Posted on 01/20/2020 7:59:27 AM PST by NRx
Home movies, likely shot over the winter of 1937-38. Very high quality showing street scenes, well known landmarks, harbor of New York with famous ocean liners and etc. Shot in kodachrome color, appx 41 minutes.
Excellent!
I love these old vids that you post.
The people of NYC have changed....but, the buildings have not!
A lot of pollution over those buildings.
Trying to determine if the ferry, at the beginning, was on the Hudson or the East river.
BFL...by the way, thanks for posting these things...I love em!
They took away our great Kodachrome. Best color film ever.
Spectacular !!! Love the old cars !!! Advertisement for a new Oldsmobile, $914 !!!
Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for posting. Brings back a lot of memories as a child growing up in the Bronx during the 50’s and traveling to NYC with my father.
My dad’s era.
He was a young man, WWII was around the corner, and he walked the streets of North Philly like the giant he (and his generation) was...
WWII came and he was Airborne, first glider and then paratrooper, and that was the world that molded him and made him the man he was.
Thanks for posting that, NRx.
What a time to be alive, that must have been.
Nice shots of the Queen Mary.
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Huh?
There are so many new buildings that the Empire State Building is no longer visible from the tunnel helix on the NJ side when one is even with 34th Street.
ML/NJ
I’m referring to the buildings that are in this vid, that are still standing.
Little to no modern updates.
Wonderful - Thank you!!!
Still wouldn’t want to live there.
I read a book..Letters from America from 1820.
It was about a sister in NYC who was corresponding with her sister back in England.
She described NYC as “charming” and “everyone is friendly”
Excellent!
I agree, but I do try to keep in mind what an uncertain and frightening time that must have been, 1941-1942.
But the common purpose...how powerful that must have been.
Even then, they had the labor unions that went on strike while our men were fighting. Good God.
I often wonder how people in those unions who had husbands, fathers, and sons fighting in that war in combat could even allow their leadership to put them on strike.
NYC - December - winter with no snow? Climate change!
“..what an uncertain and frightening time that must have been,..”
Hell yeah...
I think the Depression toughened people up, though.
One thing I’ve noticed about old newsreels is how much better people dressed in those days, when we were much less affluent. Most adult men wore suits and ties in public, and many wore fedoras and other hats. Adult women typically wore dresses and some sort of hat. Now, most people dress very casually, and many are complete slobs.
[[They took away our great Kodachrome. Best color film ever.]]
Absolutely- not true to life color, but beautiful color-
Very cool, but I couldn’t help but think, all those people are dead.
That’s a lot of dead people...
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