Who else watching this with me Born and Raise in this beautiful island Nassau ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Bahamas. My father's country. Beauty. Has made great contributions as a black nation. Strong and proud. Unfortunately, Bahamians value tourists more than themselves.

Thanx uploader for this great video. This shows how we were back in the day, and also how they thought of our people, with comments like " native black boys" at 0:47 and "women of good size" at 1:32. Over all a good and informative clip

I just visited Nassau it was very nice...plan on going back during Christmas

this is where and when my grandma was born, it’s so cool to see where she raised my mom and family members and what her time was like

i remember when i use to dive for quarters on Prince George Dock,lol,i was only 13-14,and the police would always run us for harassing the tourist,now i look back in disgust ,it was like we valued whites more than ourselves

I grew up in Nassau. My Mother is a native of Nassau Bahamas & met my father in Texas while attending college in the 80’s. I lived suspended between the culture of America & the Bahamas. I spent most of my adolescent years living in Nassau. Although I love the Island & most of my close relatives are there I would not choose to live their again. However, it makes for a beautiful place to visit❤️

Think again... We are still slaves... Look around we just get tips now.

Great video of a time when we can see how Nassau looked back then mindful of the fact that the 1950's in the U.S. black people were still getting lynched...although we had our share of racism it was not nearly as bad as in other places and eventually we overcame that as well to become the richest independent Black Nation on this planet there is much to be thankful for but more work to be done to bring more people up the economic ladder....God Bless the 242

Though this video was very informative , it gives a brief look how life was back then, it also shows how we were thought of ,according to the narrator , with comments like, black boys diving for coins" and "women of good size"

Thanx uploader for this clip

We got our independence on July 10, 1973. I was at the ceremony with my elementry school

2019 still going strong ❤️😍

NATIVE BLACK BOY'S GOT TO BE KIDDING ME

This was Awesome!! Thank You for sharing!! We just returned from there and it's great to see some History!!

It's great to see a video like this, I appreciate my country more and more.

That was the good old days.

thanks for sharing and caring ..peace

Wonderful video 😊😊

All we need now is a colourized version of this

I like the bahamas,dont you?

this needs to be shown in bahamian history classes.

I WAS BORN WHEN THE DAY THIS WAS MADE

Lol I see more people who aren’t from the Bahamas here. Mdf😂

I used to live in The Bahamas for 20 years before I moved here to Florida.

The ship appears much older than 1950. In the long shot you can see RMS Berengaria, scrapped before WW2.

I'm of Bahamian descent and I'm 23% native

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Everything seems to be correct! I will look & listen to it again! I see the the old Queen Mary anchored over the bar!

Anyone know the correct spelling at 6:27 of the type of sentry the narrator mentioned here, thank you.

im was born and raised and still live in the bahamas

My home

my home

Great Video. I use to run those 66 stairs for exercise lol....

Me I love being a Bahamian

the video is 60+ years old..... cultures were quite different then

I was born on that island

this is so fuckingold

This narrator seems a bit ignorant. It may be just me, idk.

our culture in what history books??... i se you've been sold the story

“The seagoing giant is surrounded by native black boys” oh man

Me jimmy watkins from east street

Native black boys.lol....a term that would be derogatory for a white narrator to use today.I still cant believe fellas once sailed up to those large ships in hopes for coins.This is so old and fascinating!

What happened to all of that sponge?

loved it!! This was very interesting. My parents speak of Old Nassau all the time. Good to see it in action. Anything on Grand Bahama from the 60's?

@wA7racer even tho my color is only skin-deep i'm DAMN PROUD to be black, ur comment is a motivation for other Bahamians Black or White...hopefully they will take the good advice so you can carry your proud to be white, (even tho its only skin deep) ass back to London...thanks for your skills tho, hope you don't view this as a complaint.

Thanks for posting this great old travel film. Was this transfered from 16mm film? Looking forward to seeing more of Travel Film Archives.

Look at the British flag, these images fascinate me

I wanted to find my Grammy as a little girl

This should be taken and taught in schools, history books everywhere even workshops. Tax write off as a business expense like a class taught in college federal policy. I got an A in federal policy in Tammy CHESHIRE Sacramentostate alumni !

Native Black boys, Ladies of rather good size, What the fuck, either way still awesome to see history, where can i get the whole thing on dvd?

Change ain’t coming!! Change is here !!! #bahamianevolution

Am in abaco

OBIJUANのSLANGCASINO から🇯🇵 I’m here from SLANGCASINO by OBIJUAN

We were?

The silk cotton tree is where the Princess Margaret Hospital is right now

the blacks was never from the Bahamas we was brought here from Africa .the real Bahamians are the lucayans Indians which was here first before they were salve by the Europeans and Spanish they came from other islands also like Jamaica Bermuda Cuba Americas etc....

Me I'm a Bahamian from nassau

Women of large size?

Sweet nassau

Lolz that can do alot of damage scary ass

I will excuse him because this video seems old.

@hiu1787 lol I hope das what he meant 2 say

I live in The Bahamas and did not even know that!!!BUT IT IS REALLY LIKE THAT BUT MORE MODERN AND FUNNY CAUSE ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE AND ALL NATIONAL COME TO THE BAHAMAS.OXOXO.BUT I LOVE THAT ANYWAY

Ok

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Why native black boys

" NO ONE CAN BE YOUR "ENEMY" WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION." ~ Reverend Kemp

No 1not even juneteenth day acknowledges this or any civil rights activist or organization. Can you imagine having someone other than me bringing this up in every type of way or spoken of in government! This shocks me !

BAM BAM 242 buh, di c, freeport caravelbeach nassau bean town di c beat it bad all day buh

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This is a good clip. A historical clip. Dont be so touchy about the descriptive words used. "Black" etc.. What are they suppose to be called? Really, get over it. People call me "white". So what...

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Don't like the narration and the down speaking and attitude in trying to describe what he thinks makes up who we are and our culture. More emphasis seems to be placed on the visitors, where they live and what they do. Downgraded expressions.

WTF bey women of good size?

@Gotti242 u freakin out a lion, i eva say it was a city? musby mix up

The narrator sounds racist and rude ... The End.

Everyone know us for our tourism but nobody knows our history. Legit forghiners have asked us Bahamians the most idiotic questions to exist

Wow... this man is sooo derogatory!

They need to show this to school kids! Aint much change, black boys still diving for coins.

Born, Bred, Ga Dead

Native black boys and a woman of good size 🤣🤣

Where were our american revolutionaries whom are black, black panthers, africa and nelson Mandela.

this is a trademark British colony, no information on the people who labour in the colony, where they come from, where they live etc. You only see the fruits of their labour. disgusting. from Kenya, a country very similar to Bahamas in that it's like a British holiday colony

lol

Native black boys diving for flashing coins 😢

😲Look at the real straw market.. couldn't find an item there that said made in china there I bet😒...

At least he didn't say negroes! What would a white narrator say today? Young Bahamian men perhaps. We've come a long way, but still not far enough.

Women seem to have been that body size from time of memorial..all in the bahamads is big fat girls and women

Its such a shame that Nassau has turned into a slum if you ever want to visit bahamas stay away and go to the outer islands were you meet real islanders and less chance of getting robbed or scamed

I was born there. A white British subject of her Majesty. How can anyone looking at the crime infestation of 2017 say that independence and Pindling were good for the place? Places like the Caymans and Bermuda have a quarter or fifth the murder rate and they are still British possessions.

Video sounds a bit racist!!!

♦️Tip to cruise tourists traveling to the Bahamas♦️ We’ve been to the Bahamas many times, always as a stop on a cruise ship. Early visits include us renting a limousine for the day to tour the beautiful island. As time went on we found the local people near the port less desirable. If you were not pickpocketed you were at least harassed. Pick-pocketing became so common we would not bring enough cash with us when we got off the ship to buy more then sundries. Eventually, we would not rent a wave-runner after learning they would target tourists, rent the tourist a wave-runner, then claim the tourist did damage to the wave-runner, the same damage they blamed on the previous renter, and the next tourist renter. We were on a cruise where a tour group of Segway riding tourists were robbed at gunpoint. This horrific event was heavily discussed on the cruise forum CruiseCritic. The tourism focused scammers made this island undesirable and unsafe to us. Next month we go on our next cruise, a cruise where we had one goal, avoid Nassau. The cruise is taking us to other ports including Grand Turk and the Dominican Republic but this specific cruise has eliminated Nassau from their schedule. We are really looking forward to this cruise. Oh, my tip to cruise tourists with a stop in the Bahamas...enjoy your day by staying onboard the un-crowded ship.