I once asked my grandma, born around 1920s, on how they lived such "boring" life. I was a child and asked that coz i knew there was no tv, phones, cars etc back then. She said "though we did not have all those we still knew people who lived far from her home. People had time to visit family and friends. Children had time to play and there were lots of open land to play. People got together and shared their stories which not only passed their time but also helped people de stress if it was something bad. So she was a happy young woman.The one thing she like liked about the later years was that medical advancement helped cure diseases which used to be fatal.
@Ken Lompart When I got bored as a kid in the 1940's /50's. I learned to keep my mouth shut. If I complained to my mother ,that I was bored, she would say ,''Aren't you the lucky one'', See that tin of polish ? or, ''that bag of spuds over there, and that peeler''
Time for you to go back to school and study history. The car was invented in 1886 by Karl Benz and the phone was invented in 1849 by an Italian, but it was Alexander Graham Bell who won the first patent for the phone in 1876.
@@MrDaiseymay Well the poor still have to be content that way... But if you are saying there weren't any kids around to play man you sure must be on an isolated island
Thanks for sharing that. Yes, it is hard to miss what you've never had. Except for me, because I miss flying cars. Indeed, it is true I've never had them, but I know these wonderful passenger drones are right around the corner! It is just a matter of patience to be able to watch happily all our roadways turn back into meadows🌾
Oh, me too. My grandfather was born in New York in 1885, what a treat it would be to walk into one of those pictures and come across a 10- or 12-year-old, who happened to be him.
@@AdaKizi248 I'm sure you'd recognize him instantly and he might wonder why you look like his family members. He might think you're his uncle or something
WOW! it's nice to see what everything looked like in New York City Back in the 1890's. My Great-Grandmother was born in Dec of 1893. She lived til she was almost 102. She Died in Sept 1995. She saw ALOT in her life! ALOT OF CHANGES! My grandfather grew up in Manhattan in the 1930's & went out to Queens Village to Raise my mother.
And she saw WW2..they had Nazi u boats in Whitestone fort tottan by Bayside WW2 time. I went to Bayside high school school of band anthrax they were local band thier
Very cool, ThatNYCGuy827! My grandmother was a little younger then yours, she was born in Brooklyn in 1912 & died in 2015 at 103. Her mother was pregnant with her when they came over from Abruzzi, Italy in 1912. I was grateful that she lived so long because she was able to tell me so many things about old NY.
These videos are really cool. Makes me feel like im actually there watching a simpler time pass before me. Very nostalgic, thank you for your excellent work!
I have been painting streets scenes of Buffalo and NY after one of my favorite painters, Childe Hassam (1859-1939) and these photos include some great reference photos. My great grandfather (1845-1927) was a lumbar inspector in Buffalo --I have a nice cedar chest he made about 1905. My mom (1918 - ) will be 100 in November. Her father (1882-1970) went door to door in Buffalo teaching piano. At first I thought the clomp clomp of carriages was charming but then I read how the manure really piled up and how many horse were lost each year, especially in winter, from falls and accidents (thousands/yr).
You dont know me but I am writing to you from 1895 in my NY City Apartment. I hope you all are enjoying my wonderful city and this invention called the Video. ...
I'd love to visit those days. I'll be sure to bring medication, vintage money, and dress up appropriately for the era. Regarding technology like smartphones or TV, I can temporarily get along without them.
GregoryTheGr8ster No stress? Really? Life was extremely stressful, back then. It was just a different type of stress. Yeah, let's go back to the days of Jim Crow, poor science, and when people with mental illnesses were tortured in asylums.
Almost makes you wish you could time travel and see what the world was like at certain points in time. I know, I know, everyday life was far from glamorous, but a time traveler is bound to have some fun observing things from a purely anthropological basis.
A good photo book is New York Sunshine and Shadow by Roger Whitehouse. Earliest photo is from 1853 and goes to 1915. Most are from the Museum of the City of New York and you could access photos at their website or the NY Public Library, National Archives. In 1980, I stayed with artist friends on Mulberry while working at the Bronx VA. That area is too expensive now & photos of hand carts at a wholesale grocer on Mott St are all that are left. That building a blank wall on Mott. My grandfather stayed with an uncle on lower Mulberry when he came in 1905 but my foster mother's family arrived in 1880 and lived in Italian Harlem.
That architecture was fantastic. I'm so glad much of it is preserved today, but it sickens me to think that during the mid-20th century people actually thought they weren't worth keeping, or that a glass box would be better. (Edited to remove some overly harsh comments about modern architecture that I made when I was less experienced in architecture. I actually love a ton of modern architecture, I just hate when a developer builds some cheap crap for maximum profit where there used to be a historic building.)
Modern buildings have structural strength and performance. Architecture back then doesn't have structural framing meaning that buildings are not flexible. The invention of steel framing enables builders to builder taller, flexible structure. Plus its lightweight and and bear wind resistance
@@c.benmansour3546 We do. I've been studying architecture history at the university level for a few years. Most of these buildings were built in the 3 decades after the Civil War, while some of the smaller wooden buildings date to the early 1800s or the 1700s. I guarantee the historical societies and landmarks commissions in the region have their dates of construction archived.
Gt grandfather owned a saloon at 453 Washington St in the 1870s. It was a block and a half from the north river (Hudson). The building was razed in the early 1890s and re-dedicated in 1892. You can see that date on top of the building. What remains of the past are the horse hitches that are still there in front of an existing restaurant.
Salute to brilliant visionary who took such photos. Those were the days.No pollution,no traffic jams,no hectic and no tension. Heart diseases, strokes,cancer ,diabetes to name a few are the byeproducts of today's artificial hectic life in pollution .Salute once again from Indians.
Wow, all the buildings were solid as a rock! I wouldn't be surprised if most of them are still standing today (unless they were deliberately subject to the wrecking ball). Wish the Post Office was still around for all of us to admire today.
They really werent solid as a rock. They just looked more ornate. Old facades still fall off these buildings every year and sometimes kill or injure people. Many are still standing. But many had to be replaced because there was no more room in the city so they needed to build higher.
It was called "Mullett's Monstrosity". Apparently was demolished for being too ugly. Was built in the style of the second French Empire. Funny enough its now considered one of that architects best works.
@RebelWithoutaPause I'm just nitpicking I admit, but how can you even put "greco romano" and "neo-gothic" just next to each other as if it was "one" thing. First, most of the architecture you're refering to as "greco roman" after the Renaissance, and especially in the 19th century, just had a greco-roman "style" but had technically not much to do with the greco roman architecture, which was incomparably less advanced. As for the neo-gothic architecture, it's the complete opposite of anything roman, it was a revival from the gothic architecture which appeared in the middle age in France. It was named "gothic" centuries later, during the renaissance, to belittle it as the product of barbarians (=the goths, even if they had nothing to do with it), as opposed to the roman fashion back then. In a nutshell, nothing roman about it. Sorry about the uselessly long post.
Love the old Timey piano music! I used to play that type of music on a piano in a turn of the century attraction near where I went to college. I used to put thumbtacks on the hammers to get that tinny sound.
Amazing how they built all these buildings .With no more than horse and cart and mainly unskilled workers .Most people couldn't even read or write back then .Makes me wonder just how much history is made up.
Sigh. READ SOME HISTORY. They had a *heck* of a lot more going for them than horse carts. How do you think they made railroads and ocean liners? There were steel mills and steam-driven heavy equipment like cranes and tractors. There’s tons of sources where you can find photos and descriptions of construction techniques. Maybe engineers and workers back then didn’t have computers but they weren’t primitive shack-builders either.
I remember these days, I went with my grandmother and parents through the streets, we had no phones or TV and we had to play out the street, I remember when I saw a car for the first time, me as a kid was really impressed.. Oh good old days how much I miss them.
My Grandpa was born in 1883 and Grandma is 1887 in Buffalo. Grandpa went house to house teaching piano and from age 13 on Grandma sewed dresses (no form just measured). When mom was 4 years old (now 98 and doing well), the doctor said to go out west for her health and so they came to California. They never really understood the laxness of later generations. When you're younger, you think of these time as ancient/long ago -- but when you get older you realize ---not so long ago.
That architecture was fantastic. ---SNIP--- yeah my past self had some stupid ideas about modern architecture so I deleted the idiotic tirade against modernism that used to constitute the rest of this comment.
@@zachmcewen4048 It depends for what. Generally speaking, that's true, but if humanity disappeared tomorrow, what do you think would collapse first? all the modern buildings. Old stone architecture will stand for a lot of centuries even without human presence, while modern architecture need constant care (and eventually destruction in most cases). Another thing: the old architecture is a testimony a civilisation, a culture. Modern architecture is just that worldwide stuff that doesn't have this kind of meaning anymore.
I tell you what why don't you go back to that time and live for a couple months ! Fire hazard buildings. - walk-ups- no hot water- one toilet per building and no ! Electricity- no heat ! - no welfare no food stamps no unemployment no social security = you wouldn't last a week !
It sounded like some old drunk playing the piano. Everything and everyone seemed so civilized back then. Forward 120 years and you'll find that society's actually regressed. London, where I'm from, has the same problem as NYC.
It's funny looking at those people. You wonder what sort of lives they led. They would have had to face World War 1 in about 20 years time, the Russian Revolution etc etc. Little did they know. Just as we today know very little about what will happen in 20 years from now.
Man, this is one of the weirdest time periods in history, to me...I mean, they're still in the XIX century, though some pictures look like they were taken in the 1970s, only with horses and carriages! This is the time span where skyscrapers and old-fashioned XIX century clothes coexisted. These pictures really look like someone used a time machine to mix up two completely different time periods, and I love it!
It was a time of transition. The world was on the cusp of what we think of as “modern”. Cars were just on the horizon, electric lines were being run, the airplane was only a few years in the future, and so on. It’s not surprising there’d be a contrast as older tech and fashions were being replaced by the world we know. Look up what the 1950s were like - there was still a lot of stuff left from the 1930s and 40s, but you can also see today’s world starting to take shape. Fascinating stuff.
I was born in 1983, my Gt grandfather was born in 1891 and he died in 1988(97 years old) and when i was a child he always told me about how italy(i'm italian) was different in 1890s' and 1900s'. No car, hard life, all people with good clothes even for go to supermarket. P.S.= sorry for bad english i'm from Rome (Italy)
Amazing photos. How I wished cameras were invented much earlier cuz I would love to see how New York looked like during the 1600s when it was called New Amsterdam.
Little did they know ... in less than a hundred years ... Friends would begin ... Good video. I never thought that anywhere in the 1890s could look like this.
No words, just speechless, I think we all should watch this kind of pics and videos, we will remember the death and God fear, so we will spend our lives in good deeds
Looking at that one street cart loaded down with newspapers. At one time, I believe New York York City had at least half a dozen daily newspapers. What magazines and newspapers survive today are mostly online.
Вы что не понимаете, что это не они всё строили, даже стёкол на окнах нет. Это невозможно построить на лошадях с телегами, без кранов такие высотки. Ну люди или слепые или тупые что ли. Мозги включите
It's so amazing how they built all that high tech massive infrastructure with little more than horse-drawn carriages, a few shovels and some good ol' american determination ammirite?! 😁
FGS read some history. The 1890s weren’t the dark ages. They had ALL KINDS of power equipment, mostly driven by steam - power shovels, tractors, cranes, and so on. How the F do you think they built railroads and ships back then? There’s MOUNTAINS of documentation available. Try using the internet to look for things that are more substantial than cat videos.
The photo identified as West End, on the Upper West Side, is almost certainly what was then called "The Boulevard," what we now call Broadway. The center mall area exists today, although it has been narrowed over the years to allow room for additional cars.. Incidentally, notice the streetcar on the far left, possibly horse drawn, another clue to the identity of this street.
I wouldn't have minded if all world cities would have kept the old architecture. Now every big city looks like any other, with glass and steel super skyscrapers, like it belongs in a science fiction outer space film (a "space opera"). New York City looked so much more human back then. And that post office - Wow! I wouldn't have minded living in the NYC of that time. Of course, I'm not forgetting that public sanitation wasn't that good and the poor had it very rough!. The period music made this video so nice! What's the name of the piece?
Enjoyed seeing this,but living conditions weren't that great for average people. Dentistry and hospital stays were last options for many. You still had horses and what they brought with them in the streets. Like working 12 hours a day, 5-6 days a week, a lot of labor for a simple shirt or socks, maybe an outhouse outside your tenement or a chamber pot in your room? Every apartment didn't have a bathroom, tubs were often in the kitchen, lack of privacy at home, not just for a bath. Would like to hover over multiple families to see lifestyles per income, but not live at the time although not rushed.
So crazy that people were still going on the Oregon trail and fighting Indians…yellow fever and the elements to get to California not long before these photos
I think that picture of "Mulberry Bend, Park" (2:48) is mis-labeled. This was the center of the infamous "Five Points," and should be surrounded by tenements, and flooded with people and pushcarts. Besides, Mulberry Bend Park wasn't even created until 1897!!
Agreed. I know that neighborhood extremely well, having worked there for many years. That is most certainly not the future site of what is now Columbus Park.
![[60 fps] A Trip Through Paris, France in late 1890s / Un voyage à travers Paris, 1890](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fo_eZuOTBNc/mqdefault.jpg)
My great grandma May was born on November 21st, 1897 in NYC. She lived until November 22nd, 1997. Just one day of her 100th birthday.
Heidi Graney longevity. Bless her ❤
May she rest well mate.
Heidi Graney my great grandmother lived until she was 102. She was born around that date also.
she saw so much change in her lifetime in the city. i cant imagine what that would be like
I'm 32 overweight and smoke cigarettes I will never make it to such an age unless I dont make some changes
I have watched this quite a few times over the years. It seems to draw me back.
Bless their hearts. Everyone in this video played, worked and was raised with great family values, and now they’re all in Heaven ❤️❤️❤️
Some of them are probably in hell, I’m pretty sure not all of them were good people.
Al Capone was born here, he’s in the hottest pits of hell
That was lovely. In going thru old boxes from my parent's attic I found family albums from then, and even earlier. The buildings were beautiful.
New York architecture was so beautiful back then. So sad that so much of it has disappeared.
Why
@@malcolmcanning548 just because??
@@janeyd5280 Just because what??? Explain or don't leave stupid lazy responses.
That post office had to be destroyed. It's too obvious that we did not build it in the 1890's with horse and wagons.
Destruction of evidence
My great grand ma was born in 1896. She died in 1977 at the age of 81 when I was 6. I still remember her vividly.
It's amazing what our ancestors had to go through; just think, we are all here because there resilience.. absolutely amazing. Today we are spoiled 😊
I once asked my grandma, born around 1920s, on how they lived such "boring" life. I was a child and asked that coz i knew there was no tv, phones, cars etc back then. She said "though we did not have all those we still knew people who lived far from her home. People had time to visit family and friends. Children had time to play and there were lots of open land to play. People got together and shared their stories which not only passed their time but also helped people de stress if it was something bad. So she was a happy young woman.The one thing she like liked about the later years was that medical advancement helped cure diseases which used to be fatal.
@Ken Lompart When I got bored as a kid in the 1940's /50's. I learned to keep my mouth shut. If I complained to my mother ,that I was bored, she would say ,''Aren't you the lucky one'', See that tin of polish ? or, ''that bag of spuds over there, and that peeler''
Time for you to go back to school and study history. The car was invented in 1886 by Karl Benz and the phone was invented in 1849 by an Italian, but it was Alexander Graham Bell who won the first patent for the phone in 1876.
@@MrDaiseymay Well the poor still have to be content that way... But if you are saying there weren't any kids around to play man you sure must be on an isolated island
Thanks for sharing that. Yes, it is hard to miss what you've never had. Except for me, because I miss flying cars. Indeed, it is true I've never had them, but I know these wonderful passenger drones are right around the corner! It is just a matter of patience to be able to watch happily all our roadways turn back into meadows🌾
Yet "kids" are indeed still a relatively modern invention it seems.
I wish I could go inside pictures. I always like to see pictures of old times like these. everything looked so simple. so beautiful
That would be awesome to go into a picture. Old or new. Great idea.
Wow good idea
Me too
Oh, me too. My grandfather was born in New York in 1885, what a treat it would be to walk into one of those pictures and come across a 10- or 12-year-old, who happened to be him.
@@AdaKizi248 I'm sure you'd recognize him instantly and he might wonder why you look like his family members. He might think you're his uncle or something
WOW! it's nice to see what everything looked like in New York City Back in the 1890's. My Great-Grandmother was born in Dec of 1893. She lived til she was almost 102. She Died in Sept 1995. She saw ALOT in her life! ALOT OF CHANGES! My grandfather grew up in Manhattan in the 1930's & went out to Queens Village to Raise my mother.
Wow..I'm originally from Whitestone queens flushing..ring a bell??!!!..lol..love NY
Yep she saw every change that's incredibly phenomenal to have her experience..omg wow!
And she saw WW2..they had Nazi u boats in Whitestone fort tottan by Bayside WW2 time. I went to Bayside high school school of band anthrax they were local band thier
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Very cool, ThatNYCGuy827! My grandmother was a little younger then yours, she was born in Brooklyn in 1912 & died in 2015 at 103. Her mother was pregnant with her when they came over from Abruzzi, Italy in 1912. I was grateful that she lived so long because she was able to tell me so many things about old NY.
These videos are really cool. Makes me feel like im actually there watching a simpler time pass before me. Very nostalgic, thank you for your excellent work!
Crazy to know that my great grandpa was born during this era
Wonderful piano music!!!
I have been painting streets scenes of Buffalo and NY after one of my favorite painters, Childe Hassam (1859-1939) and these photos include some great reference photos. My great grandfather (1845-1927) was a lumbar inspector in Buffalo --I have a nice cedar chest he made about 1905. My mom (1918 - ) will be 100 in November. Her father (1882-1970) went door to door in Buffalo teaching piano. At first I thought the clomp clomp of carriages was charming but then I read how the manure really piled up and how many horse were lost each year, especially in winter, from falls and accidents (thousands/yr).
The glorious majesty of 1890s New York - look at the Post Office in 1892.
Love NY so much! I was there from 1999∼2003 had a lot memories there.
Absolutely love the architecture, all of today’s technology yet nothing compares. Rather live back then, then in todays world.
Beautiful photos of old
New York.
You dont know me but I am writing to you from 1895 in my NY City Apartment. I hope you all are enjoying my wonderful city and this invention called the Video. ...
Love to see these old pictures of NY.
The crooked FED reserve of 1914 killed all of this beauty off!
Fantastic Video of beautiful people and city...Hi from italy
Life was so much simpler back then. There was almost no stress. Why can't we go back to those days?
*****
On second thought, maybe you are right!
GregoryTheGr8ster amen
I'd love to visit those days. I'll be sure to bring medication, vintage money, and dress up appropriately for the era. Regarding technology like smartphones or TV, I can temporarily get along without them.
If we get rid of all of our technology we can be there again DELETE ALL YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA
GregoryTheGr8ster
No stress? Really? Life was extremely stressful, back then. It was just a different type of stress. Yeah, let's go back to the days of Jim Crow, poor science, and when people with mental illnesses were tortured in asylums.
Almost makes you wish you could time travel and see what the world was like at certain points in time. I know, I know, everyday life was far from glamorous, but a time traveler is bound to have some fun observing things from a purely anthropological basis.
They sure had grand architecture back then.
Only 90s kids will remember this #1890skid
Lol
Lmao good one!
lol
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Manuel Colon Soto most certainly not
This is why I like to watch old westerns, the beautiful scenery in the movies, the simplicity of it just calms your soul
Well said and I agree
The only problem with this video is that it ended after 3 min 38 seconds...I wish there was more!!!
A good photo book is New York Sunshine and Shadow by Roger Whitehouse. Earliest photo is from 1853 and goes to 1915. Most are from the Museum of the City of New York and you could access photos at their website or the NY Public Library, National Archives.
In 1980, I stayed with artist friends on Mulberry while working at the Bronx VA. That area is too expensive now & photos of hand carts at a wholesale grocer on Mott St are all that are left. That building a blank wall on Mott.
My grandfather stayed with an uncle on lower Mulberry when he came in 1905 but my foster mother's family arrived in 1880 and lived in Italian Harlem.
I love that book!
That architecture was fantastic. I'm so glad much of it is preserved today, but it sickens me to think that during the mid-20th century people actually thought they weren't worth keeping, or that a glass box would be better. (Edited to remove some overly harsh comments about modern architecture that I made when I was less experienced in architecture. I actually love a ton of modern architecture, I just hate when a developer builds some cheap crap for maximum profit where there used to be a historic building.)
Amen!
Modern buildings have structural strength and performance. Architecture back then doesn't have structural framing meaning that buildings are not flexible. The invention of steel framing enables builders to builder taller, flexible structure. Plus its lightweight and and bear wind resistance
If I was talking about modern structural technology, I would have said that. I am talking purely about aesthetics.
I wish we know the real age of these buildings.
Our history books are ridiculous.
@@c.benmansour3546 We do. I've been studying architecture history at the university level for a few years. Most of these buildings were built in the 3 decades after the Civil War, while some of the smaller wooden buildings date to the early 1800s or the 1700s. I guarantee the historical societies and landmarks commissions in the region have their dates of construction archived.
Gt grandfather owned a saloon at 453 Washington St in the 1870s. It was a block and a half from the north river (Hudson). The building was razed in the early 1890s and re-dedicated in 1892. You can see that date on top of the building. What remains of the past are the horse hitches that are still there in front of an existing restaurant.
Hooi👍
Ted Mosby, is that you?
I Google earthed the address. What is that building now? Looks neat
Gd
Bob Hazel thanks for your story. I makes it more real to hear it.xx
fantastica. niste foto rare. cit de tare as vrea sa vad aceasta cu ochii mei. salut din moldova
It's like you gave me a wonderful gift. Thank you.
Thank you for this video!!
Salute to brilliant visionary who took such photos.
Those were the days.No pollution,no traffic jams,no hectic and no tension.
Heart diseases, strokes,cancer ,diabetes to name a few are the byeproducts of today's artificial hectic life in pollution .Salute once again from Indians.
WOW SUCH BEAUTIFUL MUSIC...... HOW DOES ANYONE IGNORE THIS...... IT BEAUTIFUL.
Wow, all the buildings were solid as a rock! I wouldn't be surprised if most of them are still standing today (unless they were deliberately subject to the wrecking ball). Wish the Post Office was still around for all of us to admire today.
They really werent solid as a rock. They just looked more ornate. Old facades still fall off these buildings every year and sometimes kill or injure people. Many are still standing. But many had to be replaced because there was no more room in the city so they needed to build higher.
New York, bonita desde antigamente, parece São Paulo antigo.
New York sempre New York.
Great memories ❣️♥️❤️❤️😍❣️♥️❣️♥️❣️♥️❣️♥️❣️♥️
The demolition of that NY post office building was a crime!!
Hellen Laespriell I thought the same thing. What a beautiful building.
It was called "Mullett's Monstrosity". Apparently was demolished for being too ugly. Was built in the style of the second French Empire. Funny enough its now considered one of that architects best works.
Yes agreed!!
Hellen Laespriell ...the building was a hazard..
@RebelWithoutaPause I'm just nitpicking I admit, but how can you even put "greco romano" and "neo-gothic" just next to each other as if it was "one" thing. First, most of the architecture you're refering to as "greco roman" after the Renaissance, and especially in the 19th century, just had a greco-roman "style" but had technically not much to do with the greco roman architecture, which was incomparably less advanced. As for the neo-gothic architecture, it's the complete opposite of anything roman, it was a revival from the gothic architecture which appeared in the middle age in France. It was named "gothic" centuries later, during the renaissance, to belittle it as the product of barbarians (=the goths, even if they had nothing to do with it), as opposed to the roman fashion back then. In a nutshell, nothing roman about it.
Sorry about the uselessly long post.
Love the old Timey piano music! I used to play that type of music on a piano in a turn of the century attraction near where I went to college. I used to put thumbtacks on the hammers to get that tinny sound.
My dad’s ancestors came to NYC from England and Ireland in the 1840s.
Classic collection, awesome collection, peoples are awesome
Pictures of New York City in the 1890's, along with captions, somehow pissed off at least 452 people. This is why the aliens have stopped visiting.
Amazing how they built all these buildings .With no more than horse and cart and mainly unskilled workers .Most people couldn't even read or write back then .Makes me wonder just how much history is made up.
Sigh. READ SOME HISTORY. They had a *heck* of a lot more going for them than horse carts. How do you think they made railroads and ocean liners? There were steel mills and steam-driven heavy equipment like cranes and tractors.
There’s tons of sources where you can find photos and descriptions of construction techniques. Maybe engineers and workers back then didn’t have computers but they weren’t primitive shack-builders either.
Great photos of the past. Glad that you have labeled them.
I didn't know that they had motorised trucks in 1897. Eye opener !!
I remember these days, I went with my grandmother and parents through the streets, we had no phones or TV and we had to play out the street, I remember when I saw a car for the first time, me as a kid was really impressed.. Oh good old days how much I miss them.
My Grandpa was born in 1883 and Grandma is 1887 in Buffalo. Grandpa went house to house teaching piano and from age 13 on Grandma sewed dresses (no form just measured). When mom was 4 years old (now 98 and doing well), the doctor said to go out west for her health and so they came to California. They never really understood the laxness of later generations. When you're younger, you think of these time as ancient/long ago -- but when you get older you realize ---not so long ago.
Mark Landes you were born in 1928?
@@UnknownPerson-ve3uv his mother would’ve birthed him at like 10 I don’t think so even tho it’s possible
by the time i would get older then they are long ago/ancient
That architecture was fantastic. ---SNIP--- yeah my past self had some stupid ideas about modern architecture so I deleted the idiotic tirade against modernism that used to constitute the rest of this comment.
buildings will be much more advanced by the 22nd century than currently.
but was it structurally sound?
The details are so excellent
@@zachmcewen4048 It depends for what. Generally speaking, that's true, but if humanity disappeared tomorrow, what do you think would collapse first? all the modern buildings. Old stone architecture will stand for a lot of centuries even without human presence, while modern architecture need constant care (and eventually destruction in most cases).
Another thing: the old architecture is a testimony a civilisation, a culture. Modern architecture is just that worldwide stuff that doesn't have this kind of meaning anymore.
I tell you what why don't you go back to that time and live for a couple months ! Fire hazard buildings. - walk-ups- no hot water- one toilet per building and no ! Electricity- no heat ! - no welfare no food stamps no unemployment no social security = you wouldn't last a week !
Incredible, thanks for posting.
2:35 it should be a crime to demolish beautiful old buildings like that.
They didn’t care because they didn’t build it.
Great New York. The best city in the world.
It sounded like some old drunk playing the piano. Everything and everyone seemed so civilized back then. Forward 120 years and you'll find that society's actually regressed. London, where I'm from, has the same problem as NYC.
People werent any more or less civilized back then. You still had crime, still had debauchery. People don't change.
It's funny looking at those people. You wonder what sort of lives they led. They would have had to face World War 1 in about 20 years time, the Russian Revolution etc etc. Little did they know. Just as we today know very little about what will happen in 20 years from now.
oh, I see what you mean, yeah---hilarious
they wouldnt face the russian revolution because this is new york city dumbass
What about great Depression of 1929
World War 1, the Great depression, no alcohol, the beginning of electricity, and many more obstacles to hurdle.
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So beautiful! I would have loved to live in NYC at that time 😘😘
@Josh Traffanstedt well that’s your opinion
Man, this is one of the weirdest time periods in history, to me...I mean, they're still in the XIX century, though some pictures look like they were taken in the 1970s, only with horses and carriages! This is the time span where skyscrapers and old-fashioned XIX century clothes coexisted. These pictures really look like someone used a time machine to mix up two completely different time periods, and I love it!
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It was a time of transition. The world was on the cusp of what we think of as “modern”. Cars were just on the horizon, electric lines were being run, the airplane was only a few years in the future, and so on.
It’s not surprising there’d be a contrast as older tech and fashions were being replaced by the world we know. Look up what the 1950s were like - there was still a lot of stuff left from the 1930s and 40s, but you can also see today’s world starting to take shape.
Fascinating stuff.
I was born in 1983, my Gt grandfather was born in 1891 and he died in 1988(97 years old) and when i was a child he always told me about how italy(i'm italian) was different in 1890s' and 1900s'. No car, hard life, all people with good clothes even for go to supermarket.
P.S.= sorry for bad english i'm from Rome (Italy)
Thanks so much for this videos what a wonder Thank you........
Wonderful pic , really love to see old building in real
In 1890 America is already developed..that is the reason today America is top in all segments and ruler in world..
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SO beautiful
The electricity age in Nyc wow so beautiful
Amazing photos. How I wished cameras were invented much earlier cuz I would love to see how New York looked like during the 1600s when it was called New Amsterdam.
It's 17th century..and you don't say 1600s..you say 1601s.
New York started in the year, 1524.
How times have changed in 120 years. Planes, rockets, the internet, not sure if life was simpler or harder. Maybe a bit of both.
Great pictures 👍👍👍😀😀😀
מרגש/גם הסרטון וגם הליווי המוסיקלי. פשוט הנאה צרופה. תודה!
:54 The New York Palace!!! I love that hotel.
Little did they know ... in less than a hundred years ... Friends would begin ...
Good video. I never thought that anywhere in the 1890s could look like this.
TODAY WE ARE WORSE.. THEY LIVED BETTER THAN US... MUCH BETTER LIFE BACK THEM.. I WISH I WOULD HAD LIVED BACK THEN
No words, just speechless, I think we all should watch this kind of pics and videos, we will remember the death and God fear, so we will spend our lives in good deeds
Looking at that one street cart loaded down with newspapers. At one time, I believe New York York City had at least half a dozen daily newspapers. What magazines and newspapers survive today are mostly online.
Imagine if all of these photos were taken in 1080p, pretty much everything will look just like today.
Splendida come sempre , complimenti x il video e colonna sonora
1890s to 1930s truly was the height of Civilization
Thi is my story
More like 1816 to 1913
Вы что не понимаете, что это не они всё строили, даже стёкол на окнах нет. Это невозможно построить на лошадях с телегами, без кранов такие высотки. Ну люди или слепые или тупые что ли. Мозги включите
1889-1960 for me
I like the merry go round that says ( A most delightful sensation).
M'mmmm all the throbbing eh girls?
It's so amazing how they built all that high tech massive infrastructure with little more than horse-drawn carriages, a few shovels and some good ol' american determination ammirite?! 😁
FGS read some history. The 1890s weren’t the dark ages. They had ALL KINDS of power equipment, mostly driven by steam - power shovels, tractors, cranes, and so on. How the F do you think they built railroads and ships back then?
There’s MOUNTAINS of documentation available. Try using the internet to look for things that are more substantial than cat videos.
Very nice interesting ,,,,,
The photo identified as West End, on the Upper West Side, is almost certainly what was then called "The Boulevard," what we now call Broadway. The center mall area exists today, although it has been narrowed over the years to allow room for additional cars.. Incidentally, notice the streetcar on the far left, possibly horse drawn, another clue to the identity of this street.
Clean air and way less noisy.
Peaceful times.
Richard Head it’s no better today
Visit the places where the Ellis island immigrants lived, they did the jobs Americans did not want to do
The air was not cleaner. And it sure as hell wasn't peaceful.
Incredible..wow
Too bad post office at 2:35 got demolished
Why tf would they do that? :(
Belleza de arquitectura
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Life was WAY better back then!!
@Robert RG20 I'll take em
Very nice....thank you!
1890s NY even looked modern and orderly than most of today’s capital cities of the world. 120 years later!
I wouldn't have minded if all world cities would have kept the old architecture. Now every big city looks like any other, with glass and steel super skyscrapers, like it belongs in a science fiction outer space film (a "space opera"). New York City looked so much more human back then. And that post office - Wow! I wouldn't have minded living in the NYC of that time. Of course, I'm not forgetting that public sanitation wasn't that good and the poor had it very rough!. The period music made this video so nice! What's the name of the piece?
I wish I was living in those days, I like the ragtime music and how women dressed in those days.
Enjoyed seeing this,but living conditions weren't that great for average people. Dentistry and hospital stays were last options for many. You still had horses and what they brought with them in the streets. Like working 12 hours a day, 5-6 days a week, a lot of labor for a simple shirt or socks, maybe an outhouse outside your tenement or a chamber pot in your room? Every apartment didn't have a bathroom, tubs were often in the kitchen, lack of privacy at home, not just for a bath.
Would like to hover over multiple families to see lifestyles per income, but not live at the time although not rushed.
My great great great grandparents in the mid 1840’s immigrated from Central America to New York City :p
So crazy that people were still going on the Oregon trail and fighting Indians…yellow fever and the elements to get to California not long before these photos
I'm an ex-New Yorker. Enjoyed this very much.
i love then & now ..... history
I love this stuff
I think that picture of "Mulberry Bend, Park" (2:48) is mis-labeled. This was the center of the infamous "Five Points," and should be surrounded by tenements, and flooded with people and pushcarts. Besides, Mulberry Bend Park wasn't even created until 1897!!
Agreed. I know that neighborhood extremely well, having worked there for many years. That is most certainly not the future site of what is now Columbus Park.
No traffic jam 👍👍👍
Nice picture
Beautiful city , peoples , and arhitecture love from Russia guys .
Beautiful
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