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Film footage w/sound from New York in 1929
YouTube ^ | 01-27-2018 | Guy Jones

Posted on 01/27/2018 7:16:45 AM PST by NRx

Film footage from an early Movietone camera team showing everyday life in New York City during 1929 (pre-Crash). I got a mild case of vertigo just watching the guys plastering the side of the Chrysler Building. Note how well dressed everybody seems to be. Appx 15 minutes

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 1929; film; movietone; newyork
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1 posted on 01/27/2018 7:16:45 AM PST by NRx
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To: NRx

I have a picture of my grandfather and uncle shoving snow in suits and hats. My how styles have changed.


2 posted on 01/27/2018 7:33:09 AM PST by HarleyD ("There are very few shades of grey."-Dr. Eckleburg)
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To: NRx

Thanks for posting this. I’m amazed at the number of fat, overweight, obese folks were walking around. My how times have changed.


3 posted on 01/27/2018 7:43:41 AM PST by upchuck (Keep a sharp lookout. The best is yet to come.)
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To: NRx
Even back then NYers were rather enthusiastic about Marxism.


4 posted on 01/27/2018 7:45:28 AM PST by relictele
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To: NRx

That is really fascinating. Thanks.


5 posted on 01/27/2018 7:50:26 AM PST by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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To: NRx

Well I feel old now.


6 posted on 01/27/2018 7:50:36 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: relictele; NRx

Today they hide behind the word “progressive” and hope it fools everyone.

Thanks for sharing this clip, NRx. It is a wonderful little time capsule.


7 posted on 01/27/2018 7:51:13 AM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: NRx

Very interesting...very smoggy...if the environmentalists would only admit how clean our air is NOW! Note, also how short the men’s ties were....I noticed that this week looking through old pictures of my husband’s great grandfather.


8 posted on 01/27/2018 8:03:22 AM PST by goodnesswins (There were 1.41 MILLION NON Profit orgs in 2013 with $1.73 TRILLION in REVENUE)
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To: NRx

Very cool!


9 posted on 01/27/2018 8:07:08 AM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: LostInBayport

Everyone dressed to the nines. Women well turned out. Different time.


10 posted on 01/27/2018 8:48:09 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: NRx

And it was just as segregated as the Deep South.


11 posted on 01/27/2018 8:49:56 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: HarleyD
My how styles have changed.

I have a photo of a 1930s motorcycle hillclimb event near Reading, PA. Many of the spectators are wearing ties.

12 posted on 01/27/2018 8:51:48 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: goodnesswins
Note, also how short the men’s ties were...

I think that is at least partly because the four-in-hand knot was popular back then. It uses up a lot of length in a tie. Try it.

13 posted on 01/27/2018 9:22:13 AM PST by Chuckster (There is no government solution to government corruption.)
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To: upchuck
I’m amazed at the number of fat, overweight, obese folks (that) were walking around.

They're not walking around now.

14 posted on 01/27/2018 9:28:53 AM PST by JPG (MAGA)
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To: elcid1970
Everyone dressed to the nines. Women well turned out. Different time.

Bear in mind that, back then, a suit of clothes cost a weeks pay or more. They didn't have cheap screen printed t-shirts and polyester junk. A man might own one or two suits, half a dozen shirts and only one or two pairs of shoes. And, of course, a hat. Grown men did not wear baseball caps, underwear or shorts out in public; certainly not in the city. Women who were not prostitutes knew better than to dress like one. This was before the government took over the schools.

15 posted on 01/27/2018 9:33:24 AM PST by Chuckster (There is no government solution to government corruption.)
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To: NRx

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zk0eyKzp1c

They have a similar link for Swinging London 67’

In color.


16 posted on 01/27/2018 9:56:48 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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Towards the end of the video, they actually captured images of union construction workers stating they were 'plasterers'. they were standing several stories high in the building but were unsecured except by their own grips to open framework of the Chrysler building which was clearly under construction.

Wow!

Back in '79, as a class assignment for a university class I travelled into the city to take photos of the Chrysler building's interior and exterior. I borrowed my dad's Nikon camera to perform this task.

As I entered the main elevator lobby of the Chrysler building, I took out the camera to take some photos. A security guard immediately pulled me to the side and confiscated my camera. I was then escorted up to one of the top floors to a patent attorney's office and read the riot act. Fortunately for me, once I explained the task I was assigned, he offered me several glossy photo books on the design and construction of the tower and instructed the security officer to return my camera as I exited the building. The professional glossy documents were not accepted for credit with the assignment, excuse denied. I only received credit for the written portion of the assignment and never received the glossy material back. Harumph.

17 posted on 01/27/2018 9:59:19 AM PST by wtd
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A favorite scene for me, as well.

I love this kind of thing (old New Yorker, born and bred) and was digging the dirigibles, and the Staten Island ferries clips, too.

Thank You for posting!


18 posted on 01/27/2018 11:20:08 AM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: wtd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaIo7d1tb5o


19 posted on 01/27/2018 11:29:08 AM PST by heterosupremacist (Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
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To: NRx
Thanks for posting.  That was loverly.



20 posted on 01/27/2018 1:46:24 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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