Omg. This is nostalgia everywhere for me. I passed through this part of Paterson so many times. It’s dilapidated now but wow how it looked before. Tears.
Great footage wish there was more. Even though it's a short film clip, you get the fleeting impression that Paterson in those days was a viable, well kept and clean city. The factory building looks like it's fully functioning in good condition providing blue-collar jobs to its residents (like my older relatives who were Italian immigrants or their kids who were the WWII generation). The shots of the houses look like they're well kept. The mid-60's on brought about the most sweeping changes. You couldn't help the fact that big industry moved out because it was cheaper to manufacture in other parts of the country or in other countries. In hindsight, maybe more could have been done to encourage and incentivize big business to have continue operations in the big US cities.
I LOVE this,...leaves me longing for much more. I'm sure they took more footage than this. My mother's family had moved just over the line into Clifton a few years before this, and I was born in Paterson a while after this. I would kill to see film from 1950 travelling down Broad Street or Valley Road into Clifton. It was still the sticks back then.
Born at St Josephs Hospital on Main Street in 43. Grew up in Wayne. Saw wrestling and the Harlem Globe Trotters at the Armory in the 50s. Was a temporary reporter for the Paterson Evening News in 1957 for the National Boy Scouts Jamboree in Colorado. I miss that second floor Chinese restaurant on the downtown corner of Market Street, across from Mr. Peanut. Plus, I so miss ordering "Two away two" at the Falls View. Not to mention driving out Main Street to get White Castle hamburgers. I would hop the bus from Wayne for 15 cents and go to the Fabian and Garden theaters. When I see a story about a famous Paterson-Colt revolver it brings me "home." Also, I was in Wisconsin years ago and while in a train museum I saw pictures of several locomotives that were built in Paterson. I felt proud. I almost forgot about many years watching the Hell Drivers crash cars at the stadium. I am reminded of Paterson each time I hear a reference to "Who's on First." It was such a good life back then.
My parents grew up there around this time. Me and my brother were born there and our Grandpa ( moms dad) was a Paterson police officer. I am just curious if my last name sounds familiar, my moms name was Josephine catalano .
@@petemoss9693 Barnet has been converted to a "clinic", bought by a group of doctors. I liked P-Town, used to live in the south off Main St. Would hang out at Garret Mtn and hide from the county cops when they drove around. The projects ruined Paterson, all the factories closed and the workers had nothing. That was the decline of not just Paterson but many industrial cities in America. They have tried so many times to revitalize this city. The condos on Garrett Mtn., it's just like a little Newark, a big toilet for tax money.
This was my walk from Kennedy Highschool. All the way to 388 Ellison St.Everyday for 4 years Yep Eastside was two blocks away and some of my Schoolmates lived right next door to Eastside ,but had to go to Kennedy. This had to be the crazy Zoning back then before the small towns brought in the Regional Highschools.
Wait a minute, Eastside High as in from the 1987 "Lean on Me" movie? I always thought that movie took place in Paterson, some time past the 60s or so. I think I remember them singing a school song while in chorus class or something, but I could be misremembering.
Jose Flores JR it was there, just on the opposite side. It was smaller back then. If u pass Libby’s today on the opposite side you can see the old Libby’s
Which house was at the bottom of the hill that got moved in early 1980 next to the factory on mill write across the street it's lawyer or something office
Back when there were enough decent paying jobs for everybody. And Paterson looked like a mostly beautiful city set out in the countryside. What happened?
Agreed! I'm from that area. I remember when Passaic was also a very nice city. Like Paterson, it had its factories, nice neighborhoods, and a great downtown with a lot of stores and movie theaters and frequent train service to Hoboken/and NYC.
Enough decent paying jobs??? The standard of living should be even higher. But everyone wants welfare instead. What a joke if people worked like we used to, life would be so cheap
How you gonna ask that question knowing all the factories are gone. All the great department stores that were up and running good but by the middle 80’s good by🤷🏾♂️
Patterson at that time was known as the Silk City. There were factories making silk there, most of them were owned by Jewish people, and the population was mostly Jewish. It was a posh town, and even today you can see some of the old mansions that have survived time and economic decline. When the silk factories were closed, rich people moved out of town, the people working in those factories left town looking for jobs somewhere else. Because of that the real estate was depreciating and it could be acquired for nothing, for a dollar. That was when very poor people moved in and when Paterson became a town of crime, drugs, prostitution, and physical and moral decay. In the last two decades it was revitalized considerably and it has become, again, a thriving community.
So Jim Crow SEGREGATION period in the US was a Golden Age? 🙄 When yt people RAPED, LYNCHED and killed us without any consequences, that's what's hot to you? Your country is a sick social engineered joke. And the yearning for a time when your MEDIOCRITY was rewarded, is an admission of how basic you are. Equality means your lackings are exposed by more intelligent people of every background and that's why you fear it so much. It must be hell to know everything you have is based on some Welfare, Affirmative Action set up for yt supemacists MYTHOLOGY, yt towns given to you under the GI Bill, free no $$$$ down homes in all yt suburbs created by the US government, free college only for you and so much more just given to you while WE worked hard and had our towns and homes BURNED DOWN to the ground by YOU. Maybe that's why so many are on Fentanyl Molly Crack etc...to suppress seeing the real YOU. 1950's America is Nazi Germany.
This reminds me of a Jordan Peele horror film 😱 Basically what you have here is a Sundown yt supemacists MYTHOLOGY town. Jim Crow SEGREGATION "ah the good old days" 😱 The 1950's was the height of Jim Crow SEGREGATION North and South. MOST Sundown Towns were in the North. This was a Sundown, Your black a$$ better not let the sun go down on you, TOWN!!!😱You people have nostalgia for something that says you have NO HUMANITY 😱 It's a cult with membership requirements being a sturdy mental neurosis. Wow a whole society constructed on a lie that only took Fentanyl to expose its folly. 😲
