New Jersey (1940s)
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- A tour of New Jersey in the 1940s. To purchase a clean DVD 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
This videos is probably why everybody’s grandparents moved to Jersey... it’s not like this anymore
My home town in the South changed a lot . I’ve moved away but the town became a city of rental homes . The streets are littered with trash and crime has gone up. It used to be a town where families gathered for parades and picnics. Everyone seem to be friendly and close to each other. The city is no longer the same. The town was full of stores but now is dotted throughout. Empty building and homes. It’s really sad.
You said it.
@Platon K bite a fart
@@southernman5839 WHAT TOWN?
True, but the background music is the same as today's
I grew up in Jersey 1963 to 1990 been all over the country But I still always miss Jersey.. You Cant beat a Jersey Tomato The best in the world
That and Jersey corn!
True Jersey tomatoes are the best, corn is good too.
People back then didn't know how good they had it. They didn't know how bad things were gonna get in the future.
Make America Great Again!
Those people are just as much responsible for the state of NJ as we are today. This whole film was nothing but propaganda to rape and pillage the state. "Come see the beauty of NJ, stay and help destroy it!"
@Sailing Spark how do you "rape and pillage" a state? by farming, mining minerals, and creating communities? you are just silly
if you were white, yeah
@@Jokeb0iThere’s always that one crybaby…I guess you haven’t figured out, that every race had a country to make beautiful. Didn’t seem to work out, did it. Baby…
Born and raised in NJ. MOVED OUT 30 years ago after I could SEE the air I was breathing. The blue water of the oceanturned brown taxes went through the roof where Icouldn’t own a home. I do not miss it at all
Rahway property taxes exploded in the mid '60s.
Ted Kennedy deserves some blame besides the tribe.
What State/Country did you go?
capie44 I moved to Florida in 1994 during Hurricane Andrew
@@mrbubbles5333 HA! Just can't win sometimes!
Tell this ol' Buckeye, do the skeeters really carry off cows??
@Andrew Solymos : I have met many ppl from AZ.
They get into "Sinus Valley" (Maimi valley) and last about four months and head back.
Would like to visit one day.
my family who lived in cities of Trenton, Newark, Reading and Philly in the 50s said they loved it, not paradise but diverse culturally and beautiful countryside outside the cities, the Jersey shore was a favorite, growing up there in the late 50s I loved the restaurants and bakeries, any kind of food, wish I could go back and get a hot pastrami and chopped liver on rye from the Deli downtown, a kasha knish, the Italian guys who made the best pizza or the Austrian whose bakery made the best poppyseed rolls I ever tasted...oh well
I remember that well. Real ethnic foods at decent prices, and it was delicious. I haven't had a proper kaiser roll in years.
Mmmmmm poppyseed rolls
The food is one thing that perhaps has gotten even better. I can get excellent Thai, Indian, Mexican, Italian, Pakistani, American, etc within a few miles of my house. But the drive isn't nearly as scenic as it once was, even in my lifetime. Sprawl is king.
Ahhhhh poppies !!! No seriously you made me remember the poppy seed rings, and the diversity that was once in Bergen County too as the Czechs, Hungarians, Polish etc. who were glad to be known now as Americans shared their specialties, common goals and hearts.
@@franciskhoury4288 yes sprawl, inflation and real estate robbing regions of their natural ecology and charm.
New Jersey is a great state to live in IF you can afford it, and IF you like traffic. Moved out in 1995, but growing up there in the 60's and 70's was awesome!
Love seeing old video's of life as it used to be!
I have lived in Ocean Township , Monmouth County NJ since I was born in 1981 and my parents since 1942 and grandparents since 1926, which is why I feel qualified to say that NJ today compared to NJ 30 years ago is unrecognizable. Something swept in like an invisible and inperceptable gas that changed NJ from a state with three very different and unique regions with radically different types of people, landscape, and cultures. From the sand barrens to pine barrens, forests and interconnecting rivers, streams, lakes, and to the mountains and elevations that could be found in the southern, central, and northern regions respectively. I watched Asbury Park during its last decade as the destination for political, cultural, and scientific elites from Washington, DC and NY who built grand victorian homes all over the coastline and within many of Monmouth county's small farming communities like Deal and Colts Neck and Long Branch. I saw the cherry orchardes of Newark, NJ for the first time here in this film, which if you were to go there today not a single cherry tree or cherry for that matter could be found anywhere. The film featured the streams and forests and lakes of central NJ, which remain intact and accessible for those who know where to look. Otherwise, the ever-expanding road system connecting each one of the thousands of private real estate developments with one another and with the local commercial districts supporting them. Places like Shark River Park, Deal Lake, and the farmland of Monmouth Countys interior towns like Colts Neck stil exist but grow more and more vulnerable to the huberis of local politicians looking to line their pockets with the cash and political cache they need to fund their rise inside the state and federal systems. The result is corruption, over development, and a rotating door of weak leaders. Monmouth County in the 80s was a collection of about a dozen towns with older buildings and houses linked together by a few nice middle class developments like mine that had been built in the late 60s and early 70s. Each township seperated by woods and farmland in a few places like Holmdel and Colts Neck, but none less than a ten minute drive from one another. In other words the towns were different and different backgrounds and heritage could be found in each, which is all gone today since development for dollars became the prefered mode by which local political bosses became state and then federal bosses.
Overall, the film was a rare glimpse of what NJ once was and I left it with a more acute sense of hopeless and indifference to our ability to use the local political mechanisms as tools for changing the course of NJs future.
them in between the thousands of independently built real estate developments
#1. You have too much time on your hands.
#2. You've seen alot in your 39 years EXCEPT a paragraph.
#3. An American Indian could of written these same sentiments hundreds of years ago.
#4. Don't you think someone a hundred years from now will consider this the best of times?
Wake up.
@@WooBino. Im stuck in my house so ya i have a lot of time. But i make money with my mind probably unlike yourself. So between day trades i blow off time watching and commenting on interesting historical videos to practice my writing since it has diminished over time. I cant see why youd would bother me with your comment.
I have to agree with you. I have seen NJ raped by developers and politicians with no concern except to line their own pockets.
But still I wouldn't live anywhere else.
Commenter from Ocean Grove.
I could say the same thing but I live in Florida it’s unrecognizable and heart breaking. My Mema was born and raise in NJ and mom was born there. I just wanted to see a glimpse of the past what they grew up with 🥹
I grew up in Passaic and remember some of these things that are sadly not there anymore.
Grew up in Hawthorne - Paterson area - Paterson used to be great....
I too grew up in Passaic, graduated from Passaic High School.
Passaic, where whats her face if from - Diana Ross
@Alexi Barona miss those days man
I remember Koehler trucks LOL
Like all the farms in Bergen County right next to New York State.
I love how he is fishing in a dress shirt and tie!!
trublue When folks had class...
Yes, there was a time not so long ago when self respect and standards were a thing, prior to the acceptance of cultural Marxism
Now you see "The Great Social Experiment/Hippie Movement" was railing against in the '60's.
Libtardism fought against social standards such as respect for one's appearance, courtesy and manners.
. Turnock people did wear suits at the beach...
Abraham if you can read correctly, Turnock did not say his father wore suits to the beach. For that matter, people did wear suits to the beach, they were called bathing suits back then!
Did we ever blow it all to snot. Glad we have this timepiece.
I wish more people would admit MANY Poor choices and attitudes ruined it.
"we"? Oh so YOU're responsible .... !
Born and raised in NJ. Will never live there again. Why you ask? Because I'm not giving NJ one dime of my retirement check.
Is this the retirement check you earned while making a living wage in NJ?
@Andrew Solymos Yes, but there are 50 states in America and some of those states pay better wages, provide good education and services and some of those states do not. Taxes pay for civilization
@Andrew Solymos Arizona here as well. Sadly our state has been discovered by those fleeing tyrannical blue states. My grandparents had a house in Wyckoff. As a child it was a wonderful place to visit but like you said, it is just too expensive to live there and so I left the NY/NJ area for Arizona and never looked back.
Jersey is a poop hole today, it’s very sad. I was born and raised in Central Jersey south of the Raritan River. We moved also being I wasn’t giving my retirement to NJ either or paying rain tax. This movie was nice to see as my family land was on this movie.
@Andrew Solymos I understand that and I am trying to avoid a red/blue debate, but there are many states such as Texas and Georgia that are very wealthy but don't provide the services, or social safety net or education that other states with higher taxes pay. It is an exchange, as I said before taxes pay for civilization
My once beautiful hometown Elizabeth---what happened??? I miss the old pine trees and chicken farms around Toms River/ Whitesville Rd.
Chicken farms ?, they're taking over Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, they're horrible and smelly.
Sorry for your loss...My Mom grew up in Newark 1947 to about1960 or 61,she never revisited because her best friend said she'd be sorry if am she did! My town is no longer what it used to be... It sometimes physically hurts! Check out a black and white video on Newark in I believe the 1930s? On youtube.
Elmora section is still nice.The rest is shot to shit What did happenden?
Elizabeth? Very long time ago.
@John Nichols I grew up in Torrance,California.It was pretty nice here when I was young.There were fields,and an old grove of Eucalyptus trees that you would need at least five people to join hands together to encircle each tree they were quite old and had been planted by either the farmers or the rail road company.Untill I was 15,I could walk across two,big streets(Sepulveda,and Crenshaw blvd.and between them could walk at least 2 miles to school.All condos and stack n pack housing now.What about yourself? Yeah,Newark was my Moms' town!
It's all gone
Yup, Trenton, Newark, Camden, and many other cities and towns in NJ are basically ghettos now, thanks to liberals.
Jason Meadows thanks to Republicans**
@Platon K Yup. I was born in Jersey City, this state was ruined by selfish, narcissistic people at all levels, starting at the municipal level. Petty corruption, 'I got mine', NIMBY.....all converged to destroy this state.
Andrew Solymos No they don’t have the government has successfully tricked you progressives to think that you are all individuals when in reality they have set the perfect illusion for you since you were born you are falling in the traps that they want you to be in...their slaves the peasants their puppets! well people like myself know that the true agenda is to cut out good humble people that work hard and I want to keep things the same because “ progressive”at least today has led to a dismantle of putrid garbage. The more progressive the less moral society has become! Or at least the standards go below subpar. Politicians fear Christians! ❤️
@@jasonmeadows8510 🤣
This is the Jersey I remember but even in the 70's it was starting to change. Moved away over 10 years ago, and blissfully happy in Florida now!
I remember the stench around Elizabeth in the late 50s
High property taxes and corrupt politicians and also a few other things.
@Platon K They always vote democrap!
This is before the place was totally overrun by guineas.
@@iVenge "Guineas" were in NJ by the 1940's already and helped build a lot of it up.
@j polar not to mention high auto insurance...
Andrew Solymos yes I know!
Looking at the helix to the Lincoln Tunnel back then looked so much cleaner. I was born and raised in NJ '96. Now every time I go the city the road congestion is just bad. Legit bad.
No, the congestion predates Uber, by many years.
@@sailingaeolus Yup, people are just childish, inconsiderate slobs today. You could close that helix for 24 hours and sweep it clean, reopen it, and within 24 hours it would be covered in trash again.
What a treat. I was born in Neptune, NJ and raised in Freehold and Englishtown then South Amboy and back to Freehold. Born in 1943, this indeed as a treat.
Oh what happened to my beautiful America?
The Delaware Water Gap, Palisades Cliffs, Highpoint Park (complete w/bears) are still just as beautiful, along w/the many lakes where I've kayaked.
Trump Happened.
Although I think his Tower in NY causes more problems than anything in NJ.....talk to Gov. Fatso about NJ.....
J J Obama Happened
People's attitudes, if people were nicer to each other we wouldn't even need politics.
That WAS New Jersey. Now it's an over taxed mess.
For young viewers, this was before the world went to hell in a hand-basket.
You mean before mobster's and democrat's teamed up right?
@@davidwadsworth8982 no i think before slaves were freed and 60 million people died through world wars created by white people, and confederates flag was freely flown. I think thats what he meant David
@Matt Pizzano Matt, exactly what was great, the segregation laws, the many wars that killed millions of people, the lack of any rights except for white men, zero protection for workers, what exactly what so great???? If you don't like it here , go live in your southern red hick states where poverty and uneducated are the greatest, im sure they made america great LOL. NJ has never been more prosperous in its lifetime. your mad because im sure you were used to your white privilege back in the 40s
@Matt Pizzano ok you obviously a republican conspiracy theorist will argue everything is bad until Chris Christie is governor again LOL. again your just a dying breed. I'v been very wealthy in the past decade living here, only started paying more in taxes when Trump became president. maybe you should ask your republicans why they tax the workign people, just saying. Your southern red states take more welfare and still poor as hell. All you do is argue against democrats but trump is president and he is printing money like a true socialist. Im a independent voter but republicans are straight lying conspiracy theorist crooks at the highest level, everything is based on race and religion.
@@ekoboyz757 that's a big assumption. You are the racist here. BTW that computer/ phone network you are using to spread your hate. A white man invented it 👏 😆🤑 you welcome
Raised in Freehold Twp and working pest control for over 25 years, I can truly say NJ is still a beautiful state and a great place to live. Unfortunately the expense of living forced me out years ago.
I remember going to Atlantic City in 1975 when it was a seaside family resort and the main attractions were the ocean, beaches and boardwalk. My friends and I had a great time. That year there was a vote coming up about allowing casinos in the state and the referendum was defeated by the voters. The casinos wouldn't take NO for an answer and the matter came up for another vote a couple years later after many millions were spent on advertising, including advertising planes flying up and down the state's beaches with banners encouraging voters to vote YES for casinos. The law passed and in came the casinos, the gamblers, the hookers, the drugs, the drunks and all sorts of criminals and riffraff, just like everyone had feared. Presto! Welcome to the new New Jersey.
“Gay beach clubs” @13:27 has a different connotation today in 2020.
Gladaseeya 🤣😂😅🤣😂😅🤣😂 So true.
Don we now our gay apparel ???
I thought the same thing lmaooo
Produced in 1946.
Note Atlantic City's Steel Pier is showing Boris Karloff's "Bedlam" (released that May) in its movie theater at 28:30.....while the theater across from it is showing "Till the End of Time" (released in July), featuring Dorothy McGuire and Guy Madison [just as the marquee says].
I was born the last week of the '40s in Summit, NJ.. December 24th 1949. Folks moved back to California before I was a year old.
Mike Btrfld you’re still Jersey Strong 💪🏽
Summit, NJ is still wonderful
New Providence. Nice People, Nice Place. Born in Overlook Hospital in Summit but raised in New Providence. A proud Pioneer!
7:40 Insurance companies wouldn't allow diving boards that high today.
Heck, most pools today have removed their diving boards for liability reasons.
Grew up in Englewood. Great place then, no so much now. The government in NJ constantly has it's hand out for as much money as they can squeeze out of you.
What do you find objectionable in Englewood now, other than taxes?
Fucking a
What happen to those beautiful scenic roads ? Living here my entire life and all I see are highways and walls ... greed is what has changed nj. Fast production , money , workers , commuters to nyc daily. At the end of the day Nj is just a bottom less barrel you just go through.
Harley Quinn greed and corruption
Try Hunterdon County.
Western Cape May County still has beautiful Country roads, Worthington State Park is so great,camp sites right on the Del.River. Great country roads near it to.# hour round trip on Cape May Ferry,cold beer and cool breezes, Lots of great hiking trails,including section of both the App.and Long Path. Beaches so nice,stinking New York schmucks come down and ruin it for us locals.Mountains in the North West,beaches to the east, and suck ass crooked politicians work overtime every day to take all this away from us.
@@davidwadsworth8982 You're right, there is still much beauty in Jersey. Even though Hunterdon Co. has lost the vast majority of its farming the county roads are still quaint and beautiful. Western Jersey along the Delaware River is beautiful. South Jersey is still beautiful but, painfully economically depressed.Once the I-95 corridor is escaped there is still much beauty to be found. Politicians and Jersey politics...that's an entirely different story.
You don't drive enough. Get off the main highway.
Loved this presentation. Makes me hopefully curious that some of it is still there.
My god what happened to us.
Not VOTING is every election and voting based on hot buttons.
@Therin Chilnsford I thank God for them whenever my Social Sec. check arrives and when I had to go to the hospital for the stroke I had. No bill. I didn't have to worry about being bankrupted. Repubs. fought SS and M-Care tooth and nail from day one. They still fight it today.
Matt Pizzano It’s a god damn nightmare.
The Newark cherry blossoms are better than DC’s.
There were more trees in Newark, still are.
True, but the problem is they are in Newark.
I missed them this year though we did drive through to see them. The Cherry Blossom Festival was cancelled along with everything else but looking forward to seeing them next year! I love my city!
Yes they were.
@Matt Pizzano The government has nothing to do with it. The federal government has been MIA since this 'rona thing hit. What's changed is that AI and automation have eliminated millions and millions of middle class jerbs. The US is now well into the post industrial stage of capitalism. Gains in productivity accrue almost entirely to the people who control capital and resources. The 1% no longer need hordes of worker bees to make them rich. Most of us are now redundant and the super rich would like nothing better than for most of us to die.
The sound keeps cutting in and out throughout the WHOLE video. Is there a way to fix this? Great video. I miss NJ the way it used to be.
New Jersey's a fantastic place to live and visit A unique and vibrant place You've got everything there
Steven Quinn remember this was filmed 70 years ago. Not like that now. It’s a over taxed dump
Grew up in South Jersey. Between Philadelphia and Atlantic City. It was beautiful. Not that way anymore. Sad to see it die a horrible death
It's too bad they tore down all those great Atlantic City hotels.
#donaldtrump
AC was a resort destination for people from NYC, Boston, Philly, DC before airline travel was a thing. When the airline industry started offering flights to Maui for $99.95, AC started to die, and was eventually killed off by the likes of Donald Trump and his mob friends.
@Andrew Solymos Trump and his mob friends certainly had their hands in it. Stop deluding yourself.
@Andrew Solymos good luck defending Trump's casino business...and who said family vacations are a thing of the past..maybe not during the virus but it is still "a thing"..maybe not in your family.. I can imagine you bellyaching about the Democrats the whole time..some vacation ! lol
Can't believe they really tore them down
I grew up in Jersey City it was a wonderful time in the late 40s and early 50s what a wonderful place to live I miss those days
Usa Loveamerica I love hearing wonderful stories about jersey city. I live in jersey city now, I can't even afford to move elsewhere as of now. Our beloved jersey city is no longer safe and hasn't been for the longest. People are getting stabbed 56 times in the neck over here, domestic violence is on the rise. It's terrifying, I would give anything to experience a time when jersey city was a beautiful place.
That narrator, used to do Superman cartoons in the sixties. Also, National Lampoon albums in the 70's.
Bradley Greenwood That narrator seemed to make every educational film I ever watched in school from 1962 on.
@4:05 Today this "Old Timer" would be shunned for smoking. Today he would be fined for fishing without a license and some self-righteous sjw would get in his face screaming that the fish "were here first."
In many ways we have not progressed at all.
Devolved more than anything
Did fishing licenses exist back then?
So what would be "progression" in your eyes? MORE fishing?
Grew up in the lakes region of Jersey. Great place to grow up. I think that was the Hackettstown fish hatchery. Friends from NY city area in the summer. We had the whole lake to ourselves in the winter.
Budd Laker here! My dad took me a number of times to the hatchery in Hackettstown when I was little. My brother and I went everywhere on our bikes, horse farms, strawberry farms, fished and swam in the lake. Went to many a restaurant around Lake Hopatcong, many which now are long gone. The area has changed so much, so congested now. Have not been there for years but hope to go back and show the grandkids one day!
They even wore a shirt tie when they went fishing. FISHING.
back when it was safe to eat what you caught in a NJ stream.
No it was not. Chemical companies dumped freely before the EPA. They had more freedoms to pollute common waterways. The Rartian River was red in the 1940s.
well new jersey is kind of a toxic dump at any rate. Look at the condition of the meadowlands when they built there, what horrors they found in the ground. Even though NJ is the garden state.
Why are y’all in the comments hating on New Jersey. Yes, this looks like a nice, idealistic version of our fine state, yet the past so the past and we need to fix today’s NJ. Also New Jersey is still beautiful and is a nice place to live, yet we do have our problems and we do need to fix them.
Everything nice about it is diminishing more each day
I remember my brother taking me to Bivalve and we had a chance to work on a an early 20s oyster schooner called Meerwald. It was really cool. I think they still use it for education.
yes, the AJ Meerwald is NJ's official Tall Ship. They really did her proud.
My Mom was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey 1944
Yolanda Johnson Congratulations
@@ericzambelli2854 Thank You
One of us was born in Newark and the other of us was born in New Brunswick. Moved out ten years ago and DO NOT miss anything but the food; that's not enough to bring us back home.
@@noturningbackever493 very well said.
I was born and raised in Philadelphia and still resides here. I would love to move to one of my favorite states: Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Wyoming.
@@yolandajohnson8685 Take the chance but do your homework first. We researched everything about SC--took about a year, then we made our move.
All you jackweeds bad mouthing New Jersey, of course its changed! ALL the states have changed! We still have great beaches, great produce,,tomatoes, corn, etc, Atlantic city, LBI is still beautiful, and many streams and rivers to fish, not to mention the Atlantic ocean ! Holmdel, Colts neck, Deal,Spring lake, I could go on! Horse farms galore! Tons of farm markets for fresh fruits and vegetables, born and raised in central Jersey and still living here, I love it!
New Jersey: thousands of new laws, rules and regulations annually. Highest property taxes with crap roads. No longer a good place to live.
Back when NJ was part of the USA
You mean California.
@@aslanjudah33 Remember when Al Qaida flew those airplanes into Macon Georgia? or was it...Jacksonville Florida?
New Jersey is still a beautiful place, yet it has changed and some aspects of it have gotten worse, and yes I’ll admit that fact. Yet, I must say, that as a New Jersey resident, a mighty young one may I add at only 16, I feel my state is still beautiful and I love my state so much. For those who’re wondering, I live in northwestern Jersey in Morris County and it also is a bit rural where I live.
Wait until you have to start paying for it. Your opinion may change quickly. Politicians are destroying our state. I make more than the median income, live a very frugal life, and save as much as possible, but there's no way my wife and I can retire in NJ. It's just too expensive. I'll miss NJ when we have to leave.
Hope you don't like freedom or liberty, something found in other states.
dont listen to those negitive replies, NJ is still top ten states to live in and everyone ive ever known to leave always find their way back. New Jersey is ever growing, and although not perfect. I never plan on leaving
Who else had this recommended to them during the COVID19 quarantine
Thank goodness for Atlantic City. It keeps everyone away from NJ's real gem:
Ocean City. 🏖
Cape May is better but I grew up in ocean city so i have a soft spot for the south jersey shore towns
Any chance of improving the sound track?
I love the trout fisherman in the shirt and tie (complete with hat)!
New Jersey is called the “Garden State.”
Fairfaxcat We used to go down the shore to Ocean City, NJ. We’d buy huge Jersey tomatoes and sweet corn from farm stands on the way. Gladiolus flowers, too. It was still mostly country back then.
Barbara Churchill Didn’t Whitman preserve lots of open space from developers?
@Fairfaxcat I’m sorry but I moved out of the area after graduating from college. Whitman was after my time.
Yeah mostly garden variety neurotics now though lol Most farmers can't survive whether in Jersey or nationally.
@@barbarachurchill5304 I grew up in Ocean City, it used to be a great town, now it is a great town to be from. Believe or not, the year round population has actually gone down as more and more of the smaller homes are replaced with the huge McMansions. I do not know what those people do for money, but they really have a lot to throw around.
I still live nearby, while I cannot afford to live in OC, it is still nice to visit and the beaches are still top notch!
I WAS a Jersey girl...until ten years ago when both myself and my husband couldn't stand the taxes anymore. Both of us are from the Jersey Shore, Ocean County.
What do we miss? THE FOOD!! Other than that, they can keep running it into the ground as they have been for decades.
Thanks for enjoying the benefits from the previous generation and then skipping town.........
@@WooBino. Ah, but you're wrong. Both of us grew up in Ocean County--both of us are over 60 years old and both of us worked every minute of our adult life--only to pay enormous taxes, right up until 2017 (when we threw out the tenant for destroying our house).
Besides all that, WE paid our fair share, buddy; and paid, and paid, so there's nothing to condemn us for, especially when WE furnished ''benefits" for those who live there and we didn't, since we moved out in 2010, taxes being furnished up until 2017...really got nothing to say to us.
Born and raised in NJ, unfortunately after 55 years I could no longer afford to live there and had to move. For all of the problems and there are many, it is my home state and I miss it.
Grew up in point pleasant loved the board walk and the roller coster over the water. The beaches we had a sandy lawn it was great. But my dad moved us to long island not the same
Why is everyone blaming NJ’s problems on NJ? If you don’t like the last 30 years of NJ it’s because of NYC’s growth.
Born and raised, always wanted to see this , it’s so sad how it has changed,I wish it was still like this...bound brook, crazy flowers?!!! Not today hell no.
My uncle lived in Bound Brook. Taxes were horrendous.
Please know the Raritan river in Bound Brook NJ during the 40s ran red due to The Calco Chemical Company. No fishing could be done from the Raritan river for years because of the The Calco Chemical Company.
@@tipperzack
I remember the smell of Calco on tbe way to Manville
I was born in Glenridge and spent my early years in Mountain Lakes in the 1960’s. Sure was beautiful!
I grew up in Glen Rock in the 60's. It was a wonderful town. I remember going to Mountain Lakes to look at houses with my parents around 1966. What a pretty place it was ? I have a lot of happy memories of the New Jersey of the 50's and 60's. Can't imagine what it's like now.
@@richardo5951 MTN lakes and Morris county is still pretty nice
@@richardo5951 I was born and raised a town over in Ridgewood! I’m 22 and still live in Jersey though now I live in South Jersey. I quite like South Jersey since it’s a lot calmer and people are genuinely nicer. You also get more farms than in the north and I like Philly more than NYC since it’s cheaper and less populated. Parts of South Jersey give an almost Deep South atmosphere which is so funny since your still in Jersey!
It was so hard to watch this. Jersey has become a sadly faded rose that has not aged well. In my adolescence in the 60s she still had a rosy glow but, the last 50+ years have ravaged her. It is so very sad to see this process of decay in such a once beautiful place.
Life is nicer when you have shared values.
People often misunderstand this comment. It's taken to mean we all have to agree, or it's somehow a desire to return to a time when certain people were not treated equally under the law. Of course it means none of that. Shared values is the idea that our country was founded on liberty, that all men are created equal and are endowed with rights given by God. So simple.
Thomas Young Orchids was located at the corner of Harris Avenue and Rte. 28 originally in Bound Brook, but later on within Middlesex Borough boundaries. I remember the greenhouses there growing up just a few blocks away. My dad used to get upset about the soot from their smokestack landing all over our house and car. There are houses there now.
I was born and raised in NJ, as were my parents. They were born in the 40s. I was born 1969 and still it was a great place to grow up. We summered in Wildwood Crest each year and I loved it. I left in '95 because I lacked the $1 million to buy a decent home. Most of my friends left too. I do visit when I can.
"...But it's my state, I think it's great! Deep in the heart o Jersey!" (Uncle Floyd). Say it once, say it LOUD! I'm from New Jersey, and I'm PROUD!
I want to go back and live in this era. Please sign me up for the time travel program. I'm in !!! By-the-way, did you notice how fit everyone looked from all walks of life? I didn't see one fat adult or kid. Very interesting.
We eat like pigs now.
Yes I did notice that!!!
@@anonymouse5910 It caught my eye because there are so many overweight children and adults in America today. Not so in the generations of our parents and earlier.
@@wholeNwon And most things you did for work required some fitness. Also have to remember, this is not long after the war, a lot of those men are not long out of the military.
25:20 Glad to see bad golf swings were always around!
I wish I can go back in time and walk through New Jersey in the 40s
Hard to believe most of this is gone & no Monmouth Park.It opened in 1946.
All Gone
9:15 BRIDGETON!!!!!! ....... In spite of all thats wrong with NJ, at least it's got the PINE BARRENS!!!!!!! Too bad they didn't include that but then again, the Pinelands National Reserve designation wasn't established til 1979. And of course its nice they included the railroads shown at beginning of video. Love these classic videos!!!!
Hey, my great grand parents were berry farmers in the Pine Barrens under the Italian American land grant act of 18-something. They gov't enticed them to farm there so they'd all stop clustering in the cities since us Guineas are so damn tribal. Half their kids moved to the cities later anyway. Ha.
Wow, it's been a long road to get to the Matress stores, adult book stores, and auto body shops & junkyard utopia that we know today.
Before I turned up the volume, I knew exactly what the narrator's voice, tone, and speed would be. Who is he? And I hope he was well compensated for narrating many NJ Educational Programs & our childhood!
using ten minutes of this film for college project thanks
I like how the guys fishing are wearing ties, even in the middle of the river.
7:47 My how things were different back then. Look at those people just diving in the water with a motor boat nearby. Probably wouldn't be set up that way today.
Look at all the farming! Nice view of my home state. Now, before we get too nostalgic, don't forget corrupt "Boss" Hague of Jersey City who dominated the state then. Not to mention out-of-control pollution in Hudson & Essex Counties.
The Pennsylvania RR literally owned half of Jersey City, and made damn well sure that the politicians were all in their pocket.
Yup. I remember the pollution well. Incredible and will lots of lung disease. The sulfur particles would layer out on the highways sometimes and the stench was incredible. Very corrupt politics.
Grew up in Elizabeth NJ in the 80’s and 90’s, now it’s over crowded with people living on top of one another and the traffic is terrible!
I grew up in Elizabeth, currently in Union. Moving to Delaware soon!
@@lisatrautner9426 nice, what street and what year was that? Delaware is awsome, I’m out there a lot for my job
The shore (not the beach)
The Parkway, (not the highway or freeway)
Waffles and ice cream
Sausage and Pepper on a Hard roll (or bun)
Taylor ham (thats right TAYLOR HAM)
Best Hot Dogs Ever
Bets Italian Food Ever
........and I love the smell of CREOSOTE in the morning as I hear seagulls and listen to the waves
Pork roll...🙄 You North Jersey folks kill me...☺️
@@toadstool1404 its was made in No Jersey, so we know the name :)
OMG its PORK ROLL, you north jersey folk kill me lol
Nice video, but the sound keeps cutting out. Missed a lot of the narration.
Vought Crusader that’s so you would buy the DVD
AGREED ! Ok so it wasn't just me lol thanks
So do you think the fish hatchery scenes were shot at Hacketstown ?
Pequest
The title of this is "New Jersey Journey".
I live in Long Branch.It went from a quiet resort town to looking like South Beach Miami.
Where did it all go wrong.....
William Vagabond ok snowflake
@@mikesyls dang I looked up NJ history. How did u get here 3 minutes ago
Democrat voters.
@@johnfroude4507 blacks
horseathalt no he said it rite Democrat’s
No fat people, lots of high trousers though.
Yeah, it's so strange not to see any fat people in those old reels. The men and women were fit and attractive. How far we've fallen.
@@thewaragainstcars Sugar's a large reason why we have fat people today. It doesn't account for everything but it's a large portion.
Greg Dolecki real gentlemen wear slacks high.
We might've had one fat kid in our classes, but no more than that. Everybody was skinny. Now the skinny ones are in the minority.
@@thewaragainstcars More like eaten. Humans has solved the problem of food and your angry about it.
Produced by John Bransby for Humble Oil and Refining Company {Esso}- note their famous "Happy Motoring!" slogan is used at the very end [30:15].
Awesome 👍
Really enjoying this old time films on NJ.
Ahh the days when New Jersey had much to offer with open land and travel destinations. Woman also had clean open space on their bodies... free of tattoo clutter. It's all urban sprawl, degeneracy, and taxes now.
and no injected fake asses like Kartrashians
Oh grandpa... don’t you realize... you people ruined it.
Platon K Yes they do but it looks better on MEN than on women because tattoos are inherently more masculine at least in the western culture aspect don’t bring in other cultures that have nothing to do with the Western Hemisphere.
Tattoos are for trash... plain and simple. Ugly, nasty scars.
i live in south jersey.. NO tattoos here
Born in AC lived there back when shoobees left for the winter before Hadden hall became Resorts...
The Hollywood version of Jersey.
I grew up near Asbury Park. I recognize those old homes. They're still there. I don't think the casino is. It used to be an upper-class area but now it's just a slew of upper middle-class families competing for materialism, & very few black & brown families. So sad.
Everyone makes nj sounds like it’s all Newark and Kearny like that’s all nj is the urban parts are so small compared to the thousands of acres of pineland reserves and the beaches it’s pretty nice southJersey hates north jersey too
Brandon_kx250f Is from south jersey and I don’t hate north jersey yet we are somewhat rivals New York/Philly
Mike Rose correct! Jersey is a strange state being sandwiched between Ny n Phil u have eagles giants n even some jets fans u have Yankees n Phillies fans even some Mets? It would seem all the philly fans r south all the NY fans north but trenton? U have a mix of all
Edward O'brien That’s true. I guess to me is we’ve got two football teams here that play in my state of New Jersey and yet they’re called New York!🏈
The NJ Transit system is still set up like most of the state is woods and farms. Think about, when this film was made the Hudson river tunnel was already almost 40 years old.
I'm sure the cost of living in NJ was more affordable then. Today, approximately half of all people aged 18-35 in NJ still live with their parents because they can't afford to live on their own! That's progress for ya.....ha ha ha!!
By the way, I'm older than 35, but I can't afford to live on my own in NJ either!
The jobs don't pay much either unless you are lucky to get a high paying job
@@Vibrantly_Monochromatic And most of those jobs are in municipal government and unless you have a 'hook', you're not getting one of those jobs.
@@MrSloika that pretty much goes for any jobs
@@Vibrantly_Monochromatic Privately owned businesses can hire anyone they want for any reason. Government jobs are not the 'family business'......except in New Jersey.
2:15 is a weird statement. They make it seem as if the Ben franklin bridge is the busiest bridge in the world. However undoubtedly back then as is the case today bridges in New York definitely carry way more volume traffic day in and day out
New Jersey,the nanny state!
What a DIFFERENCE 80 yrs makes. The last 25-30 yrs were the death blow for the state.
They killed Sonny on the causeway...
Leave the gun, take the canolli
I lived In New Jersey all my life only thing Good Is Produce Other Than That
its going down Hill High Property Taxes high Insurance Oh yeah we have the
Cleanest Beaches In Capemay County and Atlantic County
That's what happens in a Democrat controlled state.
john froude u r correct
Be careful. Might get stung by a needle today