1940s USA - Real Street Scenes of Vintage America - Colorized

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  • 1940s USA - Real Street Scenes of Vintage America - Colorized
    1940s America - People and Cities in COLOR
    1940s USA - Real People & Street Scenes of Vintage America - Colorized
    Ever catch yourself reminiscing about days gone by? A time when people exuded elegance, and good manners were the norm? The streets were clean, less crowded, and adorned with countless hats... It's a bit different today. A new kind of charm perhaps? But there's a feeling that once upon a time, self-respect and respect for others ran deeper.
    While the past obviously had its dark parts and shortcomings, we immerse ourselves in these heartwarming nostalgic photos, reborn in vivid color, where every image is a portal to the past!
    Enjoy the time machine. 🙏
    #lifeinamerica #nostalgia #1940s
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    All music is created by the channel owner or licensed by Epidemic Sound

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  • @CashMacGregor
    @CashMacGregor 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    i was born in the 40's. in my neighbourhood you had to be tough, but it was still a great time to grow up. i spent my younger years listening to the big console radio. i'm in my 70's now and i can put a hockey game on the radio lay down and enjoy it with my 55" flat screen turned off.

  • @edwardoalvarez5566
    @edwardoalvarez5566 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Gorgeous video of America the beautiful.I Love to go back into those wonderful years.

  • @n1vca
    @n1vca 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    The images are amazing and so is the choice of music ... great work 👍

  • @Davidsavage8008
    @Davidsavage8008 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Relaxing time travel .
    Very NICE......

  • @terrencemolvik9545
    @terrencemolvik9545 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    Wish we could turn back time...

    • @jarivarjosola6399
      @jarivarjosola6399 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Thinking all same......

    • @williambock1821
      @williambock1821 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Careful what you wish for.

    • @gustavoperez5480
      @gustavoperez5480 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Me too 😢😢

    • @flfreaks3745
      @flfreaks3745 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But its 1940s. You either stay back in the country and feeling disappointed and shame for not being drafted and shipped off to Europe or Pacific wars, or you died in the Battle of Okinawa

    • @ZootyZoFo
      @ZootyZoFo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@flfreaks3745Only 450k Americans died in WWII, far less than 1% of the population.

  • @copanemaipacabana6711
    @copanemaipacabana6711 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Beautiful. I am a Japanese born in 1950s and I say this is America that Japan has long been infatuated after the War.

  • @thomasallen3818
    @thomasallen3818 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    There’s no charm nowadays. People are so tied up in their own little world and most have no respect for themselves let alone others. People don’t realize how much they are missing in life by being so self absorbed.

  • @topper1958
    @topper1958 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I would take those “dark aspects of the past” anytime over the new dark and I mean dark aspects of today.

  • @peterselten500
    @peterselten500 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Enjoy seeing the old days

  • @voxer99
    @voxer99 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    2:10 Ah yes, the good old days were so wholesome. Grandma could bake an apple pie and then, while it cooled, go down to the drive-in and be served an ice-cold RC Cola by leggy young Texas boys wearing boots, shorts and a smile!

  • @Uralwebtravel
    @Uralwebtravel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Ваши программы вызывают восторг. Спасибо!

  • @michellepost3098
    @michellepost3098 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The 1940s have always interested me. This video is cool.

  • @joelubin5479
    @joelubin5479 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Let's do it. We are still alive and praying for simpler pure times.

    • @gustavoperez5480
      @gustavoperez5480 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Doing what?

    • @fluffy1931
      @fluffy1931 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Third Reich was also !

  • @bkzee5630
    @bkzee5630 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting and good channel.

  • @ronray420
    @ronray420 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    @7:50 the image is titled: "Seattle, Washington D.C." Those are TWO separate locations; with a country between them.

    • @StephanieSwift-jt3hz
      @StephanieSwift-jt3hz 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I wondered who else would notice that. Seattle is in the state of Washington, not Washington D.C.--a Canadian viewer

  • @spookerredmenace3950
    @spookerredmenace3950 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    im guessing this is American focused , would be cool to see Canada in the 1940s, aso hello from Cobourg Ontario Canada liked and subbed,

    • @VintageTreasuresVideos
      @VintageTreasuresVideos  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thank you for the suggestion! My channel is indeed American-focused, but I like your suggestion. I'll definitely do some research. Thanks for sharing!

    • @johnnycrash3270
      @johnnycrash3270 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Love to see Vancouver in the early 60's I grew up in the west end Stanley Park many Beaches, Kitsilano a lot of Hippies
      and Draft Dodgers from the U.S
      The Hippies never ever pushed Drugs on us young kids but they let us have all their empties (on a good day we could make $1.20)
      They were smart and moved to many of the Gulf Islands and bought property for pennies on the Acer

  • @brittongodman7769
    @brittongodman7769 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This was beyond fabulous. Except for the mislabeled picture at about 7:53 that says, ''Seattle, Washington D.C.''.

  • @RedDevilMoto
    @RedDevilMoto 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    *Travels back in time to 1943* "Can you tell me what a woman is?"
    *Anyone living in that time* "Awww, your one of them special people! Well bless your little heart!"

    • @fluffy1931
      @fluffy1931 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In 1943' if you traveled back & landed in europe & were jewish the question was moot.

  • @jakestilson1947
    @jakestilson1947 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    2 lamb chops and beans with coffee. Forty cents. Mmmmmmm!

  • @raagtop363
    @raagtop363 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    At 7:56 ... Seattle, Washington DC ???? And I thought I'd been everywhere.

  • @BlackPanther-1511
    @BlackPanther-1511 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful work! BTW…the pic in 6:30 to 6:35 is most likely Spring 1945…check out the billboards advertising the film “The great John L.” And the film “Tomorrow, the world”. Release of The Great John was officially in May 1945.

  • @Downecker
    @Downecker 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I'll bet anything that when people spoke they didn't say " you know" every other sentence 😂😂!

  • @carlthornton3076
    @carlthornton3076 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very Good!... #132 ✝ {1-30-2024}

  • @calartian85
    @calartian85 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What’s amazing to me is that the current crop of babies will look back on today with fond and romantic nostalgia. What on earth can possibly be in store for us all?

  • @patriotpreacher66
    @patriotpreacher66 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mt. Oreb, Ohio caught my attention since I lived there as a boy. Had to use google street view to refresh my memory. Reminded me of the song “Reflections of My Life” by Marmalde.

  • @koolcaliguy6382
    @koolcaliguy6382 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The 1940s are the days when people use to have respect for 1 another and everyone treated everyone with respect.. People dressed with respect..

    • @fluffy1931
      @fluffy1931 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You are sniffing wood glue elmo. WW2 & holocaust and Jim Crow with segregation was never about respect.

  • @fredmanicke5078
    @fredmanicke5078 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    At 7:52 caption change needed, it is Washington state…. Not D. C.

    • @VintageTreasuresVideos
      @VintageTreasuresVideos  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You are right, my apologies. Thanks for sharing!

    • @Downecker
      @Downecker 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@VintageTreasuresVideos No big deal! I'm from New Jersey and while in the service I spent time at Ft. Lewis, Washington. I almost passed out when I saw Mt. Rainier! Huge and about 4o miles away! The only thing of beauty I saw in my 2 years in!😮😊

  • @CharlesAugust-t8c
    @CharlesAugust-t8c 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Notice how thin almost everyone was.

  • @Piecenotwar
    @Piecenotwar 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    No litter in the streets and not overcrowded

    • @fluffy1931
      @fluffy1931 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just a meat grinder of a world war consuming millions of humans including a final solution just out of frame sparky. And the US enjoyed Jim Crow & segregation and strict race laws including the forced internment of loyal american citizens of japanese ancestry for sh*ts & giggles.

  • @TOP5InstantRegret
    @TOP5InstantRegret 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Beyond the glittering facade of fame, one uncovers the concealed agony of innumerable celebrities, wrestling with profound isolation, yearning for refuge amidst the radiant mirage.

  • @jorgedezayas1180
    @jorgedezayas1180 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Good times

  • @usmamouloud5396
    @usmamouloud5396 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's worlds apart between Class and Crass

  • @debrariccio-dc2sj
    @debrariccio-dc2sj 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Seattle is not in Washington D.C. It's in Washington State.

  • @ericsahagun5344
    @ericsahagun5344 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Look hit me up again in the beginning of the month I live on Social Security no pension so towards the end of the month I'm pretty well broke but I got to tell you THIS IS SO DAMN GOOD EVERY TIME WE SEE THE 30S AND '40S IT'S AND '50S IT'S IN BLACK AND WHITE AND TO REALIZE THERE WAS COLOR BACK IN THOSE DAYS AND PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THE COLOR IT'S MORE ALIVE IT'S MORE RELATABLE THIS IS JUST F****** AMAZING!

  • @peterlawrence6079
    @peterlawrence6079 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    These photos were from immediately before, or during, WWII, but you don't get the feeling of the world's turbulence ...

  • @NavyCombatCorpsman
    @NavyCombatCorpsman 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I would like to see the small town America, Norman Rockwell Midwestern places back in those days the 30s and 40s.

  • @tranerekt1731
    @tranerekt1731 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    It doesn’t seem as distantly long ago when the pictures are colorized.

    • @jessewolf7649
      @jessewolf7649 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Perhaps. But it still looks like another planet.

  • @bobjohn6625
    @bobjohn6625 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    look on the streets, the children reading their favourite magazines, now children take drugs and smoke and drink only watching a damn phone screen

  • @jamesw4895
    @jamesw4895 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Beautiful women. No tattoos and kim kardashian wannabees.

  • @mrknotthall
    @mrknotthall 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Before America was infested.

  • @snikidypikidy2997
    @snikidypikidy2997 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Can you put together baseball, 1890s to 1930s?

  • @ThomasHope73
    @ThomasHope73 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Who is the music by?

  • @kolbpilot
    @kolbpilot 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I wonder who that guy is ? 4:25 Not one maid, but two. We know the maids are long gone but he might still be around ?

  • @eddieboggs8306
    @eddieboggs8306 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I wish women looked this beautiful today.

  • @tenaguin1054
    @tenaguin1054 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It seems more that good manners, morals, values and not taking everything for granted and appreciating what was had is what is missed most in today's modern world.
    The protest, riots, opposition, dressed up and dressed down entertainment on the streets today just goes too far and turns people's interest off.
    The hatred rapping, hostility, gangsta mental sets, rudeness, language barriers have widen gaps in tolerance.
    Love this post though, actually remember some of this in reality. Will never be replaced. Hard working people that showed appreciation instead of asking for more and more and then more.

  • @robertjames-life4768
    @robertjames-life4768 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Awesome stuff but let’s try to forget the waiters in short shorts! 🤢

  • @calebwilliams7659
    @calebwilliams7659 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    1940's America, brought to you by Coca-Cola apparently judging from the crazy amount of times the signage can be seen all over the country (except the one grocery store that advertising Pepsi and 7UP instead). LOL

  • @thesilentgeneration
    @thesilentgeneration 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Seattle, Washington DC.? Hem, I think somebody made a mistake.

    • @Downecker
      @Downecker 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They sure did make a midtake. Everybody knows that Washington CD is in Seattle! Come on, bro@

  • @pashmina858
    @pashmina858 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    FYI Seattle is in Washington state not Washington DC

  • @phil1720
    @phil1720 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    That is not the 1940s because there are 1950s automobiles. It's 1950 or '51

    • @Downecker
      @Downecker 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sharp eye! I'm a attention to detail kind of guy! Bravo 😅!

  • @gastrcat
    @gastrcat 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Orange - 1¢(earn 50$ weeks) - now Orange 150¢(earn 1000$ weeks) - 5/7 times increase!

  • @stephenhall3515
    @stephenhall3515 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Seattle, Washington but surely not "D.C.".

  • @BrandonD
    @BrandonD 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Is it just me or were the women of the 20,30,40s much more attractive than most modern women😮.

    • @ozrob8726
      @ozrob8726 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      They made themselves look more attractive by caring about how they looked and dressed. Femininity was the thing, and they weren't adorned with tramp stamps or booger rings. They also knew what a woman was, and it showed.

    • @BrandonD
      @BrandonD 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@ozrob8726 this!!🙌🏼⭐️

    • @edgregory1
      @edgregory1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They just weren't as chubby.

  • @ericsahagun5344
    @ericsahagun5344 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    2 minutes and 19 seconds into this video I have to admit I am turned off that you're showing the '40s playing music which sounds like it's from the 1950s when there was such great music in the 1940s Benny Goodman Glenn Miller Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey!

  • @RhNegA-
    @RhNegA- 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    @1:58 the crack in the photo "straight through his left leg" ???

  • @gilleslessge5611
    @gilleslessge5611 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How about photos from the fifties that show the first quarter mile drag strip in the U.S. I was called Paradise Mesa ( in San Diego.)

  • @cynthiamiller586
    @cynthiamiller586 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I love that you acknowledge that the past had its dark aspects while still celebrating the good parts. Well done. After all, it was a terrible time to be a minority (other ethnicities, gay, trans, etc.) or a woman. Yet despite that ugliness, the past had such a different charm.

    • @jessewolf7649
      @jessewolf7649 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It was not a terrible time to be a woman. At least people knew what a woman was.

    • @cynthiamiller586
      @cynthiamiller586 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@jessewolf7649 Right. Being a second class citizen would have been so great.

    • @fluffy1931
      @fluffy1931 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jessewolf7649 cool story fuddster.

  • @holdfast453
    @holdfast453 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    No internet back then, no one asking you to subscribe

  • @mickalanelson8485
    @mickalanelson8485 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wonder what our clips and pictures will look like to the generation of 2070…..🤔

  • @Sam-el6hq
    @Sam-el6hq 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    No flash mobs, baggy pants, rap music, gang beatdows and a certain group that causes all these problems knew their role in society and behaved. Such a great time!

    • @metricstormtrooper
      @metricstormtrooper 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You mean that black people knew their place as servants of you white Merikans and wouldn't talk back or expect to be treated any where near equally.

  • @yellowboot6629
    @yellowboot6629 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    😂❣️... 🤣🤣🤣

  • @RedWolfenstein
    @RedWolfenstein 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    This America we see here was objectively a better time, mostly because of the people that inhabited it. America becoming the melting pot it is today will be the death of us. If we are lucky we'll split off into different nations and some will be better then others.

    • @llnn5112
      @llnn5112 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Go to sleep grandpa.

    • @bpw8139
      @bpw8139 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Back then it was more a society than just an economy. There was more cohesion. Multiculturalism is quickly destroying most western countries.

    • @tycox8704
      @tycox8704 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      America has always been a melting pot. The issue is that bad actors-from woke youth to foreign enemies-are trying to change the recipe.

    • @westonmeyer3110
      @westonmeyer3110 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@llnn5112
      Learn history Cletus

    • @206or16
      @206or16 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In other words, America was better because just about everyone in this video are the same color. That’s what you really mean…correct?

  • @tycox8704
    @tycox8704 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Nostalgia are memories with all the bad parts edited out.

  • @DM-dn7rf
    @DM-dn7rf 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I see many in the comments are wearing rose-tinted glasses. Rose-tinted glasses and nostalgia always help to make the past seem better than the present.

  • @stanleypitts9573
    @stanleypitts9573 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    1940"s

  • @letterman4290
    @letterman4290 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    While they've been dancing the other part of world struggled against nazi.

    • @Downecker
      @Downecker 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They were dancing because the US was fighting to preserve our style of life- CALLED FREEDOM- So we CAN dance without any thought of harm! Thank our men and women who VOLUNTEERED to protect our way of life!
      I was Drafted in 1969 and did my 11 Bravo thing in Nam ! No complaints, right? Sure, just try to forget the horrors you experienced and " carry on" ! I love America ! I'm 74 and came here when I was 3 years old from post war Germany 1949. The rest is history! LOVE YOUR FAMILY , FRIENDS AND ANYONE DESERVING YOUR AFFECTION! WE GO THROUGH LIFE ONLY ONCE , THEN WE'RE GONE! MAKE A GOOD IMPRESSION, EVEN IF IT'S SMALL!

    • @eddieboggs8306
      @eddieboggs8306 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@Downecker
      Thank you.
      I believe the here after. Life doesn't end at the grave. 🙏👍

  • @johnnycrash3270
    @johnnycrash3270 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And Then Came The Electronic Age And Runne'd Everything IE: Social Media

  • @joselitorosales7227
    @joselitorosales7227 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Im enjoying old foottages old America🇺🇸 whre no pro nouns &woke people 😊

    • @47luscsettle44
      @47luscsettle44 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And no tattoos or body piercings...

    • @joselitorosales7227
      @joselitorosales7227 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@47luscsettle44 well tattoo ok for me but not too much ink on the body.. piercing hell no, in my 90's teen piercing very known and me few good boys in that time have no interest of that thing

    • @gustavoperez5480
      @gustavoperez5480 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      No people in pijamas buying groceries.

  • @stanleypitts9573
    @stanleypitts9573 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    didn't black folks live in the 1040's?

    • @lieutenantdan4722
      @lieutenantdan4722 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The 1040's ?????? 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @underabigsky
    @underabigsky 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It was more pleasant if u were a white, non immigrant male. It’s a pleasant romantic view of a simpler time though for sure. I do enjoy the images and the idea.

    • @gustavoperez5480
      @gustavoperez5480 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yep, however, no generation is perfect, I'm latino and believe me I wish to visit those places at those years even for few hours.

    • @tycox8704
      @tycox8704 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Not so. Immigrants were thriving in that era.

  • @gordonchan2504
    @gordonchan2504 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It was less diverse back then and before civil rights act was passed. That’s the difference between back then and today

  • @gilbertmartinez6538
    @gilbertmartinez6538 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The streets were cleaner?? ...really!! Loool! ...the 50s were filthy ...we had NO POLLUTION Laws but we did have infrastructure thanks to FDR ...as far as more polite ...only if you were white ...it was BEFORE desegregation. We had prayer in schools which done us little good ...we had no civil rights, womens rights, enviro rights, Obamacare, clean water rights, clean air rights, few addiction clinics little to no spousal abuse remedies ....yea just roll the pictures and try not to say something stupid!

  • @bahiras
    @bahiras 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Segregation, sexism, internment camps, antisemitism, WWII, labor unrest, no rights for the disabled, pollution were all part of living in the USA in the 1940’s. I love looking at these old photos, but realistically, life was not ideal for all Americans then.

    • @westonmeyer3110
      @westonmeyer3110 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      2023 is infinitely worse

  • @Lpreilly72
    @Lpreilly72 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    First, most if not all, of this film is commercial. And costly to shoot. That means they’re not going to show you the bums, the trash, the loutish atmosphere. A lot of this footage is contracted out and shot by local film companies. “A Trip Down Market Street” is a classic example of this. Shot by a San Francisco film company for a NY company. They just turned on the camera and let it run. The joke was that the good thing about an amateur film is that it wasn’t that much different from a professional one. Second, the reason you don’t see many black people is that they’re edited out unless they’re servants. Let’s be honest. Like all advertisements, it’s propaganda. There’s nothing “objective” about it.

  • @dcodedmusicgroup2939
    @dcodedmusicgroup2939 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    respect ran deeper thats a lie prejudice was major them years lmao yall lie to much again his-story

  • @PanaGringoBarefootBass
    @PanaGringoBarefootBass 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    @2:34 On S. 13th St. facing N St. - @3:13 On Main St. between Market & Pine.

  • @ramonpineda2357
    @ramonpineda2357 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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