Boston 1940s in color, Streetcars [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- I colorized , restored and applied face restoration and created a sound design for this video of Boston, Massachusetts 1949, we can see streetcars from the Maverick subway stations to the streets of East Boston and the Suffolk Downs racetrack, cars and stores and people going about their daily lives
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔sound design added only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
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Was the speed of the video decreased by 25% or so? People moving in slow motion it would appear, especially those kids that were trying to make the subway ride before it departed.
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I grew up in East Boston a few blocks from Maverick Station.
My 94 year old Mother would tell us stories of the trolly's riding on Bennington st. when she was a little girl.
Never in a million years did think I would ever see video as this..
This is amazing footage.
THANK YOU..
If you're able, show this to her. I hope she is able to watch it.
@@MelodyAnn1957
She is and I will..
I plan on calling her tomorrow will forward the link then.
Sent it to my brothers, they flipped.
My first memories of downtown Boston are from the mid-1960s. I grew up in Scituate and a trip to the city was a big deal. It was interesting going from a rural (at the time) village to the bustling, loud and smelly city. I am still not comfortable around "city people" as my parents called them. But I live in a small Rhode Island city now and it's the best of both worlds for me. I can go to the country and the city in the same day! Cheers.
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I moved to Los Angeles in 98, career move, spent 22 years in North Hollywood right by Burbank.
My wife and I moved out of the insanity of L.A. in 2018 to a small rural community just under 2 hrs from L.A. called Stallion Springs.
Think Mayberry RFD.
Friendly kin folk, wildlife, and amazing scenery.
(However I'm still looking for Floyd's Barber Shop)
I don't think I could ever go back to cement sidewalks, 3 story brick apartment buildings, and granite curbs..
Whats crazy is that one day we will be telling our grandchildren about Boston and the trains
right off the bat with Maverick Station! and this video has a reason for being filmed: it was within weeks if all streetcar service out of the carhouse shown being stopped due to the changeover to trackless trolleys and the East Boston Tunnel line’s extension northward in a few weeks
Was the opening shot really of Maverick Station?! Crazy! I grew up in East Boston. It’s surreal to think it once looked like that. Be well.
I was only a child in the 50s but what I recall about Boston then was the skyline. The most prominent building was the old Hancock Insurance building which is now dwarfed by 23 taller buildings. Also, the Cities Service sign in Kenmore Square which was green. Some of those old trollies were still used on the red line branch out to Mattapan in the 70s.
The Citgo Sign?
@@Nikonhermit It is now. It looked different then. When the company changed their name they changed the logo to what youu see today.
This was filmed in the early '50's. Quite a few 1951-2-3 Fords, Chevys, & Studebakers.
just before the opening of the new subway extension beyond Maverick
These Internet nerds are wrong all the time.
@@michaelbenardo5695 except they’re right because the original video that this guy stole the clips from is dated
but you’re just an internet troll upset that he doesn’t know anything except complaining and insulting others
Just got back from a weeklong trip to the East Coast, during which I visited Boston for the first time. Great city with a tremendous sense of history, gorgeous parks, incredible public spaces, and a concentrated density that makes it easy to leave the car behind at the hotel and walk or take the 'T' to most places. Many of the locations shown in this film appear little changed today! Am eager to re-visit when the opportunity next arises!!!
Thanks for the kind words about our city, been living here for the past 25 years, love it! I only wish it was more affordable, housing cost here is absolutely insane!
New England has VERY strict rules about Historic Preservation of Architecture. For example, a 17th or 18th Century Home, even if owned privately Can NOT use any color for the exterior paint job. There is a Committee and they give you specific choices of Colors you can use(or none at all depending on age and style). I've always thought that was a Good thing. Has kept the Character of the Place. I Grew up there as a Child and then Moved to NYC where I became a Man. It's the Opposite in NYC. They don't care about preservation, just profits.
I lived in Boston for a number of years. It's a very walkable city. I took every opportunity to eschew the subway and just walk! Often it was faster.
Contrast that with Los Angeles. Try walking around the neighborhood of LAX. Think you can find a convenience store? The place is definitely not pedestrian-friendly!
Yaa, but we sound wicked funny when we talk 😅
My grandmother drove a trolley in the 30s and 40s in Boston ❤
Did she know Charlie?
I used to live near Maverick (blue line). Amazing to see this!
This is absolutely fascinating and very eerie - like a doorway into the past! I do have to be a leetle picky though - the main attraction on the movie theater's marquee is ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD, which according to the Internet Movie Database was released in October of 1951. So I would say this is the end of October, which would have made me five months old. :-)
That would make you 2 months older than me! Chelsea boy here.
Public transport was perhaps better back then than it is today.
It was. They had a lot more street trolleys. Now we have buses.
This was just riiiiiight before white suburban flight sucked all the wealth outta cities and lobbied for the destruction of public transit sucked the wealth out of and zoned and paved all of the prosperity out of cities.
At least some boomers got to have decent lives, now both cities and suburia suck and are entirely economically inaccessible and car dependent.
Forget conservative "oh people were more civil" comments, I want to imagine a world where we could have had counter-culture and civil rights and still had the integrity to preserve public places and services in an effort for giving a crap about future generations.
Cities were initially designed for people, and they took pride in developing transit in cities. Now every city in America is designed for cars. Terrible for the environment and ugly to look at and live in.
Yes, it was the beginning of public transit...and hasn't been repaired since. 🤦🏻♂️
MUCH better.
Awesome cameo by the Table Talk Pies truck
GREAT VIDEO SUPER NASS BIG SUPPORT FROM CROATIA
Thx bro
Thanks for posting. I grew up in Mattapan as those old streetcars on Blue Hill Avenue were being replaced by busses. I became a rail fan nonetheless and currently have several Boston PCC trolleys on my layout.
The kerchiefs that the ladies are wearing (and some of the cars) tell us that this is the early 50's.
Headscarves. Mother used to wear one. Some were elaborate, silken, and costly.
@@TopHotDog Never knew any ladies in the Greater Boston area who didn't call them kerchiefs. I wore them into the late 70s (albeit tucked in at the back) and if they were silk, they were referred to as kerchiefs. Called the hanky variety bandanas.
it’s 1951, taken before the trolleys were retired when the subway was extended
Fantastic…as always. Thanks heaps!👍🏆
Wow, thank you so much for doing this! It must have been a lot of work. My great aunts and uncles were all young adults at that time, they told me so many great stories of living and working in Boston in the 40's and 50's. Seeing this footage and the people in it reminded me so much of my great aunts and great uncles, and though it makes me miss them, I am so glad that they lived during such a great time for the city of Boston!
it’s just colorizing a video someone else posted, it’s easy to colorize it
@@bostonrailfan2427 Biden and all his ilk are colorizing the 💩 out of the entire country
The Maverick station still exists on the "Blue Line". Ironically, while Maverick's platforms have been updated, the Boyston T-Station still looks just like that!
It's funny, when I first glanced at this I thought it was the Boylston St T station until I saw the Maverick sign.
That old maverick station is about 5 yards past the new one.. You just have to slip around the wall at the end of the station to access it. Explored those tunnels when i was a kid. State street near the orange line hides another old station, just beyond a wall.
for 50 years the only difference between then and today at Maverick was the fake walls put up and the removal of the trolley ramp…otherwise it was the same
@@Axias2011you’re talking about the buses because the only thing downstairs that moved were the turnetyles
Ah, the Good Old Triple Deckah. I think I saw Whitey Bulgah.
Masterful restoration !!
Thx!!!!
I am now an expert on Boston trams of the 1940s
People back then dressed nicely.
Do you dress up?
These are mostly working class people, and if looked closely their clothes were probably threadbare faded, and mended. Not really so attractive as all that.
@@megansfo There were none of the adult baby clothes we see people wearing today. And there were almost no people who can barely fit into the clothes they were wearing. They weren't perfect and no one expected them to be, but they looked better than the disfunctional mess we see on the street today.
@@torcik did it bother you people dressed nicely?
@@liftme225 Maybe TOCIK does not have nice clothes
Grew up in Boston during the 70's drove a bus for the mbta for 25years!! Great city!!
Beautiful video classic!
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Thank you
Couldn't help but notice how neater and well dressed everyone was. Now, anything goes, slob or snob look.
NEWEST CARS SEEN THIS FILM, 1951 FORD, 1951 MERCURY !
Yes early fifties.
taken late 1951 just before the subway extension caused the conversion to trackless trolleys
I was born and grew up in Boston in the 60´s and 70´s...Thanks for this video. I hope you will show more videos of Boston in the old days. I would be particularly interested in videos of Boston from the years of my childhood and teen years in the 60´s and 70´s. It seems there is a lot less footage of Boston than of San Francisco, LA or New York. Thanks again.
That was amazing, thank you for sharing.
City of my birth but a bit before I arrived. Really wonderful to see.
Been to Boston many times over the years. Beautiful city. This video is an eye opener. Should like to spend a day or two in Boston during this time period.
it was nothing like today, you take the subway from Maverick and you’re in a whole neighborhood that was demolished- two if you go one stop further
we notice that the pace of life is slower at this time
Almost painfully so..like a bunch of Zombies.
A time traveler must be somewhere around , ; )
NASS! Thanks for posting this video
Thx bro
Paint came a long way since then. Cars, building & clothing.
I understand it’s the film quality, but still. Color today.
I love driving my car on the South Huntington street to experience the shared road/rail combo that is much rarer today!
I didn't grow up in Boston but I grew up in Worcester and visited it often in the 90s. It's fascinating to see the MBTA back then!
I've been waiting!!!
Peeps: Why are you filming us?
Filmographer: For 2024 internet views.
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Great restoration Nass, and possibility you can do sporting events Baseball games, hockey etc etc?
Thx!!
Another superb presentation NASS, really good work 😊
Thx!!^^
Wonderful
Excellent video. I could just watch these videos all day. If only I could step back in time. Everything looks so real, people dressed so nicely. The sound of the trolley bell ringing and the cars puttering by. Authentic business names. Just love it!
Thx!! ^^
I would love to see a video like this around Baltimore. 40's 50's or 60's.
This is a great film. Turned out great. Thanks for presenting
Thx!!
Looks like old Toronto. Amazing
Everything looks so clean and well kept. People had pride in their appearance, not like now where you see people walking around in their pajamas and slippers!
Cool video 📹 time ⏲️ traveling 😎
Look! The orange line is still useing those cars today. Amazing how efficient the T is.
I love dressing comfortable today but there is something to be said about the way people dressed back then, so put together and classy.
Yes...back when it was attractive for a lady to have modesty and ACT like a lady and for real men not to have their boxers exposed because it was considered indecent to wear your trousers below your a** cheeks.
The way streetcars and other vehicles interact without blocking each other. Even the parking is courteous and things flow smoothly. Makes you think maybe all the traffic control systems today are unnecessary.
My dad grew up in Southie, and moved to Newport, RI to marry my mom at around the time this was taken. He had to give up a lifetime appointment with the Boston School Department. I think he made the right choice.
The always cold boston
Good job nass
Saludos desde Monterrey
Thx!!!
Pero no esta siempre frio. Tenemos veranos calientes, mas o menos.
In the always hot Monterrey and without ocean 😮
Pretty trippy knowing most are already dead by now !
Was thinking the same thing but was at the doctors office on Tuesday six eighteen and they asked the guy on the other side of the door for his birth date, the year was 1935. He could be a kid in this picture.
This must be late 1940s or 1950. I saw a 1949 and 1950 Ford
i grew up in east boston on east eagle and putnam st!! I used to work at the shell station across from the PD which used to be gem theatre when my mother was a kid
This is ACTUALLY the mid-1950s. Look at the dates of the newest cars! And it is all so familiar as I was there as a kids and rode these trolleys & subways nearly every day.
1951, streetcar service out of Revere and Eagle Sq. Carhouses ended January 1952
Malcolm X was in Boston during this era
…and?
@@bostonrailfan2427it's an interesting historical tidbit.
@@GReid-ol5gk that is irrelevant to the video
I see a few 1951 cars
Yes, a couple I saw didn't go on sale until the 1950 model year. Still a fascinating video.
me too
was hustling before the changeover, it’s why it was filmed: trolley service ended January 1952 with the extension to Orient Heights(not seen for a reason)
only 5 years before I was born.
omg here I am thinking how old this is and if it were 49 its only four years before I was born. Looks old.
Nass, Thank You for the film! - Audio Critique: The bell is accurate (sort of), the whistle is too European. In America, our bells are loud and our train whistles sound like Air Raid sirens, not tea kettles! The trolley most likey had horns and bells! I wish I could supply you with better sound fx alas, I'm on the wrong coast and I do not have a time machine.
Thx!! ^^
It looks like the model coloring issues have yet to be solved.
So many untold stories,..
They're moving too slowly for it to look normal. Love your vids though :)
Change the speed setting to 1.25.
We get a better look when it's slowed down like this.
What a treat!!
I am from East Boston and have posted on some East Boston #02128 FB groups. Maverick Station is still there.
I was looking for Charlie on the MTA but I didn’t see him. I guess he never returned.
YA he's still at Scully Square !
When Boston was affordable, and look at all that wide open space
Did any of these trams get preserved (up to the present day) ?
There's one parked at Boylston green line stop. I think it's a work car.
Boston's Mattapan Trolley still runs trains from this time. They were built in the 1940s and still in service after some overhauls.
Ride the Red line to Ashmont and be prepared for a step back in time!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashmont%E2%80%93Mattapan_High-Speed_Line
Seashore Trolley Museum and Connecticut Trolley Museum each have at least one of these cars in operating condition. They are called Type 5 Boston cars.
The Silver Line still uses horses and carts
I grew up in Somerville so it was the bus to either Lechmere or Harvard Square to ‘catch’ a trolley
Boston was cool in 1940 thanks super NASS big support from Croatia
Thx bro!!
It appears that public transit was more efficient 80 years ago than it is today.
Imagine hanging out with your friends back then. What kind of things did you do? Not video games or internet.
I can't tell if it's the old camera throwing me off, or if everyone is moving a little slower than they do now a days
Is this East Boston?
What is most unusual? Is it that men wear fedoras and ties, or that everyone is lean and fit?
Correct, I will usually comment on everyone's overall health and appearance. No microwaves, snack machines, junk food, complex carbs, fructose corn syrup and convenient snacks. Plenty of walking.
Not everyone is lean and fit. They are wearing many layers of clothing. Most of which is bespoke.
Hungry.
@@Nathaniel64 a whole lot more people are fit and not overweight / obese than it is today by far very obvious. I guess you didn't notice that?
There is a difference between lean and fit though.
in the shot at 6:00 you can see farmland in the distance! That's nowhere in the Boston area today
GM, Ford, Chrysler and Goodyear, paid to get rid of all those trolly cars. Now, we’re stuck with cars.
At 3:02 I just saw a 1951 FORD parked on the left side of the screen. It's the one with the two bullets on the front grill ...
Boston in the 1940s, ah, yes, I remember it well. Just a great city!
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I’m no train buff, but those trolleys are kinda nice looking
What strikes me is how many American women in Boston wore headscarves back then. I remember my grandmothers wearing them in the 1960s and they were called "kerchiefs". Nowadays women in kerchief/headscarves in such large numbers would be assumed to be Muslims and taunted for their apparel. Times change, eh?
Some of those neighborhoods were leveled in the 60’s. It’s hard for me to place where they are, though. Boston still had single trollies and electric buses when I lived there 1970-73. Couldn’t tell you about now. Great piece of history - thanks, NASS.
none of the ones seen are leveled…in fact, the vast majority of buildings seen still exist: only the carhouse and movie theatre were demolished that i know of, the others still stand
1949!!! ESTAVA-SE EM PLENA "ERA DO BEBOP" DE CHARLIE "BIRD" PARKER, DIZZIE GILLES, MILES DAVIS, MAX ROACH E OUTROS GIGANTES DO JAZZ BOP!!!
ENTRETANTO AS ORQUESTRAS DE TOMMY DORSEY, LES BROWN, COUNT BASIE, WOODY HERMAN E STAN KENTON TAMBÉM TINHAM MUITO BOA ACEITAÇÃO!!!
my favorite was Gene Krupa and Harry James
@@inkey2 REALMENTE TAMBÉM FORAM GENIAIS: GENE KRUPA JUNTO COM BUDDY RICH FORAM OS DOIS MAIS CÉLEBRES BATERISTAS DA ERA DO SWING E DO JAZZ DOS ANOS DOURADOS!
AGORA, DAQUELA ÉPOCA *GLENN MILLER* SE TORNOU ATÉ HOJE UM DOS MAIORES ÍDOLOS DA MÚSICA POPULAR MUNDIAL!!!
VERDADEIRO CULT!
EU SOU EXTREMAMENTE FÃ DO MESTRE GLENN MILLER!!!
@@alfredocorreia9385 Did you know that harry james was born in a circus tent? His parents were circus people. He was completely self taught. The reason his horn playing sounds so unique is because he used a mouthpiece with a very wide inner bore. Very hard to play on.
@@inkey2 HARRY JAMES FOI UMA DAS GRANDES LENDAS DA ERA DO SWING E DAS BIG BANDS!!!
EGRESSO DA ORQUESTRA DE BENNY GOODMAN, FORMA SUA PRÓPRIA BANDA EM 1939.
E CURIOSAMENTE NAQUELE MESMO ANO É O "TRAMPOLIM" PARA LEVAR O ENTÃO JOVEM DESCONHECIDO CANTOR *FRANK SINATRA* AO FUTURO ESTRELATO MUNDIAL!!!
TAMBÉM EM 1942 SUBSTITUÍ *GLENN MILLER* NO COMANDO DO PROGRAMA DE RÁDIO CHESTERFIELD, QUANDO O MESTRE SE ALISTA NA FORÇA AÉREA. ESTAVA-SE EM PLENA SEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIAL!!!
This is a beautiful video of the old Boston trolleys and the occasional trackless trolley. The subway station, Maverick Square, East Boston, Revere, Winthrop, maybe Chelsea and other towns. And everyone was lean and dressed sharp! Sad that today it's all busses and more cars and people are obese or overweight and dress slovenly because of the food and clothes that're available to most today at an affordable price. ☹️
This isn't really near town. It's largely Eastie (East Boston) and a hike from the city itself.
Nobody was in a hurry. Not scurrying like we do today.
Yeah,no people pleasers or job worths back then.
I’m surprised Boston’s trolley was still running in 1949.Most cities did away with them by 1940 in favor of buses.
We had trolleys running on the streets into the 70-80s in the Boston areas. Eventually electric buses took over. Trolleys are still running through the tunnels and on tracks out to the suburbs.
I can guarantee the trollies ran better then than now
these were about to be retired in a few weeks, unlike the other places these were retired for good reason: they were being supplanted by the subway line extending the whole length of four of the five routes and bridge reconstruction severing service along the two biggest routes
@@inkey2wrong…same as a bus only without the ability to get around cars
@@bostonrailfan2427 The reliability is ZERO. My wife quit her job in Boston because she was sick of broken down trollies, stranded in the snow for 3 hours, crashes, reduced speed. It is just awful from newton to boston
Yeah, the uniformly dark colors take me back. I was born +/- 10 years later. The trolley cars had been replaced with the PCCs the "President's Conference Car," which really were rather comfy when new, when social pressure prevented punks from destroying things that they did not own, like spring-cushioned trolley seats.
Drooling over some of the cars.
They made the people wear the color of the line you were riding back then. Red for Red Line, Orange for Orange Line and so on...... They were very strict and you would get fined for not wearing the coordinating colors. The good Ole days
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I see the T still uses the same trains!
Awesome video. They sure didn't build things back then to be attractive, all the trolleys were dented. The roads were just as bad then as they are today and it looks like tailgating was common practice. Maybe that is the reason for dents, brakes weren't great on those tanks rolling around.
9:04 is the fire station in revere MA my home city
🎉😢🎉🎉🎉😢🎉where's all the jam packed freeways sick automobiles 😢oh that came after the war .the car nightmare
Looks like a really nice place to be
Wow it looks like a ghost town compared to now. It’s completely over populated now.
Just an observation, No overweight people. Before all the processed foods, apparently.
Woodie at 2:37, 4:50, tin woodie at 6:48.
Sadly, all I can think of is that most of those people are no longer with us. We’re just passing through time