Old NEW YORK in 1925 & Coney Island 

This video is amazing nearly 95 years ago.

Not one single person had a clue that 95 years later they would be on a thing called RU-vid in a thing small enough to fit in a briefcase or even a pocket of their shirts or pants. And that anyone can see them from any part of the world.

Feels like going in a time machine.. WOW LOVE IT. IM A NATIVE NYer Born in brooklyn. My father was born in brooklyn in 1928. And hearing his stories of growing up in the 30s 40s and 50s made it sound almost mythical. Seeing these old videos just validates everything he ever told me.. I live in staten island now I drive for Pepsi cola so I deliver to coney island once a week.. sometime I stand on the boardwalk and wish I could travel back to those magical early decades so long ago. Your videos are as close as it gets.. BEAUTIFUL KEEP EM COMING..

This is the closest to going back in time! Love these videos.

I was taken back in year 1925. Thank you for sharing the video. God bless you.

Kirk Douglas and Olivia de Havilland were 9 and Betty White was 3 when this video was filmed and they are still living. Awesome.

Great video so important to preserve the history of man kind. Kids today should watch these kind of films.

After a fall i a. Revalidating. Hope to resumé before i become 91 🙂🙂

Great video. Thanks for your work.

I just went back in time, thank you! I love clips like this😊

Thank you! This was wonderful. I have many photographs of my grandmother Elsie as a teenage girl at the beach at Coney Island during this time, with her brother Albin and her friend Chickie along with some pics of her mother too. I've never before seen motion picture. Adding the sound was lovely. Great job!

☺️ These are Awesome I can look at them All Day ❤️

I really love the fashion back then. When most people dressed their best and almost every man and woman you see in this video are wearing such nice hats. Seems like the boater hat is very popular during this time. I believe it was more of a summer hat that a lot of men would wear. I also saw a lot of early Fedora's and I love how most of the boys and young men would be wearing the classic Newsboy hats. Awesome video! I actually wear suits and my hats most of the time myself. Course it is mainly for the work I do, which is going around antique shops, pawn shop vintage shops and homes to fix antique clocks, watching and pocket watches. Usually I will be dressed up like this when I make a house call. I usually only do house calls on large clocks, like huge heavy wall long case clocks and tall grandfather clocks. I actually did a house call yesterday on a 1938 Howard Miller grandmother clock that the guy was actually wanting to have fixed and was wanting to sale it. When I asked how much he wanted for it "me thinking he is going to want like $1200 and up" and he sold it to me for $50 bucks!! I was honest with him when I looked this type of clock up and saw that is goes for about $5500 to $8300 is the highest I have seen on this type. Anyway he said he didn't care what it was worth, he just wanted to either get it running and give it to his son "which didn't want it anyway" or sale it as fast as he can to make room. Not to mention he said it belonged to his ex, course he did not say it like I did lol. Still cannot believe I got this really nice grandmother clock for so little!! I got it running last night and I have to say that it is now one of my favorite clocks out of my entire clock collection! I also work on pretty much any time piece you can throw my way. I do love a challenge! Oh well, just thought I'd share this with whoever wanted to read this.. Again I really enjoyed the video! I always felt that I was in the wrong time, I would have been a lot more happier growing up in the late 1880's up to the 1920's and would be awesome to have skipped the great depression! Everyone in their lives will always witness some sort of tragedy.

Fabulous & fascinating! I love old images of Coney Island too. Thanks so much for sharing - it's priceless.

at 7:48 the merry go round sequence has such a magic effect!

Well I don’t know about all the other comments but I do know I enjoyed it thank you for taking us back in time

By the looks of it, slim pants and straw hats were all the rage. Also, everybody looking their best for all occasions.

Great video...nice to see an old roller coaster along with the Luna Park Entrance which are gone. Old buildings in New York in the beginning of the video are probably gone as well. So much history that is no longer around.

I really enjoy your film clips. They give a little insight of days long past! Very entertaining. Thank you so much for the upload!

My great grand parents can be one of the people on that beach.. first in my family in America from italy, lived in sheepshead bay and would spend weekends at coney island. In 1925 they would have been 27 and 35.. Younger than i am watching this.. Thank you for uploading this amazing footage..

That is amazing!! To see it running with a normalized frame rate makes such a HUGE difference. They feel like real people rather than cartoon-ish.

This is great, Michael. Thanks for adding sound. It just takes you back to another time.

You did a good job with the subtle sound effects, enjoyable to watch. preserving old films give us a window to the past.

Would be amazing to go back in time for one day and just walk around I love this

Ahhhh, Coney Island in the summer with Hot dogs and Italian ice. Remembering my childhood just not as far back as then, lol. Thank you for the glimpse of the past. I enjoy watching these old reels.

Everyone's so elegantly dressed! 😊😊

Just found your channel ! The images come to life with The great sounds you add. :D

My grandfather, 25-years old at the time, was living in Brooklyn and frequenting speakeasies with my grandmother who was a ‘Flapper.’ Life was good until Wall Street ‘Laid an Egg’ in October of 1929. Shortly after, work was hard to come by and my grandparents moved up to Winthrop, Maine so my grandfather could work in his cousin’s mill. My father was born in Winthrop May 1st, 1936. My grandfather contracted tuberculosis there and spent a few years in a Sanitarium. My father, who turns 83 this Wednesday (5-1-2019) did not even know he had a father until he was 5-years old.

Thank you very much for sharing this video!

I have a fold-out/accordian-fold postcard souvenir from Luna Park that belonged to my paternal grandparents (who were old enough to my great-grandparents). The object is copyrighted 1920 (same era as the film). This is the first time I have seen motion pictures of Luna Park. Thanks for sharing!

I love it thanks for sharing!

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for sharing. There is something special about how people dressed back then, especially when you look at the baggy sloppy shorts that creates laziness and disrespect.

Nice sound, Michael. At 8:47, we hear the conductor announcing "F train to Coney Island". Of course, in 1925, it was called the Culver Line. But, of course, you knew that.

Michael Rogge - Thank you for this wonderful video! It makes sense that a Dutch couple would bring an expensive camera and film from the Netherlands in 1925, because a trip to New York was pretty expensive and time consuming back then. Even for well-off Europeans, it was usually a once-in-a-lifetime trip. It’s not hard to imagine how popular the film was when the couple returned to the Netherlands. Home movies from across the Atlantic were extremely rare (that has certainly changed). I liked watching the reaction to the camera of (usually) boys. Adults knew that it was a movie camera, so they tried to act natural, but the boys had probably never seen a movie camera, so it was pretty exciting.

Thank you for these. I'm so glad I found your channel.

Good work with the sound Michael!

wow! Thank you for sharing this! Fascinating and amazing to look back in time! :-)

TY for all your hard work and content contributions. TY again.

Fantastic! Thanks for posting this. Had a little chuckle over those late 20th century horn sounds.

I expected to see Harold Lloyd hanging from one of those buildings !!

Isn't it cool to literally look through time and see people who are long gone now after having lived long fruitful lives. Even the children in this video are gone. Entirely new generations of people are on the planet. Kinda cool.

Just a brief sentence to tell you how enjoyable this film was and with the added sound. Thank you very much.

I loved this thank you so much my folks were growing up then.

Great video brings back so many memories, great 👍

Time Travel is great!

Amazing how much is still recognizable.

April '2019, Remembering When FAMILY ENJOYED THEIR DAY TOGETHER !!! AND RESPECTED EACH OTHER AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS !!! Thank You for SHARING !!

🇧🇷 Brazil. Amazing images of a so busy city even in 1925!

This totally awesome! More please.

Much history and architecture lost when they pulled down so many of the old buildings. Thanks for the video.

Like these old films. Thank you Michael. I wondered how you were personally I had not seen you on posting any videos for several months now. .

A great look back in time my father was born in 1925 I was born in 1954 it's wonderful to see these old movies how life was I have to say there are to Heroes here one is the men who took the video the other one are the people that are now showing the video thank you so much 👍🇺🇸

Thanks for sharing love it.

Fascinating footage of wonderful old NYC... love the boater hats many of the gents are wearing, so cool!

Thanks for sharing ... love to watch this old flicks 😘😘

1925 the year my mother was born. She passed away in 1990.

Many of the little boys seen here would have grown up to fight in ww2.

I find it fascinating to get a glimpse of everyday life a century ago.

Thank you for these valuable records

The PanAm building was built in 1963 just north of Grand Central Station on Park Avenue. Eighteen years later it became the MetLife Building.

Thanks Mike. Enjoy your weekend.

This is an amazing footage of the old days I wasn't even born yet

It was so good to see this again thank you those was the good old days

I amazed from where you always got all this footage

I am from Pakistan and I am loving your old videos. Sir they are interesting

"We're going to the beach? Okay, let me just put on my best 3 piece suit."

Wow 94 years ago it's like looking into the past with a time machine.

If I went back there I don't think I would return.

Awesome!

Grandma was 30 this year. Hi grandma. I'm looking at sights she saw. Amazing!!! My dad born 10 years later loved Coney Island. Everyone in this video are just memories now.❤ I'd of rather lived back then wouldnt you???

nicely done, great sound effects. Thank you

Manhattan 1925, the year Scribner's published F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel The Great Gatsby.

Used to take the train to Coney from the village. The boardwalk was new and the water was clean!

Thanks for the video Mr Rogge. Congratulations! Since Brazil, Feb,28,2020.

I would give so much to visit 1905-1940's coney island. Luna Park, Dreamland, Steeplechase, and the late 1950's coney island. I grew up in the 90's and some of the steeplechase remnants was still around such as wallpaintings and the burnt Thunderbolt, but by the late 2000's, everything was gone. The old school 90's dj's are somewhat disappearing from the rides as well, stuff i grew up with.

It was something to see the wooden spoke car wheels and the bias-ply tires on the Manhattan cobblestone streets. I'm surprised half the cars weren't pulled over at the side fixing flat tires! I wonder how well they held up?

FANTASTIC! an episode of "Time Tunnel"! . Tanks....

Amazing footage and video overall Thanks for sharing that and may God bless you🙌🏽

GREAT VIDEO & MEMORIES. I WAS BORN 9 -- 43 LIVED IN BROOKLYN AT THAT TIME, I WOULD GO TO C.I. ALL THE TIME. THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES.

What a fantastic Old New York City!

Great work u r doing

I saw some 1930's home movies from Holland, and there was a goat hauling a wagon full of one-gallon fuel cans, with the Shell logo on the side. Fuel for stoves I would imagine.

awesome. thanks for uploading

Is it me or was there a swastika on the back of that bus @2:46?

What a time to have lived in

For 94 years ago, the quality of this iPhone video is pretty good!

Great job. We know it was a lot of work. Thank you.

In 1925 the swastika was not known as the Nazi Party symbol. It was still the ancient Hindu sign for good luck.

My uncle was 7 and my dad was 9 and both were in the coming WW2. Good thing that we can only see their future here.

This historical NYC video record is great to look at!

Great. .. such a great capture. We went to Coney Island on the subway, enjoyed knishes. .. the breakers are still there. Good times. God Bless America.

This stuff drives me crazy!!! I feel like I've slipped back in time!!!

What a definition of a modern world the film represented way back then. Beats most cities even today!

75 to 80 are as expressive as a Toulouse bar scene but without the movement, absolutely beautiful cinematography.

That was fun! Looked for family members at the beach, but didn't see anyone. That would have been too awesome.

Beautiful outstanding amazing presentation 😍😘👑👑😘👑😘😍😍⁦❣️⁩🌼🌸

A smartly dressed, gracefully moving boy of about 12 or 13 appears in some scenes, obviously conscious of playing a role in them. I suppose he was a child of the Dutch couple traveling with them. Note that as they approach the beach at Coney Island he mimes swimming motions as if to introduce what is about to come.

Such a treasure, from someone who made a difference in history.

cool.....I love seeing old film like this.....* if that was the "Comet " roller coaster in Coney Island.....it is now in use up here in Lake George, NY at the Great Escape Amusement Park.... 1FM Lake George, NY * thumbs up !!!