Main Street, downtown Richmond, 1937

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  • Опубликовано: 7 фев 2018
  • The Edwin Shawhan digital collection provides online access to films shot by Edwin Shawhan of Centerville, Indiana between 1935 and 1947. The films include footage of members of the Shawhan family and scenes of Centerville, Richmond, Springwood, and towns in Southern Indiana. They also include footage of steam trains, bridges, construction projects, a girl scout camp, and building fires.
    Edwin E. Shawhan was born in 1896 to Silas W. and Louvina A. Wilson Shawhan. As a professional photographer, Shawhan enjoyed documenting the lives of his wife, Hallie D. Myers Shawhan, and their four children. Shawhan passed away on October 8, 1955 at the age of 59.
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Комментарии • 60

  • @marybarth5759
    @marybarth5759 4 года назад +8

    So wonderful to see this video. My mother graduated from high school in 1937 I keep looking to see if I see a picture of her walking and shopping on Main Street

  • @cmcneil233
    @cmcneil233 3 года назад +6

    Even back then they still walked slow across the street

    • @stevenray5176
      @stevenray5176 6 месяцев назад +1

      I though all were walking briskly!

  • @nivekkil2347
    @nivekkil2347 Год назад +3

    My home

  • @noahholliday9761
    @noahholliday9761 Год назад +6

    It's crazy too that if you look at the silhouettes of the buildings there's a lot you can recognize as still there. Of course a pretty large chunk was taken out in the explosion, but there's still a lot of ancient history in Richmond. I lived in a underground railroad house, and a old carriage hotel during my time in Richmond. It was once the crossroads of America, and crossroads are significant in supernatural happenings. Jim Jones was a Richmond native, Charlie Manson wrote in one of his books that he wanted to move there, and Terry McNichols lived there shortly before the OK City bombings. I know a ton of super freaks before I hit the road for good.

    • @noahholliday9761
      @noahholliday9761 Год назад

      @cannabisreviewpdx2 in 1968 a large area of the downtown promenade exploded and killed 41 people. This is Richmond IN.

    • @LilGeniusesinvestigations
      @LilGeniusesinvestigations 11 месяцев назад

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  • @jasonsmith2439
    @jasonsmith2439 Год назад +11

    Back when people had class and the cars were made of metal.

  • @Drackleyrva
    @Drackleyrva 2 года назад +20

    Downtown Richmond was definitely more active back then---it's a dead zone now.

    • @Pacers00
      @Pacers00 6 месяцев назад +2

      Dead as hell

  • @loristevens924
    @loristevens924 Год назад +3

    Most everyone was dressed up to go downtown. I'm noticing a lot of white shoes, must have been before Labor Day. Not everybody was as stick thin as I thought they would've been, but still thinner than people today. Interesting to see the hustle bustle of the crowds.

    • @truthadvocacy
      @truthadvocacy 2 месяца назад

      The film is distorted and make people look wider. Otherwise, they were much thinner than the overweight and obese population of the USA now.

  • @jesusmalgames
    @jesusmalgames Год назад +2

    Nice, people made an effort to dress clean and stylish, time has changed.

  • @matrox
    @matrox Год назад +6

    This filmer is just Girl watching in 1937.

    • @truthadvocacy
      @truthadvocacy 2 месяца назад

      There are a lot more women than men in the film. It is not the filmer's fault!

  • @noahholliday9761
    @noahholliday9761 Год назад +1

    I saw the small IGA food store on the Promenade back then, I grew up from the mid 70's through the 80's in Richmond and IGA was a grocery store equal to any in that time.

  • @treymcferrin4027
    @treymcferrin4027 3 года назад +9

    I wonder if the roads were trash back then like they are now.

  • @JUBABU4
    @JUBABU4 7 месяцев назад +3

    This is Richmond, Indiana, not Richmond Virginia

  • @jackzimmer6553
    @jackzimmer6553 Год назад +1

    Interesting…My grandparents used to live in Richmond during the 60’s. We would sometimes stay with them for a few days in the summer.

  • @southernman5839
    @southernman5839 4 месяца назад +3

    Everyone was dressed up to go to downtown.

  • @LIBRAGOD90
    @LIBRAGOD90 4 года назад

    "Stubborn Love" by the Lumineers should be playing in this video

  • @Bwh-rm3py
    @Bwh-rm3py 3 года назад +6

    All of those young men were gonna be in WWII in a few years.

  • @jumpstart9473
    @jumpstart9473 28 дней назад

    It’s only a memory recorded on film. Can you imagine trying to explain what their future downtown will look like in the future . Sadley you could probably bulldoze most of these little cities right off the map without any real consequences .

  • @jerryuhte1284
    @jerryuhte1284 3 года назад +2

    That was a good year !

  • @user-uj9ey9yu7f
    @user-uj9ey9yu7f 27 дней назад

    Great footage. Too bad you didn't keep 4:3 aspect ratio. Black margins are not a deal breaker. Distortion is.

  • @ronaldwilliamson7963
    @ronaldwilliamson7963 10 месяцев назад +1

    2037 is just around the corner.

  • @StabbinJoeScarborough
    @StabbinJoeScarborough Год назад

    I grew up here , glad i left

  • @cxjeter
    @cxjeter 6 лет назад +8

    Somebody was chick watching 81 years ago.

    • @realbasherverse
      @realbasherverse 4 года назад +1

      That's how it's done in Richmond lmao

    • @noahholliday9761
      @noahholliday9761 Год назад +1

      Yeah, and if you're looking from the beginning they weren't wearing bras back then.

  • @thomashernandez8700
    @thomashernandez8700 8 месяцев назад

    Main or Broad St? Cheers.

    • @JUBABU4
      @JUBABU4 7 месяцев назад

      Richmond Indiana

  • @madsupervilian.
    @madsupervilian. 4 месяца назад

    hmm, my grandma was born in 1917. She'd be 20 around this time.

  • @fairfaxcat1312
    @fairfaxcat1312 2 года назад +1

    Oh Richmond in Indiana Lol.

  • @eddycorea4729
    @eddycorea4729 Год назад

    Quiero más videos de Richmond no en fotos si no como este , donde la gente camina por las calles, no videos de fotos

  • @alfredocorreia9385
    @alfredocorreia9385 10 месяцев назад

    1937! Ano em que GLENN MILLER formou sua primeira Orquestra e que não fez muito sucesso!

  • @AllWeatherFirestarters
    @AllWeatherFirestarters 2 года назад +1

    All the women wore dresses.

  • @USNVA11
    @USNVA11 2 года назад +1

    It’s a shame that women rarely wear dresses anymore. Different times now for sure.

  • @briteness
    @briteness Год назад +2

    A nation on the way up looks different from a nation on the way down.

  • @xcppg6648
    @xcppg6648 2 года назад +3

    Not many fat people back then.

    • @truthadvocacy
      @truthadvocacy 2 месяца назад

      in spite of the camera distortion that makes them look wider!

  • @cidguridy8389
    @cidguridy8389 2 года назад +1

    Very few hefty overweight people, unlike today.

    • @truthadvocacy
      @truthadvocacy 2 месяца назад

      no mcdonalds or taco bell or wendy's, etc.

  • @LIBRAGOD90
    @LIBRAGOD90 4 года назад +7

    They're probably all dead

    • @noahholliday9761
      @noahholliday9761 Год назад

      Uh, yeah.

    • @mariekatherine5238
      @mariekatherine5238 Год назад +2

      Mostly, yes, but not all. The children could still be alive in 2022. My great aunt is 98, her sister, 96, as was Queen Elizabeth until yesterday. My father passed in January at 97 and two people in my community are 102 and 103, respectively.

    • @RN_BSN_PHN
      @RN_BSN_PHN 3 месяца назад

      No. They're all still working at the cemetery

    • @truthadvocacy
      @truthadvocacy 2 месяца назад

      @@mariekatherine5238 freak cases. Look at the obituaries and note at what *average age* they die in the US: around 75!

  • @erikb8979
    @erikb8979 Год назад

    The one lady’s top looked a little racy for the time period

  • @lamarwilliams9439
    @lamarwilliams9439 2 года назад

    Sooooo an entire video of chics crossing the street.

  • @StrikeValkyrie
    @StrikeValkyrie 5 месяцев назад

    Judging by the large number of flower prints, contrasting outfits, signs, architecture, I would think this video would be a good candidate for colorization. I've lived in Richmond Indiana for 27 years now and you can tell there have been drastic changes to the layout and backdrops of the cityscape. I found it somewhat difficult to place some of the not-so-obvious locations. After watching the people scuttling all about I decided that what I was seeing was likely a lot of sore feet. Shoes have come a long way in the past 80+ years! Of course the people were in much better shape from the neck down and probably had a lot of poor eyesight, partial deafness, undiagnosed illnesses, broken, rotten, missing teeth from the neck up. A lot of strong women and expressions that todays world may have seen as disgruntled or perturbed but was likely just less emotional or expressive than us 'future folk'. 🚎💈🎡🎢🏢🏚

    • @truthadvocacy
      @truthadvocacy 2 месяца назад

      "had a lot of poor eyesight, partial deafness, undiagnosed illnesses, broken, rotten, missing teeth from the neck up."
      Not when they were young and fit.
      And 1937 was not 1937 for "undiagnosed illnesses", at least not in urban areas.