A Day in New York 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added
I colorized , restored and applied face restoration and created a sound design for this video of New York 1940s, Shows how millions of people live a crowded, hurried life in New York. Gives an overview of the various industrial and cultural activities". Shows the automaton, the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings, the Garment District, Times Square and Broadway.
0:50 The original Penn Station
2:16 Bleecker Street, at Pompei Church (Carmine Street)
3:00 Smells like the 7 train to Manhattan, around 40th Street in Sunnyside
5:25 South Street Seaport area
6:30 Wall Street
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound design only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
✔ Face Restoration
✔ added modern Noise grain for a natural result.
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
B&W Video Source: US National Archives
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/LivingInA...
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Which city in the world would you like to live in the 1940s?
in Berlin or Hiroshima 🥰
New York in the 1940’s and fifties and Berlin or London in the 1920’s and maybe Moscow or Saint Petersburg, Russia up until recently. San Francisco in the 1950-1960’s must’ve been pleasant. I haven’t seen South American cities but Montevideo, Buenos Aires and perhaps Santiago would be interesting too.
warsaw, grochów
Coshocton, Ohio
San Diego.
The people looked so much nicer back then and everything is so clean and orderly.
Nice like in Jim Crow & segregation and strict race laws. Ku Klux Klan orderly with sundown towns and internment camps for japanese americans.
And mostly white))
"They" make the populace how they want us to be. The way we are now is what "they" want
Don't be fooled by the "clean" thing ---- American cities were actually MUCH dirtier back then. There were no anti-pollution laws on the books yet, so factories could just spout as many toxic smoke and chemicals into the air as they pleased, and tons of garbage were being dumped into the harbor every single day.
@nov the good old days.
It’s impressive how well developed New York was in the 1940’s, imagine you’ve come from Belfast or Liverpool, you’ve never seen a megalopolis like this before in your entire life, and the awe you feel from the view.
@stevenstirling8474, the internet, especially KZhead, has opened up the World to be viewed from all corners of the World, which is of course awesome. However, it does have its drawbacks. When we were children, we would hear older folks talk about wonderful places to which they had been and we would be left in awe whilst allowing our imagination to run free and wild as to what those places looked like. So, technology is awesome, but it takes some imagination away from us
Fritz Lang was inspired to make his silent movie sci-fi classic METROPOLIS from his visit to NYC in the early 1920s. He said New York at night was like a city of the future.
NYC was already well developed in the 1890s. the main difference was the vehicle transportation and fashion styling.
Yeah, you can stand in the middle of Belfast and still smell the cows shit.
Parts of Liverpool didn't have inside toilets until the 1980s. Why was that?
Magnificent flick. I was born in N.Y. July, 1940. Am a youthful 83 now. Bought an around the world ticket and traveled for 7 months in 1960. My entire perspective was transformed thereafter. It was as if I was in these video scenes again. Time passes rapidly & having experienced a collage of numerous endeavors & global lifetime experiences in China,, Taiwan, South America, Carribean, and USA-SFO/LAX/PS/ S.Florida, I look back and reminisce what a wonderful life I had growing up in N.Y.'s renaissance 40'-50's era..The whole world is a mess now. Live in MBeach
Must have been amazing growing up in NYC without all the 3rd worlders there like now. You couldn’t pay me to step foot in New York City today.
So true! Oh, and glad you are a youthful 83 !
These old films take us back in time. I love them too. Stay strong my friend.
Wonderful words
Well all we can say between me and you, is that we both had the best years, I'm not old as you but I'm up there in age born in the 50s, yea those were the days, but it's sad how it all turn to crapola now.
The city looked so clean back in those days.
It's as if they only recorded the nicer areas!
Look at all these people just living their lives. Not a single phone in sight.
If they had phones of today they’d be using it definitely.
Конечно не видно. Это же было 85 лет назад
If you watching this right now
Because cell phones weren't invented.
The modest clothing that the ladies are wearing is a beautiful sight!
Copy that, Cindy.
some of those outfits were considered "daring" at the time.
@@Shiningstars313 during that time, many women made their clothes at home using tissue patterns, and table top sewing machines, store bought clothes were 99% made in America, the 1% were expensive imports carefully hand made with the highest quality fabrics. yet there were cheap 25c to $1. shirts for everyday wear. keep in mind clothes were made sturdier then when home washing used washboards or rough washing machines and roller dryers.
Goes to show how far the standard has fallen over the last 80 years!@@suppylarue220
We mus send our ladies back in time!@@suppylarue220
NYC was so advanced back then. It’s amazing that within a few decades or within one lifetime we went from reading by candles and traveling by horseback to electricity, lightbulbs, telephones, phonographs, automobiles, airplanes, television, movies and the atomic bomb. One person born around 1860 and blessed with a long life could’ve easily witnessed the birth of some of the most significant technological advancements in human history.
Especially mind you, people were living well into their 70's-90's. Definitely can see alot of progression
Excellent summary of the industrial and technological progress made since the 19th century! "New York City was so advanced back then." People all over the world marvelled at the Empire State Building and other skyscrapers in New York which were unique in the world at that time!
Thats true, but we still live though the digital revolution. I remember when mobile phones were as big as a brick.
I was born in’55 and have often thought that I was born 20 years too late. Aside from war, some of the most wonderful times in and around a city like NY (I grew up in the northern burbs) were in the 40’s (Big Band music, Broadway), 50’s (Beat poetry, Lenny Bruce, recognition and appreciation of blues music, birth of rock and roll), 60’s (the whole age of aquarius/flower power/psychedelic music-San Francisco would have been great to be a young adult in the 60’s). By the 70’s and 80’s rock music was peaking out. I would have been satisfied making it until the turn of the millennium. Nothing today has very much interest, and the world seems to be coming apart. I’d hate to be a young person today.
انت رائع يا رجل👌
Gen Z young people are very jealous that you older folks grew up in much more abundant times.
I was born in '56. Don't delude yourself, it was also very difficult for boomers, we didn't have hen parties in Prague and our clothes had to last.
An old friend of mine who came from a prosperous family background once told me that New York was at its best in the 1930s and 1940s. I also like to watch New York in the 1950s in the Hollywood movies of that time!
I was born the same year as you and we escaped the draft. 10 or 15 years earilier you would be in Vietnam or Korea. There were no deferments. I agree that life is not like it was back then.
Kudos to whoever had the foresight in 1940 to record this.
Your most welcome, and thank you!
😄@@CatherineKellerUSA
Only white toilets that are long gone in the toilets
for the buildings, that looks like it could have been filmed today, imo its just mind blowing to see such a skyscrapery city in the 1940s, imagine being from some regular 1940s city which might or might not have even had paved roads and then seeing this futuristic thing which calling city would be an insult, you cant just not record it
The Loew's Criterion theater marquee at 1:15 advertises a movie named Tap Roots; it was released in the autumn of 1948, so this footage probably dates from about that time.
How beautifully dressed all the women were and the men so smart. People certainly took a pride in their appearances in those days.
yes very nice dress
Women's skirts keep getting shorter and shorter showing more body
So many of them wearing animal pelts like the Flintstones.
This duplicate comment on EVERY video...
Nice to see everyone dressed in "street" attire instead of pajama pants and slippers!
This is really beautiful. Probably late forties as nobody in uniform. These people had pride and class and are dressed beautifully. People looked happy, kids were playing, there is an innocence which has been lost forever.
Back then we had a secure border.
@@faustinreeder1075 What we had was generally people that came in became Americans. Not used the USA as a way to make money and send it back to their home country while often receiving tax paid services in the process.
1948-- perhaps late August/early September. Wasn't that movie showing Rita Hayworth in The Loves of Carmen?
People back then acted classy and behaved in a classy manner because that's what was customary and what American society expected of them. Decorum in American society has dropped off considerably since then.
@@faustinreeder1075 Now, I wouldn't say that. Our border was more porous then. Seems folks didn't assault our border in droves. It's that our politicians weren't encouraging and rewarding illegal immigration back then like they do now
The video of the kids playing stickball in the street and bouncing the Spaldeen off of the stoop were the highlights for me. My dad was a city kid doing just that in those days, and I must have heard him reminisce about playing with his buddies in the neighborhood dozens of times. To see it was wonderful.
Same here. Loved it. So many memories 😢
Stoop ball …
And its Spalding , not Spaldeen :)
@@devonmitchell5294 Lol. As a kid, I always thought my dad was mispronouncing it with his NY accent. Then I played with one, and what do you know, he’d been saying it right.
same with me growing in st. louis in the 70s. we played this and bottlecaps (same thing but using bottlecaps instead of a ball). also played a game called indian ball.
Wow, I love the cars and how the ladies dress so elegant. No glass towers anywhere! Not a single piece of plastic on the plant. The food market only used natural packaging. I enjoyed seeing this wonderful world. I imagined that Louis Armstrong was singing.
Louie Armstrong or Big Band, Swing, all would have been great sound tracks…
Actually, they had an early form of plastic that was called Bakelite. They used it to make telephones amongst other things. It was not practical as any kind of packaging though
Moisture-proof Cellophane was introduced in 1927. This was created with food packaging in mind.
Yes the simpler times
@@richm9455 ditto. clocks, radios, office intercoms, etc.
Everyone all dressed up because if you were going out or to work that's the way people dressed back then - no casual clothes if you were going downtown to shop or work. No shoving, pushing, lewd behavior and everyone is alert and relaxed at the same time.
You're so out to lunch. Are you not familiar with the NY mafia families?
I am a native New Yorker and I LOVE , this film . Some times the ghost of the 40' s working class would walk on the sidewalk , and I wouldn't mine .
Just the way I rember it as a kid in the ‘40s. It was very safe and we used to walk the Williamsburg bridge to Manhattan. Also, we felt safe riding the subway to Coney Island on a summer day..
Sounds like a dream
Yea now kids today just have a phone and when mom tell u food is ready not have to yell at street lol 😆 just used text message or a friend wants be friends with u just used name drop send phone number or what ever
I was born in NYC in 1971 (Gen X), so by the time I was teen in the early 1980s, all those movie palaces in Time Square in the 1940s had turned into X-Rated Live peep shows and bargain adult video store warehouses (in the 50s/60s they had turned into live burlesque and jazz clubs, and in the 1970s they became dirty "grindhouse" cinemas showing Kung Fu and Blaxploitation films). By the mid 1990s Mayor Guiliani had cleaned it up and returned it back into family friendly Disneyworld tourist hub. Well its 2023 and I can't help but see the deterioration and decline happening again. But it has been truly fascinating seeing an area transform itself again and again throughout my lifetime!
I also was there before the Disney thing started. I saw the change too.
Don't use the term "disney". Use the term "normal".
@9cross It wasn't normal, though. In the 90s the area became like a Disneyworld theme park on Broadway. Fine for some, but it didn't feel like "NYC" either.
Where is NYC please?
@@ahmadrahimi8598 NYC = New York City
Most of the adults dressed to the nines or very casually nicely dressed. Classy dressed ladies without tattoos 😊
Tattoos don’t make you look trashy. It’s called being a horrible person that makes you look like trash. Tattoos have nothing to do with how society changed, it’s the humans fault.
Some of the biggest criminals and horrible people around don’t have tattoos (politicians, celebrities, etc). Taking offense to body art is immature, I’d like to see how you dress and present yourself.
@@missalbania9260 Are you adorned with nasty skin " art " all over your body ?
Love this video!! Made when people valued life and took pride in what we had in this country. Very refreshing! Thank you for sharing. 😊
Thx ;)
You mean Jim Crow & segregation and strict race laws of that time. And of course forced internment of japanese americans . Ku Klux Klan & german american bund marched in public celebrated.
I know every street on video. It's given me a glimpse into the beauty NYC was. It saddens me to see the change. The kids played on fire hydrants was a way for us all to cool off. Everyone swam in the Hudson River. Thank you for these beautiful shots, and memories ❤
Thx ;))
3rd world pillagers have destroyed the US
Wait, people were actually swimming in the Hudson River in the '40s? I'm pretty sure that was NOT a smart thing to be doing. The pollution was already through the roof.
I have seen about 175 or more videos in historical archives of varying quality and to be honest this is absolutely stunning. Because of the intimate nature of the camera in juxtaposition with the everyday life of the people. As a New Yorker all these sites are amazing to see as some of them still stand the test of time. This is the closest you have to taking a time machine! Truly remarkable. Thank you.
Thank you 👍
I was struck by how much cleaner it was then. No graffiti. Kids jumping off the pier. Less traffic congestion. Ah well. Beautiful restoration NASS!
Ty 👍
Do you know that if you would’ve committed a crime in most these neighborhoods you would’ve had to deal with some people that weren’t friendly and it wasn’t the police that’s why people behaved and dressed appropriately. It was probably a good time to be alive, except for the war in Europe.
Duh.. no blacks or Hispanics, of course it looks clean and civilized
@@richardlacey4923Are you blind?there are visibly blacks in this video, and most Hispanic immigrants have more work ethic then white and black people combined so what are you on about??
@@bigstyx I’m not sure if all this footage was shot during the same year, but I believe I spotted a post war Studebaker.
This was great. But one thing I noticed is that you added the sounds of a steam locomotive to an elevated train. But those elevated trains were electric self-propelled by that time. Otherwise the sounds seemed perfectly normal, as if it was a sound film when recorded. I love the old views of New York.
In spite of the war , these were better times for New York. Great footage.
Wojna wtedy tyłki w Europie ,ucz się
@@bozenasteiner8261 This was AFTER that war.
Better times for some...
Thanks for posting these videos of the demolished Penn Station. New York really lost a masterpiece when it was destroyed.
That's Capitalism for you !
Penn Station being torn down was a tragedy as it was due to the onset of Air travel & the increase of more people having their own cars as it fell into years of disrepair & the cost of maintaining such a huge building was prohibitive & before preservation efforts took place that saved Grand Central Terminal from the same fate years later 👍🤔😃
Grand Central very nearly suffered the same fate.
Watching this ,tells me the best times are well and truly behind us .
Sorry your life didn't turn out as you expected...
Except for the racism and misogyny, it was great.
so much safer back then without the 'vibrants'@@andreamlongmire1066
did yours loser?@@tycanuck
@@andreamlongmire1066 NYC's African-American population in 1940 was about 5%. Racial issues did not flare up until massive Black migration from the South had occurred. Many Blacks, who were badly mistreated in the South, brought their contempt for Whites with them. There was a lot of reverse racism, a phenomenon that has not been well researched.
Beautiful to see but heartbreaking what we've turned it into and how far it's fallen.
diversity ruins everything
Well what do you expect? This is the city and country that destroyed Germany, when they warned us what would happen if the ppl who founded these nations started becoming minorities in their own homelands! Karma. We were warned N.Carolina and the country will not be escaping what’s happening, anymore than the big cities
The US has been a 2nd world country since the 1970s
Patton said it best.
@@gello8518 yes. He did.
I love these old videos. please don't stop. your work is appreciated;
Thx ;)
*The small boys playing with boats on the lake are in their late 80s now. I hope they had happy and healthy lives.*
Absolutely stunning. I have no words to describe the importance of this short film. What happened to America? We were so united then. Hardworking. Moral. Decent. The attire! No cell phones. No internet. Interaction with people only. Freedom rings!
Diversity happened
Liberals ruined it all, now society is given over to promiscuity, without purpose and more unhappy than ever in history
@azmike1, you are forgetting about racism, which made life an absolute nightmare to many people, and still does
In these socialist cities, crime has become so bad that it's too dangerous to visit, let alone live in. JoAnn
" We were so united then."
I like how nobody be robbing peeps or pushing peeps onto the tracks, no car jackings, no one jumping the turnstiles or peeps blasting rap crap. I saw not one smash and grab store robbery.
Absolutely fascinating. Another time, another world. I can watch this over and over again. My mom was born in Manhattan. She met my dad during the war. When he came back they spent their honeymoon meandering all over NY. They often spoke about it. I've always wondered what it was like. This was an excellent look at it as it was then. Thank you for this.
An old friend of mine who came from a prosperous family background once told me that New York was at its best in the 1930s and 1940s. I also like to watch New York in the 1950s in the Hollywood movies of that time!
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Beautiful
Born in the Bronx July 1940 love this video, stickball, stoopball, open hydrants, brings back lots of memories. GREAT JOB!!
Thx ;))
Thanks so much for doing this. Seeing this in color really humanizes the period and people. The three things that really stood out 1) I didn't see any obese people. Everyone is medium weight or thinner. 2) The racial stratification. The few black folks seen, except for one are in lower caste jobs, and in the subway shots of people on their way into midtown, it's all white people. Very few latinos as well. And finally, everyone is well dressed. There are no shlubs walking in the streets.
Thx ;)
And alot of Woman with stroller )
Да, тоже обратила внимание, что нет ни одного полного человека. Все люди обладают хорошим здоровьем. Приятно одеты, аккуратно причёсаны, с прекрасным настроением. И жизнь кипит!
You are getting better and better at this. In the beginning the dominant color of your videos was beige. Now the colours are more varied and bright. You are honing your skills. Thanks for all the work.
Thanks 🙏
Absolutely amazing as usual! Thanks for letting me travel back in time again NASS!
Thank you
@@NASS_0 of course!
Oui c est le même profond ressenti...merci Nass de nous faire un peu oublier juste un court instant le monde dans lequel nous vivons....
Et ce malgré la tragédie de la guerre en Europe à cette époque là
À l image de toutes les tragédies...
I was a 1040 child but in Finger Lakes area of NY. Fascinating video and hard to think about the fact that most of the people in this have all left the world.
Я,разделяю Ваше мнение,некоторые из маленьких детей присутствующих на этом видео есть в живых остальных увы уже нет.
We're next.
Sad indeed, a lot of their stories now gone. I love hearing stories of the 1950's which I could've lived then
The boys in the video might very well still be alive. They'd be in their 80s now.
Wow. Just amazing to see this, I am so blown away with how prosperous and beautiful life looked in those days. Before the sinister ways of our modern times. The culture, the people, the architecture of the city as just something else back then. Lord knows I wish I could have seen life back then. New York now a days looks like an apocalyptic societal nightmare unfolding.
Amazing video, NASS! It's cool to imagine my parents in their teens, before they knew each other, living life in NYC.
I admit I was looking for my folks, both city kids born in '35, and grandparents. If they had gone to John's of Bleeker Street, my dad probably would have been there.
@@shardanette1 I too look for my father, who would have been in his early 20s at the time of this video. These videos are such a treat. Thank you.
From the few movie marques I saw. Part of the video is 1943 and on Times Square at night at the last segment was 1948.
I Noticed The Back End Of A 1948 Mercury On The Street In One Clip.
You can only understand how cool this is if you're from Manhattan as am I, and walked these same streets for years.
Looks amazing - would love to have been around there back in the day - men and women beautifully dressed
yeah!
It seemed quite livable and civilized then. You never truly appreciate what you have until it's gone.
keep in mind, that era spawned WW2 and the Korean war. nothing civilized about those.
Now it looks like a third-world city full of Africans.
13:50 That's newly-built Stuyvesant Town, looking east past 1st avenue. 14th st on the right, 23rd street to the left, East River in the back. All of those buildings are almost exactly the same and it's easy to get lost in there, even today.
Can we please go back to these days? I can’t get over how civil, well dressed and clean everyone and the city appears.
I would place this in the year 1948. The 3rd Ave. Railway which provide streetcar service throughout Manhattan ended in 1947 and were replaced by diesel buses.
Rita Hayworth's Loves of Carmen is on the marquis, and indeed it came out in 1948.
@@bobbysands6923 Thank you! I recognize some of the cars from that era. The Jeep station wagon was the newest thing at that time.
@@bobbysands6923 Also visible - "Berlin Express" with Robert Ryan, a 1948 flick.
Great restoration of film of "the world's capital" 80 years ago. But no matter which decade, this reinforces my determination to never ever live in a huge city. I've visited many, but I've been blessed to never having to call one my home. Too damned many people.
Thank you 👍
Back then when we were an overwhelmingly homogeneous nation it would have been amazing living there.
@@RicochetForce Ying and yang. Everything is fake and gay now,
You, my friend, are absolutely amazing. Keep it up. Truly a breath of fresh air compared to today's times.
Thx ;))
It's amazing how developed, how clean, how orderly, and how prosperous New York City looked. Everyone was well dressed and seemed hard working. America had pride in NYC and its other cities then. It's too bad our current political leaders, especially those from the South, treat New York City like trash.
Duh.. no blacks or Hispanics.. of course it does
If you get a chance and you visit NYC, a must see is the NYC transit museum in downtown Brooklyn. All the old train.
Although the description says this is a hurried life, to me it looks like everyone is quite laid back and moving at a leisurely pace, in spite of it being extremely crowded. I found this very interesting to watch especially for the cultural information, entertainment, fashions and families seen. Thank you so much for sharing this.
❤
Because no internet
Technology has increased the pace of life
Looks to be 1948 -- At the end you can see a movie marque with Rita Hayworth "The Loves of Carmen" which was released in 1948. I really enjoy your work on these restorations. Very fun to watch.
Born and raised Upper West side of Manhattan. Yep. Stick ball in the Street and off the point was a past time with the kids on the block.
Thank you for making these video's.
Thank you
Nice job with the sound. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!
Thx 💛
Our parents and grandparents really did have it better
A masterpiece. I've never laid eyes on New York City, but it makes me desire it. It was so orderly. Were there problems? Sure. But the order of life comes through. Especially for the young. Kids never change. They are the same from generation to generation. Watching them play makes me feel younger.
Thx ;)
Believe me, you would not want to visit NYC these days. High crime in the streets.Shoplifting is legal. You can get pushed onto the tracks in the subway or mugged. Illegals sleeping on the sidewalks. Walk in Tomes Square, and you smell pot. No bail law. Commit a crime. you're out on the street next day!!
@@roncaruso931 I was born in NYC in 1971 (Gen X), so by the time I was teen in the early 1980s, Time Square was quite dangerous with high crime and prostitution, and all those beautiful movie palaces in the 1940s had turned into X-Rated Live peep shows and bargain adult video megastores (in the 50s/60s they had turned into live burlesque and jazz clubs, and in the 1970s they became dirty "grindhouse" cinemas showing Kung Fu and Blaxploitation films). By the 1990s Mayor Guiliani had cleaned it up and returned it back into a family friendly Disneyworld-type tourist hub that lasted till the mid 2000s. Well its 2023 and I can't help but see the deterioration and decline happening again. But it has been truly fascinating seeing an area transform itself again and again throughout my lifetime!
And everyone was tall and slender…not glued to a cell phone either.
Thank you for this new video, Nass. I love watching this kind of video and see how people lived at that time.
Thx ;)
1940 unemployment was 15% and falling rapidly; by 1944 it was about 2%! Love it how every person, no matter from what walks of life, was dressed so neatly.
There were unfortunate outstanding causes for that 2% number.
@@shardanette1 Yes; world war II !
Such clean streets.
Just fantastic, one of your very best. The first half really gives the feel of the city as I recall it going into city in the 60's. I've been on many of those subway platforms. You're really "in there" with the hustle & bustle, even down to the fish market. The second half is more touristy, panoramic, from a distance.
Thank You ;))
Looks clean and well kept
1:44 Especially those bushes in the middle of the road early on
less fast food and no 7-11s = less throw away wrappers.
Congrats for this jewel. Awesome quality and mood!
Thx ;)
Nass, I love the videos, I love anything vintage and this really makes me feel like I'm back in 1948. I don't know if all of the video is from that year but, I happen to the see the Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford movie playing at one of the cinemas The Loves Of Carmen which came out in 1948. It would have been so amazing to be at the movie premiere. The Broadway stage productions...Thank you so much for all the work you've done on these videos
Thank you so much
i lived in nyc in the 1980s, its amazing how similar it was 40 ish years ago, if time travel were possible you wouldn't be too lost, there is also a NASS of NYC in the 1930s, and it looks more foreign. Not as many people wore hats now compared to the 1930s too.
Opening up the fire hydrant on not days was a treat. Not illegal. In fact the police hooked up a spray nozzle.
The open hydrants! So New York and always black and silver to this day.
It's illegal because it WASTES WATER!
Imagine coming from a European town with the tallest building being the church and then seeing this when arriving at the harbour. Still feels unreal, like the Earth's piece of a science fiction metropolis. New York's an icon.
Amazing and beautiful. The 1940s certainly had its share of hard times, but I do wish I had a time machine. Great job on remastering this film!
It is just marvelous to watch this technology advance. Just imagine what it will look like in say 2 to 3 more years. I bet it looks something just like colored video. Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you
Why does everyone look richer
They weren't. Soldiers in World War II got paid $50 a month. Most arrived home with back pay filling their pockets, but overall people did more with less. Those suits men are wearing? Might be the only thing in their closet.
They r showing the working crowd they didn’t go in to the ghettos of the lower west side or the south Bronx or the lower west side where there wheremosty poor Irish,on the west side n poor Italians on the east side these where dangerous areas f their time because the Italians where making there way n roads with organize crime which changed nyc to gang violence ex west side story I
Thankyou for take me back in time Sandra 😊
No city income tax. No state sales tax. In New Jersey, no state income tax and no sales tax. The public well groomed. 1940's within the pinnacle of best men & woman fashion, and it really shows in public. The city looked clean. Though the smoking rate was high in the U.S., nearly 70%, it seemed nearly absent on the streets. I know that there were still swaths of slums, this showed a beautiful and vibrant city.
Coney Island. Great place to go. See the parachute jump? The structure is still there to this day. A memorial to the days of fun.
I love all the sights showing how great America used to be.
Air pollution was horrible. Cars ruined the city. Alcoholism was rampant. People aged very quickly. It's much better today.
I repeat my comment. @@stephenmorton8017
@@stephenmorton8017 Compare the suicide rates. People today don’t agree with you.
The New York was so developed at that time too . Just look at these buildings and these big, wide roads 😮 Just amazing💕😍
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Remarkable job. Keep up your great work! I would love to see more archival footage of the original NYC Penn Station.
12:56 - at the top-right of the screen you can see the old Singer Building. A beautiful early skyscraper, built in 1908, that was once the tallest building in New York. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_Building
Yes Texas. Shame they tore down The Singer Building in the mid-late 1960’s. To the left with the boxy brick with light top ribbon is the old Radio Row Hudson Terminal Buildings they demolished in the early to mid-1960’s to build the World Trade Center.
Seems to be 1948 - the two movies that are visible being shown in Times Square are ‘Berlin Express’and Rita Hayworth in ‘The Loves of Carmen’- both released in ‘48. The Astor appears to be showing a Cary Grant and Myrna Loy in ‘Mr Blandings..” also released in ‘48. It seems that Blandings was released in March, Berlin Express in May and lives of Carmen at the end of August /beginning of September - so this footage could potentially be early September.
yeah late 40s
Be aware though that back then, movie houses often re-showed films that came out a few years earlier, or would keep a showing a film for year or two if people continued to pay to see it. I remember as a kid in the late 70s, my local theater in Brooklyn kept showing Jaws 2 for over a year!!
My mom would have been 3 yrs old then and living in the Bronx, NY.
What a marvelous pot-pourri of film snippets depicting life in NYC. Stupendous footage. Congrats!
This is far more interesting than most movies/shows from the last several years! Amazing quality!
Great video nass, amazing footage, people going about there lives,a snap shot in time, just incredible, great work, well done 👍😀👌
Thx 👍
Beautifully done, excellent work. ❤
Thank you 👍
Amazing. Well dressed, civil people....People were slim, no ugly tattoos, no cell phones, or stupid masks....a better time..
yes amazing!👍
True but everyone smoked cigarettes in public places and segregation was still a problem in many states. Lynching and unequal justice in the south not uncommon. If you were a working woman and pregnant you were forced to resign your job. Every Era has its challenges
I was live in NY in 1938-41. I was boxer! Now 102 year old; and i'm good! Wine and single! From italy!
People in those days dressed very well. So elegance
Your videos never fail to amaze outstanding work ❤👏
thank you so much
This is incredible. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for showing this video! I love to imagine I am there in those days.
4:25 In our little penthouse we'll always contrive to keep love and romance forever alive In view of the Hudson just over the drive When we're alone. Penthouse Serenade 1933
Splendid work Nass, Really enjoyed the dockworker’s clips.. Interesting how all those young children are now in their late seventies and early eighties now!..😳
thank you so much
Actually, most of the young children would be deceased by now
I feel like I went back in time. thank you very much for your sharing ❤
This is the only type of utube content that I could agreeable for historical value
People back then didn’t go to department stores in pajamas bottoms and shirts with obscenities written on them.
Why are all of the Russian troll bots obsessed with pajama bottoms? I literally have never seen a single person walking around in pajama bottoms ever.
The degeneration may not have reached TX yet. Lucky you. Walk into any Walmart on a Sunday morning in the midwest and it's likely to be a freak show. Some days are worse than others. I go there to buy canned salmon or their full-synthetic motor oil occasionally. Pajama bottoms are the least of it. Saw a very large (can't say FAT anymore) teenage girl last time who was wearing an oversized mans dress shirt, no bra, hair dyed fluorescent yellow, torn black fishnet stockings, shirt unbuttoned to her belly button. Her flapjack puppies were taking turns peaking out as she waddled down the aisle. Neither the store nor shoppers are going to say anything because she had already proved she's not right in the head by exposing herself, and you don't want to open that can of worms.
@@texaswunderkind You'll Have To Get Off The Farm Tex. In My Rural Town In Central Pennsylvania, You Can See Younger Women In Supermarkets During The Afternoon That Look Like The Just Crawled Out Of Bed. Still Wearing Their Pajama Bottoms, Bunny Slippers Included. And I Noticed A Fellow At The Post Office In Pajama Designed Bottoms As Well. WHAT Do You Think Jogging Pants Are??? GRAY Colored Pajamas...
The kids playing on the streets , my God is the best part , no brain killers I PADS and cellphones
Its amazing to see this. Thanks for uploading.
why are the streets so fancy and clean . Every single person is well dressed in proper manner and style? Looks too good to be true.
you are looking at white culture and white heritage - diversity destroyed it
The golden glory days of the big apple, before it rotted away.