I wold love a time machine to visit for a month or so. Your videos are always amazing and this is no exception. I'm always happy when a new one is released. Thank you for bringing history to life.

No. Lol but this is interesting to watch. I would love to visit the 70s though. But I will have withdrawal symptoms from my cellphone

Yes on one hand, and definately NO on the other...

Better then, than now. 11/15/23

It was THE GREAT DEPRESSION idiots! About what's almost here 23/24 . You'll get that vibe. Not good you can see too many on streets not working.

We had so much pride in the way we looked and you captured it in the videos thank you again. God Bless.

Thank you

93 on the internet is amazing! ❤😊

May you live many more years and share your stories. God Bless.

God bless you

Exactly. The times have changed, but people went on with their lives as we do now.

It's funny how the pace of life back then suddenly slowed down...with the right framerate.

I'm using my phone to watch this video.

I can’t imagine it at all. I’m not sure I’d want to live in a time when my clothes would be changing color every time I move slightly.

​@@mexican-americanpatriot721 that is kind of crazy to think about.

They have time travel machines now, they just can’t let the public know, they mainly go back in time for destructive business purposes. Do you know what they’ll do to the cosmic balance of the universe if the public had access to a time travel machine?

@@AmberSumerall from what I understand, you can go back in time but you can't change anything.

@@righteousness8606 You can but it becomes an alternate reality. That's why the universe is expanding at an increasing rate, due to, too many alternate realities happening, someone is going back or forward in time, messing things up, simple quantum physics proves this.

WHAT A RICH LEGACY!!

Loved your family history! The Speakeasy story was fabulous! My maternal Grandfather had a vegetable cart as well in the South Bronx. Precious to keep their memories alive, by remembering their work ethics back then. ❤

Ever thought about writing a book? Your family has a rich history that would benefit the youth of today.

No gangs terrorizing people.

That is so Dope....proud history

It shows people were concerned or strived to look their best in public. Wonderful times make me really want to have a time machine... Thank you for the video!

We have hit rock bottom.

Mmm. Ok

@@graficaink9601 Wonderful Jim Crow & segregation & KKK strict race laws along with 'Great Depression' era enjoy !

@@areguapiri only in your fantasy.

And it was too hot to be overdressed! Thank God fashion has changed to be more kool and comfortable!

Is this what everybody is copy-pasting like NPC's on this channel?

@@user-ht6ii1yj2iyea,you look like homeless

They weren't going to show the slums.

rap culture didn't exist yet

Wow! ❤

It's amazing to look back at another time/culture, while right here and now. You can kind of get the feeling of the place. For you it must be special, thinking of your mom and family

Who cares

@@geraldbarreno535 and obviously you’re a true asshole!

@@geraldbarreno535I care you taint 😒

the style back then was amazing even more because people kinda dressed up to go out in public it was shameful not to be dressed up at least decently, even if you were poor. Now you see people around in pijamas, even if they have money.

And now people wearing Crocs? 🙄

Whatever the prison allows you. Nothing special.

​@@Ze_MooseI wear Crocs and I'm very chic

@@RoderickFernandez-ps5ci exception to the rule 😉

@luciaterizzzi..I Agree..Soo Lovely."Where have all thee flowers gone..?"

you probably missed that dumpster fire WW2 circa 1939' along with the rise of nazi germany starting in 1933' when Adolf Hitler became chancellor. And the Holocaust was a major bummer also ! @@Maldoror200

@@fluffy1931 ...but not in Harlem.

Harlem is in NYC dude. Feb 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at Madison Square Garden, organized by the German American Bund. More than 20,000 people attended complete with swatzikas & goose stepping goodness.@@adrianwalker2833

@@fluffy1931 bro what

Forreal😂

That was all they had......that was there cell phone....dont leave home without it

There was nothing classy about the southern Inbreds harassing people

@@ninoblakk😂

That's what I said.

Ancestors? 😆

Когда-то на этой земле жили индейцы, которых уничтожили ваши предки.

There are other videos of our ancestors and colored video.

There’s probably people still alive that we’re in this footage. A 90 year old would have been born in 1933.

Dave, the adults one for sure but the chirren . some are still alive. This right here is less than a decade removed from the Tulsa massacre and some of the kids from the 1920s are very much alive

and what the hell happened to it afterwards?

​@@vycanismajoris5501you're asking a random KZfaqr about social economic issues? Can't you do your own research?

Yeah, My great grandma moved from SC to NYC, and my dad side moved from SC to the Mid Atlantic city of DC.

What caused the migration? 🤔

​@@Ze_MooseLess racism, more economic opportunity.

Yep. My folks came from the Carolinas nd BAMA as well. Many uprooted; if you were in Tennessee, Mississippi, you more than likely would migrate to L.A , Illinois [Detroit] .. From The Carolinas , you came to D.C , Philly , NYC

Same here all 4 of my grandparents came up from South Carolina.

Same in England. We stayed at a good hotel in Chester last month and at breakfast a young couple thought it a good idea to come down in their pyjamas. They didn’t acknowledge the waitresses and left their cutlery all over the place when they left.

If you go to NYU and check into their archives you might really be impressed. Same with the Library of Congress. There is footage from all over the country that has deep meaning and could answer lots of our questions. The prob is it all depends on who views it. This was just after black Wall Street was demolished in the midwest because of whites viewed black people as progressing with great success. This could never happen in NYC because people in general had no idea of racism because they were mostly from countries where they were treated poorly. That all soon changed once it became popular to demonize the black citizens.

Pajamas & bonnets today Then, they wouldn't wear a dress without a slip

@@kathleenking47 Exactly!!!👍👍👍

Well discipline and respect is no longer taught this is what you get . So sad

I'll take that any day compared to what we have now. No one can walk safely in the streets much less children, murder rate is out of control, aborted and fatherless children, men are no longer the head of household. The culture of drugs, thuggery and the degeneracy is what is applauded in Hollywood.

Romanticizing the past because the clothes are clean in an 8-minute video is also naïve, especially with the problems and misery that existed in the 1930s.

​@@Qtevwa I'd rather live in decency than the misery and filth of now.

We are lead to believe racism and privilege has ruled our society but this video and others like it clearly show thriving communities living very well. Scenes such as this was the standard in cities across America prior to the welfare programs of the 60's, cocaine and crack epidemic of the 70' and 80's and still feeling the affects today amplified by rap music. Pun intended.

@@hubriswonkthis is how it was in New York but down south they where hanging black people.

Amazing time! Why is it no longer like this? Crime, poverty and what passes for music is ridiculous! I could not imagine going to a club to see Bessie Smith sing! Or a dance hall to see Cab Calloway!

@@hubriswonk agreed

They had their town owned by black businessmen. Then jealous white business and politicians👹👿👺😟😟 took it all away. The basterds!!.

There was nothing to do at home probably lol

skinny doesnt mean fit

@@artv.9989better of than those with too much blubber on their skeleton but you’re absolutely right.

@@artv.9989 fat is definitely not healthy

Thx ;)

All the old reels I access are the same.All of them. They had tougher lives then and may have soot on their suits but the people have spirit and you see people bonding,they don't look atomized as is common now.

You seriously think the period of 'Great Depression' 1929' - 39' the most serious economic downturn in history was prosperous & purposeful & people were happy. Hang on to your hat & bendover because by 1936' their whole world is about to slide into WW2 & Holocaust fiesta.

This is the era of lynching for black Americans, even in Northern states. Jim Crow segregation is in full effect in the South. The KKK de facto runs much of the country. The only jobs for black people are crooks, maids, Pullman Porters, shining shoes, sharecropping down South. Only a tiny few business owners (like my late Great Uncle, a Harlem grocer), and professionals like doctors and attorneys were anything but abjectly poor.

Safely?

​@@brijmsn Safely. Are you ok? Something wrong with you?

he has lived in an amazing time. get a notebook, write the year at the top on every page and ask him to write down everything he recalls from that year! I did this for my mother and was amazed how much she remembered. Family history :)

allahou akbar

Why? You spelled Harlem incorrectly

It’s not Harelm

Liked and shared!

thank you! @@brocanova

;)

Looks like everyone took pride in themselves and their neighborhoods, look how clean the streets and sidewalks were. It could still look that way today if people wanted to make the effort

No flip Flops, no spaghetti straps, no tights, no skinny jeans, no yoga pants, No torn jeans-just love the way women were presentable as opposed to now where they dress like sluts with lots of Tattoos and piercings you would think they were branded cattle

​@Retrosigns1 there's an old expression, where there's a will, there's a way. It is not heard much anymore...probably because no one has a will anymore, they just want to blame everyone else

Nobody is stopping you from wearing a suit the next time you go grocery shopping.

Why do you compare black people squatting in a city they didn't build to the great manifestations of civilization? Blacks didn't build any part of Harlem and weren't there when it was built, but destroyed it within a generation. Why would you compare that to Michelangelo, Copernicus or Brunelleschi? It's vulgar. Stop calling it that. What were you even rebirthing that you could call yours?

🚬👴🏿🥃WRONG THE RENAISSANCE ERA WAS IN THE 1920s MY MOTHER HERE CAN PROVE IT .

@@paulyricca3881 Yes, you are very correct.

The Harlem Renaissance was in the 1920's! Please study b4 u speak

Maybe you should take your own advice. The Harlem Renaissance Era was from 1918 to 1937.

He has lived in an amazing time. get a notebook, write the year at the top on every page and ask him to write down everything he recalls from that year! I did this for my mother and was amazed how much she remembered. Family history :)

Ever seen w130 street today? Much more upscale than back then

@@joachim5080It’s starting to become that way because of gentrification. There are still pockets of “ghetto” all over Harlem though. Which would still make this look better. You don’t see homeless people, drug addicts, etc. like you find now. Even though it’s changing for sure, you can tell the overall pride during this time was different.

This is not just an era or past time gone by know this is the way it should be even better and it's not so what does that tell you and I'll tell you why is that humans were not divided so much and so many this and that and also did not fragmented humans

​@@franklinhernandez683 Let's also not forget, that in this glorious past, people used punctuation in their writings.

@@joachim5080dude, in this “glorious past” unemployment was well over 10%, life expectancy was barely over 50, and the citizens you’re watching faced racism you couldn’t imagine . The good old days are now!!! Stop glorifying a past that doesn’t need it.

How’s the jazz scene there these days? You a fan?

There’s a spot called Bills Place in my neighborhood that’s good but other than that there’s not much in Harlem. I haven’t been to the Cotton Club mainly because the bad reviews. Sounds like they’re just using the name since the original is gone.

@@rileyb2752 yeah I heard they tore down the original a while back, didn’t even know someplace was trying to use the name. That’s a shame. That whole area was jazz paradise in the 40’s. Now it’s no so much I guess

When I watched this I thought to myself, "Nicky Barnes destroyed that city and its culture." Maybe if he hadn't it would have been someone else anyway. I just don't know. It's a sad story though.

Just over a decade before this video, there would be no black people there or, really, in any American city. They hollowed out Harlem within a decade of this video, you know.

Indeed, that is one cool looking dude!

thank you very much god bless you

@@NASS_0 Thank you for your wonderful work. God bless. ❤️

Sad to see what we’ve lost.

💀..@SecretWars..Agree..Mr.NASS is doing Beautiful work..!!

Oh, dear. I hope you’re kidding…

All ethnic backgrounds? It's literally a segregated Black american neighborhood with white police and firemen.

@@kipdr There was a black police officer there too. People in those days did not like ghetto culture so white flight was a thing, white flight is still a thing now which is why the hood still exists. It's not that different now and will never change for all of time.

​@@sew_gal7340Ghetto "culture" was created by the government. It doesn't mean black smfh 🤡

​@@sew_gal7340where do you see a ghetto?? Maybe lower income but everyone back then had respect for the city and was clean and clean dressed

@@BigBoss-zi5ss yeah but they’re not exactly wrong, lol. people don’t talk about the lesser known “black flight”. back then whites were not the only ones fleeing from areas where (poor/“urban”) blacks lived, more established blacks were also fleeing. You can even find black and white vids like this of more upper class black peoples expressing their concerns about poorer more urban blacks moving into their neighborhoods and towns and wanting to flee to a different area. Not saying whites who did white flight weren’t racist, some of them were, but not all of them were and were fleeing solely for safety. And whites also weren’t the only ones trying to get the heck away from certain blk ppl In a segregated area like this, most of the power was in black peoples hands (they were still oppressed ofc, but in their own communities they pretty much had most of the power) As in the mayors were usually blk, or the sheriff was black, business owners etc, were black. So 5/10 if a white cop was in a black neighborhood/town it’s bc a black sheriff/chief hired him and put him there. I’m black btw so I’m in no means defending racism or anything, just speaking up about history is all lol.

So, WTF happened 🤔 ?

Communism. Same fate as Newark, New Jersey@@SeamusMcGillicuddy0

@@SeamusMcGillicuddy0 Those were Jim Crow & segregation times in US along with 'Great Depression'.

@@fluffy1931 i dunno seems to me that black people had more class and style in the 1930s

@@SeamusMcGillicuddy0 They voted Democrats that is what destroyed them

Thank you very much ;)

.... If there was only Footage of The 1700s MMmmmm 4:04

Good and sad...thanks for the info

The Queensbridge Houses: Future projects where Nas and others would come up.

This wasn't the reason. It was an affordable place for working class to live. Wasn't for whites

It kinda is

One can still dress beautifully 😍

You would have not enjoyed WW2 or Holocaust and Jim Crow era along with segregation strict race laws ffs.

This was just the beginning of the Great Depression, so the odds are very good you wouldn't have the money for that fashion or a car.

​@@fluffy1931she Dreams hell

No darling Klux Klux Klan wasnt playin black then

They were also projects, but one of the earlier ones. At the end of this video, you can see them constructing the Queensbridge Houses

you can see them constructing projects at 6:53

So nice to see what Harlem was like, Before Robert Moses and LBJ rebuilt the physical and mental slave plantation.

@@grahamsmith6210 Queensbridge House were downtown, not Harlem.

@@mickyboymccoy7632 they're in Astoria, not Manhattan at all

The micro-cosmos of 1930's black Harlem can hardly be generalized to all "Americans." That's patently absurd.

@@Billy_Bad_Ass But he did not say “all” Americans. I wonder how many street scenes could be filmed today in the USA that would leave many of us with an impression of class and respect?

@@azul8811 _"I wonder how many street scenes could be filmed today in the USA that would leave many of us with an impression of class and respect?"_ Not many! 😥

​@@Billy_Bad_Assin the context of the OP's comment of classy, etc., it can be said of all Americans. People dressed like this in small towns and cities.

And nobody on the cellphone.....

I’m 78 . Growing up in Chicago we climbed on trucks and buses . We were poor and respectful . My parents ran a house of ill repute but I never saw anything I shouldn’t .

thank you very much

Thx ;)

I wonder if there was such a sign on Kensington Avenue?

You know that Harlem would look like bombed-out Beirut in under two decades of them coming north, right?

And most of the footage shown in this video, is of poor communities too. Weird how "poverty" is used as an excuse for crime rates and filth these days, yet the people in this video suffered just the same if not more than they do today. For as long as we are on this Earth, there will be poverty. That much is certain. Something changed as far as humanity goes over the last 100 years. The more people have gotten from this country for free, the more they think they deserve.

@NothingToPointOut24 Also ask yourself if the heavy influx of drugs pushed into the community is what was the catalyst that was/is the change. It makes humans turn into something unrecognizable. Pair that with poverty and you have destruction. All things ‘free’ aside.

@@MissJK_ The drug epidemic is definitely a reason. I'll even say its a big reason. I just dont think its the main reason. I think culture and DNA has more to do with it. Drugs can also be more excused for the breakdown of society in a lot of cases. Why people lose jobs, family, homes etc. But for simple filth? I dont buy that. There are a lot of videos of life 100 years ago and a lot of the neighborhoods are spotless.

thank you very much

Thank you so much!

thank you very much

thank you very much ;))

perhaps you were there in a previous life

We see no hatred

thank you very much

The smaller kids are in their late 80's or 90's so they could still be alive.

Why is it sad?

Probably not. People born in 1931 would be 92 right now. So if you were anything older, the odds are against them still being alive.

me too. I didn't realize how many projects were built before WWII.

thank you very much

They've come along way since that Ted Turner, TNT colorization a few decades back.....

Thank you so much!

thank you very much