Sightseeing in Newark, N.J. (1926) - Newark, NJ in 1920s - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Description: Take a nostalgic journey through the streets of Newark, New Jersey in 1926. This fascinating archival footage offers a glimpse into a bygone era.
Hudson Terminal (or Penn Station), Newark.
Pan over city as seen from tall downtown building
Historical landmarks
Branch Brook Park
downtown street scenes
Centre Market
Broad & Market streets
Pixillated footage of downtown intersection showing traffic and people moving at high speed
Springfield Avenue and Market Street
Backwards scene at above intersection showing traffic and people moving backwards
City Hall
Weequahic Park
Port Newark
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My father will be 100 this coming year and was born in good old NJ. in 1925! Still lives here.
I grew up in Newark for years. I was born in 1937 and lived in Newark through the 60's. Love the video. Thank You
it's crazy the library and museum look the exact same today
and the Indians under the light
Right
wheres the chocolate ppl
@@jessicafashionlover2148 not a lot of people of color lived in newark that far back, i know it’s crazy to think based on how it is now
@@jessicafashionlover2148 weirdo
People dressed well and respected each other. Thank you for this wonderful view of the past.
Yea ok!
A wonderful view of a old and diverse state ... respect my ass
I guess they respected white people only
@@kronophobos5447 thank you sir for perfectly proving my statement.
@@raydelrosario2366 yeah they were right 😂
Actually, it's kind of sad, seeing what it once was compared to almost 100 years later.
Seems like humankind has regressed.
Its sad knowing that scene with everyone spinning in the park would have resulted today in 6 letters sent from parents, a PTA review session, 3 lawsuits and 2 firings😂😂Regardless of everyone having a good time, waayyyyy too dangerous for 1990 onwards😂😂😂
@@tea4223 hahaha it was more of the physical aspect of the playground equipment being totally overcrowded and unsafe. But everyone was having fun so the unsafe vs fun limiter has swayed quite far since then. But I get ur point too haha
@@B01 Yeah... times have changed. Happy New Year (I hope)
@@tea4223 happy new year
This is absolutely priceless!
That Broad and Market Street traffic control tower @ 10:30 was removed, and now sits in a cemetery in Clifton New Jersey.
My grandfather was 6 yrs old when he moved to Newark in 1926 from isle of wright county, VA and lived in east Orange NJ until he passed away at 91. Wilbur Thomas Mitchell born 1922
I wish I lived here in those times! My grandma was lucky! Rip Grandma
Hope you are male, straight, white and at least middle class if you want to have a good time. And that you never need modern medicine. Hope you have the sense to not hire children. Oh, and have fun during the Great Depression.
@@trikitrikitriki lol right!!!
@@trikitrikitriki Sounds livable enough.
@J C No Mexicans? That's funny. There have always been Mexicans in the U.S. Even before the Mexican-American War
Amazing video. Now I know how Newark NJ looked 94 years ago. The cathedral, museum, city hall, the library all still looks the same. But everything else looks so much different.
Love the video looks very beautiful I would love a portrait of Downtown Newark a hang it in my living room
My brother that's what I'm talking about a nice picture portrait in the house. I think that would help change the way we think nowadays.
Yes Indeed
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Growing up in Newark and moving back to it I see buildings I've been in and still go in and walk by often, like the library, museum, churches, the courthouse, parks, shops. It's amazing. What that may tell us is that we're not as modern as we think we are or we have been modern for a long time.
Born and raised in Newark NJ also worked for the legendary Newark City Subway which now been transformed to the Newark light rail 🚈 for 9 years i will never trade Newark for anything.
I lived in Newark for 20 years. I loved walking these areas and feeling the rich history of Newark.
I love seeing people way back then just going about their lives.
I grew up in Newark in the late 70's and even with the issues, it was still an awesome city! Going back to visit this April :)
People from newark is dirty overall I am in The United kingdom I dont know why I am watching this
@@usernam3109 takes one to know... ima just let your brain finish that chap
@@usernam3109 I've been to the UK many times for pleasure and business. London is an interesting and very historic place. The similarities, as there were many people from that part of the world who founded and built Newark are very close. That is probably why you were watching. People in Newark share the same industrious energy as those from the UK. Circumstances, programming and a disregard for humanity is what has chipped away at both cities and its people.
@@usernam3109 clown!!!
@@simonefreeman9453 hey what State did you relocate too put of curiosity? I don't live far from Newark and liked your reply.
My grandfather & grandmother came to Newark in 1900...raised 11 children there.
and i assume they have all left that hell hole.
@@thomaschristopher8593 this hell hole is what some people call home and love it 🙂😓
@@quamosthated1464 It's still a hellhole of robberies and shootings.
@@coldstonecanc3rgang994 grow up, if you have nothing nice to say, move along
121 years later you would not want to raise 1 child there now
Washington park looks almost the exact same. That’s so crazy how much and how little has changed
I'm 74. Grew up in Down Neck. As 12 year olds we took the bus to Broad & Market and went to the big movie theaters downtown. WOW! 35 cents got you 2 movies, cartoons, coming attractions ! Great time to be a kid !
This is so crazy I was just in Newark the other day it’s nothing like this anymore just goes to show how much time changes things
All the time.
Born in Newark !! I avoid it like the plague ! No one can put it back together !! A real shame !!
JerseyJoe it's getting better, North Newark and inbound sections are not bad.
@1970 chevy chevelle ss I'm from Newark myself and there are A LOT of improvements. The city does need tremendous work BUT 1970chevy and JerseyJoe sound like they haven't been in Newark for quite a few years. I was in Newark yesterday. There are luxury apartments downtown springing up for the first time since probably ever. There's a damned Whole Foods for crying out loud. There are developments in the Ironbound AND proposals for other developments so big that the neighborhood is actually fighting it! Anyone who says nothing at all has changed simply hasn't been in the city in too long.
@@artemiscool67 Sounds like Detroit (and they BOTH had Bad riots in 1967.) In Detroit the Downtown, most of "Midtown" (former Cass Corridor Slum) are getting better. The trouble IS: the schools suck, and everything from those two neighborhoods to the suburbs are FUBAR
@@triky5384 Not true! I live on the North Newark/Bloomfield border and my daughter won't even come visit because she's afraid of the neighborhood! I can't wait to sell my house and get the hell out of NJ!
@NEWARK BRICKS Well, I've been living in Newark for 18 years now, so I guess I know what I'm talking about as well
2:05 - 3:24 From the rooftop of the old Public Service Electric and Gas Company building.
Anytime i go to Newark now imma remember the history behind the court building that still stands.
Thanks lots for the video. :)
Marline Harrold. Hope you are doing good and staying safe with this covid?
When newark was nice and clean
Tell the mayor clean it up then , attend a town meeting , don’t take shots reminiscing
Yeah
Newark can not be fixed. It's the people, in particular their leaders...or lack thereof. I could give dozens of examples, as I live here and desperately want out. But I am homeless. My UA-cam Channel is The Cosmic Busker, TheCosmicBusker at paypal. Example:
There is a HUGE sign on Broad St in Newark, apparently supported by the idiots in charge of the city, that says (and I paraphrase): "We set fires to let God know where it hurts".
Hard to quantify how theologically and rationally broken the thinking is and it's why Newark can never recover until the residents get a brain. Life is suffering. Pain and suffering are everywhere. You are born into pain and you die in pain. If you set fires where it hurts, YOU SET THE ENTIRE PLACE ON FIRE. And where is there nothing but fire?
Hell. They create their own hell and brag about it...put it on a big sign for all to see.
@@69sidewinder Excellent post.
@Pauline Hanson because that’s who’s voted in.
Black boy sitting on his bicycle relaxing 9:15 priceless, wonderful video of historic Newark overall
I think the only Black person shown.
Good footage!
I'm surprised of the large population of the 1920's ! Pictured it less busy ! People wore suits back then now people barley have their pants pulled all the way up !
hahaha ur right
Done wore tge same suits every damn day. These aren't rich folk they're showing. And, Newark was a dangerous place, even then. Lots of gangster violence & poor white-folk violence.
Ur comment is racist and unnecessary
I am proud to say, that I was born in Newark and my whole family was from Newark! My mom was raised on North 12th Street I believe... All of us were born at St Michael's hospital because, my great aunt was head nurse on the maternity ward! One of my best friends was from Newark. She moved out moved back because, she brought a Brownstone on James Street around the corner from the museum! Hoping that more people would have follow her lead however, it never did flourish! The abandoned buildings why no one does anything about them... correct me if I'm wrong, I read that it would be extremely expensive to demolish the beautiful abandoned buildings! I was raised on the border of Elizabeth and Newark! We were poor however, thank goodness for that light that shined so bright so high in the sky... The one that lit our living room at night!
The smell of fresh brewing beer and that eagle that never flew! ✌️✌️🤟🤟
lol, I grew up very close to that Eagle myself. I lived in the Dayton Street Projects or known formally as Kretchmer Homes.
Hi ! You were probably smelling the Budweiser plant ! I'm 75 and I grew up in Down Neck Newark . I had the Ballantine Brewery 2 blocks away on Ferry St. What an aroma!😂😮 Building's still there and so am I 😂😂❤
@@LS-ti1rz I know it well!🤗🤗
@Downecker Balentine beer, that's the museum! It was Budwiser!!🤗
@@LS-ti1rz I had friends that lived there. At Dayton Street Projects.
Newark is No Man's Land now. Thanks for video.
Thanks for a nice glimpse into America during the 1920s. It makes me think about my family, including Mom who was born in 1926 and still with us.
And between the 50's and 60's it became one of the most dangerous cities in Jersey and still is. It is sad. You can still tell it was once a great place if you notice the old grande buildings and even in its neighborhoods the multi family homes we see were once big one family houses.
Ummm ...no it's not. Lived here for 38 yrs your full of poop. Probably racist too.
remarkable footage
It's hard to believe that in less than 100 years we went from that, to now..
3:53 Is this the house located on Broad street by the overpass near Broad Street train station?
Yes it is... I See it everyday waiting on my train to work.
@@TheAboriginalwoman Apparently, it's called the Plume House built in 1710, became a Rectory in 1850 where some guy Rev Hannibal Goodwin invented film there.
Awesome video
Now you smell straight milds and incense downtown
ImTymerz and loosies and piss
ImTymerz and Muslim oil
😂
Crackheads and feens askin for a ZAAAllaaaa
All my Newark heads
Everytime I think of newark, NJ I am reminded of a guy sprawled out on the side walk ...I thought he was dead but he was just ODing, the paramedics came, it was midday...very sad. Newark is a very sick city.
I had an old geography book and in it was a photograph of the four corners at Broad and Market street .It looked like the same period this film was shot. The caption under the photo read " Intersection of Broad and Market Street , one of the busiest intersections in the world". True story.
WOW HOW BEAUTIFUL WAS NEWARK, AND SO...ROMANTIC.
🤩🤩🤩Incredible. Thanks.
Love my City!
Very fascinating. Thank you so much for this
It's still the largest city in NJ
I look at these old film clips of the street scenes and see opportunities for then-modern subways that are now lost. Also a lost clean, vibrant, prosperous city. Decisions made by government, cultural and business elites forced our parents and grandparents' generations into compulsory automobility and destroyed cities such as this, utterly.
Now it's a disaster where you'll risk your life walking around.
aint that sad this world gets more evil as i get older 1972
No it's not
You right lol I got my car stolen from there 😂
@@edsmith3461-z7m yes the fuck it is a shithole
@@kbernieshoW Cars get stolen in every city and town.
Honestly how does the largest city in nj, become soo completely unrecognizable?? N I wonder y this didn’t show that mansion that the city couldn’t or wanted to preserve??
I wanna see the houses
Wow Newark was a hustle and bustle town back in the day
Still is
@@ttuck9011 oh hell yeah born and raised in Newark, worked there over 28 years, still there love Newark!
Still is
When the mass migration from the south took place to cities like Chicago Detroit and New York, conductors would call out “Newark” and many of the people thought they were saying New York and would leave the train. The first broadcast radio station, WOR, was located in Bambergers Dept Store
Our family business was located throughout Newark, until relocating to Linden.
Before Newark was burnt down
Gibberish
Before Newark became non-white. Newark is Americas
future.
@@edmills5773 Blacks have always lived in Newark you stupid racist. Good thing America's future is not red states, the poorest of the poor.
@@edmills5773 before Newark became a city that helps fund America.
@@edmills5773 i agree. The neigborhood i lived was nice and clean 30 years ago, and it was majority white. Right now majority black and it looks like the south side of chicago.
No golf in newark now wonder where is would be at today if it was still in newark today in 2021
I believe there is, same as the video, Weequahic Golf Course is just west of Newark Airport on Route 22.
Golf course is still there.for sure.
I am doing a documentary on Newark, can I have your permission to use footage from this film? I will give you credit for the footage.
@Janet Rodriguez 🖕
Hey, fuck you.
I’m sure all this footage is public domain.
Can I be in your documentary?
The mysterydecoder. Hope you are doing good and staying safe with this covid?
Unfortunately in just 40 year's after this film The only thing left is the library and museum, the rest is a hell hole
My god, what the hell happened to present-day newark.
Corruption 🤦🏿♂️
joggers
Democrats
@Grace O'Malley spot on, i work in newark and i think 90% of the city is a complete dump culturally and economically.
@Grace O'Malley yeah, but what caused the redlining?
The camera that was use for this footage was old and outdated, even for 1926. That's the same year sound and corrected speed video was introduced.
This video is filmed in real time.
I don't wish to go back in time. I want to live in a future that I can feel proud of
We all seem to miss the 'good times' eg. Jersey in the 80's and 90's but better times are coming...It will be more like the Jersey pinelands and clean and beautiful when God's Kingdom by His Son is in charge! Better days are coming 👍
I wish to have a city that isn't drug infested, dirty, crime ridden and poverty stricken.
Beautiful scenic NEWARK NJ
It’s a nightmare today.
When the buildings that was there from the time and the present witness everything
Thanks for not adding music.
MUSEUM LIBRARY AND CITY HALL LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME. WOW THIS IS BEAUTIFUL.... AND I WAS JUST THERE AT THE MUSEUM THIS PASSED WEDS.... I LIVE OFF SPRINGFIELD AVE STILL TODAY.
I know exactly where all of these are. Some look the same just updated
My people from Newark say “HERE!!”
Here
How did they dedicate the school in 1934 if recording was made in 1927?
I believe it said 1924.
It still gets like this.
looks like a very safe place to walk around, not any more
100 YEARS AGO THE WATER AND AIR IS SO FRESH AND CLEAN, LESS POLLUTION, MUST BE VERY BEAUTIFUL. ALSO LOTS OF CONSTRUCTION JOBS FOR PEOPLE FROM THE NEW LAND, THAT LIFE IN THE BIG CITY.
The area has been destroyed
Just cant put my finger on who or what caused it.
Cheers
the joggers and spans.
Lol. I’ll give you three guesses.
Goverment, Racisim, crack, and cocaine was the problem!
@@jermainehargrove7686 yeah, because joggers and spans make wonderful neighbors.
Is so sad. Such prosperous places get destroyed with that their historical places and architecture. Is a really scary place now. 😔
As an Uber driver I hated going into Newark. Jesus what a dump. Except for the Ironbound. Jesus what a dump 😖
I was born in Newark New Jersey...
Me too. Beth Israel kid!✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
and then flighted out of there as soon as possible.
Darius G Lyons & Osborne... “73”...
Me 2@ st michaels hospital.
Me too 🤷🏻♀️ north ward
Wow you don't see 1 person who isn't white. I lived in Newark for 7 years and though it was bad I loved it. Living in places like Newark makes you a stronger person. But got out to give my family a better life than what I had. Sad to see how people depict it to be the black man's fault. Us blacks and Hispanics need to start caring more about each other and 1 day we will overcome all the evil thrown at us.
There will never be a *black and brown* coalition! They're too busy trying to be YTE🤷🏽
It’s totally your fault.
Newark City Hall looks the same.
What I especially like about the old videos it is that everyone (even many females) smokes like hell. Watching old movies from 1930s-1950s it seemed that a person smoked 3 packs of cigarettes per day.
When it wasno rats and raccoons and dope fenes and loosy cigarette selling or running the streets
Compare Hiroshima to Newark and the lesson becomes clear: if you want to permanently destroy a city, joggers are a more effective weapon of mass destruction than an atomic bomb.
especially when the joggers go into construction sites to, you know, "look around".
Joggers thats funny.
What are joggers
@@d3_2009 13/56
@@d3_2009 it's a nice way to say the n word.
Am looking for the traffic 👀
WOW!! My Moms was just baby in 1927 R.I.P mourn you till I join you
“Finally a worthy opponent our battle shall be legendary”
- Tai lung
Nice and clean????
Came here for history, didn't expect the racism. It's very sad that in 2017 people are unaware of systemic racism and the consequences it has had on our society. We live in a world with a lot more people than in 1926, and many of them haven't had the generational opportunities to build wealth. Newark is making a come-back, and generations of hatred will be but another bad memory in history.
@@huh-by2lr OK David duke calm your mutt ass down
@@huh-by2lr You are just as oblivious and ignorant as most of the people in Newark. Blacks didn't destroy Newark. Problems caused by White America destroyed Newark. Now I'm not saying they didn't have their part in this but let's keep it real and call a spade a spade (no pun intended). We are ALL to blame for how messed up our country is. Everyone's gotta do their part if they want things to change. And if the powers that be keep making us separate classes and making the rich richer and the poor poorer then I think things are just about ripe for a true revolution. Maybe a revolution of the mind but a revolution nonetheless. And blacks need to take their own responsibility for certain things. Can't blame EVERYTHING on the white man. There are a lot of poor white people in this country that are poorer than the people of Newark. Are they to blame? No. They're just as much victims (in a different way of course) of a system that has failed us. But I think whites have to take just a little bit more responsibility because it's easier being White and poor than a minority and poor. Again... Let's be real. And most White people I meet on a daily basis are unintentionally racist. They would never think in a million years that they're racist but don't realize their whole thought process makes them racist without even knowing and they have to own that and start reflecting. But like I said most of the take away here is that this is more a class issue than race issue. Cooler heads will prevail. And if they don't... Well... The revolution will not be UA-camd...
Comeback my ass! It's a freakin' combat zone! I live on the North Newark/Bloomfield border!
@@JohnDoe-cd6ro its not about color man. Its about good and evil.
i love how people will say systemic racism but there was a black president! in my opinion obama "screwed it up" for black people. If he could do it, then why couldn't any other black person become POTUS? I love how some people love being a victim, because if it's someone else's fault then the lazy good for nothing person doesn't have to accept responsibility for their crappy decisions in life.
It's called hard work! I can't stop going to work and b/c I am white my mortgage will be paid for me! If I can't pay my mortgage my white butt will be thrown out of my house. Work is not a black or a white thing.
At 15:52 second guy from the left playing banjo on his racket.
Good transportation scenes.
How is this even possible?
This is what the founders intended for America. Not diversity.
It looks the exact same 100 years later
It's crazy to imagine that every single person in this is dead.
There are people still alive in there 90s.. so not everyone.. still got a few with us 🤞🏾
I know someone who is turning 107
@@Isvvxfacts
Newark was nice
Wow gives me goose bumps,born and raised in Summer Ave between 4th ave and Bloomfield Ave.
Pride is what I feel when I see this .Wow this is history we need to remember what life was before us and where we should be striving for again. In
2021
Yup that was Newark...until 1 bad apple just ruined the whole orchard...and yes they love it now...it's a toilet
City hall lowkey still look the same
Too bad this only show the down town area. Priceless
Wow it looks so similar
Lia. Hope you are doing good and staying safe with this covid?
My mother born here in 1928
Wow so white and clean.
🤮🤢
This was back when Newark and New Jersey people were nice.
*white
So sad to see how run down Newark is today! Smh disgraceful.
Damn Broad and Central almost looks the same, Broad and Market with the exception of no N1664 s lol
When WS is glorified and the "lose cigarettes" ppl are the blame for the down fall of a entire city... What happened to the companies that withdrew the jobs and economy from Newark because it was becoming "too blk"... Look at Camden as well...
Yeah, they don't know no better 🤷🏽👍🏽
Newark is basically a tropical island now