Posted on 09/09/2019 2:40:09 PM PDT by NRx
Old film showing large crowds outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on Easter Sunday April 9, 1944. It's pretty rare to find non-war related footage from this time period with sound included. These scenes were taken with early Movietone sound cameras. (appx 4 mins)
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Not bad. Well dressed people going to church.
Very nice! Even when I was growing up in NYC in the late 50s and the early 60s, St Pat’s always had huge crowds. Then the Church went sort of left wing and weakened its own brand, and now under Marxist Frank, it’s gone full leftist and totally destroyed its brand. Nobody needs to bother with it anymore. Very sad.
Concurrent with this, the allies were getting ready for D-Day; the concentration camps were in full operation, Japan still controlled most of Asia, and most Americans had relatives serving abroad in dangerous places.
My Grandfather was a Marine in the Pacific, fighting the Japs.
CYO...Catholic grammar school and all our processions with the girls wearing pretty white lacy dresses,(kept in a big box in the school and pulled out for the girls to wear for these processions) and the boys with white shirts and blue ties.....
we were a better country then.....
Yes, we were.
Very well-heeled crowd doing the Easter Parade before church. My parents would have fit right in with that crowd. Wasn’t the war in Europe about to end?
I’ve been in that church a few times, stopped in every time I went to New York on business. A lovely place, beautiful stained glass windows.
The next youtube video is Harlem at about the same time. Beautiful, well dressed blacks then with excellent posture and virtually no crime. Ah, those were the days.
My uncle and his wife were sent to Japan as part of the occupation forces and one of my cousins was born there. And now I have a good Japanese friend here in Spokane. He was born in Hawaii. I asked him if his parents were sent to internment camps after Pearl Harbor and he laughed. “There were too many of us,” just the mainland Japanese were. Some West Coast Italians were too, but they were released back to their homes after 10 months.
It looks like the Easter Parade, war version.
My uncle and his wife were sent to Japan as part of the occupation forces and one of my cousins was born there. And now I have a good Japanese friend here in Spokane. He was born in Hawaii. I asked him if his parents were sent to internment camps after Pearl Harbor and he laughed. “There were too many of us,” just the mainland Japanese were. Some West Coast Italians were too, but they were released back to their homes after 10 months.
Yes, those were indeed the days! Whether you grew up in Harlem or in Inwood or on the Upper East Side or even the Bronx, you basically had the same values, although of course there were social differences. But most people had a fundamental shared belief, both in religion and in their country. They knew right from wrong, even if they didn’t always do right!
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