A Day in New York 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

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7 ай бұрын

I colorized , restored and applied face restoration and created a sound design for this video of New York 1940s, Shows how millions of people live a crowded, hurried life in New York. Gives an overview of the various industrial and cultural activities". Shows the automaton, the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings, the Garment District, Times Square and Broadway.
0:50 The original Penn Station
2:16 Bleecker Street, at Pompei Church (Carmine Street)
3:00 Smells like the 7 train to Manhattan, around 40th Street in Sunnyside
5:25 South Street Seaport area
6:30 Wall Street
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 design only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
✔ Face Restoration
✔ added modern Noise grain for a natural result.
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.
B&W Video Source: US National Archives
B&W Video Source: archive.org/details/LivingInA...
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@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Which city in the world would you like to live in the 1940s?

@donatellaborciccibelloni5328 7 ай бұрын

in Berlin or Hiroshima 🥰

@OSTARAEB4 7 ай бұрын

New York in the 1940’s and fifties and Berlin or London in the 1920’s and maybe Moscow or Saint Petersburg, Russia up until recently. San Francisco in the 1950-1960’s must’ve been pleasant. I haven’t seen South American cities but Montevideo, Buenos Aires and perhaps Santiago would be interesting too.

@thisisjustatest5590 7 ай бұрын

warsaw, grochów

@caroltenge5147 7 ай бұрын

Coshocton, Ohio

@analogman9697 7 ай бұрын

San Diego.

@plaintalk3804 7 ай бұрын

Magnificent flick. I was born in N.Y. July, 1940. Am a youthful 83 now. Bought an around the world ticket and traveled for 7 months in 1960. My entire perspective was transformed thereafter. It was as if I was in these video scenes again. Time passes rapidly & having experienced a collage of numerous endeavors & global lifetime experiences in China,, Taiwan, South America, Carribean, and USA-SFO/LAX/PS/ S.Florida, I look back and reminisce what a wonderful life I had growing up in N.Y.'s renaissance 40'-50's era..The whole world is a mess now. Live in MBeach

@Ver5587 7 ай бұрын

Must have been amazing growing up in NYC without all the 3rd worlders there like now. You couldn’t pay me to step foot in New York City today.

@jodybeskinirutherfordcoanimal 7 ай бұрын

So true! Oh, and glad you are a youthful 83 !

@carle5538 7 ай бұрын

These old films take us back in time. I love them too. Stay strong my friend.

@FUNNYMANERICWHITE 7 ай бұрын

Wonderful words

@coach2208 7 ай бұрын

Well all we can say between me and you, is that we both had the best years, I'm not old as you but I'm up there in age born in the 50s, yea those were the days, but it's sad how it all turn to crapola now.

@PKTraceur 7 ай бұрын

It’s impressive how well developed New York was in the 1940’s, imagine you’ve come from Belfast or Liverpool, you’ve never seen a megalopolis like this before in your entire life, and the awe you feel from the view.

@newmankidman5763 7 ай бұрын

@stevenstirling8474, the internet, especially KZfaq, has opened up the World to be viewed from all corners of the World, which is of course awesome. However, it does have its drawbacks. When we were children, we would hear older folks talk about wonderful places to which they had been and we would be left in awe whilst allowing our imagination to run free and wild as to what those places looked like. So, technology is awesome, but it takes some imagination away from us

@juniorjames7076 7 ай бұрын

Fritz Lang was inspired to make his silent movie sci-fi classic METROPOLIS from his visit to NYC in the early 1920s. He said New York at night was like a city of the future.

@suppylarue220 7 ай бұрын

NYC was already well developed in the 1890s. the main difference was the vehicle transportation and fashion styling.

@canturgan 7 ай бұрын

Yeah, you can stand in the middle of Belfast and still smell the cows shit.

@iseegoodandbad6758 7 ай бұрын

Parts of Liverpool didn't have inside toilets until the 1980s. Why was that?

@aheat3036 7 ай бұрын

The people looked so much nicer back then and everything is so clean and orderly.

@fluffy1931 7 ай бұрын

Nice like in Jim Crow & segregation and strict race laws. Ku Klux Klan orderly with sundown towns and internment camps for japanese americans.

@novemunumunum980 4 ай бұрын

And mostly white))

@lemontadams3029 3 ай бұрын

"They" make the populace how they want us to be. The way we are now is what "they" want

@Marbles471 3 ай бұрын

Don't be fooled by the "clean" thing ---- American cities were actually MUCH dirtier back then. There were no anti-pollution laws on the books yet, so factories could just spout as many toxic smoke and chemicals into the air as they pleased, and tons of garbage were being dumped into the harbor every single day.

@leskobrandon8998 3 ай бұрын

@nov the good old days.

@jefferoni1984 7 ай бұрын

NYC was so advanced back then. It’s amazing that within a few decades or within one lifetime we went from reading by candles and traveling by horseback to electricity, lightbulbs, telephones, phonographs, automobiles, airplanes, television, movies and the atomic bomb. One person born around 1860 and blessed with a long life could’ve easily witnessed the birth of some of the most significant technological advancements in human history.

@soulindenial5001 5 ай бұрын

Especially mind you, people were living well into their 70's-90's. Definitely can see alot of progression

@j.g.8494 4 ай бұрын

Excellent summary of the industrial and technological progress made since the 19th century! "New York City was so advanced back then." People all over the world marvelled at the Empire State Building and other skyscrapers in New York which were unique in the world at that time!

@Melior_Traiano Ай бұрын

Thats true, but we still live though the digital revolution. I remember when mobile phones were as big as a brick.

@anonanon7235 Күн бұрын

Yes and by 2024, looting of retailers daily....As the Empire declines, so does the people within it.

@JoshinDallas 7 ай бұрын

Look at all these people just living their lives. Not a single phone in sight.

@MARIOPOWERUP Ай бұрын

If they had phones of today they’d be using it definitely.

@user-uf7yt9up4r Ай бұрын

Конечно не видно. Это же было 85 лет назад

@Zoom20102 27 күн бұрын

If you watching this right now

@TheNoisePolluter 26 күн бұрын

Because cell phones weren't invented.

@jessewolf7649 7 ай бұрын

Kudos to whoever had the foresight in 1940 to record this.

@Ace96x10 7 ай бұрын

Your most welcome, and thank you!

@Ace96x10 7 ай бұрын

😄@@CatherineKellerUSA

@gorillachilla 7 ай бұрын

Only white toilets that are long gone in the toilets

@matteo_italiaroblox 7 ай бұрын

for the buildings, that looks like it could have been filmed today, imo its just mind blowing to see such a skyscrapery city in the 1940s, imagine being from some regular 1940s city which might or might not have even had paved roads and then seeing this futuristic thing which calling city would be an insult, you cant just not record it

@kevink2593 5 ай бұрын

The Loew's Criterion theater marquee at 1:15 advertises a movie named Tap Roots; it was released in the autumn of 1948, so this footage probably dates from about that time.

@Boris_Chang 7 ай бұрын

I was born in’55 and have often thought that I was born 20 years too late. Aside from war, some of the most wonderful times in and around a city like NY (I grew up in the northern burbs) were in the 40’s (Big Band music, Broadway), 50’s (Beat poetry, Lenny Bruce, recognition and appreciation of blues music, birth of rock and roll), 60’s (the whole age of aquarius/flower power/psychedelic music-San Francisco would have been great to be a young adult in the 60’s). By the 70’s and 80’s rock music was peaking out. I would have been satisfied making it until the turn of the millennium. Nothing today has very much interest, and the world seems to be coming apart. I’d hate to be a young person today.

@user-wv2fm7hl5v 6 ай бұрын

انت رائع يا رجل👌

@alexsmith-ob3lu 5 ай бұрын

Gen Z young people are very jealous that you older folks grew up in much more abundant times.

@petek7822 5 ай бұрын

I was born in '56. Don't delude yourself, it was also very difficult for boomers, we didn't have hen parties in Prague and our clothes had to last.

@j.g.8494 4 ай бұрын

An old friend of mine who came from a prosperous family background once told me that New York was at its best in the 1930s and 1940s. I also like to watch New York in the 1950s in the Hollywood movies of that time!

@timtebowfan628 4 ай бұрын

I was born the same year as you and we escaped the draft. 10 or 15 years earilier you would be in Vietnam or Korea. There were no deferments. I agree that life is not like it was back then.

@larryborden7529 7 ай бұрын

Just the way I rember it as a kid in the ‘40s. It was very safe and we used to walk the Williamsburg bridge to Manhattan. Also, we felt safe riding the subway to Coney Island on a summer day..

@szn1580 6 ай бұрын

Sounds like a dream

@Zoom20102 27 күн бұрын

Yea now kids today just have a phone and when mom tell u food is ready not have to yell at street lol 😆 just used text message or a friend wants be friends with u just used name drop send phone number or what ever

@sblsbl7600 7 ай бұрын

Wow, I love the cars and how the ladies dress so elegant. No glass towers anywhere! Not a single piece of plastic on the plant. The food market only used natural packaging. I enjoyed seeing this wonderful world. I imagined that Louis Armstrong was singing.

@cw2gtc 7 ай бұрын

Louie Armstrong or Big Band, Swing, all would have been great sound tracks…

@richm9455 7 ай бұрын

Actually, they had an early form of plastic that was called Bakelite. They used it to make telephones amongst other things. It was not practical as any kind of packaging though

@mknm1349 7 ай бұрын

Moisture-proof Cellophane was introduced in 1927. This was created with food packaging in mind.

@tracy-ro6ic 7 ай бұрын

Yes the simpler times

@suppylarue220 7 ай бұрын

@@richm9455 ditto. clocks, radios, office intercoms, etc.

@MegaSnake76 7 ай бұрын

The city looked so clean back in those days.

@tycanuck 7 ай бұрын

It's as if they only recorded the nicer areas!

@tinahardman9805 7 ай бұрын

This is really beautiful. Probably late forties as nobody in uniform. These people had pride and class and are dressed beautifully. People looked happy, kids were playing, there is an innocence which has been lost forever.

@faustinreeder1075 6 ай бұрын

Back then we had a secure border.

@GamesandNonsenseUnleashed 6 ай бұрын

@@faustinreeder1075 What we had was generally people that came in became Americans. Not used the USA as a way to make money and send it back to their home country while often receiving tax paid services in the process.

@comicus6769 5 ай бұрын

1948-- perhaps late August/early September. Wasn't that movie showing Rita Hayworth in The Loves of Carmen?

@jchapman8248 4 ай бұрын

People back then acted classy and behaved in a classy manner because that's what was customary and what American society expected of them. Decorum in American society has dropped off considerably since then.

@jchapman8248 4 ай бұрын

@@faustinreeder1075 Now, I wouldn't say that. Our border was more porous then. Seems folks didn't assault our border in droves. It's that our politicians weren't encouraging and rewarding illegal immigration back then like they do now

@Albert-me1oe 2 ай бұрын

Strange feeling knowing all those people have already passed away

@angelomaestrangelo 7 ай бұрын

I have seen about 175 or more videos in historical archives of varying quality and to be honest this is absolutely stunning. Because of the intimate nature of the camera in juxtaposition with the everyday life of the people. As a New Yorker all these sites are amazing to see as some of them still stand the test of time. This is the closest you have to taking a time machine! Truly remarkable. Thank you.

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thank you 👍

@juniorjames7076 7 ай бұрын

I was born in NYC in 1971 (Gen X), so by the time I was teen in the early 1980s, all those movie palaces in Time Square in the 1940s had turned into X-Rated Live peep shows and bargain adult video store warehouses (in the 50s/60s they had turned into live burlesque and jazz clubs, and in the 1970s they became dirty "grindhouse" cinemas showing Kung Fu and Blaxploitation films). By the mid 1990s Mayor Guiliani had cleaned it up and returned it back into family friendly Disneyworld tourist hub. Well its 2023 and I can't help but see the deterioration and decline happening again. But it has been truly fascinating seeing an area transform itself again and again throughout my lifetime!

@klaurcschwackerberg1880 7 ай бұрын

I also was there before the Disney thing started. I saw the change too.

@9cross 7 ай бұрын

Don't use the term "disney". Use the term "normal".

@juniorjames7076 7 ай бұрын

@9cross It wasn't normal, though. In the 90s the area became like a Disneyworld theme park on Broadway. Fine for some, but it didn't feel like "NYC" either.

@ahmadrahimi8598 7 ай бұрын

Where is NYC please?

@juniorjames7076 5 ай бұрын

@@ahmadrahimi8598 NYC = New York City

@anythingbootneck 7 ай бұрын

How beautifully dressed all the women were and the men so smart. People certainly took a pride in their appearances in those days.

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

yes very nice dress

@waitme3519 7 ай бұрын

Women's skirts keep getting shorter and shorter showing more body

@acmeopinionfactory8018 7 ай бұрын

So many of them wearing animal pelts like the Flintstones.

@tycanuck 7 ай бұрын

This duplicate comment on EVERY video...

@graumli8102 7 ай бұрын

Nice to see everyone dressed in "street" attire instead of pajama pants and slippers!

@cindywasmundt3051 7 ай бұрын

The modest clothing that the ladies are wearing is a beautiful sight!

@W7DSY 7 ай бұрын

Copy that, Cindy.

@suppylarue220 7 ай бұрын

some of those outfits were considered "daring" at the time.

@suppylarue220 7 ай бұрын

@@Shiningstars313 during that time, many women made their clothes at home using tissue patterns, and table top sewing machines, store bought clothes were 99% made in America, the 1% were expensive imports carefully hand made with the highest quality fabrics. yet there were cheap 25c to $1. shirts for everyday wear. keep in mind clothes were made sturdier then when home washing used washboards or rough washing machines and roller dryers.

@coloneljackmustard 6 ай бұрын

Goes to show how far the standard has fallen over the last 80 years!@@suppylarue220

@liamc1102 6 ай бұрын

We mus send our ladies back in time!@@suppylarue220

@mosslandia 7 ай бұрын

I was struck by how much cleaner it was then. No graffiti. Kids jumping off the pier. Less traffic congestion. Ah well. Beautiful restoration NASS!

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Ty 👍

@bigstyx 7 ай бұрын

Do you know that if you would’ve committed a crime in most these neighborhoods you would’ve had to deal with some people that weren’t friendly and it wasn’t the police that’s why people behaved and dressed appropriately. It was probably a good time to be alive, except for the war in Europe.

@richardlacey4923 7 ай бұрын

Duh.. no blacks or Hispanics, of course it looks clean and civilized

@JWashington754 7 ай бұрын

@@richardlacey4923Are you blind?there are visibly blacks in this video, and most Hispanic immigrants have more work ethic then white and black people combined so what are you on about??

@azul8811 7 ай бұрын

@@bigstyx I’m not sure if all this footage was shot during the same year, but I believe I spotted a post war Studebaker.

@shardanette1 7 ай бұрын

The video of the kids playing stickball in the street and bouncing the Spaldeen off of the stoop were the highlights for me. My dad was a city kid doing just that in those days, and I must have heard him reminisce about playing with his buddies in the neighborhood dozens of times. To see it was wonderful.

@angtrani8084 7 ай бұрын

Same here. Loved it. So many memories 😢

@BobbyBoca 7 ай бұрын

Stoop ball …

@devonmitchell5294 7 ай бұрын

And its Spalding , not Spaldeen :)

@shardanette1 7 ай бұрын

@@devonmitchell5294 Lol. As a kid, I always thought my dad was mispronouncing it with his NY accent. Then I played with one, and what do you know, he’d been saying it right.

@sixmax11 5 ай бұрын

same with me growing in st. louis in the 70s. we played this and bottlecaps (same thing but using bottlecaps instead of a ball). also played a game called indian ball.

@azmike1 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely stunning. I have no words to describe the importance of this short film. What happened to America? We were so united then. Hardworking. Moral. Decent. The attire! No cell phones. No internet. Interaction with people only. Freedom rings!

@BB-gd5pk 7 ай бұрын

Diversity happened

@pedroalves3161 7 ай бұрын

Liberals ruined it all, now society is given over to promiscuity, without purpose and more unhappy than ever in history

@newmankidman5763 7 ай бұрын

@azmike1, you are forgetting about racism, which made life an absolute nightmare to many people, and still does

@rbj1jcp 7 ай бұрын

In these socialist cities, crime has become so bad that it's too dangerous to visit, let alone live in. JoAnn

@TheDanEdwards 7 ай бұрын

" We were so united then."

@bradlavassaur8265 7 ай бұрын

Love this video!! Made when people valued life and took pride in what we had in this country. Very refreshing! Thank you for sharing. 😊

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thx ;)

@fluffy1931 7 ай бұрын

You mean Jim Crow & segregation and strict race laws of that time. And of course forced internment of japanese americans . Ku Klux Klan & german american bund marched in public celebrated.

@texaswunderkind 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting these videos of the demolished Penn Station. New York really lost a masterpiece when it was destroyed.

@None-zc5vg 7 ай бұрын

That's Capitalism for you !

@jamesfarley8356 7 ай бұрын

Penn Station being torn down was a tragedy as it was due to the onset of Air travel & the increase of more people having their own cars as it fell into years of disrepair & the cost of maintaining such a huge building was prohibitive & before preservation efforts took place that saved Grand Central Terminal from the same fate years later 👍🤔😃

@Marbles471 3 ай бұрын

Grand Central very nearly suffered the same fate.

@MillerMeteor74 7 ай бұрын

This was great. But one thing I noticed is that you added the sounds of a steam locomotive to an elevated train. But those elevated trains were electric self-propelled by that time. Otherwise the sounds seemed perfectly normal, as if it was a sound film when recorded. I love the old views of New York.

@leonidesreyesweshouldinven6246 7 ай бұрын

I am a native New Yorker and I LOVE , this film . Some times the ghost of the 40' s working class would walk on the sidewalk , and I wouldn't mine .

@dannylaw7367 7 ай бұрын

Beautiful to see but heartbreaking what we've turned it into and how far it's fallen.

@PeaceToAll-sl1db 7 ай бұрын

diversity ruins everything

@randyalfano5910 5 ай бұрын

Well what do you expect? This is the city and country that destroyed Germany, when they warned us what would happen if the ppl who founded these nations started becoming minorities in their own homelands! Karma. We were warned N.Carolina and the country will not be escaping what’s happening, anymore than the big cities

@Bennysol 5 ай бұрын

The US has been a 2nd world country since the 1970s

@gello8518 4 ай бұрын

Patton said it best.

@randyalfano5910 4 ай бұрын

@@gello8518 yes. He did.

@angtrani8084 7 ай бұрын

I know every street on video. It's given me a glimpse into the beauty NYC was. It saddens me to see the change. The kids played on fire hydrants was a way for us all to cool off. Everyone swam in the Hudson River. Thank you for these beautiful shots, and memories ❤

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thx ;))

@Bennysol 5 ай бұрын

3rd world pillagers have destroyed the US

@Marbles471 3 ай бұрын

Wait, people were actually swimming in the Hudson River in the '40s? I'm pretty sure that was NOT a smart thing to be doing. The pollution was already through the roof.

@community1949 7 ай бұрын

Everyone all dressed up because if you were going out or to work that's the way people dressed back then - no casual clothes if you were going downtown to shop or work. No shoving, pushing, lewd behavior and everyone is alert and relaxed at the same time.

@tycanuck 7 ай бұрын

You're so out to lunch. Are you not familiar with the NY mafia families?

@cushiterevenge5696 7 ай бұрын

Most of the adults dressed to the nines or very casually nicely dressed. Classy dressed ladies without tattoos 😊

@johnboy4955 Ай бұрын

Tattoos don’t make you look trashy. It’s called being a horrible person that makes you look like trash. Tattoos have nothing to do with how society changed, it’s the humans fault.

@missalbania9260 10 күн бұрын

Some of the biggest criminals and horrible people around don’t have tattoos (politicians, celebrities, etc). Taking offense to body art is immature, I’d like to see how you dress and present yourself.

@cushiterevenge5696 10 күн бұрын

@@missalbania9260 Are you adorned with nasty skin " art " all over your body ?

@tdunph4250 6 күн бұрын

Where do you get your info from? Can I see links plus, I'd like to see how you dress and present yourself!!

@cushiterevenge5696 5 күн бұрын

@@tdunph4250 My post seems to have upset you, be happy with how you dress and look. Also if you have had tattoos placed on your skin be happy with them as well

@Hawk999 7 ай бұрын

You are getting better and better at this. In the beginning the dominant color of your videos was beige. Now the colours are more varied and bright. You are honing your skills. Thanks for all the work.

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@MaryDavidson911 7 ай бұрын

Beautiful

@LaurenMirandaG 7 ай бұрын

Amazing video, NASS! It's cool to imagine my parents in their teens, before they knew each other, living life in NYC.

@shardanette1 7 ай бұрын

I admit I was looking for my folks, both city kids born in '35, and grandparents. If they had gone to John's of Bleeker Street, my dad probably would have been there.

@jerryolenyn1480 7 ай бұрын

@@shardanette1 I too look for my father, who would have been in his early 20s at the time of this video. These videos are such a treat. Thank you.

@UncleSam1732 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely amazing as usual! Thanks for letting me travel back in time again NASS!

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thank you

@UncleSam1732 7 ай бұрын

@@NASS_0 of course!

@marie-joseannet5364 7 ай бұрын

Oui c est le même profond ressenti...merci Nass de nous faire un peu oublier juste un court instant le monde dans lequel nous vivons....

@marie-joseannet5364 7 ай бұрын

Et ce malgré la tragédie de la guerre en Europe à cette époque là

@marie-joseannet5364 7 ай бұрын

À l image de toutes les tragédies...

@matrox 7 ай бұрын

I like how nobody be robbing peeps or pushing peeps onto the tracks, no car jackings, no one jumping the turnstiles or peeps blasting rap crap. I saw not one smash and grab store robbery.

@shardanette1 7 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for doing this. Seeing this in color really humanizes the period and people. The three things that really stood out 1) I didn't see any obese people. Everyone is medium weight or thinner. 2) The racial stratification. The few black folks seen, except for one are in lower caste jobs, and in the subway shots of people on their way into midtown, it's all white people. Very few latinos as well. And finally, everyone is well dressed. There are no shlubs walking in the streets.

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thx ;)

@CuriousConnoisseurs 3 ай бұрын

And alot of Woman with stroller )

@user-fk9hr1jd7h 3 ай бұрын

Да, тоже обратила внимание, что нет ни одного полного человека. Все люди обладают хорошим здоровьем. Приятно одеты, аккуратно причёсаны, с прекрасным настроением. И жизнь кипит!

@musclvr25 7 ай бұрын

Absolutely fascinating. Another time, another world. I can watch this over and over again. My mom was born in Manhattan. She met my dad during the war. When he came back they spent their honeymoon meandering all over NY. They often spoke about it. I've always wondered what it was like. This was an excellent look at it as it was then. Thank you for this.

@j.g.8494 4 ай бұрын

@lst1194 7 ай бұрын

I love these old videos. please don't stop. your work is appreciated;

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thx ;)

@edwardhauser4408 7 ай бұрын

Born in the Bronx July 1940 love this video, stickball, stoopball, open hydrants, brings back lots of memories. GREAT JOB!!

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thx ;))

@cadillacdeville1491 4 ай бұрын

Wow. Just amazing to see this, I am so blown away with how prosperous and beautiful life looked in those days. Before the sinister ways of our modern times. The culture, the people, the architecture of the city as just something else back then. Lord knows I wish I could have seen life back then. New York now a days looks like an apocalyptic societal nightmare unfolding.

@nancymurray9033 7 ай бұрын

I was a 1040 child but in Finger Lakes area of NY. Fascinating video and hard to think about the fact that most of the people in this have all left the world.

@user-xj9dr6du7x 6 ай бұрын

Я,разделяю Ваше мнение,некоторые из маленьких детей присутствующих на этом видео есть в живых остальных увы уже нет.

@jonalberts980 5 ай бұрын

We're next.

@PhilosophyForDummies00 3 ай бұрын

Sad indeed, a lot of their stories now gone. I love hearing stories of the 1950's which I could've lived then

@Melior_Traiano Ай бұрын

The boys in the video might very well still be alive. They'd be in their 80s now.

@explorepikespeak 7 ай бұрын

Great restoration of film of "the world's capital" 80 years ago. But no matter which decade, this reinforces my determination to never ever live in a huge city. I've visited many, but I've been blessed to never having to call one my home. Too damned many people.

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thank you 👍

@Ver5587 7 ай бұрын

Back then when we were an overwhelmingly homogeneous nation it would have been amazing living there.

@TheMotz55 7 ай бұрын

It's amazing how developed, how clean, how orderly, and how prosperous New York City looked. Everyone was well dressed and seemed hard working. America had pride in NYC and its other cities then. It's too bad our current political leaders, especially those from the South, treat New York City like trash.

@richardlacey4923 7 ай бұрын

Duh.. no blacks or Hispanics.. of course it does

@Mr.Glenn. 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for making these video's.

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thank you

@bartondonnelly5293 7 ай бұрын

From the few movie marques I saw. Part of the video is 1943 and on Times Square at night at the last segment was 1948.

@davemckolanis4683 7 ай бұрын

I Noticed The Back End Of A 1948 Mercury On The Street In One Clip.

@endtheliesnow5906 3 ай бұрын

Amazing. Well dressed, civil people....People were slim, no ugly tattoos, no cell phones, or stupid masks....a better time..

@NASS_0 3 ай бұрын

yes amazing!👍

@marym9585 Ай бұрын

True but everyone smoked cigarettes in public places and segregation was still a problem in many states. Lynching and unequal justice in the south not uncommon. If you were a working woman and pregnant you were forced to resign your job. Every Era has its challenges

@jean6872 7 ай бұрын

*The small boys playing with boats on the lake are in their late 80s now. I hope they had happy and healthy lives.*

@williamschlenger1518 7 ай бұрын

In spite of the war , these were better times for New York. Great footage.

@bozenasteiner8261 Ай бұрын

Wojna wtedy tyłki w Europie ,ucz się

@jenniferlloyd9574 Ай бұрын

@@bozenasteiner8261 This was AFTER that war.

@brijmsn 10 күн бұрын

Better times for some...

@sgit1 7 ай бұрын

You, my friend, are absolutely amazing. Keep it up. Truly a breath of fresh air compared to today's times.

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thx ;))

@BluebirdFrank 7 ай бұрын

Looks amazing - would love to have been around there back in the day - men and women beautifully dressed

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

yeah!

@alanpecherer5705 7 ай бұрын

Just fantastic, one of your very best. The first half really gives the feel of the city as I recall it going into city in the 60's. I've been on many of those subway platforms. You're really "in there" with the hustle & bustle, even down to the fish market. The second half is more touristy, panoramic, from a distance.

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thank You ;))

@warrenhale8750 6 ай бұрын

Looks to be 1948 -- At the end you can see a movie marque with Rita Hayworth "The Loves of Carmen" which was released in 1948. I really enjoy your work on these restorations. Very fun to watch.

@MarcusReed111 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for this new video, Nass. I love watching this kind of video and see how people lived at that time.

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thx ;)

@twinentryturbo 7 ай бұрын

why are the streets so fancy and clean . Every single person is well dressed in proper manner and style? Looks too good to be true.

@PeaceToAll-sl1db 7 ай бұрын

you are looking at white culture and white heritage - diversity destroyed it

@kathrynrice8743 7 ай бұрын

Although the description says this is a hurried life, to me it looks like everyone is quite laid back and moving at a leisurely pace, in spite of it being extremely crowded. I found this very interesting to watch especially for the cultural information, entertainment, fashions and families seen. Thank you so much for sharing this.

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

❤

@Kaneki-ym3mk 7 ай бұрын

Because no internet

@bigb2020 7 ай бұрын

Technology has increased the pace of life

@thepoleontheroad 6 ай бұрын

Imagine coming from a European town with the tallest building being the church and then seeing this when arriving at the harbour. Still feels unreal, like the Earth's piece of a science fiction metropolis. New York's an icon.

@gerardcomeau 7 ай бұрын

Skinny people, just before big pharma and the fast food industry, fattened us up for the kill.

@azmike1 7 ай бұрын

@richm9455 7 ай бұрын

The wives were home cooking things in lard!

@LGAussie 7 ай бұрын

Yeah! everyone was tall and slender…not glued to a cell phone , sitting and getting fat. They all walked blocks and blocks every day. Even now city ppl are generally slim.

@j1st633 7 ай бұрын

Born and raised Upper West side of Manhattan. Yep. Stick ball in the Street and off the point was a past time with the kids on the block.

@HxTurtle 7 ай бұрын

dear progressivism, thank you so much that you freed me from the abhorrent burden of walking around in clean streets all while wearing confining clothes. now, we can finally walk in our PJs tiptoeing around the homeless. well done 👍 (or so I was told)

@TheDanEdwards 7 ай бұрын

" freed me from the abhorrent burden of walking around in clean streets" - you're into a fantasy. In the old days the streets were covered with horse sh*t until the sweepers could come by. Then with the invention of the automobile the air became thick with pollution until laws and regulation (i.e. that nasty "progressivism" at which you so reflexively hate) reduced that pollution tremendously. This video is made from a very low resolution film, then it is highly manipulated. You can't see any detail of what was on the streets.

@HxTurtle 7 ай бұрын

@@TheDanEdwards I can clearly see that the streets now aren't clean. how many horses did you see in this video? the resolution is at least good enough to recognize the clothing style (and to compare with today's standards.) lastly, I'm old enough to have personally witnessed six decades and despite my eye resolution being in a constant state of decline, I can still confidently vouch for which way we developed during this period. the advent of catalytic converters was a true blessing! but this fact doesn't allow you to equate everything that undeniably didn't improve with one that did as the ultimate reference for everything.

@texaswunderkind 7 ай бұрын

Go to MAGA territory in flyover states and see the clean streets. Oh wait, they are made of dirt. Which also covers the people, who abuse meth and live in mobile home parks. The same dirt covers their rusty old pickups. They have no retirement fund or healthcare. Trump told them to blame it on immigrants, because poor immigrants, not billionaires, provide healthcare to people.

@Hand_Painted_Tie 7 ай бұрын

@@texaswunderkindThis is called cognitive dissonance to anyone unfamiliar with the Progressive mind. They simultaneously claim that Republicans are the rich, greedy ones while also claiming Republicans are the poor, stupid ones. All you need to know about the Democrat party is one thing- They are the party which provides entitlements for people who cannot survive and feed their children without government assistance. That’s it. That’s the Democrat party. Progressives also lump “flyover territory” in with places like Orange County California and countless upper class suburbs nationwide while claiming the cities are blue because of intellectuals and not endless welfare plantations. The two largest demographics voting Republican- white men and white married women. In 2016, Pew research showed that the majority of college graduates voted for Hillary while concealing the fact that the same Pew research poll showed white college grads Trump. Democrat voters are needy and entitled or young and brainwashed.

@The_Primary_Axiom 6 ай бұрын

Don’t let them lie to you. Life was way better back then.

@westonmeyer3110 5 ай бұрын

WAY better

@caroltenge5147 7 ай бұрын

4:25 In our little penthouse we'll always contrive to keep love and romance forever alive In view of the Hudson just over the drive When we're alone. Penthouse Serenade 1933

@Izumi-sp6fp 7 ай бұрын

It is just marvelous to watch this technology advance. Just imagine what it will look like in say 2 to 3 more years. I bet it looks something just like colored video. Thank you for sharing this!

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thank you

@BradThePitts 7 ай бұрын

13:50 That's newly-built Stuyvesant Town, looking east past 1st avenue. 14th st on the right, 23rd street to the left, East River in the back. All of those buildings are almost exactly the same and it's easy to get lost in there, even today.

@peterstudley1804 7 ай бұрын

Watching this ,tells me the best times are well and truly behind us .

@tycanuck 7 ай бұрын

Sorry your life didn't turn out as you expected...

@andreamlongmire1066 7 ай бұрын

Except for the racism and misogyny, it was great.

@graciemaemarie11jones16 7 ай бұрын

so much safer back then without the 'vibrants'@@andreamlongmire1066

@graciemaemarie11jones16 7 ай бұрын

did yours loser?@@tycanuck

@TheMotz55 7 ай бұрын

@@andreamlongmire1066 NYC's African-American population in 1940 was about 5%. Racial issues did not flare up until massive Black migration from the South had occurred. Many Blacks, who were badly mistreated in the South, brought their contempt for Whites with them. There was a lot of reverse racism, a phenomenon that has not been well researched.

@SonnyCorleone-tg1ik 7 ай бұрын

Nass, Great upload. Thanks. Hey! This is the Sonny Corleone time period, 1940's New York! Haha. Plus look at all the men in fedora hats at 7:57. You know it's 1930's-1940's! Plus cute scene with father & son at 9:39 looking in window at boat!

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thanks

@gaminghedgehog6384 3 ай бұрын

Yeah and the man at 9:56 looking a those flowers maybe thinking about his wife or something

@kitamiwoome9349 Ай бұрын

You can only understand how cool this is if you're from Manhattan as am I, and walked these same streets for years.

@j1st633 7 ай бұрын

If you get a chance and you visit NYC, a must see is the NYC transit museum in downtown Brooklyn. All the old train.

@marlonalves4997 7 ай бұрын

Muito obg por esse excelente trabalho prestado pra humanidade ❤

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

thank you so much

@ac.2826 25 күн бұрын

Can we please go back to these days? I can’t get over how civil, well dressed and clean everyone and the city appears.

@W7DSY 7 ай бұрын

A masterpiece. I've never laid eyes on New York City, but it makes me desire it. It was so orderly. Were there problems? Sure. But the order of life comes through. Especially for the young. Kids never change. They are the same from generation to generation. Watching them play makes me feel younger.

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thx ;)

@roncaruso931 7 ай бұрын

Believe me, you would not want to visit NYC these days. High crime in the streets.Shoplifting is legal. You can get pushed onto the tracks in the subway or mugged. Illegals sleeping on the sidewalks. Walk in Tomes Square, and you smell pot. No bail law. Commit a crime. you're out on the street next day!!

@juniorjames7076 7 ай бұрын

@@roncaruso931 I was born in NYC in 1971 (Gen X), so by the time I was teen in the early 1980s, Time Square was quite dangerous with high crime and prostitution, and all those beautiful movie palaces in the 1940s had turned into X-Rated Live peep shows and bargain adult video megastores (in the 50s/60s they had turned into live burlesque and jazz clubs, and in the 1970s they became dirty "grindhouse" cinemas showing Kung Fu and Blaxploitation films). By the 1990s Mayor Guiliani had cleaned it up and returned it back into a family friendly Disneyworld-type tourist hub that lasted till the mid 2000s. Well its 2023 and I can't help but see the deterioration and decline happening again. But it has been truly fascinating seeing an area transform itself again and again throughout my lifetime!

@LGAussie 7 ай бұрын

And everyone was tall and slender…not glued to a cell phone either.

@gregduck7455 7 ай бұрын

Wow, astounding footage, so fascinating. Great to see the original Pennsylvania Station. The REAL Penn Station, not the basement station under Madison Square Garden & Penn Plaza, not the Moynihan Train Hall....but the authentic McKim, Mead & White masterpiece.

@tobygoodguy4032 Ай бұрын

You could almost shed a tear for what's been lost.

@eddieBoxer 7 ай бұрын

I wish I lived in those days, everything seems peaceful, no fast food restaurants, no over weight people, clean streets. I grew up in the south Bronx in the 70's almost every street corner you had gangs, burning buildings, not heat in the winter, water pipes froze we had to get water from the fire hydrants. Thank god I'm not living that life, I left the South Bronx in the 70s after H.S. joined the Army Infantryman / paratrooper after 20 years active service I am now a disabled veteran, god bless the USA.

@Jack-xo2zp 7 ай бұрын

It seemed quite livable and civilized then. You never truly appreciate what you have until it's gone.

@suppylarue220 7 ай бұрын

keep in mind, that era spawned WW2 and the Korean war. nothing civilized about those.

@chienandy5958 7 ай бұрын

Now it looks like a third-world city full of Africans.

@Sunshine-uz4cx 7 ай бұрын

I love 1940 NY much better than today

@AnonYmous-ry2jn 3 ай бұрын

Amazing (and sad) to think that everybody in this video has been gone for more than half a century, even the young children. Mind-blowing, since this colorization and digital re-mastering makes it all appear so contemporary.

@corcisales7754 6 ай бұрын

I live in Turkey. America is still ahead in the 1940s, I feel very sad, it's an impressive video, Americans are truly very lucky people. Some things are out of our control. I would love to live in New York in the 1940s instead of living my current life.😑😑😑

@justanotherfaceinthecrowd8573 7 ай бұрын

Beautifully done, excellent work. ❤

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thank you 👍

@artyzinn7725 7 ай бұрын

i lived in nyc in the 1980s, its amazing how similar it was 40 ish years ago, if time travel were possible you wouldn't be too lost, there is also a NASS of NYC in the 1930s, and it looks more foreign. Not as many people wore hats now compared to the 1930s too.

@edu45678 4 күн бұрын

It's like stepping back in time, absolutely mesmerizing.

@jonathanlandau-litewski7405 Ай бұрын

Arriving as an immigrant on Ellis Island and seeing the New York skyline for the first time must have truly been a sight to behold.

@jeantetreault132 7 ай бұрын

Very! nice pictures. The scenery looks so surreal, especially with those new added colours to it. Almost like cartoons inside of a D.C. Marvel comic strip. It's almost as though you're in a dream and all the people around you are just like walking ghosts, from another time.

@j.g.8494 4 ай бұрын

"It's almost as though you're in a dream, and all the people around you are just like walking ghosts, from another time." Excellent impression! I feel the same. When I look back on my long life, it looks like a DREAM! "We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Like And Share Please!

@oldcatholics 2 ай бұрын

Amazing and beautiful. The 1940s certainly had its share of hard times, but I do wish I had a time machine. Great job on remastering this film!

@olrikm 7 ай бұрын

What a marvelous pot-pourri of film snippets depicting life in NYC. Stupendous footage. Congrats!

@shaunwest3612 7 ай бұрын

Great video nass, amazing footage, people going about there lives,a snap shot in time, just incredible, great work, well done 👍😀👌

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thx 👍

@luislaplume8261 7 ай бұрын

I would place this in the year 1948. The 3rd Ave. Railway which provide streetcar service throughout Manhattan ended in 1947 and were replaced by diesel buses.

@bobbysands6923 7 ай бұрын

Rita Hayworth's Loves of Carmen is on the marquis, and indeed it came out in 1948.

@luislaplume8261 7 ай бұрын

@@bobbysands6923 Thank you! I recognize some of the cars from that era. The Jeep station wagon was the newest thing at that time.

@JoeEnrightArgyle 7 ай бұрын

@@bobbysands6923 Also visible - "Berlin Express" with Robert Ryan, a 1948 flick.

@VermontMornings 7 ай бұрын

Nice job with the sound. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thx 💛

@LeadershipAlliance 6 ай бұрын

Remarkable job. Keep up your great work! I would love to see more archival footage of the original NYC Penn Station.

@46magno 7 ай бұрын

Excellent job ! Images that are there forever.Excellent places,and the forever yellow taxis.Details, Librería Italiana. Súper! Thanks👏👏👏

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

Thank You

@j1st633 7 ай бұрын

Coney Island. Great place to go. See the parachute jump? The structure is still there to this day. A memorial to the days of fun.

@sandrasoares9262 6 ай бұрын

Thankyou for take me back in time Sandra 😊

@AlskinsX1-9 Ай бұрын

No cell phones, no tattoo. no smash and grab, no homeless on the streets. Life was better and simple back then. Thank you for the wonderful restored video.

@SonnyCorleone-tg1ik 7 ай бұрын

At 4:52 on the right side of screen that may be a 1947-1949 Studebaker car. Popular post War era car of the 1940's. Plus at 4:55 Vintage "Pabst Blue Ribbon" Beer truck." Wow! I just love the cars and how people dressed in this era. Thanks for the upload.

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

THANKS ;)

@mrknotthall 7 ай бұрын

I love all the sights showing how great America used to be.

@stephenmorton8017 7 ай бұрын

Air pollution was horrible. Cars ruined the city. Alcoholism was rampant. People aged very quickly. It's much better today.

@mrknotthall 7 ай бұрын

I repeat my comment. @@stephenmorton8017

@westonmeyer3110 5 ай бұрын

@@stephenmorton8017 Compare the suicide rates. People today don’t agree with you.

@felsefeyolcusu Ай бұрын

What beautiful images. The streets are full of people. Children are playing and they are very happy. A generation that grew up on the streets and has not been a slave to mobile phones. People are careful and attentive to their surroundings. Everyone is quite stylish. What this means is; I respect myself and you, that's why I dress well. New York was very crowded and bright at that time. It's the same now. But am I the only one who feels that the people there are full of happiness? I would love to live in those days.

@Jamestele1 7 ай бұрын

This just epitomizes classic NYC. The Italian man, talking to the baby, using his hands is great - could be 1890 to like the 1980s! I bet those restaurants in Little China made some great food back then - I can practically smell lunch!

@brianmcghee9313 7 ай бұрын

Your videos never fail to amaze outstanding work ❤👏

@NASS_0 7 ай бұрын

thank you so much

@j1st633 7 ай бұрын

Opening up the fire hydrant on not days was a treat. Not illegal. In fact the police hooked up a spray nozzle.

@OSTARAEB4 7 ай бұрын

The open hydrants! So New York and always black and silver to this day.

@micp0760 7 ай бұрын

It's illegal because it WASTES WATER!

@thomasbradley3830 Ай бұрын

Its weird that we look at these people as "history" but to them it was just the present. They werent attempting to live a documentary. They were just people going about their lives just like us.

@tastyorange 5 ай бұрын

The skyline was so beautiful - each building with an impressive crown. Space between the towers with light passing through. Now so many gorgeous buildings big and small are gone, replaced with sterile cold glass monoliths devoid of character, blocking out light and each other.