New York c.1899: Restored To Life in Amazing Footage
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- Time travel back 124 years to experience a typical day in New York city in these AI restored early films made between 1886 and 1904. Colorized and upscaled to 4K 60fps using deep learning AI.
AI breathes new life into New York at the dawn of the 20th century. Early motorized automobiles and electric trams can be seen scooting by horse-drawn carriages, which had been the mode of transport for hundreds of years.
Vintage clothing fashion for women in the 1900s was also on the eve of a revolution. American women are fondly remembered by the term "Gibson Girl" - the vernacular for Edwardian era fashion. In this film women are still seen walking about on the New York streets long trumpet skirts, and feminine shirtwaist blouses, held in shape by corsets. The fashionable hairstyle of the day was the 'pompadour.' which became fashionable again in the 1940s and the 1980s.
Landmarks of New York in 1899 to 1904 include:
The skyscrapers of New York - Hudson River (North River.)
Interior N.Y. subway, 14th St. to 42nd St ( opened in 1904).
Broadway & Union Square, New York.
Lower Broadway.
New York City "ghetto" fish market
New York's Lower East Side.
Panorama of the Flatiron Building.
At the Foot of the Flatiron.
Twenty-third Street, New York City.
AI restoration, upscaling to 4K 60 fps and colorization by Glamourdaze. Using machine learning AI neural networks. Special thanks to Bo Chang and associates.
Deep Exemplar-based Video Colorization here:
arxiv.org/abs/1906.09909
The Restoration Process:
To bring old silent 16 fps footage to life, several processes are typically employed:
1. Colorization: Using advanced algorithms and manual techniques, black and white footage is meticulously colorized to recreate the original colors of the scenes. This process involves extensive research to ensure historical accuracy.
2. Upscaling: The footage is upscaled using sophisticated algorithms to increase its resolution while preserving as much detail as possible. This helps enhance the clarity and visual quality of the footage, making it more suitable for modern displays.
3. Interpolation: Interpolation techniques are applied to increase the frame rate of the footage, smoothing out motion and reducing the choppiness inherent in low frame rate silent films. This involves generating additional frames between existing frames to create a smoother, more fluid motion.
4. Adding a New Soundtrack: A new soundtrack is composed or selected to accompany the footage, adding atmosphere and depth to the viewing experience. This may include background music, sound effects, and even dialogue or narration to further immerse viewers in the historical context of the footage.
Overall, these processes combine to breathe new life into old silent footage, allowing audiences to experience the past in a more vivid and engaging manner.
All Original archive footage preserved by Library of Congress
www.loc.gov/collections/early...
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Footage in this AI enhanced film was taken between 1886 and 1904. Thanks to the Library of Congress archive for their preservation. Enjoy
My Uncle was the Chief Cartographer at the Library of Congress for many years. He wrote a book on the mapping of North America. I have a copy of it. Thanks for posting this-
Thank u library of congress
Wow. How is it possible they have sound? Did they record sound in the modern day, essentially having actors play the parts like the woman talking and laughing?
It's dubbed in. @@johnhodgeman3980
@@johnhodgeman3980 It is an artifical audio track. Movies didn't have sound until at least 20 years later. Produced by AI maybe?
This is incredible - seeing real people, not actors, real clothes, not costumes - all genuine and not just some movie. It seems impossible!
You know what's even more incredible? I only saw white faces.
@@taharqa332 Relax.
@@junkjournaldavao I am certain Tharaqa is relaxed
@@galadrielwoods2332hii😊
@@taharqa332That is incredible.
Times before the.you know.
I know you spend a lot of time restoring these old films. I want you to know it is much appreciated. It gives so much enjoyment getting to glimpse into the world as it truly was. Thank you for taking the time to RESTORE history!
God bless you! ❤❤❤
❤👍👍❤
Maravilloso. Bello !!!!!❤😂
Agreed! This is amazing and important work. You’re literally changing the way we view history!
An appreciable work, but it's evident that the audio isn't original as audio recording with video didn't exist at the time. Sound design work was done.
And perfect audio. When the subway air blew her ❤😮😅dress up and she laughed
Geez, an absolutely OUTSTANDING restoration!
It is hard to imagine that these buildings were constructed before cars were popularized. Simply staggering.
???? Personal transportation has almost nothing to do with heavy construction work. You might ask yourself if Buicks and Toyotas have any connection to building a modern skyscraper.
In the 19th C. materials were transported by train and massive wagons. There were big *steam* powered cranes, excavators, lifts, and even drills and riveting machines. Remember that buildings as massive as the US Capitol were built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. NYC's architecture is impressive but certainly not impossible.
@@user-eb5cb6ud1p it is just a commentary on the point in time. There were very few work trucks at that time too.
I’m very familiar with the technology. I have a BS and MS in Engineering. I finished my BS in 1986, so I am very familiar with technology, or the lack there of.
Yes, and the pyramids were constructed in 2600 BCE, well before cars too. 🙄 One thing has nothing to do with the other.
@@user-eb5cb6ud1pYou're losing it. Relax.
@@JustMe99999 They are pointing out that the technology around the people do not match how the people are living. It shows that they moved in to places that already had the structures from before a cataclysm restarted civilizations around the world. The entire world has the same issue. We see amazing architecture around the world with people using horses and carts. We are told those people built those buildings. It is a lie. 🙂
I love this!!! My great grandmother was born in 1900 & these amaze me. She died at 103, I was in my early 20s. She would have been a baby in someone's tummy on that sidewalk in that era. I love all the 1900+. My grandmother who raised me just turned 90, born in the 30s. I love her old home movies so much ♥️♥️♥️
Great memories!
That’s really cool. I met my brother’s mother-in-law’s mother in 2000 shortly before she died. She was born in 1899. It struck me how rare it was to know a person who had been alive in three different centuries and two different millennia!
My great grandmother was born in 1865...:).
Your great grandmother would be ashamed of what is happening now
Вы счастливый человек, застать свою прабабушку, будучи уже довольно взрослым человеком, не каждому дано.
having a glimpse of the past is so thrilling
Thanks to AI that now we can experience it with more clarity.💻
more like depressing, look at the state of the world now its gone
@@JC-nl3nh
Stop being negative because others are living life
@@JC-nl3nh yeah, id hate to live in that old time.
and depressing
That was so cute how she laughed the vent off so good to see old footage ❤
👍 The scene was staged, and probably the inspiration for Marilyn Monroe's in The Seven-Year Itch. It was titled "What Happened on 23rd Street".
Apparently even back then actors were on the uninhibited side, LOL!
Oh how I wish these clips were longer. I’m so mesmerized by them. Being able to see this footage restored and colorized really makes it so much more realistic. ❤
B&W footage always has a sensation of distance, but this AI restoration gives a sense of immersion that's equal amounts of breathtaking and scary. It feels like the closest we'll ever be to actual time travel.
Yeah I know what u mean. Kind of surreal, hard to wrap head around almost. I love the video tho.
TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe this isn't a coincidence....
Props. The "sensation of distance" is not something that most people explicitly notice like that (!) It's important because . . . the sensation is a characteristic feature of the human capacity we all have to do "mental time travel".
Almost feels like a dream, especially when they are looking at the camera (yet it feels like they are looking at ME). 🥶
Things moved a lot more slowly than today. We need to slow down! Thank you for the time and effort you put into restoring these beautiful old films. ❤
things moved much faster in the next 45 years two world wars, commercial flight and nuclear bombs. Thats insane and not long after that men on the moon.
Thats what my mom told me when I asked her what the differences are between her generation and mine. She said people now move and want everything quickly.
Cars ruined everything
Things will always move quicker. People from 1799 would say the same about people from 1899
There was little traffic plus the cities were smaller .
I’m naive, but the infrastructure and buildings in 1899 just astounds me.
Yes! Part of my family lived in NY at that time. It was the height of the industrial revolution. New machinery and construction methods (e.g. steel beams) changed the city over just a few decades.
You should have seen what the ancient Romans did.
@@LeeZaslofsky Thank you. The TartarSauce conspiracy nutters always get flummoxed when you bring up ancient Rome and Greece. They can't comprehend that our ancestors could build the Colosseum or the Parthenon without using diesel motors or electric drills.
@@LeeZaslofskyI did see, I was there. It was pretty awesome.
Wow the way people are dressed is amazing, even the little children. The rich and poor, they certainly cared about what they wear and how they present themselves.
Well there was no such think as leisure clothing back then.
Might look classy now, but to them it was regular casual clothing. Everyone dressed that way.
They dressed for social appeal, not personal comfort back then. Infact, this is still present today in most under developed countries due to it being more important to attract a wealthy mate.
It's not about "caring" what they look like. There was no such thing as "casual wear" back then. That's how they literally dressed every single day regardless of occasion. Talk about uncomfortable. I'd passed out in the middle of summer dressed like that.
@@chifineart fr, even those construction workers were wearing dress shoes, suits, and top hats
The lady’s dress billowing in the updraft was taken from an Edison movie entitled “What Happened on 23rd Street, New York City” shot in 1901. The couple were actors: : A.C. Abadie was the man and Florence Georgie the lady.
Το έχω ξαναδιαβάσει ότι είναι σκηνοθετημένο...όμως πιστεύω ότι το σενάριο έλεγε να περπατάει απλώς το ζευγάρι για να τους γράφει η κάμερα...το σκηνικό με το φόρεμα πιστεύω ότι ήταν αναπάντεχο και αυθόρμητο...δεν μπορεί να ήταν τόσο καλοί ηθοποιοί που να προσποιηθουν κάτι τέτοιο..Αν προσέξει κανείς τις εκφράσεις στα πρόσωπα τους καταλαβαίνει ότι ήταν αληθινό..
Oh, I see
I thought it was real.
Wondered if the sound was added.
That adds the reality of it.
Good to know
@@Josephsoldbyten yes the sounds have been added by glamourdaze the uploader. It was impossible to film and record sound back in 1901. Even Edison hadn’t managed that yet.
@@markshrimpton3138
Yea, I thought so
@@JosephsoldbytenYes, It appeared to be added.
She walked so Marilyn could run
This happened before Marilyn Monroe was born. Years later she made this iconic. Just mind-blowing 😳
Norma Rae you mean.
@fpostolache Norma Jean
Yes Norma Jean Baker. "Seven Year Itch".
Marilyn Manson?
The stabilised movement of these old films brings a completely new relatability and glimpse in to the past. The disjointed old reels almost felt unreal. All of a sudden this footage has really been brought to life. Amazing! ☺️
Amazing, but kind of eerie how some people are in colour, while others are still black and white in the same scene. Its like they don't belong there and reality is rejecting them.
Обожаю историю. Люблю старые фото и видео. Это словно машина времени, которая уносит нас в прошлое.
А где самодвижущиеся экипажи? )))
0:55 she did it before Marilyn Monroe! 😂
Yes, little did she kno how iconic a scene those skirts blowing would be in the future and she was the first... (to have it on film,too!)
@@Elle_ene yeah!!
It was staged for the camera: The lady’s dress billowing in the updraft was taken from an Edison movie entitled “What Happened on 23rd Street, New York City” shot in 1901. The couple were actors: : A.C. Abadie was the man and Florence Georgie the lady.
@@markshrimpton3138 It did feel a bit staged to me only because the both of them looked so composed and then she seemed to slow down and he stepped away as if they both knew this was where the “real action” was going to take place. Thanks for revealing this information. 😊 It teaches me to trust my gut feeling.
@@acool6401 seeing it sharpened and coloured by AI makes it much better than the original. The timing too is now more realistic than the original which might have been as low as 16 frames per second; though I don’t know what speed Edison employed.
My Irish immigrant ancestors arrived in New York City during the 1870's. 3 of my four grandparents were born between 1896-1903. My last grandparent, my grandfather, was born in Ireland in 1886 and immiganted to New York in 1903. This was the world they all grew up in. Thank you. Fascinating footage .
Irish are the toughest people in the world…they are the working class salts of the earth
Could you imagine coming from the devastation of post famine Ireland to this. It must have seemed like paradise on earth. These people were so traumatised and America took them in and have them a life worth living.
@@mow3186 Yes, Correct. And this great county of America allowed their descendants , me, included, to live and work for a life of prosperity and freedom.
Same -- all my ancestors Irish although some went to Britain/Scotland first for work and then to America. Came ashore in New Jersey and also Boston in the 1870s and 80s; lived 10 to an apartment at first. Metalworkers, plumbers ("piper"), all worked with their hands. They were a tough lot.
Like Hispanics and Asians today 😊
This is astonishing, and fantastic! I was born July 16th 1996, my great grandparents are still with me I am happy to say: They will b 99, in the summer ! This is 26 years older than they are! Fantastic! Thank you to whomever put this together! Keep doing it God bless you Joey
I LOVE these restored, colorized videos! It’s like stepping into a time machine and getting a brief glimpse of the past. 🎥
My grandfather sold fruit and vegetables from a cart as a young immigrant in the early 1900's.
wow that is crazy to think that whatever you do and have and will do wouldn't have been possible without him selling fruits.
Back when this country needed immigrants.
@Adrian-mq5ld He came over here with nothing, but worked hard, fought in WWI, saved his money and started a very successful business. Back then you couldn't come unless you had a sponsor in the US. Times have sure changed.
I love these videos. I pause on bits to read the posters and admire the clothing and hair.
Props.
One of the best remastered videos of the old days of nyc on youtube.
I'm grateful that we can easily access footage from over a century ago! It's fascinating to see that even back then, New York was already a bustling metropolis.
Love these quality-definition historical videos!
I’m from NYC and this made me cry for some reason.
Me too.
No need to be sarcastic, apparently you are blind to the direction this world has gone in. Apparently you are trying your best to keep up the asshole trend though. Great work..@@robertmoray988
Because NYC looks way better back then
@@ItsCostanza No because it looks the same. I walk down some of those same streets and ferry past that same chunk of lower Manhattan. It's thrilling to feel a part of something so eternal.
People worked hard in those days. There was no welfare to fall back on. Most people went to church or synagogue and learned morality. It WAS a different world because our values were better.
My God! It's like you're right there 125 years ago!
Wow the restoration quality on this is amazing!
I just love the lady who's dress blew up and she gave this adoring laugh! Love this!
Beautiful videos. Beautiful memories. The older they are the more precious they are. Thank you for sharing these videos with us.
This is a gift - it's the closest we can get to a time machine, thanks so much for posting this.
Only 90s kids will remember this
Best comment!
You do realize the 90s refers to 1990-1999. You meant to say 1900s
@@ernestogastelum9123 He was making a joke. The 1690's, 1790's, 1890's etc. are all the nineties.
1890s
@@larrys4618 Yes...and that decade was offically known as the "Gay 90's". These people were "Woke" ahead of the crowd...
How grand! A time machine. Thank you for sharing.
Incredible. Love all the people staring at whatever’s filming them. Lots of joy emitted through the subjects.
Amazing footage, the colorization & sound make it so modern & relatable---NYC was incredible even so long ago.
My Great Grandmother, Mary Hester Crow (Born 1869)was in NYC in 1889 as an early post-grad of Ohio Wesleyan University studying Dramatic Reading at the Cecil B. DeMille school for Dramatic Arts. It was during her short 1 year stint in the Big Apple that she met a ladies undergarment salesman from Missouri, fell in love, went with him to Los Angeles by way of her family home in Delaware, Ohio where they got hitched. I never met my Great Grandfather. He passed young-widowing my Great Gran at 48. She lived to almost 101. Got a commemorative plaque from Mayor Sam Yorty and a letter signed by President Nixon. She saw the invention of the airplane to the moon landing. By comparison, it doesn't seem that much has transpired in my near 70 years.
Great history, thanks for sharing.
ladies undergarment salesmen got all the chicks
@@davidroosa4561 They could quickly unfasten those complicated hooks and release the hounds.
great post,
I never get sick of these videos
Me 2!!!!!!!!
@@Sapphire586 Thanks for sharing.
Absolutely mesmerizing. I feel like I’m in a time traveling place.
Wow life 135 years ago. Amazing. My great grandmother was born in 1897
My maternal step-great grandfather was born 30 September 1881. He’d died 3 December 1978, mere weeks after us burying family who’d died in Jonestown, Guyana. He was 97 years old. He’d fell & hit his head & suffered a stroke. We thought he would make it to 100 but he didn’t 😞!
I have often felt I was born too late, and that I would have fitted in quite well in this time period. I love the way people dressed; men were gentlemanly and women ladylike. We have lost SO MUCH in the way of culture and refinement.
I would be okay with that time except for going to the dentist!
yea,well, less europeans around now
@@magamaga1827 You should feel sorry for yourself. You are originally from Europe. Hispanics are originally from all of America, so you should first ask yourself if what you say is coherent.
The reality of those times was not your dream of politeness and gentility. Some people certainly lived that style of life, but there was a lot f poverty, racism, exploitation of workers, disease, unsafe and unhealthy housing, and plenty of violence.
Luc Sante's book "Low Life" corrects your idyllic fantasy, as does the work of Jacob Riis. Check them out and be glad we've moved past that era.
@@LeeZaslofsky No need to preach at me…there is STILL “a lot of poverty, racism, exploitation of workers, disease, unsafe and unhealthy housing and plenty of violence”. The difference is, the CULTURE was far better all around….people knew the difference between right and wrong and respected themselves and others enough to not go to the local store in their pajamas and slippers or wear their pants down to their knees with their arses hanging out. My dream, however far-fetched, is that the days of respect and decorum will someday return. Probably not in my lifetime, tho.
Children have fun and look into the camera, not imagining that the recording of them will be viewed more than 120 years later
What a magic
1:03 to think that those 2 children in the shot witnessed 2 world wars, a cold war, the transition from horse&carriage to cars&trucks, airplanes becoming normal, cinema to tv is awesome
0:47 that women was beautiful.
Absolutely excellent! Thank you very much for sharing these historical gem.
It's just so amazing to see how temporary we all are--every last one of them are dead and gone now for all eternity--nobody survived. It's kind of frightening when you think about it long enough.
Yes I think that's why a previous commenter Saud she cried. Because we have no control. We will all die.
Yet most people live their lives as if they are going to be here forever.
죽음을 막아야한다@@granitestater1029
@@granitestater1029죽음을 남기는것은 가장 치욕스런것이다
@@granitestater1029죽음은 마귀가 가져온것이다
Wow this footage is AMAZING. I don't think many ppl realize how amazing this is. The mannerisms have not changed much, humans have always been behaving the same regardless of time period. 1899?!?! It's just amazing. Tears welled up while watching this.
19世紀とは思えないほど建物が近代的で驚きます😮
What amazes me is that everyone is dressed up...no pajamas, no sweatsuits, no sports bras.
Doesn't amaze me. It was mostly like that in the 50s when I was a child.
People only turned into slobs recently!
holy shit - another idiot falls for this and thinks this is actual footage.
@@user-eb5cb6ud1p nice try - that shi*t doesnt work on me
Even a guy up on the beams (I’d guess supervising the builders) is in a suit
@@BenvolioCapulet9 Which is not only RIDICULOUS, but probably DANGEROUS too? (No safety gear and appropriate footwear, for example).
As someone who used to live in and spent most of their time in NYC, this made me cry.
Makes you wonder what our society will look like 114 years from today. The contrast between those people in the video and us is stunning.
I was born in 1964 and now i am 60 years.When i was a young boy there was no computer like now and no social media,no FB no handy .....The world was very different too those days.Greetings from Europe Belgium
Beautifully done! Thanks for sharing it!😁
Amazing colorization and I am always mesmerized by the restoration is true to how people naturally looked and moved. I like getting lost in the surroundings.
It's funny you say that because I think the colors are weird. It would have been better to just leave it in black and white.
Peter Jackson's "they shall never grow old researched the actual color and got it mostly right along with way better film restoration, but that major movie level large number of people working with massive computer banks and experts.
I sort of like it although a link to original be nice. @@bblande
No I like the clors. They didn't live in black and white
color is not what makes this real..its all about the adjusted speed and the extra frames simulated by computer....otherwise u just have jerky color footage..its the natural speed that does it
Hearing those women laugh made me realize I've never pictured people from the past just laughing on the street. Drunk in a pub, yes, but never just casually walking down the street talking and laughing. It brings a bit more humanity to history.
Btw. For those of you who don’t know, movies didn’t have sound in those days. They did a masterful job of adding sound from other sources. Judging from the accents, from the mid 20th century for a closer simulation
I find these clips of past life both fascinating and sad in equal measure. Seeing the slice-of-life your thoughtful editing, and authentic-feeling colourisation provides heightens the pathos: every single one of the individuals within those multitudes are gone. They may be nameless, but your efforts go some way to honouring their contributions to their community…even if some didn’t contribute, even if some were morally corrupt or unsavoury. It is immaterial because it’s part of the great parade of life. Thanks for your great labour of love.
Well said. Its what I feel too.
We're all passing through this thing called life. Most of us won't be here 100 years from now. Time marches on even after we're gone.
Acutally, it's not an established fact that "they're gone". For example, 60% of theoretical physicists today agree with that aspect of Einstein's theory which demonstrates that these people are just alive now . . . as you are.
My grandmother was born on 10th St in 1897. One of the memories she used to tell me about was the extra horse at a hitching post on 5th Ave and 34th St, where there was a small hill requiring the trollies to hitch a 2nd horse to power up the 1 block hill.
Thank you for preserving that memory here. Fascinating times.
The fashion style 👌 and all of them in shape
Absolutely wonderful restoration and the pseudo sound is top notch. Really brings this film to life. So much hard work you have done and it so appreciated.
This is AMAZING footage! Thanks, and please keep em coming. 😆👏♥️
Beautiful restoration. Much appreciated. Thank You for the upload.
It's cool seeing the moving pictures from the late 19th century and early 20th century. This is why I want to be a historian so I can educate people on things I love learning about!
This tech is amazing and I can imagine what it will be capable to do with these old videos after 5 years. This already looks amazing, but I'm sure this will get even better. Cannot wait.
Watching so many of these restored films and seeing how alive and vibrant the people are, and then remembering that they're long gone and it feels like they're sort of immortal, yet also of ghosts of the past. You can't help but think about your grandparents when they were young and your own mortality too.
This is INCREDIBLE!!! Thanks so much.
Some of those buildings in the background in the first 15 seconds of the film looked surprisingly modern.
Marvelous. Thanks for uploading it.
0:57 "Never fear, I saw nothing my dear."
We are time tourists.
Amazing to go back in time with so much quality, your production is super good! Notice how everybody seems to be taking their time even if the film is slowed down you can tell they are not in a hurry and how thin the people are compared to today.
No cars at all in a big city, what a dream!
Thank you much for this wonderful experience. Some good things of the past seems lost forever.
Don't step in the horseshit!
Мурашки по коже от осознания, что ни одного из этих людей уже нет на свете.
Я тоже так часто думаю при просмотре старинных кадров .это так пичально .
First thing that crossed my mind, as well. Even the little children have passed on. Wild
Почему нет?! Я же тут и даже себя видел на кадрах более 100-летней давности
Great video. Just amazing.
So funny how people are fascinated by a mere camera. You’d think they saw an an extraterrestrial the way they are transfixed.
Absolutely wonderful to watch this, a real tonic! and amazing expertise to bring it to us!
Thank goodness someone taped all this
FWIW it was filmed. Videotape didn't exist till the 1950s or 1960s.
Imagine wearing a suit and tie while working on that high rise. ( 0:32 )
With bowler hats!
Those slick leather soled shoes!
Ikr, amazing!!!
That guy is saying
Imagine going to the beach without a shirt on or going to church in jeans and short sleeves
@@ronaldkonkoma4356 I suppose, but still...
The images of the Lower East Side resonate. But, I think they would’ve been speaking mainly Yiddish among the market stalls.
Thank you for this footage!
Loved this! Thank you so very much!!!
I’m amazed to see how sophisticated their attire was back then! Also, there was no obesity back then. Everyone looked so much healthier than they do now. They looked happier too, it was a slower pace of life back then. I love these videos!
Oh geez, one of the ancient Roman emperors had a double chin! If anything, people of the past knew it was more likely to be a naturally chubby body type because there wasn’t McDonald’s!
This is amazing. You really brought it back to life!
Best audio dubbing I've heard. Usually it's just random sounds.
Amazing. Sound, of course, was added later.
This is fantastic, bringing the past to life! Well done!
Incredible! Your channel is stupendous!
really enjoyed that... I think about some of these people... how there lives turned out... long gone now...
* their
Exceptionnel merci d'avoir filmé ces moments du temps passé, de les remastorisés et de les partager
Very nicely done. Thanks for all the effort!
In that part of the video where the couple is walking and her skirt flies up--- if you notice, the man's outfit could be worn today and he'd fit right in. The woman's outfit, on the other hand, would have people gawking at her. Men's fashion hasn't changed all that much compared to women's.
Good point! He just looks like he’s wearing khakis and a blazer. I wonder if this was the “casual” look for the time?
you can date old photos based on the women's clothing, almost with 3 years or less. in mens clothing , the changes are much more subtle. like width of collars and piping
The shot at the foot of the Flatiron Building where the women's dresses are billowing up has an interesting story. It was discovered that this building, because of its unique shape, caused freak air currents which made ladies' dresses billow up. When the news got around, men would come and loiter about the area just to watch the spectacle, and eventually so many of them did this that a police officer had to be stationed there to send those men packing. He'd do it by shouting, "One-two-three-skidoo!" and pretty soon, that phrase entered the language.
The whole of 23 rd st was like that, another story there.
It's nice to see an actual colorization instead of one that just makes everything purple and beige.
I remember stories my grandma told me about growing up on those very streets. Wish I had a better appreciation back then...
so interesting to watch
I can’t imagine how hot and uncomfortable those clothes must have been in the middle of the summer in NYC
No cars, no buses. Only horse drawn carriage and trolleys!
It's almost like being there! Incredible. Many thanks for your hard work. It is appreciated! 🙂
This is a wonderful remastering! But why do these amazing turn of the century videos always have to be so damn short!?
They were short because cameras couldn't hold long spools of film.
No pranks vids,no phones, no fart prank ,no fake boxers,no wannabes just real people going about there lives.
Bro, you could die from dysentery.
bro we get it u hate pranks
This is AMAZING!!! One image is worth thousand words.
Fantastic...the added sound is so very well done & makes a huge difference.👍🇨🇦
Its ironic...
Though life was shorter and a lot harder, people seemed a lot happier than they do today.
"seemed" is the key word. We all romanticize the past.
@@rebeccaa2433 how would you know they werent actually happy? You werent there in the 19th century, either.
@@CrankyBarista Of course I wasn't. I know that if someone looked through my family albums, my family would "seem" like they were a lot happier than people of today, but those are snap shots in time. My family was quite unhappy when I was growing up. We tend to romanticize as humans. I'm sure people were just as happy or just as unhappy as they are now.
Don’t let a very short film fool you. I'm sure they had issues too, much like today. For instance, this was the time when mass immigration from Europe happened. Italians and Irish immigrants were menace to the city and were blamed for the increase in violent crimes. Lower east side was a ghetto where newly arrived immigrants lived in dilapidated tenements.
@@Crazy-Clown-In-Town yes... because we dont have ghettos today ... at all.
Lol
I love the laughing!