Really grateful of cameramen in the past who filmed these. There was no internet, no social media, but they still filmed and kept these videos carefully so later generations like us can see them
It's fascinating how footage of everyday life evokes so much more sentimentality and wonder than watching a movie from the same era. Your wonderful restauration removes the sped-up playback, B/W, and low quality footage that normally makes it hard to relate to life back then. This clip takes you back in time in a both wonderful and unsettling way. Like I've said before: your work truly is a time capsule or even time machine. Thanks for sharing!
@@Worldofourown2024Made in '39 released in 1940. Wizard of Oz was the big release later in '39. Chaplin made enemies after the war though with his support for the Soviet Union. That was ok during the war when we were allies. But after they labelled him a communist. In the early fifties he moved to Switzerland. Cheers 🕊️
I've been driving down Ohio's rural roads for several decades and seen hundred of old farm houses and buildings in disrepair. It's nice to see them all looking fresh and new and full of life. Thanks!
Well, actually nothing really does look "fresh and new and full of life" in this video. This film was taken from the middle of the 1930s', right in the middle of the most severe economic depression in human history. What this film shows is rural Ohio barely getting by. The Midwest was suffering more than the East and West coasts were. However, the whole country was suffering greatly. John Steinbeck's masterpiece "Grapes of Wrath" comes from this time period and this area. Your enthusiasm for this film is spot on, @kendn01. The film itself and the beautiful colorization of it are nothing less than works of art. Best to you-
@@thomase13 Start of war over there so the economy was beginning to pick up which took off well redefining the country to be the greatest in history, for a time. Houses only $25 a month! That's classic Americana. North Missouri and Iowa look much like that still but cost of living isn't like how it used to be from 1939 until early 2000's.
Starting at 3:30, Mansfield, Ohio, heading east on West Fourth Street. On the right, with the smoke stack, Mansfield Senior High School, coal provided heat in the winter (torn down and replaced by new high school in 2004). I grew up here and went to that high school!
I live in southern Ohio but I've been through Mansfield years ago but I'm not sure if I've ever been on the road @KN-fy4vv mentioned but I think I found it on google maps: www.google.com/maps/@40.7648374,-82.5484808,520m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu it looks like they elevated the road so your no longer driving down hill but instead level overtop of the railroad tracks. Kind of interesting how they decide to elevate the road like that but I could assume it's easier on traffic being busier these days.
I have a piece of the gym floor, and 1 brick from the front of the school... it was a wonderful school.... big and scary at first, but you eventually find all your classes lol.@user-yp9nz6bs9q
Love it! My dad lived in rural northwest Ohio - which looked a lot like many of these scenes. He just passed away at 103, but he would have loved to look at these. Well done.
Today if you see a farm, it is most likely abandoned or is such need of restoration, however the main thing is many farms existing today are now surrounded by housing developments, communities and you no longer can see fields as far as the eye can see like you could back then. Farming is what made us strong as a nation. Thank you, NASS, for this wonderful video.
Yea, it'd be nice to be out planting now. Had a garden as a kid in the 80's, but not possible today for land and real estate isn't attainable. I'd go back home today had my parents kept an old place that looked much like those in the videos. They paid only $10,000 for a 2 story house on 1 acre in a small Missouri town back in 1985 though it would had needed rebuilt by 2000 which some one else did. In 1980, you could get an old fixer upper in bad condition for only $1000.
@@Worldofourown2024 The same situation exists in Istanbul. There is a very bad construction industry. There is traffic, there is migration from villages to Istanbul, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, the immigrant problem. Oh the world is getting ugly, love
@dedein8930 I’ve been accused of living in the past. That’s ok. That way I can live in 2 places at once. However I had the privilege of being born in 41. Even though it was tough on my mom raising me while dad was in service, it was a good time learning about life. And my mom was a great teacher & my best friend. Back then schools taught us the 3 R’s and my parents taught me all the rest.
Thank you for the restoration of this historical gem. I'm an Ohioan, up in NE Ohio. I've been through Mansfield many times throughout my life. I wondered if some of those old farmhouses were still standing during my journeys through Mansfield. Wonderful to watch. ⌛💛
Nice video! Ohio resident here: rural driving looks similar now. Except rural roads now have painted reflective center and edge lines, plus wider shoulders. I love those cars. And we still have impatient idiots passing on blind stretches of roads.
Beautiful scenery! Love seeing my home state on here. Love the shot @ 4:17 and at 1:40 that looks like an incredibly early paved road. It's crazy to think not 30 years earlier it would have been all dirt and horses for transportation!
There's an Illinois U.S. 51 marker at about 3:00. Note the gas station sign at 3:13 "Illinois Oil Co. Torpedo Gasoline." Interesting to see how narrow the roads were back then and the lack of a shoulder as well. Look at the Mobilgas station 5:47 (note the sign that reads, 7 (gallons) for $1.08). Thanks for sharing!
This appears to be Mansfield, OH. I was leaning that way already, when I saw the billboard for Mud Gardner's Buick, which indeed was in Mansfield. (Mansfield is famous for its reformatory, allegedly haunted, which was where scenes of the Shawshank Redemption were filmed.)
Many of those roads, especially here in Cincinnati, were just recently paved hog and cattle trails. The bridges even had signs on them telling the farmers how many pigs or cows were allowed on the bridge at one time. Some roads were what used to be called "bridle paths".
@@AlfredBrooks1831 Perhaps this was film shot in both states. U.S. 51 is a north-south U.S. highway and runs through Illinois cities such as Rockford, Bloomington and Carbondale. It doesn't go anywhere hear Ohio. But if you notice the truck that has passed the camera vehicle at about 3:40 it apparently has a rear Ohio license plate.
Your videos keep getting better and better. Amazing look at history. Reminds me of the early/mid 1950’s - lots of scenes like that still existed. I remember the concrete roads (instead of pavement) with the spaces in between portions of the road (which did a number on your shocks when you drove over them). Thanks.
I'm pretty sure that up until the 3:28 mark, you're looking at scenes from Illinois, right after that, it's Mansfield, OH, and a few other rural Ohio scenes. (note the Illinois/ US Hwy. 51 marker @ 3;17-3:18).
I love your videos. This one is so idyllic, but I have to say the headless man walking around at 6:05 gave me the creeps! Thanks for all your hard work in restoring these wonderful glimpses to the past.
The wonderful simplicity of this footage. Beautiful. Whenever I see films or photos like this of the far off past it makes me wonder if these areas are completely changed or pretty much the same. I see these wonderful rural landscapes of Ohio and inside me I hope they are still the same today. I hope that the barn with the Crimson Coach Tobacco painted on it's outside it still standing. While watching this film it got me to think how my parents were only little kids when this footage was filmed. WWll had not yet started. The Great Depression was taking it's hold on America. FDR was in the White House. John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and others were on the run. Shirley Temple was singing On the Good Ship Lollipop, etc. Wonderful images.
Im from Willard Ohio north of Mansfield. My grandma taught school in Ontario Ohio back in the 40s to 60s . Some of this looks very familar. Of course downtown Mansfield looks somewhat the same.
My family had settled in Western Kansas sometime before the Civil War. They were ‘town people’ as opposed to farm folks. They had a drugstore and later added a soda fountain (well, talk about being ‘uptown’!). These videos remind me of what we saw. Most of it, along with nearly all of the family, are long gone.
The clip starting at 2:49 is clearly in Illinois (there's two Illinois U.S. Route 51 shields clearly seen during the clip), although I'm not sure of the exact town that's in (I think it's Minonk, but I'm not 100% sure). The clip after that one is definitely Mansfield, Ohio, however. The last clip is likely in Michigan (one of the signs in the clip references Eight Mile Road, which is now the northern city limit of Detroit, although that area was less urbanized in the late 1930's than nowadays).
I looked up Mansfield on the Internet and unfortunately it's " a less than desirable place to live " ( the quote on the Internet, not my words ) yet it looks a very nice place to be in the 1930s what a difference approximately 90 years makes .
There was a temporary housing facility for returning military vets on the east side of Lorain called Kew Gardens but it wasn't completed until 1946. One of the signs says "1939 model", so that doesn't seem to jive unless the vets housing was added later at that same location.. There is also an area over in Berea called Kew Gardens.
That was still a lot of money then for a country in economic depression. Farmers had no income except for what they could sell. And during the winter months they didn’t have much to sell.
Back in the 50’s my dad was a brick hauler. Occasionally he would go the Minerva to get a load of bricks for delivery around Ohio. Interesting times for a young teen. ❤
I live in Ohio and you woulsnt believe how many towns still look like this, stuck in time. For people who havent been here, its interesting for them to see. Or there are a lot of towns who are stuck in time but everything is run down due to economic changes. I live in the rust belt a once highly profitable area with beautiful homes, architecture, amd building that have turned into bandos or ghost towns.
The companies used to pay the landowners a little bit to let them place their signs on their property. They used to paint barns with mail pouch tobacco signs, not sure if these were in the video or not.
"If you can pay $25.00 monthly, see now!" *1939 model home! That'd be roughly $600 a month today for what appears to be be a pretty good sized single family home.
Are you sure this is Ohio? At 2:56, there's a US Route 51 sign, and at 3:12 is an Illinois Oil Company sign. Since route 51 goes through Illinois, but not Ohio, I'm guessing that this is footage of Illinois.
I see now. The first bit is Illinois. The second is Mansfield, Ohio. The third one could be in Ohio (US 30). The last one is probably in MIchigan, unless there's another Eight Mile Road someplace else.
There are small towns and rural areas that look like this today. Only when you see the cars does it dawn on you that this is a window into another age.
This real life looks like a movie set now. I notice the power poles with those glass hub transformers or whatever I don’t think we see much of anymore but certainly can be wrong. It’s like the old TV antennas atop houses and telephone booths that’ve disappeared. Of course, many of us can remember those primative “rabbit ear” antenas with the red switch and telling a family “that’s it, don’t move” 😅while we had to wait to the tv to warm up and when there was only two or three channels and you watched the dot disappear after the national anthem indicated the end of day broadcasting. I bet the gas was 10-12 cents a gallon in those tower tank glass pumps. Best wishes and thanks NASS.
Who was taking these vids? It seems kind of random that someone in the thirties would be driving down the road filming; nevertheless it does look legitimate. Lovely scenery.
Most of those who had “moving picture cameras” then would film a little and put the camera away until they thought about it later. So you may go from a rural summer scene to a winter ice fishing scene etc. cameras weren’t usually carried around like our phone camera today. That may answer your question about not being consistent in filming. I have some old footage that goes from weddings to fishing to picnics etc.
@@WAL_DC-6B I wondered the same. Either that, or they had a mysterious wireless technology that has been lost to time!!! And all this time, we thought we were so clever with our wireless phones.
It reminds me of many little farm towns I use to see in northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota back in the 1970s and 1980s. All you have to do is exchange 1930s cars and trucks for some from the 1970s and you would be pretty close.
Noticed a US 51 route marker at 2:56 and 3:17. US 51 does not go through Ohio.. It is a north-south route that goes through WI, IL, KY, TN, MS, and LA.
At 4:25 - a vehicle passing another one in an unsafe manner, with a truck coming at them head on. Yep, nothing has changed in terms of how people here in Ohio drive. LOL!
25$ per month for a house... I guess those were the good old days. Been there done that it was fun, now try to incarnate in 2024 a bright future is ahead...
My mother used to tell me about when she worked as a cashier for a Woolworths five and dime store in the late 1930's. She made $14 per week. Prices were lower but so were wages.
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Really grateful of cameramen in the past who filmed these. There was no internet, no social media, but they still filmed and kept these videos carefully so later generations like us can see them
It's fascinating how footage of everyday life evokes so much more sentimentality and wonder than watching a movie from the same era. Your wonderful restauration removes the sped-up playback, B/W, and low quality footage that normally makes it hard to relate to life back then. This clip takes you back in time in a both wonderful and unsettling way. Like I've said before: your work truly is a time capsule or even time machine. Thanks for sharing!
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Well said and I completely agree
Nicely put!
Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator was the big hit movie. I believe it was 1939. The speech he gives in the movie still holds true, even more so today.
@@Worldofourown2024Made in '39 released in 1940. Wizard of Oz was the big release later in '39. Chaplin made enemies after the war though with his support for the Soviet Union. That was ok during the war when we were allies. But after they labelled him a communist. In the early fifties he moved to Switzerland. Cheers 🕊️
I've been driving down Ohio's rural roads for several decades and seen hundred of old farm houses and buildings in disrepair. It's nice to see them all looking fresh and new and full of life. Thanks!
Well, actually nothing really does look "fresh and new and full of life" in this video. This film was taken from the middle of the 1930s', right in the middle of the most severe economic depression in human history. What this film shows is rural Ohio barely getting by. The Midwest was suffering more than the East and West coasts were. However, the whole country was suffering greatly. John Steinbeck's masterpiece "Grapes of Wrath" comes from this time period and this area. Your enthusiasm for this film is spot on, @kendn01. The film itself and the beautiful colorization of it are nothing less than works of art.
Best to you-
Ohio wasn't part of the Dust Bowl.@@roberthenry9319
@@roberthenry9319One of the signs said 1939
1939 @@roberthenry9319
@@thomase13 Start of war over there so the economy was beginning to pick up which took off well redefining the country to be the greatest in history, for a time. Houses only $25 a month! That's classic Americana. North Missouri and Iowa look much like that still but cost of living isn't like how it used to be from 1939 until early 2000's.
Absolutely stunning footage. I felt like I could get out of the car and just start walking along the road. Well done.
Starting at 3:30, Mansfield, Ohio, heading east on West Fourth Street. On the right, with the smoke stack, Mansfield Senior High School, coal provided heat in the winter (torn down and replaced by new high school in 2004). I grew up here and went to that high school!
Hi!! Thank you for the information ;))
Is there a post-mortem on the building materials recovered after the new high school was built?
I live in southern Ohio but I've been through Mansfield years ago but I'm not sure if I've ever been on the road @KN-fy4vv mentioned but I think I found it on google maps: www.google.com/maps/@40.7648374,-82.5484808,520m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu it looks like they elevated the road so your no longer driving down hill but instead level overtop of the railroad tracks. Kind of interesting how they decide to elevate the road like that but I could assume it's easier on traffic being busier these days.
Looks like it's late winter 1939.
I have a piece of the gym floor, and 1 brick from the front of the school... it was a wonderful school.... big and scary at first, but you eventually find all your classes lol.@user-yp9nz6bs9q
Love it! My dad lived in rural northwest Ohio - which looked a lot like many of these scenes. He just passed away at 103, but he would have loved to look at these. Well done.
The POV videos you do like this driving one are always the best. It really makes you feel like you’re there
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I love all of the Eaton Catalog houses! Amazing job as always!
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Today if you see a farm, it is most likely abandoned or is such need of restoration, however the main thing is many farms existing today are now surrounded by housing developments, communities and you no longer can see fields as far as the eye can see like you could back then. Farming is what made us strong as a nation. Thank you, NASS, for this wonderful video.
thank you
Your videos are a work or art.
Your talent is obvious for everyone to see........
........and we thank you for sharing it with us.
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Born 1947,always wanted to live in the past! So pure and clean. I never hated hard work. Thank you for the great country side video!!🇺🇸
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Yea, it'd be nice to be out planting now. Had a garden as a kid in the 80's, but not possible today for land and real estate isn't attainable. I'd go back home today had my parents kept an old place that looked much like those in the videos. They paid only $10,000 for a 2 story house on 1 acre in a small Missouri town back in 1985 though it would had needed rebuilt by 2000 which some one else did. In 1980, you could get an old fixer upper in bad condition for only $1000.
@@Worldofourown2024 The same situation exists in Istanbul. There is a very bad construction industry. There is traffic, there is migration from villages to Istanbul, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, the immigrant problem. Oh the world is getting ugly, love
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I’ve been accused of living in the past. That’s ok. That way I can live in 2 places at once.
However I had the privilege of being born in 41. Even though it was tough on my mom raising me while dad was in service, it was a good time learning about life. And my mom was a great teacher & my best friend. Back then schools taught us the 3 R’s and my parents taught me all the rest.
Love this! It's like you're there.
Thank you so much for removing watermark!
Every video here is a precious thing
Thank you for the restoration of this historical gem. I'm an Ohioan, up in NE Ohio. I've been through Mansfield many times throughout my life. I wondered if some of those old farmhouses were still standing during my journeys through Mansfield. Wonderful to watch. ⌛💛
Thank you
Nice video! Ohio resident here: rural driving looks similar now. Except rural roads now have painted reflective center and edge lines, plus wider shoulders. I love those cars. And we still have impatient idiots passing on blind stretches of roads.
thank you
Beautiful scenery! Love seeing my home state on here. Love the shot @ 4:17 and at 1:40 that looks like an incredibly early paved road. It's crazy to think not 30 years earlier it would have been all dirt and horses for transportation!
This is just splendid!! Thank you!!!
Could literally watch hours of this old footage particularly 1920s & 30's (in color) 💜❤️
Superb as always! Thanks, NASS !
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There's an Illinois U.S. 51 marker at about 3:00. Note the gas station sign at 3:13 "Illinois Oil Co. Torpedo Gasoline." Interesting to see how narrow the roads were back then and the lack of a shoulder as well. Look at the Mobilgas station 5:47 (note the sign that reads, 7 (gallons) for $1.08). Thanks for sharing!
Hello Sir, Thank you for the information
This appears to be Mansfield, OH.
I was leaning that way already, when I saw the billboard for Mud Gardner's Buick, which indeed was in Mansfield. (Mansfield is famous for its reformatory, allegedly haunted, which was where scenes of the Shawshank Redemption were filmed.)
Many of those roads, especially here in Cincinnati, were just recently paved hog and cattle trails. The bridges even had signs on them telling the farmers how many pigs or cows were allowed on the bridge at one time. Some roads were what used to be called "bridle paths".
@@AlfredBrooks1831 you saw the man at 6:07 x)
@@AlfredBrooks1831 Perhaps this was film shot in both states. U.S. 51 is a north-south U.S. highway and runs through Illinois cities such as Rockford, Bloomington and Carbondale. It doesn't go anywhere hear Ohio. But if you notice the truck that has passed the camera vehicle at about 3:40 it apparently has a rear Ohio license plate.
As for the year of this video, there’s a37 Chevy at 3:15 and at 7:39 a sign advertising 1939 model homes.
thanks for the information
Your videos keep getting better and better. Amazing look at history. Reminds me of the early/mid 1950’s - lots of scenes like that still existed. I remember the concrete roads (instead of pavement) with the spaces in between portions of the road (which did a number on your shocks when you drove over them). Thanks.
thank you for encouraging us
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So enjoyable to watch. That car passing a slower car in a curve though, a bit scary.
I'm pretty sure that up until the 3:28 mark, you're looking at scenes from Illinois, right after that, it's Mansfield, OH, and a few other rural Ohio scenes. (note the Illinois/ US Hwy. 51 marker @ 3;17-3:18).
I agree. US 51 does not go through Ohio.
Fantastic ride back in time. Loved it! 👍
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Fantastic quality and beautiful scenery. I didn't know the drivers were impatient these days lol. From Australia 🇦🇺
I love your videos. This one is so idyllic, but I have to say the headless man walking around at 6:05 gave me the creeps! Thanks for all your hard work in restoring these wonderful glimpses to the past.
I noticed that too! CREEPY! LOL
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Could be the headless horseman, looking for his old mare.
That first road looks like part of the set for Back to the Future. When he went to 1955 before the estate his house was on had been built.
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Columbus, Ohio here 🙋🏻♀️ I love taking Sunday drives in rural areas here in Ohio. I loved seeing everything look so fresh. Thank you!
The wonderful simplicity of this footage. Beautiful. Whenever I see films or photos like this of the far off past it makes me wonder if these areas are completely changed or pretty much the same. I see these wonderful rural landscapes of Ohio and inside me I hope they are still the same today. I hope that the barn with the Crimson Coach Tobacco painted on it's outside it still standing. While watching this film it got me to think how my parents were only little kids when this footage was filmed. WWll had not yet started. The Great Depression was taking it's hold on America. FDR was in the White House. John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and others were on the run. Shirley Temple was singing On the Good Ship Lollipop, etc. Wonderful images.
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Takes me back to the late 50s and 60s when I was a kid and all this stuff was still in place before the big interstates were built.
Very relaxing video beautiful landscape great colour
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Im from Willard Ohio north of Mansfield. My grandma taught school in Ontario Ohio back in the 40s to 60s . Some of this looks very familar. Of course downtown Mansfield looks somewhat the same.
Amazing. Thank you.
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Great too see how things were back in the day, loved this Nass 👍👍👍👍👍
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My family had settled in Western Kansas sometime before the Civil War. They were ‘town people’ as opposed to farm folks. They had a drugstore and later added a soda fountain (well, talk about being ‘uptown’!). These videos remind me of what we saw. Most of it, along with nearly all of the family, are long gone.
Most likely filmed in 1939 seeing at 4:07 the billboard has a 1939 Buick on it
The clip starting at 2:49 is clearly in Illinois (there's two Illinois U.S. Route 51 shields clearly seen during the clip), although I'm not sure of the exact town that's in (I think it's Minonk, but I'm not 100% sure). The clip after that one is definitely Mansfield, Ohio, however. The last clip is likely in Michigan (one of the signs in the clip references Eight Mile Road, which is now the northern city limit of Detroit, although that area was less urbanized in the late 1930's than nowadays).
Thanks for posting this video.
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I looked up Mansfield on the Internet and unfortunately it's " a less than desirable place to live " ( the quote on the Internet, not my words ) yet it looks a very nice place to be in the 1930s what a difference approximately 90 years makes .
and many folks still live in those same houses. I am one of them. I live in rural Northern Ohio
Wish I could have experienced this for a little while… just to be back in the past !
Very nice. Thank you
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There was a temporary housing facility for returning military vets on the east side of Lorain called Kew Gardens but it wasn't completed until 1946. One of the signs says "1939 model", so that doesn't seem to jive unless the vets housing was added later at that same location.. There is also an area over in Berea called Kew Gardens.
Feels surreal to watch these old clips in color.
Gracias ...muy interesante. ! Magnifico video..! Gracias por compartir.
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$25 a month for a new house. I want to go back to those days.
That was still a lot of money then for a country in economic depression. Farmers had no income except for what they could sell. And during the winter months they didn’t have much to sell.
average income for unskilled labor was $36.00 a month.
I've lived in NE Ohio for the last mine years and I suspect- though am not entirely sure, that this film was taken not far from the town of Minerva.
Hello Sir, Thank you for the information
I'm from NE Ohio too! Small world. Great seeing you here!
This was filmed in Mansfield , Ohio and close by
Back in the 50’s my dad was a brick hauler. Occasionally he would go the Minerva to get a load of bricks for delivery around Ohio. Interesting times for a young teen. ❤
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Lots of farm country there back in the 40’s & 50’s when I was growing up. I had an Uncle & Aunt who farmed around Beaverdam, Ohio.
I live in Ohio and you woulsnt believe how many towns still look like this, stuck in time. For people who havent been here, its interesting for them to see. Or there are a lot of towns who are stuck in time but everything is run down due to economic changes. I live in the rust belt a once highly profitable area with beautiful homes, architecture, amd building that have turned into bandos or ghost towns.
It's too expensive to live there, imagine that.
I live in ohio and knew some of that was Mansfield before the sign appeared in the video ❤ fantastic!
Watching the car passing with oncoming traffic reminds us that nothing has changed on our highways!
I wonder if that was faked to add a little excitement to the film reel?
Happened twice. I guess people have always been dare devils!
I looked up Mud Gardners (shown on the Buick billboard at 8:00 minutes in). Looks like this particular downtown is Mansfiled, OH.
The companies used to pay the landowners a little bit to let them place their signs on their property. They used to paint barns with mail pouch tobacco signs, not sure if these were in the video or not.
Another great one.
Thank you
Does anyone know where 2:50 is? I see the route 51 sign and did some searching on google maps but no luck yet
"If you can pay $25.00 monthly, see now!" *1939 model home!
That'd be roughly $600 a month today for what appears to be be a pretty good sized single family home.
Is there any footage of Dayton ohio area? I read a commentator in the comments mentioned Mansfield. This was so neat to watch! I live in Dayton Ohio
My home state - OHIO!! Great video!
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Long before Jim Dewine, Chrissie Hynde, and LeBron James! Another fantastic video!
Are you sure this is Ohio? At 2:56, there's a US Route 51 sign, and at 3:12 is an Illinois Oil Company sign. Since route 51 goes through Illinois, but not Ohio, I'm guessing that this is footage of Illinois.
I see now. The first bit is Illinois. The second is Mansfield, Ohio. The third one could be in Ohio (US 30). The last one is probably in MIchigan, unless there's another Eight Mile Road someplace else.
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Mud Mansfield (Buick sales sign at about 3:30) was a WW1 Fighter Pilot.
I grew up in the 60's/70's in Lisbon, Ohio, I would have loved to see a drive through there! Fascinating footage nonetheless:-)
blast from the past in color love it
This is the kind of restoration I'd love to get into.
Interesting to see how this place looks now
Awesome
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At around 3:09 you are in Illinois. Illinois US 51 on the shield and the gas station sign says Illinois Oil Co.
The roof lines on those farm houses looked straighter than straight because I've never seen them not warped by age.
Amazing country roads
Fascinates me the concrete roads .012 , in OZ all roads are tar , must have been some logistical effort to concrete roads in rural areas .
The first town entered at the 2:55 mark is in Illinois as demonstrated by the US 51 shield as you enter the town. Otherwise a very good video.
amazing
i started loving 1930s because of the game 'mafia the city of lost heaven'
There are small towns and rural areas that look like this today. Only when you see the cars does it dawn on you that this is a window into another age.
I love this.
I love the railroad tracks at the bottom of a steep hill starting @ 3:30. Primitive cars with dodgy brakes--what could go wrong?
Ha ha I thought exactly the same thing 😄
This real life looks like a movie set now. I notice the power poles with those glass hub transformers or whatever I don’t think we see much of anymore but certainly can be wrong. It’s like the old TV antennas atop houses and telephone booths that’ve disappeared. Of course, many of us can remember those primative “rabbit ear” antenas with the red switch and telling a family “that’s it, don’t move” 😅while we had to wait to the tv to warm up and when there was only two or three channels and you watched the dot disappear after the national anthem indicated the end of day broadcasting. I bet the gas was 10-12 cents a gallon in those tower tank glass pumps. Best wishes and thanks NASS.
thank you ;)
Who was taking these vids? It seems kind of random that someone in the thirties would be driving down the road filming; nevertheless it does look legitimate. Lovely scenery.
Most of those who had “moving picture cameras” then would film a little and put the camera away until they thought about it later. So you may go from a rural summer scene to a winter ice fishing scene etc. cameras weren’t usually carried around like our phone camera today. That may answer your question about not being consistent in filming. I have some old footage that goes from weddings to fishing to picnics etc.
Part of this has to be in Illinois, there is no U.S. highway 51 in Ohio.
Especially Illinois U.S. 51 as the shield sign indicates at 3:00.
Why does it appear that there are no wires hanging from the telephone poles?
Perhaps during the colorization process the wires disappeared. Just my guess.
@@WAL_DC-6B I wondered the same. Either that, or they had a mysterious wireless technology that has been lost to time!!!
And all this time, we thought we were so clever with our wireless phones.
Rural America still looks very much like these scenes. Only the cars and trucks have changed. And the utility poles are a bit more streamlined.
Amazing content!
thank you very much
No dust bowl in this region, just a beautiful land
Interesting memory, but there had to have been. Some dust reached as far as New York.
Great video, did you notice a brand new house was $25 a month 😳
What's the number? I can afford 25 per month 😅
@@ACDZ123 too late, I’ve put a deposit down 🤣
A lot of this scenery was still the same in 60's and 70's. Of course the cars were different, but the roads looked the same.
It reminds me of many little farm towns I use to see in northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota back in the 1970s and 1980s. All you have to do is exchange 1930s cars and trucks for some from the 1970s and you would be pretty close.
Noticed a US 51 route marker at 2:56 and 3:17. US 51 does not go through Ohio.. It is a north-south route that goes through WI, IL, KY, TN, MS, and LA.
SR 51 (state route)
Too many comments of people who grew up there so I'd say you are wrong
@@KN-fy4vv Actually, Illinois U.S. 51 as it says on the shield sign at 3:00.
Could you please let me know what town this is. I am from Ohio and im very curious!
According to the comments, it's Mansfield.
what town were the homes for sale at? 6819 east eight mile rd?
This makes my heart ache.
5:48 This frame looks like an Edward Hopper painting.
Just recently picked up "NightHawks" 😁
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At 4:25 - a vehicle passing another one in an unsafe manner, with a truck coming at them head on. Yep, nothing has changed in terms of how people here in Ohio drive. LOL!
Vernor's sign at the gas station. Still can't get that here on the east coast.
And it’s not the same as it was. Vernors used to be crisp, clean, and a little peppery, burning your nose.
@TomSpeaks-vw1zp I agree. I'm only in my mid 50s, but not the same as it was when I was a kid in Michigan 40+ years ago.
This one was kind of had a strange feel honestly. Reminds of footage that would be in a true crime reenactment.
25$ per month for a house... I guess those were the good old days. Been there done that it was fun, now try to incarnate in 2024 a bright future is ahead...
My mother used to tell me about when she worked as a cashier for a Woolworths five and dime store in the late 1930's. She made $14 per week. Prices were lower but so were wages.