I’ve got to stop watching these 50’s videos. It does me no good to remember what many call these the good old days, I call them the days when there was a glory about America, a time when we didn’t have to demand, or beg to the world to recognize our greatness. We were just naturally great, a great nation, a leading nation, a place where greatness was born every day. Yeah! I’ve got to stop watching these memories, which make me so melancholic, to watch it being stumped on and the American history eradicated and disgraced. I say stop watching these videos but I know damm well I’ll be back here tomorrow. I got to keep the memory alive.
"Normal people"? What was a day in 1954 like for blacks in Mississippi? The Sixties happened the way they did because of Fifties repression. At the exact moment this was filmed, immigrants were slaving in NYC garment sweatshops and the mob ran the waterfront docks. The South Bronx was falling apart from neglect. On the plus side, the rich were actually paying a much higher rate in taxes under Eisenhower, who built the interstate highway system. In '54, the Supreme Court decision in "Brown v. Board of Education" was a primary step to desegregation.
I was born In the spring, wish I could of experience what it was like in 1954 ....My Dad’s father wore his pants above his belly button and a short tie, white shirt..and a hat.....
From someone born in Connecticut in 1950, I remember this whole attitude well: respect and civility was king. Not today. But the best part by far was the fact that, then, you could be a pedestrian without having some aggressive bike almost running you over. Today, cyclist manners are in the toilet. It is amazing to me how the young of today cannot understand a civil world and its benefits. They are too interested in their never ending 'rights'. - David Lyga
Actually you would have been a year old at that time Sandy. The date of this video should have been titled 1955... That was a slip up I had not caught before. My kids put the video on youtube of their grandparents when they were first married and guessed the date.
Thanks for the post-it's fitting that people post old home movies-when they become vintage enough- their significance as historical documents all but requires that they be shared with the world.
This was wonderful! However, the year was actually 1955, because one can see that a currently running film was "The Seven Year Itch," which was released in early June of 1955.
You are right. Thanks for catching that. I didn't put the video up and never noticed the year mentioned... don't know how to change that now... Well things weren't too different from 1954-1955.. except for what was listed on the marques.
It was pretty hazy when I visited in the 80s. Sometimes it is the current weather system, although I agree the earlier automobiles would have had exhaust issue back then.
@@gordonayres2609 WRONG I was born in NYC back in 1954, lived, schooled and worked in every borough including Manhattan ever since... good try but you have NO IDEA what you're talking about.
@@TheEDNC Boyoboy What is wrong with you? I make a moderate comment like that and you shout WRONG! You have NO IDEA.. etc! I suggest you take a deep breath or are you the stressed New Yorker Plus!
@ 9:45 - Trans-Lux' perforator system that elicited the message shown seems not to have either commas ('7 455 000', as in a pic taken c.1946-47 of the Ruppert billboard) or colons ('10 30 P.M.' as here). But the Pepsi billboard atop the building housing both Bond clothing store, the Criterion Theatre and that zipper would date the Times Square footage to 1955 at the earliest. Especially since the TV version of the "Damon Runyon Theatre" ran from 1955 to 1956.
@@brkitdwn I have seen many restored film on you tube. Restored to near 4K standard!! It’s incredible!! Like going into a time machine! I highly recommend to do this one!
You are right this particular video is 1955... I cut an array of movie my dad, Bert Butler, had filmed of when he and my mom Cynthia, first came to the United States from England. Some of the film was from 1954 and some from 1955, I'd found it and put them together for my parents' 50th anniversary which was in 2003 and then took them apart to upload sections to CZcams but just kept the year 1954. This month would have marked the 70th wedding Anniversary of parents Bert and Cynthia Butler and March 19th, 2023 would have been my dad's 100th birthday. Glad I'm watching this it brings them both back to life in the prime of their lives filled with happy memories.
Wow look at that!! You don't see people like that in NYC anymore. With Respect, and have Respect for cops too... NYC today is destroyed.. I can't wait to move out of NY
It would seem from the news in 2021, respect has gone out the window to cops as well as from cops.Too many people being killed for inconsequential infractions, particularly people of color.
I think it looks more homey. today everyone walks in suits, and it’s all business and tickets, and tourism. You could actually stop to enjoy a sandwich back then.
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I’ve got to stop watching these 50’s videos. It does me no good to remember what many call these the good old days, I call them the days when there was a glory about America, a time when we didn’t have to demand, or beg to the world to recognize our greatness. We were just naturally great, a great nation, a leading nation, a place where greatness was born every day. Yeah! I’ve got to stop watching these memories, which make me so melancholic, to watch it being stumped on and the American history eradicated and disgraced. I say stop watching these videos but I know damm well I’ll be back here tomorrow. I got to keep the memory alive.
Everyone is so elegant.
Beautiful! Everyone is properly dressed, no beards or tattoos.
The widespread acceptance of tattoos in America is one of its current problems. They're so goddamn ugly and idiotic.
@@ArmpitStudios Even lots of people who call themselves conservative and religious are covered up in tattoos. Very ironic.
Love it , history recorded, from 1900 to 1950 technology had changed a lot and sped up society , this is living proof. It's still doing it. !!
💞 New York City....What a beautiful sight ...So many years ago with memories of being absolutely...Magical💞
Thank you for the memories. The year I was born, the city I was born in.
Awesome video. I loved the dirt road in the mountains at the end too.
Awesome video! So cool to see what a day was like in 1954 for normal people. The 50's wasn't as stuffy and rigid as the media portrays it to be.
This was the whole point of criticisms of media *at the time*.
"Normal people"? What was a day in 1954 like for blacks in Mississippi? The Sixties happened the way they did because of Fifties repression. At the exact moment this was filmed, immigrants were slaving in NYC garment sweatshops and the mob ran the waterfront docks. The South Bronx was falling apart from neglect. On the plus side, the rich were actually paying a much higher rate in taxes under Eisenhower, who built the interstate highway system. In '54, the Supreme Court decision in "Brown v. Board of Education" was a primary step to desegregation.
Or in the case of Times Square, in 1955.
@@mikephalen3162 life for blacks was much better back then , then the democrats destroyed it all
I was born In the spring, wish I could of experience what it was like in 1954 ....My Dad’s father wore his pants above his belly button and a short tie, white shirt..and a hat.....
Wouldn’t you just love to leave this crazy world and travel back to 1954 and possibly just stay there ? Thanks for the journey back in time .
in some ways yes, but that would mean waiting 10 years for the Beatles [unless I flew to LIverpool]
The 1950's were great. I miss freedom in America. Men were men and communists were in prison and not in the White House.
Thank God trump ( the man who wanted to be a dictator ) is no longer in office!!
@@PR-nq4dt go away troll
It’s amazing to see these videos.
From someone born in Connecticut in 1950, I remember this whole attitude well: respect and civility was king. Not today. But the best part by far was the fact that, then, you could be a pedestrian without having some aggressive bike almost running you over. Today, cyclist manners are in the toilet. It is amazing to me how the young of today cannot understand a civil world and its benefits. They are too interested in their never ending 'rights'. - David Lyga
Near the end the parents were riding on a D type subway train on the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn. It ran on the BMT divison.
2:59 cheers 🍻!!!👍🏼Nyc always in my heart ❤️
Happy 68th Anniversary. Thank you for sharing.
OMG I was born that year!!
Actually you would have been a year old at that time Sandy. The date of this video should have been titled 1955... That was a slip up I had not caught before. My kids put the video on youtube of their grandparents when they were first married and guessed the date.
I was a little kid living in Washington Heights at the time, great video!
Thanks for the post-it's fitting that people post old home movies-when they become vintage enough- their significance as historical documents all but requires that they be shared with the world.
Nice story about your family! enthusiasms moments in his life! cool 😎 thanks for sharing this 🎥 🌎❤️🌼🗽nice weekend!
Hudson River beautiful l watched from air in a helicopter and in a 🛥.Thanks for this film !!! greetings from chile 🇨🇱
This was wonderful!
However, the year was actually 1955, because one can see that a currently running film was "The Seven Year Itch," which was released in early June of 1955.
Also I saw a 1955 crown Victoria.
You are right. Thanks for catching that. I didn't put the video up and never noticed the year mentioned... don't know how to change that now... Well things weren't too different from 1954-1955.. except for what was listed on the marques.
@@melissaspiegler9722 Still, this was enjoyable to watch.
@@melissaspiegler9722 Video titles are easy to edit. Enjoyed the trip to 1954-55. I was born 9-10 years later.
Thanks for this nostalgia.
Beautiful, thank you for this.
Terrific video - thanks for posting!
I wonder how heavy the camera equipment is taking these street scenes back then.
Not a single person with their face buried in their iPhone.
Hazy Polluted skies.. so much better now!
It was pretty hazy when I visited in the 80s. Sometimes it is the current weather system, although I agree the earlier automobiles would have had exhaust issue back then.
@@gordonayres2609 WRONG I was born in NYC back in 1954, lived, schooled and worked in every borough including Manhattan ever since... good try but you have NO IDEA what you're talking about.
@@TheEDNC
@@TheEDNC Boyoboy What is wrong with you? I make a moderate comment like that and you shout WRONG! You have NO IDEA.. etc! I suggest you take a deep breath or are you the stressed New Yorker Plus!
@@MyEyesBled Well, at least Gordon's spelling, punctuation capitalization, and grammar doesn't reflect a second grade education as yours does!
Who would of thought NYC could die as it has .
@ 9:45 - Trans-Lux' perforator system that elicited the message shown seems not to have either commas ('7 455 000', as in a pic taken c.1946-47 of the Ruppert billboard) or colons ('10 30 P.M.' as here).
But the Pepsi billboard atop the building housing both Bond clothing store, the Criterion Theatre and that zipper would date the Times Square footage to 1955 at the earliest. Especially since the TV version of the "Damon Runyon Theatre" ran from 1955 to 1956.
Great video but 1955 not 1954. 7 year itch released 6/1/55. 1955 model cars.
At 1:23 is a 1956 Ford Crown Victoria...model could have cime out in late 1955.
This would look great restored.
I don’t think that we can really restore old 8 mm images like that.
@@jeantetreault132 Yes.. It certainly can
Something more evocative and mysterious about it in *this* state.
@@brkitdwn I have seen many restored film on you tube. Restored to near 4K standard!! It’s incredible!! Like going into a time machine! I highly recommend to do this one!
@@jeantetreault132 it CAN be done
Riding in a turquise blue convertible with the top down! I wonder what kind of car it was?
At 1:23 is a 1956 Ford Crown Victoria...colld have come out in late 1955.
Not to be picky, but it's 1955. There are numerous 1955 model cars throughout.
You are right this particular video is 1955... I cut an array of movie my dad, Bert Butler, had filmed of when he and my mom Cynthia, first came to the United States from England. Some of the film was from 1954 and some from 1955, I'd found it and put them together for my parents' 50th anniversary which was in 2003 and then took them apart to upload sections to CZcams but just kept the year 1954. This month would have marked the 70th wedding Anniversary of parents Bert and Cynthia Butler and March 19th, 2023 would have been my dad's 100th birthday. Glad I'm watching this it brings them both back to life in the prime of their lives filled with happy memories.
SURE THIS 1954?, SEVEN YEAR ITCH WAS A 1955 MOVIE.
Please say Hi! to your great uncle Bill, for me. Thank you.
Jean Tetreault, Did you know my Great Uncle Bill?
Do you know the location of the rural road they were driving on in the last scene? Thanks
I think between Washington heights and Bronx
@@junioraraujo7282 It's Bergen County
I will reveal the 2020s Of New York In The 50s
No fatties. How come?
Wow look at that!! You don't see people like that in NYC anymore. With Respect, and have Respect for cops too... NYC today is destroyed.. I can't wait to move out of NY
join the club
It would seem from the news in 2021, respect has gone out the window to cops as well as from cops.Too many people being killed for inconsequential infractions, particularly people of color.
@@nybuffymeister8328 interesting how you make no mention of innocent people killed by the savages you are trying to protect from the cops
Big time opportunities
I think it looks more homey. today everyone walks in suits, and it’s all business and tickets, and tourism. You could actually stop to enjoy a sandwich back then.
8mm film really looks bad and grainy when shown on a large screen, often dim, usually no sound.
Looks great to those of us who know better.
Look at the damn smog in that city during that era! What cryin' shame.
nice than the phillipino and mexicans came
Are Puerto Ricans Mexicans? Are El Salvadorians Mexicans? Are Guatemalans Mexicans? NO!
@@brkitdwn i lump them together except during horizontal aerobics and them doing oral extraction on me- then i prefer one at a time...
99 percent of the people who spoke Spanish where Puerto Ricans the others did not come until the 80s and 90s