Early 1950s Jamaica - Kingston Streets, Hope Gardens, Buskers, Rio Grande

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From the Kinolibrary Archive Film collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit www.kinolibrary.com. Clip ref C23-1671
08:20:20 HA Jamaica rainforest. Kingston street scenes with cars and trams. White helmeted policeman directs traffic. Gardens of Myrtlebank hotel, black musicians give concert conducted by white man. Hope Gardens, fountains, beautiful flowers.
08:21:40 Nice shot three black men sit in garden playing guitar and singing, smiling. Could be buskers. River, Rio Grande, woman and two men take a trip on makeshift bamboo raft. Lagoons, North Shore Jamaica, hotel resort.

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@pamellaalexander7753 4 года назад

This brings tears to my eyes ! All this is true! I was 4 years old . Was not perfect. But safe promising and progressive. First class education for the children! Many Jamaican s took this education with them to Britain Canada. USA .The country suffered a brain drain ! Many families picnic Ed at Hope Gardens So beautiful and well kept/tended. Beautiful churches large and small to worship. Sweet mento music progressed to Ska Rock Steady Blue Beat Reggae Lover's Rock Dance Hall . Along side Mento we had music of all prominent genres. I can go on and on. These people were not wealthy. They all wanted better for themselves and children We had our own Doctors Teachers .When life got (hard) some immigrated. Some remained. Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica . You have taken a beaten ! Still going through this beating. But wi likkle and tallawa! (Small and resilient) with a strong faith in God the Father! To God be the Glory! So many talented people ! So many gifts! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I will always tell your truth! So long!

@omarlewis5925 2 года назад

Blessings in abundance 😇🙏🏾😀💖🇯🇲

@doogs8355 2 года назад

Oh my

@joancampbell2809 Год назад

True

@rosemariepowell9717 Год назад

I rememvbered the policemen directing traffic in Kingston street and me visiting the Hope gardens to see the differebt floral displays.

@Kenedienz Год назад

aint canada an exscape point back then from the british?

@Cl4rendon 8 лет назад

Those were the carefree days my Dad talked about, when you could have left your house door open at night or sleep outside on the veranda... Unthinkable nowadays.

@gatheringleaves 8 лет назад

+Cl4rendon Not even in the mountains?!

@Cl4rendon 8 лет назад

Infinite Sky Yeah, you might be right - I was talking as a Kingstonian. ;)

@keironwarmington4878 6 лет назад

You still can in portland. My home

@joancampbell2809 5 лет назад

Cl4rendon This is the Jamacia I remember.Just returned it's now a nightmare.So sad.

@tannymorrison9176 4 года назад

Cl4rendon 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

@London_miss234 5 лет назад

My mother used to talk about Hope Gardens. I love Jamaica, as I love England.

@Msboochie2 4 года назад

englishgal234 My mom took my sister and myself there when I was a child. It’s one of my fondest memories of Jamaica as a child. I ‘ve been back to Jamaica a couple of times, but not Kingston. I would love to go back.

@rostedchikeenn 11 лет назад

Jamaica is awesome

@ludachrist695 6 лет назад

Still is fuck all you negative fucks...Tell me a country without problems...See the Flu and spree killers killing people like Crazy in the great USA

@therealbosstopob4l974 4 года назад

@@ludachrist695 ?????? He said Jamaica is awesome. Maybe you need to go back to school.

@pkyt2458 2 года назад

@@ludachrist695 can you not read properly lmao he said Jamaica is awesome idiot

@Lando-kx6so 4 года назад

Back then poverty, unemployment, classism, illiteracy, life expentancy, & food insecruity was far worse than today the only thing about this time period that was better was that the crime rate was extremely low when compared today but then again nobody had guns

@kidgaminggaming5731 2 года назад

💀the entire British empire was poor

@petertownsend2255 Год назад

Exactly..these were propaganda films designed to encourage white ppl to come to the colonies.. Myrtle bank hotel was ONLY for white ppl..it's now the jamaica stock exchange....how ironic that a black woman is running that place 70years ago she couldn't walk through the gate of that building

@TheDarkDresser 2 месяца назад

@@kidgaminggaming5731 The people living under the empire were poor, but the British monarchy and others achieved great wealth from the slave trade. The irony now is that Harry and Meghan, who is half black, had their and their children's security taken away after they left England to get away from the racism.

@tineyconerwillians4758 5 лет назад

Carry my ackee to linstead market 😅😅😅😅 luv the music I'm here dancing

@essenceaquarius9958 Год назад

Beautiful country!

@Grogu-485 Год назад

Beautiful Jamaica

@ddedwards6005 6 лет назад

What a difference between now and then.

@commoninfo9959 6 лет назад

DD Edwards Its better then that it is now.

@shimronturner262 5 лет назад

Wow!... Jamaica was sweet back in those days. Looked at hope garden!... When Christopher Columbus came to 'JA' in 1494, he said it's fairest isle he as ever seen. No doubt about!...

@anthonyfrancis9363 3 года назад

Ocho Rios and Montego Bay adapt that bygone beauty and never look back.

@colleenhenry8022 3 года назад

I love hope gardens we kids used to visit with my dad every Saturday

@alexmorgan4553 2 года назад

ROADS WERE CLEAN BACK THEN

@brittanywinston1543 5 лет назад

Jamaica nice you Know!

@snickerdoodle212 7 лет назад

Who could thumbs down this?

@wrasslin4882 4 года назад

Someone who thinks it should be in HDTV quality:) or it could be the English National anthem

@George-we7vy 2 года назад

Young choppas

@alyciacahn663 4 года назад

Things got so BAD back then with Manley PNP & Seaga JLP arming there own political gangs.Shooting/robbing/terrorizing/ raping /taking control of different sections of Kingston, my poor Grandmother wished the English was back in control...She was so heartbroken 😞 about what had become of her beloved Jamaica 🇯🇲 So much senseless violence ( so so much more today) She never left Jamaica.Born,raised,died on that island..Seeing Jamaica destroyed,before her very eyes must have been Horrific.My Grandmother was born April 1910 in St Elizabeth, died Dec.1991,live all her adult life in Vineyard Town, faithful parishioner of Kingston Parish Church. May She Rest In Eternal Peace..Sad, so Sad..

@flybyairplane3528 4 года назад

Alycia Cahn hello, yes I really know what you mean, I was born in CROSS ROADS , lived there , enjoyed my life , there was miniscule crime , I left in 1959, Used to return every year, spent time with mom , but each year you could see changes for the worse , mom dies in 1990, , only then I discovered JOS busses did not work, thanks to MM, then the JGR trains . So the last times were for funerals. Last ever trip was2003 never ever went back, so many other places to visit safely ! Cheers 🇯🇲🇺🇸

@endurable4849 4 года назад

Goose bumps

@julian75hall 5 месяцев назад

Oh my Jamaica was soooo different back then.

@JamieDPS 5 лет назад

Ohh the good old days when a few lived well while most Jamaicans lived in wattle and daub thatched roof shacks with no running water, no electricity .....and malnourished swollen-belly barefooted children who had no prospect for more than a primary school education .

@jermaineyoung7256 4 года назад

James DePass the colonial days that idiots harken for.

@JoyHarrison 3 года назад

The captions says that this is the 1950s. You're making it sound like the 1920s. Jamaicans had access to a secondary education and there were teacher's colleges that poor students attended. My aunt was one of them and she later got a scholarship to study in England. Many just never took advantage in the 1950s of the education that was available to them.

@latshenry5904 5 лет назад

Never know Jamaica had so many people on the island

@seangammon4542 Год назад

One love familys

@Msboochie2 6 лет назад

I visited Hope Gardens as a child. It is a great memory for me. I haven’t been back to Kingston in a long while, is Hope Gardens still around?

@kwacou4279 6 лет назад

Msboochie2 Yes and doing well. Unnu foreign Jamaicans, ah wah unnu really tink ah gwan ah Jamaica? Believe it or not, you can live a quality life with full respect in Jamaica where as, unnu living abroad can only be 2nd class citizens ah foreign unless yu happen tuh be European Jamaican. I lived in the USA, for wellover 25yrs, coming as a 6yr old, and can say unequivocally, nutten nah betta den yaard.

@Msboochie2 6 лет назад

Lol Glad to hear it is still thriving. When I visited Hope Gardens it was a very very long time ago. Things change so I wondered if perhaps it had been developed into something else. I was born in the US to Jamaican parents, so I didn’t have the experience of growing up in Jamaica. But, from all I’ve experienced and heard from my family, I must agree nothing is better than Jamaica.

@cynthiadenniefairy2859 6 лет назад

Yes it's still there but has changed a lot I also used to go with my grandmother as a child.

@cynthiadenniefairy2859 5 лет назад

I also used to go to hope garden with my grandmother as a child.hope garden is still there,but it's changed a lot,the maze isn't there.been sold out ..to the highest bidder I was told ..

@cynthiadenniefairy2859 5 лет назад

Yes it is but not the same ,change for the worst..sad.was there 2years ago..uk

@2010deebee 5 лет назад

No grill days

@2011Savere 3 года назад

Looks so civilized back then. Compared to now.

@thehoneyeffect 3 года назад

if 'civilised' means white owned

@kidgaminggaming5731 2 года назад

@@thehoneyeffect look a keyboard who doesn't know the true history of British colonialism in the Caribbean

@joanthomas6012 День назад

Wasn't existed wasn't here but seeing this video wondering if my mom and dad in these when they was a children are some family members

@julian75hall 5 месяцев назад

What happen to Jamaica now????

@Naomi-ly3nl 4 месяца назад

They voted in a thief named Andre Holness and for the past 8 years the country is in abject poverty! People are literally starving! 😢

@joekodak7821 5 лет назад

Now chiney own this place

@alyciacahn663 4 года назад

You mean the government sell Jamaica 🇯🇲 out ,took the money & run....Who sell out who? They don’t care,them have there share of the money..How come every politician in Jamaica so rich? Live in mansions? And can afford the very best? Don’t you realize ,nothing could have happen in Jamaica,without the government & politician’s profiting ( making BIG money) from them deals. It is OK for you to blame others, BUT also lay some blame at the CROOKED POLITICIANS! Stop and think about it!!! Destroyed Jamaica 🇯🇲 bad...

@rayjayjm548 5 лет назад

O God please dont allow me to grow old prematurely Including my family and all those who i went through school with

@ainsworth5059 5 лет назад

How could this be the early fifties with the military band playing the national anthem?

@dakg8034 5 лет назад

Ainsworth, Are you telling me you do not know Jamaica's national anthem ?? Where did you see or hear the national anthem being played?? The music the band was playing is called "God Save Our Gracious Queen."

@dpianist1 5 лет назад

Ainsworth is not Jamaican...lol

@kareembailey4554 4 года назад

River boy . Lol

@Luupz 10 лет назад

They went independent.

@Haitiangirl23 5 лет назад

Thats good dony fuck ing need white people

@therealbosstopob4l974 4 года назад

@@Haitiangirl23 Independence was our biggest mistake believe it or not

@afiyakemarafa1997 4 года назад

@@therealbosstopob4l974 lol, always have that one person saying that. How was your standard of life back then? Bet you never had to sleep under banana trash, wear flour bag pants, walk barefoot and have chigga a nyam out u damn toe quit bout mistake 😒

@2011Savere 3 года назад

@@therealbosstopob4l974 Yep.

@therealbosstopob4l974 3 года назад

@@afiyakemarafa1997 If Jamaica wasn't independent, we could've probably been the richest carribean nation on the planet, we would've been like the Cayman islands. And it's not an opinion, it's a straight fact.

@haatpraat2993 5 лет назад

Jamaica has its problems, but it is just nice to see the British/Scottish gone.

@Haitiangirl23 5 лет назад

Why?

@budhikai4652 4 года назад

love to all jamaicans from british. no hate. we share similar culture

@kidgaminggaming5731 2 года назад

Just a bum who doesn't know history

@winngriff 2 года назад

Dem mash up di country

@regdubwise883 3 года назад

God save the queen...ugh

@Honeybarbecuepumpum Год назад

My country in it's beautiful heyday. Sadly it's dogshit now😢

@veronicashorter726 10 месяцев назад

Jamaica is a beautiful country always has been and always will be. It’s the gang culture, the murder rate, poverty and the selfish government that keep Jamaican society from thriving.