Amazing New York City around 1920 in color [A.I. enhanced & Colorized]
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- Amazing film footage of New York City about a century ago. This was the time when the motor car had started to rapidly replace horse-and-cart transportation in developed cities across the World. It resulted in cleaner streets, free from horse droppings, but also added to the already existing air polution due to further industrialization. Maybe I should have chosen "Steam and air polution in New York around 1920" as the title. There are plenty of shots of chimneys, factories, trains and tugs belting out huge amounts of steam.
The film shows many well know parts of New York as well as the arrival of the RMS Aquitania (nick named "Ship Beautiful") in New York's harbor. For more detailed information, please refer to the timeline below.
The many original B&W film fragments have been motion-stabilized, individually speed corrected, enhanced and colorized by means of modern Artificial Intelligence video software.
The music is by Megan Wofford.
The tiles are: " Iridescence", "Evolving", "Aroma" and "Dear Mama".
Source: Archive.org and other.
Filmed by: Paul Strand & Charles Sheeler in 1921.
Please DO NOT re-use my material on CZcams. Thank you.
Timeline (please help to complete this, thank you!):
00:00 New York Waterfront in 1921
00:25 The greatSinger building on the right
00:32 Staten Island ferry arriving
01:55 Graveyard of Episcopal Trinity Church on Broadway in the Financial District
02:24 J. P. Morgan & Company Building (Built 1913, Architects Trowbridge & Livingston)
02:28 Street market (Possibly Orchard street)
02:48 Fifth Avenue Mansions at 79th Street and 5th Avenue
03:11 American Museum of Natural History (Built 1874, Architect J. Cleaveland Cady)
03:21 Riverside Drive near 105th Street. 325 Riverside Drive (Built 1920)
03:27 View of the Woolworth Building (Built 1913, Architect Cass Gilbert)
04:08 More skyscrapers under construction
04:58 New York, the steam & smoke city.
05:02 View of the Equitable Building (Built 1915, Architect Ernest R. Graham)
05:31 Location (?)
05:59 Screen right, view of buildings along lower Broadway
06:53 View over the river Hudson
07:18 View of the top of Bankers Trust Company Building-14 Wall Street (Built 1912)
07:32 Steam trains galore
07:48 A New York, Ontario, and Western Railway’s 4-6-0 center cab “Camelback” locomotive
07:58 Partial view of the New York Central Railroad’s Weehawken Terminal
08:02 RMS Aquitania arriving in New York Harbor, Pier 21 (?)
08:27 New York City fire boat “Thomas Willet”
08:40 Tugs pushing the RMS Aquitania
10:18 Brooklyn bridge
10:31 Sunset over the Hudson river
11:10 Early traffic, busy streets and congestion at Lower Broadway
11:14 Spire of Trinity Church (Built 1846, Architect Richard Upjohn)
11:24 The Elevated railway ("the "EL") from above: The Sixth Avenue Line at Trinity Place
11:37 View of 6th Avenue from the tower of Trinity Church
11:53 Busy traffic and electric trams
11:59 A beautiful sunset over the Hudson river, operated by New York Railways Corporation
Please help to complete this timetine!
Many thanks to Charles Crawford. See his comment on 5 July.
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Rick - Your clickable timecode is 9 - 23 seconds behind; starting from the "J. P. Morgan & Company Building" segment which starts at 02:15, not at 02:24. It gets progressively behind as the film rolls = for example: "RMS Aquitania arriving in New York Harbor" starts at 08:04; and, "New York City fire boat Thomas Willet” starts at 08:25; and, "Tugs pushing the RMS Aquitania" starts at 08:37. Other than that... the colorization is quite accurate and the individual speed correction seems to be perfect. Thank you for posting this historical gem!
@@DonVideoGuy007 Thanks I had to trim 20 seconds due to a copyright claim by the BBC for that specific segment.
Right,I forgot. But looks like Titanic
Wonderful sharing! I love this content. ♥ ♥ ♥
А где эта кнопка находится,?🧐
It’s ironic that when I look at the people in these films, l’m fascinated by each one of them, even those in crowds Who are they? Where are they going? How amazed they’d be that a century later, thousands of people would be looking at them moving in a few frozen moments in time. Yet… I will walk out today and take everything and everyone for granted, have little interest in the hundreds of people I will see. If only we could experience the “now” with the same wonder, interest, attentiveness that we do the past. What a joy and a privilege it would be, simply to be alive.
nicely said!
Beautiful analysis that I ask everytime.....where were they going who like us pass this way.... insignificant in many ways but all part of the jigsaw which can never be completed
Great point!
Well said..
And the best part is, they look at us (through the camera) in the same way.
100 years ago someone thought, one day in the future when I am long gone people will see what it was like, and we are those people. Just reminds you how short our life really is and what a gift this person gave us. A time machine for all of us to experience. Thank you ! Whoever and wherever you are ….
That's what I was thinking too, it makes you wonder if in 120+ years from now would people look at footage from our current time an find it strange.
100 years ago nobody imagined I’d be watching them walk to work while taking a dump holding a smartphone
@@allenwood9967 " Strange"? Mate. The poor bastards in the future will have to plough their way through acres of social media and millions of hours of video about talking dogs .....
Lovely comment I live in England and have never been to USA but I love videos like this just love watching people getting on with their lives no iPhones there’s something calm about this era even though if you were poor things were incredibly hard
@@JoeyMetcalf80 lol
When I watch these films it’s strange, I feel my grandparents, my mother, my father, aunts and uncles, all gone, but they feel so close to me, another life One we never knew and they never knew ours, but inside us all...these people are there. Wonderful 🍃
Beautifully said. I feel the same way.
nah its the garbage age
When you know someone you're linked to them psicologically, and even when they are dead they keep being psicologically linked with you. I mean, when you love a girl, and you interacted with ther, you still feel connected to her by your feelings, and the same happens to her, so even when one of the both is dead, that feeling is still there. I think this is more or less what you were trying to say. So in that way we keep connected even when people die. When you feel something the other person is feeling the same.
I like taking long walks around towns.
Whenever I see videos like this, I try to imagine what it'd be like to travel back in time to one of these places and just... Take a nice long stroll.
All of these people lived and breathed and dreamed and loved they fought and worried and cared and they had fears and hopes and it,s all gone. But they lived. Life is short. Be kind and be happy because in a hundred years it won,t matter.
This is so beautiful
The amazing thing for me was seeing those men building the skyscrapers without safety tools. Most young people need to appreciate their fathers and grandfathers who help build a city like NY and others around the country. Love these kinds of videos.
People in 1920
would have never thought
that people a hundred years from then would be watching them
on that very day.
Fascinating!
I can get lost in these old films. Thank you so much for posting this. No traffic lights, everyone walking among the slow moving cars and buggies, everybody wearing a hat. And the dear old Brooklyn Bridge…
@ 2:34 I watch over and over again a sweet kitty cat entering at the bottom left corner and continues under the table! I'm in such awe of it!
Anyone else get emotional watching this?
It's strange seeing them walking in a cemetery knowing now they're all in a cemetery.
The fact that all of those people in this video are dead makes me just want to go and give everyone around me one big hug because 100 years from now no one is going to remember us and life will go on as always.
It's funny how we realise our lives by seeing others that are no longer here.
I felt a little sad after watching this video.
Thinking about how that will be me one day.
Best we enjoy while we can.
All the Best.
Big Hug If I Could.
That something that happens to atheists.
Be philanthropist or Author who Write books you will be remembered forever.
There could be a baby in a baby stroller that is 101-102 years old :)
I was born and raised in Staten Island and worked in WTC 2.
I remember getting off the ferry, seeing the bubbles, having the ship line up perfectly with the dock.
Thank you for some of the most beautiful memories I have of home.
The days of innonce.
Very interesting video. I looked up the ship at 9:10 The Aquitania. She went into service in 1913 and sailed on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York on 30 May 1914. Aquitania was retired from service in 1949 and was sold for scrapping the following year. Having served as a passenger ship for 36 years, Aquitania ended her career as the longest-serving Cunard vessel, a record which stood for six years until overtaken by RMS Scythia's service record of 37 years. Great video! ♥
Atmospheric, dreamlike, ethereal. I am struggling to find the right words for this wonderful video. So different from your usual style. The video had a surreal feel to it. Your perfect music choice accompanying the differing scenes. It's hard to believe the video is one hundred years old. You almost bring the past back to life. Your attention to detail is what makes it so. Thank you Rick.
Every video from any era, whether old or even videos that were posted today just always makes me think. They were just living life as we are today. Whether they were worrying about the Spanish flu or about what they would be eating for dinner, they lived there lives and hopefully died peacefully with family around them. But to realize that these men and woman are now in a grave somewhere and most likely are forgotten, or at least is commented when talking about family history is haunting to me. Because just like for them, one day our names would be just scribbled on a gravestone. Forgotten by many.
reminds me of this epitaph
Remember me as you pass by,
As you are now, so once was I,
As I am now, so you must be,
Prepare for death and follow me
Why so haunting? People have died since we were expelled from Eden. Who wants to live forever?
@@dolandlydia We're still living in the Garden of Eden. We just have the blinders on, like Saul on the road to Damascus. All we have to do is 'not judge', no more bites of that Apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. No more 'this is good for me' - 'this is bad for me' .. We're already saved. Take that deep breath sister - we've got IT made! =)
David if you want to be remembered for ever as I always say you cannot change the world but you can change someone's world! Help a kid go to school and your impact will last for generations
Read the book of Ecclesiastes. Thousands of years ago a wise man pondered all of this. Then he sat and wrote it all down for our instruction. As valid today as it was then.
Old Footage of NY City are always my favorite.
Thank you Rick👍🏻
US # 1 !! I was in Seattle 1995 , when worked on crab boat ....USA # 1 !!!! Salute from russia !
1920 was the year my mother was born, right here in Manhattan, New York, at Harlem Hospital.
oh.. how old are you then
@@ahamedsalim7609 Hi Ahmed- for some reason my little comment is getting a lot of 👍- yes, I am old- 63- which is old enough I suppose- my grandkids tease me about being a "baby boomer." My mother's family moved to Harlem from New Jersey about 1915 or so- at that time it was still a largely white, "upscale" neighborhood, just before what is called the "Great Migration" of African Americans from the South, many of whom found a new, better way of life in Harlem. My mother was born June 6, 1920 at Harlem Hospital, and lived in Harlem with her family until she married in 1945. She had me in 1957 at age 37, a "late life" baby, following my sister in 1953. She used to tell me fascinating stories of growing up in Harlem, it was a fun place, as well as tales of old New York in general. She passed away in 1996. Peace to you.
@@davidwhitney1171 baby boomer is better than younger generations and I’m saying that as a Gen Z
@@Bot Hi. Thank you for your comment. Try to keep in mind the following: since the beginning of human history older generations have ways spoken poorly of younger ones, how terrible their behaviors, ways, and manners are, etc. I guess it's in our DNA as human beings. Next, and far more critically, these stupid labels- "Greatest Generation," "Silent Generation," "Baby Boomers," "Generations X and Y," etc, are really just labels created by the media, Hollywood, Advertising, etc., usually just to sell things-or ideas- and are really little more than just a cheap easy substitute for thinking. You can't broadly brush a "snappy" label such a "Gen Y" on millions of people all of whom are individuals. Finally, every generation, mine, yours, lives through its own time, its own world, under very different circumstances, its own mountains to climb and dragons to fight, its own sorrows but also its own joys. You would likely not want to have lived as as a child in the '60s, or a teenager and young adult in the '70s, as I did. It wasn't all that much fun. Good luck to you...
my grand dad was born in 1940
There's something transcendental about these productions. The music is haunting and meditative; peaceful. Good work indeed!
Whomever filmed this had an amazing sense of composition and poetry. Many of the shots are reminiscent of the paintings of Charles Demuth and Edward Hopper & Georgia O'Keefe. Real beauty & style. Looking down thru the ballistrades onto the lower roof tops and the street below in the far background. One of my favorite sequences is early on after the docking of the SI Ferry, everyone sunning themselves in the cemetery of Trinty Church. It's colorized just enough too. Didn't try to make it Technicolor just slightly above sepia tone. Lovely
I’m enchanted by the beauty of this, both the images and the music. The moonlight through the clouds over the harbor with piano...deeply moving.
1920 is about the time my grandfather came over after the war. This is what he saw coming to new York. Crazy it is over 100 yrs ago.
From what country?
My friend who's mother was polish told he and I that when she came to America (Louisville, Ky.) after the war in 1945 that she wanted to go home because there were still dirt roads and horse drawn carriages where as back in Poland where she lived the streets were paved or brick and it was nothing but automobiles.
We both asked didn't the Germans destroy everything and she said she was talking about before the invasion in 1939.
Wow!
She passed away last year and it was not covid 19 like they said!
Heart attack she was 100 years old!
There's an old "joke" about my grandfather, who came to America from the Old Country in 1910 because, he heard, the streets were paved with gold.
When he arrived, he learned three things:
1. The streets were not paved with gold.
2. The streets were not paved.
3. It was his job to pave them.
Nice story. I hope your friend recorded her while telling the story.
@@fransimeri484 :. Unfortunately he didn't and neither did I!
Too many stories lost because of this and I know she wouldn't have minded if we recorded!
@@davidsigalow7349 🤣🤣🤣🤣 he was hit hard by American dream
@@dutchmayer6725 : It would definitely be strange!
I look at these people wondering if my ancestors are in there. My whole family is off the boat and stayed in new York until the 70s even today. We found pictures of my relatives from Brooklyn and my great great cousin looks exactly like my son Vinny. It was incredible. My great great uncle was an Irish cop in Harlem in 1901. My great great grandfather worked at the new York lumber yard. His nickname was the hammer. I'm so proud of them for hard work to keep our history alive.
What a Magnificent old world city, and those mansions are a work of art, shame they knocked them all down.
Great video 👌
Wow - the RMS Aquitania! Stunning footage.
Life was so classy, dignified and inspiring during this time. Just gorgeous.
Appeared to be those things
@@SourceAwareness You sound like a leftist. People were way more morally good back then. Kids also were better and smarter. No fluoride in the water or chemicals in our food. No GMO’s. It’s only leftists I hear say this country was always hateful and trash. Well it wasn’t. It had issues but the masses were morally sound.
They seemed classy cause the films ran in a very slow pace.
Ur romanticizing this era too much I think. A lot of people do. Most New yorkers we're in desperate poverty. Read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
Amazing they had so many high rise buildings back then.
Whenever I see old films of New York,I amforever searching for my grandmother and grandfather who came here from Sicily in the early 1900's.They lived on Elizabeth St. I would love to one day find them.
Yes, also, nearly crying. Only one grandparent of 4 was born in U.S. In 1901 on the Lower East Side and married in the 1920's.
Same....mine 1908
My beloved grandmother was born in 1913, and she always told me stories of how different the world was in her childhood, stories about her parents and grandparents.
I’ve always wondered if she was sneaking around in these films. Not out of the possibility since she grew up in the area.
What I notice is how clear the sky is of the now sky scrapers. My grandparents talked of the depression and their days...wasn't always easy but they had so much family and love 💜💜
Amazing work! One of the best that I have seen! Love the piano accompaniment instead of adding sounds, adds to the aura of the feeling.
Glad you enjoy it!
Hats, ties, suits, dresses - oh my… so nice 👍💖
They were special people. And the most beautiful parts of New York even to this day were built by those people 100 years ago.
If I could go back to this time, I’d own a men’s clothing store that sold only suites, tie’s and top coats
Time flies! Look at those people having the same dreams we have now. How developed they were at that time! The skyscrapers, the techniques to build houses. The clothes they wore at that time, everybody with hats and ties, even the poorest!
Wow ... Not just people. I saw a cat running to street market. Beautiful. 😸😺😽
This is the kind of video that fullfills my soul. Such a well developed and beautiful city already back then. Everybody on the move and with a purpose just before the great depression hit. I think there still are a few folks left from that era who were babies at the time.
I know one,she is 101 years old now...
This is also right after WW1 I believe
What amazes me is how classy and civilized our society once was, how far we have fallen in 100 years.
Exactly suits ties dresses hats.....some or few still adorn today but....
You can thank the Dems for that...
Classy and civilized based on attire, yes. But given that entire groups were denied basic human rights, employers tended to treat their employees far worse, etc., the United States was NOT (at this time) classy and civilized by actions though.....
please the italian and jewish mafia was running rampant all over NYC extorting people and killing people left and right....cool it on the fake nostalgia.
@@pauldavies4348 the Dems are at fault for allowing the italian and jewish mob destroy NY???
I tune into your channel to see our real history..... Not reenacted in a film. Always interesting & superb quality. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
When I think about it, my dear Grandmother graduated from high school in 1920.....We still had horse and buggies!
My grandma and great grandparents came over in a ship like that in 1923. Through Ellis island
I feel like CZcams is a time machine
The roads are one big classic car show.
Amazing footage, and to think that everyone in the footage is dead now, even the kids. I wonder if any of these people are still dearly remembered or if they have become a distant memory. All these people are great grand parents of people living today. The power of time, who can stop it?!
Lost like tears in the rain
They're mostly dead now, I agree, but wouldn't it be cool if somewhere in the States, a Centarian sees your video and recognizes themselves?!
New York City before they invented spray paint was beautiful.
as were honest hard-working family people who loved USA
Background music adds a beautiful touch to this film archive. Most of the buildings were heated with coal, thus smoke pillaring from the smoke stackes. Beautiful Neo-classical buildings.
To think one of those people getting off that boat could have been one of our grandparents or great grandparents. Gives me the chills.
I would say even in 1920 the New York skyline would still be one of the most impressive around today.. Some wonderful buildings. I find watching these films from the past extremely melancholy but utterly bewitching. Thanks, Rick
From my heart I can’t describe how amazing these shots are.. just imagine ,,
all peoples in this video are no longe between us
The soundtrack matches the sunset. Beautiful.
Beautiful...peaceful
This is amazing 😍
This video shows the NYC that my dad lived as a young boy... (born 1904 on the lower East Side to Italian immigrants) and the NYC that he often spoke of:
The rich lived openly very opulent lives, the poor were many and worked very very hard...
the immigrants were many, but all legal and really wanting to become, culturally, American citizens.
Dad moved to Chicago in 1928 (and oh! What a place Chicago was through the 20s...and 30s...)
+RIP daddy (1980 A.D.)
Peace and all good to the viewers.
They were legal because there were no quotas restricting them until the 1930's. You just needed $25 and not have a communicable disease. So these immigrants did nothing that todays immigrants couldn't do. And back then many of them could not read or write or speak English, yet then were allowed in. Immigrants had it easy until the Great Depression
my grandmother arrived there from Sweden on the ship==The Celtic, her name was Jenny Lund and my grandfather William E Park was the civil engineer who designed a lot and woked on Park Ave.
Wow the beautiful image of the sun behind the clouds with the harbor glistening. Awesome.
Strong n courageous generarion, everyone looks wayyyt more relaxed..sometimes i wish we had no smartphones..internet. social media
Once again, I commend you! This colorization is absolutely nothing less than amazing!
I really enjoy watching your works of art of these old films from a hundred years ago. Visually experiencing what daily life looked like so long ago.
Keep them coming. This is true character of NYC hustle and bustle culture
Being born and raised in NYC, I seriously hate that all those amazing old buildings were more or less torn down. That's when there was craftsmanship in those buildings and not the ugly steel and glass buildings.
It's the cycle of life. If it is any consolation, many of the buildings you hate today will eventually be torn down.
Amazing how clean and peaceful it looks.😘
Sheeler's paintings are so evocative. You get a sense of his inspiration from these wonderful films. And the music is perfect.
Lived in NYC from 2015-2020
Will always cherish that time in my life.
Great work and brilliant research. Thanks
Fantastic film footage of early 20th NY. Thank you for sharing it with us😊
Those windows & doorways in the JP Morgan building! Unbelievable!!
Weird to think that these are the scenes my great-grandfather would've seen on his arrival into NYC from Naples in the summer of 1920. He lived up in Westchester County and was returning from the Old World after a six-year U.S. hiatus with his wife and infant niece (*who was led to believe most of her life that she was the daughter of my great-grandparents, but that's another story for another time!). Upon his return from Italy he would ultimately settle down for good in a city on Long Island Sound called New Rochelle (NY), carve out a successful career as a master stone mason during the local building boom of the 1920s, fall on hard times with the grinding halt of the construction industry following the Stock Market Crash of '29, and leave behind his wife and four children in 1939 after succumbing to the white plague (i.e., tuberculosis) at 53 in a world before modern antibiotics were widespread. If it wasn't for his deciding on leaving his little dusty village in Avellino to cross the Atlantic and take a chance in the cut-throat labor market of early twentieth America three generations of my father's family wouldn't be living in the US today, a sobering reality that makes me appreciate all first-generation immigrants who do not just have the fortitude to leave everything they once knew behind knowing full that they may never set eyes on their homeland again, but also the tenacity to "make it" in a strange place where the language, customs, and national attitudes are completely foreign to one's' own. Never take for granted your family's root-planters who gambled everything to start life afresh!
I dunno if it's impressive or crazy --- to see every man in NYC, even working class guys, wearing a business suit and fedora in the summer heat
My grandmother came over in April 1923 from Germany
New York City was beautifully classy even 100 years ago ....,
It isn't now, though!
What a contrast! Everybody is dressed so decent,sharp and seemed so well mannered.
Thank you for posting this Rick, and for the many hours I am sure you spent creating it. The film feels different from the typical street scenes - the views over the rooftops and harbour scenes are very beautiful and artistic. I often start watching your work thinking "I'll just give it a quick look" and am always somehow sucked into the past, finding it utterly compelling. Time flies (literally) while the moving pictures captivate my attention. It really does feel like a window into a past hidden world, and for some reason I cannot identify I often have a feeling of intense nostalgia for a time and place I never witnessed.
RMS Aquatania looks filthy by the way. I always pictured these great liners as pristine flag-ships of the line.
I understand the nostalgia even though we haven't been there. I appreciate the present most but the past is us. I feel similar when I think of a Space colonisation.
I want to be there past or future.
@@helenmccann9084 space colonisation is gonna be awesome. Just thinking about Voyager 1 n 2 n the distance they've travelled is fun.
aquitania, just stunning. thanks for this.
The colour, and the slowing down of the pictures, really brings this to life! Well done!
I've just had my history fix for the week. Thank you.
Man that staten island ferry scene pulling into the slip. And passengers getting off stil looks exactly the same today. Beautiful video. ❤
Except now there's probably as many women on the ferry as there are men. It was hard not to notice the TON of businessmen getting off the ferry with maybe a woman here and there back when the women were home and the men went off to work.
Every single man in this film is wearing a cap or a hat. Amazing
100 years from today, someone will post a comment of today's NY saying: "People are wearing torn denim pants and have silly tattoos all over their bodies. Amazing."
@@artmax5878 Very likely!
And a suit!!! Looked nice but I bet it got uncomfortable!
Amazing. So fortunate to watch. To think a 100 years ago. Just fantastic. From South Africa.
They got off the boat and returned to daily life..and 100 years have passed...
Great video thanks! It’s strange to think in that whole 100 years how little it has actually changed. I mean yeah it’s more built up and modern but easily identifiable. History amazes me!
Really liked the cemetery bit. People took the time to be close and spend time with their past loved ones. Hardly see anyone at cemeteries unless it's an anniversary or a burial.
So true. I wish I lived next to one. Peace and quiet.
Wow I see so many negative remarks about this video I thought it was nice to see the 1920 in color and how nice that everybody wore hats. Thank you for this it’s really nice in color Gbless everyone.
Thanks for watching!
I liked it too. Commenters drinking Haterade and eating Hater Tots.
Amazing how this all brings it back to life. Makes it seem less ancient
Watching that ferry drift in...incredible how packed to the gills it was with commuters on their way in. I take the ferry in every morning across from New Jersey. Of course a lot has changed in safety protocol when docking and getting off and on.
This video is very nice.
I just love moments from the past.🏵
Thank you
I love watching this my grandfather was there in the 1930's as a young man seeking his fortune, I never met him he sadly passed away when I was born I keep looking to see if I can see him amongst the crowds
Just remember you're apart of his legacy👍
@@kcorn12kcso kind of you thank you
😂
You share very nice thoughts.
Just be happy that he was there.
So you could be here.
Life is Good.
Even if to many people tell you it's not.
Amazing, the number of people on the ferry.
What a gem! Thank you so much!
It's strange how black and white makes things seem so distant and far off!
Then color seems to make it so much more real!
Whether it's 1920 or 2020!
It's weird!
@@dutchmayer6725 :. And?
@@dutchmayer6725 :. I find it truly amazing!
The moment we're looking back into the past with nostalgia, at the exact same time they were looking forward into the future with hope after WW1...
I am so grateful for my Grandfather who would take me into NYC in the 50's and show me and tell stories about "the old days". So when I see these videos...it brings those times back. He was born in NYC in 1890. No one wants to hear such now....
yeah, no one wants to hear endless stories for Ab Simpson TBH. Let's look forwards, not backwards
I wanna hear them please share a few stories with me
That’s incredible footage, thank you for sharing. It really brings 100 year old NYC to life, how characterful it was.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Always good value. So many thoughts go through my mind watching how things once were. Cheers.
The people walking around there looks more elegant compared to the current generations
Wow! another beautiful trip in my time machine! Paris tomorrow i think maybe. Keep making those films everyone. Future generations will be glad you did!! Well done Rick, a master of your craft. Thank you
The video really makes one think. Underneath it all life is very similar. Different buildings, fashion etc but they are all superficial. Today we are basically the same. Working, living our lives. In the end it’s how much we cared for others. Love is the only thing left behind that matters.
Thank You for letting Us see this!! It's a very good look at our real history !!
In 1921, nearly everyone was 'dressed up' in every scene! Whether you were headed to work or not, you were expected to be properly clothed, including wearing a hat for both men & women! At age 75 myself, I can remember having to do that in my youth!
Is this video a compilation of short films or a longer one, done by one person? Either way, it was fantastic!
I was a child in the 70s. Without question the worst fashion and haircut decade ever. lol
@@GUITARTIME2024 True. Then again, same HAS been "eclipsed" by today's vile hipsters. No address whatsoever to hygiene, grooming, couture, coiffure. It's beyond sickening.
As a kid from Long island...everyone dressed nice. Never did I see my family in jeans or sneakers. My grand father had slacks, belt and white cotton shirt under his dress shirt. My grandmother always had a dress and nylons 😁😁😁
Blame Ike and JFK. After WWII, with the emergence of highways, cars overtook public transportation as the most common method of travel. People on public transport had no need to take off their hats, but when you were driving a car you suddenly had to. And then JFK killed the hat for good as the first president to rarely wear one.
I was born in the sixties after I was about 9 or 10, I never saw anyone wear hats except to weddings or funerals. I still see men wearing hats not ball caps, real hats, but rarely.
The music is really good, it sets the perfect mood for taking in the visuals.
A true gift here! To witness this era of commerce and technology is an amazing comparison to today, July 29, 2021. Greatest gratitude here! 🙏