America in the 1910's - 1920's / 55 Rare Impressive Photos in Color 

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Just stumbled on the channel. These don't seem like your garden variety colorizations. More attention to detail on several than one normally sees. Eager to enjoy all the others.

Well, damn. If someone from overseas were to watch this video, they'd be confused about the lack of Blacks who lived in America, more specifically, the New York region during this era. The pictures are amazing to glance at, but the racial disparity in your "chosen" photos is sickening and misleading. My family represented this region for hundreds of years, but hey, I guess history is a subjective entity.

@@stevenwbar6554 Thanks for your comment, but I have never chosen photos by nationality...only the best available in the historical archive...

I know where did it all go wrong

I know what you mean, it's all very elegant, but if I have to be honest, I'd rather be comfortable. All the "accoutrements" would have been uncomfortable if not torturous. The girdles, garter belts, stockings. etc., were not very fun to wear. And they didn't even have tampons! I would not like to get all fully dressed up just to go to the supermarket! I like getting dressed up for occasions, just not every day. It's too much trouble. @@michelles2299

You can blame America for that.

Jeans with holes in them.

Well, Americans are..slobs now. if you are ever lucky enough to go to Italy, especially Milan, you'll see that some people still care about their clothing.

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@@MrSupernova111 *Thank you Mr.!* *I really thought the entire world, clothes* *and all were the colors of the old black* *and white photos!*

😂 I am laughing along too! So funny! ❤ Thank you!

You didn't know BW-photos and -movies when you were a small child in the 1950ies?

That's actually a great story, and it illustrates the way we kids who grew up with parents/grand-parents from the era of black & white. I also used to think movies in black & white just happened in the "olden times" where everything was gray!

Weren't cigarettes (with nicotine that suppresses the appetite) cheaper and more available than food during the 1930's?

That was very obvious to me..fast food was not developed till this era where being bigger is flaunted ..our life styles have definitely made body shapes change for the detriment of many.

I noticed that too. (At least in these photos.)

Most people didn't have cars. Notice how little traffic there was? People had to walk everywhere. Plus sugar and chemicals weren't as frequent in the food back then and now it's in everything.

The food available was of such better quality than today. Alot of people grew up on farms so they had a good start too. Just my opinion.

Hello to you Ivan. I lived in Woodside on 64th Street and Roosevelt. The elevated train was about 100 feet from my window. Learned to sleep through the sound of the EL.

@@theblueflame7592 Hello Neighbor - To some this is Hollywood - to us it is Real - bless You

Fashion and style......It was the world of Quentin Crisp !

Yes clothing was well made and lasted a long time!

@@Julia29853 I image most would only have a few quality outfits for each season and they repaired them and kept them well for many years. Now we have a bunch of tat

Exactly!! Philadelphia another major garment district, N. Carolina a Major furniture maker and Detroit a major car maker.

Outsourcing and cheap labor was the beginning of our downfall.

Even in the 50s we did not have much money but the money we had bought us good quality things, clothes that were worth washing for example. Service people were highly interested to deliver good service, not only to extract money. Cities were for people to live and love, and not for business only.

There is Something very strange about all this because as you say they didnt have alot of money back than, but all these pictures everything looks picture perfect even luxurious at times they are not showing the true reality of this period in time and it make sense because film was very very expensive and you were not going to waste it on poor people and their lives....... none of us would like to live in that point in time specially if you were not white or male... But to be honest I hate suits and dress shoes....

Even the men had different clothes. For different things You wore western, in western states..NYC was different

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Atheism destroyed America.

Ask any person of color if peopel "just cared" in the 20's

@@2buxaslice Blacks kept to themselves just as whites did. And it was a good thing. There is nothing worse for a society than forcing "diversity" upon people with diferent ways of living and seeing the world.

@@2buxaslice People of color "just cared," in the 1920's. People of color lived harmoniously in NYC back in the day. Harlem in the 1920's was where everyone went for the arts - including white people. Don't be so narrow and bitter and ignorant. People "just cared" throughout the centuries. It is myopic people like you who never seemed to 'just care" and see everyone not your color as your enemy. That chip on your shoulder is going to ruin your back, make you walk lopsided and give you leg cramps. Better open up your world-view. By the way - the people who were widely lyn- (ched) in NYC back at the turn of the 20th century were not blacks or people of color - but Italians. Their bodies swung from bridges - so everyone could see. Just for being Italian. And those water fountains? Blacks and whites could drink out of the same water fountain, but not the Irish - they had to go without. And being served in restaurants in NYC at the turn of the 20th century? Blacks and most whites could enter through the front door and be served with dignity - but if you were Irish, you had to enter through the rear door and eat segregated by yourself. Many restaurants wouldn't even let you in - just for being Irish. But blacks and other whites were OK. And this was throughout NYC. Also the first slave owner in America was a BLACK man named Anthony Johnson. Read up on history. It might shock you. There is a LOT of history your modern day educators are not teaching you, on purpose, so you could remain ignorant and hateful and thus, easily controlled. That is exactly the MO the southern slave owners used on slaves. Keep them ignorant and illiterate so they could be controlled. Don't let this happen to you. Snap out of it - and LEARN.

@@2buxaslice There's always one in the crowd.

Stop romanticizing. Heard of The Great War? The Depression? Blacks still being lynched? Gangsters owning neighborhood s? People still killed and stole. There was just no Internet to capture many things.

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They have indeed. Todays society is on a sharp decline...

Oh yeah all that lovely racism, sexism, homophobia, eugenics what a better time

@@calblakebrough7528 ok Karen

just true mate@@jamesb6080

Unless you were Black, Irish, Polish or Italian course. Apart from that and about 100 other things we have today that weren't around then. Things were better.

@@southwestkinema9149 It’s a fair comment, even more so with regard to blacks in the States as a result of slavery. However, it is also fair to say that no mass immigration should take place that worsens the situation of the local population.

There's ALWAYS a few sarcastic wise ass commenters who write to try and counter the fact that society was much stronger back those days. It's indisputable that society is rapidly unravelling in modern times.

@@southwestkinema9149Well, let’s see, every weekend today, blacks are being killed by other blacks randomly on every street corner in every major city in the United States. There’s plenty of drugs and guns to go around too. Back in 1920, why weren’t blacks killing each other back then? They seem to had traditional families back then. Society wasn’t perfect back then but if we have it so much better now, why are so many people so sad?

Well, it was nice and bright back then, not dangerous and dark. The darker it gets the more dangerous it gets. Ever notice that?

Gotta love the gentlemen wearing their suit & tie... to the gym! I am glad we've gotten a bit more pragmatic about dressing up or dressing down. But I do wish people would pay a little more attention to how they look, even when dressing casually. It's been ages since I donned a suit, but I dress "business casual" for work, certainly no shorts or sweat pants. The one thing that strikes me is how many people back then wore covers, from elegant hats to simple caps. I never saw the point, until someone gave me a nice fedora... I've kind of taken to wearing that.

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Yeah, women couldn’t vote and the segregation. Hardly the “good ole days” Disgusting republicans are trying to replicate it. Good riddance to that.

What about the Bronx in the 70's 80's? how was it?

Every decades just gotten worse and worse and the government just rack up trillions of debts giving money to each other in a lavish banquets and money laundering while dumbing down the population think it is better now than ever 😂

I guess your not on Billionaires row.

@@southwestkinema9149 Northern Bronx I know was better than it is now . Southern Bronx was horrible. Bronx is less than 40 square miles. Brooklyn is 72 square miles. Brooklyn NE and North Central are both horrible areas to live. Bronx now is horrible like way over 90 percent. Native New Yorkers mainly moved to suburbs now. NYC 70s 80s and even the 90s had more. 70s at least 70 percent 90s 50 percent. Now maybe 25 percent. Sadly. You can see them at games I know concerts almost all of them or restaurants or many still work in the city but they reside in the suburbs now. 80 to 90 percent were urbanites either they were or their children or grandchildren or great grandchildren lived in Urban NY or NJ. Many from the Bronx now live Upstate NY Westchester Rockland to Putnam Duchess. Many from Queens Brooklyn moved to Long Island and NJ like many Staten Islanders. Staten Islanders came from Brooklyn before some going to NJ. Of course Urban NJ moved to suburban NJ too although it was small. 10 million live in Urban NY NJ over 8 million in NY and NJ or Connecticut up to 10.5 million. Suburbs on the extended editions have up to 14 million people. Suburbs after WW2 had 4 or 5 million in those areas tripled in population by the year 2000 and 2010. Why do I know? Lover of history and Geography.

Photographs were then taken with large-format cameras, on large photographic plates. That's why they are clear. And painting them turns them into cheap fakes

"Women didn't look trashy." It's completely relative. Imagine being born deep in the Victorian era, and then, as you age, watching women's clothes change, post WW I and into the 1920s & '30s. Suddenly the hemlines are going way, way up; and at the beach, _bare thighs,_ even! Smoking, and driving around with boys - without a chaperone! And at the movies, all sorts of naughty cavorting, often leading to a spontaneous kiss. No, peoples' idea of 'trashy' depends entirely on what era they were born in.

Perverted?

​@@d7458With kids being indoctrinated with explicit sexuality at a very young age for exemple?

​@@d7458Sounds kind of fun!

It's the same lineage of people in the video that have perverted America today, from porn to pedophilia to creating the curriculum in schools. Don't forget these people are NOT Americans, but invaders of this country. In order to stop the perversion you have to get rid of the people, who brought it to this Nation. Unfortunately, they are the ones who controls the direction of America, to which they are deliberately running it into the ground. They were every bit as perverted and corrupt as they were back then as they are today (from lynchings to land theft to burning down and flooding entire towns). That's how we got here.

To be fair, they may have been dressed nice, but much of the nation were racist lowlifes who kept other races at the rock bottom of society.

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Instead of the filthy dark shithole its become, yes.

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Yes, but mine wasn't in the USA 😅

THEY WERE TIMES OF EARLY IMMIGRANTS ARE GRANDPARENTS & THOSE WHO FOLLOWED FROM THE OLD COUNTRY IRELAND ITALY GERMANY GREECE SOUTH AMERICA .. PRAYING & HOPPING TO THEIR MARK IN THE U.S.A.THEY ALL ENJOYED THINGS IN LIFE THAT WE ALL TAKE FOR GRANTED TODAY!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!👌👌👌👌😊😊😊😊👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I kept thinking of my grandparents too! They were in there late teens and early 20s at that time.

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We can all make the decision to dress a little nicer, even if other don't. These videos inspire me to up my game.

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Unless you were Black, Irish, Polish or Italian course. Apart from that and about 100 other things we have today that weren't around then. Things were better.

@@southwestkinema9149 ALL THINGS were better then . You could walk in a city and not see drug addicts … hardly any homeless … no mugging or rapes … No people having mob stealing .. no computers .. no feminism .. 🩸 Only the Blood of Jesus Acts 4:12

People just need their phones they don’t cared about each others and any proper manners towards each others. It’s all about me me me

Not to mention WW1@@southwestkinema9149

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I wondered too, looking down 6 Ave. but no El.

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white culture was great

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