My Uncle was the Chief Cartographer at the Library of Congress for many years. He wrote a book on the mapping of North America. I have a copy of it. Thanks for posting this-
Wow. How is it possible they have sound? Did they record sound in the modern day, essentially having actors play the parts like the woman talking and laughing?
@@Lucky7177pro i knew someone was going to type this. YES WE GET IT A PICTURE OF 80 year OLDS IN 1910 means surely their but gone> GOD EVERYONE IS THE SAME LOL
For decades, old footage was shown at the wrong film speed and it just lost its humanity. This restored footage is absolutely spellbinding and unveils a brand new appreciation for the people and the period. A proper time capsule. I love watching the expressions on the people and fashions as they go about their daily lives. Fantastic glimpse into the past.
I know you spend a lot of time restoring these old films. I want you to know it is much appreciated. It gives so much enjoyment getting to glimpse into the world as it truly was. Thank you for taking the time to RESTORE history! God bless you! ❤❤❤
An appreciable work, but it's evident that the audio isn't original as audio recording with video didn't exist at the time. Sound design work was done.
I love this!!! My great grandmother was born in 1900 & these amaze me. She died at 103, I was in my early 20s. She would have been a baby in someone's tummy on that sidewalk in that era. I love all the 1900+. My grandmother who raised me just turned 90, born in the 30s. I love her old home movies so much ♥️♥️♥️
That’s really cool. I met my brother’s mother-in-law’s mother in 2000 shortly before she died. She was born in 1899. It struck me how rare it was to know a person who had been alive in three different centuries and two different millennia!
I know a guy who is 74 years old was born in 1949 he can still remember when his grandmother came over from Germany to USA she was born in 1854 she lived to be 107 before she died, she use to tell Bill what the 19th century was about when he was around 7 years old, she use to remember everything she did when she was around his age. It’s incredible what a family can do when they live for 100+ years.
I’m 74 and my grandfather was born in 1865. He was 34 when this film was shot. President Tylers grandson is still around. Tyler served as President in 1841. Weird.
@Lpreilly72 As I write this I’m only 31.5 I think it’s absolutely incredible what a big difference history has been since we’ve started archiving more audio and video on what happens, it’s incredible to think what life was like 170 years ago.
Im glad there were people that thought it important enough to take video and pictures of people and places over the years. These old videos and pictures from the 1890s and early 1900s are incredible. Priceless. I like to look at old videos or photos and wonder about the people in them. How their life turned out, what they did for a living, whether or not they had children, if they died young or elderly, and all the change they seen over the course of a lifetime. Photography is the greatest invention since language itself.
Film (rather than video, which came out in the 1950s) was such a new and fascinating technology that early photographers sent crews to make movies of people walking on the street, arriving on a train, tearing down a wall, anything and everything they thought might be interesting. They also quickly found that audiences would pay money to watch the films because It was the first time anyone had seen "pictures that moved". Thank heavens for their work!
@Poisson4147 indeed. You'd think more people with cameras would think it important. I mean surely they talked to their grandparents about life in the old west or even prior and even thought of how they'd like to see the world their ancestors lived in. Surely they'd think future generations would think the same way. And we do indeed.
???? Personal transportation has almost nothing to do with heavy construction work. You might ask yourself if Buicks and Toyotas have any connection to building a modern skyscraper. In the 19th C. materials were transported by train and massive wagons. There were big *steam* powered cranes, excavators, lifts, and even drills and riveting machines. Remember that buildings as massive as the US Capitol were built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. NYC's architecture is impressive but certainly not impossible.
@@JayKarpwick it is just a commentary on the point in time. There were very few work trucks at that time too. I’m very familiar with the technology. I have a BS and MS in Engineering. I finished my BS in 1986, so I am very familiar with technology, or the lack there of.
@@JustMe99999 They are pointing out that the technology around the people do not match how the people are living. It shows that they moved in to places that already had the structures from before a cataclysm restarted civilizations around the world. The entire world has the same issue. We see amazing architecture around the world with people using horses and carts. We are told those people built those buildings. It is a lie. 🙂
The stabilised movement of these old films brings a completely new relatability and glimpse in to the past. The disjointed old reels almost felt unreal. All of a sudden this footage has really been brought to life. Amazing! ☺️
Amazing, but kind of eerie how some people are in colour, while others are still black and white in the same scene. Its like they don't belong there and reality is rejecting them.
When I was a boy in NYC in the 1960s, there were still very many things and some people around from such scenes as these. It is difficult to describe how I was able to experience the vibes, echos, scents, and grit from 60-70 years earlier as I lived among the old streets, remaining structures, decorations and signage (including old horse stable buildings!). Well, things didn't change as quickly back then as fast as they do now. The immigrant communities of millions of immigrants and refugees coming to NYC was at peak in 1890-1900, and many of those communities were still very active in my youth. (My grandparents wete among them). Countless times I've wished I could visit back then before it began to dissappear, to see, for example, the bustling piers before I saw them abandoned and falling apart frim the Brooklyn Bridge and Hudson River. This video lets me finally time-travel back and see it in a way the unrestored film never could.
That is so sweet, and remember, Jesus loves you and wants to save your life. Accept Christ and repent of your sins. God loves you and He wants you close to Him!❤❤❤ God bless you
Oh how I wish these clips were longer. I’m so mesmerized by them. Being able to see this footage restored and colorized really makes it so much more realistic. ❤
B&W footage always has a sensation of distance, but this AI restoration gives a sense of immersion that's equal amounts of breathtaking and scary. It feels like the closest we'll ever be to actual time travel.
Props. The "sensation of distance" is not something that most people explicitly notice like that (!) It's important because . . . the sensation is a characteristic feature of the human capacity we all have to do "mental time travel".
Its the smoothed out frame rate and stabilization of any bouncing that does it. Makes it look more like video than an old handcranked 16fps Cinématographe or whatever was used to capture this footage.
Yes! Part of my family lived in NY at that time. It was the height of the industrial revolution. New machinery and construction methods (e.g. steel beams) changed the city over just a few decades.
@@LeeZaslofsky Thank you. The TartarSauce conspiracy nutters always get flummoxed when you bring up ancient Rome and Greece. They can't comprehend that our ancestors could build the Colosseum or the Parthenon without using diesel motors or electric drills.
what does that have to do with you being naive? umm and it doesnt even make sense to say that, obviously things exist. because we exist. "OMG THIS THING EXISTS" like no fuckin shit, are you fucking stupid? lol
1:03 to think that those 2 children in the shot witnessed 2 world wars, a cold war, the transition from horse&carriage to cars&trucks, airplanes becoming normal, cinema to tv is awesome
Unless they didn't make it that far. But yes, they had the best chance of surviving to see all of that out of everyone else in the video. There's even a chance that they made it to the 21st century, although it is slim.
things moved much faster in the next 45 years two world wars, commercial flight and nuclear bombs. Thats insane and not long after that men on the moon.
Thats what my mom told me when I asked her what the differences are between her generation and mine. She said people now move and want everything quickly.
When I was 8, I shook hands with a man who was born when Abraham Lincoln was alive. These restored films make the people of those times come alive. Well done.! 😊
My Irish immigrant ancestors arrived in New York City during the 1870's. 3 of my four grandparents were born between 1896-1903. My last grandparent, my grandfather, was born in Ireland in 1886 and immiganted to New York in 1903. This was the world they all grew up in. Thank you. Fascinating footage .
Could you imagine coming from the devastation of post famine Ireland to this. It must have seemed like paradise on earth. These people were so traumatised and America took them in and have them a life worth living.
@@mow3186 Yes, Correct. And this great county of America allowed their descendants , me, included, to live and work for a life of prosperity and freedom.
Same -- all my ancestors Irish although some went to Britain/Scotland first for work and then to America. Came ashore in New Jersey and also Boston in the 1870s and 80s; lived 10 to an apartment at first. Metalworkers, plumbers ("piper"), all worked with their hands. They were a tough lot.
👍 The scene was staged, and probably the inspiration for Marilyn Monroe's in The Seven-Year Itch. It was titled "What Happened on 23rd Street". Apparently even back then actors were on the uninhibited side, LOL!
The lady’s dress billowing in the updraft was taken from an Edison movie entitled “What Happened on 23rd Street, New York City” shot in 1901. The couple were actors: : A.C. Abadie was the man and Florence Georgie the lady.
Το έχω ξαναδιαβάσει ότι είναι σκηνοθετημένο...όμως πιστεύω ότι το σενάριο έλεγε να περπατάει απλώς το ζευγάρι για να τους γράφει η κάμερα...το σκηνικό με το φόρεμα πιστεύω ότι ήταν αναπάντεχο και αυθόρμητο...δεν μπορεί να ήταν τόσο καλοί ηθοποιοί που να προσποιηθουν κάτι τέτοιο..Αν προσέξει κανείς τις εκφράσεις στα πρόσωπα τους καταλαβαίνει ότι ήταν αληθινό..
@@Rightwillrule.wordpress.c.. yes the sounds have been added by glamourdaze the uploader. It was impossible to film and record sound back in 1901. Even Edison hadn’t managed that yet.
My dad was born in NYC in 1918.As I have grown older I find it astonishing that he delivered ice to buildings using a horses drawn "truck". This was in business areas or I guess wherever needed. Blocks of ice carried with ice tongs down into cellars, as a young kid! You can find plenty of footage showing horse drawn vehicles alongside cars, trucks, and streetcars if it seems like a tall tale to younger readers. And I wonder how many kids would apply for that miserable job! People these days (of course this has always been true) believe that they have lived through bad times. But look at pictures of pre-WWII baseball players, young men, and notice how old looking they were. Pardon my ramble, I was remembering how much most of us have to be thankful for every day!
I was born in 1964 and now i am 60 years.When i was a young boy there was no computer like now and no social media,no FB no handy .....The world was very different too those days.Greetings from Europe Belgium
people will be having sex on the streets without shame. there is more decency in this video compared to now, i couldn‘t see half naked girls with hotpants and boobs out in this video
The best part about all of this is none of this was made with AI, except for the color correction, but instead by someone who went through all the trouble to reconstruct old footage of the late 1890s for our own entertainment
This is astonishing, and fantastic! I was born July 16th 1996, my great grandparents are still with me I am happy to say: They will b 99, in the summer ! This is 26 years older than they are! Fantastic! Thank you to whomever put this together! Keep doing it God bless you Joey
Amazing！I was born in 1989, and my grandmother was born in 1929. She passed away in 2007. I still remember the first day she took me to primary school.
I do metal detecting as a hobby. It’s still hard to wrap my head around the fact that these items I pull out of the ground were once owned by those so many years ago. Whether I find a piece of women’s jewelry, a toy truck, a suspender clip or a button…it never seizes to amaze me to know that that item was a part of their life, in some way…some how, they used that item in a time that seems so distant to us, until it was set down, dropped, moved or just simply lost, and never touched again until I stumbled upon it 100+ years later, where it had sat in stillness decade after decade, through all the biggest historical events, throughout all the commotion of the world going by day by day, just sitting. I can’t talk to them or ask them questions about their life and what it was like, but in a way, I do feel a small connection when I find a personal belonging. It’s like their memory is still somewhat alive in a small little way, here on Earth…just for a moment.
This creates the possibility that you were technically talked about 100 years ago. "Maybe someone will find it." You were that someone. You were the subject of that sentence.
You sounds a lot like me. I was a Hellenic archaeologist in the 80's and 90's. Often my team would find clay lamps, clay dolls, pottery and so forth. I would always sit and holding the items thinking "Who owned you? What was their name?" I would walk through ruins of ancient houses wondering about the love and family that lived in them. Yeah I am very empathic that way. Its hard for me to look at old, abandoned houses without getting emotional; that someone built its with love and care. The foods cooked and the laughter throughout the halls and rooms.
Loved this! I was a fashion illustrator in Manhattan in the late 1960s and 70s and used to take the 14th street subway to attend the New School for Social Research and Parson's School of Design. My husband's family lived on the lower East side until they moved out of the city to Yonkers in the 1930s but he took me back to see where they had lived. This was pre-Edwardian era and I've always loved those straw boater hats and my husband has one, but he doesn't wear it. Used to walk past the Flatiron building as well. I was born in 1948 and my late parents were born in 1908 and 1910, my grandparents in the late 1800s. My husband's grandmother was born in 1899 on his maternal side and his paternal grandmother was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1897 and landed at Ellis Island in 1910 at age 13. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane!
1897 Киев это Российская Империя и там она родилась. Что я вижу в этом, что люди того времени родились в эпоху сильных перемен в обществе и они своего рода сформировали уже в в первой половине 20 -века негативный посыл в общества и по всему миру. Но по уровню восприятия культуры в массе своей они на голову были выше чем мы сейчас. Это можно просмотреть даже на примере своей семьи.
No need to be sarcastic, apparently you are blind to the direction this world has gone in. Apparently you are trying your best to keep up the asshole trend though. Great work..@@robertmoray988
@@ItsCostanza No because it looks the same. I walk down some of those same streets and ferry past that same chunk of lower Manhattan. It's thrilling to feel a part of something so eternal.
People worked hard in those days. There was no welfare to fall back on. Most people went to church or synagogue and learned morality. It WAS a different world because our values were better.
I find these clips of past life both fascinating and sad in equal measure. Seeing the slice-of-life your thoughtful editing, and authentic-feeling colourisation provides heightens the pathos: every single one of the individuals within those multitudes are gone. They may be nameless, but your efforts go some way to honouring their contributions to their community…even if some didn’t contribute, even if some were morally corrupt or unsavoury. It is immaterial because it’s part of the great parade of life. Thanks for your great labour of love.
Acutally, it's not an established fact that "they're gone". For example, 60% of theoretical physicists today agree with that aspect of Einstein's theory which demonstrates that these people are just alive now . . . as you are.
You really don’t realize in the lower quality footage just how many people are staring at the camera man confused or fascinated, truly the best use of AI I’ve seen.
Hearing those women laugh made me realize I've never pictured people from the past just laughing on the street. Drunk in a pub, yes, but never just casually walking down the street talking and laughing. It brings a bit more humanity to history.
Allah سبحانه وتعالى said, (Interpretation of the meaning) Then We made you successors after them, generations after generations in the land, that We might see how you would work. [Yunus 10:14] Then after them succeeded an (evil) generation, which inherited the book, but they chose (for themselves) the goods of this low life (evil pleasures of this world) saying (as an excuse): "(Everything) will be forgiven to us." And if (again) the offer of the like (evil pleasures of this world) came their way, they would (again) seize them (would commit those sins). [Al-A'raaf 7:169] If only there had been among the generations before you persons having wisdom, prohibiting (others) from Al-Fasad (disbelief, polytheism, and all kinds of crimes and sins) on the earth, (but there were none) - except a few of those whom We saved from among them! Those who did wrong pursued the enjoyment of good things of (this worldly) life, and were Mujrimun (criminal polytheist disbelievers). [Hud 11:116] And every nation has its appointed term; when their term comes, neither can they delay it nor can they advance it an hour. [Al-A'raaf 7:34] The Romans have been defeated. [Ar-Rum 30:2] And We made them a precedent (as a lesson for those coming after them), and an example to later generations. [Az-Zukhruf 43:56]
@Adrian-mq5ld He came over here with nothing, but worked hard, fought in WWI, saved his money and started a very successful business. Back then you couldn't come unless you had a sponsor in the US. Times have sure changed.
@@SamtheMan0508 Dude what are you talking about? People just walked on the boat and came here, sponsors and immigration laws only started after non-White people started coming to the US because they wanted to heavily limit the number of non-White people in the US. It's really interesting how millions of uneducated young people were just let into the US and how the only reason why that isn't a thing today is become of American racism towards Chinese people and other groups. Immigrants today are much more educated than immigrants in the past.
@@brijmsnyou realize most of the industries in the US are held up by immigrants, right? The agricultural industry depends on immigrants, the factory/ production industry is largely made up of immigrants and without professional immigration to the US there would be a huge shortage in doctors and other healthcare professionals, engineers, scientists and whatnot. Modern America is built by the professional skills and manual skills of immigrants, it's absolutely ridiculous to act as if it isn't.
My grandmother was born on 10th St in 1897. One of the memories she used to tell me about was the extra horse at a hitching post on 5th Ave and 34th St, where there was a small hill requiring the trollies to hitch a 2nd horse to power up the 1 block hill.
Amazing colorization and I am always mesmerized by the restoration is true to how people naturally looked and moved. I like getting lost in the surroundings.
Peter Jackson's "they shall never grow old researched the actual color and got it mostly right along with way better film restoration, but that major movie level large number of people working with massive computer banks and experts. I sort of like it although a link to original be nice. @@bblande
color is not what makes this real..its all about the adjusted speed and the extra frames simulated by computer....otherwise u just have jerky color footage..its the natural speed that does it
It was staged for the camera: The lady’s dress billowing in the updraft was taken from an Edison movie entitled “What Happened on 23rd Street, New York City” shot in 1901. The couple were actors: : A.C. Abadie was the man and Florence Georgie the lady.
@@markshrimpton3138 It did feel a bit staged to me only because the both of them looked so composed and then she seemed to slow down and he stepped away as if they both knew this was where the “real action” was going to take place. Thanks for revealing this information. 😊 It teaches me to trust my gut feeling.
@@acool6401 seeing it sharpened and coloured by AI makes it much better than the original. The timing too is now more realistic than the original which might have been as low as 16 frames per second; though I don’t know what speed Edison employed.
I was never there but feel like I miss it. I try to live my life like I’m in the 70’s or 80’s. Seemed simple back then. I have no social media other than TH-cam and honestly the only good thing about all this is that I get to watch these kinda videos.
Wow the way people are dressed is amazing, even the little children. The rich and poor, they certainly cared about what they wear and how they present themselves.
They dressed for social appeal, not personal comfort back then. Infact, this is still present today in most under developed countries due to it being more important to attract a wealthy mate.
It's not about "caring" what they look like. There was no such thing as "casual wear" back then. That's how they literally dressed every single day regardless of occasion. Talk about uncomfortable. I'd passed out in the middle of summer dressed like that.
Just so everyone knows (this is in the description), sound was not syncronised to film until 1927, so this is studio made sound. The colour and 3D restoration was also done by AI.
Good question. To me it looks a lot like Grace Church, but that’s on Broadway and not 5th Avenue. It doesn’t look like any of the 5th Avenue churches I’m familiar with.
@@Chromosome999 It's definitely not St. Patrick's, which is made of limestone and doesn't have those details on the slopes of the steeples. It's also not Fifth Avenue Presbyterian or the old St. Thomas Church that was replaced in 1906. Possible it's a church that was torn down some time midcentury.
I have often felt I was born too late, and that I would have fitted in quite well in this time period. I love the way people dressed; men were gentlemanly and women ladylike. We have lost SO MUCH in the way of culture and refinement.
@@magamaga1827 You should feel sorry for yourself. You are originally from Europe. Hispanics are originally from all of America, so you should first ask yourself if what you say is coherent.
The reality of those times was not your dream of politeness and gentility. Some people certainly lived that style of life, but there was a lot f poverty, racism, exploitation of workers, disease, unsafe and unhealthy housing, and plenty of violence. Luc Sante's book "Low Life" corrects your idyllic fantasy, as does the work of Jacob Riis. Check them out and be glad we've moved past that era.
@@LeeZaslofsky No need to preach at me…there is STILL “a lot of poverty, racism, exploitation of workers, disease, unsafe and unhealthy housing and plenty of violence”. The difference is, the CULTURE was far better all around….people knew the difference between right and wrong and respected themselves and others enough to not go to the local store in their pajamas and slippers or wear their pants down to their knees with their arses hanging out. My dream, however far-fetched, is that the days of respect and decorum will someday return. Probably not in my lifetime, tho.
This tech is amazing and I can imagine what it will be capable to do with these old videos after 5 years. This already looks amazing, but I'm sure this will get even better. Cannot wait.
My Great Grandmother, Mary Hester Crow (Born 1869)was in NYC in 1889 as an early post-grad of Ohio Wesleyan University studying Dramatic Reading at the Cecil B. DeMille school for Dramatic Arts. It was during her short 1 year stint in the Big Apple that she met a ladies undergarment salesman from Missouri, fell in love, went with him to Los Angeles by way of her family home in Delaware, Ohio where they got hitched. I never met my Great Grandfather. He passed young-widowing my Great Gran at 48. She lived to almost 101. Got a commemorative plaque from Mayor Sam Yorty and a letter signed by President Nixon. She saw the invention of the airplane to the moon landing. By comparison, it doesn't seem that much has transpired in my near 70 years.
The images of the Lower East Side resonate. But, I think they would’ve been speaking mainly Yiddish among the market stalls. Thank you for this footage!
It's just so amazing to see how temporary we all are--every last one of them are dead and gone now for all eternity--nobody survived. It's kind of frightening when you think about it long enough.
I'm grateful that we can easily access footage from over a century ago! It's fascinating to see that even back then, New York was already a bustling metropolis.
Watching so many of these restored films and seeing how alive and vibrant the people are, and then remembering that they're long gone and it feels like they're sort of immortal, yet also of ghosts of the past. You can't help but think about your grandparents when they were young and your own mortality too.
The teenagers seen here may have well aged out having to serve in the trenches of WWI so maybe have led as normal of a life as could be for the times. Meaning, averaging out they would've seen the end of WW2 and some seeing the first commercial digital computers and man in space. Very luck few might have seen man walk on the moon.
In that part of the video where the couple is walking and her skirt flies up--- if you notice, the man's outfit could be worn today and he'd fit right in. The woman's outfit, on the other hand, would have people gawking at her. Men's fashion hasn't changed all that much compared to women's.
you can date old photos based on the women's clothing, almost with 3 years or less. in mens clothing , the changes are much more subtle. like width of collars and piping
My maternal step-great grandfather was born 30 September 1881. He’d died 3 December 1978, mere weeks after us burying family who’d died in Jonestown, Guyana. He was 97 years old. He’d fell & hit his head & suffered a stroke. We thought he would make it to 100 but he didn’t 😞!
My grandpa was born in 1898 - he was 7 ft tall which was pretty unheard of back then- he worked for union station (railroads) and would pick up the huge wheels off the train and tracks- he was also a boxer and one time fought Jack Dempsey.
Footage in this AI enhanced film was taken between 1886 and 1904. Thanks to the Library of Congress archive for their preservation. Enjoy
My Uncle was the Chief Cartographer at the Library of Congress for many years. He wrote a book on the mapping of North America. I have a copy of it. Thanks for posting this-
Thank u library of congress
Wow. How is it possible they have sound? Did they record sound in the modern day, essentially having actors play the parts like the woman talking and laughing?
It's dubbed in. @@johnhodgeman3980
@@johnhodgeman3980 It is an artifical audio track. Movies didn't have sound until at least 20 years later. Produced by AI maybe?
This is incredible - seeing real people, not actors, real clothes, not costumes - all genuine and not just some movie. It seems impossible!
You know what's even more incredible? I only saw white faces.
@@taharqa332 Relax.
@@junkjournaldavao I am certain Tharaqa is relaxed
@@galadrielwoods2332hii😊
@KatVog its the other way around. you didnt build anything, you and yours INHERITED the INFRASTRUCTURE.
To think not one single person in this films is alive, this is truly a time machine thank you very much for this great film.
Proof?
@@Lucky7177pro i knew someone was going to type this. YES WE GET IT A PICTURE OF 80 year OLDS IN 1910 means surely their but gone> GOD EVERYONE IS THE SAME LOL
@@Lucky7177pro this footage is over 126 years old brother
@@Lucky7177prou need to go back to elementary school
@@Lucky7177proa 1 year old would be 127 now so unlikely is an understatement.
For decades, old footage was shown at the wrong film speed and it just lost its humanity. This restored footage is absolutely spellbinding and unveils a brand new appreciation for the people and the period. A proper time capsule. I love watching the expressions on the people and fashions as they go about their daily lives. Fantastic glimpse into the past.
I know you spend a lot of time restoring these old films. I want you to know it is much appreciated. It gives so much enjoyment getting to glimpse into the world as it truly was. Thank you for taking the time to RESTORE history!
God bless you! ❤❤❤
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Maravilloso. Bello !!!!!❤😂
Agreed! This is amazing and important work. You’re literally changing the way we view history!
An appreciable work, but it's evident that the audio isn't original as audio recording with video didn't exist at the time. Sound design work was done.
And perfect audio. When the subway air blew her ❤😮😅dress up and she laughed
I love this!!! My great grandmother was born in 1900 & these amaze me. She died at 103, I was in my early 20s. She would have been a baby in someone's tummy on that sidewalk in that era. I love all the 1900+. My grandmother who raised me just turned 90, born in the 30s. I love her old home movies so much ♥️♥️♥️
Great memories!
That’s really cool. I met my brother’s mother-in-law’s mother in 2000 shortly before she died. She was born in 1899. It struck me how rare it was to know a person who had been alive in three different centuries and two different millennia!
My great grandmother was born in 1865...:).
Your great grandmother would be ashamed of what is happening now
Вы счастливый человек, застать свою прабабушку, будучи уже довольно взрослым человеком, не каждому дано.
I know a guy who is 74 years old was born in 1949 he can still remember when his grandmother came over from Germany to USA she was born in 1854 she lived to be 107 before she died, she use to tell Bill what the 19th century was about when he was around 7 years old, she use to remember everything she did when she was around his age. It’s incredible what a family can do when they live for 100+ years.
I’m 74 and my grandfather was born in 1865. He was 34 when this film was shot. President Tylers grandson is still around. Tyler served as President in 1841. Weird.
I'm also 74, born in 1950, and my grandmother was born in Kansas in 1876. She died when I was 18 in '68. Lets start a club!
I'm only 45 and I still remember my great grandma born in 1888
@Lpreilly72 As I write this I’m only 31.5 I think it’s absolutely incredible what a big difference history has been since we’ve started archiving more audio and video on what happens, it’s incredible to think what life was like 170 years ago.
@megansfo Still incredible to have learned that, I wonder how many families know that about their past.
Im glad there were people that thought it important enough to take video and pictures of people and places over the years. These old videos and pictures from the 1890s and early 1900s are incredible. Priceless. I like to look at old videos or photos and wonder about the people in them. How their life turned out, what they did for a living, whether or not they had children, if they died young or elderly, and all the change they seen over the course of a lifetime. Photography is the greatest invention since language itself.
Film (rather than video, which came out in the 1950s) was such a new and fascinating technology that early photographers sent crews to make movies of people walking on the street, arriving on a train, tearing down a wall, anything and everything they thought might be interesting. They also quickly found that audiences would pay money to watch the films because It was the first time anyone had seen "pictures that moved".
Thank heavens for their work!
@Poisson4147 indeed. You'd think more people with cameras would think it important. I mean surely they talked to their grandparents about life in the old west or even prior and even thought of how they'd like to see the world their ancestors lived in. Surely they'd think future generations would think the same way. And we do indeed.
Imagine all of the things our great grandkids will be able to look and see of our lives. Everything 😂
Yes, it's nice to be able to think about people when we see tthem in these clips.
having a glimpse of the past is so thrilling
Thanks to AI that now we can experience it with more clarity.💻
more like depressing, look at the state of the world now its gone
@@JC-nl3nh
Stop being negative because others are living life
@@JC-nl3nh yeah, id hate to live in that old time.
and depressing
It is hard to imagine that these buildings were constructed before cars were popularized. Simply staggering.
???? Personal transportation has almost nothing to do with heavy construction work. You might ask yourself if Buicks and Toyotas have any connection to building a modern skyscraper.
In the 19th C. materials were transported by train and massive wagons. There were big *steam* powered cranes, excavators, lifts, and even drills and riveting machines. Remember that buildings as massive as the US Capitol were built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. NYC's architecture is impressive but certainly not impossible.
@@JayKarpwick it is just a commentary on the point in time. There were very few work trucks at that time too.
I’m very familiar with the technology. I have a BS and MS in Engineering. I finished my BS in 1986, so I am very familiar with technology, or the lack there of.
Yes, and the pyramids were constructed in 2600 BCE, well before cars too. 🙄 One thing has nothing to do with the other.
@@JayKarpwickYou're losing it. Relax.
@@JustMe99999 They are pointing out that the technology around the people do not match how the people are living. It shows that they moved in to places that already had the structures from before a cataclysm restarted civilizations around the world. The entire world has the same issue. We see amazing architecture around the world with people using horses and carts. We are told those people built those buildings. It is a lie. 🙂
The stabilised movement of these old films brings a completely new relatability and glimpse in to the past. The disjointed old reels almost felt unreal. All of a sudden this footage has really been brought to life. Amazing! ☺️
Amazing, but kind of eerie how some people are in colour, while others are still black and white in the same scene. Its like they don't belong there and reality is rejecting them.
@@canuckprogressive.3435 It's called inconsistent or incomplete AI work, nothing nefarious.
When I was a boy in NYC in the 1960s, there were still very many things and some people around from such scenes as these. It is difficult to describe how I was able to experience the vibes, echos, scents, and grit from 60-70 years earlier as I lived among the old streets, remaining structures, decorations and signage (including old horse stable buildings!). Well, things didn't change as quickly back then as fast as they do now. The immigrant communities of millions of immigrants and refugees coming to NYC was at peak in 1890-1900, and many of those communities were still very active in my youth. (My grandparents wete among them). Countless times I've wished I could visit back then before it began to dissappear, to see, for example, the bustling piers before I saw them abandoned and falling apart frim the Brooklyn Bridge and Hudson River. This video lets me finally time-travel back and see it in a way the unrestored film never could.
That is so sweet, and remember, Jesus loves you and wants to save your life. Accept Christ and repent of your sins. God loves you and He wants you close to Him!❤❤❤ God bless you
100 years from now people will see our current lives and call it "good ole'days."
Oh how I wish these clips were longer. I’m so mesmerized by them. Being able to see this footage restored and colorized really makes it so much more realistic. ❤
same ! i could watch videos like this forever
The future generations are in for a treat then with all the social media and everything being recorded nowdays
B&W footage always has a sensation of distance, but this AI restoration gives a sense of immersion that's equal amounts of breathtaking and scary. It feels like the closest we'll ever be to actual time travel.
TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe this isn't a coincidence....
Props. The "sensation of distance" is not something that most people explicitly notice like that (!) It's important because . . . the sensation is a characteristic feature of the human capacity we all have to do "mental time travel".
Almost feels like a dream, especially when they are looking at the camera (yet it feels like they are looking at ME). 🥶
Its the smoothed out frame rate and stabilization of any bouncing that does it. Makes it look more like video than an old handcranked 16fps Cinématographe or whatever was used to capture this footage.
I’m naive, but the infrastructure and buildings in 1899 just astounds me.
Yes! Part of my family lived in NY at that time. It was the height of the industrial revolution. New machinery and construction methods (e.g. steel beams) changed the city over just a few decades.
You should have seen what the ancient Romans did.
@@LeeZaslofsky Thank you. The TartarSauce conspiracy nutters always get flummoxed when you bring up ancient Rome and Greece. They can't comprehend that our ancestors could build the Colosseum or the Parthenon without using diesel motors or electric drills.
@@LeeZaslofskyI did see, I was there. It was pretty awesome.
what does that have to do with you being naive? umm and it doesnt even make sense to say that, obviously things exist. because we exist.
"OMG THIS THING EXISTS" like no fuckin shit, are you fucking stupid? lol
These restored videos are amazing. It is like going back in time, literally. This is before cars. Many thanks for sharing!!!
Incredible. Love all the people staring at whatever’s filming them. Lots of joy emitted through the subjects.
Fake video made by Ai😂
@@Cecorait's AI colorized and enhanced. The video clips are real and the original source is in the description.
@@Cecora The clips are verified by the Library of Congress. Are you saying their historians are all lying?
@@Cecora You better tell the Library of Congress that they've archived a bunch of fake films ... yes?
1:03 to think that those 2 children in the shot witnessed 2 world wars, a cold war, the transition from horse&carriage to cars&trucks, airplanes becoming normal, cinema to tv is awesome
Unless they didn't make it that far. But yes, they had the best chance of surviving to see all of that out of everyone else in the video. There's even a chance that they made it to the 21st century, although it is slim.
why can you be sure they survived ?
@@7sson-hasson-310 i Said to think. This means i Imagine them living through that, Not kwoning..
@@dharkbizkitAha i got you now . Ma bad homie
May have seen the moon shots.
Things moved a lot more slowly than today. We need to slow down! Thank you for the time and effort you put into restoring these beautiful old films. ❤
things moved much faster in the next 45 years two world wars, commercial flight and nuclear bombs. Thats insane and not long after that men on the moon.
Thats what my mom told me when I asked her what the differences are between her generation and mine. She said people now move and want everything quickly.
Cars ruined everything
Things will always move quicker. People from 1799 would say the same about people from 1899
@@NauerBauer Nope, cellphones ruined everythink. Cars was a great marvelous that turned people's life better.
When I was 8, I shook hands with a man who was born when Abraham Lincoln was alive. These restored films make the people of those times come alive. Well done.! 😊
My Irish immigrant ancestors arrived in New York City during the 1870's. 3 of my four grandparents were born between 1896-1903. My last grandparent, my grandfather, was born in Ireland in 1886 and immiganted to New York in 1903. This was the world they all grew up in. Thank you. Fascinating footage .
Irish are the toughest people in the world…they are the working class salts of the earth
Could you imagine coming from the devastation of post famine Ireland to this. It must have seemed like paradise on earth. These people were so traumatised and America took them in and have them a life worth living.
@@mow3186 Yes, Correct. And this great county of America allowed their descendants , me, included, to live and work for a life of prosperity and freedom.
Same -- all my ancestors Irish although some went to Britain/Scotland first for work and then to America. Came ashore in New Jersey and also Boston in the 1870s and 80s; lived 10 to an apartment at first. Metalworkers, plumbers ("piper"), all worked with their hands. They were a tough lot.
Like Hispanics and Asians today 😊
That was so cute how she laughed the vent off so good to see old footage ❤
👍 The scene was staged, and probably the inspiration for Marilyn Monroe's in The Seven-Year Itch. It was titled "What Happened on 23rd Street".
Apparently even back then actors were on the uninhibited side, LOL!
When she did that it melted my heart
@@swisscheeseplease97 it’s so cute.
But they didn’t have sound on film in 1899 so must be dubbed
@@Poisson4147 you are right it is a copy of the scene "What Happened on 23rd Street" (1901) same people same scene
The lady’s dress billowing in the updraft was taken from an Edison movie entitled “What Happened on 23rd Street, New York City” shot in 1901. The couple were actors: : A.C. Abadie was the man and Florence Georgie the lady.
Το έχω ξαναδιαβάσει ότι είναι σκηνοθετημένο...όμως πιστεύω ότι το σενάριο έλεγε να περπατάει απλώς το ζευγάρι για να τους γράφει η κάμερα...το σκηνικό με το φόρεμα πιστεύω ότι ήταν αναπάντεχο και αυθόρμητο...δεν μπορεί να ήταν τόσο καλοί ηθοποιοί που να προσποιηθουν κάτι τέτοιο..Αν προσέξει κανείς τις εκφράσεις στα πρόσωπα τους καταλαβαίνει ότι ήταν αληθινό..
Oh, I see
I thought it was real.
Wondered if the sound was added.
That adds the reality of it.
Good to know
@@Rightwillrule.wordpress.c.. yes the sounds have been added by glamourdaze the uploader. It was impossible to film and record sound back in 1901. Even Edison hadn’t managed that yet.
@@markshrimpton3138
Yea, I thought so
@@Rightwillrule.wordpress.c..Yes, It appeared to be added.
My dad was born in NYC in 1918.As I have grown older I find it astonishing that he delivered ice to buildings using a horses drawn "truck". This was in business areas or I guess wherever needed. Blocks of ice carried with ice tongs down into cellars, as a young kid! You can find plenty of footage showing horse drawn vehicles alongside cars, trucks, and streetcars if it seems like a tall tale to younger readers. And I wonder how many kids would apply for that miserable job! People these days (of course this has always been true) believe that they have lived through bad times. But look at pictures of pre-WWII baseball players, young men, and notice how old looking they were. Pardon my ramble, I was remembering how much most of us have to be thankful for every day!
Love these quality-definition historical videos!
This is a gift - it's the closest we can get to a time machine, thanks so much for posting this.
I LOVE these restored, colorized videos! It’s like stepping into a time machine and getting a brief glimpse of the past. 🎥
I most appreciated the laughter, an reaction not (or very rarely) displayed in a black and white photograph from this era. Great job!
Makes you wonder what our society will look like 114 years from today. The contrast between those people in the video and us is stunning.
I was born in 1964 and now i am 60 years.When i was a young boy there was no computer like now and no social media,no FB no handy .....The world was very different too those days.Greetings from Europe Belgium
Take off their bulky clothes they will look slim but not muscular. The average American today is either ultra obese or look uber muscular ....
people will be having sex on the streets without shame. there is more decency in this video compared to now, i couldn‘t see half naked girls with hotpants and boobs out in this video
white america was so nice
I love these videos. I pause on bits to read the posters and admire the clothing and hair.
Props.
@@QED_ Proof??
Beautiful videos. Beautiful memories. The older they are the more precious they are. Thank you for sharing these videos with us.
The best part about all of this is none of this was made with AI, except for the color correction, but instead by someone who went through all the trouble to reconstruct old footage of the late 1890s for our own entertainment
Geez, an absolutely OUTSTANDING restoration!
This is astonishing, and fantastic! I was born July 16th 1996, my great grandparents are still with me I am happy to say: They will b 99, in the summer ! This is 26 years older than they are! Fantastic! Thank you to whomever put this together! Keep doing it God bless you Joey
Amazing！I was born in 1989, and my grandmother was born in 1929. She passed away in 2007. I still remember the first day she took me to primary school.
I was born in 2005 lol
1996 was a great year!
I miss the mid '90s
@@Lovetrain-io6kt
2005 was pretty cool
I do metal detecting as a hobby. It’s still hard to wrap my head around the fact that these items I pull out of the ground were once owned by those so many years ago. Whether I find a piece of women’s jewelry, a toy truck, a suspender clip or a button…it never seizes to amaze me to know that that item was a part of their life, in some way…some how, they used that item in a time that seems so distant to us, until it was set down, dropped, moved or just simply lost, and never touched again until I stumbled upon it 100+ years later, where it had sat in stillness decade after decade, through all the biggest historical events, throughout all the commotion of the world going by day by day, just sitting. I can’t talk to them or ask them questions about their life and what it was like, but in a way, I do feel a small connection when I find a personal belonging. It’s like their memory is still somewhat alive in a small little way, here on Earth…just for a moment.
Very nice sentiment, thankyou for posting that, well said friend!,Enjoy your hobby 😊
This creates the possibility that you were technically talked about 100 years ago. "Maybe someone will find it." You were that someone. You were the subject of that sentence.
Profoundly poetic 😌
You sounds a lot like me. I was a Hellenic archaeologist in the 80's and 90's. Often my team would find clay lamps, clay dolls, pottery and so forth. I would always sit and holding the items thinking "Who owned you? What was their name?" I would walk through ruins of ancient houses wondering about the love and family that lived in them. Yeah I am very empathic that way. Its hard for me to look at old, abandoned houses without getting emotional; that someone built its with love and care. The foods cooked and the laughter throughout the halls and rooms.
Loved this! I was a fashion illustrator in Manhattan in the late 1960s and 70s and used to take the 14th street subway to attend the New School for Social Research and Parson's School of Design. My husband's family lived on the lower East side until they moved out of the city to Yonkers in the 1930s but he took me back to see where they had lived. This was pre-Edwardian era and I've always loved those straw boater hats and my husband has one, but he doesn't wear it. Used to walk past the Flatiron building as well. I was born in 1948 and my late parents were born in 1908 and 1910, my grandparents in the late 1800s. My husband's grandmother was born in 1899 on his maternal side and his paternal grandmother was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1897 and landed at Ellis Island in 1910 at age 13. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane!
1897 Киев это Российская Империя и там она родилась. Что я вижу в этом, что люди того времени родились в эпоху сильных перемен в обществе и они своего рода сформировали уже в в первой половине 20 -века негативный посыл в общества и по всему миру. Но по уровню восприятия культуры в массе своей они на голову были выше чем мы сейчас. Это можно просмотреть даже на примере своей семьи.
I’m from NYC and this made me cry for some reason.
Me too.
No need to be sarcastic, apparently you are blind to the direction this world has gone in. Apparently you are trying your best to keep up the asshole trend though. Great work..@@robertmoray988
Because NYC looks way better back then
@@ItsCostanza No because it looks the same. I walk down some of those same streets and ferry past that same chunk of lower Manhattan. It's thrilling to feel a part of something so eternal.
People worked hard in those days. There was no welfare to fall back on. Most people went to church or synagogue and learned morality. It WAS a different world because our values were better.
I find these clips of past life both fascinating and sad in equal measure. Seeing the slice-of-life your thoughtful editing, and authentic-feeling colourisation provides heightens the pathos: every single one of the individuals within those multitudes are gone. They may be nameless, but your efforts go some way to honouring their contributions to their community…even if some didn’t contribute, even if some were morally corrupt or unsavoury. It is immaterial because it’s part of the great parade of life. Thanks for your great labour of love.
We're all passing through this thing called life. Most of us won't be here 100 years from now. Time marches on even after we're gone.
Acutally, it's not an established fact that "they're gone". For example, 60% of theoretical physicists today agree with that aspect of Einstein's theory which demonstrates that these people are just alive now . . . as you are.
You really don’t realize in the lower quality footage just how many people are staring at the camera man confused or fascinated, truly the best use of AI I’ve seen.
Hearing those women laugh made me realize I've never pictured people from the past just laughing on the street. Drunk in a pub, yes, but never just casually walking down the street talking and laughing. It brings a bit more humanity to history.
I believe the audio was generated and added to the video. There was no audio recording at that time.
@@dougrogers835 she did actually laugh though
Allah سبحانه وتعالى said,
(Interpretation of the meaning)
Then We made you successors after them, generations after generations in the land, that We might see how you would work. [Yunus 10:14]
Then after them succeeded an (evil) generation, which inherited the book, but they chose (for themselves) the goods of this low life (evil pleasures of this world) saying (as an excuse): "(Everything) will be forgiven to us." And if (again) the offer of the like (evil pleasures of this world) came their way, they would (again) seize them (would commit those sins). [Al-A'raaf 7:169]
If only there had been among the generations before you persons having wisdom, prohibiting (others) from Al-Fasad (disbelief, polytheism, and all kinds of crimes and sins) on the earth, (but there were none) - except a few of those whom We saved from among them! Those who did wrong pursued the enjoyment of good things of (this worldly) life, and were Mujrimun (criminal polytheist disbelievers). [Hud 11:116]
And every nation has its appointed term; when their term comes, neither can they delay it nor can they advance it an hour. [Al-A'raaf 7:34]
The Romans have been defeated. [Ar-Rum 30:2]
And We made them a precedent (as a lesson for those coming after them), and an example to later generations. [Az-Zukhruf 43:56]
The audio sounds totally fake it was added to the video it's not original sounds
Laughed, moaned, cried all the emotions
My grandfather sold fruit and vegetables from a cart as a young immigrant in the early 1900's.
wow that is crazy to think that whatever you do and have and will do wouldn't have been possible without him selling fruits.
Back when this country needed immigrants.
@Adrian-mq5ld He came over here with nothing, but worked hard, fought in WWI, saved his money and started a very successful business. Back then you couldn't come unless you had a sponsor in the US. Times have sure changed.
@@SamtheMan0508 Dude what are you talking about? People just walked on the boat and came here, sponsors and immigration laws only started after non-White people started coming to the US because they wanted to heavily limit the number of non-White people in the US. It's really interesting how millions of uneducated young people were just let into the US and how the only reason why that isn't a thing today is become of American racism towards Chinese people and other groups.
Immigrants today are much more educated than immigrants in the past.
@@brijmsnyou realize most of the industries in the US are held up by immigrants, right?
The agricultural industry depends on immigrants, the factory/ production industry is largely made up of immigrants and without professional immigration to the US there would be a huge shortage in doctors and other healthcare professionals, engineers, scientists and whatnot.
Modern America is built by the professional skills and manual skills of immigrants, it's absolutely ridiculous to act as if it isn't.
This is AMAZING footage! Thanks, and please keep em coming. 😆👏♥️
This is the most amazing footage I have seen on TH-cam. It is beyond words to express how much I enjoy looking at footage from over 100 years ago.
Absolutely excellent! Thank you very much for sharing these historical gem.
She walked so Marilyn could run
This happened before Marilyn Monroe was born. Years later she made this iconic. Just mind-blowing 😳
Norma Rae you mean.
@fpostolache Norma Jean
Yes Norma Jean Baker. "Seven Year Itch".
Marilyn Manson?
My grandmother was born on 10th St in 1897. One of the memories she used to tell me about was the extra horse at a hitching post on 5th Ave and 34th St, where there was a small hill requiring the trollies to hitch a 2nd horse to power up the 1 block hill.
Thank you for preserving that memory here. Fascinating times.
0:34 "Jacques Kahn Mirrors" Jacques Kahn was born in 1884. He would be a teenager or at most in his early 20s.
I never get sick of these videos
Me 2!!!!!!!!
@@Sapphire586 Thanks for sharing.
Amazing footage, the colorization & sound make it so modern & relatable---NYC was incredible even so long ago.
Amazing colorization and I am always mesmerized by the restoration is true to how people naturally looked and moved. I like getting lost in the surroundings.
It's funny you say that because I think the colors are weird. It would have been better to just leave it in black and white.
Peter Jackson's "they shall never grow old researched the actual color and got it mostly right along with way better film restoration, but that major movie level large number of people working with massive computer banks and experts.
I sort of like it although a link to original be nice. @@bblande
color is not what makes this real..its all about the adjusted speed and the extra frames simulated by computer....otherwise u just have jerky color footage..its the natural speed that does it
0:26 had me nervous for your man just easily climbing down a beam like that. In a suit of all things. The real action hero right there.
0:55 she did it before Marilyn Monroe! 😂
Yes, little did she kno how iconic a scene those skirts blowing would be in the future and she was the first... (to have it on film,too!)
@@Elle_ene yeah!!
It was staged for the camera: The lady’s dress billowing in the updraft was taken from an Edison movie entitled “What Happened on 23rd Street, New York City” shot in 1901. The couple were actors: : A.C. Abadie was the man and Florence Georgie the lady.
@@markshrimpton3138 It did feel a bit staged to me only because the both of them looked so composed and then she seemed to slow down and he stepped away as if they both knew this was where the “real action” was going to take place. Thanks for revealing this information. 😊 It teaches me to trust my gut feeling.
@@acool6401 seeing it sharpened and coloured by AI makes it much better than the original. The timing too is now more realistic than the original which might have been as low as 16 frames per second; though I don’t know what speed Edison employed.
As someone who used to live in and spent most of their time in NYC, this made me cry.
Only 90s kids will remember this
Best comment!
You do realize the 90s refers to 1990-1999. You meant to say 1900s
@@ernestogastelum9123 He was making a joke. The 1690's, 1790's, 1890's etc. are all the nineties.
@larrys4618 Yes...and that decade was offically known as the "Gay 90's". These people were "Woke" ahead of the crowd...
They passed away around 1960 to 1986
This remaster/color/audio job is extremely well done. Hats off.
This is INCREDIBLE!!! Thanks so much.
Обожаю историю. Люблю старые фото и видео. Это словно машина времени, которая уносит нас в прошлое.
А где самодвижущиеся экипажи? )))
What amazes me is that everyone is dressed up...no pajamas, no sweatsuits, no sports bras.
holy shit - another idiot falls for this and thinks this is actual footage.
@@JayKarpwick nice try - that shi*t doesnt work on me
Even a guy up on the beams (I’d guess supervising the builders) is in a suit
@@BenvolioCapulet9 Which is not only RIDICULOUS, but probably DANGEROUS too? (No safety gear and appropriate footwear, for example).
they didn’t have sweatpants and sports bras in the 1800’s. of course they weren’t going to wear them. 😹
I was never there but feel like I miss it. I try to live my life like I’m in the 70’s or 80’s. Seemed simple back then. I have no social media other than TH-cam and honestly the only good thing about all this is that I get to watch these kinda videos.
How grand! A time machine. Thank you for sharing.
Wow the way people are dressed is amazing, even the little children. The rich and poor, they certainly cared about what they wear and how they present themselves.
Well there was no such think as leisure clothing back then.
Might look classy now, but to them it was regular casual clothing. Everyone dressed that way.
They dressed for social appeal, not personal comfort back then. Infact, this is still present today in most under developed countries due to it being more important to attract a wealthy mate.
It's not about "caring" what they look like. There was no such thing as "casual wear" back then. That's how they literally dressed every single day regardless of occasion. Talk about uncomfortable. I'd passed out in the middle of summer dressed like that.
@@chifineart fr, even those construction workers were wearing dress shoes, suits, and top hats
Just so everyone knows (this is in the description), sound was not syncronised to film until 1927, so this is studio made sound. The colour and 3D restoration was also done by AI.
Thanks. It seems that a lot of people didn't read the poster's explanation.
Marvelous. Thanks for uploading it.
Wow the restoration quality on this is amazing!
1:18 Does anyone know what church that is in the background? The church with the spiral steeple, closest to the camera.
Good question. To me it looks a lot like Grace Church, but that’s on Broadway and not 5th Avenue. It doesn’t look like any of the 5th Avenue churches I’m familiar with.
Looks like st Patrick’s cathedral
@@Chromosome999 It's definitely not St. Patrick's, which is made of limestone and doesn't have those details on the slopes of the steeples. It's also not Fifth Avenue Presbyterian or the old St. Thomas Church that was replaced in 1906. Possible it's a church that was torn down some time midcentury.
My grandfather was born in 1899. He passed away in 1975 when I was a little girl
I have often felt I was born too late, and that I would have fitted in quite well in this time period. I love the way people dressed; men were gentlemanly and women ladylike. We have lost SO MUCH in the way of culture and refinement.
I would be okay with that time except for going to the dentist!
yea,well, less europeans around now
@@magamaga1827 You should feel sorry for yourself. You are originally from Europe. Hispanics are originally from all of America, so you should first ask yourself if what you say is coherent.
The reality of those times was not your dream of politeness and gentility. Some people certainly lived that style of life, but there was a lot f poverty, racism, exploitation of workers, disease, unsafe and unhealthy housing, and plenty of violence.
Luc Sante's book "Low Life" corrects your idyllic fantasy, as does the work of Jacob Riis. Check them out and be glad we've moved past that era.
@@LeeZaslofsky No need to preach at me…there is STILL “a lot of poverty, racism, exploitation of workers, disease, unsafe and unhealthy housing and plenty of violence”. The difference is, the CULTURE was far better all around….people knew the difference between right and wrong and respected themselves and others enough to not go to the local store in their pajamas and slippers or wear their pants down to their knees with their arses hanging out. My dream, however far-fetched, is that the days of respect and decorum will someday return. Probably not in my lifetime, tho.
Мурашки по коже от осознания, что ни одного из этих людей уже нет на свете.
Я тоже так часто думаю при просмотре старинных кадров .это так пичально .
First thing that crossed my mind, as well. Even the little children have passed on. Wild
Почему нет?! Я же тут и даже себя видел на кадрах более 100-летней давности
This tech is amazing and I can imagine what it will be capable to do with these old videos after 5 years. This already looks amazing, but I'm sure this will get even better. Cannot wait.
Wow. My grandfather was born in The Bronx in 1901. He was born into THIS world. Amazing. (I was born in 1967.)
I was born in 1991.
Imagine telling these people that 125 years into the future, the world would be watching them on TH-cam!
"Please tell me, good sir, what is this, this .. U tube ... you speak of?"
Children have fun and look into the camera, not imagining that the recording of them will be viewed more than 120 years later
What a magic
No pranks vids,no phones, no fart prank ,no fake boxers,no wannabes just real people going about there lives.
Bro, you could die from dysentery.
bro we get it u hate pranks
I love these a picture from the past . A whole other world back then . Thank you ! 👍
Incredible! Your channel is stupendous!
My Great Grandmother, Mary Hester Crow (Born 1869)was in NYC in 1889 as an early post-grad of Ohio Wesleyan University studying Dramatic Reading at the Cecil B. DeMille school for Dramatic Arts. It was during her short 1 year stint in the Big Apple that she met a ladies undergarment salesman from Missouri, fell in love, went with him to Los Angeles by way of her family home in Delaware, Ohio where they got hitched. I never met my Great Grandfather. He passed young-widowing my Great Gran at 48. She lived to almost 101. Got a commemorative plaque from Mayor Sam Yorty and a letter signed by President Nixon. She saw the invention of the airplane to the moon landing. By comparison, it doesn't seem that much has transpired in my near 70 years.
Great history, thanks for sharing.
ladies undergarment salesmen got all the chicks
@@davidroosa4561 They could quickly unfasten those complicated hooks and release the hounds.
great post,
Cecil B. DeMille was born in 1881. I don't think it's possible he was running a school for dramatic arts at age 8.
The images of the Lower East Side resonate. But, I think they would’ve been speaking mainly Yiddish among the market stalls.
Thank you for this footage!
The shot of the builders in hats and full three piece suits instantly followed by the flatiron... absolutely diabolical
It's just so amazing to see how temporary we all are--every last one of them are dead and gone now for all eternity--nobody survived. It's kind of frightening when you think about it long enough.
Yet most people live their lives as if they are going to be here forever.
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I'm grateful that we can easily access footage from over a century ago! It's fascinating to see that even back then, New York was already a bustling metropolis.
Absolutely mesmerizing. I feel like I’m in a time traveling place.
Thanks!
thankyou Michael. Much appreciated x
1:08 The nutrition levels in those fruits must have been insane.
Watching so many of these restored films and seeing how alive and vibrant the people are, and then remembering that they're long gone and it feels like they're sort of immortal, yet also of ghosts of the past. You can't help but think about your grandparents when they were young and your own mortality too.
Amazing! That opening shot from the boat could just as easily pass as a modern shot of a medium sized city.
What a visual treat. I am in awe of the fashion
Great video. Just amazing.
One of the best remastered videos of the old days of nyc on youtube.
I just love the lady who's dress blew up and she gave this adoring laugh! Love this!
These videos are an absolute joy ❤
really enjoyed that... I think about some of these people... how there lives turned out... long gone now...
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@JustMe99999 the last person from 1800s died in 2017 since she was born in 1899 and lived to like 118 I think
The teenagers seen here may have well aged out having to serve in the trenches of WWI so maybe have led as normal of a life as could be for the times. Meaning, averaging out they would've seen the end of WW2 and some seeing the first commercial digital computers and man in space. Very luck few might have seen man walk on the moon.
In that part of the video where the couple is walking and her skirt flies up--- if you notice, the man's outfit could be worn today and he'd fit right in. The woman's outfit, on the other hand, would have people gawking at her. Men's fashion hasn't changed all that much compared to women's.
Good point! He just looks like he’s wearing khakis and a blazer. I wonder if this was the “casual” look for the time?
you can date old photos based on the women's clothing, almost with 3 years or less. in mens clothing , the changes are much more subtle. like width of collars and piping
Wow life 135 years ago. Amazing. My great grandmother was born in 1897
My maternal step-great grandfather was born 30 September 1881. He’d died 3 December 1978, mere weeks after us burying family who’d died in Jonestown, Guyana. He was 97 years old. He’d fell & hit his head & suffered a stroke. We thought he would make it to 100 but he didn’t 😞!
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Mine. My Grandad’s Dad was born in 1893.
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My grandpa was born in 1898 - he was 7 ft tall which was pretty unheard of back then- he worked for union station (railroads) and would pick up the huge wheels off the train and tracks- he was also a boxer and one time fought Jack Dempsey.
0:57 "Never fear, I saw nothing my dear."
We are time tourists.
0:15 - Italian neighborhood. Little future Mafia dons right there to the left of the screen 😊
No cars at all in a big city, what a dream!
Thank you much for this wonderful experience. Some good things of the past seems lost forever.
Don't step in the horseshit!
My great great grandfather was 2 years old in 1899 was a ww1 veteran crazy to think this is how he lived every day.
Rest easy wesley lamonda
1897-1986
THIS was when America was America, and NOT the dystopian mess we find ourselves in today. THANKS!!
Some of those buildings in the background in the first 15 seconds of the film looked surprisingly modern.