Awesome video! I’ve probably watched it a dozen times since stumbling across it yesterday. Based on the clothes, hairstyles and cars I’d say this was filmed around 1926 to 1928. I’d be curious to know the occasion for the kids’ festivities. I noticed three girls walked down the street carrying a large bag and then reappeared in costume, pierrot and harlequin type outfits. Was thinking it could be Halloween as Baltimore temps were still warm enough on October 31, 1926 for the attire (60s and 70s the day before).
I have a feeling that fella lost his leg around a train. My grandfather worked for the B&O . He told me if you ever jump a moving train to grab the front end of the car. Don't grab the rear cause you can swing between the cars and could lose a leg . If you grab the front you have a good chance to get out of harms way.
It's amazing how much happier everyone was and what a great sense of community everyone enjoyed before the Internet (and even television) was invented.
Crazy!! All of these videos are coming up from my Watch Later list. That's new RU-vid ish....but they have taken down half of those videos. Wish I would have watched them, now they're sending me my leftovers...ain't that a b*tch😈
Because he's innocent beautiful young ladies look at the way they dress look at the way they stuck together not to look do for mischief not to get over not to do just doing what white people were doing at that time making things work
These are the people who made Baltimore these are the people who made it a special place to live these are the people who then took off in white flight because they knew they were effed if they stay there
I know this is an old thread (which I've seen many times). Just stumbled across a colorized version someone did on youtube of it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kYtOqTCIPm4.html
I could be looking right at my paternal relatives and not realize it. My Grandpop was born in 1915 and my Grandmother in 1920. My Dad and his siblings went to old School 34 in the 40s and 50s.
Pretty sure this was mid-late 20s when this was taken. I’m basing it on the fact that my mother had that exact same haircut, that the girls in this film have have and she was born in 1920. The picture I have of her is from 1927 with that haircut.
This feels like about 1930, going by the hair, clothes, and the car models. But, whatever. My Dad may have actually been born by this time, which was 1930, Mom in 1932. It might be 1928, but not much earlier.
Hi Dear, I hope you are well, I would like to colorize and restore this black and white footage and post the result on my channel. I will credit you and write all the information about the original black and white source in the description, I hope to get an answer from you.
Ahhhh haaaaaa! That proves it! You see, pigtown was full of white people back in the 1920’s. See how the government gave them all brand new houses, and cleaned up after them. The government didn’t allow white people to be poor. Whenever they needed something they just went to the store and showed their skin color. Now that black people are in pigtown the government just lets their houses get run down, leaves trash on street, and tries to force them to pay for goods at the store. (Tries). This is all the proof you need of white privilege.
Maybe if you people cleaned up the places you lived in and acted like decent folk the city wouldn't look like and be a shithole but we all know you guys aren't going to do that and that's why Baltimore, Detroit, and any other black majority place will forever be a shithole until either you guys get your act together which will never happen or the whites take back those cities.
@@bryp6553Bryan, your ignorance is abysmal if you still think this after all we've uncovered. It's more likely you're a bot than THIS ignorant, but just in case... See this GOVERNMENT admission on fault for the past AMD current plight of poor Black neighborhooda around the U.S. Understanding redlining (handout) - files.consumerfinance.gov. files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_building_block_activities_understanding-redlining_handout.pdf
99% sure my great-grandma is at 3:19. She is the tall one on the right. She was from the next neighborhood over so it might not be her but I'm almost positive she attended School 34. She was born to a poor parents that were immigrants from Germany. She went on to have six children, one of which became my grandmother. Almost all of her descendants still reside in or around Baltimore, myself included. Amazing to see this. Thanks for posting!
Pigtown was always a working class neighborhood in SW Baltimore City. These might not have been the so-called "good old days," but you didn't have a murder rate of over 300 every year. These kids are enjoying themselves, having good, clean fun in one of the city's poorer neighborhoods. No doubt, some of these these kids' kids and grand-kids are still with us.
It's crazy that I have family still alive that can remember times not that distant from this. Cherish your elders. I guarantee there are many stories you still haven't heard. The other crazy thing...those houses are still there and look pretty similar, but now just run-down with garbage in the streets. It has been forgotten. Used to live nearby, but had to move out after the riots. This video reminds me of my family and ancestors along Lombard street. It is a joy to watch.
george Fold,. Thank you for this video. Do you have a means of loading the longer clip that shows the kids playing the mean trick on the old peg leg man? I large wager depends on it..I'll split the proceeds if so. Thank you Sir, this is greatness
I love watching these old American videos in which people and children were so friendly and close to one another. I sometimes cannot believe this is old America. Today people in the USA seem cold and very distant from one another. For example when did you last time see a group of children holding each other's arms and playing?
