@rentslave I like your comment that it was a warm night, because just last night I saw it mentioned on TV that yes, New Year's Eve 1965 was indeed New York's warmest December 31st on record. (The coldest was 1917). Last night in New York was in the 40s...short of the 1965 temps but still considered mild for New Year's Eve.
LatinPlayer10 I was. We lived at 77th and Riverside at the time. My dad and I took the IRT down to 50th and walked the rest of the way. I grabbed a nice Kodachrome shot when that bright blue "1966" popped up on the Allied Chemical Building.
On Friday, December 31, 1965, "THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON" was on the air (and if I remember correctly, Woody Allen was among the evening's guests). Normally, Johnny taped his show earlier in the evening, but sometimes made an exception on New Year's Eve. Veteran NBC announcer Ben Grauer was in Times Square, covering the moments until the ball dropped from atop the Allied Chemical builidng, signalling the start of 1966...
The last year the Beatles toured....Eric Clapton forms the power trio-Cream.....Dylan goes on tour in Europe with the Hawks (later the Band).....the Byrds release the landmark "Fifth Dimension" record.....times were a changin indeed.....
Tony: My guess would be that there wasn't enough light to film the outdoor shots with a color camera, since at the time they generally needed more powerful lighting to make the image come through.
Grauer also mentions the renewed optimism of a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Vietnam as President Johnson had just despatched Ambassador to the UN Arthur Goldberg to Rome to see the Pope as well as Ambassador at Large Harriman to various Eastern European capitals to put out peace feelers. Additionally there had been a long bombing pause on North Vietnam since the Christmas truce to try and convince the North Vietnamese to come around the conference table, unfortunately nothing came of any of it. Also a nice mention of Gemini 7 which just spent 14 days orbiting the Earth and only came down on 18th December with both astronauts showing no long term problems of their mammoth stint in space.
And Grauer references to a looming transit strike that would happen right after the new year commenced (also referencing Michael Quill, who as I remember reading suffered a stroke during the strike, but still managed to get a deal done before passing away almost immediately afterwards)! That strike would lead to New York's Taylor Law taking effect a little over a year later (early 1967) that forbade strikes by public employees.
2:03- that is a good way of showing the new year. I don't understand why now it is the year shown horizontally every year and in small numbers on the tippy-top. I'll take this any new year.
@dw438 That may be true, but color TV cameras back then weren't that sensitive to light. Although NBC may or may not have had a color TV mobile ubnit available, it's cameras (the first-generation RCA TK-41) might not have delivered a sastifactory image under the available lighting condition. Note the tone, which was the on-the-hour tone for the NBC-TV network. FYI: Johnny Carson's "Tonight" show was normally taped a few hours before it aired, but on New Year's Eve, the show was done live.
EVERY Year we look ahead with the Hope of children. my prayer is we continue to do just that! HAPPY NEW YEAR to all you YOU tubers! Be kind to each other this year when you post and comment.. spread some positive thoughts and dont be so quick to say mean things just cause you can! We all benefit from just the simplest of kind gestures that are slowly slowly becoming extinct in our culture.
Note that at 2:10 of this clip, the camera zooms out to show a neon sign promoting New York's WNBC Radio (which broadcast at 660 on the AM dial). I suspect that camera shot was intentional.
0:30 - Note the Camel cigarettes billboard at the bottom left of the picture. It featured the face of a smoker with a big circle hole where his lips would meet. Smoke (actually steam) came out of that hole, making it look like the man in the ad was actually smoking. The signage was removed later that new year (1966).
All of NBC's color remote units were in warmer climes getting ready for the New Year's football bowl games ... technology wasn't as easy, cheap or ubiquitous as it is now ... so they used a smaller, black-and-white news remote unit - still as big as a Greyhound bus those days ...
@dw438 That is true. Not everything could be in color so easily, and color technology was still much more expensive (which is why many broadcasts from that time only survive as black and white kinescope if they survive at all).
I would just like to know where you have gotten that video from onto youtube because there were no VCRs back in throughout the 1960's and early 1970's. Can you please reply back at anytime? I am just really curious right now.
@edshaw4947927 Actually, it was more like people had common sense to avoid Times Square on New Year's Eve. The only time I saw the ball drop in person (1984-'85), I did it from 50th street and Broadway at a time that was MUCH less crowded AND you had a MUCH better view of the ball dropping. Today, that whole area is a madhouse and I would never do it from there.
The reporter mentioned the escalation of the war in Vietnam, the Dow Jones hitting almost 1,000, and the increase in social security tax to pay for medi-care. As we know, in 1966 the war in Vietnam got much worse and the stock market tanked, I was stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss wishing I was anywhere else except Nam. And the futre of medi-care is being debated by our Presidential candidates today. The world continues to turn. What happens next nobody knows.
@shadowcatphaser Is my comment Spam cause you dont like it? I posted on different New Years Videos not the Same one over & Over. Apparently it was not sufficient as even a lovely message to all draws out a negative comment. So Just for you, I will repeat. BE KIND to each other this year when you post & comment.. dont be so quick to say mean things just cause you know how to type. We all benefit from just the simplest of kind gestures that are slowly slowly becoming extinct in our culture.
Well back in '65 they probably were. Everyone dresses like crap these days. Just look at all those "things" that surrounded Ryan Seacrest this year during the ball drop.
1966 was one of the best years of my life. I was 22 and the times-they were-a-changin.
lol so u were born in 1944
joyce Coley do you remember when JFK died? Where were you? Your thoughts? Did your family stay glued to the tv
Dang you were born a decade before my GRANDPARENTS were
how was life like? :D
Nice that the NBC network's top of the hour "beeeep" tone welcomed in 1966, too!
I was exactly only a week old! Was born December 24, 1965!
for me it would be quite awhile until i was born! im 16 rn!! (2007)
@rentslave I like your comment that it was a warm night, because just last night I saw it mentioned on TV that yes, New Year's Eve 1965 was indeed New York's warmest December 31st on record. (The coldest was 1917). Last night in New York was in the 40s...short of the 1965 temps but still considered mild for New Year's Eve.
I was in that crowd.
Were you really?
LatinPlayer10 I was. We lived at 77th and Riverside at the time. My dad and I took the IRT down to 50th and walked the rest of the way. I grabbed a nice Kodachrome shot when that bright blue "1966" popped up on the Allied Chemical Building.
Marley Johnson I was 15.
Is that recording still around?
I was not born yet. I came into the world in 1967. 50 years old this this year! Thanks for posting this.
これを視ると、当時のアメリカのテレビでは、スタジオからの生放送はカラー化されていたものの、外からの生中継はまだ白黒だったことがわかります。
これは、同時期の日本のテレビの「ゆく年くる年」にも、影響を与えた演出のはずです。ちなみに日本の民放テレビのゆく年くる年が一部カラー放送になったのは1968-69年で、翌1969-70年の万国博を目前に控えた時期に、オールカラーによる放送となります。
On Friday, December 31, 1965, "THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON" was on the air (and if I remember correctly, Woody Allen was among the evening's guests). Normally, Johnny taped his show earlier in the evening, but sometimes made an exception on New Year's Eve. Veteran NBC announcer Ben Grauer was in Times Square, covering the moments until the ball dropped from atop the Allied Chemical builidng, signalling the start of 1966...
Born on June 20th. It`s good to see what people were doing in the same year.
If anyone's confused as to what planet you have just tuned into . . this was when the once proud USA had class, and lots of it.
yeah, the mob and political machines ran NYC, and DIDN'T drive German cars
Very much wish I was back then its soooo soothing
timothyy pearson I wish I wish. not a care in the world at 9 years old
@@timothyypearson That Vietnam war was so calming.
@@martinshields5673 that's only blunder of Johnson the economy was at 1.3 percent that's a helluva record.
Never delete this video. Thanks for uploading it, this is awesome! Too bad I wasn’t born in the 1960’s
It's going nowhere unless TH-cam has anything to say about it. 😀
2018.. anyone?
Jade Dela Riarte right here
@akcog
The host is Ben Grauer. Watch him host the 1976-77 ball drop also. He passed away 5 months after the 77 ball drop.
No advertisments,no computers,and no video games. wow just imagen going back in time o_O
meanwhile Jimi Hendrix was in his room practicing his guitar...
I was born 5/28/1966!
12/22/1966
The last year the Beatles toured....Eric Clapton forms the power trio-Cream.....Dylan goes on tour in Europe with the Hawks (later the Band).....the Byrds release the landmark "Fifth Dimension" record.....times were a changin indeed.....
Tony: My guess would be that there wasn't enough light to film the outdoor shots with a color camera, since at the time they generally needed more powerful lighting to make the image come through.
55 years ago!
I was 55 in 1966
Wow, and here we are half a century later in 2016! :)
Grauer also mentions the renewed optimism of a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Vietnam as President Johnson had just despatched Ambassador to the UN Arthur Goldberg to Rome to see the Pope as well as Ambassador at Large Harriman to various Eastern European capitals to put out peace feelers.
Additionally there had been a long bombing pause on North Vietnam since the Christmas truce to try and convince the North Vietnamese to come around the conference table, unfortunately nothing came of any of it.
Also a nice mention of Gemini 7 which just spent 14 days orbiting the Earth and only came down on 18th December with both astronauts showing no long term problems of their mammoth stint in space.
The year I was born!!!!!!
in 1966 and 1973 there was a beep at midnight indicating the new year when the ball reached the bottom from the Allied Chemical building.
1:53 1:54
Apparently the 1965-66 ball drop was one of the warmest New Years in Times Square. It was in the high 50s when the ball dropped.
And Grauer references to a looming transit strike that would happen right after the new year commenced (also referencing Michael Quill, who as I remember reading suffered a stroke during the strike, but still managed to get a deal done before passing away almost immediately afterwards)! That strike would lead to New York's Taylor Law taking effect a little over a year later (early 1967) that forbade strikes by public employees.
Eu nasci dia 20 de janeiro de 1966, vendo as pessoas acenando para a câmera percebo como nos somos insignificantes perante ao tempo!
2:03- that is a good way of showing the new year. I don't understand why now it is the year shown horizontally every year and in small numbers on the tippy-top. I'll take this any new year.
@dw438 That may be true, but color TV cameras back then weren't that sensitive to light. Although NBC may or may not have had a color TV mobile ubnit available, it's cameras (the first-generation RCA TK-41) might not have delivered a sastifactory image under the available lighting condition.
Note the tone, which was the on-the-hour tone for the NBC-TV network.
FYI: Johnny Carson's "Tonight" show was normally taped a few hours before it aired, but on New Year's Eve, the show was done live.
EVERY Year we look ahead with the Hope of children. my prayer is we continue to do just that!
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all you YOU tubers! Be kind to each other this year when you post and comment.. spread some positive thoughts and dont be so quick to say mean things just cause you can! We all benefit from just the simplest of kind gestures that are slowly slowly becoming extinct in our culture.
Anyone born in that year? Hm? I like to think that 1966 was 2 years before the leap year 1968.
Note that at 2:10 of this clip, the camera zooms out to show a neon sign promoting New York's WNBC Radio (which broadcast at 660 on the AM dial).
I suspect that camera shot was intentional.
Welcome to 2018! 52 years have past. My... the time does fly by.
Changes from color to black and white. What good times!
where you find this?
My father was born on the 23rd of October in 1951 and my mother was born on the 11th of May in 1963. You are never going to guess when I was born.
Yesterday?
Lol
I took a Public Service bus from Newark to Port Authority,then walked over.Can you imagine going into Newark at night in 2017?
My mom dad and my uncle were 7 years old at this time.
How wonderful to find from 1966! I also saw for the ball drop of starting 2017.
This was the warmest NYE in TSq--@ 58 degrees F.
0:30 - Note the Camel cigarettes billboard at the bottom left of the picture. It featured the face of a smoker with a big circle hole where his lips would meet. Smoke (actually steam) came out of that hole, making it look like the man in the ad was actually smoking. The signage was removed later that new year (1966).
All of NBC's color remote units were in warmer climes getting ready for the New Year's football bowl games ... technology wasn't as easy, cheap or ubiquitous as it is now ... so they used a smaller, black-and-white news remote unit - still as big as a Greyhound bus those days ...
"Three, two, errrh.... One !" x)
my dad was born in 1966
Hildergarn Fuck You
@@HistoriasOficiales about you
My new tradition: Times Square every New Year's Eve, this will be my 7th year.
The year of my humble birth, even though i wasn't born until June '66. Happy New Year, TH-cam denizens!
@dw438 That is true. Not everything could be in color so easily, and color technology was still much more expensive (which is why many broadcasts from that time only survive as black and white kinescope if they survive at all).
This day 44 years ago!
Time Square without Billboards :O Its funny how back in the 60s there were parts with colored cameras and then next cutscene would be black and white
My dad was in high school.
Friday 31 December 1965
Saturday 1 January 1966
54 years ago!
Goodbye 1965 Hello 1966
Hotel we celebrated in Las Vegas this year
Aladdin Hotel
I would just like to know where you have gotten that video from onto youtube because there were no VCRs back in throughout the 1960's and early 1970's. Can you please reply back at anytime? I am just really curious right now.
HOPE THAT WE ARE STILL ALL AMERICANS AT THE TURN OF NEXT DECADE
My mom was born 2 1/2 weeks after this JAN 18, 1966
I was born 1900.
Jamies adventure journal 😂😂
Nonsense, but nice joke
Lol u would be dead
I'm watching 2016
my moms first new year!
1965 was a good year
Cool year
What program and network is this from?
All Right It's 1966!
@edshaw4947927 Actually, it was more like people had common sense to avoid Times Square on New Year's Eve. The only time I saw the ball drop in person (1984-'85), I did it from 50th street and Broadway at a time that was MUCH less crowded AND you had a MUCH better view of the ball dropping. Today, that whole area is a madhouse and I would never do it from there.
hells yes
My parents were born 4-5 years later after 1966 lol
the first ball drop was 1907-1908
no video 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
No it was 1904-1905
What show is this clip from?
1 year before my dad was born
Just because its in black in white i keep thinking everyone in the crowd is wearing tuxedos
Same
The year the first generation Charger came out!
I wish I was born around the 1970's
The year Rick Astley was born!
OH!
@Maddox Knows about that! ...
1966 is a -bad- RICKROLL year of Rick Astley, because he was born in this year.
@@JrTheBoiEntertainment rickroll was first released in 1987 and was a meme 20 years later in 2007
@@LindaoRicardo yea
I was dead.
when did this all start? what year?
1965
1966 (MCMLXVI)
1966th year of the CE/AD
967th year of the 2nd millennium
67th year of the 20th century
7th year of the 1960s
*People in 2966: This was 1,000 years ago*
lol, that is if humanity doesn't die out from all the shit they're doing to the environment
People in 2066: that was 100 years ago
I only 3 months old
@littelG333 Ben Grauer is the last name.
I was born 27 years after of this xD
I was born 17 years after this.
Patrick Lange You are from 83?
teortega93 Yes, I am old lol
Patrick Lange Yes xD
I was born 36 years after this
I was made the evening ... I was born September 19 1966
Diana Meynart Nobody needs to know when you were conceived, lady. KEEP IT TO YOURSELF!!!!! 😠😠😠😠😠
I was born in 1996
The reporter mentioned the escalation of the war in Vietnam, the Dow Jones hitting almost 1,000, and the increase in social security tax to pay for medi-care. As we know, in 1966 the war in Vietnam got much worse and the stock market tanked, I was stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss wishing I was anywhere else except Nam. And the futre of medi-care is being debated by our Presidential candidates today. The world continues to turn. What happens next nobody knows.
Thank you for your service.
Dang, the Tet didn't even happen yet. 😟
I wouldn't be born until 6 months after the ball dropped on NYE '66. I wonder whatever became of Allied Chemical?
My dad was 7 in 1965😂
1:53
haha I love how he said the dow jones was at an all time high! totally different as of today
The year I was born: 1966
1966 i was nt even born i was born in 88 my parents where children
My mom wasn't even born! -,-
I wish could find new years eve of 66 going into 67!
This was the year when Sylvia likens was killed
should of been Dick Clark , not Eisenhower
i am guessing that it wasnt cold either .
That 144p !
@shadowcatphaser Is my comment Spam cause you dont like it? I posted on different New Years Videos not the Same one over & Over. Apparently it was not sufficient as even a lovely message to all draws out a negative comment. So Just for you, I will repeat. BE KIND to each other this year when you post & comment.. dont be so quick to say mean things just cause you know how to type. We all benefit from just the simplest of kind gestures that are slowly slowly becoming extinct in our culture.
That music does not sound like 1966... more like 1946.
NBC
Well back in '65 they probably were. Everyone dresses like crap these days. Just look at all those "things" that surrounded Ryan Seacrest this year during the ball drop.
I had thought Ben Grauer was not this lame....or the celebration...
@onlythewise1 lol no
you color
@199112171433 loool had to go to google translate
Who's watching in 2016?
+Odie people count, 70 thousand in 1966 over 1 million 2016, big difference!!
+Anthony video maker I meant, who is watching THIS video in 2016.
I am too
I'm watching in 2017
This question is a good indication for the stupidity of present times.