Trinidad, 1943
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- A visit to the Caribbean island of Trinidad in the late 1938. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivefarms.com. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
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I am excited BC I saw my mother's father in this film. She cried to see her daddy again.... Wow thank you
Blessings to her
Blessings to her
Made me feel to exist in a Era I wasn't even in❤😭
People dressed so much better than they do now.
My mother and her parents were in Trinidad on a US Army base right before Pearl Harbor. Mom and grandma had to leave once the war started and they came back on a blacked out ocean liner and landed in NYC in December 1942 - they had no winter clothes so a guide took them to a department store and they bought clothes to get back to Indianapolis Indiana. My grandfather stayed in Trinidad because the war broke out and he was a career army sargaent.
That would have been Fort Read air base at Wallerfield, I grew up near there. At the time it was the largest air base in the world, believe it or not,
Believe or not FDR visited Trinidad in 1937 before the war started, its even here somewhere on YT. That base was planned in the 1930's.
My mom was born in 1937 and she still alive, she'd be happy to see this, Damn we rock then, we still keep rocking.
Hi, is your mom still alive?
@@noelicialaborde4963 🤷
Your mom alive?
My grandmother was born in 1924, she won’t be here much longer…
realise how properly dressed these ppl are....elegance n class!
دانا as well as how clean the streets are
It was the clothes presented at the time...smh
@@toppybossradio4518 Well said but back then we still wasn't free you saw all the sailors well yea the wont amed but the representatives law and order
It is really nice to see how Trinidad was back in the days...
trini u tellin me
Ccn TV 6live
Wow
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So beautiful and modest the way they were dressed back then
The temperature was cooler than now though.
I wish i could go back into time.
Same
What a fantastic film.
It really moved me to see old Port of Spain. I remember shopping @ JT Johnsons department store as a child.
Thanks my great grand fathers worked very hard for sept 24 I can't wait to return to my home place that I call heaven
Rob S not anymore
The most ironic thing for me is that clearly the mayor of Port of Spain has had a problem with street vendors since in the 1930's.
Before PNM and UNC, looks so beautiful. Everybody looks happy together.
Just hush
Yeah under British rule and did not have independence yet, no equality, every era had issues, can't romanticized any
this is true, in 2022 all those foreign people on Charlotte street would have been robbed, raped or murdered
Before you let plebs run things.
You mean, "Before independence. Singapore got independence approximately same time as Trinidad and Tobago. Today Singapore is one of the most developed countries in the world.
Meanwhile, Trinidad and Tobago has gone from a place where serious crime was literally unheard of, to the present, in which not a day goes by without several serious crimes being committed. There is a huge vagrancy problem, also thousands of young people have been driven insane by illegal drugs.
Billions, possibly trillions dollars lost to political/government corruption in the first Oil Boom of the 1970s and 80s, and billions more during the second Oil and gas boom of 2001 to 2010. And nobody has been held accountable.
Seriously, it's taking Trinidad and Tobago way too long to progress to the grand country many dreamt of post independence.
Just a final note : Trinidad and Tobago had two giant oil and gas booms since the 1970s, and there is very little to show for it, white elephant projects dot the landscape, and nobody can account for billions of dollars gone awol. Meanwhile, Singapore, with no natural resources, has bettered itself since its independence, and it rivals many of the big European countries in terms of its stature on the world stage.
Trini n proud
Crystal West don kno.loud n proud😎😎😅😅
Trini2DBone
Very nice seeing this I was born in the month of July 1943.When I grew up I shopped at J T Johnson store brings back very nice memories shopping there.👏🏾
Trini or Trinidadian means that you were born here.........Your complexion is not your decision.
And still we live as one ,whether African, Indian, Syrian ,Chinese ,Spanish etc finds equal place in Sweet TnT.
I am so proud to be a Trinidadian Love my nationality 🤗 and to make it even better for Me I am biracial on my mother's side she's is West Indian mixed with Middle Eastern and Pakistani on my father's side he's mixed with French black and Spanish yay for me my children same thing their father is mixed with West Indian Indian and their dad is mixed with black so we got a bunch of beautiful kids thanking God for that Proud Trinidadian
Wow, now I get to see T&T from when my Grandma was a baby.... Thanks for a great vid.
everyone down to the vendors are very well dressed!! Everyone looking freshh...lovely!!!
Lovely to see what Trinidad looked liked. Some things have changed but it's still lovely.
Thank you, Glen!
I remember traveling in a train through St Joseph as a boy. For some reason, the memory comes back every time I pass the St Joseph cemetery.
Didn't know we had trains, wow
@@3lttlbrds you better bet
@@3lttlbrds It is strange that you young people don't know the history of the island. Go and check the internet "The last train from San Fernando" in the '60s. There is even a calypso about it. What are they teaching you all in schools. The Priority Bus route along the East-West corridor was one of the train routes from POS to Arima. There were trains in different parts of Trinidad. I can't believe your post. Don't you kids sit and talk with your parents and grandparents
about Trinidad when they were growing up.
Wow.... good to see the Pitch Lake footage as well!
Interesting to watch this film footage. My mother and father went to Trinidad from British Guiana in the 1930s, in their teens and early twenties. 1943 was a chaotic year in the big world. When you realize the US military presence in Trinidad and Tobago during WW2, you understand that the islands were of strategic importance.
Absolutely love this wish we can see more
Wow its a good thing to see the past.
Trinidad really change boy. wish it was like bak in the slow an humble times. this shud remind us,that God is always over all....
oh trinidad...how i love this country bad
Amazing footage especially the birds mad out of what looked like fig skins, Lol...
Wow look how nice people dressed back in de days great video
Thank You!!!!!!
amazing footage
Trinidad was so beautiful
wish i could go back into times
Can u imagine ppl dressed like that and talking with the trini accent… I’d be so amazed
WOW!!!!!!!!!!! great film
Happy to see how my country was back in the days
I really enjoyed this. I wish it was longer.
People were so hardworking and decent back then.
Everyone busy on Frederick street ….,sailors were always here as well as the Americans from the Base
nice video....such a different country now!
Its was so nice love it for ever
Do you have a film of san Fernando Trinidad in the earlies?
Belíssima Tobago...
I will be sharing this with my mom and her sisters. 💕 wow! She told me stories about the Second World War.
It's too bad that we can't just all get along.... hate is easy to do...love takes real effort...common trini people we is one
Trinidad and Tobago is truthly a Paradise
The best days when life was so good😁👍.
They are a mockery of what it *really means to be powerful. True power is to push FORWARD not laps backward and pul others downward. Stand tall Trinis...we have reason to...it just has not yet been shown, to the world and to the people for that matter- but it IS there...
My Grandfather's brother was a captain on one of the ships leaving trinidad back then
I sure miss those days
I had a relative who was one of those with the horse drawn cart getting produce and cargo from the docks! I still remember the old Salvatori building! It was a good time in Trinidad. People were polite and friendly and there was law and order. I still remember that the yearly murder rate was about eight per year! What is it today? Five hundred?
It wasn't 'horse drawn carts' but donkey carts.
I think the year 1938 is off. This has to be more 1942-1943 because the Hospital was already built.
Cecly Ann Mitchell I was thinking the same . Years get messy in these films
Also the tools they are using and areas that are industrialised
The hospital was there before 1943. My mother worked there and she came to Trinidad in 1940. I just looked up. It was built in 1854. I remember as a child it was called the Colonial Hospital. Both my mother and aunt worked there as nurses and midwives. I remember when they built the maternity block. A hospital that I remember as a child to see my mother when she had surgery. Of course, it is still surviving. I would love to see all the additions. I should take a stroll there when I come back to Trinidad.
I was born and raised in TnT and even doh we "mix up" alot, there is still a huge indian and black community, and racism is rampant. Most of the time we doh study dat, but it there man, i tellin yuh.
So everyone is pretending they didn't c as much as 1 pothole in that clip 🤔 totally amazing
wow wish it had sound
labmedica2 u want sound daz all yuh want???behave nah dis was almost dinosours days.take it down nah
God Is King may He Bless Everyone
Pristine!
Watch the cars 💕
My grandparents would have been teens at the time
Awesome
Old school T&T .What sound do you want?
Nostalgia
Great video
Had to reply to your comment bout racism in T&T. Im born and bred Trini and have never experienced racism direcvtly, but i have heard enough to know its real. With respect to that comment u made about polls, my only prayer is that there is more biracial couples and children become so mixed that u cant tell what ethnicity they are! All four of my grandparents seemed to know that secret, each of them are of a different ethnicity... Spanish, Afr
Great video.
this is so cool
is nice to see that this video was posted. Gone are those days, the white colonial rule, the Chaguaramas base, the ships coming in with the sailors, the English people living high off the land and black people not knowing their real worth. Thanks to Eric Williams. The rest is history. The kids should see this video to see and appreciate what they have now and what their forefathers had to endure.
This is was during a time when folks were reluctant to give their horse drawn for combustion engine...
I am sure there were folks who believed horse drawn will be forever.
Now to day folks are reluctant give up their combustion engine for electric...
Every creed and race do not find an equal place
Wow
I actually agree with you. Your NATIONALITY is different from your ETHNIC background. I have a Chinese last name. If someone asked me where I am from, I know they are curious about my last name.(I am military and wear my last name on my chest) so I automatically say my ethnic background. I do feel that it is up to each person how they make their identity...why force people to be who you want them to be?
beautiful CultureLivesHere
My father renewed his British passport in 1937, wonder if he were still there in 1943.
@islandmango75 Yes, I do agree with you.
All ah we is one family!! This is a true trini attitute!!
whey who ever did this that person is ah boss.. coz recently (22 Oct 2010) a book is out on the french in trinidad and tobago you all should see how pos was back then too , but in paintings though
Look how neat and well dressed everyone is. Why can't people these days take pattern.
Wayyyyy all them ppl must be dead by now....nice seeing old days..... i born in the 1979
Sunita Ramdass 1943 mam
Please stop butchering the language. You know how to speak well, why not do it.
Well duh. Might have one or 2 alive... my dad born 1932 .. he died 2011 ..
My grandfather is still alive, he's 90.
This was during World War 2
Is that clay they are mining or peat?
I grew up in ST. Croix and I've always wanted to go to Trinidad. I'm reading "The White Woman on the Green Bicycle" by Monique Roffey and am getting her perspective of the island and I want to go even more.
I would like to think its ASPHALT, another export of TRINIDAD
asphalt
That is the Pitch Lake in La Brea. I went there when I was in elementary school many decades ago. You can read about it on the internet. That is where the pitch comes from to pave the streets. There are only five of them in the world. What are they teaching the kids today.
I think the title is wrong. That was before 1943. That had to be in the thirties.
I'd think from all those military uniforms it was more like 1941 etc after the US bases were built. to the person that uploaded these videos thanks but should've added some calypso's from the era in the back ground.
The servicemen you saw may have been on shore leave off passing naval vessels.
the angusura building burned down recently
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omg is that port of spain light house :O
Rip Goodwin, my thoughts exactly
@islandmango75 You sound like my father. Yes, I am a Trini and I live in NA and there is as much crime, etc. here. It is more noticeable in T. because it is a much smaller place. I remember when I was a child and there were no black people or Indians in the banks or private firms, when the maids had to work with their aprons and caps on and Indians were strictly in agriculture. Blame your government for not doing a proper job for security and jobs. Thank God that era has ended in T&T.
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@leolux10 yea it should
@islandmango75 Let’s see what the two Canadians who have been hired by the force will do. I think that they made a mistake when they turned down Giuliani’s proposal. I saw him on T.V. recently and he seems to have a very arrogant attitude, maybe he does not, but if he did such a good job with N.Y. I am sure he would have handled Trinidad well. But our politicians answer was Trini and N.Y. are not the same. At least this is what I read in one of the Trinidadian newspapers a few years ago. Sad.
The video states is 1938 not 1932...take a look again.
i am sure the killings were never around
I want my homeland that raped us on and still do to at least have a road like theirs cctv police and army, politicians that aren’t corrupt inside out and much much more time to wake up economic development in the Caribbean islands
I could of sworn this was england
couldn't miss what seems like US military. The war reached us - the German navy sank ships of trinidad. I like seeing the past.
How did I reach here....
I was not born yet when the queen was in Trinidad but I sure wish she was still in Trinidad and how this country looks poor up to this day
@Maritza Piccarillo ok thanks for your information names not sunny tho
They still are and are called Trinidadians.
aye look me riding the bicycle down there. Ah have on meh white hat
@EHFEX It looks like the horns of a bull
lol dey local boy, das probably my grandpops
Hmm