Swing and Sway Trinidad Way, 1960s

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  • čas přidán 22. 06. 2010
  • A tour of the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago in the 1960s.To purchase a DVD of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivesfarms.com. To license footage from this film visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com

Komentáře • 61

  • @kennedywong9854
    @kennedywong9854 Před 5 lety +25

    🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹 God bless T&T and make it great again. 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹

    • @stillirise7813
      @stillirise7813 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Indeed! We were the greatest island in the Caribbean.

  • @Dragonfire-ry4dy
    @Dragonfire-ry4dy Před 7 lety +15

    OMG i was just a kid back then, Now in my 60s i could only reminisce in the time back then. So peacefull. I just remember all the fun i had back then. I walked 3 miles to and from school and was free to roam around on weekends. Thanks for sharing.

    • @geraldgerald9828
      @geraldgerald9828 Před 3 lety

      Thank you Angela for the corrections.Glad to see Messrs Mc Intyre, Commodore Steele,and Nickolas Neckles.Whose great grand daughter is my God daughter.Gerald Amoroso of Trinidad August 2021

  • @GiselleSandy
    @GiselleSandy Před 8 lety +33

    Beautiful video...Omg...What a boxing day gift seeing this footage..The fisherman bringing in the fish and gutting them is my deceased father...He has been dead almost 21 years now....God rest his beautiful soul. May he continue to R.I.P.P. He would have loved this video...

    • @shjakes
      @shjakes Před 7 lety +3

      I am happy for you. That must have been a beautiful surprise and no doubt a priceless gift.

    • @GiselleSandy
      @GiselleSandy Před 7 lety +1

      shjakes indeed it was....awww been 22 yrs since he died.

    • @omalone1169
      @omalone1169 Před 6 lety +1

      Giselle Sandy it seemed so much better under colonial rule but need more carnival footage

    • @geraldgerald9828
      @geraldgerald9828 Před 3 lety

      @@omalone1169 Great family history.

    • @the204cool
      @the204cool Před 2 lety +1

      Hi Giselle

  • @leeleeq
    @leeleeq Před 11 lety +11

    My childhood in the 1950's and 1960's!

  • @kevonjames804
    @kevonjames804 Před 6 lety +21

    03:24 TRINI woman looking good from long time

  • @habibahahmad9317
    @habibahahmad9317 Před 5 lety +6

    Beautiful country my country sweet T&T

  • @ellenmorton3444
    @ellenmorton3444 Před 2 lety +2

    I'm related to the Alexis and Steel families of Grenada and many others, some had owned islands in the Grenadines

  • @radhamaharaj2456
    @radhamaharaj2456 Před rokem +1

    I love to go back in time peaceful and wondefjl

    • @stillirise7813
      @stillirise7813 Před 2 měsíci

      Not happening, cherish your memories like I do.

  • @angelalumwai6164
    @angelalumwai6164 Před 4 lety +13

    "Swing & sway the Trinidad way." I thank this person for this video. However, please be mindful of some important inaccuracies. The natives of Trinidad &Tobago were the Caribs and Arawak Indians that inhabited the twin island and some of the main lands of South America where they originated from. The Arawaks ( who fought against the savagery of the Spanish ),became almost extinct after Christopher Colombus arrival on the twin island. However, some of the Caribs survived and are now mixed with other racial groups who were brought to Trinidad, as s result of colonisation. All the people that now inhabit the island of Trinidad & Tobago came from other continents and are not native to the island. Mount Saint Benedict is a monastery not a convent. It is the island's Catholic seminary. In 1960, Catholicism was the major religion, practiced in Trinidad, but not in Tobago.

    • @cathyhdhq5639
      @cathyhdhq5639 Před 3 lety +2

      Angela, I am thankful too. I do appreciate your corrections, very inciteful.

    • @geraldgerald9828
      @geraldgerald9828 Před 3 lety +1

      Thank you Angela for the corrections..Glad to have seen messer Steele.McIntre and Nickolas Neckles.His great granddaughter is my Goddaughter..Gerald Amoroso of Trinidad..

    • @bacilluscereus1299
      @bacilluscereus1299 Před rokem +1

      Nowadays even calling them Caribs and Arawak is disputed. Arie Boomert has some important literature published on the subject.
      IIRC my grandmother's last name was Amoroso, she might have been from Santa Flora, I will check.

    • @stillirise7813
      @stillirise7813 Před 2 měsíci

      I like Carib beer 🍺 😋

  • @shjakes
    @shjakes Před 13 lety +8

    Thank you for the footage of two of the most beautiful places in the world...Tobago & Grenada, (their people make that a fact !) With boundless blue skies, blue seas and the greatest 'bIue food' ☺....I hope I can retire on one of those islands.

  • @angelalumwai6164
    @angelalumwai6164 Před 3 lety +4

    I don't know what the narrator mean by natives. Everyone in Trinidad &Tobago ancestory is from another continent. The natives of these islands were the Caribs Indian. They were slaughtered by Christopher Colombus and his men. Some of whom survived and intermarried and still living in Trinidad, Dominica and St Vincent.

  • @estherrajballi247
    @estherrajballi247 Před rokem

    Nostalgic down memory lane.

  • @bacilluscereus1299
    @bacilluscereus1299 Před rokem +2

    the goat race was different back then. 15:10

  • @therealblaze69
    @therealblaze69 Před 11 lety +2

    Best Video.. Thanks Alot Uploader :)

  • @penelopewelch7581
    @penelopewelch7581 Před 7 lety +7

    Very unpretentious and unscripted almost. Nothing but personal views and the basic history he is aware of. Very refreshing.

  • @CarnivalVillage
    @CarnivalVillage Před 2 lety +1

    Awesome! #cultureliveshere

  • @vernsmith7821
    @vernsmith7821 Před 3 lety +2

    really old!!!!! Things are not like that today I can tell you.

  • @kevonjames2621
    @kevonjames2621 Před 2 lety +1

    3:30 was this bosie singh club?

  • @LukeCageforhire
    @LukeCageforhire Před 7 lety +7

    pre independence I guess.

  • @lifeirony
    @lifeirony Před rokem +6

    Trinidad look better under British rule than niw under Duncey Rowley

    • @stillirise7813
      @stillirise7813 Před rokem +2

      If you want British rule go to Jamaica 🇯🇲

    • @emmanuelwillson3316
      @emmanuelwillson3316 Před 7 měsíci

      I bet you is ah indian

    • @terrysookhoo2528
      @terrysookhoo2528 Před 7 měsíci

      Look how nice n everyone as one

    • @stillirise7813
      @stillirise7813 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@emmanuelwillson3316 Yuh don know, it's only indian 🇮🇳 and jamaican that criticize our beautiful ironic and unique island. Trini till my casket drops.

  • @sethbrown9246
    @sethbrown9246 Před rokem +1

    The narrator gets so many details wrong. The cocoa pod is what turns yellow, NOT the beans. The beans are inside the pod, not the other way around.
    Also, that club with the dancers was the strangest thing I have ever seen. Indian dancers do NOT dance to brass and steel band instruments. Indian music has different drums and their own instruments.
    Source: I live in an Indian village in Trinidad.
    Also, I have never even heard of dancing on broken glass. That must have been something dreamed up to entertain tourists. I, of course, could be wrong. I was a child in the 1960s and did not frequent nightclubs :)

  • @luzurquhart3456
    @luzurquhart3456 Před rokem

    This cannot be 12 years ago. More like 50 years.

  • @bennettstephenson9090
    @bennettstephenson9090 Před 3 lety +1

    i don't know why trinidadian eat them one of nature's beautiful lizards who deserves to be free without been eaten by humans

  • @vicmatthias4515
    @vicmatthias4515 Před 6 lety +8

    Why let a foreigner corrupt the true happening in Trinidad and Tobago. He is off with his story.
    We will not let someone who do not know exactly the history,

    • @HostileLemons
      @HostileLemons Před 5 lety +4

      What's wrong with the story then? I see no problem.

    • @justinseheult
      @justinseheult Před 3 lety +3

      I have a strong feeling he didnt really need permission...

    • @ellenmorton3444
      @ellenmorton3444 Před 2 lety +2

      I know the history of my country Trinidad and Tobago and know what is accurate, the narrator is not well informed however the vedio was refreshing

    • @josephmccaffrey9811
      @josephmccaffrey9811 Před rokem

      Hey stupidee,the man provided the film,what did you do?

  • @brendon-tx2fy
    @brendon-tx2fy Před 2 měsíci

    It was better under Britain rule