New York 1940s in Color!, Driving Downtown [60fps,Remastered] w/ sound design added
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- I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of New York City 1940s , buzzing with activity, with the population of Manhattan almost reaching 2 million inhabitants.
first shot is heading uptown on 8th Avenue. Madison Square Garden is on the left at 1:22, at 50th Street. 1:38 is 5th avenue, looking uptown, at 59th street. 4:55 seems to be a crosstown street, (which?) with many stooped apartment buildings, possibly midtown (Thx dvtvrich)
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
black and white Source video: Prelinger Archives
black and white Source video: archive.org/de...
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Would you like to visit the 1940's? Which city would you like to visit?
New York definitely. Or chicago. Cause it was rural and busy u know... I truly feel I'm in the wrong age.
New York
Lost heaven
Sorry mate but I'm colored so imma pass 🏃♂️💨
stalingrad
TH-cam is the closest thing to a time machine we will ever have...
@Felipe Gomes eh not everything about these times were good there was still segregation and stuff
I love it!
@@sweetsunnyvibes How is it not a good thing?
@@sweetsunnyvibes you get all those things anyway with or without multiculturalism
@_Decadent _Descent I get your point also but look here is a community sharing our dreams and spirit! - We travel back together......
Whoever had the foresight to film this, it’s an amazing historical record.
I think a lot of these films were done by movie companies to be used as backdrops when you see actors pretending to be driving somewhere. This film would be projected behind the stationary car.
@@opinionday0079 That’s interesting to know!
Started recording my drives with my phone for someone in the distant future to watch and enjoy lol
the fact that there is no crosswalks or pedestrian traffic lights back then must've been nuts!
@Sam Sparklebot car accident death rates in the US were at their highest level in history in 1937 and have been falling since the 1950s. Your intuition is wrong.
@Sam Sparklebot I agree with you. That other guys comment is incorrect. Notice the responsible drivers and walkers?
@@bubbablue1100 Dude, my comment is based on statistics. Your comment is based on your feelings. But obviously you can disagree with me. I don't care.
@@hsun7997 you’re a bully and im gonna report you
@@boblaggins1055 I think it’s pretty sad that I’m considered a “bully” after simply fact checking somebody.
My grandmother was eight years old in 1940 and living in Spanish Harlem. She said back then that the streets and neighborhoods were always clean and people really cared about presentation and always looking their best. It's amazing to think how much New York City has changed since then.
After year 2001 - the internet revolution resulted into life like - unnatural, stressful,heavy, very busy, complicated,speedy -- this resulted into numbness of soul.
Today's system is only profit oriented, not. People oriented.
People value is almost zero as garbage.
@NorthernmapingI would say Tokyo is probably the cleanest of them all lol
@@user-oq8ur8eq6e Shanghai, but with the exception of the smog.
That's because it was a White town back then... The migration of Blacks into the North during 1960's ruined everything.
Yes, and not for the better.
Imagine getting in a accident and telling the other driver you have a dash cam lol
That shoots in black & white?
And then the other driver corrects you to attach the dash cam to the front window.
ROFL!
@RhodesianSAS1994 Plenty of wealthy Karen's in NYC back then.
BUT men had fists and used them!
@@900108Chale what did women have
Always makes me wonder about all the people you see in this film - what were they doing, who were they meeting, what did they have for breakfast, when and how did they die, etc...?
Most probably had no idea they were captured on film and what was captured was completely inconsequential to their lives that, if asked about it, they wouldn't even remember any part of the day, week or month!
Mind blowing.
and it's happening to all of us, now, everywhere we go... we even got people listening to our words when we think we're alone and we never ever are are we... all this technology that absolutely EVERYONE is addicted to. I see lol so many comments about it's a good thing that nobody is using a cell phone in these old films but tell those same people to go back and use a flipphone or a home phone like phones used to be used for.. as communication when there wasn't an ability to before... and there's no way they could conceive of doing that. Take away their ability to use the cell service... and all of a sudden they're like ducks out of water. That's addiction xo
@@keetahbrough
Technology is not the issue. People are.
@@keetahbrough I will go back to a flip phone or landline any day!
It doesn't matter they will all perish in the face of the warriors of the great Monolith
Very much my own thoughts too. Ordinary people going about normal, hum drum things. When I see these people walking around a corner I'm thinking "where was he going? Where did he work. Is the lady shopping for things for dinner etc" If only we could step into the movie for a day.
This is incredible!! I used to dream about what it was like back then just wishing I could see it. I hope you understand how important what you're doing is. Thank you for this!
The 1940s must have been some good times, I wish I was alive around that time.
@@Hakim21210 you think he doesn't know that? He was alive when it happened
It wasnt a great time for African American
@Mega Canon you must have missed all your history classes.
@Mega Canon you need to get your eyes checked. Read my 1st comment , then read my answer to it. Proves that you can tell the flavour of the ice cream just by sitting on its box because you got a smart ass😂
@Mega Canon just so i get your smartass feed, the racial segregation in the united states of america started during then1940s amd escalated to 1950s where many people protests on the road. Now stay away from youtube and start learning your history.
Im not from the USA but i know that country’s history like the back of my hand. Just to let you know, one of my degrees is world history.
The cars look like pieces of art rather than a tool for transportation
@AVLRECORDS obviously the current gen cars are safer. I only miss the aesthetics of the past, not the actual past itself
@AVLRECORDS They're also 3-4x dirtier. You can see the exhaust clouds coming out of them.
@@jasonk19xx17 Try 30-40x, and probably much more. Today's cars with all the filters are many times cleaner than 90's cars, let alone these things. ;)
the cars did not evolve those days, they werent making them in the 40's
aerodynamics. people later on demanded faster cars. but the cars in those days were more visually appealing.
My grandma was in her 20’s at this time. She’s 103 now.
Hope she always has a good health🥰🥰
Congratulations to her!
BRAZIL. 👍👍
Oh my god what a trooper, don’t know her but she’s awesome
That's insane. What a world she has seen 🤯
@@windowsxp9120 I know, right, probably didn’t see her first radio till her teens, or tv till hers 50’s. Although I asked her what she remembers from WW2, she said “oh, I remember everything, I asked about death camps ect. She had never heard about any of it. Growing old in the country she missed a lot. What you heard on the radio was all you would know. Lol
Look how smooth the roads are. Nowadays just potholes.
It's amazing what you can do with concrete and rebar when building a road properly. Union workers have to justify their inflated budgets and wages so they use asphalt that only lasts 4 weeks at best so they can keep fixing it and have it guaranteed to break so they can fix it again - thus securing their high salary for decades to come.
@@MrWolfSnack See also the relevant bit in the picture "Falling Down" (1993).
Well they're only a few years old at this point
I'm guessing the roads were recently paved in the video. They haven't even painted the crosswalks yet.
Most of these restored movies are what were called "background plates" made for motion pictures. They were used in rear projection to provide background scenes, for instance, through car windows of cars supposed to be traveling in the area. When done skillfully it is often difficult to tell the actors are not in an actual car or train The process began in the silent period and was brought to a high degree of perfection until replaced by digital processes. Often, the same streets were photographed many times to provide the necessary backgrounds. It is fascinating when one sees streets and locations that are familiar because you actually saw them. The restorations are excellent.
Awesome and makes sense
Looks like all pedestrians used to have 7 lives back in the day
Bruh go to India or Vietnam. Same thing happens there today.
People paid more attention to whats was going on around them and then it was ok as a natural mix , now when everybody is a brainwashed cellphone zombie they would not last long in the same situation all their senses are gone .
Absolutely...and no pedestrian lines at the intersections !
@@southlondon86 People in India die doing that all the time. Guessing same was true here. There are reasons life expectancy in America today is so much higher than it was back then, contrary to all the "back in the good ol days" whiners.
not sure, there`s a break in 1:36 😉
First clip: heading north on 8th Ave passing the old MS Garden. Then south down 5th from the southeast of Central Park, 59th st. I was cab driver for 4 years and lived in Manhattan for 60. Lovely to see the NYC my dad and mom fell in love in. Thanks. Enjoyed it. Lots.
5th was still two way ...I thought it was 8th ave to start just from the clothes carts thanks for confirming where we were
My newlywed mom and dad also lived here at the time. Thanks for identifying the opening segment! I've lived here since 1970, but would never have guessed Eighth Avenue. If anything, I wondered if maybe we were heading south on Seventh. So you must have lived here before the old Penn Station was torn down!
my parents too , they were in Brooklyn though .
Awesome!
I guess we can call you a real New Yorker.
Old America, can't believe it was a real place, the aesthetic was magnificent, everything looked like a movie
You wouldn’t like it there at that time as a Chinaman
The work you do in bringing us these vids is greatly appreciated.
that man who recorded this is a genius thank you and RIP 🙏
Hi I’m a spiritual medium and the man who filmed this wanted me to pass on, “Your welcome”
He definitely use a camera to record this.
J Utah is a channel that makes this kind of videos in these times. Will be cool to watch in 2070.
He might still be alive
@Scott Ouellette how old are you? i really want to know your age before i answer that stupid question
The way everyone dressed was so classy just to get some groceries! 🤩
No tights of flip-flops in site!
AND: no "Sag-Ass" pants!
If a Man walked around in public with his underpants exposed in the New York City of the 1940's he would be taken to JAIL!
@Pathetic Troll People are still whining about sagging?!... Bruh, leggings are *far* more revealing than exposing just a quarter of your undergarments... These chicks are practically bottomless... Also, you forgot women used to wear low-rise jeans back in the 00's with their thong or their crack exposed, remember that? Females get away with a lot worse, and sagging with the boxers exposed hasn't been popular since like, 2011, after The New Boyz made it cool for black people to wear tight clothes like suburban emo kids. Sagging was the result of wearing oversized pants, but kids don't wear oversized clothes anymore.
@@Galidorquest Ys, ladies can get away with most anything!
I have seen some leggings that look like what's the point of her wearing any clothes at all? As to the sag-ass pants: In Chicago (where I lived a few years ago) a common style for men was to wear there sag-ass pants with NO underpants! ewwwww!
@Pathetic Troll www.snopes.com/fact-check/sag-harbored Also, the sagging trend began in the Late 80's in one correctional facility where law enforcement took away the inmate's belts and shoelaces, to prevent bodily harm. And so the thugs took the baggy/saggy prison style to the streets as a way to brag that they're hardcore for doing time. Black fashion designers in the Early 90's made Hip Hop brands (like Karl Kani) after the prison style, and rappers like 2pac made sagging an iconic fashion trend in the Mid 90's. Big Daddy Kane was one of the early adopters of the prison style in Biz Markie's song "The Vapors". Some correctional facilities do in fact force visitors by security to take off their belt and put it into a plastic bin upon entry until they leave. I know a place that does this here in Chicago.
Yes but they stank, maybe bathed once a week, no deodorants, spitting everywhere, no antibiotics etc etc.
Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven.
U mean mafia 2
The remake was amazing
This is the New York my dad grew up in. I love these videos. You recently posted New York City in the 60's which is the New York City I was born in. So cool to watch these. Thank you.
I was born in NYC but that was in 2004, what was it like man? I bet times were so much different
@@_x.xxten.ta_cion539 It was very different. We lived in upper west side, Central Park west. Back then it was not nearly as nice as it is today. Old run down buildings. As a young child, you could find me playing in a junk yard across the street. Since we lived right across the street from Central Park, ,my mother would take me there often to play around and ride my “big wheel”. Played a little stick ball in the streets with friends. Went to the corner deli often to get a deli sub and split it with my best friend Ivan. Back then, my mother would send me to the corner bodega to buy cigarettes for her, Salem 100s light. Can’t do that these days hahaha! It was a really cool childhood.
@@Gamesoldier68 haha man that sounds awesome, wish i could've experienced it
Is it just me or do I wish cities still looked like this. Roads are clean, beautiful architecture and theres not billboards everywhere you look
come to Belarus.
@Charles GnarleyThanks alot for the great reply! cheers :) I fully agree
@Charles Gnarley I feed the blue jays and they gobble it right up. You're right, too, they come back with their young and just like a sucker I put out more peanuts. Not sure if they count as strays, though...I mean, I may not know where they're headed in life, but they don't know what the hell I'm up to a lot of the time, either, sooo it's kinda like six in one hand, half a dozen...
@Charles Gnarley well. Nobody told them to leave Europe.
@Charles Gnarley I actually expected an intelligent answer but was so disappointed by the mind numbingly stupid one you gave
This was actually filmed by Google Maps Street View Time Machine.
Ive gone back a little further, at this very moment, im observing a Tryanosaurus Rex scoffing off a Triceratops
@@jackspratt2460 You saw it also?
That was an awesome battle
I thought it looked familiar!
🤣 What's actually amazing to me is the fact that someone was filming movies in public like this back then.
@@jackspratt2460 i saw the meteor striking the dinosaurs, was a very sad sight to see
Thats a good dashcam for its day
It’s enhanced too
I absolutely LOVE a lot of these old, majestic buildings! The design and architecture is fantastic! And everyone was driving around in a tank! This is a great video!!
Those buildings are still there
Those buildings are still around...
Not a pot hole in sight, what a dream.
0:29 bottom right
I think it's just the smoothing effect of the software used to do this tbh if you look the manhole covers are all blurry as a result. But definitely less flippin road works! :D
@@Teckno77 Nah, those roads were just paved.
@@timmybarns3917 Personally I can clearly see blurring in the image when I watch it, but if you think it's the paving making it look like that then hey could be. It's a cool video.
And NO Homeless!
This is the most graceful display of organized chaos I have seen in a long time!!! What a dizzying ballet of passing cars, random pedestrians, and traffic cops in the middle of intersections. Gosh, I would have loved to lived in those days!!!
Thxx!!! ;)
Great description! :)
I appreciate your desire to live then... But the fact is life spans were much shorter then... So, maybe what you're desiring is to visit then return to today...? Anyway, you are here for a purpose, and make the best of what you have in this life! †
My sentiments exactly! But you were able to put words to it where I was not 😄
You probably did, you just don’t remember...REINCARNATION!!
This is priceless . To be able to go back where my grandfather grew up as a kid. Once again thank you so much for this archive.
Просто ВАУ!!! Полное погружение в те годы, просто потрясающе!!
People were actually living life
The whole town was a car show.
all those beauties
funny cos all those cars were very common, consumer-level cars. The equivalent of all the ugly modern Toyotas, Hondas, Nissans, Chevies, and Kias we see today
These were common late models at the time.
Kinda like how the '60s and '70s muscle cars that now go for five figures at Barrett-Jackson were just poor-people hoopties when I was a kid.
To your eyes the whole town seems like a car show, but that was not the reality back then. Virtually all of the cars you seen in this video were considered common and run-of-the-mill back in the 1940s. This is why so few of them survive to this day, because almost nobody considered them as cars that were special enough to save/preserve.
When traffic lights where just a suggestion, and cross walks where an inconvenience.
Yeah I couldn't believe 5th Ave was a 2-way avenue with no traffic lights. Unthinkable now.
@@velvetbikes You can see the traffic lights. There is no stop lines or crosswalks though. Traffic lights were mounted on poles at the street corner and were red and green only. No yellow.
Roads super scary lol
Don't notice a difference today.
Were
Closest thing to a time machine taking me back to an era I wish I'd lived through. Excellent video. 👍
I love how nice everyone is dressed. I certainly wouldn't want to drive back then, I was getting anxiety just watching the video!
Look how clean, and vibrant the city looked. When comparing, with it today.
Yeah, I noticed how clean the streets were.
bullshit New York was mad dirty back in those days
Well they had a huge diversity problem!
"vibrant" in today's context means something completely different
@@markuskoetzle2083 totally different
you gotta love how everyone is in the road and cross walks don't exist
I wish I could go shopping 🛍 there just to see what they had and what it would cost !! 👞👞👕👖🧤🧤🎩
Lanes (came out in the 50's) did not exist either. Cars were all over the place, sometimes single and or side by side.
Just painted a line and they were like "welp, our work here is done"
I don’t see any storm sewers. Trash blowing everywhere. I see many of the taxicabs have the same aftermarket front-end and fenders. Must have been a cheap fix for frequent collisions.
I got a kick outta how there wasn't a single obese person either. Lol
amazing. looks like there was video back in the 40s and how it would look like! keep up the good work!
Those art deco taxis were so beautiful! Sadly I think only 2 survive today.
Wtf, I thought that was just the AI going nuts with composition, I had no idea they were actually a thing.
They are horrendously looking
Checker model A is a favorite
They do look great. I think there may even be only 1 of the A series of that period in existence.
I was young, but I remember the streets with these cars. Thank you for enhancing these memories.
Much nicer than todays cars
@@erictyson5947 but much, much deadlier
But yeah they looked cool 👍
Bruh, this was like 80 years ago
@@erictyson5947These cars were the foundations of the cars we drive today.
Are you still alive ? Hehehehehe
I love how people were dressed : so elegant
Akkoriban még tudtak
...and skinny. Now look at todays elephants in US.
And hats 🙂
Indeed modesty is in veil, not unveiling what we have....... hope you get the drift!
Yes..vulgar..fashion, media want people dress like .....baggers and nonsense uncomfortable vulgar clothes...
It’s amazing how clean it looks and the road conditions. Also the fact that there are no lights and everything seems to be flowing. Def some close calls to pedestrians though 😬
I like how the AI is like--eff it, I like purple. I'm making things purple.
If it was stormy out, you'd have pur-ple rain, purrr-ple rain.
@@JoeR203 sick reference, you deserve this like good sir.
@@nonameman7114 😀
Man those cars had so much swag back then, even cheaper ones
@Mikey Richards true bro
@@BigZaddy_ yea hell my grandpa still has his 1959 Cadillac deville.
@@BigZaddy_ and it still works.
@@paris5663 that's awesome. Everything now is made to last for a short time
Is it me or were a surprisingly large number of them pink? I think perhaps it was an artefact of the colorization but there was a lot of pink cars in that footage.
I feel sad when the camera shows individual people and you can see them clearly. We're catching a moment of their life 80 years ago... We don't know what happened next but we know eventually they got old and they died. I feel like I want to reach through the screen and talk to them.
A handful may still be alive, especially any children (were there any?). Probably every vehicle shown was crushed.
@@video99couk didn't notice any kids but yeh maybe a few are still here
@@MikeBrady68 except in 80 years they'll see everyone's selfies and tiktoks and say thank fuck that generation is gone...
My mother didn't die yet and she was there, born 1930 Manhattan
@@psalm1197 she lived through some special times, I'm glad she's still here
People walking calming head up with excellent posture. Different species. Brand new roads. No signage pollution everywhere. Lovely.
This was 5th Avenue which belonged/belongs to the wealthy.
Would absolutely love to go back and spend an entire day of life in this era.
I can make that happen but it’s expensive......
Trip for 2 please👍🏿
@@MMCPN First Class. Lol 😂
@@Contact_Info Groundhog “YEAR” 1942👌🏽 at what age??
you can. just stop being an asshole to everyone you meet. Im afraid if you live in Philly its too late
This is what I love about TH-cam.. Being able to see the past. Thank you for uploading!
Well, you certainly can't see the future, all vids are made in the past
I used to work in TV and I can attest to the fact the smooth, flickerless clarity of this film makes it almost as clear as a late 1960's studio video tape! Amazing restoration!
Film had much better resolution until the development of digital photography. I'm just glad people took the time to record history.
Early 'Steadicam' ?
Wow, I remember the first time walking through New York, it was 2001 and I literally just got of the plane and instead of hanging around the hotel I just went outside and walked until I got lost, taking in all the sites good and bad it was absolutely brilliant, then I just got a taxi/cab back to Fitzpatricks hotel and had dinner and few drinks and fell into bed exhausted..🇺🇸🍀🇨🇮 ❤️
Surprisingly good quality - great colourizing work!
Were the streets really green?
My father arrived in NY in the early 40s and worked there until about 2010. For all I know he could have been one of the people crossing the street.
NYC 👍my home for 30 years.
Love and hate this city.
@@nikolaipotapenkov8823 Из России?
This is incredible restoration. Thank you for your hard work in putting this together !
Thx ;)
This is soo cool. Everything looks so classy. No jeans or dungarees as they would probably call them. No tee shirts or people yelling into their smartphones. No sweatpants or tennis shoes.
A quarter in 1942 was the same as $4.30 in 2021.
This is the cleanest I've ever seen New York City.
Shout out to the dude still rocking a horse and carriage at 2:34
Just about 30 years before this recording, a lot of people were still using carriages until the 1920s or so when cars became much more mainstream. So it isn’t too far off.
I believe he was a tourist attraction, having people hop on and take a nice stroll around the area, cause they still have those carriages today around the parks.
The "carriage" looked more like a delivery wagon than a carriage of the Central Park variety. It's hard not to feel a bit sorry for that long-dead horse which was probably worked on those hard surfaces until it fell down one day, worn out, and just couldn't get up.
Heading the other way at 3.12 is one of those late '30s New York Coach Co. rear-engined twin-deck/front entrance buses that served the city for about 15 years until 1953 and which were an advanced design whose features were adopted by the British in the late 1950s and are now the standard in the U.K..
A real horse-and-carriage (pulled by two horses) can be glimpsed at 2.01, passing the cop who's controlling the crossing. The carriage must have been heading for Central Park.
that would've been the equivalent of still using an mp3 player right now
@@None-zc5vg People who work with horses usually take very good care of them, especially if they help them earn a living. I should know, I drove a carriage in Central Park for 16 years. Your melodramatic comments about being worked to death are absurd. The "hard surfaces" work no hardship on a horse specially road shod, and no harder than frozen mud or iron-hard frozen ground than horses out in the country deal with for close to half the year in lots of places. Working horses get lots of attention and usually good feed to keep them in condition. A lot better life than forgotten backyard horses left to rot. Life is not a Disney movie.
Amazing footage. I'm not one to talk as I'm a slob but the way people dressed back then was so stylish and classy. Love those 40's hair styles!
Every man is a sharp dressed man. And the women, class and style. Elegance!
I’m saddened to a degree that our style of class in clothing has changed so drastically. People used to take pride in carrying themselves well and now everyone runs to the store in pjs or attend church in flip flops. 😢
I have a couple of shirt jackets from late 40's and early 50's, which were men's casual wear in those days. Much more stylish than modern men's Nordstrom "shackets". Sturdy clothing and still going strong after 70 years.
Who says a time machine could never be invented! Keep em coming, boy these are coolest thing, wish there were videos like this everywhere, but w/ modern cell phones, there are!
Can you imagine them looking into the future, they would be horrified
has the world changed that much? the internet substituted newspapers and radio.... black and women have more rights now. that`s virtually it.
@@RivieraByBuick The changes of the last 80 years have been far more profound than that.
@@stevebailey5591 yes they were. but not as dramatic as for instance the difference between medieval and 20s century. The point is that 1940s people`s brain would not explode if they traveled to 2021.
People have rights now and there’s actually safety regulations. How is that horrific?
@@dunkey7739 Race riots, skyrocketing minority crime, "civil rights" movements like abortion and gay marriage, unhindered free trade agreements that benefit other countries to the detriment of ours, massive legal/illegal immigration from 3rd world countries, general sentiment of hatred towards our European ancestors, hatred of religion and relinquished adherence to religiosity in society, dirty cities, pornography sanctioned by wider society, prolific prostitution, general promiscuity in fashion among the general population, the rule of transnational corporations (Silicon Valley) over the sovereignty of the people, brainwashing of the lower/middle classes due to media and big tech, extreme plutocratic ruling classes (Hollywood) living in splendor compared to the populous... the list goes on and on.
And you merely mention safety regulations as an improvement! Amusing.
crazy to think how they’re all dead, or mostly are all, but the world is still just going and people now walk where they once did
Yep, and that will include you..and me ..and everyone reading this..scary
Are you having a existential crisis ?
@@greatomeister675 yes
@@Jblog100 Happens to me too then I get get a slight panic attack lol
My dad still alive at 88
Вот это асфальт в 40 годах
А ведь да))) нам бы такой...
Может просто качество съёмки сглаживает? Уж больно ровненький
Им бы нашу зиму) и несколько циклов за сезон, когда вода замерзает и отмерзает)
@@user-ex6cw2zs4k Во многих штатах суровые зимы, в том числе и в большей части штата Нью Йорк. При этом дороги великолепные. Кстати, именно в самом городе Нью Йорке дороги плохие потому что очень трудно перекрывать движение и чинить их. В России есть области с довольно умеренным климатом, но на состояние дорог это не влияет. Хорошие дороги в России я видел под Санкт-Петербургом, где ужасные зимы. Так что опять же, климат тут не имеет принципиального значения.
@@Isildurd я понял что мы отстаем на лет 80-100
That's the smoothest road I have ever seen in NYC.
Horn honking is the same.
The lastest car I recognize is a 1946 or so Buick.
Great video. Thanks for posting.
That Checker cab at 2:14 is the wildest looking thing . . .
Yup, it's the Model A. Only one exists today on the planet, the rest were destroyed due to being used hard as taxis.
@Bruce Ferguson
With the open front fenders the tire will grab any jaywalker getting in the way and wind him/her around the axel.
I instantly recognized that front. It looks like one of the old bodies my dad has.
My father worked for Cunard Lines with an office at 555 5th Avenue. I was watching this thinking that he would have been just a boy during this time. ... and then I noticed that you posted it on what would have been his 89th birthday. Miss you, Dad.
This is amazing!! Blast into the past. Interesting how things looked back then.
Beautiful! Love this era! The fashion, cars, etc! I was born in the wrong time frame. Wish I could go back to the 1940's minus the war...💖
first shot is heading uptown on 8th Avenue. Madison Square Garden is on the left at 1:22, at 50th Street. 1:38 is 5th avenue, looking uptown, at 59th street. 4:55 seems to be a crosstown street, (which?) with many stooped apartment buildings, possibly midtown. Note the lack of crosswalks, people cross wherever and whenever, and the Avenues are 2-way streets.
Thx ;)
How can MSG be on the left? It's to the east of 8th Ave.
Man, it's like a jaywalker's wet dream!
@@ultrametric9317 The original MSG occupied the space between 49/50th Streets and 8th/9th Avenues. I lived in that neighborhood for almost 30 years and hadn't recognized anything until I read that persons comment. I'm glad they mentioned, and they are correct, because just after MSG (before the view changes) there is a small theatre on the left with an arch on top of the building over the marquee. Back in the 80s and 90s I used to take a lot of pictures around Times Square and Hells Kitchen, particularly of buildings that were scheduled to come down. I'm pretty sure that theatre was one of those in my collection. I have a picture of that entire side of the block just before being torn down. It was a porn theatre by that time, called the Adonis. Not there is a a rental high rise building called the Longacre.
@@ultrametric9317 At the time, Madison Square Garden was located on 8th Avenue and 50th. The current Madsion Square Garden wasn't built for another twenty years or so.
The Checker Model A taxis (shown in the thumbnail and at several other points in the video - most notably at 2:15 ) are absolutely incredible to see, with their retractable rear roofs and wild Art Deco styling.
Only one Checker Model A is known to exist today.
I was looking for this comment! Wild looking car, it's amazing to see one driving when it was new
Is that what those were? That's so cool, what happened to the others though? Looks like they were everywhere back then, it surprises me that only one would survive.
@@jameson8682 - Just used up and junked. They were specially built as taxis, so they lived hard lives, and nobody thought about preserving them in the decades after. They also weren't all that common: They were only built from 1939 to 1941, and only about 1,300 were ever sold.
Later Checker models - A2, A3, A4, all made in the '40s and '50s - are also rare, with 1 to 3 surviving examples each. The famous A8-A12 models, made from the mid 1950s to 1982, still have thousands of surviving examples though. Those are the cars most people think of when they hear "Checker taxi."
What about the DeSotos with the hidden headlights
@@thecreature7856 yeah cool huh!!! 42 right??
I always said I was born in the wrong era what a cool reality break I just had watching this so neat and I hope you continue to post things like this I don't know where you found them but thank you it was a real treat
It's amazing how little traffic there is compared to now....the traffic here looks like my local mid-size city!
I get an odd mixture of calm and fascination when watching this long gone world.
Humanizes the past. Just another day for them.
Can't believe manhattan's streets were ever that smooth.
No 1940 it s in1955!!
this is artifact of AI algorythm -- it smooth small particles and crackles
@@salimsallimi8610 There aren't any cars from 1955 in this video.
Facts but it wasn’t probably good for braking or stopping suddenly they would just slide. I feel like that’s why they built cars back then in steel and other metal materials unlike today where most cars are plastic
@@georgebaez6143 Smooth surfaces are much better for grip in all circumstances than rough surfaces. Its better for the tire, its better for the suspension. In general it keeps a better contact patch without any sudden disruptions to balance. Cars today are not plastic. Cars today use steel that is orders of magnitude stronger than cars back then. Without getting into the differences of modern monoques vs old ladder chassis, modern cars are much stronger and more rigid. You find plastic on non-structural body panels like bumper covers. Plastic is cheaper, lighter and doesn't rust, so for these applications its superior.
I wish I could go back to see those streets with my very own eyes,why does everything look so...clean?
Fascinating. Quality of video is outstanding. City looks so clean and everyone is well dressed. Amazing how pedestrians seem to be playing a game of dodge with the Traffic. I guess people were a little more respectful at that time.
I'm from NYC and it's amazing how smooth and clean the streets were back then.
That's obviously an 'illusion' added by the film restoration and coloring.
Notice the exhaust fumes from the traffic and no white lines on the roads?
@@rudfil 0:29
@teeningale, and most folk looking decent too, not walking around with a booze bottle and supermarket trolley
@@stevedickson5853 lol
3:33 love how a huge double decker bus comes thisclose to the woman standing in the middle of the avenue and she doesn't even flinch. True NYCer!
😂
The bus at 3.33 was one of the fleet of advanced rear-engined twin-deck "Fifth Avenue" types introduced in New York and Chicago in the '30s and retired in the early '50s. All British double-deck buses are now of this basic design which only came along in the U.K.in the late '50s.
Almost 0 fat people. Now we have giant corporations selling us processed garbage in place of real food.
You got issues, man.
Should be Illegal. I think we need more regulation on what they feed us. It's literally killing us. I think life span has leveled off now but could continual to increase if we ate better.
Yes, and also with have an health care system that is a privilege rather than a right.
@@jonj3233 well, since in America people don’t want government “interference”, this is what you get: anyone feeding you any garbage they want without any control.
I mean NYC is an urban city and doesn’t really have a lot of fat people at all
I like America in the 40s! A very beautiful country and very interesting for its architecture and automotive industry. Мне нравится Америка 40 вых. Очень красивая страна и очень интересная своей архитектурой и автомобилестроением.
That is the cleanest street I’ve ever seen in my life
What are you on about? I see a lot of clean and nicely paved streets in NY videos of today.
@@hanselxyb5825 really? I see filthy sreets with ghetto people. Have you even been to NY?
Come to Europe, we have clean streets in most of the countries.
@@number62 i live in NY. get your money up.
You must have blinked at 5:01. Lots of litter, trash and debris in the road on two streets.
Wouldn't it be weird to find a 100 year old man and hear him say "I remember walking those streets on that day. I was 20 years old".
My dad is 100 and grew up in Newark NJ but always went into NYC..I will show him this film, good chance he was there .
My dad was born in the late ‘30s, in Latin America. There were still more horse-drawn carriages than cars then. And when he went to university in Mexico City, from the photos I’ve seen it still largely looked like this. It is a little odd to think about, but mostly it’s neat. I’m actually not that terrifically old myself, yet where I grew up, we didn’t have color television broadcasts until around 1980. We rarely watched TV at all. And frankly, the world in the 1970s was a much nicer place: calmer, more laid-back, fewer people (the world population was only 3.5B, whereas just decades later it’s now nearly a ridiculous 8B), abominations like Fox News weren’t even a rumor, active disinformation campaigns hadn’t yet radicalized much of rural America’s lumpenproletariat, we kids could run around unsupervised. It was a more colorful world, too. Utopia was in the air. I wish ten-year-olds today could get just a taste of that, it was pretty terrific.
@guilherme gurgel I did show it to him, he remembers it well, he was 21 years old and was delievering oil to the breweres in newark....He said life was great back then
I know people who are alive who've lived in Nyc...a few born in the early 30's who can still remember many things. I lived in Westchester in the mid-late 60's, then in the 80's a corp whose HQ was in mid town. Those were great days ! Fly round trip on Peoples Airlines from DC to Newark for $25.00. True !
@@skiterbite at the beginning of the quarantine and pretty sure still true now, flights are hella cheap, like a flight from LA to Vegas is around 20$
Its amazing how little the building fronts have changed. If you cropped out the people and cars I wouldn't know I was looking at the city over 70's years ago.
Amazing how drivers back then knew where the 'invisible lines' were...
I really miss seeing art deco style everywhere. The cars, buses, buildings etc. So much soul crafted into these objects. Now everything is square and "modern" 🙄
Right on.
I agree.
Modern with less emphasis on aesthetics.
Everything has to be more modern these days but yes I'd like to see more old school buildings with style being built more. Maybe one day they will bring the style back and will become popular again. Cities should have a more diverse look than just plain old square buildings.
@@yogidemis8513 agreed.
"The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry"
-Brooks Hatlen, circa 1954
Truer words were never said!
I believe the truck sounds are from the truck of a youtuber named Darstrom. Nice to know that you chose this truck, as it's a good one.
The odd looking taxi with white paint on the front is a "Checker". I've never seen one like that before, and have watched many an old movie that took place in NYC in the 40s. I'd like to hear the story behind that design.
1940 Checker Model A Landaulet Taxi
It's amazing how pedestrians just go out in car traffic like that.
This is nothing compared to Vietnam
I know, right? Really taking a risk crossing with all that traffic. Yikes.
@Ivey 96 they had no choice. There were no crosswalks.
@@gato7908 I believe automated U.S. 'crosswalks' came in big-time in the '50s.
@@None-zc5vg much of the world still crosses streets like this
Looks like a movie. The people back then , didnt realise, what a great time they live. Cars, clothes, architecture. All is amazing. We can see them, fortunately they cant see us.
thats the thing though, these times really weren't that "great". World War 2 took up half the 40s, humans worked much more on average, making dinner and washing the clothes was an all day affair, social rules were a lot less relaxed, and there were just less opportunities for leisure. as with all past times, they get romanticized. The 40's were nothing compared to the opportunities most people have at their disposal today.
@James Cooper that is true, but thats the irony, it's entirely in our own heads. people in the 40's had life objectively tougher, things were more bleak than today. our reliance on technology is what makes modern society amazing and terrible at the same time
@@XconnorX11 I'm glad someone has some common sense.
@@XconnorX11 also notice no fat people
It was right after ww2 they knew exactly how good they had it lol
This video starts on 8th Avenue, heading northbound. You can tell because in the distance, there is a very tall spire that looks like its in the middle of the road. That is Columbus Circle, at 59th Street.
That's also why the video continues at 59th Street and 5th Avenue, heading southbound
5th Avenue became one-way, southbound only, around 1968.
I worked in the area the second video is in for years. Recognize a lot of the buildings, but others were torn down. My work building itself wasn't built yet. Absolutely insane to see this - I physically touched a lot of the objects in this video (e.g. building walls) close to 100 years later, pretty much in another universe.
I kept thinking about the video game, Frogger, while watching this.
Mafia: City of Lost Heavens
LS Noir vibes for me
lol, with all the people jumping out in front of cars. Now I gotta look up when George costanza did that and the truck hit the machine.
Whats up with people just walking out into traffic like that?
@@josephcarroll6356 That name keeps coming up following me around on the internet "George Costanza" or as he's known to his basketball coach George Cantstandya! 🤣
So this is what time traveling feels like...
I love history. This is so awesome to catch a glimpse of life like this in 40's is beyond so cool
This is fabulous! My Uncle Bill drove that 5th Avenue bus when it was still a 2-way street. He had to make change, and give out subway transfers at he same time. He wore a uniform just like Ralph Kramden's. I started my coin collection by going through the changer he wore on his belt! He also moonlighted as a medallion cab driver at the same time. All this after returning from the South Pacific at the end of WWII, where, as a Black sailor, all he was allowed to do was bury dead bodies that had lain in the tropical sun for weeks. His truly was A Great Generation!
“One day, some of the kids from the neighborhood carried my mother’s groceries all the way home. You know why? It was outta respect.”
Gotta love Goodfellas!
hehe, I am getting me clothes just like these godfellas those days
"You're a funny guy"
Before sidewalks and spray paint were invented.
LMAOOO The streets were straight up wild, people cared about nothing...
This video shows sidewalks...
Sidewalks are already introduced, but not prohibition on jaywalking I think
This is a typical traffic pattern of developing countries.
You mean before black people were invented.
Just 70's to 80 yrs ago. The streets in America were fairly clean ,quiet & repectful.
*It is amazing what cleanup and reformatting can deliver!*
Looks more like 1967, with all the psychedelic paint jobs. ;-)
Those roads were smooth as glass.
I was born on 5th Avenue. If I close my eyes I can bring back that unusual smell that Manhattan has; a mix of smog, the electric smell of the subway; the smell of various foods including pretzels, hotdogs, sausage and pepper, cigars & cigarettes; it all comes back. I remember the porcelain handles and cane seats of the subway too.
Did you walk in this movie?
These are so mesmerizing 🤩