i'm 16 years old and im obsessed with the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s don't know why...its pretty awesome i like the difference i wish i could travel back in time
Frank G I'm 31 and totally feel the same way. I'm obsessed with the 20th Century in general. It was just such a fascinating century...unlike any other. SO much change. One thing I love...is how each decade has it's own unique aesthetic. The 20s, 50s, 60s, 80s, etc....all FEEL different from each other. There's a different tone/mood/fashion/aesthetic to _everything_ and a romantic beauty to it all.
That's funny what you said Frank. Because I was born in the early 40s in New York City and always had a fascination with the decades before my birth, the 20s and 30s. It must be more common than we think.
***** Hey Vinney. If you like 50s era New York City, you ought to check out the old TV crime show filmed then. It's called "Naked City". You can watch on UTUBE too.
My mother lived in Great Neck during the 50s. I wish I made that trip to New York with her to hear about her memories. She passed away 6 years ago. I visited the big Apple last week for the first time. I realy liked my visit. I live in the Netherlands.
@Yaboirado I totally agree, I would like it if men stopped being feminine and wore suits and ties again. But my comment on the women's apparel is because in today's society it's not uncommon to see women hardly dressed, in little more than underwear, or just poorly dressed in sweats and tank tops, or something like that. Compared to what we saw in this video it's a world of difference.
@@jimmyboy131 the worst of it is people who don't know how to wear what they call "relics" and what I called new when I was 10. They put the pants in a strange feminine maner 1975 style, instead of what the tailored trousers from 1942 are supposed to be worn in the fashion of all the way down past your socks, belted, and a tucked in shirt, and over dress jacket to marcupiol the main look. For women its far worse..half of them are always overweight with at 2 tattoos..its as though they care more about a stupid message "look how we can wear this, yet couldn't back then" even though it came in sizes 6 to 16, "back then". Just take a gander at the ""vintage"" section of 'Redidiot" or "reddit" for short. They use the word vintage like its a safe code. It is an incredibly vague term, what year of vintage 1999 or 1920? No vintage has and according to the real diction of 1956, it means "Relating to the decade of 100 years prolonged/back." and paints a far easier image, even if you aren't DaVinci.
@@marcchevalier3750 unfortunately that is true, the 1930s were the finest years of Manhattan specifically 1933 to 1939 and 1940-1942. 1870 to 1929 were as well fine times. That stupid war ruined what we could have had... Oh and that damn shortage in stocks, purchasing..its because we were buying too rich in 1929, as well as banks trading constantly. But the great depression was not as bad as the War.
@@artdecotimes2942 The great depression was nothing. 1/4 of the population were unemployed at its peak. They were a small minority. 3/4 of the population were employed
Thank you for posting this video. That is the NYC I remember. It wasn't perfect but there were lots of jobs; even Manhattan had housing that was affordable; the streets and neighborhoods were (for the most part) clean; the crime rate was low and people were, usually, polite. The NYC school system and CUNY were the envy of cities world-wide!
Interesting to see the 86th floor observatory of the Empire State Building without the overhead fence. By the time my parents went up there in 1952, the overhead fence was in place.
From a time when it didn't cost a fortune to go to NYC and enjoy a Broadway show, have an inexpensive dinner in Chinatown. I use to love to go to NYC years ago. No more! WAY too expensive for EVERYTHING!! Prices for Broadway tickets are outrageous!
1950 was a great time to be born We've seen all the best things come to life. A very decent time.None of the trashy things that have become so common today.
One thing about that video is that, people during that time had perfect figures. Hardly see anyone overweight or obese unlike much to today's Americans!
MrSchmolko I thought I wad the only one who noticed haha. .. im like wait they never talked about harlem. .. or the the east and west village mainly because who occupied them during the time? The blacks. The nba team had me on the floor all I kaput saying was yeah ok. Lol
Uncomplicated if you were a middle class white family. Remember this was still the era of Jim Crow. Edit: Uncomplicated if you were a straight, middle class white male.
@109713678683032680821 Even the Stone Age was complicated, a lot more complicated than now! Back then, no one provided for you if you were an adult. You had to kill and skin your own food, make your own home, and plant your own crops. There were no supermarkets or survival kits to be found anywhere.
+sightinsight And that daughter was so unhip, uncool, and uptight that she didn't have any tats, not even a tramp stamp and she probably used pads instead of tampons because it was too hard to push a tampon through that wiry bush. Gimme a break.
Hard to believe in only 20 years so much changed. The docks, the original madison square garden, and most of coney island were gone, in heavy decline or replaced by the 1970's. This is just from personal experience, but from my last visit there's not much to enjoy about New York now. One amusement park, a few museums, the ights in times square, and central park. Other than that its the same chains as every other city, the same glass skyscrapers. ust a bit bigger and more crowded
I have to agree with you on that comment. Most of the cities I have been to here in the United States has a very similar layout: a few places of interest, skyscrapers, but always the same chain stores everywhere which for me takes away that excitement of going anywhere. That is my opinion on it, of course everyone thinks different.
Madison Square Garden at 50th St. between 8th and 9th avenue was the third MSG, the original was at Madison Square, downtown. Today's MSG is the 4th sports area in NYC to carry the name. Check your facts and history, why don't you?
I disagree. I live on the west coast but visit NYC when I can. That's because it's an actual city, with many many non-chain restaurants, lots of theaters, museums, and classy architecture. Also, the subway is cleaner than it used to be, and it's still a great transportation system.
"There's not much to enjoy about New York now?" Well, IDK. Apparently a lot of people feel differently. In 2018, NYC had a record 65.2 million visitors (51.6 domestic; 13.5 million foreign). Since 1990 the city population has increased by about 1.3 million residents. Crime is nothing compared to years ago. Back in 1990 we had 2,262 murders. Last year we had something like 335. I'm not crazy about all the changes, but nothing stays the same.
@@azul8811 I went for a visit with my sister and some friends in '08. We loved every minute! So exciting in every way. We felt safe just about every minute. People were so helpful to us with directions and all. I can't wait to visit again real soon when it's safe to do so.
I've actually been thinking recently about the thought process behind your comment -- because I myself tend to think in that way. I'm pretty sure it's a characteristically "guy" thing to do. But I've never seen anyone put a name to it. It's a kind of "temporal analogy" or something. My favorite type to ponder in detail is: "How similar (in form, not content) is my experience of something 50 years ago (1973) . . . to the 50-years-ago experience (1923) of someone 50 years ago."
San Francisco has been called, "Baghdad by the Bay", NYC has been called, "Baghdad on the Subway" but I've never heard NYC referred to as, "Baghdad by the Sea" 12:35
@@tailsprowerfan2729 Baghdad in Iraq. At one time referred to as the cradle of civilization. Under the Abbasid Caliphate (approximately 700-1200 CE, and especially its Golden Age (8-10th centuries) it was the Athens or Paris of its time, a large, well planned city with running water, sewage systems, and a Mecca for philosophers and scientists from all over the Islamic world, then the most advanced Western civilization.
OSTARAEB4 Good call. At 12:35 it looks like a 41-43 Ford woody. Even then, a "limo" or taxi wouldn't ordinarily be more than 5 years old. If this is 1950, then the car is at least 7 years old -- not a good way to attract business.
Look at 13:55, showing a trolley on 42nd street. Manhattan trolleys were abandoned in June 1947, except for crosstown lines going to the Bronx, where they ended service a year later. See the open-air double deckers. Their last day of operation was 12/29/1946. see 12:44.
also note no cage around the observation deck on the Empire State Building. I'm not positive but I think the suicide cage was installed after a jumper in 1949
Although I was 4 when this was made, I can recall when I and a friend(Joe Ruff) visited some of these sites in the 70s. New York has changed and in many respects not all for the better...
@@sheastadium2008 Playing the Pirates.The Dodgers played a total of 13 games there in 1956 and 1957 to see if they would draw better than they did at Ebbets Field.I was 7 years old at the time.
@@sheastadium2008 Roosevelt Stadium.An upscale housing development stands there today.Jackie Robinson broke the color line there.Rickey Henderson played there for the A's farm team in the 70's.
@@thatperformer3879 The demolition of Mckim,Meade, & White's, masterpiece; Penn Station. Then the world's largest enclosed space, was an utter loss for New York. A loss the city has never recovered from.
Speaking as a 57 year old native NewYorker, the city from the beginning has always had Blacks, Whites, Third Worlders, Gays, Liberals, Conservatives, Fascists, Socialists, dirt and danger, etc., but for those of you that can't deal with that kind of stuff, there's always that large landmass to the west, the USA.
Ya..'the land mass to the west', the more normal part of the country, not like you goofball New Yorkers from another planet who move to red states and mess them up like Californian's. Stay outa Florida, Texas, and Arizona please. Robert at 69.
Hahaha. Like people think it's new. But they kinda went out of control with it. As a New Yorker you have to be more careful than we do. You might offend someone 😅😅
@14:01 ::Error on the narrator's part. The lions are named "Fortitude" and "Persistence"..not"Knowledge & Power". The Italian sculptor lived in New Rochelle...I talked to one of his grandaughters, Esther Charla. Thus, the actual names were revealed to me, . Lou from N.Y.U.
Excellent video, of a time past, many things to admire. One minor complaint, is the necessary to have the running time clock going at the bottom of this and other videos?
Beautiful times ,people used to have dignity and respect for. Our authorities (and less violent )the late 1960s change everything movies and video games had a lot to do whit .
JesusSaves NYC don't forget. There was racism still going on in the 50's. But I agree. New York City was way better back then compared to how it is now
Gee, why didn't they visit some more adventurous areas like alphabet city, East NY and the south Bronx, wait, could it be that in that day, those areas were normal, safe, working class residential areas? Himmm, why aren't I seeing, drugs, gangs and obnoxious behavior everywhere? Gee, they DID say they were touring NYC....and it's funny, it looks like they called out the national guard and cleaned all the streets.....and the people, just prior to the filming of this....hmmm, I wonder how they did that? And prior to this it must have been a very prolonged spell in which exposure to the sun was at slow ebb causing a profound- pronounced look as if all color had drained out of everyone...
12 Railroads? I can only think of 11: Pennsylvania Railroad, Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, Erie Railroad, New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railroad, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Long Island Railroad, New York Central Railroad, New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, - which one am I missing?
here is one. The Central Harlem Hudson line that went from NYC thru eastern Hudson Valley. Some stations along the route were Hopewell Jct, Lagrangeville, Billings and Amenia
I like the line in "Some Like It Hot," where Marilyn says to Jack "I come from a musical family, my mother was a violinist and my father was a conductor." Jack says: "Where did he conduct," and she replies: "On the Baltimore and Ohio."
This city was not so great we today probably imagine. But yes you are right; times fade away and these pictures are the only, what remains from all that. The change was in the 60th; but why this change occured, I don`t know.
@ehunter2 Thats cool, I don't deny that, I am eternally grateful. NYC is actually one of the cleanest, and safest cities in the US right now. Also South America has made a lot of progress over the decades, Brazi for example l is becoming a world power, and Chile fast becoming a "first world" nation.
2:12 Chin's Restaurant: Lunch for 40 cents and dinner for 85 cents. Folks this was truly a time when people appreciated the value of a dollar. Now days you can't even get a small bottle of water for one dollar. I dread the thought of what prices will be like seventy years into the future from now. Good thing I won't be here to see it.
WOW! IN 1950 NYC WAS BIGGEST,TALLEST,BUSIEST CITY ON EARTH, BUT 7 DECADES LATER,NYC IS JUST A small CITY COMPARED TO OTHERS IN ASIA,MEXICO,SOUTH .AMERICA.& EVEN EUROPE, BUT JUST AS EXCITING AS IT WAS BACK THEN! IT HAS EVERYTHING MANY LARGER CITIES DON'T..& A REAL`MELTING POT' GO NYC!
Giuseppe Di Marco I would still visit NY despite of its current status. It is still a vibrant city and The Empire State Building is still great to see despite taller buildings such as The Burj Khalifa.
But New York City was pretty bad in the 70's and most of the 80's. In the mid of 1970's, if you walked around Time Square area, you would feel that you walked on war zone ghetto area.
@@wingsmith9003 nah it wasn't that bad. I guess when you grow up there it just was what it was. You adapted and used street smarts. I used to play pinball and other games at Fascination on 42nd with my friends as a teen in the late 70's
Ever hear of Hell's Kitchen? You didn't walk through certain neighborhoods even then. There were gangs in the 50s, actually I think there've been gangs in NYC practically since they built Battery Park.
Urban decay may have driven the Dodgers out of Ebbets Field but they were still one of the most, if not THE most profitable teams in Major League baseball. They were just that much MORE profitable in Los Angeles.
Within little more than 10 years after making this film, the Penn Station, the Opera House, and the Madison Sq. garden would all be demolished. My dad worked in NYC from 1956 to 1992 and we went there up until our last trip August 2001, when we declined to see the WTC because "we can see that any time" and of course that too was demolished within a month. It's eventual replacement, besides being only half of a set of twin towers is ugly and twisted. I understand now the bottom ten stories are solid rock with no windows. They should have rebuilt the towers exactly as before, just like they did the monastery at Monte Cassino.
@14;02 the lions are "Patience" & Fortitude"', they whispered their names to The Chess Monster, when New Yaaawk Daily Snooooze, used a :click""click" machine to capture The Chess Monster's shadow for a news paper article....! Not :knowledge" and "Power" as stated within narration.
@qqrazy Unsafe? i live in New York and its actually very safe, look at the crime statistics, NY is the safest of the large cities in the United States.
Cars running red lights. Vehicles not staying in their lane. People jaywalking- Some things never change! (IMHO- Leave out the "added sound"- Sounds more like the elevated train than traffic and the volume fluctuates too much. Instead of enhancing the film, it detracts from it-)
@@marthanatal2758 exactly. I was a kid in the 70's but there were always games to play, books to read, hobbies like sewing, model cars and planes, kids to play outside with..... Always something to do. If we complained we were bored to our mom she would give us chores 😂
@Wing smith irony in your statement. covered women are honoring god. but you christians have long ago stopped honoring god. dont call yourselves religious
i'm 16 years old and im obsessed with the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s don't know why...its pretty awesome i like the difference i wish i could travel back in time
Frank G I'm 31 and totally feel the same way. I'm obsessed with the 20th Century in general. It was just such a fascinating century...unlike any other. SO much change. One thing I love...is how each decade has it's own unique aesthetic. The 20s, 50s, 60s, 80s, etc....all FEEL different from each other. There's a different tone/mood/fashion/aesthetic to _everything_ and a romantic beauty to it all.
That's funny what you said Frank. Because I was born in the early 40s in New York City and always had a fascination with the decades before my birth, the 20s and 30s. It must be more common than we think.
***** Hey Vinney. If you like 50s era New York City, you ought to check out the old TV crime show filmed then. It's called "Naked City". You can watch on UTUBE too.
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My mother lived in Great Neck during the 50s. I wish I made that trip to New York with her to hear about her memories. She passed away 6 years ago. I visited the big Apple last week for the first time. I realy liked my visit. I live in the Netherlands.
I think every resident of Netherlands has a permanent key to NYC. You guys got the city off on the right foot. Return often !
I miss those days, and I wasn't even around back then. I like how the ladies wore clothing, including hats and gloves. Wow.
You wouldn't have a chance unless you were rich is what im guessing. It is new york.
@@yourchronic9219 nice try, but everyone was wearing this.
@Yaboirado I totally agree, I would like it if men stopped being feminine and wore suits and ties again. But my comment on the women's apparel is because in today's society it's not uncommon to see women hardly dressed, in little more than underwear, or just poorly dressed in sweats and tank tops, or something like that. Compared to what we saw in this video it's a world of difference.
@@jimmyboy131 the worst of it is people who don't know how to wear what they call "relics" and what I called new when I was 10. They put the pants in a strange feminine maner 1975 style, instead of what the tailored trousers from 1942 are supposed to be worn in the fashion of all the way down past your socks, belted, and a tucked in shirt, and over dress jacket to marcupiol the main look. For women its far worse..half of them are always overweight with at 2 tattoos..its as though they care more about a stupid message "look how we can wear this, yet couldn't back then" even though it came in sizes 6 to 16, "back then". Just take a gander at the ""vintage"" section of 'Redidiot" or "reddit" for short. They use the word vintage like its a safe code. It is an incredibly vague term, what year of vintage 1999 or 1920? No vintage has and according to the real diction of 1956, it means "Relating to the decade of 100 years prolonged/back." and paints a far easier image, even if you aren't DaVinci.
@Yaboirado it’s not that deep relax you angry feminist
50's NYC is sooo glamorous.
No the 1920s to 1940s were more glamorous than the ugly50s
@@marcchevalier3750 unfortunately that is true, the 1930s were the finest years of Manhattan specifically 1933 to 1939 and 1940-1942. 1870 to 1929 were as well fine times. That stupid war ruined what we could have had... Oh and that damn shortage in stocks, purchasing..its because we were buying too rich in 1929, as well as banks trading constantly. But the great depression was not as bad as the War.
@@artdecotimes2942 The great depression was nothing. 1/4 of the population were unemployed at its peak. They were a small minority. 3/4 of the population were employed
A great time in NYC I was 3 years old in 1950, and living there.
FRANKIESIXTOES you rember anything?
He obviously remembers how to SPELL
FRANKIESIXTOES a little older than my old man
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I live in NYC it's beautiful
how do all the 50's documentals have the same voice? The voice actor must had been rich
It was George Bryan. I believe he was a CBS Staff Announcer in NY as well as doing voice-over
@9 Lives And Counting So true.
The same narrator was used repeatedly in various documentaries as they couldn't get new actors due to budget restraints.
that´s the trasatlantic accent
@9 Lives And Counting a tad dramatic
Thank you for posting this video. That is the NYC I remember.
It wasn't perfect but there were lots of jobs; even Manhattan had housing that was affordable; the streets and neighborhoods were (for the most part) clean; the crime rate was low and people were, usually, polite.
The NYC school system and CUNY were the envy of cities world-wide!
Interesting to see the 86th floor observatory of the Empire State Building without the overhead fence. By the time my parents went up there in 1952, the overhead fence was in place.
Too many jumpers........
+Bill Smith No doubt.
From a time when it didn't cost a fortune to go to NYC and enjoy a Broadway show, have an inexpensive dinner in Chinatown. I use to love to go to NYC years ago. No more! WAY too expensive for EVERYTHING!! Prices for Broadway tickets are outrageous!
Fantastic video, God bless you 🙏
Sweet memories! Thank you for this trip back in time and place.
Pretty amazing! Must have been a swell time to enjoy. Notice the excellent customer service. Nice family also. Thanks so much. Best, J.
I was born in 1950. I would like to have been 20 years old and live in Manhattan in 59 to catch the Jazz at Birdland!
These 20yo olds from the documentary are now 80 years old... if they are even alive. It's so scary how fast time goes by
When we are young it lasts forever.
No atleast 90 year Olds to 100
I remember going to New York when I was 6 in 1958 it was beautiful. I remember going there again in 1977 and the city became a complete shithole.
i wish i born 1950 in america man its greatest time in the world
***** yes so?
+Bla Bla
Your comment is just a bit more intelligent than slypherspoon's.
+SlypherSpoons you're *
1950 was a great time to be born We've seen all the best things come to life. A very decent time.None of the trashy things that have become so common today.
Too bad racial segregation still existed back then.
My loved New York in the 1950. My dreamed city. Thanks for this marvelous and outstanding video.
Right so BEAUTIFUL.
One thing about that video is that, people during that time had perfect figures. Hardly see anyone overweight or obese unlike much to today's Americans!
maybe they just left them out, just like the black people, that you never see. even an all white nba game.
MrSchmolko I thought I wad the only one who noticed haha. .. im like wait they never talked about harlem. .. or the the east and west village mainly because who occupied them during the time? The blacks. The nba team had me on the floor all I kaput saying was yeah ok. Lol
new yorkers have never been as fat as most americans. we walk everywhere.
Steven Haines same thing when I lived in HK back in '97! I walked alot and commute.
But again, the family featured in this video are from Ohio.
flip1sba They are also dressed nice too.Most people in those days dressed like they were going to the office in those days.
What a simple, uncomplicated time in the world.
my thoughts exactly.
Uncomplicated if you were a middle class white family. Remember this was still the era of Jim Crow.
Edit: Uncomplicated if you were a straight, middle class white male.
The Jim Crow laws were only in the south. But you could still die of some diseases and have no internet access. Women were also treated like crap.
Uncomplicated time in the world? I honestly can't think of any period of time that can be described as such.
@109713678683032680821 Even the Stone Age was complicated, a lot more complicated than now! Back then, no one provided for you if you were an adult. You had to kill and skin your own food, make your own home, and plant your own crops. There were no supermarkets or survival kits to be found anywhere.
Their family was so perfect.
teltri Father Knows Best.
+teltri You know they were homophobic and racist, and would NEVER have voted for Obama over Eisenhower.
+sightinsight And that daughter was so unhip, uncool, and uptight that she didn't have any tats, not even a tramp stamp and she probably used pads instead of tampons because it was too hard to push a tampon through that wiry bush. Gimme a break.
No shots of 50s hippies in lower East side & GV. No porn shops & girly shows on Times Square. This are your white bread sanitized bullshit scenes.
***** Yeah, :-) Their perfection makes me throw up.
Such amazing history
Enjoyable historical eye opener - many thanks.
Hard to believe in only 20 years so much changed. The docks, the original madison square garden, and most of coney island were gone, in heavy decline or replaced by the 1970's. This is just from personal experience, but from my last visit there's not much to enjoy about New York now. One amusement park, a few museums, the ights in times square, and central park. Other than that its the same chains as every other city, the same glass skyscrapers. ust a bit bigger and more crowded
I have to agree with you on that comment. Most of the cities I have been to here in the United States has a very similar layout: a few places of interest, skyscrapers, but always the same chain stores everywhere which for me takes away that excitement of going anywhere. That is my opinion on it, of course everyone thinks different.
Madison Square Garden at 50th St. between 8th and 9th avenue was the third MSG, the original was at Madison Square, downtown. Today's MSG is the 4th sports area in NYC to carry the name. Check your facts and history, why don't you?
I disagree. I live on the west coast but visit NYC when I can. That's because it's an actual city, with many many non-chain restaurants, lots of theaters, museums, and classy architecture. Also, the subway is cleaner than it used to be, and it's still a great transportation system.
"There's not much to enjoy about New York now?" Well, IDK. Apparently a lot of people feel differently. In 2018, NYC had a record 65.2 million visitors (51.6 domestic; 13.5 million foreign).
Since 1990 the city population has increased by about 1.3 million residents. Crime is nothing compared to years ago. Back in 1990 we had 2,262 murders. Last year we had something like 335.
I'm not crazy about all the changes, but nothing stays the same.
@@azul8811 I went for a visit with my sister and some friends in '08. We loved every minute! So exciting in every way. We felt safe just about every minute. People were so helpful to us with directions and all. I can't wait to visit again real soon when it's safe to do so.
It's pretty remarkable to realize that the old people in this video are over 100 years old now and were born in the 1800s.
I've actually been thinking recently about the thought process behind your comment -- because I myself tend to think in that way. I'm pretty sure it's a characteristically "guy" thing to do. But I've never seen anyone put a name to it. It's a kind of "temporal analogy" or something. My favorite type to ponder in detail is: "How similar (in form, not content) is my experience of something 50 years ago (1973) . . . to the 50-years-ago experience (1923) of someone 50 years ago."
San Francisco has been called, "Baghdad by the Bay", NYC has been called, "Baghdad on the Subway" but I've never heard NYC referred to as, "Baghdad by the Sea" 12:35
As in Baghdad Iraq? Or is there more city’s with that name because the only one I know of is Iraq
@@tailsprowerfan2729 Baghdad in Iraq. At one time referred to as the cradle of civilization. Under the Abbasid Caliphate (approximately 700-1200 CE, and especially its Golden Age (8-10th centuries) it was the Athens or Paris of its time, a large, well planned city with running water, sewage systems, and a Mecca for philosophers and scientists from all over the Islamic world, then the most advanced Western civilization.
Actually, this is not 1950. It's more like 1946,47. I see where I lived before my building complex was built. Plus, I see no 1950 cars or even 1948.
Likely you're right, and likely 1946--ladies' hemlines did not drop (to mid calf) until Christian Dior introduced "the New Look" in 1947.
Sir, may I ask if you are still alive?
OSTARAEB4 Good call. At 12:35 it looks like a 41-43 Ford woody. Even then, a "limo" or taxi wouldn't ordinarily be more than 5 years old. If this is 1950, then the car is at least 7 years old -- not a good way to attract business.
Look at 13:55, showing a trolley on 42nd street. Manhattan trolleys were abandoned in June 1947, except for crosstown lines going to the Bronx, where they ended service a year later. See the open-air double deckers. Their last day of operation was 12/29/1946. see 12:44.
also note no cage around the observation deck on the Empire State Building. I'm not positive but I think the suicide cage was installed after a jumper in 1949
Although I was 4 when this was made, I can recall when I and a friend(Joe Ruff) visited some of these sites in the 70s. New York has changed and in many respects not all for the better...
Back when the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn. Cool.
I saw them play in Jersey City.
@@rentslave wow really? What were they doing there?
@@sheastadium2008 Playing the Pirates.The Dodgers played a total of 13 games there in 1956 and 1957 to see if they would draw better than they did at Ebbets Field.I was 7 years old at the time.
@@rentslave ah, that's interesting. Do you remember the name of the stadium?
@@sheastadium2008 Roosevelt Stadium.An upscale housing development stands there today.Jackie Robinson broke the color line there.Rickey Henderson played there for the A's farm team in the 70's.
ok,thanks for posting this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember riding on the Third Avenue El
those were the good days. God Bless America
Getting rid of the El train was one of New York’s biggest mistakes
@@thatperformer3879 They never should have gotten rid of the El. I agree there.
@@thatperformer3879 The demolition of Mckim,Meade, & White's, masterpiece; Penn Station. Then the world's largest enclosed space, was an utter loss for New York. A loss the city has never recovered from.
NYC area is the best place to live. No place is as good as NYC. I love the big apple!!
Speaking as a 57 year old native NewYorker, the city from the beginning has always had Blacks, Whites, Third Worlders, Gays, Liberals, Conservatives, Fascists, Socialists, dirt and danger, etc., but for those of you that can't deal with that kind of stuff, there's always that large landmass to the west, the USA.
Ya..'the land mass to the west', the more normal part of the country, not like you goofball New Yorkers from another planet who move to red states and mess them up like Californian's. Stay outa Florida, Texas, and Arizona please. Robert at 69.
Hahaha. Like people think it's new. But they kinda went out of control with it. As a New Yorker you have to be more careful than we do. You might offend someone 😅😅
Yeah sure, so the rotten state of NYC Today is perfectly equivalent to
what you had at the city's
height. Sure.
@14:01 ::Error on the narrator's part. The lions are named "Fortitude" and "Persistence"..not"Knowledge & Power". The Italian sculptor lived in New Rochelle...I talked to one of his grandaughters, Esther Charla. Thus, the actual names were revealed to me,
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Lou from N.Y.U.
New York is very beautiful and wonderful
I was born in 1950....right across the river in Hoboken, N.J!
Excellent video, of a time past, many things to admire. One minor complaint, is the necessary to have the running time clock going at the bottom of this and other videos?
This was originally released in 1947. Note the billboard for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Diamond Jubilee" at 8:57 (it opened in February 1872).
wow this so cool. Not mention you still had the Third Avenue EL
The George Washington Bridge at 8:09 with a single deck (its lower level was added in 1961).
We still have a beautiful city. Some of our buildings are just timeless.
The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down, New York New York its a helluva town
The city's so nice, they named it twice!
Awesome
I feel immature because I giggled when he said "a heart that's young and gay"
Annabel Velvet c you're not immature. You've just been conditioned by leftist ideology who ruined everything good.
desertodavid OH, STFU!
9 Lives And Counting You’re spouting political theory.
Gay means happy idiot
@Jesse yeah u right
It was a much cleaner and safer city back then. This was before the 60s era of urban decay.
Beautiful times ,people used to have dignity and respect for. Our authorities (and less violent )the late 1960s change everything movies and video games had a lot to do whit .
Joe Guzman Did you pass history class in the 6th grade?
Bro what
It was the year of my birth,It looks like the movie a hundred years
I wish I was back in the 1950's
JesusSaves NYC why?
sim61642 because it was real New York & a better world than today
JesusSaves NYC don't forget. There was racism still going on in the 50's. But I agree. New York City was way better back then compared to how it is now
Gee, why didn't they visit some more adventurous areas like alphabet city, East NY and the south Bronx, wait, could it be that in that day, those areas were normal, safe, working class residential areas? Himmm, why aren't I seeing, drugs, gangs and obnoxious behavior everywhere? Gee, they DID say they were touring NYC....and it's funny, it looks like they called out the national guard and cleaned all the streets.....and the people, just prior to the filming of this....hmmm, I wonder how they did that?
And prior to this it must have been a very prolonged spell in which exposure to the sun was at slow ebb causing a profound- pronounced look as if all color had drained out of everyone...
@@carl9939 racism is even worse today.
12 Railroads? I can only think of 11: Pennsylvania Railroad, Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, Erie Railroad, New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railroad, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Long Island Railroad, New York Central Railroad, New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Central Railroad of New Jersey, - which one am I missing?
You forgot the New York Ontario & Western (O&W) which used the NYC West Shore Route to Weehawken.anonymous anonymous
Michael Edwards Thanks
here is one. The Central Harlem Hudson line that went from NYC thru eastern Hudson Valley. Some stations along the route were Hopewell Jct, Lagrangeville, Billings and Amenia
I like the line in "Some Like It Hot," where Marilyn says to Jack "I come from a musical family, my mother was a violinist and my father was a conductor." Jack says: "Where did he conduct," and she replies: "On the Baltimore and Ohio."
You forgot "The Short Line."
This city was not so great we today probably imagine. But yes you are right; times fade away and these pictures are the only, what remains from all that. The change was in the 60th; but why this change occured, I don`t know.
I know :) I heard the term swell in another vintage video. I just watched a really swell video about Pan Am. Thanks, J
How the world has change
did anyone notice that in the 50s the empire state building doesn't have a barrier that prevents you from falling to your death???
honestly i just need this for a lofi sample
Nice family nice time for some miss days like that. You can smell the brownies cooking In the kitchen.
Prudence and Fortitude are the Library Lions.
They still are and 🐯 roar today,more than the MGM one ever did 😂 lol!
interesting how the business man who sells the trip does not greet the two women.
I remember that.
@ehunter2 Thats cool, I don't deny that, I am eternally grateful. NYC is actually one of the cleanest, and safest cities in the US right now. Also South America has made a lot of progress over the decades, Brazi for example l is becoming a world power, and Chile fast becoming a "first world" nation.
I believe that George Bryan, the narrator, replaced Tony Marvin as announcer on the Godfrey Show.
2:12 Chin's Restaurant: Lunch for 40 cents and dinner for 85 cents. Folks this was truly a time when people appreciated the value of a dollar. Now days you can't even get a small bottle of water for one dollar. I dread the thought of what prices will be like seventy years into the future from now. Good thing I won't be here to see it.
*crying* Penn Station RIP
WOW! IN 1950 NYC WAS BIGGEST,TALLEST,BUSIEST CITY ON EARTH, BUT 7 DECADES LATER,NYC IS JUST A small CITY COMPARED TO OTHERS IN ASIA,MEXICO,SOUTH .AMERICA.& EVEN EUROPE, BUT JUST AS EXCITING AS IT WAS BACK THEN! IT HAS EVERYTHING MANY LARGER CITIES DON'T..& A REAL`MELTING POT' GO NYC!
I wish there was a way to go back in time 🤔
fantastico
I'm happy! i got to know the 70's & 80's Especially! when i was a kid! back in the 70's! it was Awesome! today is Shit!
Giuseppe Di Marco I would still visit NY despite of its current status. It is still a vibrant city and The Empire State Building is still great to see despite taller buildings such as The Burj Khalifa.
But none are art deco..............
But New York City was pretty bad in the 70's and most of the 80's.
In the mid of 1970's, if you walked around Time Square area, you would feel that you walked on war zone ghetto area.
@@wingsmith9003 nah it wasn't that bad. I guess when you grow up there it just was what it was. You adapted and used street smarts. I used to play pinball and other games at Fascination on 42nd with my friends as a teen in the late 70's
I wish I could be born in the 40s in Italy and then move to new york and meet my friend joe and join the mafia
you will be able to do that in mafia 1 remake
Class
This must have been the safest feeling time and place in history. 1950s usa for solid middle class white america. Maybe it would be nice
Ever hear of Hell's Kitchen? You didn't walk through certain neighborhoods even then. There were gangs in the 50s, actually I think there've been gangs in NYC practically since they built Battery Park.
Urban decay may have driven the Dodgers out of Ebbets Field but they were still one of the most, if not THE most profitable teams in Major League baseball.
They were just that much MORE profitable in Los Angeles.
Those homes along the subway route actually looked nice at one time?
Vito and joe are down there somewhere lol
Maravilhoso
Little house...which is freakin huge for New York
No diversity back when!
Yeah, good times, hope it will be the same some day...
Sorry. 1920s to 1940s NYC were a lot better than the 1950s ugly hairstyles and fashion. 1950s had more people and was a little more diverse.
Shamar Calloway naw man 1890s new york was better
@@shrek19yearsago78 wrong. 1890s had boring suits/hats. 1920s to 1940s were much better decades than the 1800s and 1950s to present
Yes and that’s why it’s so clean and safe
swell...I miss that word. I'd also like to see Pan Am come back as an airline...
Welp, I think it's worth mentioning that 1950 is 70 years ago...
Within little more than 10 years after making this film, the Penn Station, the Opera House, and the Madison Sq. garden would all be demolished. My dad worked in NYC from 1956 to 1992 and we went there up until our last trip August 2001, when we declined to see the WTC because "we can see that any time" and of course that too was demolished within a month. It's eventual replacement, besides being only half of a set of twin towers is ugly and twisted. I understand now the bottom ten stories are solid rock with no windows. They should have rebuilt the towers exactly as before, just like they did the monastery at Monte Cassino.
2020👍
@14;02 the lions are "Patience" & Fortitude"', they whispered their names to The Chess Monster, when New Yaaawk Daily Snooooze, used a :click""click" machine to capture The Chess Monster's shadow for a news paper article....! Not :knowledge" and "Power" as stated within narration.
woooowwwww in 1950s my country was totally destroyed and poverty striken...i have never believed this kind od utopia can be in 1950s...wowwwwww
Little did that announcer know that Mecca would be visiting NY in 51 years.
+Tom Dockery We need to turn that turrent at the top of the Empire State into a minaret. Obama should get on that.
No helmets in 1950 hockey...
Also no cage around the Empire State Building's observation deck, as there is today.
And hardly any helmets in the NHL during the '60's and '70's. Just a handful of players.
"Craig MacTavish was the last NHL player to play without a helmet. He retired in 1997 after playing 17 seasons in the league."
the statue of liberty....*OH BOI*
@qqrazy Unsafe? i live in New York and its actually very safe, look at the crime statistics, NY is the safest of the large cities in the United States.
Even the kid has a hat. A grown-up one.......
Cars running red lights. Vehicles not staying in their lane. People jaywalking- Some things never change! (IMHO- Leave out the "added sound"- Sounds more like the elevated train than traffic and the volume fluctuates too much. Instead of enhancing the film, it detracts from it-)
1951: The Year in Review
The year that Ladell was born on March 15
Better times
16:25"There goes junior--now for heaven's sake be careful! (Me: it was a different time indeed.)
Were you around in 1950?
They didn't have any internet or much tv back then either
But it was wonderful didnt need it ANYWAY ???
@@marthanatal2758 exactly. I was a kid in the 70's but there were always games to play, books to read, hobbies like sewing, model cars and planes, kids to play outside with..... Always something to do. If we complained we were bored to our mom she would give us chores 😂
Who needs tv or internet when you can go out and do fun things cheaply.
I had 10 years old
12:34 "off to the Baghdad by the sea, New York City."
That's very interesting. Shows you how things have changed
I'm feeling watching on the oldest tv😶
W8 why is this on my recommendation???
Back when women , were actually , Women ....
now... some are prostitute
@Wing smith irony in your statement. covered women are honoring god. but you christians have long ago stopped honoring god. dont call yourselves religious
Richard Head what's wrong with people from different countries living there?
@9 Lives And Counting I live in new york
@9 Lives And Counting and remember. Immigrants arent the only one who left a mess
Ny in the 50s looked so much better than the 80s
Just think, that boy is in his 70's now.
Theater,ethnic food,skyscrapers and the fashion world.
No mention of Greenwich Village, Chinatown or Little Italy. An all white bread tour. No shots of 42nd Street in the daytime with porn shops and dives.
***** and just what is wrong with an all white bread tour?
It's the sheeple's tour.
+Vladislov Kyzinski There was a whole section on Chinatown at 8:24
+Vladislov Kyzinski Porn shops did not exist back then, and Times Square had not yet turned into Slime Square.