*ping of interest*
I thought this was gonna be about Micheal.
Wow that is incredible. I love the cars. Actually they were more like boats back then. I always wonder that if liberals don’t get their way and mankind and civilization survives, what are people in the future going to think of today? Digital video doesn’t degrade so in theory people 1000, 10,000 even 100,000 years from now can look back on videos made today and it will look like they were taken a second ago. Like say for example in the year 15,239, the liberal disciples of the worldwide religion Obamanism can look back at the year 2013 and see their Messiah in action. You ever see this film? Supposedly this is the oldest surviving movie ever made from 1888.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR2r__ZgO5g
No one is barefoot.
NO WAY!!!!! I can’t believe such a video even exists!!!! I’ll check it out.
I love old footage/snapshots/postcards of American towns and cities. From the 1800s all the way up to the 1960s. After that, things start looking too ugly.
aw... never mind. I thought it was going to be Michael Jackson in color in 1938.
Koda Chro—oo-—oome
It gives you those
Nice bright colors
It gives you the
Dreams of summers
Makes you think
All the World
is a Sunny Day
Oh, Yeah
MS Ping
I was thinking that if you lived in Mississippi at the time, and went to Jackson, it must have felt like going to New York City, compared to the rest of the State.
Wonderful find. Thank you so much!
The comments read like a race thread here
What a graphic comparison to where Jackson is now. That swimming lake is an overgrown cesspool now next to what could be called our “zoo”. Or should I say “their” we left Jackson after two break ins and a car theft...
Vintage 1938 Jackson MS PING!
Wow! I really enjoyed the video. As a 6 year old in 1964, my mother dropped me off at the downtown Jackson Greyhound station, I’d walk the 2 blocks to the Lamar to catch the Disney movies, then wait at the Hollywood Sweet Shop till she returned. I haven’t thought of that in years. I live in the burbs now, haven’t been downtown in ages...
Wonder if the Mayflower Cafe is still in operation in downtown Jackson. Seemed like a nice little time-warp relic, when I was last there twenty years ago.
It’s depressing to see what hellholes so many of these cities became. Plus, since the 60s or so, there’s also been that bland corporate uniformity of fast-food joints, big-box stores, etc., which has covered the American landscape, snuffing out so much of the uniqueness that locales used to exude. Then, add how the populace itself has been in a race to look grungier and grungier, as if the ultimate fashion goal is to appear as though one just crawled out from under a rock.
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that was a great video clip. I saw many familiar landmarks from my youth — the castle-like appearance of Central High School, art-deco at it’s finest at the Standard Life building, Hawkins Field with the DC-3’s coming in for a landing, and of course, all of the gentlemen travelers wore a suit and hat. Capitol Street in its heyday was great to see. Also, I had forgotten how much like a prison Bailey School looks like! thanks for posting!