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New York 1940s in Color!, Driving Downtown [60fps,Remastered] w/ sound design added

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I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of New York City 1940s , buzzing with activity, with the population of Manhattan almost reaching 2 million inhabitants.
first shot is heading uptown on 8th Avenue. Madison Square Garden is on the left at 1:22, at 50th Street. 1:38 is 5th avenue, looking uptown, at 59th street. 4:55 seems to be a crosstown street, (which?) with many stooped apartment buildings, possibly midtown (Thx dvtvrich)
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
black and white Source video: Prelinger Archives
black and white Source video: archive.org/de...
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@NASS_0 2 года назад

Would you like to visit the 1940's? Which city would you like to visit?

@mafiagaming1847 2 года назад

New York definitely. Or chicago. Cause it was rural and busy u know... I truly feel I'm in the wrong age.

@user-oz8hg3fe8v Год назад

New York

@kasajizo3136 Год назад

Lost heaven

@idk900millionyearsago8 Год назад

Sorry mate but I'm colored so imma pass 🏃‍♂️💨

@mizrahiwithattitude2733 Год назад

stalingrad

@mostynf 3 года назад

Whoever had the foresight to film this, it’s an amazing historical record.

@opinionday0079 2 года назад

I think a lot of these films were done by movie companies to be used as backdrops when you see actors pretending to be driving somewhere. This film would be projected behind the stationary car.

@mostynf 2 года назад

@@opinionday0079 That’s interesting to know!

@SuperAussie999 2 года назад

Started recording my drives with my phone for someone in the distant future to watch and enjoy lol

@johncholmes643 3 года назад

RU-vid is the closest thing to a time machine we will ever have...

@unoriginalclips9923 3 года назад

@Felipe Gomes eh not everything about these times were good there was still segregation and stuff

@jonj3233 3 года назад

I love it!

@unoriginalclips9923 3 года назад

@@sweetsunnyvibes How is it not a good thing?

@moominmay 3 года назад

@@sweetsunnyvibes you get all those things anyway with or without multiculturalism

@sebastianfrick6483 3 года назад

@_Decadent _Descent I get your point also but look here is a community sharing our dreams and spirit! - We travel back together......

@Sinerwray 3 года назад

Imagine getting in a accident and telling the other driver you have a dash cam lol

@southlondon86 3 года назад

That shoots in black & white?

@willyappel7722 3 года назад

And then the other driver corrects you to attach the dash cam to the front window.

@900108Chale 3 года назад

ROFL!

@900108Chale 3 года назад

@RhodesianSAS1994 Plenty of wealthy Karen's in NYC back then. BUT men had fists and used them!

@trellgold6998 3 года назад

@@900108Chale what did women have

@kaylabreadnroses5870 3 года назад

My grandmother was eight years old in 1940 and living in Spanish Harlem. She said back then that the streets and neighborhoods were always clean and people really cared about presentation and always looking their best. It's amazing to think how much New York City has changed since then.

@vishaldoiphode2785 3 года назад

After year 2001 - the internet revolution resulted into life like - unnatural, stressful,heavy, very busy, complicated,speedy -- this resulted into numbness of soul. Today's system is only profit oriented, not. People oriented. People value is almost zero as garbage.

@user-oq8ur8eq6e Год назад

@NorthernmapingI would say Tokyo is probably the cleanest of them all lol

@krashd Год назад

@@user-oq8ur8eq6e Shanghai, but with the exception of the smog.

@user-ne3yw2cu6c 9 месяцев назад

That's because it was a White town back then... The migration of Blacks into the North during 1960's ruined everything.

@johnpaulkane6153 7 месяцев назад

Yes, and not for the better.

@themaddaddy 3 года назад

that man who recorded this is a genius thank you and RIP 🙏

@Shearwater6 3 года назад

Hi I’m a spiritual medium and the man who filmed this wanted me to pass on, “Your welcome”

@hectorlopez1069 3 года назад

He definitely use a camera to record this.

@d947 3 года назад

J Utah is a channel that makes this kind of videos in these times. Will be cool to watch in 2070.

@dionysios8700 3 года назад

He might still be alive

@themaddaddy 3 года назад

@Scott Ouellette how old are you? i really want to know your age before i answer that stupid question

@bee4472 3 года назад

My grandma was in her 20’s at this time. She’s 103 now.

@mariaklaras6212 3 года назад

Hope she always has a good health🥰🥰

@robertoabrahao5467 3 года назад

Congratulations to her! BRAZIL. 👍👍

@Qsstert 3 года назад

Oh my god what a trooper, don’t know her but she’s awesome

@windowsxp9120 3 года назад

That's insane. What a world she has seen 🤯

@bee4472 3 года назад

@@windowsxp9120 I know, right, probably didn’t see her first radio till her teens, or tv till hers 50’s. Although I asked her what she remembers from WW2, she said “oh, I remember everything, I asked about death camps ect. She had never heard about any of it. Growing old in the country she missed a lot. What you heard on the radio was all you would know. Lol

@duncanarchibald5056 3 года назад

Always makes me wonder about all the people you see in this film - what were they doing, who were they meeting, what did they have for breakfast, when and how did they die, etc...? Most probably had no idea they were captured on film and what was captured was completely inconsequential to their lives that, if asked about it, they wouldn't even remember any part of the day, week or month! Mind blowing.

@keetahbrough 3 года назад

and it's happening to all of us, now, everywhere we go... we even got people listening to our words when we think we're alone and we never ever are are we... all this technology that absolutely EVERYONE is addicted to. I see lol so many comments about it's a good thing that nobody is using a cell phone in these old films but tell those same people to go back and use a flipphone or a home phone like phones used to be used for.. as communication when there wasn't an ability to before... and there's no way they could conceive of doing that. Take away their ability to use the cell service... and all of a sudden they're like ducks out of water. That's addiction xo

@bighands69 3 года назад

@@keetahbrough Technology is not the issue. People are.

@fgt2078 3 года назад

@@keetahbrough I will go back to a flip phone or landline any day!

@user-of2gd7nv5s 3 года назад

It doesn't matter they will all perish in the face of the warriors of the great Monolith

@mikeat53 3 года назад

Very much my own thoughts too. Ordinary people going about normal, hum drum things. When I see these people walking around a corner I'm thinking "where was he going? Where did he work. Is the lady shopping for things for dinner etc" If only we could step into the movie for a day.

@liamcragin 3 года назад

the fact that there is no crosswalks or pedestrian traffic lights back then must've been nuts!

@hsun7997 2 года назад

@Sam Sparklebot car accident death rates in the US were at their highest level in history in 1937 and have been falling since the 1950s. Your intuition is wrong.

@bubbablue1100 2 года назад

@Sam Sparklebot I agree with you. That other guys comment is incorrect. Notice the responsible drivers and walkers?

@hsun7997 2 года назад

@@bubbablue1100 Dude, my comment is based on statistics. Your comment is based on your feelings. But obviously you can disagree with me. I don't care.

@boblaggins1055 2 года назад

@@hsun7997 you’re a bully and im gonna report you

@hsun7997 2 года назад

@@boblaggins1055 I think it’s pretty sad that I’m considered a “bully” after simply fact checking somebody.

@rajat.2 3 года назад

The cars look like pieces of art rather than a tool for transportation

@rajat.2 3 года назад

@AVLRECORDS obviously the current gen cars are safer. I only miss the aesthetics of the past, not the actual past itself

@jasonk19xx17 3 года назад

@AVLRECORDS They're also 3-4x dirtier. You can see the exhaust clouds coming out of them.

@Meziplyn 3 года назад

@@jasonk19xx17 Try 30-40x, and probably much more. Today's cars with all the filters are many times cleaner than 90's cars, let alone these things. ;)

@mgn5667 3 года назад

the cars did not evolve those days, they werent making them in the 40's

@fraser_mr2009 2 года назад

aerodynamics. people later on demanded faster cars. but the cars in those days were more visually appealing.

@colterino 3 года назад

First clip: heading north on 8th Ave passing the old MS Garden. Then south down 5th from the southeast of Central Park, 59th st. I was cab driver for 4 years and lived in Manhattan for 60. Lovely to see the NYC my dad and mom fell in love in. Thanks. Enjoyed it. Lots.

@thamnosma 3 года назад

5th was still two way ...I thought it was 8th ave to start just from the clothes carts thanks for confirming where we were

@bywaternyc7856 3 года назад

My newlywed mom and dad also lived here at the time. Thanks for identifying the opening segment! I've lived here since 1970, but would never have guessed Eighth Avenue. If anything, I wondered if maybe we were heading south on Seventh. So you must have lived here before the old Penn Station was torn down!

@christopherstarr8050 3 года назад

my parents too , they were in Brooklyn though .

@jamesurtekar1657 3 года назад

Awesome!

@wouternieminen844 3 года назад

I guess we can call you a real New Yorker.

@jask320 3 года назад

Looks like all pedestrians used to have 7 lives back in the day

@southlondon86 3 года назад

Bruh go to India or Vietnam. Same thing happens there today.

@TCougar1 3 года назад

People paid more attention to whats was going on around them and then it was ok as a natural mix , now when everybody is a brainwashed cellphone zombie they would not last long in the same situation all their senses are gone .

@edwinemery577 3 года назад

Absolutely...and no pedestrian lines at the intersections !

@bidhrohi12 3 года назад

@@southlondon86 People in India die doing that all the time. Guessing same was true here. There are reasons life expectancy in America today is so much higher than it was back then, contrary to all the "back in the good ol days" whiners.

@nachtfluegel1 3 года назад

not sure, there`s a break in 1:36 😉

@GodsSoldier2 3 года назад

This is incredible!! I used to dream about what it was like back then just wishing I could see it. I hope you understand how important what you're doing is. Thank you for this!

@leewyckoff345 3 года назад

I was young, but I remember the streets with these cars. Thank you for enhancing these memories.

@erictyson5947 3 года назад

Much nicer than todays cars

@Nexus104 3 года назад

@@erictyson5947 but much, much deadlier But yeah they looked cool 👍

@seanchaney3086 2 года назад

Bruh, this was like 80 years ago

@outofthebox9699 2 года назад

@@erictyson5947These cars were the foundations of the cars we drive today.

@user-ke5kw4lg6l 2 года назад

Are you still alive ? Hehehehehe

@Blak2blue 3 года назад

The way everyone dressed was so classy just to get some groceries! 🤩 No tights of flip-flops in site!

@pathetictroll7557 3 года назад

AND: no "Sag-Ass" pants! If a Man walked around in public with his underpants exposed in the New York City of the 1940's he would be taken to JAIL!

@Galidorquest 3 года назад

@Pathetic Troll People are still whining about sagging?!... Bruh, leggings are *far* more revealing than exposing just a quarter of your undergarments... These chicks are practically bottomless... Also, you forgot women used to wear low-rise jeans back in the 00's with their thong or their crack exposed, remember that? Females get away with a lot worse, and sagging with the boxers exposed hasn't been popular since like, 2011, after The New Boyz made it cool for black people to wear tight clothes like suburban emo kids. Sagging was the result of wearing oversized pants, but kids don't wear oversized clothes anymore.

@pathetictroll7557 3 года назад

@@Galidorquest Ys, ladies can get away with most anything! I have seen some leggings that look like what's the point of her wearing any clothes at all? As to the sag-ass pants: In Chicago (where I lived a few years ago) a common style for men was to wear there sag-ass pants with NO underpants! ewwwww!

@Galidorquest 3 года назад

@Pathetic Troll www.snopes.com/fact-check/sag-harbored Also, the sagging trend began in the Late 80's in one correctional facility where law enforcement took away the inmate's belts and shoelaces, to prevent bodily harm. And so the thugs took the baggy/saggy prison style to the streets as a way to brag that they're hardcore for doing time. Black fashion designers in the Early 90's made Hip Hop brands (like Karl Kani) after the prison style, and rappers like 2pac made sagging an iconic fashion trend in the Mid 90's. Big Daddy Kane was one of the early adopters of the prison style in Biz Markie's song "The Vapors". Some correctional facilities do in fact force visitors by security to take off their belt and put it into a plastic bin upon entry until they leave. I know a place that does this here in Chicago.

@jimcrawford5039 3 года назад

Yes but they stank, maybe bathed once a week, no deodorants, spitting everywhere, no antibiotics etc etc.

@efcnzl 3 года назад

Is it just me or do I wish cities still looked like this. Roads are clean, beautiful architecture and theres not billboards everywhere you look

@RivieraByBuick 3 года назад

come to Belarus.

@Kigoz4Life 3 года назад

@Charles GnarleyThanks alot for the great reply! cheers :) I fully agree

@ertonbernie9027 3 года назад

@Charles Gnarley I feed the blue jays and they gobble it right up. You're right, too, they come back with their young and just like a sucker I put out more peanuts. Not sure if they count as strays, though...I mean, I may not know where they're headed in life, but they don't know what the hell I'm up to a lot of the time, either, sooo it's kinda like six in one hand, half a dozen...

@zampieritto 3 года назад

@Charles Gnarley well. Nobody told them to leave Europe.

@nathannicolas2166 3 года назад

@Charles Gnarley I actually expected an intelligent answer but was so disappointed by the mind numbingly stupid one you gave

@Aaroncarter55726 3 года назад

The 1940s must have been some good times, I wish I was alive around that time.

@dopeasyola8992 2 года назад

@@Hakim21210 you think he doesn't know that? He was alive when it happened

@arisuaozora 2 года назад

It wasnt a great time for African American

@arisuaozora 2 года назад

@Mega Canon you must have missed all your history classes.

@arisuaozora 2 года назад

@Mega Canon you need to get your eyes checked. Read my 1st comment , then read my answer to it. Proves that you can tell the flavour of the ice cream just by sitting on its box because you got a smart ass😂

@arisuaozora 2 года назад

@Mega Canon just so i get your smartass feed, the racial segregation in the united states of america started during then1940s amd escalated to 1950s where many people protests on the road. Now stay away from youtube and start learning your history. Im not from the USA but i know that country’s history like the back of my hand. Just to let you know, one of my degrees is world history.

@AtiCrossfireX 3 года назад

Look how clean, and vibrant the city looked. When comparing, with it today.

@jessiemontgomery5838 3 года назад

Yeah, I noticed how clean the streets were.

@YOUENNNN 3 года назад

bullshit New York was mad dirty back in those days

@x60mmx 3 года назад

Well they had a huge diversity problem!

@markuskoetzle2083 3 года назад

"vibrant" in today's context means something completely different

@AtiCrossfireX 3 года назад

@@markuskoetzle2083 totally different

@NoahFroio 3 года назад

This is the most graceful display of organized chaos I have seen in a long time!!! What a dizzying ballet of passing cars, random pedestrians, and traffic cops in the middle of intersections. Gosh, I would have loved to lived in those days!!!

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thxx!!! ;)

@taylormaddux8433 3 года назад

Great description! :)

@BossaNossa1 3 года назад

I appreciate your desire to live then... But the fact is life spans were much shorter then... So, maybe what you're desiring is to visit then return to today...? Anyway, you are here for a purpose, and make the best of what you have in this life! †

@foxopossum 3 года назад

My sentiments exactly! But you were able to put words to it where I was not 😄

@juliopolanco8739 3 года назад

You probably did, you just don’t remember...REINCARNATION!!

@brkitdwn 3 года назад

This is what I love about RU-vid.. Being able to see the past. Thank you for uploading!

@anda6963 3 года назад

Well, you certainly can't see the future, all vids are made in the past

@richardknoppow3319 2 года назад

Most of these restored movies are what were called "background plates" made for motion pictures. They were used in rear projection to provide background scenes, for instance, through car windows of cars supposed to be traveling in the area. When done skillfully it is often difficult to tell the actors are not in an actual car or train The process began in the silent period and was brought to a high degree of perfection until replaced by digital processes. Often, the same streets were photographed many times to provide the necessary backgrounds. It is fascinating when one sees streets and locations that are familiar because you actually saw them. The restorations are excellent.

@MeanAzz_13 2 года назад

Awesome and makes sense

@jksteven1 3 года назад

I used to work in TV and I can attest to the fact the smooth, flickerless clarity of this film makes it almost as clear as a late 1960's studio video tape! Amazing restoration!

@jaminova_1969 3 года назад

Film had much better resolution until the development of digital photography. I'm just glad people took the time to record history.

@None-zc5vg 3 года назад

Early 'Steadicam' ?

@yodhin79 3 года назад

This is incredible restoration. Thank you for your hard work in putting this together !

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thx ;)

@miketemple7686 3 года назад

When traffic lights where just a suggestion, and cross walks where an inconvenience.

@velvetbikes 3 года назад

Yeah I couldn't believe 5th Ave was a 2-way avenue with no traffic lights. Unthinkable now.

@jusztinnemeti6380 3 года назад

@@velvetbikes You can see the traffic lights. There is no stop lines or crosswalks though. Traffic lights were mounted on poles at the street corner and were red and green only. No yellow.

@eggy718 3 года назад

Roads super scary lol

@MasterExploder61 3 года назад

Don't notice a difference today.

@terrimeowdasher3791 3 года назад

Were

@dirtroadsandwoodstoves 3 года назад

The work you do in bringing us these vids is greatly appreciated.

@mateusz_bricks 3 года назад

This was actually filmed by Google Maps Street View Time Machine.

@jackspratt2460 3 года назад

Ive gone back a little further, at this very moment, im observing a Tryanosaurus Rex scoffing off a Triceratops

@900108Chale 3 года назад

@@jackspratt2460 You saw it also? That was an awesome battle

@lanek2177 3 года назад

I thought it looked familiar!

@toronado455 3 года назад

🤣 What's actually amazing to me is the fact that someone was filming movies in public like this back then.

@simpysompywomb5470 3 года назад

@@jackspratt2460 i saw the meteor striking the dinosaurs, was a very sad sight to see

@kegean 3 года назад

you gotta love how everyone is in the road and cross walks don't exist

@SirManfly 3 года назад

I wish I could go shopping 🛍 there just to see what they had and what it would cost !! 👞👞👕👖🧤🧤🎩

@fhbkx 3 года назад

Lanes (came out in the 50's) did not exist either. Cars were all over the place, sometimes single and or side by side.

@finnmcmisslefanchannel-pt3xu 3 года назад

Just painted a line and they were like "welp, our work here is done"

@xp50player 3 года назад

I don’t see any storm sewers. Trash blowing everywhere. I see many of the taxicabs have the same aftermarket front-end and fenders. Must have been a cheap fix for frequent collisions.

@LibertysetsquareJack 3 года назад

I got a kick outta how there wasn't a single obese person either. Lol

@shrimpflea 3 года назад

Amazing footage. I'm not one to talk as I'm a slob but the way people dressed back then was so stylish and classy. Love those 40's hair styles!

@johnrectangle6034 3 года назад

Every man is a sharp dressed man. And the women, class and style. Elegance!

@tdunph4250 3 года назад

I absolutely LOVE a lot of these old, majestic buildings! The design and architecture is fantastic! And everyone was driving around in a tank! This is a great video!!

@gloriaortiz1227 3 года назад

Those buildings are still there

@obiwankenobi5769 8 месяцев назад

Those buildings are still around...

@garysmith1477 3 года назад

Not a pot hole in sight, what a dream.

@gayansapuge4008 3 года назад

0:29 bottom right

@Teckno77 3 года назад

I think it's just the smoothing effect of the software used to do this tbh if you look the manhole covers are all blurry as a result. But definitely less flippin road works! :D

@timmybarns3917 3 года назад

@@Teckno77 Nah, those roads were just paved.

@Teckno77 3 года назад

@@timmybarns3917 Personally I can clearly see blurring in the image when I watch it, but if you think it's the paving making it look like that then hey could be. It's a cool video.

@pathetictroll7557 3 года назад

And NO Homeless!

@fws2572 3 года назад

I love how people were dressed : so elegant

@istvanfrank9201 3 года назад

Akkoriban még tudtak

@ivofixzone6410 3 года назад

...and skinny. Now look at todays elephants in US.

@84live 3 года назад

And hats 🙂

@seharbhat8617 3 года назад

Indeed modesty is in veil, not unveiling what we have....... hope you get the drift!

@AmitKumar-qz2us 3 года назад

Yes..vulgar..fashion, media want people dress like .....baggers and nonsense uncomfortable vulgar clothes...

@jeffbecker8716 3 года назад

My father worked for Cunard Lines with an office at 555 5th Avenue. I was watching this thinking that he would have been just a boy during this time. ... and then I noticed that you posted it on what would have been his 89th birthday. Miss you, Dad.

@Gamesoldier68 3 года назад

This is the New York my dad grew up in. I love these videos. You recently posted New York City in the 60's which is the New York City I was born in. So cool to watch these. Thank you.

@_x.xxten.ta_cion539 2 года назад

I was born in NYC but that was in 2004, what was it like man? I bet times were so much different

@Gamesoldier68 2 года назад

@@_x.xxten.ta_cion539 It was very different. We lived in upper west side, Central Park west. Back then it was not nearly as nice as it is today. Old run down buildings. As a young child, you could find me playing in a junk yard across the street. Since we lived right across the street from Central Park, ,my mother would take me there often to play around and ride my “big wheel”. Played a little stick ball in the streets with friends. Went to the corner deli often to get a deli sub and split it with my best friend Ivan. Back then, my mother would send me to the corner bodega to buy cigarettes for her, Salem 100s light. Can’t do that these days hahaha! It was a really cool childhood.

@_x.xxten.ta_cion539 2 года назад

@@Gamesoldier68 haha man that sounds awesome, wish i could've experienced it

@hornylorney8150 3 года назад

I feel sad when the camera shows individual people and you can see them clearly. We're catching a moment of their life 80 years ago... We don't know what happened next but we know eventually they got old and they died. I feel like I want to reach through the screen and talk to them.

@video99couk 3 года назад

A handful may still be alive, especially any children (were there any?). Probably every vehicle shown was crushed.

@hornylorney8150 3 года назад

@@video99couk didn't notice any kids but yeh maybe a few are still here

@hornylorney8150 3 года назад

@@MikeBrady68 except in 80 years they'll see everyone's selfies and tiktoks and say thank fuck that generation is gone...

@psalm1197 3 года назад

My mother didn't die yet and she was there, born 1930 Manhattan

@hornylorney8150 3 года назад

@@psalm1197 she lived through some special times, I'm glad she's still here

@sunnyjr433 3 года назад

Man those cars had so much swag back then, even cheaper ones

@BigZaddy_ 3 года назад

@Mikey Richards true bro

@paris5663 3 года назад

@@BigZaddy_ yea hell my grandpa still has his 1959 Cadillac deville.

@paris5663 3 года назад

@@BigZaddy_ and it still works.

@BigZaddy_ 3 года назад

@@paris5663 that's awesome. Everything now is made to last for a short time

@nerwanisnoone1937 3 года назад

Is it me or were a surprisingly large number of them pink? I think perhaps it was an artefact of the colorization but there was a lot of pink cars in that footage.

@billl1127 3 года назад

My father arrived in NY in the early 40s and worked there until about 2010. For all I know he could have been one of the people crossing the street.

@nikolaipotapenkov8823 3 года назад

NYC 👍my home for 30 years. Love and hate this city.

@AppleUploader 3 года назад

@@nikolaipotapenkov8823 Из России?

@ROCKSTAR3291 2 года назад

Old America, can't believe it was a real place, the aesthetic was magnificent, everything looked like a movie

@Grillinnap Год назад

You wouldn’t like it there at that time as a Chinaman

@RadialSkid 3 года назад

The Checker Model A taxis (shown in the thumbnail and at several other points in the video - most notably at 2:15 ) are absolutely incredible to see, with their retractable rear roofs and wild Art Deco styling. Only one Checker Model A is known to exist today.

@benmarsden7655 3 года назад

I was looking for this comment! Wild looking car, it's amazing to see one driving when it was new

@jameson8682 2 года назад

Is that what those were? That's so cool, what happened to the others though? Looks like they were everywhere back then, it surprises me that only one would survive.

@RadialSkid 2 года назад

@@jameson8682 - Just used up and junked. They were specially built as taxis, so they lived hard lives, and nobody thought about preserving them in the decades after. They also weren't all that common: They were only built from 1939 to 1941, and only about 1,300 were ever sold. Later Checker models - A2, A3, A4, all made in the '40s and '50s - are also rare, with 1 to 3 surviving examples each. The famous A8-A12 models, made from the mid 1950s to 1982, still have thousands of surviving examples though. Those are the cars most people think of when they hear "Checker taxi."

@thecreature7856 Год назад

What about the DeSotos with the hidden headlights

@CowSaysMooMoo Год назад

@@thecreature7856 yeah cool huh!!! 42 right??

@Jblog100 3 года назад

crazy to think how they’re all dead, or mostly are all, but the world is still just going and people now walk where they once did

@stevedickson5853 3 года назад

Yep, and that will include you..and me ..and everyone reading this..scary

@greatomeister675 3 года назад

Are you having a existential crisis ?

@Jblog100 3 года назад

@@greatomeister675 yes

@thisnewcreatedaccount5286 3 года назад

@@Jblog100 Happens to me too then I get get a slight panic attack lol

@thankthelord4536 3 года назад

My dad still alive at 88

@tenningale 3 года назад

I'm from NYC and it's amazing how smooth and clean the streets were back then.

@JohnGeometresMaximos 3 года назад

That's obviously an 'illusion' added by the film restoration and coloring.

@rudfil 3 года назад

Notice the exhaust fumes from the traffic and no white lines on the roads?

@tenningale 3 года назад

@@rudfil 0:29

@stevedickson5853 3 года назад

@teeningale, and most folk looking decent too, not walking around with a booze bottle and supermarket trolley

@user_1abc 3 года назад

@@stevedickson5853 lol

@kennethsellers8777 2 года назад

This is priceless . To be able to go back where my grandfather grew up as a kid. Once again thank you so much for this archive.

@feslerae 3 года назад

The whole town was a car show.

@royale7620 3 года назад

all those beauties

@tdombui 3 года назад

funny cos all those cars were very common, consumer-level cars. The equivalent of all the ugly modern Toyotas, Hondas, Nissans, Chevies, and Kias we see today

@nicholasrhodes4550 3 года назад

These were common late models at the time. Kinda like how the '60s and '70s muscle cars that now go for five figures at Barrett-Jackson were just poor-people hoopties when I was a kid.

@user-ij9sh1tf9d 3 года назад

To your eyes the whole town seems like a car show, but that was not the reality back then. Virtually all of the cars you seen in this video were considered common and run-of-the-mill back in the 1940s. This is why so few of them survive to this day, because almost nobody considered them as cars that were special enough to save/preserve.

@tonyeff4447 3 года назад

Can you imagine them looking into the future, they would be horrified

@RivieraByBuick 3 года назад

has the world changed that much? the internet substituted newspapers and radio.... black and women have more rights now. that`s virtually it.

@stevebailey5591 3 года назад

@@RivieraByBuick The changes of the last 80 years have been far more profound than that.

@RivieraByBuick 3 года назад

@@stevebailey5591 yes they were. but not as dramatic as for instance the difference between medieval and 20s century. The point is that 1940s people`s brain would not explode if they traveled to 2021.

@dunkey7739 3 года назад

People have rights now and there’s actually safety regulations. How is that horrific?

@Wilantonjakov 3 года назад

@@dunkey7739 Race riots, skyrocketing minority crime, "civil rights" movements like abortion and gay marriage, unhindered free trade agreements that benefit other countries to the detriment of ours, massive legal/illegal immigration from 3rd world countries, general sentiment of hatred towards our European ancestors, hatred of religion and relinquished adherence to religiosity in society, dirty cities, pornography sanctioned by wider society, prolific prostitution, general promiscuity in fashion among the general population, the rule of transnational corporations (Silicon Valley) over the sovereignty of the people, brainwashing of the lower/middle classes due to media and big tech, extreme plutocratic ruling classes (Hollywood) living in splendor compared to the populous... the list goes on and on. And you merely mention safety regulations as an improvement! Amusing.

@fretho8410 3 года назад

I get an odd mixture of calm and fascination when watching this long gone world.

@brodriguez11000 3 года назад

Humanizes the past. Just another day for them.

@joshs4594 3 года назад

Closest thing to a time machine taking me back to an era I wish I'd lived through. Excellent video. 👍

@Rambl3On 3 года назад

That is the cleanest street I’ve ever seen in my life

@hanselxyb5825 3 года назад

What are you on about? I see a lot of clean and nicely paved streets in NY videos of today.

@Censoredbyfscists 3 года назад

@@hanselxyb5825 really? I see filthy sreets with ghetto people. Have you even been to NY?

@Kerkyros77 3 года назад

Come to Europe, we have clean streets in most of the countries.

@escarlit 3 года назад

@@Censoredbyfscists i live in NY. get your money up.

@paul1242 3 года назад

You must have blinked at 5:01. Lots of litter, trash and debris in the road on two streets.

@timsummers870 3 года назад

Glamorous!!! I'm hooked to these videos. I'm coming from a video of Holland in 1919, Germany in 1945, now NYC in the 1940s. I wish I had a time machine that would take me anywhere I want in history. Can you imagine enjoying the nightlife in a place like that, meet a nice lady in a club, have a few drinks together and then travel another 50 years in time the next day? As crazy as this may seem, it'd be a lot of fun.

@Jimserac 3 года назад

Enticing !! Very enticing !!!

@naisyjohns 3 года назад

You would introduce germs to their time period and cause chaos

@timsummers870 3 года назад

@@naisyjohns Or make a lot of babies and improve the world as well.

@Jimserac 3 года назад

@@timsummers870 Harry !!! There's a 95 year old man at the door who says he's your son !!!!

@timsummers870 3 года назад

@@Jimserac Who knows it's true.

@WinslowLeach1974 3 года назад

3:33 love how a huge double decker bus comes thisclose to the woman standing in the middle of the avenue and she doesn't even flinch. True NYCer!

@ibnufasya6408 3 года назад

😂

@None-zc5vg 3 года назад

The bus at 3.33 was one of the fleet of advanced rear-engined twin-deck "Fifth Avenue" types introduced in New York and Chicago in the '30s and retired in the early '50s. All British double-deck buses are now of this basic design which only came along in the U.K.in the late '50s.

@brucegirdlestone8516 3 года назад

Look how smooth the roads are. Nowadays just potholes.

@MrWolfSnack 3 года назад

It's amazing what you can do with concrete and rebar when building a road properly. Union workers have to justify their inflated budgets and wages so they use asphalt that only lasts 4 weeks at best so they can keep fixing it and have it guaranteed to break so they can fix it again - thus securing their high salary for decades to come.

@None-zc5vg 3 года назад

@@MrWolfSnack See also the relevant bit in the picture "Falling Down" (1993).

@el.blanco8961 3 года назад

Well they're only a few years old at this point

@bani_niba 3 года назад

I'm guessing the roads were recently paved in the video. They haven't even painted the crosswalks yet.

@bruceferguson6637 3 года назад

That Checker cab at 2:14 is the wildest looking thing . . .

@gojoe2833 3 года назад

Yup, it's the Model A. Only one exists today on the planet, the rest were destroyed due to being used hard as taxis.

@KoldingDenmark 3 года назад

@Bruce Ferguson With the open front fenders the tire will grab any jaywalker getting in the way and wind him/her around the axel.

@insight176 3 года назад

I instantly recognized that front. It looks like one of the old bodies my dad has.

@willietarkington1628 3 года назад

Shout out to the dude still rocking a horse and carriage at 2:34

@ambition3645 3 года назад

Just about 30 years before this recording, a lot of people were still using carriages until the 1920s or so when cars became much more mainstream. So it isn’t too far off.

@thatperformer3879 3 года назад

I believe he was a tourist attraction, having people hop on and take a nice stroll around the area, cause they still have those carriages today around the parks.

@None-zc5vg 3 года назад

The "carriage" looked more like a delivery wagon than a carriage of the Central Park variety. It's hard not to feel a bit sorry for that long-dead horse which was probably worked on those hard surfaces until it fell down one day, worn out, and just couldn't get up. Heading the other way at 3.12 is one of those late '30s New York Coach Co. rear-engined twin-deck/front entrance buses that served the city for about 15 years until 1953 and which were an advanced design whose features were adopted by the British in the late 1950s and are now the standard in the U.K.. A real horse-and-carriage (pulled by two horses) can be glimpsed at 2.01, passing the cop who's controlling the crossing. The carriage must have been heading for Central Park.

@overpricedhealthcare 3 года назад

that would've been the equivalent of still using an mp3 player right now

@evahughes5192 3 года назад

@@None-zc5vg People who work with horses usually take very good care of them, especially if they help them earn a living. I should know, I drove a carriage in Central Park for 16 years. Your melodramatic comments about being worked to death are absurd. The "hard surfaces" work no hardship on a horse specially road shod, and no harder than frozen mud or iron-hard frozen ground than horses out in the country deal with for close to half the year in lots of places. Working horses get lots of attention and usually good feed to keep them in condition. A lot better life than forgotten backyard horses left to rot. Life is not a Disney movie.

@MyFlightTV1 3 года назад

It’d be so cool just to pop in there for a day. Just to experience what it was like. Thanks for posting this!

@toneytone86 3 года назад

It’s amazing how clean it looks and the road conditions. Also the fact that there are no lights and everything seems to be flowing. Def some close calls to pedestrians though 😬

@NASS_0 3 года назад

You can request next video for an restore ;)

@bethg.5611 3 года назад

The one's with Queen Victoria.

@idesiremore9607 3 года назад

How about Denver Colorado early 1900’s that would be awesome to see!! A city trying to evolve from the old west into a modern city! I’ve always wanted to visit Colorado but yet to travel there! Anyways that’s my request.

$@fractul22over7$

@fractul22over7 3 года назад

An restore?

@zamasupepe6045 3 года назад

Please restore Franco Corelli's Nessun Dorma from 1958: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uUkTKAg7HHM.html

@doc7852 3 года назад

Nice

@bobcuster8930 3 года назад

What an outstanding video of New York City... The colorization adds greatly to making these street scenes come alive!

@PaulPaid 3 года назад

Can't believe manhattan's streets were ever that smooth.

@salimsallimi8610 3 года назад

No 1940 it s in1955!!

@neocortexlab 3 года назад

this is artifact of AI algorythm -- it smooth small particles and crackles

@KLAssurbanipal 3 года назад

@@salimsallimi8610 There aren't any cars from 1955 in this video.

@georgebaez6143 3 года назад

Facts but it wasn’t probably good for braking or stopping suddenly they would just slide. I feel like that’s why they built cars back then in steel and other metal materials unlike today where most cars are plastic

@doctorferdinand1003 3 года назад

@@georgebaez6143 Smooth surfaces are much better for grip in all circumstances than rough surfaces. Its better for the tire, its better for the suspension. In general it keeps a better contact patch without any sudden disruptions to balance. Cars today are not plastic. Cars today use steel that is orders of magnitude stronger than cars back then. Without getting into the differences of modern monoques vs old ladder chassis, modern cars are much stronger and more rigid. You find plastic on non-structural body panels like bumper covers. Plastic is cheaper, lighter and doesn't rust, so for these applications its superior.

@ivanbaida8195 3 года назад

Просто ВАУ!!! Полное погружение в те годы, просто потрясающе!!

@victorpena3129 Год назад

People were actually living life

@kimiklimenko1608 3 года назад

Looks like a movie. The people back then , didnt realise, what a great time they live. Cars, clothes, architecture. All is amazing. We can see them, fortunately they cant see us.

@XconnorX11 3 года назад

thats the thing though, these times really weren't that "great". World War 2 took up half the 40s, humans worked much more on average, making dinner and washing the clothes was an all day affair, social rules were a lot less relaxed, and there were just less opportunities for leisure. as with all past times, they get romanticized. The 40's were nothing compared to the opportunities most people have at their disposal today.

@XconnorX11 3 года назад

@James Cooper that is true, but thats the irony, it's entirely in our own heads. people in the 40's had life objectively tougher, things were more bleak than today. our reliance on technology is what makes modern society amazing and terrible at the same time

@jeremyc9593 3 года назад

@@XconnorX11 I'm glad someone has some common sense.

@ronaldbryant5691 3 года назад

@@XconnorX11 also notice no fat people

@guythatpaysforyourhandouts2478 3 года назад

It was right after ww2 they knew exactly how good they had it lol

@Freddtheoldmechanic 3 года назад

Amazing.Thanks for sharing true piece of history.Guess you have done a lot of work restoring these historical scenes.Greetings from Norway

@thejerseyj9422 3 года назад

The clarity and color is astonishing!

@vapourmile 3 года назад

Wouldn't it be weird to find a 100 year old man and hear him say "I remember walking those streets on that day. I was 20 years old".

@rv6205 3 года назад

My dad is 100 and grew up in Newark NJ but always went into NYC..I will show him this film, good chance he was there .

@danopticon 3 года назад

My dad was born in the late ‘30s, in Latin America. There were still more horse-drawn carriages than cars then. And when he went to university in Mexico City, from the photos I’ve seen it still largely looked like this. It is a little odd to think about, but mostly it’s neat. I’m actually not that terrifically old myself, yet where I grew up, we didn’t have color television broadcasts until around 1980. We rarely watched TV at all. And frankly, the world in the 1970s was a much nicer place: calmer, more laid-back, fewer people (the world population was only 3.5B, whereas just decades later it’s now nearly a ridiculous 8B), abominations like Fox News weren’t even a rumor, active disinformation campaigns hadn’t yet radicalized much of rural America’s lumpenproletariat, we kids could run around unsupervised. It was a more colorful world, too. Utopia was in the air. I wish ten-year-olds today could get just a taste of that, it was pretty terrific.

@rv6205 3 года назад

@guilherme gurgel I did show it to him, he remembers it well, he was 21 years old and was delievering oil to the breweres in newark....He said life was great back then

@skiterbite 3 года назад

I know people who are alive who've lived in Nyc...a few born in the early 30's who can still remember many things. I lived in Westchester in the mid-late 60's, then in the 80's a corp whose HQ was in mid town. Those were great days ! Fly round trip on Peoples Airlines from DC to Newark for $25.00. True !

@Bequester 3 года назад

@@skiterbite at the beginning of the quarantine and pretty sure still true now, flights are hella cheap, like a flight from LA to Vegas is around 20$

@PapaSeanX5 3 года назад

I really miss seeing art deco style everywhere. The cars, buses, buildings etc. So much soul crafted into these objects. Now everything is square and "modern" 🙄

@jkokich 3 года назад

Right on.

@cdmx27 3 года назад

I agree.

@farouqomaro598 3 года назад

Modern with less emphasis on aesthetics.

@yogidemis8513 3 года назад

Everything has to be more modern these days but yes I'd like to see more old school buildings with style being built more. Maybe one day they will bring the style back and will become popular again. Cities should have a more diverse look than just plain old square buildings.

@jkokich 3 года назад

@@yogidemis8513 agreed.

@tony_anello 3 года назад

It's very fascinating for me to watch the NYC my grandparents grew up in. They were in the late teens/early 20s at the time of this recording.

@user-sd7eb6jq9y 3 года назад

amazing. looks like there was video back in the 40s and how it would look like! keep up the good work!

@Ramon51650 3 года назад

I was born on 5th Avenue. If I close my eyes I can bring back that unusual smell that Manhattan has; a mix of smog, the electric smell of the subway; the smell of various foods including pretzels, hotdogs, sausage and pepper, cigars & cigarettes; it all comes back. I remember the porcelain handles and cane seats of the subway too.

@TAD1hu 3 года назад

Did you walk in this movie?

@matthewblack8552 3 года назад

"The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry" -Brooks Hatlen, circa 1954

@waverider227 3 года назад

Truer words were never said!

@Saturnia2014 3 года назад

Bukowski is somewhere in this video doing odd jobs. Every city back then looked so warm and cozy. People back then struggled, I won't disagree, but hard work was actually rewarded and respected.

@redshift1976 3 года назад

and Kerouac

@syberspud 3 года назад

People walking calming head up with excellent posture. Different species. Brand new roads. No signage pollution everywhere. Lovely.

@None-zc5vg Год назад

This was 5th Avenue which belonged/belongs to the wealthy.

@Dkenady353 3 года назад

It's amazing how pedestrians just go out in car traffic like that.

@gato7908 3 года назад

This is nothing compared to Vietnam

@romankatz982 3 года назад

I know, right? Really taking a risk crossing with all that traffic. Yikes.

@gato7908 3 года назад

@Ivey 96 they had no choice. There were no crosswalks.

@None-zc5vg 3 года назад

@@gato7908 I believe automated U.S. 'crosswalks' came in big-time in the '50s.

@gato7908 3 года назад

@@None-zc5vg much of the world still crosses streets like this

@fludeball 3 года назад

Looks more like 1967, with all the psychedelic paint jobs. ;-) Those roads were smooth as glass.

@richardspeziale 3 года назад

first shot is heading uptown on 8th Avenue. Madison Square Garden is on the left at 1:22, at 50th Street. 1:38 is 5th avenue, looking uptown, at 59th street. 4:55 seems to be a crosstown street, (which?) with many stooped apartment buildings, possibly midtown. Note the lack of crosswalks, people cross wherever and whenever, and the Avenues are 2-way streets.

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thx ;)

@ultrametric9317 3 года назад

How can MSG be on the left? It's to the east of 8th Ave.

@wtburns01 3 года назад

Man, it's like a jaywalker's wet dream!

@Jonathanbroder 3 года назад

@@ultrametric9317 The original MSG occupied the space between 49/50th Streets and 8th/9th Avenues. I lived in that neighborhood for almost 30 years and hadn't recognized anything until I read that persons comment. I'm glad they mentioned, and they are correct, because just after MSG (before the view changes) there is a small theatre on the left with an arch on top of the building over the marquee. Back in the 80s and 90s I used to take a lot of pictures around Times Square and Hells Kitchen, particularly of buildings that were scheduled to come down. I'm pretty sure that theatre was one of those in my collection. I have a picture of that entire side of the block just before being torn down. It was a porn theatre by that time, called the Adonis. Not there is a a rental high rise building called the Longacre.

@TricksterDa 3 года назад

@@ultrametric9317 At the time, Madison Square Garden was located on 8th Avenue and 50th. The current Madsion Square Garden wasn't built for another twenty years or so.

@joyceofdriving4954 3 года назад

I love how nice everyone is dressed. I certainly wouldn't want to drive back then, I was getting anxiety just watching the video!

@Learnamericanenglishonline 3 года назад

I kept thinking about the video game, Frogger, while watching this.

@itwontcomeout5678 3 года назад

Mafia: City of Lost Heavens

@snaptrap723 3 года назад

LS Noir vibes for me

@josephcarroll6356 3 года назад

lol, with all the people jumping out in front of cars. Now I gotta look up when George costanza did that and the truck hit the machine.

@lloydtucker5647 3 года назад

Whats up with people just walking out into traffic like that?

@thefog7067 3 года назад

@@josephcarroll6356 That name keeps coming up following me around on the internet "George Costanza" or as he's known to his basketball coach George Cantstandya! 🤣

@jasonmeister6988 3 года назад

They are walking so much different and more elegant its amazing... also everything is slower wich is more healthy

@jasonk19xx17 3 года назад

The pace may be healthier, but did you see the plumes of exhaust coming from the cars? Not healthy.

@jasonmeister6988 3 года назад

true

@darthkek1953 3 года назад

@@jasonk19xx17 ultra-fine exhaust particles - which are completely invisible - do vastly more lung damage as they penetrate deeper. Google it.

@ahegaojosuke3250 3 года назад

Your about the 700th person who’s said that thing over and over again, yes we get it, they walked so enthusiastically, who gives a shit, I’m all eyes and ears for how women didn’t get much freedom as today! Which should’ve stayed that way.

@airassault11 3 года назад

This doesn’t look like a random video, this looks like a scene from a movie. Excellent video.

@rogerauclair1670 3 года назад

I doubt that it’s from a movie, it looks like a simple documentary showing the streets of New York. I’ve seen many videos similar to this and in various countries ranging from the 1900s to the 1970s.

@airassault11 3 года назад

@@rogerauclair1670 I know that it wasn’t from a movie, I just stated that it looked like it does.

@rogerauclair1670 3 года назад

Then please accept my apology and I do agree, it looks like it could come straight out of a movie and almost expect to see Robert Mitchum climb out of one of the cars.

@robertpsarudakis3474 3 года назад

Who says a time machine could never be invented! Keep em coming, boy these are coolest thing, wish there were videos like this everywhere, but w/ modern cell phones, there are!

@kona1967 3 года назад

“One day, some of the kids from the neighborhood carried my mother’s groceries all the way home. You know why? It was outta respect.”

@mikedavies1217 3 года назад

Gotta love Goodfellas!

@busyness2223 3 года назад

hehe, I am getting me clothes just like these godfellas those days

@heroesofhogan233 3 года назад

"You're a funny guy"

@stargazeronesixseven 3 года назад

OMG! This is Priceless now! Thank You So Much for sharing a bit of the real 1940s NYC with us! Stay Safe & Stay Humble! 🕯🌷🕊

@Pluvo2for1 3 года назад

Such a smooth and well sealed road. Seems like we've gone backwards in road construction.

@misigis 3 года назад

That's the smoothest road I have ever seen in NYC. Horn honking is the same. The lastest car I recognize is a 1946 or so Buick. Great video. Thanks for posting.

@anubisthagod 3 года назад

It would be strange to live at this time as an old man knowing just a few decades before everyone got around with just a horse and buggy.

@robertnussberger2028 3 года назад

You spoke my language, my friend. I always thought how people thought about how on their 100th birthday in the year 1950, they think about the past of when they turned ten in the year 1860, witnessing the civil war's end when they were 14, probably finnished college in 1876 before joining a mechanic to work on a steam boat factory somewhere in the 1880's through 1900's. They turn 60 when the era of ww1 began, following the witnesses of the horrible ww2. With all that being done, advances in technology and the changes of buildings and scenery and population growth. You think about the time you stepped off the horse drawn carriage on a sundown to get to your stuffy wooden apartment where the streets were only lit by flickering gas lamps in 1868 and when everywhere was different. From childhood until the very moment in 1950 when that person turns 100.

@Slimc74 3 года назад

And if you were a 17 year old boy. You'd be going to war

@anubisthagod 3 года назад

@@robertnussberger2028 That's actually startling if you actually think about that. I guess the only way to next gen our present society would be to have flying drone cars light orbs instead of light bulbs etc lol but it must have been a marvel to live in that time purely for the architecture, cars, fashion alone. To think a lot of names from history were alive and present at that time during a war that still has ramifications from it to this day. As Howard Hughes would say, The way of the future.

@anubisthagod 3 года назад

@@Slimc74 To probably have read a Superman or Captain America comics or seen propaganda videos about the war and all those "buy war bonds" posters every where to sign your life away when it's barely beginning was a courageous thing to do and still is.

@elchango6183 3 года назад

@@robertnussberger2028 spot on..... makes u wonder!....

@Incomudro1963 3 года назад

Wow! NYC was clean once, and the roads well paved!

@HouseWinchester1874 3 года назад

You can thank the Democrats for how it is today.

@BlacKnightRising 3 года назад

well liberalism and demRATs didn't get a major foothold yet....but, now it's a catastrophe amazing how instead of vastly improving NYC it's in ruins and getting worse...that's right people keep voting demRAT and you won't even recognize what nation you're living in...elections now mean nothing, this will only eventually lead to some kind of civil war, what else can we expect...

@TricksterDa 3 года назад

@@BlacKnightRising In the 1940s, Roosevelt was President and Fiorello LaGuardia was the Mayor of New York City. They were BOTH Democrats.

@LibertysetsquareJack 3 года назад

A Democrat back then though would look like an arch conservative today, and that's key. I mean look at JFK, and that's in the early '60s: if JFK were alive today he'd be considered too conservative to even run for the GOP nomination, let alone Democrat.

@TricksterDa 3 года назад

@@LibertysetsquareJack A Democrat back then supported unions and collective bargaining; supported Social Security and Health Care; supported the FDIC, the WPA and the Civilian Conservation Corps. Republicans back then opposed all of that, and remain opposed to unions and collective bargaining today, and would still vote to discontinue Social Security if they could get away with it and we don't even have to mention what they would do to Health Care because we're living through that. As for JFK, yes, he'd have trouble in today's Democratic Party. But, he'd be seen as a moderate, not an arch conservative. And, in spite of that, he'd probably win the nomination for President the same as Biden recently did.

@AgentXPQ 3 года назад

Before sidewalks and spray paint were invented.

@BrodyHarris 3 года назад

LMAOOO The streets were straight up wild, people cared about nothing...

@darkknightsds 3 года назад

This video shows sidewalks...

@GierlangBhaktiPutra 3 года назад

Sidewalks are already introduced, but not prohibition on jaywalking I think

@samxli 3 года назад

This is a typical traffic pattern of developing countries.

@jhowardsupporter 3 года назад

You mean before black people were invented.

@Shane-zx4ps 2 года назад

Wow, I remember the first time walking through New York, it was 2001 and I literally just got of the plane and instead of hanging around the hotel I just went outside and walked until I got lost, taking in all the sites good and bad it was absolutely brilliant, then I just got a taxi/cab back to Fitzpatricks hotel and had dinner and few drinks and fell into bed exhausted..🇺🇸🍀🇨🇮 ❤️

@jnyerere 3 года назад

Old video footage has always had this superpower ability to sanitize a far more sinister reality for millions of people that were living during that era.

@anthonyv1971 3 года назад

That’s exactly what we’ll be seeing in 2080 when looking back at the 2000s-2020s

@Censoredbyfscists 3 года назад

Not as sinister as today. You sound so ignorant.

@paul1242 3 года назад

That's so true, because the pretty sites and scenes are more compelling to film than the squalor, cruelty and debauchery that is always a part of the human condition.

@markw208 3 года назад

These videos are an incredibly interesting look at society in the past

@erictyson5947 3 года назад

It makes me feel inferior

@billhayes5581 3 года назад

Look at how much cleaner the city was then, it’s barely recognizable now.

@anaestheticfilms4494 3 года назад

air pollution in nyc was much worse back then

@andylindsaytunes 3 года назад

The video was processed to remove noise, from the looks of it. It makes everything look like it was shot on an 80s VHS camcorder.

@McVaio 3 года назад

Those art deco taxis were so beautiful! Sadly I think only 2 survive today.

@aaronmacy9134 3 года назад

Wtf, I thought that was just the AI going nuts with composition, I had no idea they were actually a thing.

@DeezNuts-ik6xl 3 года назад

They are horrendously looking

@mcpthesetmaster2752 3 года назад

Checker model A is a favorite

@rexterrocks 3 года назад

They do look great. I think there may even be only 1 of the A series of that period in existence.

@paulpips2742 3 года назад

Fascinating - The road casualties stats must've been horrendous.

@SyncJr 3 года назад

So this is what time traveling feels like...

@sudarshanaperera1046 3 года назад

When you realized that every single Men in this footage is dressed like a *Gentlemen* and every single Women dressed like a *Lady* in this footage. No woman in a top crop or no man in a beach short. Everyday on those days was like a movie I guess.

@_____J______ 3 года назад

@@righteousone1 Da, comrade

@ok-jl7qo 3 года назад

@@righteousone1 before the small hats took over.

@xekret 3 года назад

People back then had more self respect about their appearance.

@righteousone1 3 года назад

@some guy called donald brown has taken my dogs Seek psychiatric care.

@righteousone1 3 года назад

@@ok-jl7qo All routes of evil returns back to them.

@markusr7421 3 года назад

Surprisingly good quality - great colourizing work!

@44032 Год назад

Were the streets really green?

@dannyc8876 3 года назад

I can almost hear someone saying: "Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane!.... No, it's Superman!"

@rick3747 3 года назад

Under 50 crowd will not understand that great reference. 👍👍

@colejohnsondrums 3 года назад

@@rick3747 im 15 and get the reference lol

@poolplexer 3 года назад

Really can you hear someone say hey come help USA? World war II is going on and we're getting our asses kicked over here by the nazis? Does anyone have any clue what was going on in history at this time? Or is everybody a bunch of ignorant morons

@ronaldholmes8525 3 года назад

Today we say, " LOOK, UP IN THE SKY ...SOMEONE IS SHOOTING AT US FROM A HIGH RISE! "

@Retrosigns1 3 года назад

No computers or cell phones....just a great way to live when people spoke to each other in person and enjoyed living life....lets get back to a time where things were easier and more personal...

@playboiqwerty2395 3 года назад

Said on a phone lol

@DanaTheInsane 3 года назад

The world confuses you so we all have to stop. NO thanks. You go live in racism, sexism, preventable disease, and and blatant homophobia.

@BillLaBrie 3 года назад

My dad came to nyc from Minneapolis around this time. By his account, it was amazing/horrible in about the same proportion we’d see today-just in different ways.

@Storkz0re 3 года назад

ye, and the best thing is plumbic contamination of drinking water

@DieterRahm1845 3 года назад

Well, things definitely weren't easier for millions...

@alankarkhare12 3 года назад

"Organized chaos" comes to my mind and it reminds me of current situation on indian roads.

@karlacovelle544 3 года назад

Thank goodness for their traffic circles! They could use more here!

@anurakchhettry1140 3 года назад

Is india ever was or is , this organized clean with beautiful looking people like? So please.

@levonvardanyan3478 3 года назад

There’s nothing organized about Indian traffic

@InStateofTrance1 3 года назад

This is amazing!! Blast into the past. Interesting how things looked back then.

@lietkynes81 3 года назад

So many gorgeous and stylish cars! How did we go from this to end with tasteless grey plastic japanese cars?

@justglenn1037 3 года назад

Today, both Japanese and American cars are MUCH smarter, more fuel efficient, better handling, safer, and much more comfortable than the cars in the film. And lastly, cars today last 2-3 times longer. I always hear people utter your stupid words... but do you really know what you're talking about?

@Pissrust69 3 года назад

@@justglenn1037 yeah thats all true but they ugly

@luchacefox259 3 года назад

Simple you bought them. I am a 36 year old guy who has never owned a car made after I was born because they are all mostly souless trash. I daily drive a 72 Chevy pickup and old guys come up all the time and tell me about how they used to have one. I always ask them the same question. What happened? They always give some gay answer about gas mileage or some other excuse. You get what you work for and most of you deserve Grey Plastic.

@MICHGO1 3 года назад

BECAUSE THE CRAP THE BIG TWO (CHRYSLER IN NOW OWNED BY EUROPEAN COMPANIES) ARE WORSE.

@quangutusuranu 3 года назад

@@luchacefox259 you are based and redpilled

@vincentaurelius2390 3 года назад

Amazing how pedestrians could casually stand in the middle of traffic with no fear of being hit. Now you can’t step into the bike lane without risking your life.

@ronaldholmes8525 3 года назад

Hell, today you're not even safe on the sidewalk, or even sitting in some establishment.