I’ve got to stop watching these 50’s videos. It does me no good to remember what many call these the good old days, I call them the days when there was a glory about America, a time when we didn’t have to demand, or beg to the world to recognize our greatness. We were just naturally great, a great nation, a leading nation, a place where greatness was born every day. Yeah! I’ve got to stop watching these memories, which make me so melancholic, to watch it being stumped on and the American history eradicated and disgraced. I say stop watching these videos but I know damm well I’ll be back here tomorrow. I got to keep the memory alive.
From someone born in Connecticut in 1950, I remember this whole attitude well: respect and civility was king. Not today. But the best part by far was the fact that, then, you could be a pedestrian without having some aggressive bike almost running you over. Today, cyclist manners are in the toilet. It is amazing to me how the young of today cannot understand a civil world and its benefits. They are too interested in their never ending 'rights'. - David Lyga
"Normal people"? What was a day in 1954 like for blacks in Mississippi? The Sixties happened the way they did because of Fifties repression. At the exact moment this was filmed, immigrants were slaving in NYC garment sweatshops and the mob ran the waterfront docks. The South Bronx was falling apart from neglect. On the plus side, the rich were actually paying a much higher rate in taxes under Eisenhower, who built the interstate highway system. In '54, the Supreme Court decision in "Brown v. Board of Education" was a primary step to desegregation.
Wow look at that!! You don't see people like that in NYC anymore. With Respect, and have Respect for cops too... NYC today is destroyed.. I can't wait to move out of NY
It would seem from the news in 2021, respect has gone out the window to cops as well as from cops.Too many people being killed for inconsequential infractions, particularly people of color.
I was born In the spring, wish I could of experience what it was like in 1954 ....My Dad’s father wore his pants above his belly button and a short tie, white shirt..and a hat.....
This was wonderful! However, the year was actually 1955, because one can see that a currently running film was "The Seven Year Itch," which was released in early June of 1955.
You are right. Thanks for catching that. I didn't put the video up and never noticed the year mentioned... don't know how to change that now... Well things weren't too different from 1954-1955.. except for what was listed on the marques.
Actually you would have been a year old at that time Sandy. The date of this video should have been titled 1955... That was a slip up I had not caught before. My kids put the video on youtube of their grandparents when they were first married and guessed the date.
You are right this particular video is 1955... I cut an array of movie my dad, Bert Butler, had filmed of when he and my mom Cynthia, first came to the United States from England. Some of the film was from 1954 and some from 1955, I'd found it and put them together for my parents' 50th anniversary which was in 2003 and then took them apart to upload sections to RU-vid but just kept the year 1954. This month would have marked the 70th wedding Anniversary of parents Bert and Cynthia Butler and March 19th, 2023 would have been my dad's 100th birthday. Glad I'm watching this it brings them both back to life in the prime of their lives filled with happy memories.
Thanks for the post-it's fitting that people post old home movies-when they become vintage enough- their significance as historical documents all but requires that they be shared with the world.
Wow at 5:55 in this video showing them walking up the grand staircase to the front entrance of the pedestal. Before they closed it off with the museum building that now covers the pedestal entrance. This was a architectural masterpiece by Richard Morris Hunt in 1886!!!!!
@ 9:45 - Trans-Lux' perforator system that elicited the message shown seems not to have either commas ('7 455 000', as in a pic taken c.1946-47 of the Ruppert billboard) or colons ('10 30 P.M.' as here). But the Pepsi billboard atop the building housing both Bond clothing store, the Criterion Theatre and that zipper would date the Times Square footage to 1955 at the earliest. Especially since the TV version of the "Damon Runyon Theatre" ran from 1955 to 1956.
@@brkitdwn I have seen many restored film on you tube. Restored to near 4K standard!! It’s incredible!! Like going into a time machine! I highly recommend to do this one!
It was pretty hazy when I visited in the 80s. Sometimes it is the current weather system, although I agree the earlier automobiles would have had exhaust issue back then.
@@gordonayres2609 WRONG I was born in NYC back in 1954, lived, schooled and worked in every borough including Manhattan ever since... good try but you have NO IDEA what you're talking about.
@@TheEDNC Boyoboy What is wrong with you? I make a moderate comment like that and you shout WRONG! You have NO IDEA.. etc! I suggest you take a deep breath or are you the stressed New Yorker Plus!
I think it looks more homey. today everyone walks in suits, and it’s all business and tickets, and tourism. You could actually stop to enjoy a sandwich back then.
