Posted on 08/23/2018 12:15:31 PM PDT by NRx
Old film of fair scenes at Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey, USA on May 14, 1932. These scenes were taken with early Movietone sound cameras. This kind of setting is frequently depicted in Hollywood movies but it's rare to see it for real!
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Oh man, I remember that. Only went once or twice despite growing up there. The world’s largest salt water pool. Never quite liked it as much as the Jersey shore and the boardwalks @ Atlantic City or Ocean City, but which were a bit more distant. Usually Pal Park was very crowded and I always thought it was kind of run down (even back in the 60’s) while certainly the boardwalks on the Jersey shore could be kind of run down, there was more of a charm to them. You at least got the ocean breeze there.
Where are the fat middle-aged guys with the t-shirts and cargo shorts?
Bump.
-PJ
The guy at @1:12 with the kid, looked brazen, as if he were Grant, Bogart, or Holden. It was good, the humanity of it all.
There was a woman eating an ice cream cone right up against the camera. Then she suddenly walked away, probably realizing that she was going to be on film!
Those people surely could not imagine that nearly a century later, people would be able to bring that film up on demand using personal hand-held devices.
Here is a old video of the neighborhood I grew up in. At the 00:14 mark is the St. Anthony's church in Revere. I lived on Revere Street as a boy and that was basically the view I had from my living room window. On Sundays, I used to like hearing those church bells ring practically all day long (you could hear them from a mile away) and in those days, everything was closed on Sundays. It was a day totally dedicated to church and family time. At the 00:54 mark, the trolley is passing by the old Cyclone roller coaster at Revere Beach. I was close enough to that roller coaster where I could hear the screams from my bedroom window as the cars crested the top. In 1973, that same roller coaster burned to the ground and I saw that too, from my bedroom window. I was just 10 years old at the time.
Almost all the trolleys in the Boston area were replaced by buses during the 1950s and 1960s. Though I remember them being in Brookline and Cambridge well into the 1970s.
Wow. Boys with suit and ties, girls in dresses.
Used to go there quite a bit on date nights,in the late 50’s early 60’s. They had a band shell where the early rockers used to perform. Great times and cotton candy.
At about 1:42 you can see at least four people wearing the old fashioned +4s (knickers). They were considered an acceptable form of casual active wear for men in those days, especially on golf courses or when hiking.
I am not an East Boston or north Boston person, but I do recall riding the old train (now Blue Line) with the steering wheel thing on some of them. I got to steer the train once or twice.
Somewhere along that Route, the trains had to stop and switch over to Third Rail from trolley service.
These younger generations will never know the excitement of traveling to Revere Beach by the MTA and riding the double Ferris Wheel or the Roller Coaster there.
MAGA
Are you as sick of that look as I am? My kids, now in their late 20s and early 30s, find it hard believe that there was a time when men didn't dress that way except at the beach.
Remember the song “Palisades Park” that was popular in the early 60s?
I recall Palisades Park in the 50s/60s right on the NJ side of the Hudson ‘back in the day.’ My memory such as it is, places it below the GW bridge.
Thanks, Jane. It was interesting. We’re not used to seeing films from that era that are so clear and sharps.
Cheers.
My dad was an attorney for the park. That meant we got plenty of passes to visit. I never did swim in the pool but I did finally get up the nerve to ride the Cyclone. I wish my grandchildren had such a park to visit.
-—These younger generations will never know the excitement of traveling to Revere Beach by the MTA and riding the double Ferris Wheel or the Roller Coaster there. -—
Yes! Paragon Park! In case you’re interested, the old Paragon park roller coaster was moved, and it’s still up and running at Six Flags in Baltimore.
MY Bad! Paragon was at Nantasket, not Revere. Anyway, great memories...
Thanks for posting - that was great! Amazing to see everyone all dressed up at Palisades Park! We used to go there in the ‘60s and I remember the song so well.
It’s amazing how different the impression gained from real people, doing real things, with real background sound versus a Hollywood version of reality. Time machine indeed!
By the mid 1940s knickers were out of date, even for kids. My grandmother tried to get me to wear ones she got at the Goodwill store. I refused.
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