been a mess of corruption and controversy for most of the last 110 years.
Lol there have been rights between Congress and parties since the beginning. Back then congress fought FDR on everything.
@@thunderbird1921 Since 1913 (Federal Reserve)
Its a true sh!thole of a city today. Corrupt from the Mayor on down. Sad.
Washington was so uncrowded in this photo - seemed like lots of people on streetcars.
My Dad and his brother drove for D.C. Transit back in the trolley days. I still have one of the tokens used for fare..
I didn't spot any cars newer than 1938. Those were a couple Chevys. The taxicabs were all 1937 models, mostly Chevys , Plymouths & Dodges. I wish they'd bring back the streetcars.
wow as usual awesome
NASS, the inevitable debate over DC politics and corruption aside, THANK YOU for another GREAT video 👍
I always like these but I sure wish people would have filmed other parts of the city. Pennsylvania Avenue has looked mostly the same for well over a hundred years
That would be great! I’m sure 16th street and 14th St would look so different! I’m curious to see how that area where Florida, U st and 18th all intersect looked like!
This can't be later than 1940. The light traffic and some shadow angles seem to point towards an early weekend morning. Full seemingly green leaves on trees, would say late spring or summer. Of course NASS chose the colors of those leaves! Nice job.
Why do you think it can't be later than 1940? Just curious, thanks.
@@vecernicek2 I could not see a single car that would have been a 41
@@richmeyer2064 Ok, got to trust you on that one.
@@vecernicek2 Familiarity with the cars.
also noticed cars don't have the gas ration stickers on windshield,
I live in Silver Spring, Maryland in the border of Washington DC we go a lot around the area showing here in this video It's amazing how it all has changed😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Yep...real sad.
Many people say fewer cars on the road back then. Yes true! But in the 1930's to 40's the only car most families had was the one the father drove to work everyday and that was it ! . Unlike today with every family member having their own car. Plus back then more public transportation like you see in this video with the trolleys, bus, and Taxi cabs, not everybody had a car ! Thanks for the upload.
I wonder if all these “rear view drives” are done for movie studios….for later use as backdrops in the driving scenes in movies?
Thank you!
Something by these videos makes me think that in some ways there hasn’t been progress, but regress..
Exactly! When minorities step in, things go to hell. It's a proven fact. Unfortunate.
@@V1AbortV2 LOL keep crying it s only the begining
@nass excellent job!!! A lot of public transportation (not available now due) and it was a beautiful city.
People seemed to drive wherever they wanted. Passing and lane changing looked so sketchy. Interurbans looked really cool.
And not one "Karen" to be found. 😁
Pretty much how people drive here now too. It's interesting to see the lack of lane markings in so many areas
I can imagine Indiana Jones talking to Marion as they stand in front of the capital building.
LOL, that was back in the 30s.
DC native here, and live about 1 mile north of the U.S. Capitol building. and live in the home my mother, older parent, she would have been in her 20s in when this was filmed (1921-2007), who birth me in 1996 at 44 and older brother age age 42, bought with her first husband, back in 1945 for 10K. 1912 federal style end unit row house. The house I think was vacant or being rented when she left my father and moved back into the house in 1973 after some remodel updates. I had it gutted remolded 2016/2017. I'm sure it's now worth around $900k+ - $1 million. Yes I'm blessed. 🤗 I'm so used to seeing those old vehicles in movies. They almost seem like movie props. 🤗🤗🤗
Hmmm, looks like it's black and white with a bit of blue and some reddish reflections. Is this a work in progress?
At 4:06 mark. This area is now closed to public traffic. The SW back side of the WH and Treasury Building.
Nass, Thanks for another fabulous upload into the past. I really love the 1930's-40's cars you show and the men and ladies in their nicely dressed clothes. I know the 1940's surely was NOT all bed and roses back then with WW2, Hitler, The Holocaust, Pearl Harbor, Etc. But I love the dressy style back then better than today. Plus anybody know the year about of this video? Who was in the White house Franklin D. Roosevelt or Harry S. Truman ? When this video was shot ? Guess maybe both in white house FDR President and Truman Vice President. Haha.
I would say this was filmed in the late 30s, 38/39. So FDR was in office.
@@mccuenoirfilms Thank's so much for your reply answer. Much Appreciated friend ! 😊
And John Nance Garner was Veep. Truman was only veep in the last FDR Administration.
@@chrisdarling3617 Thanks for that. Did not know about John Nance at all. Did know about Truman as vice president in FDR's last years though. Thanks.
Very cool................... 👍🙂
El edificio en 3:57 Hotel Occidental.. Aún existe? Y el gran edificio en 4:05 es una Biblioteca Pública? Cómo se llama la avenida cuando comienza el video? Saludos a todos desde Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Gracias por la aclaratoria
I think the video is more from the mid to late 1930s. At least from the collection of cars. By 1939, there was a trend of modernization. Not all cars, but some with more streamline and incorporation of headlights into fenders. I did not see any 1940 cars nor any of the 1939 cars that were showing more modernization. I would think the latest date for the clip is 1938, based on the cars.
The streetcars look like older models also.
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2:57 Bldgs on right now demolished and is now the location of the FBI HQ bldg built in the early/mid 70s.
Thank you.
Love being able to see what the city looked like being a DC resident myself!
you're lucky i live in Alexandria so its not that far from me i either take the train or drive there all i have to do is get on this one highway and im there but id love to live in DC to see the sunsets there.
Awesome stuff!
Apart from the abrupt end, it was a very nice clip. Hope you find nice stuff to enhance....
Fantastic!
Ganz wunderbar, auch wegen der Straßenbahnen.
3:24 Bldg with the bell tower was the old US Post Office bldg. Its now the Trump Hotel. Beautiful bldg on the inside.
At 6:40 a sheet of newspaper on the street! For shame!!
Yes! I saw that too!
My home town I was born in the late 50s and still reside in DC. This is amazing to see. My maternal grandparents brought my late mom and her siblings from a little town in SC in the early 1940s as part of the great migration of African Americans getting away from the brutal Jim Crow south...only to find it was not too different even in DC at that time...funny how history is now trying to repeat itself with Jim Crow 2.0 not from the left in the 21st century but squarely from the right wing.
Exactly...Democrats instituted Jim Crow laws. Pres, Woodrow Wilson was the Dem president who actually put into law govt, segregation for federal workers around 1913 or 14. FDR was president when this film was made, he was also a racist president though his wife Eleanor was just the opposite and was sympathetic to the black plight. FDR himself totally ignored the black plight and maintained segregation and Jim Crow laws despite the slow moving push for civil rights.
@@matroxRepublicans now have flipped that script in terms attempting to institute Jim Crow 2.0 that is firmly in the lane of Republicans. White Southerners who were Dixiecrats used Jim Crow laws after Slavery to control African Americans and attempt to keep them in fear and see us as less than... The study of Jim Crow laws is an essay onto itself. the history of FDR and his pattern of racist stench perpetuated on African Americans (Dixiecrat) and so many continue to be a prevalent thread woven into the fabric of America. Now the mantel is squarely picked up by the right wing. Now that stench comes from Many in the Republican party and the others in the Republican party who are to complacent/scared to call them out.
@@RB-gt8bf Thats always been the Dem narrative...don't fall for it. Dems just took advatage when the saw the writing on the wall. Wake up dude. President Ike a republican was the one who had the balls to stand up and openly fight the racism when he sent the troops down south in the late 50s to kick open the school house doors that were being blocked by DemocRATS like Orville Faubus or George Wallace segregationist. Ike cleaned that sh!t up. Then we had more closet racist Dems like JFK who was openly racist against Sammy Davis Jr. especially when Sammy married a white swedish actress. Its all in Frank Sinatra's Bio. He and Sammy were like brothers. Frank kicked Kennedy's freindship to the curb because he didn't like the way Sammy was treated. Fast forward to racist LBJ. He got smart and took full advantage of the shift of the black vote to Dems when he enacted the welfare programs. "Give those N%^rs welfare and we will have them voting Dem for the next 200 years" -LBJ.
Smart move if you are a racist as the laws put in place for welfare were "No Male Head of Household". That removed the father. "For each child born out of wedlock the more money you qualify for". It was all the systematic destruction of the black family leading to the sh!thole senseless crimes, lack of culture and ghettos we have today.
@@matrox that explains a lot. However, I personally don't believe in the two party system. Think it's all an act. They're all buddies. But you make some really good points.
@@matrox Time To Smarten Up And Get Out Of Your Racist Blaming HOLE, Trying Desperately To blame Racism on The Democrats. Obviously You Are Completely Blind To the FREEDOM Rides of the Early 60's, when the Kennedy's Had To Intervene to Stop Hateful Racial Beatings and even A Grayhound Bus Burning in the south, just so Black Folks Could ride Safely on a Bus trip. It was under the Kennedy's that Interstate De-Segrsgstion of Ridership was Established. And then Later, it was LBJ That Continued JFK's Push to Get Civil Rights Laws Established Nation Wide. THAT Caused All to he Racist Dixiecrats to LEAVE The Democrat Party, AND INFEST The Republican party As It REMAINS TODAY. Get You Head Out Of Your A** And Go Back To School. You're Making YOURSELF Sound Short Sighted And Stupid.
I'm not supposed to think there ain't time travel all of a sudden these videos are popping up and great quality they didn't have good quality back then I don't care how many times they cut the film you're not going to get quality like this we definitely have time travelers.
Why did they enjoy filming backward?
Rear projection footage for a motion picture maybe
The enjoyment may be that this film was intended to provide a Washington D.C. background scene for when a movie being produced needed such as scene when showing two people (actors) riding in the backseat of a car.
”Washington, a swamp that traded Malaria for politics” from the film Quiz Show
Now THAT Was A Good Joke A Comedian could use.
So - this is what "the swamp" looked like in the '40's.
Ironically enough American politics was on its way to peaking Around this time
The black levels looks crushed, No detail in the shadows, hoping you can possibly perhaps raise it some? Nevertheless, I still Love this! This is a great look of Pennsylvania Ave.
I’m totally in love with those cars
Que bonitas imagenes! son preciosas es como trasladarse en el tiempo me gusto mucho!!
A mi Tambíen me gusto mucho❤💜💚💙
I love dc ❤move from Ethiopia 🇪🇹
It has changed so much since then … it’s a round about near the Capitol with a parking lot on that side where the video starts
The lettering on the license plates on the taxi's and on the side of the van is so clear. The only shame is, I don't think anybody has kept records that far back! That dear people is the Smithsonian, where I think these films are stored! 3:25
I love the streetcars! I sure wish they still had them!
SO SHWEEEETTT...much love Tee with LIONS NAMED LEO.[the music worldwide}
AND soooo cool.>!!!
I wish it was that easy to drive around Washington today
It’s interesting to me that there are no lane demarcations painted on the streets. Did they assume people would drive more sensibly back then?
Some wild driving by a few motorists.
wonderful!! the city where I was born….
The world was so much less crowded back then
No duh Sherlock
@@armorpro573 lmao
It's strange to think how many people at this time came from a time before cars, planes, paved roads, electrification, and etc. Well, I guess that's like me coming from a time before home computers, cell phones, and giant flat screen TVs.
Would like to think was filmed facing rearward from a rumble seat. A Packard would be nice.
Very nice...
Nice historical find, but to me a very tedious video to watch. It would have been nice if the cameraman would have strayed away from the federal district and its wide avenues with hardly any people or life. I would find the everyday Washington beyond the marble halls much more interesting! (At the time there were both elegant homes and segregated slums just a few blocks from the Capitol.) At least this is a snapshot of Washington transportation in the late 1930's. In fact, it's so totally focused on cars, buses and streetcars that I have a suspicion that is why it was filmed.
Seeing the natty boh truck brought me great joy ❤
While I do appreciate the work you do, re mastering in color these movies, would you consider posting them without the sound?
Every time I keep hearing this, for lack of a better explanation, motorccyle sound, that sounds more like someone starting a handheld buzz saw, than an actual motorcycle which, by the way, never shows up in a video when the sound comes on, and it is very distarcting. When you add sound to a period movie, the viewer kind of expects it, to jive with what they're actually seeing and not, what they would imagine is going on at the time since, again, most people watching these, were'nt alive then.
Fortunately your electronic device has a mute button. Use it. Then everybody is happy. I truely find it hard to believe somebody would complain about the sound.
My anus just prolapsed and a bunch of liquid shit flew all over the chair I was sitting in. NASS, please make sure my anus does not prolapse again in the next video.
Almost every major city in the world had a tramway at that time.
The first thing I noticed were way more trees along Pennsylvania Avenue back then.
My mom was born in 1945 in Washington, DC. She always spoke about the streetcars.
DCer myself. Penn crossing Con. Capitol past the National Archives, the Washington Star, The Post Office (now Trump Hotel), Willard Hotel and Treasury Department.
Like they say in Washington you don't know and you don't want to know
No pot holes?
cool!
Sad to see how much more control we have allowed those who we let rule over us. I don't see any traffic lights but yet people are capable of driving carefully and so much more!
Why is it so dark?
Superbe époque américaine 👍❗rien a voir avec aujourd'hui 2022 👎❗
I recall DC looking almost identical in the 50's. Sadly, the city is nothing like her former self. She was a grand showcase during my parents generation.
Hey at least she looks better than back in the 80s and 90s when crime was at its peak
No post war cars, so this is definitely before 1945, since there are not a lot of military vehicles, I would guess late 1930’s, to late 1940 at the latest.
I absolutely love this series, but this is the second or third one where the title time is off…
Good Bless USA
A cada video do Nass que assisto, dedico total atenção e admiração de uma época que não era a minha....mas que adoraria poder ter vivido ao menos alguns dias !! Porquê não inventam logo uma maquina do tempo ?? 😂😂
This film was likely shot by a movie studio for use in back projection JMO
NEWEST CARS SEEN THIS FILM, 1938 CHEVROLET, 1938 DODGE !
Why does this look like a video game? Is it from all of the filters, colorization, and stabilization? Looks completely fake.
Whoa…so this what my grandma time look like wow…..