Promotional film from the New York State Thruway Authority touts the benefits that the Thruway and accompanying highway construction projects will have for Binghamton. Identifier: NYSA_14512-91_mpf16_1951-aa-aa Date: 1951
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@JoeTierno14 жыл бұрын
I was ten years old in 1951 and can see old neighborhoods and places where I worked and played. It was a great city.
@manidig13 жыл бұрын
Great shots of downtown Binghamton and Endicott.
@jdursoesq14 жыл бұрын
120,000 industrial worksers. Wow. What a change (for the worse.) How we've gone from the world's greatest industrial power to a "consumer" nation in 60 years is a tragedy.
@bd8106414 жыл бұрын
Great to see. Thanks for posting it!
@frankrodz114 жыл бұрын
Loved the video of my adopted city. Did you see ? no seatbelts!!
@zzzdogutube13 жыл бұрын
Awesome film
@Bumppo14 жыл бұрын
Obviously this was made before the Interstate Highway System was designed. The federal program supplanted this idea, so Interstates 81, 88, and future 86 are portions of what was planned at the time this video was made.
@starving_autist13 жыл бұрын
@sideswipe091976 Pardon? Look closely: that's not the old Owego 96 bridge (which used to carry 17), that's the Washington Street Bridge at the confluence and the Riverside Drive Bridge, complete with old-style NY 17 trailblazer
@am743437 жыл бұрын
HAHAHA! At 3:57, they are showing a clip of the highway envisioned in the 1939 World's Fair's "To New Horizons"!
@bluto2514 жыл бұрын
The land before time...
@julieerin1159 жыл бұрын
120,000 workers at those plants?! assuming that each employee at those plants had a family with the average household size of 5 people, binghamton looked like it had a population of 600,000!
@larryirun13 жыл бұрын
Someone correct me if I am wrong but I think that the original plan was to make I-81 part of the Thruway system and thus, a toll road. How about those shots of the Thruway with soft shoulders? Any roadgeeks have any idea which interchange that is shown?
@ovlov60711 жыл бұрын
I have often wondered how many homes/businesses were torn down to create the path for the highway system. Streets were divided by the highway, leaving two streets with the same name throughout the city (and sadly, those neighborhoods went to shambles) Does anyone know of readily available overhead maps or pictures prior to the highway?
@meekodusty13 жыл бұрын
Too bad NY taxes killed the industries. It was a great place to grow up and live in, but there is not much left. So sad.
@104trucker14 жыл бұрын
2:19 a brockway! there were some more i think 2:56, 1:11 maybe
@Mrkissuallover1214 жыл бұрын
I guess the Thruway to Binghamton never came to fruition.
@xBADLANDERx11 жыл бұрын
Sad part is now are thruways are falling apart and the only thing they bring to Binghamton is more people on welfare :(
@MichaelMcMahon196914 жыл бұрын
It is too bad that the Thruway never came through the Triple Cities, as they could have used the industry that it would have brought, and as it did not, Binghamton has all but died!