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New York City in 1941 (color film footage)
YouTube ^ | 02-11-2017 | rabnass World Archives Film Video

Posted on 04/10/2019 3:24:52 PM PDT by NRx

8mm home movies shot in color showing street scenes from New York City in the summer of 1941. (appx 3 mins)

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1 posted on 04/10/2019 3:24:52 PM PDT by NRx
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To: NRx

I can guess.

Clean streets
Folks dressed very nicely. Even in poor neighborhoods
No poop or druggies can be seen


2 posted on 04/10/2019 3:36:20 PM PDT by 2banana (Were you)
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To: NRx

No air conditioning.


3 posted on 04/10/2019 3:56:14 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: NRx

Dads sitting around at home still in white shirt and tie reading the paper while mom is in the kitchen making supper.


4 posted on 04/10/2019 3:57:17 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: NRx

bump


5 posted on 04/10/2019 3:59:18 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: dp0622

Ping.


6 posted on 04/10/2019 4:08:48 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: NRx

The left despises THAT America. They want NYC circa 1971 as the Apple was rotting away.


7 posted on 04/10/2019 4:10:44 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Menehune56
Who needs AC when you have the beach at Coney Island?

https://media.aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/WEEGEE_1940_Coney_Island_Beach_web-620x477.jpg
8 posted on 04/10/2019 4:13:36 PM PDT by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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To: SkyDancer

Pipe and slippers. Don’t forget about those. :)


9 posted on 04/10/2019 4:18:13 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: 2banana
Clean streets Folks dressed very nicely. Even in poor neighborhoods No poop or druggies can be seen

Fiorello H. La Guardia is mayor. A Republican.

Speaking of which, my fav' depiction of Fiorello as a kid:

What are you gonna do, Humphrey... Louis... Fiorello... Barney?"

10 posted on 04/10/2019 4:20:37 PM PDT by C210N (You can vote your way into Socialism; but, you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: NRx

A four-level jungle gym? OMG! How many kids died falling off of THAT?!?


11 posted on 04/10/2019 4:21:29 PM PDT by polymuser (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: Menehune56

In the parks, find some shade and stretch out on the grass.

Life was simpler. Safer, too.


12 posted on 04/10/2019 4:44:23 PM PDT by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: NRx

Americana-Free Republic


13 posted on 04/10/2019 4:59:30 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: NRx

A nation preparing for war. You can see the formation of Navy sailors marching down one of the sidewalks. At that time, Hitler had pretty much all of mainland Europe and was (at the time) chewing up Russia. England still stood alone.


14 posted on 04/10/2019 5:07:31 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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Thank God we live in an America where white people are on the way out. Disgusting!


15 posted on 04/10/2019 5:07:35 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: NRx

OMG! Where is the Coalition of the Ascendant?


16 posted on 04/10/2019 5:08:46 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: Army Air Corps

Oh yeah right. My grandparents love watching retro TV like “I Married Joan” and a few others of that era.


17 posted on 04/10/2019 5:56:01 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: NRx

No fat people.


18 posted on 04/10/2019 6:08:59 PM PDT by Not gonna take it anymore (Now that Trump has won, I don't have to post about halfwit anymore)
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No homeless? No panhandlers? No Muslims or Mexicans?

Color me suspicious...


19 posted on 04/11/2019 2:09:55 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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This is film shot by tourists. New York had all of those back in 1941 but I doubt they were of much interest to those shooting the film.


20 posted on 04/11/2019 8:36:04 AM PDT by NRx (A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
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