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Thank you very much. I was raised on the foot of the mountain. I was held by my dad in the parking lot of the corner deli, as the whole mountain burned orange one night. The night this all stopped.
The gentleman who finished in 2nd place, Felix LaFenetre, was issued a medal for this event which fell in to my possession. Another medal - from a lot of three - suggests he finished 2nd in the same race in 1931. Thank you for closing the loop on my research. The theme music is beautiful and complements this historic footage well.
@@davidw.haasm.d.7502 I would love to, but youtube doesn’t allow image sharing in comments. They do allow sharing photo links (URLs) from websites such as Flickr or Imgur, but I don’t have such an account. You were easy to find on the Vanderbilt faculty page, but I would not presume to email you - with image attachments, of course - unless you were to sanction it first. I’m a drug metabolism scientist in the pharmaceutical industry, and owe my career, in part, to people who obtained PhDs from the biochemistry department there.
@@davidw.haasm.d.7502 I’m learning that RU-vid does not allow posting images in the comments. It would be a privilege to post photos of the medals but have to research how to link image URLs, which are permitted.
How about the big jump off the cliff on the side of the mountain in Salisbury Mills, NY where many gathered in the 40s and early 50s? Anybody remember that location, favored by many Scandanavians. I believe they named that location after Togre.
I remember doing this with my family in the 60's. One time on the way down there we're two older women sitting behind us who started singing, "I left my heart on top of Mt. Beacon". I love those memories. ❤
Going back in time beautiful and yet sad! Dad was a Nike Base officer from 1962 to 1965 ( Fort Cronkite) headlands. Lived in beautiful military housing presidio. SF was amazing ; parents are gone now and so is the once beautiful city by the bay! 💔
Thank you ! I think it was ‘64 when we moved to Suffern - we lived in the house on Rt 59 that had the well right in the front yard and in ‘67 we moved to a house on Cherry Lane
Very cool We moved there in the mid-60’s .. love it ! The best of times. I had my first real kiss at Lafayette theater. 😊 I remember the seasons - how beautiful ! Incredible snowstorms. Thank you for sharing this !
This is such rare, valuable historic footage. I've never seen Zachini, The Human Bullet before. I don't think anyone else has footage of him. Does anyone know the name of the singular rocket shown from 1:28 to 1:48? As someone else mentioned, this has to be dated 1941 or later because it shows the Parachute Jump and that wasn't installed at Coney Island until 1941. Thank you so much, David, for sharing this with the rest of us!! 👍
interesting at 3:36 it says "sophie tucker for president, truman at the piano." There's a song by sophie tucker that came out in 52 where she talks about running for president 4 years ago.
The skyscraper at the 4:08 mark was the only skyscraper build in WWII in the U.S. The tall spike at the top told the weather by lighting up to display different colors. Blue was one type of weather, green was another, etc.
Last time I was on Ocean Parkway was 2011 making deliveries.Brooklyn had a feeling all it's own when I first visited in the 1960s to see Railway Express REA where my Father worked in Queens.I remember meeting people who spoke old Brooklyn
This may be the National Championships in September, 1930. My grandfather, Eddie Seufert, was runner up in that race, losing to Domenick Tucellow, a jockey who raced for several years on the side but never turned pro. There no doubt were many other events there but this is significant enough a race that it may have been chosen to film. And Domenick was Italian.
I went to SHS (class of 1977) but my family moved away in 1975. I was in the band and orchestra, remember some of these teachers. Thanks so much for posting!
Scenic and emotional at the same time. San Francisco will always be me my grandparents driving to the commissary in the presidio through the sunset district and baker beach to get there. We get food at the cafeteria and listen to the fog horns as the ships passed through. Very few people flew back then and the drugs were less toxic. The worst people did was uppers and downers. Marijuana and being saucy or being in the bag was bad living.. Hard to imagine that now with cannibus shops in every neighborhood....
I'm one of the new generation of mountain lodge Park residence. I've been here since 2011. I'd love to know which house it was as I have renovated many many homes up here. I could possibly get you an updated photo if you're no longer in the area
Omg I remember those rides.. they were moved to a small section on 15 th street across from where the magic carpet ride was. My parents used to take me in the late 70s.. when I was 4. it’s a parking lot now 😢! Love this video! Thanks for posting! Great memories
OMG! I visited this zoo in 1955. Field Trip. PS 206, 2nd Grade, Mrs Bernstein. THE FIRST TIME I ever saw Farm Animals, Racoons & The Peacock! Living in a Project in Sheapshead Bay, visiting WFZ was like being in heaven!
