Really cool!! Thanks for posting.
Men and young men/boys wearing suits and ties, women/young ladies wearing dresses and scarves.
And, no neck support, on the roller coaster. That one young man certainly enjoyed “holding on” to the young lady, on the coaster!
Excellent quality footage!!
Men and young men/boys wearing suits and ties, women/young ladies wearing dresses and scarves.
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That’s the first thing I noticed.
We’ve turned into barbarians with smartphones.
Notice the younger boys wearing “knickers”???
Will watch later.
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.