1940s USA - Real Street Scenes of Vintage America

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

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9 ай бұрын

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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@CashMacGregor 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@copanemaipacabana6711 8 ай бұрын

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

@n1vca 8 ай бұрын

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

@terrencemolvik9545 9 ай бұрын

Wish we could turn back time...

@jarivarjosola6399 9 ай бұрын

Thinking all same......

@williambock1821 9 ай бұрын

Careful what you wish for.

@gustavoperez5480 9 ай бұрын

Me too 😢😢

@flfreaks3745 9 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@Davidsavage8008 9 ай бұрын

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

@peterselten500 9 ай бұрын

Enjoy seeing the old days

@thomasallen3818 9 ай бұрын

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.

@Uralwebtravel 9 ай бұрын

Ваши программы вызывают восторг. Спасибо!

@VintageTreasuresVideos 9 ай бұрын

Thank you ❤️

@topper1958 8 ай бұрын

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

@ronray420 8 ай бұрын

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

@StephanieSwift-jt3hz 6 ай бұрын

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

@joelubin5479 9 ай бұрын

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

@gustavoperez5480 9 ай бұрын

Doing what?

@fluffy1931 8 ай бұрын

Third Reich was also !

@RedDevilMoto 8 ай бұрын

*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 8 ай бұрын

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

@michellepost3098 7 ай бұрын

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

@brittongodman7769 8 ай бұрын

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

@voxer99 8 ай бұрын

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!

@raagtop363 9 ай бұрын

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

@AndyThomas_mrblitz 8 ай бұрын

lol

@koolcaliguy6382 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@fredmanicke5078 9 ай бұрын

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

@VintageTreasuresVideos 9 ай бұрын

You are right, my apologies. Thanks for sharing!

@Downecker 9 ай бұрын

@@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!😮😊

@spookerredmenace3950 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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 6 ай бұрын

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

@debrariccio-dc2sj 9 ай бұрын

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

@VintageTreasuresVideos 9 ай бұрын

You’re right, I’m sorry. 🙏🏼

@bkzee5630 3 ай бұрын

Interesting and good channel.

@jakestilson1947 9 ай бұрын

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

@patriotpreacher66 7 ай бұрын

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.

@jorgedezayas1180 6 ай бұрын

Good times

@BlackPanther-1511 3 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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

@VintageTreasuresVideos 9 ай бұрын

😂😭

@fredjones7705 9 ай бұрын

Bro, Bro, Bro...know what I'm sayin Bro? Uh...Bro?

@usmamouloud5396 8 ай бұрын

It's worlds apart between Class and Crass

@carlthornton3076 6 ай бұрын

Very Good!... #132 ✝ {1-30-2024}

@calartian85 3 ай бұрын

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?

@TOP5InstantRegret 8 ай бұрын

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.

@NavyCombatCorpsman 8 ай бұрын

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

@peterlawrence6079 9 ай бұрын

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

@kolbpilot 9 ай бұрын

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 ?

@jamesw4895 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful women. No tattoos and kim kardashian wannabees.

@tranerekt1731 9 ай бұрын

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

@jessewolf7649 8 ай бұрын

Perhaps. But it still looks like another planet.

@ericsahagun5344 6 ай бұрын

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!

@Piecenotwar 8 ай бұрын

No litter in the streets and not overcrowded

@fluffy1931 8 ай бұрын

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.

@tenaguin1054 6 ай бұрын

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.

@thesilentgeneration 9 ай бұрын

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

@Downecker 9 ай бұрын

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

@eddieboggs8306 9 ай бұрын

I wish women looked this beautiful today.

@stephenhall3515 9 ай бұрын

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

@robertjames-life4768 9 ай бұрын

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

@VintageTreasuresVideos 9 ай бұрын

I’m sorry 😱

@robertjames-life4768 9 ай бұрын

@@VintageTreasuresVideos 🤣😂🤣

@ThomasHope73 9 ай бұрын

Who is the music by?

@BrandonD 9 ай бұрын

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

@ozrob8726 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

@@ozrob8726 this!!🙌🏼⭐️

@edgregory1 3 ай бұрын

They just weren't as chubby.

@phil1720 9 ай бұрын

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

@Downecker 9 ай бұрын

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

@user-hi8hn9fn3m 7 ай бұрын

Notice how thin almost everyone was.

@Sam-el6hq 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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.

@pashmina858 8 ай бұрын

FYI Seattle is in Washington state not Washington DC

@mrknotthall 8 ай бұрын

Before America was infested.

@gastrcat 7 ай бұрын

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

@mickalanelson8485 8 ай бұрын

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

@westonmeyer3110 8 ай бұрын

Horrifying

@ericsahagun5344 6 ай бұрын

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- 8 ай бұрын

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

@snikidypikidy2997 7 ай бұрын

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

@calebwilliams7659 8 ай бұрын

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

@cynthiamiller586 9 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@cynthiamiller586 8 ай бұрын

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

@fluffy1931 8 ай бұрын

@@jessewolf7649 cool story fuddster.

@Wilhelm4131 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

Go to sleep grandpa.

@bpw8139 8 ай бұрын

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

@tycox8704 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

@@llnn5112 Learn history Cletus

@206or16 6 ай бұрын

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

@bobjohn6625 7 ай бұрын

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

@gilleslessge5611 9 ай бұрын

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.)

@joselitorosales7227 9 ай бұрын

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

@47luscsettle44 9 ай бұрын

And no tattoos or body piercings...

@joselitorosales7227 9 ай бұрын

@@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 9 ай бұрын

No people in pijamas buying groceries.

@tycox8704 8 ай бұрын

Nostalgia are memories with all the bad parts edited out.

@stanleypitts9573 8 ай бұрын

1940"s

@letterman4290 9 ай бұрын

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

@Downecker 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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

@holdfast453 8 ай бұрын

No internet back then, no one asking you to subscribe

@DM-dn7rf 8 ай бұрын

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.

@yellowboot6629 7 ай бұрын

😂❣️... 🤣🤣🤣

@johnnycrash3270 6 ай бұрын

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

@underabigsky 9 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

Not so. Immigrants were thriving in that era.

@gordonchan2504 7 ай бұрын

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

@stanleypitts9573 8 ай бұрын

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

@lieutenantdan4722 6 ай бұрын

The 1040's ?????? 😂😂😂😂😂

@gilbertmartinez6538 Ай бұрын

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!

@PanaGringoBarefootBass 9 ай бұрын

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

@bahiras 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

2023 is infinitely worse

@Lpreilly72 7 ай бұрын

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.