What’s craziest to me is the lack of traffic lights, or even lines in the road, every intersection was just a complete free for all, people just walked across whenever they felt like it, and the cars somehow managed to stay orderly for the most part.
This is still the case in many developing countries in the world. People cross the street whenever they feel like it, there is no road markings, and intersections are still a complete free for all.
This is amazing. Just think that someone back then decide “we need to drive around New York and just film everything. In 80 years people are gonna want to see what life was like then.” Such awesome footage. Thank you so much for sharing.
Feels like I time traveled for a brief minute. Great work! Crazy to see how many people just went out infront of cars or stood in the middle of the street lol
Great job with the editing! My father just passed away on 12/29/21 at 96. He was about 20 when this was filmed. Served in WWII from 18-20 years old. The war ended in Sept. 1945 so this could have been filmed around that time. Amazing footage. It's like a time capsule.
WWII ended August 12, 1945 with the surrender of Japan. I was 9 years old. No cars or car parts had been produced since 1942 and gasoline was rationed. We could play games in the street.
I thought time machines are impossible? Thank you! Reminded me of my younger years. I am 96 years old as of 2023 and I am just so happy seeing this again as it was before. Still going strong! ♥️♥️
This is literally the closest thing we can experience to time travel...it's the closest thing we can get to experience that time in history..it's a real look into daily life , there's no other way for us to experience that other than traveling back in time ,which the great professor Brian Cox said is impossible, but time traveling forward in time is technically possible.
@@seveirin He's referring to Black people living in America today. The notion of some people in America is that racism isn't there but used to be, but with the whole George Floyd incident, it's quite evident that there is. So basically he's saying that based on that notion, people who aren't white have already travelled back in time.
I dont know if this is crazy but I always have to give it a second thought to actually think that life in those years wasnt in black and white and everything was just as colourful and brightness as is on these days. And these video is just madness, I love it
The traffic lights are there but they are on the sidewalk. Not sure when the hanging over the street traffic lights were introduced but my guess is the 50's
That wouldn't be entirely accurate, by that time film was well established. These people lived lives more similar to our own than the lives of people living in 1905.
Not only do I respect the person/ people that took the time to redo this, I completely respect the person/ people that knew we would appreciate the historical aspect of this moment in time later.
@Kurt T comparing with what?.... Nothing..... USA cannot be compared with any country in this world..... Everything in major is lost, affected and sacrificed when compared to any other country in this world..... That's what I think.... That's how I think.... And that's what the reality is..... Don't believe?.... Open the records... Everything will be in front of the eyes of the people....
This is so amazing. I was born in 1949 but had no family to teach me about life back then. I do remember a lot. Buildings were built to last forever. Most never change. Thank you so much for sharing and giving me a connection to my past.
@@MajinJustin872 You said "too politcally correct". Racism(segregation) and Sexism are inherently political. It shouldn't be but it is. Any person that can grasp nuance will understand how that relates lmfao
My great grandpa passed last year at 94 years old. He was born in 1926. Crazy to think he would have been 19 years old when this footage was taken. I imagine how surreal it must have felt to watch the world change as much as it did during his life and always wonder if my generation will experience the same thing in the coming decades.
i'm sorry that he had gone already, but i'm sure it was an amazing experience - living in different times throughout the entire "life on earth" experience It must be crazy to realize that years after...
Idk how old u are but ur generation should...I was born 91 and 90s babies and older seen the rise of technology and the digital era from the 90s to the 00s, 9/11, "first black president", covid, the breach of the capital, a couple of wars, the golden era to the fall of hip hop, gay & trans go from bein the jokes on tv to canceling movement, etc
As some born in 91, I've seen some change buuuuut I think until something new comes out, nothing will majorly change like analog to digital technology for example. The most we'll see is aesthetics and smaller tech. Unless we go apocalypse mode, and everyone will be wearing bits of tires and metal spikes in 20 years. So either way, we're going to do a Star Trek.
I think, if anything, perhaps a gradual change over time may not seem as impactful or like an “overnight” change. I’m 28 years old and in my lifetime we’ve gone from dialup internet that took minutes to load a single webpage with just text to having a supercomputer beyond my wildest childhood imagination in the space of 20 years. It’s not really something you think about though. And it doesn’t feel surreal to me now.
It’s so weird watching this knowing 99.99% of these people have lived their lives and passed on. I don’t know why that hit me when I was watching this. Amazing footage,like a time warp and it was just 76 years ago.
@@paulmichael5203 The word "video" wasn't a thing either.. ;) This was shot on FILM, not video. Video hadn't even been invented yet. It was invented in the 1950s and even then the machine definitely wouldn't have fit in a car! On-location video shooting didn't really become a thing until the early 1980s.
Until you realize that world War 2 was still going on at the time, so there were millions of people about to die in an American-launched nuclear attack on Japan very shortly after this video
One of my biggest daydreams would be to travel back in time, long before I was born just to walk around my childhood house/neighborhood and see how it developed throughout the years.
Seeing the past is insane, I was born in the 80's. But this wasn't that far back and seeing how technology evolved in every aspect, makes it scary but in a good way.
@@Ben-lu7kn I was thinking the same thing! I was born in '82 and I am further from my birth than my birth from this video. It seems so bizarre how different that world was than it is now considering the relative short span of time that separates us from it.
So was I and some of the 1950's cars still was on the roads by the time I came into the world and this is in Australia. Basically what is happening right now I still see 1980s cars still on the roads now.
Totally agree, was like as soon as electricity was harnessed, tech started to take off. Compare now to 2000, not huge difference on the surface but tons of low key differences, mostly due to internet.
@@curated3708 less focus on the family unit, self accountability and responsibility, rampant drug use, music and media that promote ghetto culture, less assimilation, pockets of different cultures and values instead of a shared homogenous culture, and the acceptance of government being your care taker instead of yourself
What amazes me is how few traffic lights there are, and if you compare this footage from footage recorded 30 years earlier it has a great deal more in common with that than footage shot in the 70s. Still very much-so organized chaos. Such a cool video!
@@TheLordIsMyShepherd75 Yeah, I know that. It's just cool seeing it at a time when it was still in the early stages of development. Like the rest of the stuff in this video, I suppose.
it's also so weird that when this video was recorded i wasn't alive. there was no me. even my father wasn't alive. and also it's so weird that 50 years later i will be dead and the world will not remember me. im no one and im nothing to this world.. when i was a kid i thought i was gonna live forever and i thought i was gonna die hundreds of years later. but im only gonna be here for a short time.. it's just so weird. why didn't i born in the afterlife i mean why didn't i born in the eternal life? why did i have to be born in a life where i will die in less than 100 years..
@@maskedbodybuilder4020 I agree to you. From time to time I listen to lectures of Alan Watts. It helps me find ansers to my questions. ua-cam.com/video/zN7igWVwwrY/v-deo.html
@@maskedbodybuilder4020 Just study islam for one time ... just for one time ... we Muslims consider this life as a temporary life (which it is actually) .. we believe in afterlife which is eternal and permanent.. your whole confusion will get clear .. if you are so much curious about this short life then please brother just study islam at least once in your short life
It’s crazy when you think about it, how modern 1945 looks when the fps is adjusted and color is added. Plus my grandma was 3 years old and this is what see seen which really blows my mind lol.
@Awawawa CM yeah quite possibly,i just never expected anything to be nice at all back then,I think I am conditioned to just see the past as poor and undeveloped because thats how we think of the past in ireland.
My grandmother was born in 1938 in Harlem. It's amazing to be able to see with my own eyes walking to work with my great grandfather and grandfather! Thank you for this experience! I often ask her how it feels to see the world change this much in her lifetime and she always says baby it's feels better than not being able to see it I suppose. They don't make them like her anymore!
Yeah, especially if you get to watch this on a big tv. I finally was able to get a 65 inch 4K tv and these clips are blowing my mind, it’s so immersive it’s like the closest thing we have to a time machine. It made me think that maybe it might be a good idea for a little break from todays world to sometimes take a full day of just watching and living in these past times, immerse yourself for a longer period and just sorta live there for a while. Make some coffee and pretend your drinking it back in the 40s or 30s, heck there was a great clip from the 1890s Paris that had been further improved and is now also more immersive. I feel so calm watching these, such a nice escape
Sorry but you wouldn't feel nostalgic for something you haven't experienced. It might be inspiring or interesting but you wouldn't feel nostalgic for it. That's just not how it works.
@@GeeksGets nostalgia is a tricky thing, someone can feel nostalgic if they didn’t experience it, just because their surroundings had a lot of people feeling nostalgic or they were surrounded by very old things, movies, books etc.
If you have ears to hear, hear and understand you are probably one of GODS lost sheep that needs to be found there is this hole in your heart and you tried many times and many things and many ways to fill it and still are but it’s not working and it keeps getting bigger and bigger you would be around multiple people and still feel lonely and work so hard to take those bad thoughts away etc but let me tell you JESUS is the one who can fill that whole in your heart JESUS is that missing piece you’ve been looking for, that peace that’s never ending that true love and joy and happiness it’s in JESUS not of this world but of the kingdom of heaven and if you want to accept him in your heart all you have to do is believe in the gospel A-admit that you’re a sinner and that you need forgiveness, B-Believe that JESUS CHRIST died for your sins and rose again, and C-Confess your faith in JESUS CHRIST and his lordship over your life and you will be saved and this amazing feeling is not a drug it won’t last a couple hours but forever eternally bc it is not of this world but of GOD who sits on the throne of heaven forever and ever HALLELUJAH ❤️😇✝️
I notice ther was only a single painted line to separate uptown to downtown and east to west. Nowadays there are single and double lines to separate and prevent U turns Driving is much easier to do. By the way the 5th Ave Coach Company had light yellow roof and dark green below the windows. I should know, Iam a New Yorker.
The surreal thing to me is looking at immersive footage like this, and thinking about all the things (great and small) that haven’t happened yet. There’s an innocent quality, but also a calm before the storm quality, to it.
this sound is horrible tho, nothing matches. I think person who made this, should put more effort into making the sounds. like adding proper car engine sounds and people talking on background, but instead he just took some random "city sounds" and put those on background.
After looking at the footage from 1911, it’s crazy to think in just the span of just over 20 years how much the city has changed. The streets are more bustling, and the roads are now filled with cars instead of carriages.
It would be amazing to do a side by side comparison between the footage back then and footage from modern day New York, just to see how much it’s changed.
@Boyitellyouhwhat why depressing....? life is better? everyone is more likely to live longer, breath in less smog, less likely to die in a car crash, less likely to be run over by a car, less likely to be killed by police or another thug. I would think living now is 999999x better.
It’s so strange to think people of that time would be so astounded to see how far we’ve come and we also feel so exhilarated looking back from where we started.
@@qdakid7776 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA. no honey. riots over a scumbag who died from a fentanyl overdose, freedoms taken away from a select group of people, science becoming a religious dogma, censorship which every oppressive regime in the past has done i.e. THE NAZIS, a declining economy going toward a recession. those gas prices really must feel worth it for "cleaner" air. the air is cleaner just as much as how "green" electric cars are. ever seen a lithium mine? one side has control over the media, entertainment, the fucking government and it is literally a sin to question them. yall are no better than christians who don't question the bible. worse even. you all literally became the nazis youve been calling the right for years. fun fact: when trump first won the left said it was a "threat to democracy" and that there was "russian collusion" which still hasn't been proven by a side who has control over the media, entertainment, and government. kinda fuckin funny aint it boy?
Interesting feeling of reality since you know it is not a Hollywood film with actors but 1945 reality with real people. This was really a time travel, thanks!
At this rate we might actually have one by the time we get life figured out. I mean hell everything is science, and it keeps getting closer and closer. We know energy exists as waves in the world, we have machines that can read people's brains and shit. There's a device that can recognize 100 different words just by thought.
@@skahler If time machine exist in future it already exist now and even past too . Time machine is nearly impossible I mean you have to reverse engineer the entire universe back . And If it exist why would a time travel travel to this point of history , Our tech would be like stone age for him . & If time travel has changed the past events , It's already done . We are just mere audience inside it we won't even feel it .
This is truely incredible. To be able to see what New York City looked like more that 70 years ago, with images close to what we see today is remarkable.
First and foremost, R.I.P. to all the adults in this video. Anyone 18 in this videos would be 94 years old today and if they are still living that’s great, but to those who aren’t, hope you had a good life!
@@legogeneralgrievous4218 Without this generations hardships, it wouldn’t be an internet. Also, didn’t know you needed the internet for a nationwide custom of wishing peace In rest.
@@TTGTanner Also, no one can hear me, this is a comment. Anyone else that wishes to respond to me with a witty remark, make sure it doesn’t sound like you “had a few” agreed?
Imagine she happens to be in this footage somewhere in the background without you realizing it. Makes you wonder where she was the exact moment this was being film
it’s amazing how much prettier things were before neon signs and ads in every window. this honestly looks like a much more inviting place just because of the simplicity
True. This was when capitalism was still an objective benefit to society and hadn't turned people into materialist, consumerist droids whose main understanding of reality is based on the advertisements fed to them by big business.
I love the signage they had back then; it was all hand-painted. And those old buildings, man. Adelaide still has a lot of old buildings like those, and it's interesting to see how much architecture evolves as new buildings arise.
I dont think I'll ever be able to comprehend that this is really what the world looked like. There was a time when this was new. God I wish I couldve seen it...
Me too, I am 55yo and this kind of footage is wonderful as it helps me to comprehend what life was like then. I am in Ireland, three of my aunts would have been in New York for 30yrs & 24yrs by that time, and many emigrated in 1940's and 50's from my area. I often try to think just how much in awe they must have been with that great city and country, having come from poverty and a bleak land.
@@jimbanda well, at least youre a bit closer to then, I'm only 18 and not much has changed since I was born. Back then every decade seemed to have a particular feel but my whole life has been one continuous blah that has only gotten more pronounced every year...
@@sterlinsilver I'm 33 and got to see technology evolve from the 90s to current. Massive advancement in the last 20 years. But I do prefer simpler times and less social media.
@@CosmicLogic-ts5vr and notice how incredibly slow they're going. It's almost like they acknowledge the city is huge with tons of people roaming the streets...
This is just classy, every second of vid. Clean streets, little to no ads, less noise and light pollution, properly dressed ladies and gentlemen. Also vintage store signs look great on buildings. I may sound like one of these “grass was greener” but screw it, vid shows it all. And whole street looks neat, nothing out of place, nothing screams at you and distract, but there is a beauty in such modesty. Amazing quality and operator work, also great job on restoring it to color. Always a pleasure watching your videos, keep it up!
Listen to old recordings and people also spoke more clearly. Presidential speeches are night and day compared to our times. The common everyman off the street too was also lightyears more articulate than we are despite drastically less formal education back then. Look into bibliographic records and the vocabulary of our books is becoming less complex. We are barbarians living in the ashes of a superior civilization.
"""Diversity is a strength""" I ain't a supremacist, but to achieve this again society will have to be homogeneous. (Religion,Race,Culture) There is simply too much of a difference between white & brown, the best solution is to exchange population. Trying to "fix" or change the differences will require one side to destroy themselves.
@@MapleMan1984 WIthout humans, there would be no buildings, law, technology, etc. People create their own environments. People also differ from each other, and they create different environments, and when migrants are brought in, the migrants create their own environments too, and the natives are eventually rendered homeless.
The cars were much slower than now and there were already quite tall buildings. Beautiful video. Congratulations to the one who did the work of remastering it.
Those cars look like they're going the same speed as they would today in NY. The only difference I see in the video is the street looks damn near perfect
Time goes by quick, as you get older you start to see how quick time progresses. That's why our elders always say we gotta value every part of our lives because we humans truly dont live long.
Would be interesting to drive down the same street today and record it and have a split screen comparison video. The flat glass on the windshields really causes some sun glare.
@@stephaniegil6027 Hahaha. True. I noticed that too. I wonder when traffic lights became a thing. I didn't notice any stop signs or cross-walks either.
Wonderful video, just at the edge of my memories of life back then 😊. I found that a playback speed of 1.5X normal gives a better rendition of people walking, cars driving, etc. Worth a 👍.
@Lèmon Lēe if you think about it those roads in that video are much safer than today's roads in New York because even though there aren't any traffic lights or crosswalks there used to be much less cars on the road and the people who drove a car were very experienced and careful when driving and their cars weren't as fast as cars today. Also all those cars used to have manual transmission which meant that it was more complicated to drive a car and only the skilled drivers would get a license.
this is wonderful to see. the remastering is insane...traffic and pedestrian flow reminds me of my time in bangalore and uganda in just this past decade.
@@lioness5838 As an Italian I can say that it doesn't even matter if traffic is slow or fast. When you feel like crossing the street, you do it and there you are ahahah
So much to unpack here. At 1:14 you can see a sign for Horn and Hardart’s Automat. I have fond memories of the Automat. I ate there as a child in the 1960s with my family. The food was delicious. I also remember Nedicks, they sold hot dogs and orange juice for a quick bite to eat. I think they just had a counter, no seating. Another Automat at 4:11. At 4:12 the original Penn Station which sadly was demolished in 1963 to build Madison Square Garden, comes into view on the left. The Farley Post Office building is on the right. It was the main NYC post office. The building still stands and part of it has been converted to the recently opened Penn Station head house which opened in January 2021 as the Moynihan Train Hall.
If you have ears to hear, hear and understand you are probably one of GODS lost sheep that needs to be found there is this hole in your heart and you tried many times and many things and many ways to fill it and still are but it’s not working and it keeps getting bigger and bigger you would be around multiple people and still feel lonely and work so hard to take those bad thoughts away etc but let me tell you JESUS is the one who can fill that whole in your heart JESUS is that missing piece you’ve been looking for, that peace that’s never ending that true love and joy and happiness it’s in JESUS not of this world but of the kingdom of heaven and if you want to accept him in your heart all you have to do is believe in the gospel A-admit that you’re a sinner and that you need forgiveness, B-Believe that JESUS CHRIST died for your sins and rose again, and C-Confess your faith in JESUS CHRIST and his lordship over your life and you will be saved and this amazing feeling is not a drug it won’t last a couple hours but forever eternally bc it is not of this world but of GOD who sits on the throne of heaven forever and ever HALLELUJAH ❤️😇✝️
The 'ice skating' signs you see in the beginning on the right... That's the original Madison Square Garden! Also it ends where the current MSG is not yet built. Also, anyone from NY knows you can't drive in that direction down 8th Ave anymore. Thank you so much for posting this. So fun to watch!
@@funkotron9198 theatre's got a movie from November of '44 playing...then again...not sure how long they kept films playing at theaters back then so possibly. Also, the op is a little bit of a joke, we see people for like 4 seconds a piece. That doesn't prove anything about their temperament, the constant honking however...that's another story. They're new yorkers. No matter the decade, more than a minute with one will show what they really are.
![A Day in New York 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/IjwyUAtACTI/mqdefault.jpg)
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Would you like to visit the 1945? Which city would you like to visit?
Memphis
Amazing video
b e r l i n
@@TigroBall 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hiroshima and nagasaki 🤯
What’s craziest to me is the lack of traffic lights, or even lines in the road, every intersection was just a complete free for all, people just walked across whenever they felt like it, and the cars somehow managed to stay orderly for the most part.
This! ☝️
This is still the case in many developing countries in the world. People cross the street whenever they feel like it, there is no road markings, and intersections are still a complete free for all.
for realll
It's the same in London at that time too, and loads of other cities in the world, because of how slow vehicles were.
@@metal6948 because they couldn’t
This is amazing. Just think that someone back then decide “we need to drive around New York and just film everything. In 80 years people are gonna want to see what life was like then.” Such awesome footage. Thank you so much for sharing.
@@Farlayy shut up thanks have a nice day.
LONG LIVE THE GYPSY KING TYSON FURY!!!!!!!!!
@@Farlayy LMAO YOU GOT HIS ASS
@@ezicarus8216 Is your brain malfunctioning or is this a joke?
@@xylonbanda ...it's obviously a joke
Feels like I time traveled for a brief minute. Great work! Crazy to see how many people just went out infront of cars or stood in the middle of the street lol
Thats new york today lol
You don't visit Manhattan much do you? It's like that everyday here. Lol
I just did it about 15 minutes ago
AAYYY! I'M WALKIN HERE!
The street used to be the domain of people, and horse carriages. The automobile industry took it over. sad!
Great job with the editing! My father just passed away on 12/29/21 at 96. He was about 20 when this was filmed. Served in WWII from 18-20 years old. The war ended in Sept. 1945 so this could have been filmed around that time. Amazing footage. It's like a time capsule.
My respect for your father,for his service and remembering also those who fell,who didnt return
Jeff C Respect For Your Father For His Service To This Great Nation!!!!!!!!!
@@SebastianGuevara-jl2ot Thank you!
WWII ended August 12, 1945 with the surrender of Japan. I was 9 years old. No cars or car parts had been produced since 1942 and gasoline was rationed. We could play games in the street.
My dad born on 1920
This is incredible.
Waiting for the version with the dinosaurs.
Lol
@@FaisalKhan-yt5on X2
They say there are dinosaurs in Africa
@@elias7748 who says that? do you mean mokele-mbembe?
haha
Props to the guy who went back in time to record this crisp footage
Agreed. Interesting that the footage returned intact, but he decided to stay.
Can somebody go back in time to the medieval and capture some footage of the life and scenes? Much appreciated.
Rrrrr
@@stevejoshua9536 steve rogers recorded this?
Facts
I don’t think we all understand just how incredible this is.
I know what you mean. I can't believe NYC was so clean and no trash back then.
@@moisesrodriguez9007 thats not what he means
Back in those days people got along real well hamburgers used to be $0.05 in the 1940s.
Did you catch the couple fvcking in the window on the right hand side at 3:34
Imagine how incredible NYC would be in 2145...
I thought time machines are impossible? Thank you! Reminded me of my younger years. I am 96 years old as of 2023 and I am just so happy seeing this again as it was before. Still going strong! ♥️♥️
How u doing? ❤
really? thats crazy that you came on here and commented.
What was your favorite decade?
Hey old man are u still alive ?
@@AnimalsCreatures612 nah bro
This is literally the closest thing we can experience to time travel...it's the closest thing we can get to experience that time in history..it's a real look into daily life , there's no other way for us to experience that other than traveling back in time ,which the great professor Brian Cox said is impossible, but time traveling forward in time is technically possible.
For white people.
@@ankitxettri6398 man shut up.
Especially if u vr it
@@ankitxettri6398 ??
@@seveirin He's referring to Black people living in America today. The notion of some people in America is that racism isn't there but used to be, but with the whole George Floyd incident, it's quite evident that there is. So basically he's saying that based on that notion, people who aren't white have already travelled back in time.
It gives me such a strange feeling of nostalgia and being lost in a world that always evolves
beautiful comment
poetic
Evolving forwards and backwards.
2:40 there’s no way they didn’t get murdered by that bus
Funny seeing people walk around looking up instead of their heads buried in their phones!
I dont know if this is crazy but I always have to give it a second thought to actually think that life in those years wasnt in black and white and everything was just as colourful and brightness as is on these days. And these video is just madness, I love it
same I just cant imagine my grandpa being colored
@@orangotango9231 LMFAO
Colourful? Sure, if you aren't in the military fighting the Axis powers or currently occupying Japan.
@@kassandraofodyssey6475
I mean it just says 1945, doesn't specify. For all we know the war could have been over at this point
That's because your mindset is too deep into medias.
amazing how people managed traffic without lights and pedestrians crossing, the level of cooperation is so cool.
Cooperation? Wow, these rose tinted glasses used to view the past are absurd. Do you realize how horrible the fatality rate was then for pedestrians??
People were more educated is not like nowadays were there is mostly disrespectful people all around
@@MarkEliasGrant those cars has low acceleration and top speed, so, no, low fate rate bro, go study!
@@17xXxOceaNxXx17 Since 1923, the mileage death rate has decreased 92% and now stands at 1.46 deaths per 100 million miles driven.
The traffic lights are there but they are on the sidewalk. Not sure when the hanging over the street traffic lights were introduced but my guess is the 50's
This quality is incredible! None of them could have imagined we'd be watching them like this one day
In the bathroom while pooping 😹
@@quintonhollinger8588 exactly I can agree on that
That wouldn't be entirely accurate, by that time film was well established.
These people lived lives more similar to our own than the lives of people living in 1905.
@@dixonhill1108 I meant (at least in my case) on a smartphone :)
@@Clint7777 dont worry after a 100 years those people will also tells like this only about us
That man looking into the camera didn’t realise he was looking into the future.
That's because he wasn't.
Is that what you're doing when someone takes your picture?
😅😅😅
looking at u
@Night Fights Day No he wasn't, a camera only record in one way. It's not a worm hole.
Not only do I respect the person/ people that took the time to redo this, I completely respect the person/ people that knew we would appreciate the historical aspect of this moment in time later.
Yeah.... Agreed.... Beautiful..... Absolutely right....
@Kurt T comparing with what?.... Nothing..... USA cannot be compared with any country in this world..... Everything in major is lost, affected and sacrificed when compared to any other country in this world..... That's what I think.... That's how I think.... And that's what the reality is..... Don't believe?.... Open the records... Everything will be in front of the eyes of the people....
Giustissimo
This is so amazing. I was born in 1949 but had no family to teach me about life back then. I do remember a lot. Buildings were built to last forever. Most never change. Thank you so much for sharing and giving me a connection to my past.
wow you lived a lot dear woman, what decade was your favorite and do you enjoy this one?
This is the cleanest I've ever seen New York City.
Damn.
Back when they didn't put cocaine and meth in the food.
Less people back then this is pre baby boom
@@alexrichter1362 they actually did, Coca cola had cocaine in it
Not diverse enough imo. Cleanliness is overrated
It would be really cool to record this same path again and place videos side-by-side to see the changes over time
Yes!
Nah. It would be a 2 hour long video cause all the traffic crawls
@@420crim3 nah. One can edit videos.
It would be a lot louder and a lot of taxis and people
all the degenerates now it would be a completely different experience
It’s like a whole new world. Looking at this and then looking at our cities now is just beyond amazing
And depressing.
@@mattguxxxtt9629 yeah now it’s all depressing and everyone’s constantly fighting and becoming too politically correct
the architecture. Now we got lifeless buildings
@Austin Smd no one said that was good tho so idk why ur being sarcastic. U just threw something into the convo that no one mentioned
@@MajinJustin872 You said "too politcally correct". Racism(segregation) and Sexism are inherently political. It shouldn't be but it is. Any person that can grasp nuance will understand how that relates lmfao
I am so thankful for people like you who restores history on film with HD quality. Please keep up the good work, job well done. Thank you.
My great grandpa passed last year at 94 years old. He was born in 1926. Crazy to think he would have been 19 years old when this footage was taken. I imagine how surreal it must have felt to watch the world change as much as it did during his life and always wonder if my generation will experience the same thing in the coming decades.
i'm sorry that he had gone already, but i'm sure it was an amazing experience - living in different times throughout the entire "life on earth" experience
It must be crazy to realize that years after...
Idk how old u are but ur generation should...I was born 91 and 90s babies and older seen the rise of technology and the digital era from the 90s to the 00s, 9/11, "first black president", covid, the breach of the capital, a couple of wars, the golden era to the fall of hip hop, gay & trans go from bein the jokes on tv to canceling movement, etc
I’m just gonna say you cute and sorry to here about ya grandpa🥺❤️
As some born in 91, I've seen some change buuuuut I think until something new comes out, nothing will majorly change like analog to digital technology for example. The most we'll see is aesthetics and smaller tech. Unless we go apocalypse mode, and everyone will be wearing bits of tires and metal spikes in 20 years. So either way, we're going to do a Star Trek.
I think, if anything, perhaps a gradual change over time may not seem as impactful or like an “overnight” change. I’m 28 years old and in my lifetime we’ve gone from dialup internet that took minutes to load a single webpage with just text to having a supercomputer beyond my wildest childhood imagination in the space of 20 years. It’s not really something you think about though. And it doesn’t feel surreal to me now.
It’s so weird watching this knowing 99.99% of these people have lived their lives and passed on. I don’t know why that hit me when I was watching this. Amazing footage,like a time warp and it was just 76 years ago.
is the 0.1% queen elizabeth?
@@bibi6096
Add Rothschild to the list
Makes me think of my dad who passed last year.Wish i could have shared this with him and ask,when he was living there, what it was like.
My grandfather is just 11yrs old that time and now he's going 90 yrs old in a few years.
It hit all of us
All I can think of while watching this is how clean and tidy everything looks.
Before blacks took over
Not the crazy traffic of today
People back then were actually courteous and conscious of their fellow human being.
Edit for all the race baiters who keep tagging me: I DONT CARE.
And that smooth pavement! Nothing like Manhattan streets today.
some comfort can be found that people even then were standing in the middle of roads waiting for traffic to stop for them.
My dad is 93 and came to NYC a few years after the original shooting, so I'm going to let him take a look at it. Amazing. Thank you.
That’s cool
What was his reaction?
Please keep us updated on his reaction.
keep us posted
Keep us posted!
Deepest respect for the person who foresaw that moto-vlogging would be a thing 75+ years in future and recorded this video! 🙏
What a crap way of saying you like the video
More like compensating for shortcomings in other areas by proving they had money, showing everyone their 3.2 acre camera
Moto-Vlogging 😂 more to the point, the person making this video would be upset that this generation uses phrases like that
@@paulmichael5203 The word "video" wasn't a thing either.. ;) This was shot on FILM, not video. Video hadn't even been invented yet. It was invented in the 1950s and even then the machine definitely wouldn't have fit in a car! On-location video shooting didn't really become a thing until the early 1980s.
Time traveler do it
Is it just me or to be able see this era in today's world is a soothing experience that my soul is living.
Until you realize that world War 2 was still going on at the time, so there were millions of people about to die in an American-launched nuclear attack on Japan very shortly after this video
Boom 🤘🏼🥷
@@exosianteatime1517 it's called history. Chill
@@exosianteatime1517 Relativization of the worst kind, no, not everyone fked up, and not all crimes have equal weight
@@MrE_ Well, It was probably over or at the very least a couple of months from ending, and that other shit had already happened
WOW! It's like travelling back in time. Beautifully re-mastered with superb "added" audio. So well done!!
I have a time travel machine check my channel
One of my biggest daydreams would be to travel back in time, long before I was born just to walk around my childhood house/neighborhood and see how it developed throughout the years.
😢💔..
Same. And see my village 100 years ago when people was close to the nature and not in technology
Ur dream is very small then
Such a thing will be possible for future generations with the advent of Google street view
@massi you mean Google Street VR View!?😅👍
Seeing the past is insane, I was born in the 80's. But this wasn't that far back and seeing how technology evolved in every aspect, makes it scary but in a good way.
About the same distance in time between now and when you were born, as there is between 1945 and when you were born
@@Ben-lu7kn I was thinking the same thing! I was born in '82 and I am further from my birth than my birth from this video. It seems so bizarre how different that world was than it is now considering the relative short span of time that separates us from it.
So was I and some of the 1950's cars still was on the roads by the time I came into the world and this is in Australia. Basically what is happening right now I still see 1980s cars still on the roads now.
That means you are about 40 years old now mhmm
Totally agree, was like as soon as electricity was harnessed, tech started to take off. Compare now to 2000, not huge difference on the surface but tons of low key differences, mostly due to internet.
This looks so clean that it actually looks like a movie set from present day.
Holy crap! I thought that exact same thing and as I thought it, I saw your comment lol
@@GeorgeZimmermen Yeah like wtf? Why are people so nasty these days?
There’s definitely still a lot of trash on the sidewalks and sides of the roads if you look. There’s just less cars/people blowing it around.
@@curated3708 less focus on the family unit, self accountability and responsibility, rampant drug use, music and media that promote ghetto culture, less assimilation, pockets of different cultures and values instead of a shared homogenous culture, and the acceptance of government being your care taker instead of yourself
@@GeorgeZimmermen true dat
What amazes me is how few traffic lights there are, and if you compare this footage from footage recorded 30 years earlier it has a great deal more in common with that than footage shot in the 70s. Still very much-so organized chaos. Such a cool video!
That "Basketball" sign at the beginning is a trip. This was filmed the year before the NBA was formed.
Basketball was not formed at the the time as the NBA bro...
@@TheLordIsMyShepherd75 Yeah, I know that. It's just cool seeing it at a time when it was still in the early stages of development. Like the rest of the stuff in this video, I suppose.
@@marks9444 True. Guess it's cool to see how time affects the world we live in.
This is as close to time-travelling that we'll ever get.
it's also so weird that when this video was recorded i wasn't alive. there was no me. even my father wasn't alive. and also it's so weird that 50 years later i will be dead and the world will not remember me. im no one and im nothing to this world.. when i was a kid i thought i was gonna live forever and i thought i was gonna die hundreds of years later. but im only gonna be here for a short time.. it's just so weird. why didn't i born in the afterlife i mean why didn't i born in the eternal life? why did i have to be born in a life where i will die in less than 100 years..
No , this is timetravelling
@@maskedbodybuilder4020 yeah thats what i thought as well
@@maskedbodybuilder4020 I agree to you. From time to time I listen to lectures of Alan Watts. It helps me find ansers to my questions.
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@@maskedbodybuilder4020 Just study islam for one time ... just for one time ...
we Muslims consider this life as a temporary life (which it is actually) ..
we believe in afterlife which is eternal and permanent..
your whole confusion will get clear .. if you are so much curious about this short life then please brother just study islam at least once in your short life
It’s crazy when you think about it, how modern 1945 looks when the fps is adjusted and color is added. Plus my grandma was 3 years old and this is what see seen which really blows my mind lol.
I agree,i think the bad quality of video footage from the past makes our brians assume it looked wprse than it was
@Awawawa CM yeah quite possibly,i just never expected anything to be nice at all back then,I think I am conditioned to just see the past as poor and undeveloped because thats how we think of the past in ireland.
Go outside of new york I guarantee you much of the country and the world were far less developed and modernized
who?
This shows us how humanity arrange everything.
My grandmother was born in 1938 in Harlem. It's amazing to be able to see with my own eyes walking to work with my great grandfather and grandfather! Thank you for this experience! I often ask her how it feels to see the world change this much in her lifetime and she always says baby it's feels better than not being able to see it I suppose. They don't make them like her anymore!
That’s awesome!! Old New York had such a different vibe. Every car looks the same LOL and it’s just a freaking free for all on the streets haha.
Agreed, but the vehicles are travelling slowly.
You could literally sleep on the road and not get run over, that definitely goes to show how different traffic was back then lol
All the cars look the same to a 2021 eye. I think that someone from that time would say the same about today's cars ;)
It was cleaner as well it seems
@@ZephaniahL youve obviously never been to newyork lmaoo
When the footage looks so natural you get a true sense of what it would be like to be there in that era. Fascinating!
It looked like you're being in a time travel looking on it
I hope there is going to emerge ever more of such material. You then can extensively dive into an era, if you're occupying yourself with it.
Truly does..What a trip life is.
Yeah, especially if you get to watch this on a big tv. I finally was able to get a 65 inch 4K tv and these clips are blowing my mind, it’s so immersive it’s like the closest thing we have to a time machine. It made me think that maybe it might be a good idea for a little break from todays world to sometimes take a full day of just watching and living in these past times, immerse yourself for a longer period and just sorta live there for a while. Make some coffee and pretend your drinking it back in the 40s or 30s, heck there was a great clip from the 1890s Paris that had been further improved and is now also more immersive. I feel so calm watching these, such a nice escape
Honestly this footage is rather dull. Any video from the modern age is going to look pretty similar to today
waiting for leonardo dicaprio to just pop out anytime ..
What do you mean by that, sport?
Yum. Those dreamy eyes...
@@smerbothefleeb5699 goof.
@@tinag7506 you mean the aviator?
Titanic lol
After watching the video of 1911 its amazing to think how much changed in only few decades ! I just love these, thank you so much.
You wouldn't know how nostalgic I'd feel if I were to recognize my young grandma walking the street with my kid dad in one of these
Sorry but you wouldn't feel nostalgic for something you haven't experienced. It might be inspiring or interesting but you wouldn't feel nostalgic for it. That's just not how it works.
@@GeeksGets anemoia
@@GeeksGets nostalgia is a tricky thing, someone can feel nostalgic if they didn’t experience it, just because their surroundings had a lot of people feeling nostalgic or they were surrounded by very old things, movies, books etc.
you guys must be fun at parties!
@@dorothyparker8433 thats a really poetic sentence the past making it to the present
Whoever shot this did a good job of keeping their phone steady.
💀💀💀💀haha
lol, only if the phone is like half of the car.
@Neo Anderson Has it ever crossed your mind that they are a time traveler, silly? This is in 1945
Hol up- 😳
Don't be dumb. It's very steady because they used the go-pro with a stabilizing arm.
Thank god he had a dash cam to record this
Lmaoo fr tho my dude was way ahead of his time .
underrated comment
Thank you so much for uploading a wonderful video ! From Japan 🇯🇵
So this is how our grandparents see the world around them when they were young and move freely like us now.
Except we’re not free
@@macjames2361 damn…
Not mine. My grandparents grew up in Germany. Both born 1940.. so… I imagine what they saw was a bit different
@@Kyle3x I'm very sorry to hear that
I hope they did well afterward and still are
@@thedarkapex5327 yeah they are good. Grandpas passed but my oma still living the life on the beach in the US now.
This footage is incredible. Like a trip through time.
Having the film in colour makes the scenery so much more relatable.
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I mean it's all brown and green
I notice ther was only a single painted line to separate uptown to downtown and east to west. Nowadays there are single and double lines to separate and prevent U turns Driving is much easier to do. By the way the 5th Ave Coach Company had light yellow roof and dark green below the windows. I should know, Iam a New Yorker.
Its the smooth 60 fps that makes it alive. It how our eyes see movement in the real world
@@majorbigss1 we don't see in FPS, but if we were to compare... that will be around 360 fps not 60.
This is amazing! Thank you for sharing. It's like a time machine. Feels like a window to the past.
Man this Mafia Remastered ReShade mod is really impressive
yes
Mafia 2021 gameplay
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@@planetofpcgamers2688 lol bru. Promotion 🤣🤣
@@NXB5th yes 😊
Ah yes a man of culture right here.
ah, I see you too are a man of culture.
I've always wanted to go back in time and just stand on a corner watching the world go by. This is pretty close.
If I went back in time and stand on the same corner I probably would have gotten lynched..
yeah. I want go back in 2017 to invest several millions to bitcoin))
@@JIMDOG4442002 LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Hmmm
same my after life forsure
I cant get over how good the quality of the roads are. Driving in the city now is like off roading.
They see me rollin’
It’s because they paved them in 1945 and decided to never do it again lol
@@dylanlac765n6 And I heard that before that, Fred Flinstone was the last guy to pave the roads over.
@@Penguinz072 they hatin
@@dylanlac765n6 The subways in NYC were made in the 1800s. The roads were probably paved in the same area haha.
The little touches you add are brilliant. Especially the way you mix the sound! Your channel has by far the most clear and well colored footage.
Thx Dear ;)
The fact we can capture a moment in time and resee it 100s of years later is just so interesting, makes me feel thankful
imagine peeople watching us in 2080 etc "2021 life"
And to think, many of us only need to access our natural recall...
looks like google is hard at work, not only did they invent a time machine but also mounted a car with a capture camera.
Nah it's amazing.. without the view and feel the past would be only a memory that would fade away.
@@Brucelee89896 2021 New York remastered in brainwave format and added real simulated world you can actually touch
The surreal thing to me is looking at immersive footage like this, and thinking about all the things (great and small) that haven’t happened yet. There’s an innocent quality, but also a calm before the storm quality, to it.
You overused quality
@@thorodinson6649 I actually looked over the grammar of it twice, had doubts, and still worded it wrong. I’m good at doing that.
Before the far left completely ruined everything.
nostalgiatards be like NUUUUU TOO MUCH QUALITY BRING BACK LOW QUALITY
@@TheSoCalledZoner1 quality over quantity
The sound is the most important aspect to me. Without that, it would feel a lot more detached and lifeless.
The sound is just added. It's not original.
well the sound is fake so
@@MDA-DACHORGANISATION still makes it feel more realistic
this sound is horrible tho, nothing matches. I think person who made this, should put more effort into making the sounds. like adding proper car engine sounds and people talking on background, but instead he just took some random "city sounds" and put those on background.
@@SethiozProject bruh you are everywhere, chill
After looking at the footage from 1911, it’s crazy to think in just the span of just over 20 years how much the city has changed. The streets are more bustling, and the roads are now filled with cars instead of carriages.
😢
It would be amazing to do a side by side comparison between the footage back then and footage from modern day New York, just to see how much it’s changed.
@Boyitellyouhwhat Amazing? For sure Depressing? I guess, for some people, boomers more likely, but still amazing.
@Boyitellyouhwhat why depressing....?
life is better? everyone is more likely to live longer, breath in less smog, less likely to die in a car crash, less likely to be run over by a car, less likely to be killed by police or another thug.
I would think living now is 999999x better.
@@MoonLiteNite it’s a shithole now. That’s why. Stop lying to yourself
@@MrSkarbek36 statistically it’s definitely better now, but it’s always been shit
@@MrSkarbek36 youre fun at parties
It’s so strange to think people of that time would be so astounded to see how far we’ve come and we also feel so exhilarated looking back from where we started.
We didn't start from there though?
@HeavenThird America is better now in every way compared to the 1920s
@@qdakid7776 America today is a joke to the whole world
@@qdakid7776 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA. no honey. riots over a scumbag who died from a fentanyl overdose, freedoms taken away from a select group of people, science becoming a religious dogma, censorship which every oppressive regime in the past has done i.e. THE NAZIS, a declining economy going toward a recession. those gas prices really must feel worth it for "cleaner" air. the air is cleaner just as much as how "green" electric cars are. ever seen a lithium mine? one side has control over the media, entertainment, the fucking government and it is literally a sin to question them. yall are no better than christians who don't question the bible. worse even. you all literally became the nazis youve been calling the right for years.
fun fact: when trump first won the left said it was a "threat to democracy" and that there was "russian collusion" which still hasn't been proven by a side who has control over the media, entertainment, and government. kinda fuckin funny aint it boy?
@@qdakid7776 i think the fact that america has had someone like Trump as a freaken president proves how fucked today really is
Interesting feeling of reality since you know it is not a Hollywood film with actors but 1945 reality with real people.
This was really a time travel, thanks!
This is a extended scene from Time Cop.
We really live in a simulation
We get smarter and smarter every decade that it actually concerns me
The old cars from the 40s. Thank you for putting this old scene on UA-cam.
Wow… this is the closest thing we have to a time machine. Incredible.
At this rate we might actually have one by the time we get life figured out. I mean hell everything is science, and it keeps getting closer and closer. We know energy exists as waves in the world, we have machines that can read people's brains and shit. There's a device that can recognize 100 different words just by thought.
@@skahler If time machine exist in future it already exist now and even past too .
Time machine is nearly impossible I mean you have to reverse engineer the entire universe back .
And If it exist why would a time travel travel to this point of history , Our tech would be like stone age for him .
& If time travel has changed the past events , It's already done . We are just mere audience inside it we won't even feel it .
@@MacwinsTV Some tenet shit right there
@@lol-zp1ps I dont know what youre talkling about but I like it
@@lol-zp1ps like McConaughey in interstellar
The first dash cam footage ever! ^_^
All jokes aside, this is incredible! It's like I'm there. It's so clean..
Theres a video thats the same as this but its in 1900
Feels like everybody is walking much more relaxed than they do today.
Not that much advanced technology probably. They had more time to enjoy the finer things
Yeah, expectations today are highassssshsahashshsaadshit
@@Earo16 yes we are aliens now
You were so right for typing "high as shit" like that
World War 2??
This is truely incredible. To be able to see what New York City looked like more that 70 years ago, with images close to what we see today is remarkable.
First and foremost, R.I.P. to all the adults in this video. Anyone 18 in this videos would be 94 years old today and if they are still living that’s great, but to those who aren’t, hope you had a good life!
Idk if ghosts can use the internet
Bro they dead, the cant hear you 😂
@@TTGTanner Is that what I should say to you when you go to your cared ones grave and pray to them?
@@legogeneralgrievous4218 Without this generations hardships, it wouldn’t be an internet. Also, didn’t know you needed the internet for a nationwide custom of wishing peace In rest.
@@TTGTanner Also, no one can hear me, this is a comment. Anyone else that wishes to respond to me with a witty remark, make sure it doesn’t sound like you “had a few” agreed?
I love this. My grandma was 18 and living in NYC at this time.
Imagine she happens to be in this footage somewhere in the background without you realizing it. Makes you wonder where she was the exact moment this was being film
@Alainga that is so cool to think about !
i love how everyone is just staring at the camera
Agreed. It must have been a huge thing and very obvious and conspicuous.
They’ve never seen one before
Fun fact: most of the people in the video are probably dead by now
@@PowerMiner are*
@@joeg5265 cameras weren’t rare back then, that’s just how most people react to being filmed anyways.
Wow this is incredible hats off to a superb job in remastering this !
I love how nobody has the right of way, therefore nobody gets pissed.
@GoldenState look at india's traffic lol. They have no traffic rules. What a dumb country
@@nameless9084 Who hurt you man? lmao
@@vikas lol no one, he's just pointing out the obvious
We really live in a simulation
We get smarter and smarter every decade that it actually concerns me
They also haven't developed cars or roads there, so.
it’s amazing how much prettier things were before neon signs and ads in every window. this honestly looks like a much more inviting place just because of the simplicity
That was well said. The environment looks so calm and carefree.
@@xro1983 actually this was the time when new york was run by the five families. It was hardly calm.
@@KASKhan_ i referring to the calmness of the video. Not the era
True. This was when capitalism was still an objective benefit to society and hadn't turned people into materialist, consumerist droids whose main understanding of reality is based on the advertisements fed to them by big business.
This looks the same as now... Cars everywhere, people everywhere... I'm surprised at that
It amazes me that my Grandma who just turned 90 was 14 during this time.
you should show her this video and tell us what she thinks of it, I wonder how much she remembers
@Big Spill not a he its a she
@Big Spill 🤣🤣🤣
@Big Spill yep
@Big Spill bro are you stupid it isn't "pronoun warriors" the original comment said "grandma" it's not their fault you can't read
Amazing work on this video to you NASS. Brilliant!
I love the signage they had back then; it was all hand-painted.
And those old buildings, man. Adelaide still has a lot of old buildings like those, and it's interesting to see how much architecture evolves as new buildings arise.
Same with Brisbane they love the heritage buildings
@@johnperic6860 glad that people are making efforts to preserve it though
architecture has devolved, not evolved, everything is just rectangles now
@@amvlabs5339 for real. Modern architecture sucks.
@@malluk3065 I mean if you have a roof over your head I don’t think you really need to complain lmao
I dont think I'll ever be able to comprehend that this is really what the world looked like. There was a time when this was new. God I wish I couldve seen it...
Me too, I am 55yo and this kind of footage is wonderful as it helps me to comprehend what life was like then.
I am in Ireland, three of my aunts would have been in New York for 30yrs & 24yrs by that time, and many emigrated in 1940's and 50's from my area. I often try to think just how much in awe they must have been with that great city and country, having come from poverty and a bleak land.
@@jimbanda well, at least youre a bit closer to then, I'm only 18 and not much has changed since I was born. Back then every decade seemed to have a particular feel but my whole life has been one continuous blah that has only gotten more pronounced every year...
Plus I wish tailfins on cars were still a thing. Those were awesome
@@sterlinsilver I'm 33 and got to see technology evolve from the 90s to current. Massive advancement in the last 20 years. But I do prefer simpler times and less social media.
If I could time travel I would do it every day for the rest of my life.
These restorations of older films are AMAZING.
You have provided a great service with these videos. They are amazing!
It's impressive how slower and relaxing most of the people are walking in the video instead of nowadays.
impressive that people actually lived in new york. now it's a jungle with creatures that aren't even human.
It’s actually running a bit slow. Playback at 1.25x looks more realistic.
@@zmajodnocaja5088 such as rats and spiders YIKES
@@zmajodnocaja5088 omg yess and humans who turned into unhuman like creatures....
not a single tree in the city
This is both utterly fascinating, and unsettling (watching HD video from almost 80 years ago) at the same time. Very well done!
Still can't believe that New York has always had bad traffic 😄
Yes but this traffic is more stable and less chaotic.
If you think it's bad, then I can't imagine your reaction seeing the actual bad traffic.
The drivers did a good job. Notice how there is no traffic lights or traffic cops giving directions.
If it wasn’t cars, it was horses
@@CosmicLogic-ts5vr and notice how incredibly slow they're going. It's almost like they acknowledge the city is huge with tons of people roaming the streets...
This is just classy, every second of vid. Clean streets, little to no ads, less noise and light pollution, properly dressed ladies and gentlemen. Also vintage store signs look great on buildings. I may sound like one of these “grass was greener” but screw it, vid shows it all. And whole street looks neat, nothing out of place, nothing screams at you and distract, but there is a beauty in such modesty. Amazing quality and operator work, also great job on restoring it to color. Always a pleasure watching your videos, keep it up!
Listen to old recordings and people also spoke more clearly. Presidential speeches are night and day compared to our times. The common everyman off the street too was also lightyears more articulate than we are despite drastically less formal education back then. Look into bibliographic records and the vocabulary of our books is becoming less complex. We are barbarians living in the ashes of a superior civilization.
"""Diversity is a strength"""
I ain't a supremacist, but to achieve this again society will have to be homogeneous. (Religion,Race,Culture) There is simply too much of a difference between white & brown, the best solution is to exchange population. Trying to "fix" or change the differences will require one side to destroy themselves.
@@MapleMan1984 WIthout humans, there would be no buildings, law, technology, etc. People create their own environments. People also differ from each other, and they create different environments, and when migrants are brought in, the migrants create their own environments too, and the natives are eventually rendered homeless.
The cars were much slower than now and there were already quite tall buildings. Beautiful video. Congratulations to the one who did the work of remastering it.
Those cars look like they're going the same speed as they would today in NY. The only difference I see in the video is the street looks damn near perfect
The people look classy. This was before diversity ruined NYC.
This fills me with a strange sensation, imagine how many things have changed since then.
It's crazy to think that Clint Eastwood was 15 years old at the time, and he's still alive in 2021!!
As Clint is my favourite actor, your comment …”Made my day”. Whah, whah, whahhhhhh
Time goes by quick, as you get older you start to see how quick time progresses. That's why our elders always say we gotta value every part of our lives because we humans truly dont live long.
Not only alive, still acting and directing at 91!
Trump was (- 1) year old
Jimmy Carter was 21 years old at the time and he's still alive in 2021.
This is just awesome! I am so glad that I have seen this and that someone took the time to make it.
Would be interesting to drive down the same street today and record it and have a split screen comparison video. The flat glass on the windshields really causes some sun glare.
They did hat with some of Chicago. It's pretty cool being from here
This is 8th Ave, which today is one-way in the opposite direction. Can’t replicate this from a vehicle, but could approximate it from either sidewalk.
None of these people knew as they passed this camera that for many, the few seconds they spent in frame might be their longest lasting legacy..
Well said!
Wow, that actually sounds like a famous quote... and so true!
I love how people just crossed the street wherever and whenever they felt like it.
they probably had some amendment in the constitution for that......
Did you see any traffic lights? Hence why they crossed like they did.
@@stephaniegil6027 Hahaha. True. I noticed that too. I wonder when traffic lights became a thing. I didn't notice any stop signs or cross-walks either.
People still do that in less developed nations like India, Pakistan, etc
Just like here in thailand
Wonderful video, just at the edge of my memories of life back then 😊. I found that a playback speed of 1.5X normal gives a better rendition of people walking, cars driving, etc. Worth a 👍.
This is absolutely incredible wow. This is the best thing I have ever seen on youtube.
The road is kind of like a free-for-all isn’t it? At least everyone is going very slow
I mean it isn't india's level of ffa, but yeah. The road seems to be divided into right and left lane, but they are both really wide.
@Lèmon Lēe if you think about it those roads in that video are much safer than today's roads in New York because even though there aren't any traffic lights or crosswalks there used to be much less cars on the road and the people who drove a car were very experienced and careful when driving and their cars weren't as fast as cars today. Also all those cars used to have manual transmission which meant that it was more complicated to drive a car and only the skilled drivers would get a license.
Just think 911 wasnt even invented yet...it took something dark for that to happen
Basically how Mumbai (Bombay is) now.
@@kevinsmith5912 definitely took something dark. I wonder what
this is wonderful to see. the remastering is insane...traffic and pedestrian flow reminds me of my time in bangalore and uganda in just this past decade.
Strange reading your comment, i am from bangalore and l also lived in Kampala, 🇺🇬
@@drdre8248 yes I too live in Bangalore and Don't feel the sort that he said.
@@fameloaded3157 must be the bangalore, down under
Azul thank you for these beautiful footage
I really love how smooth the roads were back then
i really want to touch that asphalt in the video
@@11kimczi considering the idea it was sunny it’d probably be burning hot though…
@@catsinwonderland7473There’s no hot weather in NY . High 70s
@@davidl.2011 During the summer it goes way past high 70s
Source: I live here
@@11kimczi I just wanna skate down the roads. I feel like you wouldn’t even have to push 😍😩
it's mind-blowing to realize crosswalks haven't even been invented yet. wow
Really? I as an Indian feels so familiar with it. Crossing when the traffic is slow. Still alive.
As velocidades dos veículos permitiam...
@@lioness5838 As an Italian I can say that it doesn't even matter if traffic is slow or fast. When you feel like crossing the street, you do it and there you are ahahah
There are traffic lights they are on the street corners instead of being overhead.
Bruh traffic lights existed back in the time, look on the street corners.. ^^'
So much to unpack here. At 1:14 you can see a sign for Horn and Hardart’s Automat. I have fond memories of the Automat. I ate there as a child in the 1960s with my family. The food was delicious. I also remember Nedicks, they sold hot dogs and orange juice for a quick bite to eat. I think they just had a counter, no seating. Another Automat at 4:11. At 4:12 the original Penn Station which sadly was demolished in 1963 to build Madison Square Garden, comes into view on the left. The Farley Post Office building is on the right. It was the main NYC post office. The building still stands and part of it has been converted to the recently opened Penn Station head house which opened in January 2021 as the Moynihan Train Hall.
how old are you ?
Is there anything that's still there today?
wow thanks for share
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@MrFattyfatfatboy You’re welcome.
The 'ice skating' signs you see in the beginning on the right... That's the original Madison Square Garden! Also it ends where the current MSG is not yet built. Also, anyone from NY knows you can't drive in that direction down 8th Ave anymore. Thank you so much for posting this. So fun to watch!
Oh my! Looks like Farley on the right!
The street is perfect ,no potholes? Never seen a better pave job
Are you blind? There are definitely potholes
Facts
Salt and plows are what ruin roads. I don't think they had that kind of snow removal infrastructure back in '45
Dam That's True
I thought the same thing
Everyone seems so much more relaxed and easy going.
If this was anytime after September 2, then they would have a very good reason to feel relaxed.
@@funkotron9198 theatre's got a movie from November of '44 playing...then again...not sure how long they kept films playing at theaters back then so possibly. Also, the op is a little bit of a joke, we see people for like 4 seconds a piece. That doesn't prove anything about their temperament, the constant honking however...that's another story. They're new yorkers. No matter the decade, more than a minute with one will show what they really are.
@RaozSkillz And racism and homophobia and...
@RaozSkillz You said technology is the only main evolution that society has had since the 40's.
@RaozSkillz You totally implied that people are worse in today's society
it feels like this video was sent to us from another dimension, given most of the people in this video passed away RIP
If it was 5 hours instead of 5 minutes i would watch every minute of it still , many times over ..thank you for this ..