Philadelphia 1940s in color, shots from a train [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

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I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of Philadelphia 1940s, A Trip To Pennsylvanie, we can clearly see what is happening in broad daylight, lots of Spectacular building and beautiful old car,
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,cleand,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.
Thanks to A/V Geeks for share the amazing B&W Video Source
B&W Video Source from: A/V Geeks on archive.org
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/pet986r4phl
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@NASS_0 3 года назад

Share Please 🙏

@German_Sniper 3 года назад

which software you use????

@crusinclassicslucas6218 3 года назад

Please show us how your videos are made in your next video

@flashy5150 3 года назад

It’s really sad in a way, all those people, most buildings and all those cars are all dead.

@BleedGreen2l5 Год назад

Can you please make more Philadelphia videos

@customkey 3 года назад

This is my old neighborhood and it looks fine to me. We used to walk from home to this train station, North Philadelphia Station on Broad st at Lehigh ave. We lived at 18th and Cumberland in N Philly from about 1948 till 1967 or so. So I remember this area from basically the era portrayed in this film and it's very wonderful for these old eyes to see. Brings back great memories. Thanks NASS and keep up the good work.

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thx 🥰 🙏

@madelinemagee6646 3 года назад

I was thinking the same thing... it stopped at the North Philadelphia station, which is still in use today, but it made stops at some others which today's trains heading north do not do today. Or perhaps they were local stations, like on the Reading commuter line.

@misterruggles9736 3 года назад

@@madelinemagee6646 as a little kid in the early 50s my dad would take me to the Logan station to watch the big steam engines.

@warrengibson7898 3 года назад

Would this have been an electrified line?

@customkey 3 года назад

@@warrengibson7898 It was electric when I rode the Silver Star from Philly to the deep south in the '70s, they changed to diesel in Washington DC. But I don't know what the power was in the '40s.

@givemepizzaorgivemedeath3983 3 года назад

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that guy parking his car at 7:08 had no idea people in the year 2021 would see him parking his car.

@bas1010 3 года назад

This comment wins the Internet today

@nosnitsab 3 года назад

Similarly, the guy waving at 0:10, not realizing how far that greeting would actually go.

@Greencloud8 3 года назад

Wouldn’t even cross his mind

@xaraxen 3 года назад

Some say he still park the car in the same spot at present day.

@JubeProductions 3 года назад

I always think of these people when I see them. If you could time travel and try to explain this to them, it's a concept they wouldn't even understand.

@TricksterDa 2 года назад

I used to date a girl from Philly. This was back around 1967 and 1968. She lived on Alleghenny Avenue. I remember I used to travel by train from my hometown, Newark, NJ, down to the North Philly station. I remember the wood panelling in the main terminal. The North Philadephia station used to be a stop on the old Pennsylvania RR line that ran from Boston to Washington, DC. But, these days, the N. Philly station is a commuter stop and Amtrak only stops the Penn Station on 30th Street. All of the factories you see in this clip are closed and many have been torn down, but a few of those buildings still stand, just empty out old hulks now. It's interesting to see them here, as they used to be.

@thegr8winston 3 года назад

As a Philadelphian who loves history ,transit ,and rides that same trackage to this day im just amazed.....beyond amazed ,thanks for this upload!

@lillianfisher9261 3 года назад

I was an employee of the Phila Bulletin in advertising 1964 to 1980 thrilled to see Advertisment for the Bulletin!

@misterruggles9736 3 года назад

remember the philadelphia bulletin's yearly almanac?

@lillianfisher9261 3 года назад

@@misterruggles9736 Oh yes I collected them I have them displayed in my den. Such great memories.

@Philc40 2 месяца назад

I was a Bulletin carrier 1968-70, had 135 daily’s

@yvonneplant9434 21 день назад

The old Bulletin Bldg is now part of Drexel. The immediate area is called Schuylkill Yards.

@punjabimundaUK 3 года назад

These films look like they've been shot on a smartphone! Amazing

@markr8796 3 года назад

North Philadelphia Station. When Philadelphia was a manufacturing powerhouse. Love the scene crossing over North Broad Street.

@matrox 3 года назад

Philly used to be a big clothing manufacturing city until we got sold out by the deepstate and corrupt politicians to China and whoever else willing to buy us and launder political dollars.

@cytrynowy_melon6604 3 года назад

@@matrox Nor deepstate nor corrupt politicians, thats how unregulated capitalism works. But Trump won't tell you that because capitalism works in his favor.

@matrox 3 года назад

@@cytrynowy_melon6604 Honest capitalism works in everyone's favor if you have the brains to take advantage of it. Sounds like you too have been brainwashed by the Dems and Fake News that Socialism is the way to go now.

@andyjay729 3 года назад

@@matrox How do you define "honest capitalism", and how is diverting production to offshore sweatshops "dishonest" when profit at any cost is the only goal?

@matrox 3 года назад

@@andyjay729 A bigger question is ...why are you in favor of Off Shore Sweatshops? Is it so you can save a dime? Thats the problem, people like you would rather save a dime instead of saving an American job. Its called the selling out of America. I a for American capitalism in America. Not Globalism at the expense of America like the DemocRATS and Deep State are pushing.

@vinniejohns7895 3 года назад

I love these old restored films, those old beautiful cars, city streets, just fantastic. I can completely lose myself watching these wonderful films & imagine I am actually there. They are the closest thing to actual time travel we have. I hope you can find plenty more of those films to restore. Its great stuff.

@nivagnoswal 3 года назад

i agree with everything you said...well put...

@beeqool 3 года назад

they were made to rust. planned obsolescence.

@darinp5612 3 года назад

@@beeqool the cars?

@beeqool 3 года назад

@@darinp5612 yes

@darinp5612 3 года назад

@@beeqool wrong... very wrong. That's why they're still around today and today's plastic/sheet metal slushboxes rust away

@vendome6846 3 года назад

This is North Philly, all of those industrial facilities are now gone and the buildings razed or if they’re still standing in derelict condition, the surrounding neighborhoods impoverished.

@misterruggles9736 3 года назад

very sad!!!!

@petebondurant58 3 года назад

Diversity is magnificent, isn’t it?

@JW-uy2on 3 года назад

I lived there for 8 years. It's probably the biggest slum in the U.S. now.

@petebondurant58 3 года назад

@@JW-uy2on Every major city in America is a slum.

@Fourth4Element 3 года назад

It's a result of the deliberate annihilation of the middle class

@tonyverrecchio6129 3 года назад

Well thanks for this I'm a locomotive engineer and 80 years later I run my train every day from TRENTON to PHILLY and of course I STOP at NORTH PHILADELPHIA

@teenchy 3 года назад

Ah, the good old R7!

@mrjsanchez1 2 года назад

Thanks for sharing, I run trains on this route, and always wondered how things must of been in the past with the factories still running and neighborhoods still vibrant.

@KeithVanHorny 2 года назад

What line is this?

@mrjsanchez1 2 года назад

It is the old Pennsylvania Railroad mainline that is now Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor with one track now used by Conrail Shared Assets for freight service.

@alvinwagner6085 2 года назад

@@mrjsanchez1 So what streets does this run along? I live in Philly, some of these bigger buildings look somewhat familiar

@spclanghorne4494 2 года назад

@@alvinwagner6085 It roughly follows I-95 and State Road until it reaches Frankford Creek when it briefly follows Erie, and then turns at St. Chris's to follow Sedgley and Glenwood.

@alvinwagner6085 Год назад

@@spclanghorne4494 Thank you.

@charlesfritz2983 3 года назад

My grandfather worked at this station

@NASS_0 3 года назад

ohh!! ^^

@jimboylan2 3 года назад

Used for rear projection in the windows of the train set in the movie "Dead Reckoning", which premiered Jan. 15, 1947.

@NYC1927 2 года назад

Great eye!!! And a great movie! I actually got to meet Lizbeth Scott about 20 years ago. She was a sweet tiny little thing and she still had that raspy voice. She called me tall and handsome. I blushed all the way home. :)

@ramseydieter 2 года назад

Was the whole movie set in Philly ? Or just this clip used...

@jimboylan2 2 года назад

@@ramseydieter North Philadelphia station was one of the stops on a Southbound train trip.

@gnolan4281 3 года назад

Film from those times is grainy and aged. It makes no sense but somehow I came to subconciously imagine that life must have been seen the same way by those alive then. The videos that NASS does dispel that idea completely. The difference is astounding. Some comments say that there is too much or too little of this & that but to me, given the time consuming difficulties, this remastering is a new and different step forward; something I never imagined could be possible. braVO!

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thanks 🙏

@Dayvson79 3 года назад

I'm from Brazil, and I love this vídeos. 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇸

@johnnybee4797 3 года назад

If anyone is interested to see this same route today, use google maps, this video begins at Germantown and Sedgley Avenue Philadelphia PA. The Airco Air Reduction bldg is still there, the school on the opposite corner is also still there. Follow along the rail line and you are looking to the north, and you will see most of the stretch from Morgolis Fuels to Margo Wines now an electrical substation. The PRR freight yard is now a Social Security Admin center. Passing over Broad Street at 1.04 gives a nice view of a few homes on North Broad that are still there today. The parking lot is still there. When pulling into the station the McCormick Deering Farm Equipment plant is still there, but totally gutted.

@jduff59 3 года назад

I thought the point roofs looked familiar - thanks.

@bazza945 2 года назад

It begs the question, what is air reduction? Compressed air?

@johnvrabec9747 2 года назад

@@bazza945 Compressed gases, like oxygen, nitrogen, argon. They probably had acetylene as well. I worked for Air Reduction Co (AIRCO) in Chicago, They merged with Ohio Medical and then eventually got bought by BOC Gases from the UK. They eventually merged with Edwards Vacuum from the UK and then went through some divestures, etc over the years. I'm still with the company now, but AIRCO has been gone for 20+ years.

@djcutz 11 месяцев назад

Thank You very helpful.

@spclanghorne4494 2 года назад

For those wondering, this line is still in operation as the Northeast Corridor and the SEPTA Trenton Line.

@cellini051 3 года назад

This is incredible. Both of my grandfathers were just kids when this video was made and they were living in Philadelphia. To get to see such high quality footage of what the city looked like when they were growing up is amazing. Thank you for posting these!

@watchinginaz 2 года назад

Alot of cities seem to look better in the old time footage from back in the day

@tigrotom7312 3 года назад

Thanks for putting this up. I lived in Philly for many years and this means a lot to me to see this.

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thanks 🙏

@markk3652 3 года назад

I like the metal fence at the end of both films here. It looks like a digital virtual fence!

@doncarpenter1040 2 года назад

I recently came across this channel and enjoy your videos very much. Thank you so much.

@ReginaldBostic360 3 года назад

wow this city was so much better back then everything was awesome as well

@coripuckett5596 3 года назад

The only inaccurate thing about this video is the steam locomotive sounds as this train would have been pulled by a PRR GG1 electric as it on an electrified route.... But other than that it’s a great video.

@bas1010 3 года назад

Yes I was waiting for this comment!

@OldsVistaCruiser 3 года назад

I would think that this ride happened aboard a string of MP54e electric MU rail cars.

@americanbronze2780 2 года назад

What about the faces of the people 🤔🤔🤔

@KerryEriksson 3 года назад

Love the style back then the building,cars and signage..

@RuleofFive 3 года назад

Is it me or did Philly look so clean in the 1940s and not the hell hole it became by the 1970s? Thanks for the video!

@Ryan-on5on 3 года назад

Several decades before the middle class exodus to the suburbs and deindustrialization took hold in North Philly and many other working class urban areas in the U.S.

@MK-fc2hn 3 года назад

@@Ryan-on5on Middle class exodus indeed.. it caused these cities to lose much of their middle class populations.. to this day. Accessible housing in the suburbs became an option after ww2 and the exodus only accelerated when the factories started relocating or closing and the social problems of the 60s resulted in unrest, crime, and even riots in some cities. This exodus was also characterized as white flight, as the middle class was mostly white and many of them wanted to flee the growing crime and unrest for greener pastures.. and the cities most affected by this declining population lost their tax base for many years to come.. which created a downward spiral and even worse problems in these cities. Many never recovered.. including Philadelphia. As a truck driver, I have to drive into many of these formerly livable cities and I always feel sad each time because I see the landscape filled with abandoned factories and the rundown condition from decades of under investment. I just heard today that Philadelphia, among many other cities in the U.S., is short staffed by over 600 cops due to another type of exodus.. and crime has been way up. Not very encouraging for anyone who would love to see these cities return to their former glory.. as depicted so well in this video.. among so many others on youtube. Until these cities have a healthy middle class component in their populations, I dont think much will change unfortunately.

@The1Music2MyEars 3 года назад

@@MK-fc2hn Sounds like big cities like Chicago. Lots of people leaving Chicago as a result of many issues that occurred within as of late. I myself am trying to move out of Chi town

@MK-fc2hn 3 года назад

@@The1Music2MyEars It's a shame to have to leave your hometown, but everyone reaches their own tipping point right?? .. I'm sure leaving will feel like a loss.. especially Chicago, which is so nice in some areas.. I visited it 2 years ago and enjoyed its special character.. but I know the problems there run deep and will probably take many, many years to fix. There are probably some short term solutions that would help, but I wouldn't hold my breath on any of those being done.. it seems dysfunction and corruption are entrenched in many cities unfortunately. Moving out of a city can be sad, but also an exciting time.. GOOD LUCK on a smooth transition!

@elainelane1119 3 года назад

@@MK-fc2hn How do you think 🤔those problems arised.The Govt made and catered to whites.The GI Bill.°Rdlining of banks.inadeqate jobs and schools.A Justus justice system etc..Today's problems are continuation and exemplifications of the pandemic and legacies of inequalities. America never addressed their issues and placed thir head in the sand and made excuses about an idyllic time😒🙄

@ablastfromyourpast9112 3 года назад

Amazing Video Everything Looks So Pure & Clean Couldn't Believe All The Factories We Had Here Thank You 5 / 25 /21

@johnerwin9024 3 года назад

how cool Is that! Thank U for cleaning this up, love the sharpness, clarity. 👏😁

@NASS_0 3 года назад

@james5460 3 года назад

Nice shot of a streetcar at 1:08. You don't get that sort of immediacy for streetcars very often, very nostalgic. All the train cars on the sidings look just like my old Lionel trainset.

@frederickciocciola4605 3 года назад

That is route 2 trolley on Indiana Avenue about to turn right (south) onto Broad Street, one of the very few places that trolleys ever operated on Broad Street.

@bescheuerterbruder719 3 года назад

Sorry if I talk to the wrong spotters, but can anybody of you confirm or deny if the dark car in the lower field of that same scene is a Chrysler Airflow? That would make my day ...

@james5460 3 года назад

@@bescheuerterbruder719 If you mean that greenish car in the parking lot... Hard for me to tell... maybe a '41 Airflow? I don't think it's from the '30s when the rear wheels were covered.

@bescheuerterbruder719 3 года назад

@@james5460 Actually no. I meant the rather black car halfway below the streetcar on which you have a sideview and which is waiting to turn left. You see it better in 1.09 where it is in the lower centre of the image. It looks like a 30s car with integrated headlamps which was a feature first found on the 34-37 Airflow and its DeSoto counterpart. Until now i haven't seen one in the NASS movie collection.

@rexlawrence4367 3 года назад

A reflection of life and then you enhance that reflection. Well done

@Nicole-rj4xz 3 года назад

Great job 💛 Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thanks 🙏

@raoufrumjaun8356 3 года назад

Hands down my favourite yt channel atm.

@NASS_0 3 года назад

god bless you

@adamschwartz2656 2 года назад

I have a strong bent toward nostalgia especially regarding trains and real people just doing what they did back in the time depicted in this video. Someone else previously stated these videos are the closest thing to going back in time ....I just love this stuff..I find much comfort viewing this sort of everyday life scene..sincere thanks to the person responsible for posting this trip down memory lane.....

@nickknight5373 3 года назад

Wonderful sense of immediacy to this film. Great work!

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thx ;)

@pilates68 3 года назад

I think this trip would’ve been on an inter urban electric passenger train with a motorized lead car pulling. The steam locomotive sound effect is probably not accurate. There is also no smoke blowback in any of the frame, which suggests to me that this was an all electric commuter train .

@51pogo 3 года назад

My first thought as well, but saw no catenary masts - will take a second look...

@ron101346 9 месяцев назад

Wonderful video restoration, although the audio is off---there were no steam engines on this route, the Pennsylvania Railroad used electric locomotives. Sad to note that nearly every factory shown here is now abandoned. The full parking lot at North Philadelphia Station is nearly empty these days--no one would dare park their car there now!

@fr3dr02 7 месяцев назад

Seeing North Philadelphia station on what is now the Amtrak NE corridor is a trip..I ride past daily on the Trenton train and boy does it look different 😢

@mygtr2021 2 года назад

Streets look so clean.

@Jamestele1 Год назад

I love these rare films on RU-vid - this is the closest you could get to actually going back in time for a brief visit. I had a lot of ancestors who settled in Philadelphia, Bucks County, etc., from parts of Germany. I have worked a lot on Market Street, and always got a deja vu feeling when visiting there and around the city. Thank you for this amazing film footage

@uqzdsq07 2 года назад

Fantástico! Esses vídeos antigos me emocionam profundamente! Parece que tenho uma relação muito estreita com o passado! Amo esse canal!

@williamtimmins7967 2 года назад

Great film , but heartbreaking in a way. The city was clean and orderly. Business was thriving. The same trip today is like traveling through no man's land.

@nightowl5475 Год назад

It’s always been strange how a society can self-destruct.

@Thursday_The_12th Год назад

lol yeah i wouldn't go walking alone through these parts today

@WAL_DC-6B 3 года назад

Looks like this was filmed along the Pennsylvania Railroad from all the "Pennsy" freight cars seen and sometime in the early 1940s based on the automobiles in the parking lots. Nice shots of "Philly" as seen from a vintage train at a vintage time. Thanks for sharing!

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thx ^^

@andyjay729 3 года назад

One person above says they can see '46 and'47 cars in the lots. Can you perhaps correct them (I'm not a car style expert)? Another person says the trolleys briefly glimpsed last ran on that particular route in June of 1947. Since I don't see any obvious wartime advertising (not even a lone "Buy War Bonds"), I don't think this was during WW2. So that would leave a relatively narrow window (between 1945 and 1947), unless you really think this is the early '40s.

@WAL_DC-6B 3 года назад

@@andyjay729 I watched this film again and paid closer attention to the automobiles. Most early postwar cars were basically "warmed over" prewar models with some differences in trim. The first really new postwar designed cars where considered the 1947 Studebakers and Kaiser-Frazers. I couldn't find any in this film. Good point about the lack of wartime advertising in this film. So, this could have been filmed in the years 1945, '46 or '47. I'd doubt it was beyond 1947 as you should start to see those Studebakers, K-Fs and even the new "stepdown" Hudson design.

@MrMenefrego1 3 года назад

Just magnificent! Thank you.

@raoufrumjaun8356 3 года назад

NASS! lovely work again!

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thx 🥰 🙏

@southbend3406 3 года назад

Wonderful. Always enjoy these great films by NASS. Thank you for sharing. People should realize when the commenting on how clean everything is in a certain city, that much of that cleanliness comes from the filters, etc. that NASS applies to the film itself, to enhance viewing, as they mention in their remarks at the beginning of the post. What's nice is not to see all that graffiti that is now on most railroad cars and many buildings!

@ramseydieter 2 года назад

Forgive my ignorance, am I understanding this correctly that you're saying that through an editing/filtering process they can make existing trash in the film disappear?

@southbend3406 2 года назад

@@ramseydieter I may have mis-spoke slightly. I know the filters can add color, and they seem to soften the focus somewhat from the original b&w copy. How much effect that has on eliminating actual litter in the streets I would not be sure of. I would guess some smaller items of trash would disappear because of this process. Researching original source material may be helpful.

@samp7003 3 года назад

I can't help thinking about all those cars which don't exist anymore. I would be glad to own any one of them now. 40's and early 50's are my favorites.

@brucegilbert7243 3 года назад

Back then, everyone drove a classic!

@beeqool 3 года назад

my first thought too. they were made to rust. planned obsolescence.

@gkolpan1 Год назад

Amazing! Thanks so much for this!

@enginsavastravelchannel2954 3 года назад

Thank you very much NASS. I will gonna watch this video at least 5 times.

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thanks bro 🙏

@gevatterrot 3 года назад

I love these videos! Greetings from Switzerland. 🇨🇭

@edwardmaher4880 3 года назад

Marvellous, thanks from New Zealand.

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thx^^

@silexp 3 года назад

It's awesome! Thanks for the hard work! Feel like a time traveler =)

@Gosdatwork Год назад

I've taken that ride many times .. I wish it showed Broad street as it was pulling outt from the Lehigh station. Awesome bro.

@1949LA-ARCH 3 года назад

Thanks for sharing !

@ripjanetstrimel3312 Год назад

Pretty cool …I would love to see more in Philly from back then if you got more !

@jacktaggart2489 Год назад

Terrific! The train is approaching North Philadelphia Station from New York/Trenton or Atlantic City. We lived on Carlisle Street, near Clearfield Street, just a few blocks from the station at Broad and Glenwood. The steam locomotive on the adjoining Chestnut Hill Branch (which was electrified) is interesting which probably served quarries in Whitemarsh Township via a Branch off of Ivy Hill Road. Thank you.

@bazza945 2 года назад

Technically brilliant, fascinating subject, thank you.

@lisaheisey6168 2 года назад

My mom, dad, grandparents, etc, and I are from Philadelphia. While I wasn't born yet, my mom, dad, grandparents, and great-grandparents were around in the 1940's, and it's nice to see the Philadelphia that they used to see.

@EYE_GOTCHA 3 года назад

How wonderful to see this bit of history.

@rechelieu 3 года назад

Fantastic!!! I love old Philly stuff. Can you find more stuff like that somewhere?

@faisalahmad4455 3 года назад

Thankyou. Always. Respect

@michaelroark3263 3 года назад

Forget the chug-chug sound. That line had long been electrified.

@godonjeffjeff8963 3 года назад

Fantastic quality in all the videos

@bobratynski9346 3 года назад

Ah....the advertising billboards---"Nearly everybody reads the Bulletin.".....delivered it as a kid and until it closed.

@JimmyFoxhound 3 года назад

What a time machine! And probably the only way you'll be able to see a clean Philadelphia before it was overrun with crime and trash. I love those old billboards!

@ralflop6023 3 года назад

Wonderful. How you make this?. Congratulations. Saludos desde Paraguay

@fredduncan1610 2 года назад

I think one of the reasons the city seems so much cleaner then is because there were so many fewer cars on the roads

@mikeef747 3 года назад

Love it! Just one question...Did they get the "added" train sound from the Magic Kingdom?

@georgeloveless4176 8 дней назад

When you watch this, its hard not to compare yesterday to today. And I guess everyone has a preference, but Id give anything to go back in time.

@paulmartin8737 2 года назад

do they carry with them the equipment for record the sound or is it just added by you? Thanks for the job. It's really nice.

@CountAxel 2 года назад

I grew up in the Northern Liberties section of Philly in the 80's and 90's... in a row home adjacent to an abandoned factory....many of the factories you see here were abandoned when I was growing up and covered in ivy and overgrowth ..some still stand today.. I always found the abandoned industrial spaces to be a bit magical and spooky , like a ship wreck..This is just amazing... to see them operational and to see the city so pristine looking.... However it's sobering to think of what it has become. The economic impact of all of that industry departing Philadelphia has had lasting devastating effects. Is that north Broad St facing North at about 5:21 ? I could weep to think of what it looks like now... What it was...and what it could be

@davegreenlaw5654 Год назад

I attended a boarding school about an hour outside of Philly in themid-90's. One evening we took a trip into downtown Philly, and on the way home we drove down Broad St. I was aghast at all the boarded-up businesses that we passed, thinking "I couldn't think of downtown Toronto being as abandoned as this."

@215_Philly_4for4 3 года назад

5:23 that’s broad street looking south. I took this route to and from Philly every day before covid.

@ramseydieter 2 года назад

Isn't that Broad St looking North?

@blue9multimediagroup Год назад

That's North. The church in the middle is at Broad and Allegheny.

@luislaplume8261 3 года назад

This is on the P.RR main line between NYC and Washington D.C. T are are overhead columns holding the wires for the commuters and long distance trains . T he long distance trains changed from electric locks to steam or diesel locks for points south and to Miami. Iam a New Yorker who grew up a few miles from Penn Station 1950s... 1980s.

@minkeuk549 3 года назад

My friday is saved! Thanks NASS! Edit: Kingston in Philadelphia today is so sad!

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thanks 🙏

@elizabethm6657 3 года назад

Sadly, yes. My Grandmother's family all lived in and around Kensington back then and it's not even safe to visit their gravesites.

@marilynhudson9879 3 года назад

@@elizabethm6657 .. That's Sad😢. I was watching Kensington on RU-vid today it's unimaginable with all the drugs and that Park called needle park.

@londonwestman1 3 года назад

This source footage is again the backdrop for a movie studio isn't it? This time with two shots taken at the same time, one looking half forwards and the other looking back. They'd have projected the two halves synchronised behind the "action" in a fake carriage in the studio. It would be truly great to find the film they were used in.

@andyjay729 3 года назад

That's probably it. The original BW film (check the link in the description) starts off with a guy closing a movie clipboard (unfortunately without a date).

@DReyesNYC 3 года назад

Great job!!! U rock 🎸

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thanks 🙏 🙏

@brucegilbert7243 3 года назад

Back then, no one was higher than Wiliam Penn.

@bas1010 3 года назад

Yep 500 feet until Rouse came along

@SkeletorFan 9 дней назад

Yeah I remember this route very well when taking the train to New York from Philly. Some buildings are the same some aren’t.

@earhart1000 3 года назад

From Spain. It is perfect. Bravo!!!

@arunushus1997 3 года назад

Good work. Greetings from India🇮🇳

@leversforever9748 3 года назад

It's hard to believe how anybody could give this a thumbs down there must be something wrong with them

@stanley4006 Год назад

It’s nice to see all the rail cars, less trucks on the road

@leversforever9748 3 года назад

It's hard to imagine how any body could give this a thumbs down something must be wrong with them

@Absolut87. 3 года назад

Как всегда круто. Просто душа разрывается. Словно жил уже там в то время. 😌 благодарность вам, за канал хочу выразить.

@michaelmaclauchlan 3 года назад

It's always cool. It's just that the soul is torn apart. As if he had already lived there at that time. 😌 I want to express my gratitude to you for the channel.

@Absolut87. 3 года назад

@@michaelmaclauchlan 🙏💕 мир вашему дому.

@michaelmaclauchlan 3 года назад

Спасибо тебе друг

@Absolut87. 3 года назад

@@michaelmaclauchlan и тебе спасибо. Что перевёл для людей, народа США🇺🇸 🤝👍

@johnvrabec9747 2 года назад

The opening scene, going past "Airco", Air Reduction". I worked for Airco in Chicago in the late 80's and 90's before they were bought out by BOC Gases which were based in the UK. I am still with the company, now after a handful of changes and purchases along the way lol

@ronlevine8873 Год назад

Looks like the Pennsylvania Railroad mainline going through North Philly, stopping at North Philadelphia Station. (I think the station is seen twice in this film; with the camera facing south and then facing north?) The steam sound effect was not accurate; this line was electrified. It's shocking to see so many cars parked at the station: they would be vandalized if they were left there today! We lived in Northeast Philly from 1949 to 1969 and often took the train from this station to go see our relatives in New York. Interesting to see a McCormick farm equipment factory near the station; today it is abandoned as are almost all of the other factories along this route.

@stevesander893 Год назад

Yes...my first thought was, "What's with the chug chug chug?" I think this line was electrified at least as far back as the 1930's. Other than that, it's a great video.

@Absolut87. 3 года назад

Смотришь на людей, машины едут птицы поют, и грустно становится, что нет этого всего, что это не камера онлайн снимает. Люди жили, их нет(

@matveymishmail 3 года назад

Никакой грусти нет. Я наоборот им завидую. Они не "умерли"

@Absolut87. 3 года назад

@@matveymishmail умерли. Физически

@cesarulisesrodriguez2787 3 года назад

SOO CLEAN

@davefortune89 Год назад

Look how clean it was

@Hamfantasy56 3 года назад

Fantastic!

@NASS_0 3 года назад

Thx 🥰 🙏

@RobMLyon 2 года назад

Just amazing!!

@nathanbond8165 3 года назад

I love watching these old remastered videos from yesteryear I'm not nearly old enough to have lived in this time period, But yet somehow they feel strangely comforting and familiar to me and I do believe in reincarnation by the way I hope I live long enough to see VR (virtual reality technology) is sophisticated enough and advanced enough to where you don't just have to sit and watch an old video from this time. But you can actually immerse yourself into this world I think that would be the only reason why I would buy a VR set is if I could time travel back to the 1930s and 40s and see the world the way it used to be...

@edwardmiessner6502 Год назад

Everything looks so clean and new it looks like a model railroad! 😭

@elizabethm6657 3 года назад

I love my city

@raulduke6105 3 года назад

Incredible

@danielebriglia288 3 года назад

There are many many cars. I'm pretty sure that the video has been recorded after the end of second world war... Thank you so much and greetings from Italy!!

@andyjay729 3 года назад

If it was after the war, that would put a rather narrow two-year window on when this was filmed, because someone in the comments said the trolleys stopped running in this particular area in 1947.

@andyjay729 3 года назад

7:45 Even 80 years ago finding a parking space was hard. What year would you guess this was taken? I didn't notice any billboards mentioning war bonds or anything similar.

@TricksterDa 2 года назад

Someone above posted that this film clip was originally intended for rear projection shots to be included in a gangster film called DEAD RECKONING, which was released in 1947.