Video shows New York City's 1940s subway
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- The New York Transit Museum archives have this vintage video produced by the NY Transportation Board in 1949 about the New York City subway system.
At the time, the fare was $0.10 - and the turnstiles had been modified to accommodate a dime. The first subway token wasn't used until 1953.
Video courtesy of the New York Transit Museum
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![A Day in New York 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/IjwyUAtACTI/mqdefault.jpg)
I was thinking, imagine 90 years from now, a video about the 2020s with music from the 70s.
XD
Lmaooooooo
The nation will be EXTINCT 90 years from now as planned. Probably under nuclear Ash.
The music added doesn't match the period...There should be bebop or big band to accompany the period. 20s music with 1940s footage...hmmm.
TW F Actually the music was ragtime, more appropriate for 1900 than even 1920. However, some of the equipment shown certainly dates to about 1900!
@@larrybrennan1463 what is the music name?
@@window1102 Sorry, I don't recognize the piece, but it sounds like something by Scott Joplin.
@@larrybrennan1463 oh, gonna have to do some research then
@@window1102 Good luck with that. Joplin was prolific, to put it mildly. But it is great music to listen to!
0:43 Original Yankee Stadium
Excellent video of the subway back in the late 1940s to 1950s. A lot interesting history.
Back when the subways were individually and privately owned by three companies.
YES!!! The Interborough Rapid Transit company called the IRT... The Independent Transit company called the IND and the Brooklyn Manhattan company called the BMT. The City and State took over ALL of the privately owned buses and subway lines. Staten Island has the SIR... Staten Island Railway.
That happened in 1940 in June by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. I should know, I am a New Yorker! 😊
Original subway fare was actually a nickel or 5 cents and stayed that amount for 4 decades.
wow - some awesome scenes in this brief gem of a video
This was the year they modified the Astoria Line for BMT-sized trains and reconfigured Queensboro Plaza. The R-10 and R-12 were brand new
wow cool I still remember those trains and Yankees stadium look so cool in 1900s
When I was in school the fare was 0.15¢
Great footage the times of the most epic time in history. Subway ride 10cent. Wow how was the economy back then. I wonder history books outside the school system books.
Riders in the Sky was the top song of 1949, would have been a better choice than ragtime.
The answer to why it's playing ragtime it's because of the equipment used on IRT west side east side and flushing lines dating back to 1904-1917 but for BMT Broadway Sea Beach Nassau Street Jamaica 4th Avenue Culver West End & Brighton Lines 1915-1939 . IND 8th Ave Queens BLVD Grand Concourse and 6th Avenue Lines 1931-1940 this is due to the fact that 6th Avenue line opened in December 1940 during World War II in Europe before the United States joined a year later on December 7th 1941 Pearl Harbor Europe and the Mediterranean Siege of tobruk and Moscow.
Beautiful
I remember some of this. When I started taking the bus and train the fare was 0.15¢. Now the fare is $2.75.
Wow that’s quite a difference! You’ve seen a Lot haven’t you?!
HOW OLD ARE YOU GURL
Duke Ellington's A train would have been a closer fit.
Why is there a transit guy on the platform closing a train door by hand when there is a train conductor in the middle also closing doors ?
It was most likely how the cars were design back then, conductors then were in charge of passenger boarding, ofc more and more people were using the subway so cars were either modified to accommodate the new features while certain cars weren’t. I reckoned it was a transitional period and soon after all cars After a certain year came standard with the features.
To expedite the door closing process...
Those cars were already antiquated...
I wasn't even a thought, boy how I would love to just pay 0.10 cents to ride the subway
00:42 OMG OMG YANKEE STADIUM IN 161 STREET-RIVER AVENUE IN THE BRONX
Just 1:37?..Wish it was L-o-n-g-e-r...great memories of the old IRT low-V rolling stock,I remember the smell of those cars!
0:11 the man holding the news paper is my grand father 🥰🥰
Really??😮
That was very interesting
No BMT footage at all. I vividly remember when the fare was 20 cents.
What time pierd,you have 24 hours to reply,or else I won’t let you subscribe to my channel.
Alex The mta and r179,r211,weather fan when you drop out in 1st grade.
Yeah wouldve been nice to see the AB standards and triplexes
My great grand uncle was in charge of the metropolitan transport authority in the 1950s
There was no MTA in the 1950's. The subways were run by the New York City Transit Authority!
richard blackcloud my mistake, I meant the Transit Authority
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_McLernon
Here’s his wikipedia entry
Thins have not changed still crowded
Which ragtime song is this?
from 10 cent to what $5 now ?
insight001 2.75
3.00
@@m3lgar582 that's only for one way tho...
Everyone's income is higher.
@@quanbrooklynkid7776 But a free transfer to a bus on a Metrocard within two hours of first swipe..
Wow
ah high-trust society, we miss you. muh diversi...
My god the music is really annoying
Tokyo has even still have better public transpo even it's 1949.
Cool
We happy for you
I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE 1940'S..WHERE EVERY THING IS SO CHEAP..
NOT LIKE 2020 SO DAMN EXPENSIVE...
NO PHONES NO INTERNETS SO ON..
I sincerely how to realize how inflation works. Your pay check would have been like $5. Not to mention we were at literal war and our economy way garbage. Good luck finding a job other than the military. I also hope you’re white cause you definitely wouldn’t have a good time if you weren’t.
Ffffuuuuurrrrrssssstttttt
Looks like shit 🤣 ... same as today