*There are many more old restored and colorized films about New York on my channel* ! Here is the Playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLP_6hUsQRi8swUJkqquC-s50aWctolIY7.html *Don't forget to subscribe* ! Please press the CC captions button to read the events and locations while the film plays. Please *do NOT* comment that "Everybody in this film is now dead", or: "Not a fat, obese person in sight" or: "When New York was still white", or: "New York has now become [swearword] in 2021" or words to that effect. Such boring and cliché comments have already been made thousands of times on my channel. In stead, try to go back in time and *make interesting, unique comments* of what life was like in New York in the time of your (great) grand parents. Then you will earn the respect of most other UA-cam viewers.
I watch the people in these beautiful old films to remind me that they mattered and they have passed on. Which to me is a wonderful reminder to make everyday count!
@@Acrowe At that time, Manhattan was most beautiful for the wealthy and for tourists. For the many in the lower middle class, or lower class - not so much. In 1904, my dad was born on the lower East Side. He raised me (in 1950s-60s Chicago) with the recounting of his memories of pre-WWI life in a 4 story walk-up brownstone shared by several families - and had only one bathroom. There was no plumber on the premises - or one who could be called with a cellphone - or any kind of a phone....if his services could even be afforded immediately...🤔
My Nana was born in NYC in 1910 and her father was a mounted policeman at the time. To think this is what they saw amazes me. Thanks for sharing this beautiful footage.
Film is the closest thing we will ever have to visiting the past . I am actually a little heartbroken watching this because I want to go back in time and see it with my own eyes.
I will never understand why modern architecture means boring building without any character. These buildings are so much more beautiful! And the people were so stylish, what would they think if they saw the style of these days...
Because now we has much more people and need a fast and practical constructions in 1900 the population was only 3 billion around the world now is 8 billion
It's possibly very subjective. If you wanna learn more, begin with Corbusier or Mies van der Rohe. I assume you're pointing to classical architecture as the beautiful and the anonymous glass towers as "without any character". I observe that many like the classical elements today, but imagine that what was seen as "old and boring" from around 1940s was the classical "beautiful" buildings! There were many reasons why some were torn down in that time. In that time, if you increased the height of those buildings, then the ground floor had to look like fortresses, making it inconvenient and inaccessible. Maintaining it costs a lot too. If so, then fancy towers and details on facades were removed or "smoothened" out to reduce renovation costs. And when it was too difficult to renovate with new utilities that would keep up to new (building standards and requirements) it was actually beneficial for landowners to tear it down and make a new (modern) one. So you could "blame" market trends, new building innovations, tight economic times, need for newer infrastructure/utilities due to rapid technological advancements (communication, electricity, ventilation, cleanliness, space efficiency, developments in building requirements, etc...
And it’s everywhere around the world, the grand buildings & architecture of the early 1900s & before was majestic. In times with transport, materials & technology supposedly so much less sophisticated & modern they did so much more with so much less…Hmmm
Stylish maybe. It amazed me how the women were able to move around with so much layers of clothes on their body and how the hell did they stay cool in the summertime.
My Dad was three when he and his family came over from Italy in 1906, so my Dad was around 7 when this was filmed. My Dad said he would go to Coney Island all the time. He said that's where he learned how to swim. It's so wonderful to see what he might have seen as a young boy. I feel privileged. Thank you. 🇺🇸🇮🇹💙
My long deceased mother-in-law was born in NY but grew up on the Lower Eastside and then moved with her family to the Grand Concourse in the Bronx when her father's shop started doing well. She used to tell me stories about how they would travel from the Bronx and spend the entire summer in Coney Island! I believe at the time (1920s at least), there were all kinds of bungalows and other summer residences where you could stay. I love Coney Island today but the history is absolutely wonderful. A real playground and resort at the time!
No cameras to film you wherever you go, privacy highly valued and respected. When you met someone that moment belonged just to you and those around you, and no one else. I truly miss the privacy we had till the 1980´s (and some of the 1990´s) so much!! Not this fucking hell of reality show we live 24/7. No automation, everything was done by someone, only cash as money. No social media so people really saw each other, the only way they could have a conversation, if not wait some days and weeks for letters to come and go. Your social circle were people who really lived near you. Fantastic window to the past, thank you.
@Maurício MP Yea, things were so much better in the early 1900’s. People were dying of pneumonia and influenza, tuberculosis. No vaccinations or blood transfusions because they weren’t around. Women were constantly dying of childbirth. Child labor was a common practice in the industrial revolution. No such thing at all as far as equal human rights. I hope you don’t like drinking because that would illegal. You were lucky if you made it to the ripe old age of 45 Lol. So, yea your just one of those people who will always bitch and complain about life.
@@bneemr251 I don’t think he was specifically referring to the quality of life but how things we’re just more natural and not so artificial as today you didn’t have all this pollution from technology social media etc. to cloud everybody’s minds and make people so consistently suspicious and afraid the society back then was just that much more real and people were innocent and appreciated what they had in life of course they had a lot more problems diseases poverty you name it but it was a kinder and gentler time
I could watch these kind of videos all day. I love it. I get lost in thinking what the conversation was between any and every group of people at the moment they were filmed, who were they, what did their voice sound like, what happened to them in their lives, what was something they loved and hated, who would ultimately be the first person to die between everyone on the screen at any moment you were to pause the video and how they were to die.
My grandfather was five years old during this time. Although I believe he had a much more small town or rural lifestyle, it's still a window into his past. Wish I could step through..
My grandfather was five also. He passed away in 1995. Looking at this footage at the time when he was a small boy and thinking about all the technological advances in his life time, it's amazing
The young children in this footage who were born 12-15 years earlier were the generation that witnessed the most drastic changes in history and in everyday life. Imagine going from lighting candles as we had been doing for hundreds of years to the light bulb and electricity. Automobiles, airplanes, radio and television, world wars, space travel, etc, etc.
My husband grandparents were 14 and 17 in 1910, they would marry in 1914. His grandmother died in 1986 at 90 years old and would talk fondly of the old days in New York City. Life was tough but it was good memories for her.
Yes and old fashion dating no fake internet dating. People took pride in working hard for a living. And not trying to strike it rich on the internet selling there souls.
Sure, in the rich/business district. Don't forget about the slums, tenements, horse shit in the streets, lack of plumbing, etc. Dont over romanticize this.
One thing I’ve learned from watching these beautiful old enchanted videos of a long long time ago, you cannot always compare what is now with them , you have to respect them and their time, this was their world, this was their life as they lived it.
I am born, raised and living in NYC And a history nerd. Watching this has me beyond gitty. The part when the cameraman was filming, which looks like central park, started panning to the left to a grand unknown building that doesn’t exist anymore, along with the music was awesome. I would love to see more of these videos and how life without TV, phones was back then. NYC was a bustling city then, is still bustling today!
We are so far removed from this era. After watching this, I am filled with a haunting nostalgia for a time and place I've never been too. Excellent soundtrack to a stunning video production.
Looking at this is so sad as everything looks so beautiful and elegant, we have been going backwards for a very long time when you look at what we have now.
I am so sorry, but.... r u 2 guys nuts?!?! Yes, things were aesthetically beautiful back then, but, COME ON!!! U KNOW today's technology kills Anything old. The people back then would b JAWDROPPED 2 c it Nowadays! AND U KNOW IT!!!! Dont b jealous
@@willawallace2090 I didn't prove ur point at all. And there wasn't any more depth nor substance back then than there is 2day. Humans r the same today as they were, no matter what clothes they wore.
@@mrednblack6 All you mentioned was how much better technology is now. Granted. But what about the intangibles, the values society holds, the bonds between communities etc? All much weaker than they used to be. Look at popular culture as just one aspect of modern life, and tell me we haven't lost anything. If you don't see a difference between a society that read books and a society that watches Keeping up with the Kardashians and listens to Nicki Minaj singing about womens' privates, then we have no grounds for discussion anyway.
This is so amazing! Like jumping in a time machine and going back in time! The music fits perfectly with the emotion this evokes within me! Thank you for such a beautiful video!🥰
My dad was born in New York in 1910. Allthough it's not likely, one of those men walking or riding around could be my grandfather! Interesting to see a glimpse of the world that my father was born into. Thanks for the video.
Same here. My dad was 55 when I was born. He was orphaned, adopted by a millionaire family, and probably had a very upscale experience. But, he missed his widowed mom, and asked to return to her.
They were not tattooed, pierced and they didn't where their gym clothes to walk the city streets. And they didn't use the "F" word. and they actually bothered to get married BEOFRE having a child. We are now a sick society.
Great video! You can't reproduce these treasures. Would love to experience how it was for a day if realistically possible. Love how some of the pedestrians enjoyed being filmed not knowing we would be watching them 100 years later. Thanks for colorizing and posting!
I noticed the way people walked back then is different. you can tell a lot about people by the way they walk and carry themselves. These people all seem more confident, more at ease. more open, less rushed. Genuinely curious about the camera. in contrast, today many people seem to shrink and be very closed down like the world is beating them from all sides.
Yet, in these times a man could expect to live to be about 50 years old. So most of the people/men you see out in the streets here are quite young by today’s measure. You lived and were healthy and vibrant, maybe had a couple shitty years then you croaked. Ironic, right? Much shorter life, but folks seem less afraid.
It’s still beautiful. Take a walk around NYC - it still has the same feel and most of the architecture you see here still exists. As a New Yorker what always strikes me about these films is how the feel of walking around the city remains so similar today. It’s heartwarming.
@@jondiamond7383 I was more referring to the entire visual scenario of that era. Ornate design was once incorporated into nearly everything created. From the most mundane everyday objects, to the most grandiose structures, attractiveness was equal, if not more important than functionality. After WW2 all of that changed and now we live in a utilitarian world of cookie cutter subdivisions, endless stripmalls and boxy high rises.
Amazing to realize that this was 17 years before my 95 years old father was born! What also strikes me is seeing class distinction notable by attire and cars. And realizing that every single person in this video is long ago deceased. We humans have such a short perspective.
A lot of small business owners and working class people still used horses, sometimes by preference, until WWI, a few even into the 1920’s. My great grandfather was a milkman who delivered by horse until his retirement in 1930. He didn’t so much retire in today’s sense of the word. He just stopped working because he was physically unable to do the job any longer, being crippled up with arthritis. His left leg became virtually useless because he’d been hit with shrapnel in the war.
@@mariekatherine5238 Signora Marie se sapessi che nel mio paese Sud Italia qualcuno andava in campagna con il cavallo che traina a una rudimentale carretta, correva l'anno 1980. Come se adesso li vedessi (marito e moglie, trottorelando) erano così carini. Cordiali saluti Italia.
I can't imagine wearing a suit, tie and hat or a woman wearing those long heavy dresses on a hot humid day, but you have to admit everyone looked so classy! Fascinating to look back in time at old NYC. Love your videos.
It was modest and respectable. There is an expression, "clothes make the man". I personally prefer these styles to much of the very immodest or more shabby clothing seen in today's world.
I reside in NYC and do not, and cannot subscribe to the current mode of public dressing, which I find to be shabby, immodest, and indicative of the moral rot and degeneracy, which is deemed normal and mainstream today. Warm and humid weather is no excuse to gallavant in stages of undress or to be attired in garb suitable for tots and those who are adolescencents, or those bound for the beach. I continue to choose to wear a jacket, tie and hat, whatever season of the year because its what a gentleman properly wears. For being a gentleman is no longer a goal in a society given over to bestial and carnal pursuits.The material and fibers worn are suitably chosen to cope with the changes in climate and temperature, which is what people back then would have done. People were also used to wearing what they wore in those days and would have felt uncomfortable, not to mention ashamed of being reduced to a t-shirt, denim or shorts and flip flops. A mere servant would have turned there noses up from such displays of low rent expressions of physical appearance. Say what you want about folks back in the day, but at least they had standards, decorum, and dignity. Traits which are completely absent from people who think they're smarter, but are victimized and held captive in the very cages forged by their own stupidity and lack of common sense.
I was stationed in the Brooklyn Navy shipyard back in the early 80's. Travelled to Manhattan many times. I think I caught the tail end of New York greatness.
My great grand father was living there in that time, he had just arrived the prior year from a small town in southern Italy. I can only imagine how much in awe he must've been seeing this for the first time.
I really enjoyed this. There are so many remastered versions of the 1911 New York video on UA-cam. I never saw this footage before. Thanks so much for posting.
How beautiful it all once was.... how sad it has become! 😢 Of all the colorized videos here, yours are the only ones I love.... the colorization is a work of art unto itself! Not garishly Disney-fied as all the others are. And, of course, the music is so very delightful. Congratulations on your fine work, always aim for the best, and may you continue your work in splendid health. 🌹
Not all was "beautiful". Those unregulated exhaust emissions clearly shown at 1:04 with black smoke everywhere and factory emissions probably contributed to the early deaths of a lot of people. What I find pretty fascinating is the amount of clothing these people are wearing, which is probably considered "scant" compare to 100 years earlier. We see what people are wearing today, much less, much thinner. Imagine in another 100 years. Clothing will likely be refined for optimum comfort + beauty, but will be likely more "skin-like" so as not to interfere as much with the body's movement. Probably a lot more like yoga pants, but thinner and with much more high tech and sustainable materials. And those future people will look back at videos from 100 years earlier (out time) and feel bad at how much clothing we all had to wear and how "thick it was" on our bodies. Lol.
It is beautiful and beautiful! It's a pity to think that all those filmed people are no longer with us and that many had to go and experience the great war among other stories, I am VERY fascinated by fashion and the flow they had at that time and the very different era. Even knowing what it was like to live back then, I would have really liked to be one of them.
@@Hakim21210 Is happiness really a myth? Are you always sad and depressed? Of course war and poverty and sickness occurs someplace in every period of history, but so does peace and joy and good health and good times. Having a negative attitude will kill you sooner than if you had a more positive view of life.
Thinking of my grandmother, grandfather and other relatives living in NYC in 1910, what they were doing that day, that exact moment this footage was taken. Trying to build great lives for themselves
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower Building that the person who shot this film begins to pan up on beginning at 8:24 was at the time that the film was shot the tallest building in the entire world standing 700 feet tall. A few years afterward the Woolworth building was built also in New York City and it stood almost 800 feet. Later, came the famous Empire State building whose height reached1250 feet. All three buildings still stand today.
I loved that shot. It was dramatic. I currently have multiple shots of the Met Life insurance building. It’s looks beautiful when it’s lights are on, on top of the roof and foggy.
Fantastic footage. I think the crowds on Wall Street may have been part of what they used to call the Curbside Exchange. That was an informal gathering place out doors where small investors and brokers would meet and buy/trade small numbers of bonds, shares of stock and also shares of companies not traded in the main exchange. It was like a giant rowdy financial flea market.
They weren’t though. Try being Irish, or Italian or gay or black. Also which country? New York was a city of immigrants and nationalism was not in everyone’s face yet. (Good thing too. Too much can make you blind to your county’s flaws and then how will you fix them?)
Such incredible architecture and beautiful characters going about their daily business , somehow everything seems picture perfect ....thank you kindly 🇨🇦
Makes you wonder about time travel! Einstein said it couldn't exist but when you experience these pictures,you are ,in effect, travelling back in time! Astonishing. Same way, what if these people could have looked ahead, and see us!!!!!! I think they would have decided to stay in Thier own time period! What could happen in times to come??? Star Trek indeed?
I really love seeing these old films. Thanks for providing them in this color enhanced fashion. They bring the images to life in a very unique way. That image of the Times Square building is especially interesting for me because I have never seen the building in color in its original form. By the time I came along, it was covered in soot and streaked with car exhaust. The famous electronic news strip was already attached to it and portions of it were covered with billboards. But your clip shows it with its yellow terra cotta facade unencumbered. It was the new home of The New York Times newspaper after it moved uptown from the area around Park Row (hence the reason name Longacre Square was changed to Times Square). A big thumbs up, sir. Keep these films coming. Hurrah!
My grandfather was born in 1883 and my grandmother in 1895. I'm glad I was born when i was and had access to people who lived during these times. These films need to be preserved as reminders of what we have lost. Yes we have gained many things too
What a great clip. The main thing that stands out to me is how wonderful some of the buildings look ... BUT also how old they look already ... almost as if they had been there for a far longer time than they should be ...
From my Grandmothers stories from her early youth as a kid growing up on the lower East Side it really sounded like noting was better than that early to 1920s time to be in New York City. Everything was happening
@ 2:44 a knickerbockered boy in the street among other boys gathering momentarily at seeing the movie camera filming a long ago New York waves to us the viewer ~ just one poignant moment where delightful filmic ghosts going about their workaday and leisurely way communicate across decades. Sat at our desks or observing this arresting scene in whatever circumstance we can acknowledge the ghost-boy's friendly greeting and wave back across one hundred years to that happy New York boy where we too are ghosts in our own way to him ~ can't we? "Hello New York boy" :-)
I suppose we are Ghosts of New York Future, and he perhaps our distant nth~great grandfather, or his deuteragonist sidekick. So say, "Hello Great Grandsire / New York Old Gentleman, Sir."
I concur with other commentators below that after the early 60s almost everything has been going aesthetically uglier. Architecture of the past is so mesmerizing and complex. Also, the way people dressed and behaved, vehicles of the 30s up to 60s were styled amazing.
I gotta say since I was born and since I was 6. I’m passionate about architecture and got a degree for it. You say after the 60s architecture became uglier. I feel when the Art Deco era ended (1930 - 1940)which is my favorite of all, buildings became uglier. Back then, Architects were passionate about their career and creative. They were true artists. Now, i no longer see that passion. It’s all about making money. Developers, don’t care about architecture. In my eyes it’s a lost craft.
Another delightful glimpse into the past. The speed correction and subtle colorization are truly magical. I very much appreciate all of the postings on your channel. ❤
Congrats on your 100,000! I wonder if anyone feels the same as me watching these old films.. a sense of sadness. They are busy going about their lives, preoccupied with its demands and troubles, and now all are dead, and many will be barely remembered, some entirely forgotten. Almost as if they never existed, except for a few photos, this film and maybe a gravestone. One day we shall pas away too, and I wonder who will remember us? Our children and grand-children, sure. After that, maybe not. I guess all we can do is remember life is short and try to be kind to others while we are here.
Ah, you noticed! Thanks! My wife and I celebrated this event this evening with a special dinner! Indeed, not many people are able to create a legacy and 99.9999999% of us will disappear from this world into oblivion. Maybe some parts of my Rick88888888 channel will survive in future centuries, who knows.
The To-be-forgotten BY THOMAS HARDY I heard a small sad sound, And stood awhile among the tombs around: "Wherefore, old friends," said I, "are you distrest, Now, screened from life's unrest?" -"O not at being here; But that our future second death is near; When, with the living, memory of us numbs, And blank oblivion comes! "These, our sped ancestry, Lie here embraced by deeper death than we; Nor shape nor thought of theirs can you descry With keenest backward eye. "They count as quite forgot; They are as men who have existed not; Theirs is a loss past loss of fitful breath; It is the second death. "We here, as yet, each day Are blest with dear recall; as yet, can say We hold in some soul loved continuance Of shape and voice and glance. "But what has been will be - First memory, then oblivion's swallowing sea; Like men foregone, shall we merge into those Whose story no one knows. "For which of us could hope To show in life that world-awakening scope Granted the few whose memory none lets die, But all men magnify? "We were but Fortune's sport; Things true, things lovely, things of good report We neither shunned nor sought ... We see our bourne, And seeing it we mourn."
To YORKY... read your comment about maybe some of us alive now (2022/FEBRUARY 10) will be forgotten in some way as the rest of our RELATIVES pass on* and personnel DOCUMENTS/PHOTOGRAPHS/LETTERS (with our own handwriting)/CLOTHING/HOUSEHOLD ITEMS (which WE tend to hang on to on our wall units/shelves as they are MEMORIES of our PARENTS/FAMILY MEMBERS/HOLIDAY GIFTS and sadly thrown out/discarded by construction/demolition of our old apartment house (if you lived there all your life and now BIG NAME DEVELOPERS bought it from owner if you were,nt the owner that is) That is a sad situation unless you owned your home (maybe suburban as they seem to never be torn down in suburbs as they were all built in mainly the 1930s) and so your relatives if you have any move in and hang on to your personnel items for a while (years) after you are gone*Thanks for your comment YORKY!
Nostalgia in the ambience, in the light, in the simplicity and ordinariness of lives of bygone times, one may see through even if one is not connected with this city!
I was born in New York City in 1958, and as a boy went almost to every part of the city ,I remember going to Grants tomb, This is like time travel, I Remember coney Island as a boy my favorite part was the roller coaster and the spook house very fond memories part of who I am today
My grandfather was a police officer in Detroit between 1895-1921. I always hoped to see vintage film such as this one of Detroit but naturally New York was (and is) larger and audiences of that era would probably be more interested in film of New York. I love watching all the horse drawn conveyances on the streets and the way people of that time dressed. Also, how people stared at the cameraman, and the kids mugging for him in front. A fascinating look back.
Nice? Sweatshops, slums, no votes for women and just try being black or gay or poor. It looks pretty but it was a hard time with a war looming. It was no fantasy.
This was back when art was used to design interesting and wonderful buildings, unlike today, boxes of glass that replaced them. So many of the early buildings were demolished to make way for the new. Just another bit of history, the flat iron building replaced a similar looking building that housed the main Regina Music Box company store.
I can think of a number of lovely old buildings in my area that have been demolished and replaced with others with all the style of a matchbox! The sad demise of the cinema has contributed to this of course, and a few art deco style cinemas have been lost. But hey! that's progress 😕
Signs of the decline of civilization. Architects who put up a cardboard box are celebrated as genius's. It has gotten so bad that the masses do not even know the difference between garbage and art, be it music, painting, or architecture.
I also enjoy the architecture of the earlier times better than now but you also have to understand a lot of these buildings needed to be demolished and rebuilt due to the number of toxic chemicals found in the fillings and foundation
@@sophia-O Part of what you say may be true, but the mindset in America is "out with the old and on with the new". Perfectly good Picture Palaces from the 1920's that were in decent shape were demolished to make way for a parking lot!
Congratulations......Great job with the films !!! Thank you Very Much for sharing Amazing & so much beautiful places..... That's why many people all over the world love New York City !!! It's a dream for me.....I hope near in the future I can make it come true.
My late father was born in 1910 and worked around Wall Street post WW2 and I used to live, work and go to a university and fashion art school in the late 1960s and 70s in Manhattan. This brought back many memories of seeing some of these iconic buildings! The former Metropolitian Life building looked really sky high for 1910! Have always loved those straw boater hats the men wore back then , so much classier than backwards baseball hats says this former retired NYC fashion illustrator, imho! Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane!💗💗💗💗
Lol the “tour bus” near the start which said “Seeing NY” on the back of it. My sister and I would have been in that if we lived back then. Except in 2008 we were Seeing NY in one of the open top busses. How similar things are now except so different! Hello old NY from new Ireland 🇮🇪❤️
at 0.55 they’re in Columbus circle after getting in the carriage, too bad a bus comes right in front of them to block out the scene fro a few seconds. My father was 3 years old living in harlem at the time , some of it was Italian back then , his father brought him here in 1907 from Abruzzi Italy .
But they wore them at least for 2 years and more when the spain epidemic broke out. There's lots of videos about that matter on you tube to watch at. And no modern medical means at that time.....not to mention a vaccin.
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Please *do NOT* comment that "Everybody in this film is now dead", or: "Not a fat, obese person in sight" or: "When New York was still white", or: "New York has now become [swearword] in 2021" or words to that effect. Such boring and cliché comments have already been made thousands of times on my channel. In stead, try to go back in time and *make interesting, unique comments* of what life was like in New York in the time of your (great) grand parents. Then you will earn the respect of most other UA-cam viewers.
So, who were the man and woman that these clips were filmed around?
Where did you get that lovely polka/ragtime piece for the amusement park segments?
Your work is truly amazing. Thank you for your dedication, passion to bringing a time long forgotten back to life. The music is beautiful
@@rondabaldbastid3045 Thanks!
Grand presentation...and thanks for the pop up descriptions of what & where the scenes were. Discovered by accident viewing on my mobile.
I watch the people in these beautiful old films to remind me that they mattered and they have passed on. Which to me is a wonderful reminder to make everyday count!
And wait for 100 years by now, and people will think about us too.
many people here part of the gift u will receive If you have faith believe in the lord 🙏 you will meet many of these people
@@Acrowe A lady just turned 115. They haven't all passed on yet lol
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At that time, Manhattan was most beautiful for the wealthy and for tourists. For the many in the lower middle class, or lower class - not so much.
In 1904, my dad was born on the lower East Side. He raised me (in 1950s-60s Chicago) with the recounting of his memories of pre-WWI life in a 4 story walk-up brownstone shared by several families - and had only one bathroom. There was no plumber on the premises - or one who could be called with a cellphone - or any kind of a phone....if his services could even be afforded immediately...🤔
My Nana was born in NYC in 1910 and her father was a mounted policeman at the time. To think this is what they saw amazes me. Thanks for sharing this beautiful footage.
My Father was born in 1911, my great grandfather was a sergeant on the Metropolitan Police, the original Mets, the forerunners of the NYPD.
To think they saw people who dressed well...
Film is the closest thing we will ever have to visiting the past . I am actually a little heartbroken watching this because I want to go back in time and see it with my own eyes.
I was feeling sad because it’s like looking at ghosts. I’d love to be able to go back too and see for myself what it was like.
@@trishayamada807 I was thinking the same knowing everyone in the film is gone but nice to see how the past really was.
It's the same as now just different fashion and vehicles
@@gloriaortiz1227 Its different. Very different.
@@agornath1 no not really.
I will never understand why modern architecture means boring building without any character. These buildings are so much more beautiful! And the people were so stylish, what would they think if they saw the style of these days...
Because now we has much more people and need a fast and practical constructions in 1900 the population was only 3 billion around the world now is 8 billion
It's possibly very subjective. If you wanna learn more, begin with Corbusier or Mies van der Rohe. I assume you're pointing to classical architecture as the beautiful and the anonymous glass towers as "without any character". I observe that many like the classical elements today, but imagine that what was seen as "old and boring" from around 1940s was the classical "beautiful" buildings! There were many reasons why some were torn down in that time.
In that time, if you increased the height of those buildings, then the ground floor had to look like fortresses, making it inconvenient and inaccessible. Maintaining it costs a lot too. If so, then fancy towers and details on facades were removed or "smoothened" out to reduce renovation costs. And when it was too difficult to renovate with new utilities that would keep up to new (building standards and requirements) it was actually beneficial for landowners to tear it down and make a new (modern) one.
So you could "blame" market trends, new building innovations, tight economic times, need for newer infrastructure/utilities due to rapid technological advancements (communication, electricity, ventilation, cleanliness, space efficiency, developments in building requirements, etc...
And it’s everywhere around the world, the grand buildings & architecture of the early 1900s & before was majestic. In times with transport, materials & technology supposedly so much less sophisticated & modern they did so much more with so much less…Hmmm
People lost overall caracter ! 🤗
Simplicity and elegance.❤
Stylish maybe. It amazed me how the women were able to move around with so much layers of clothes on their body and how the hell did they stay cool in the summertime.
My Dad was three when he and his family came over from Italy in 1906, so my Dad was around 7 when this was filmed. My Dad said he would go to Coney Island all the time. He said that's where he learned how to swim. It's so wonderful to see what he might have seen as a young boy. I feel privileged. Thank you. 🇺🇸🇮🇹💙
Curiously,
How do you feel about immigrants today? Do they deserve to be here?
My long deceased mother-in-law was born in NY but grew up on the Lower Eastside and then moved with her family to the Grand Concourse in the Bronx when her father's shop started doing well. She used to tell me stories about how they would travel from the Bronx and spend the entire summer in Coney Island! I believe at the time (1920s at least), there were all kinds of bungalows and other summer residences where you could stay. I love Coney Island today but the history is absolutely wonderful. A real playground and resort at the time!
@@undrwatropium3724 No! Take care of America's poor First.
@@PMLynch you better hope there's never a natural disaster that would displace US citizens. We wouldn't be welcomed in other countries
@@undrwatropium3724 A lot has changed since how things were done then compared to now.
No cameras to film you wherever you go, privacy highly valued and respected. When you met someone that moment belonged just to you and those around you, and no one else. I truly miss the privacy we had till the 1980´s (and some of the 1990´s) so much!! Not this fucking hell of reality show we live 24/7.
No automation, everything was done by someone, only cash as money. No social media so people really saw each other, the only way they could have a conversation, if not wait some days and weeks for letters to come and go. Your social circle were people who really lived near you. Fantastic window to the past, thank you.
I gotta agree on that. Specially in the freaking reality show part we are living in😅😅
@Maurício MP Yea, things were so much better in the early 1900’s. People were dying of pneumonia and influenza, tuberculosis. No vaccinations or blood transfusions because they weren’t around. Women were constantly dying of childbirth. Child labor was a common practice in the industrial revolution. No such thing at all as far as equal human rights. I hope you don’t like drinking because that would illegal. You were lucky if you made it to the ripe old age of 45 Lol. So, yea your just one of those people who will always bitch and complain about life.
@@bneemr251 🤣 you nailed it!
I agree totally
@@bneemr251 I don’t think he was specifically referring to the quality of life but how things we’re just more natural and not so artificial as today you didn’t have all this pollution from technology social media etc. to cloud everybody’s minds and make people so consistently suspicious and afraid the society back then was just that much more real and people were innocent and appreciated what they had in life of course they had a lot more problems diseases poverty you name it but it was a kinder and gentler time
I could watch these kind of videos all day. I love it. I get lost in thinking what the conversation was between any and every group of people at the moment they were filmed, who were they, what did their voice sound like, what happened to them in their lives, what was something they loved and hated, who would ultimately be the first person to die between everyone on the screen at any moment you were to pause the video and how they were to die.
My grandfather was five years old during this time. Although I believe he had a much more small town or rural lifestyle, it's still a window into his past. Wish I could step through..
My grandfather was five also. He passed away in 1995. Looking at this footage at the time when he was a small boy and thinking about all the technological advances in his life time, it's amazing
The young children in this footage who were born 12-15 years earlier were the generation that witnessed the most drastic changes in history and in everyday life. Imagine going from lighting candles as we had been doing for hundreds of years to the light bulb and electricity. Automobiles, airplanes, radio and television, world wars, space travel, etc, etc.
Yea imagine all the cities governed by one party system of corrupt democrats and basically the cities are nothing but piles of rubble and garbage
This is amazing to watch this beautiful film from over 110 years ago.
My husband grandparents were 14 and 17 in 1910, they would marry in 1914. His grandmother died in 1986 at 90 years old and would talk fondly of the old days in New York City. Life was tough but it was good memories for her.
Looked so much better. Everything fit together so well. No box-shaped buildings, no boring glas towers.
Lots of these places are still there
Bravo.!
No brutalism
The architecture of the buildings was more beautiful then than it is today!
yup they sure dont make things like they used to.
Love this Aera of all goin' a bit slower. People are so well dressed up and life...maybe much harder..but less complicated!
Yeah no TV. Pure bliss. Just people loving their lives having fun.
Yes and old fashion dating no fake internet dating. People took pride in working hard for a living. And not trying to strike it rich on the internet selling there souls.
@@alipalix reality.
These films always remind me of how much we have lost from the past.
@@daviddixon9207 Amén!,
A time when people wore hats and dressed for success instead of what we have now out there. It is gorgeous and mesmerizing to watch this. Thank you ♥
I don’t miss all that heavy fabric.
Unlike the people who visit Wal-Mart in their pajamas
I always wear a hat when out in public.
How did they clean those suits? There were probably more cases of cancer with all the chemicals.
Sure, in the rich/business district. Don't forget about the slums, tenements, horse shit in the streets, lack of plumbing, etc. Dont over romanticize this.
One thing I’ve learned from watching these beautiful old enchanted videos of a long long time ago, you cannot always compare what is now with them , you have to respect them and their time, this was their world, this was their life as they lived it.
7.16 those young boys wouldn't have expected people to be watching them in 111 years!
I am born, raised and living in NYC And a history nerd. Watching this has me beyond gitty. The part when the cameraman was filming, which looks like central park, started panning to the left to a grand unknown building that doesn’t exist anymore, along with the music was awesome. I would love to see more of these videos and how life without TV, phones was back then. NYC was a bustling city then, is still bustling today!
We are so far removed from this era. After watching this, I am filled with a haunting nostalgia for a time and place I've never been too. Excellent soundtrack to a stunning video production.
Glad you enjoyed it
It may be interesting to note that at present a rich developer is making plans to revive Coney Island to its former glory.
Yes
That's great news!
A “Rich” developer you say, hmmmmm.
@@tamistone2632 Well I read that he is buying up all kinds of plots in the Coney island area. If you have more information, then do tell us!
@@tamistone2632 Donald Thrump
I don't know why; I feel nostalgic but still love watching this kind of video. It really captivated my soul.
It brings tears to my eyes so see a young America, in a good way.
Looking at this is so sad as everything looks so beautiful and elegant, we have been going backwards for a very long time when you look at what we have now.
Yes, it was a beautiful time to be sure. If those people could see how we are living now, they would most assuredly pity us greatly.
I am so sorry, but.... r u 2 guys nuts?!?! Yes, things were aesthetically beautiful back then, but, COME ON!!! U KNOW today's technology kills Anything old. The people back then would b JAWDROPPED 2 c it Nowadays! AND U KNOW IT!!!! Dont b jealous
@@mrednblack6 Thanks for proving our point. There was a lot more depth and substance to life in those days than the wonders of technology can replace.
@@willawallace2090 I didn't prove ur point at all. And there wasn't any more depth nor substance back then than there is 2day. Humans r the same today as they were, no matter what clothes they wore.
@@mrednblack6 All you mentioned was how much better technology is now. Granted. But what about the intangibles, the values society holds, the bonds between communities etc? All much weaker than they used to be. Look at popular culture as just one aspect of modern life, and tell me we haven't lost anything. If you don't see a difference between a society that read books and a society that watches Keeping up with the Kardashians and listens to Nicki Minaj singing about womens' privates, then we have no grounds for discussion anyway.
This is so amazing! Like jumping in a time machine and going back in time! The music fits perfectly with the emotion this evokes within me! Thank you for such a beautiful video!🥰
Glad you like it!
Vc é linda demais.
My dad was born in New York in 1910. Allthough it's not likely, one of those men walking or riding around could be my grandfather! Interesting to see a glimpse of the world that my father was born into. Thanks for the video.
My grandfather was a young boy in Seattle, and when I see old photos of downtown I wonder if he is in them. A good point.
Same here. My dad was 55 when I was born. He was orphaned, adopted by a millionaire family, and probably had a very upscale experience. But, he missed his widowed mom, and asked to return to her.
They were not tattooed, pierced and they didn't where their gym clothes to walk the city streets. And they didn't use the "F" word. and they actually bothered to get married BEOFRE having a child. We are now a sick society.
Great video! You can't reproduce these treasures. Would love to experience how it was for a day if realistically possible. Love how some of the pedestrians enjoyed being filmed not knowing we would be watching them 100 years later. Thanks for colorizing and posting!
I noticed the way people walked back then is different. you can tell a lot about people by the way they walk and carry themselves. These people all seem more confident, more at ease. more open, less rushed. Genuinely curious about the camera. in contrast, today many people seem to shrink and be very closed down like the world is beating them from all sides.
Plus, people today are all emersed in their phones as they walk along...it's sad!
Seems like a lot less fear in people back then.
Yet, in these times a man could expect to live to be about 50 years old. So most of the people/men you see out in the streets here are quite young by today’s measure. You lived and were healthy and vibrant, maybe had a couple shitty years then you croaked. Ironic, right? Much shorter life, but folks seem less afraid.
Well, it's Obvious WHY if you look closely.
all the people seen had their lives in front of them : now they are all dead yet they are immortalized
People are so polite and respectfull to each other.
How beautiful the world once was.
Though not without problems even then
That was before 1492.
It’s still beautiful. Take a walk around NYC - it still has the same feel and most of the architecture you see here still exists. As a New Yorker what always strikes me about these films is how the feel of walking around the city remains so similar today. It’s heartwarming.
@@jondiamond7383 I was more referring to the entire visual scenario of that era. Ornate design was once incorporated into nearly everything created. From the most mundane everyday objects, to the most grandiose structures, attractiveness was equal, if not more important than functionality. After WW2 all of that changed and now we live in a utilitarian world of cookie cutter subdivisions, endless stripmalls and boxy high rises.
Yeah all those filthy poor people, beautiful.
This channel is so criminaly underrated!
Agreed
Well, I hope to pass 100,000 viewers mark later today. By all means make as much publicity as you can for my channel! Thanks.
Agreed also
Amazing to realize that this was 17 years before my 95 years old father was born! What also strikes me is seeing class distinction notable by attire and cars. And realizing that every single person in this video is long ago deceased. We humans have such a short perspective.
A lot of small business owners and working class people still used horses, sometimes by preference, until WWI, a few even into the 1920’s. My great grandfather was a milkman who delivered by horse until his retirement in 1930. He didn’t so much retire in today’s sense of the word. He just stopped working because he was physically unable to do the job any longer, being crippled up with arthritis. His left leg became virtually useless because he’d been hit with shrapnel in the war.
@@mariekatherine5238 Signora Marie se sapessi che nel mio paese Sud Italia qualcuno andava in campagna con il cavallo che traina a una rudimentale carretta, correva l'anno 1980. Come se adesso li vedessi (marito e moglie, trottorelando) erano così carini. Cordiali saluti Italia.
I can't imagine wearing a suit, tie and hat or a woman wearing those long heavy dresses on a hot humid day, but you have to admit everyone looked so classy! Fascinating to look back in time at old NYC. Love your videos.
@André Gignac Yep, that's the way it was back then.
There are still people wear dress now days, but not so often.
It was modest and respectable. There is an expression, "clothes make the man". I personally prefer these styles to much of the very immodest or more shabby clothing seen in today's world.
Leah Lapidus so true sister.
I reside in NYC and do not, and cannot subscribe to the current mode of public dressing, which I find to be shabby, immodest, and indicative of the moral rot and degeneracy, which is deemed normal and mainstream today. Warm and humid weather is no excuse to gallavant in stages of undress or to be attired in garb suitable for tots and those who are adolescencents, or those bound for the beach. I continue to choose to wear a jacket, tie and hat, whatever season of the year because its what a gentleman properly wears. For being a gentleman is no longer a goal in a society given over to bestial and carnal pursuits.The material and fibers worn are suitably chosen to cope with the changes in climate and temperature, which is what people back then would have done. People were also used to wearing what they wore in those days and would have felt uncomfortable, not to mention ashamed of being reduced to a t-shirt, denim or shorts and flip flops. A mere servant would have turned there noses up from such displays of low rent expressions of physical appearance. Say what you want about folks back in the day, but at least they had standards, decorum, and dignity. Traits which are completely absent from people who think they're smarter, but are victimized and held captive in the very cages forged by their own stupidity and lack of common sense.
Charming. Those rides at Coney Island looked like a lot of fun.
I was stationed in the Brooklyn Navy shipyard back in the early 80's. Travelled to Manhattan many times. I think I caught the tail end of New York greatness.
My great grand father was living there in that time, he had just arrived the prior year from a small town in southern Italy. I can only imagine how much in awe he must've been seeing this for the first time.
I really enjoyed this. There are so many remastered versions of the 1911 New York video on UA-cam. I never saw this footage before. Thanks so much for posting.
How beautiful it all once was.... how sad it has become! 😢
Of all the colorized videos here, yours are the only ones I love.... the colorization is a work of art unto itself! Not garishly Disney-fied as all the others are. And, of course, the music is so very delightful. Congratulations on your fine work, always aim for the best, and may you continue your work in splendid health. 🌹
Thank you very much. I'lldo my best to continue this hobby, although good, interesting material is getting more and more scarce.
How sad has it become------you are obviously not from New York City....You don't know what the hell you are talking about.!
Not all was "beautiful". Those unregulated exhaust emissions clearly shown at 1:04 with black smoke everywhere and factory emissions probably contributed to the early deaths of a lot of people. What I find pretty fascinating is the amount of clothing these people are wearing, which is probably considered "scant" compare to 100 years earlier. We see what people are wearing today, much less, much thinner. Imagine in another 100 years. Clothing will likely be refined for optimum comfort + beauty, but will be likely more "skin-like" so as not to interfere as much with the body's movement. Probably a lot more like yoga pants, but thinner and with much more high tech and sustainable materials. And those future people will look back at videos from 100 years earlier (out time) and feel bad at how much clothing we all had to wear and how "thick it was" on our bodies. Lol.
@@privatename3621 You think that this country (world) is going to exist in 100 years?
Amazing, beautiful architecture
It is beautiful and beautiful! It's a pity to think that all those filmed people are no longer with us and that many had to go and experience the great war among other stories, I am VERY fascinated by fashion and the flow they had at that time and the very different era. Even knowing what it was like to live back then, I would have really liked to be one of them.
Majestic and happy music for a majestic and happy period of American history.
@@Hakim21210 Is happiness really a myth? Are you always sad and depressed? Of course war and poverty and sickness occurs someplace in every period of history, but so does peace and joy and good health and good times. Having a negative attitude will kill you sooner than if you had a more positive view of life.
Thinking of my grandmother, grandfather and other relatives living in NYC in 1910, what they were doing that day, that exact moment this footage was taken. Trying to build great lives for themselves
Very well done, eiegant, the music was passionate & moving & fitting for the era. Loved this!
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower Building that the person who shot this film begins to pan up on beginning at 8:24 was at the time that the film was shot the tallest building in the entire world standing 700 feet tall. A few years afterward the Woolworth building was built also in New York City and it stood almost 800 feet. Later, came the famous Empire State building whose height reached1250 feet. All three buildings still stand today.
I loved that shot. It was dramatic. I currently have multiple shots of the Met Life insurance building. It’s looks beautiful when it’s lights are on, on top of the roof and foggy.
@@juant3969 I'm glad it's still around, unlike many other notable buildings from that era.
Glorious footage from glorious days. Thank you for letting us go back to these wonderful times!!!
Any time!
2023 and I’m still watching this wonderful amazing Videos
Who had the foresight to capture the scenes so vividly? Love the young men, obviously wanting to be in the shot. Wonderful.
Thomas Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park.
@@ClueSign thank you
The thief of Menlo Park...
Thank goodness we have these time capsules
The only way to time travel. And thank you. For keeping the past alive.😊
Our pleasure!
Fascinating. One of the best yet.
This is so utterly beautiful. Thank you.
So amazing and fascinating to see Dead people comes alive in this old restore video!..so much appreciated!
RIP NY, you were once great.
Still great.
@@clovismcpony It's turned into a Third World dump. Not great. To say nothing of the elected criminals who run the place.
@@clovismcpony, Not until the demon👹crats lose control of NY, They have made a mess of a once fine city.
Still is!
@Truth Hurts All white people everywhere? Oh dear somebody's got a big chip on their shoulder.
Fantastic footage. I think the crowds on Wall Street may have been part of what they used to call the Curbside Exchange. That was an informal gathering place out doors where small investors and brokers would meet and buy/trade small numbers of bonds, shares of stock and also shares of companies not traded in the main exchange. It was like a giant rowdy financial flea market.
Interesting comment, thanks!
It would later be known as the American Stock Exchange. I should know. I am a New Yorker.
No computer high speed trading in those days being the computer was not even invented.
Thanks for this, my father was born on Manhatten, in Harlem in 1909............nice to see what it looked like then...
It seems like a dream. A simple way of life where people were kinder and loved the country.
They weren’t though. Try being Irish, or Italian or gay or black. Also which country? New York was a city of immigrants and nationalism was not in everyone’s face yet. (Good thing too. Too much can make you blind to your county’s flaws and then how will you fix them?)
Such incredible architecture and beautiful characters going about their daily business , somehow everything seems picture perfect ....thank you kindly 🇨🇦
Makes you wonder about time travel! Einstein said it couldn't exist but when you experience these pictures,you are ,in effect, travelling back in time! Astonishing. Same way, what if these people could have looked ahead, and see us!!!!!! I think they would have decided to stay in Thier own time period! What could happen in times to come??? Star Trek indeed?
Incredible! Moving images from 112 years ago!!!
I really love seeing these old films. Thanks for providing them in this color enhanced fashion. They bring the images to life in a very unique way. That image of the Times Square building is especially interesting for me because I have never seen the building in color in its original form. By the time I came along, it was covered in soot and streaked with car exhaust. The famous electronic news strip was already attached to it and portions of it were covered with billboards. But your clip shows it with its yellow terra cotta facade unencumbered. It was the new home of The New York Times newspaper after it moved uptown from the area around Park Row (hence the reason name Longacre Square was changed to Times Square). A big thumbs up, sir. Keep these films coming. Hurrah!
Thank you very much
This is so crazy cool. Wow. I was smiling and tearing-up at the same time.
My grandfather was born in 1883 and my grandmother in 1895. I'm glad I was born when i was and had access to people who lived during these times. These films need to be preserved as reminders of what we have lost. Yes we have gained many things too
Boy, this SURE takes me back. I remember all of this back when I was in my mid 30s. Such great memories and good times. Thanks for posting...😎👍
Lol! Happy 120th ( ish ) birthday so 🤣🤣 Tell me about your times back then? Did you fight in WWI? We’re you on the titanic??? 😆😆
@@louisecoffey9843 Yes. I've done it ALL...
...been there done ALL that!😎👍
Your scaring me what's your youthfully elixir?
What a great clip. The main thing that stands out to me is how wonderful some of the buildings look ... BUT also how old they look already ... almost as if they had been there for a far longer time than they should be ...
Кто строил? вопрос.Люди статисты ,среди древней архитектуры
From my Grandmothers stories from her early youth as a kid growing up on the lower East Side it really sounded like noting was better than that early to 1920s time to be in New York City. Everything was happening
This entire collection of videos has given me hours of pleasure, as well as amazement. Ric88888888 thanks so much
My pleasure!
What a lovely atmosphere! Makes me humble. All those lives are gone. Making space for new LIFE. It makes sence. Kind regards Kobus the Netherlands 👍😁
Many thanks
Thank you for showing me 1910 in New York.
@ 2:44 a knickerbockered boy in the street among other boys gathering momentarily at seeing the movie camera filming a long ago New York waves to us the viewer ~ just one poignant moment where delightful filmic ghosts going about their workaday and leisurely way communicate across decades. Sat at our desks or observing this arresting scene in whatever circumstance we can acknowledge the ghost-boy's friendly greeting and wave back across one hundred years to that happy New York boy where we too are ghosts in our own way to him ~ can't we? "Hello New York boy" :-)
I suppose we are Ghosts of New York Future, and he perhaps our distant nth~great grandfather, or his deuteragonist sidekick. So say, "Hello Great Grandsire / New York Old Gentleman, Sir."
I concur with other commentators below that after the early 60s almost everything has been going aesthetically uglier. Architecture of the past is so mesmerizing and complex. Also, the way people dressed and behaved, vehicles of the 30s up to 60s were styled amazing.
I gotta say since I was born and since I was 6. I’m passionate about architecture and got a degree for it. You say after the 60s architecture became uglier. I feel when the Art Deco era ended (1930 - 1940)which is my favorite of all, buildings became uglier. Back then, Architects were passionate about their career and creative. They were true artists. Now, i no longer see that passion. It’s all about making money. Developers, don’t care about architecture. In my eyes it’s a lost craft.
@@juant3969 Bravo! Architetto. Come non darle ragione. Cordiali saluti Italia
So sad to think that all those people in this video are all gone. Love this era
Beautiful images, as if you have landed in a fairy tale.
Thank you! Cheers!
Watching these videos is the next best thing to a time machine. Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
@@Rick88888888 Yes 👍🏼 very much! Thank you!
Another delightful glimpse into the past. The speed correction and subtle colorization are truly magical. I very much appreciate all of the postings on your channel. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
Congrats on your 100,000!
I wonder if anyone feels the same as me watching these old films.. a sense of sadness. They are busy going about their lives, preoccupied with its demands and troubles, and now all are dead, and many will be barely remembered, some entirely forgotten. Almost as if they never existed, except for a few photos, this film and maybe a gravestone. One day we shall pas away too, and I wonder who will remember us? Our children and grand-children, sure. After that, maybe not.
I guess all we can do is remember life is short and try to be kind to others while we are here.
Ah, you noticed! Thanks! My wife and I celebrated this event this evening with a special dinner! Indeed, not many people are able to create a legacy and 99.9999999% of us will disappear from this world into oblivion. Maybe some parts of my Rick88888888 channel will survive in future centuries, who knows.
@@Rick88888888 I hope so. For what it's worth, you bring joy (and some sadness) to many! Thank you, as always, for your hard work.
The To-be-forgotten
BY THOMAS HARDY
I heard a small sad sound,
And stood awhile among the tombs around:
"Wherefore, old friends," said I, "are you distrest,
Now, screened from life's unrest?"
-"O not at being here;
But that our future second death is near;
When, with the living, memory of us numbs,
And blank oblivion comes!
"These, our sped ancestry,
Lie here embraced by deeper death than we;
Nor shape nor thought of theirs can you descry
With keenest backward eye.
"They count as quite forgot;
They are as men who have existed not;
Theirs is a loss past loss of fitful breath;
It is the second death.
"We here, as yet, each day
Are blest with dear recall; as yet, can say
We hold in some soul loved continuance
Of shape and voice and glance.
"But what has been will be -
First memory, then oblivion's swallowing sea;
Like men foregone, shall we merge into those
Whose story no one knows.
"For which of us could hope
To show in life that world-awakening scope
Granted the few whose memory none lets die,
But all men magnify?
"We were but Fortune's sport;
Things true, things lovely, things of good report
We neither shunned nor sought ... We see our bourne,
And seeing it we mourn."
To YORKY... read your comment about maybe some of us alive now (2022/FEBRUARY 10) will be forgotten in some way as the rest of our RELATIVES pass on* and personnel DOCUMENTS/PHOTOGRAPHS/LETTERS (with our own handwriting)/CLOTHING/HOUSEHOLD ITEMS (which WE tend to hang on to on our wall units/shelves as they are MEMORIES of our PARENTS/FAMILY MEMBERS/HOLIDAY GIFTS and sadly thrown out/discarded by construction/demolition of our old apartment house (if you lived there all your life and now BIG NAME DEVELOPERS bought it from owner if you were,nt the owner that is) That is a sad situation unless you owned your home (maybe suburban as they seem to never be torn down in suburbs as they were all built in mainly the 1930s) and so your relatives if you have any move in and hang on to your personnel items for a while (years) after you are gone*Thanks for your comment YORKY!
Yes, amen
Amazing how quickly it went downhill
Really a nice trip back in time. Thanks for doing this for us.
Glad you enjoyed it
ABSOLUTELY, UNBELIEVABLY AMAZING! Thank you for sharing.
Wow, give real meaning 2 the song. The way we were. Also this special place in time.
Nostalgia in the ambience, in the light, in the simplicity and ordinariness of lives of bygone times, one may see through even if one is not connected with this city!
Amazing work rick, amazing footage of new York 👌😀👍
I was born in New York City in 1958, and as a boy went almost to every part of the city ,I remember going to Grants tomb, This is like time travel, I Remember coney Island as a boy my favorite part was the roller coaster and the spook house very fond memories part of who I am today
My grandfather was a police officer in Detroit between 1895-1921. I always hoped to see vintage film such as this one of Detroit but naturally New York was (and is) larger and audiences of that era would probably be more interested in film of New York. I love watching all the horse drawn conveyances on the streets and the way people of that time dressed. Also, how people stared at the cameraman, and the kids mugging for him in front. A fascinating look back.
Did he ask people filming for their IDs?
@@billp4 I don’t really know the answer.
The architecture is so grand. Beautiful. Thanks for posting .
magnificent- I recognize many of the places shown here.
Kindly fill-in the gaps in the time line (see the description and CC captions)
This movie looks like a different dimension!
Amazing quality film.
Very interesting to see how nice everything used to be.
We seem nowadays to be improving things to death.
Nice? Sweatshops, slums, no votes for women and just try being black or gay or poor. It looks pretty but it was a hard time with a war looming. It was no fantasy.
It's just amazing how atmospheric you want to plunge into this world. Great video, greetings from Russia😊
This was back when art was used to design interesting and wonderful buildings, unlike today, boxes of glass that replaced them. So many of the early buildings were demolished to make way for the new. Just another bit of history, the flat iron building replaced a similar looking building that housed the main Regina Music Box company store.
I can think of a number of lovely old buildings in my area that have been demolished and replaced with others with all the style of a matchbox! The sad demise of the cinema has contributed to this of course, and a few art deco style cinemas have been lost. But hey! that's progress 😕
Signs of the decline of civilization. Architects who put up a cardboard box are celebrated as genius's. It has gotten so bad that the masses do not even know the difference between garbage and art, be it music, painting, or architecture.
@@matrixist You hit the nail on the head.....amazing how people cannot even see quality.
I also enjoy the architecture of the earlier times better than now but you also have to understand a lot of these buildings needed to be demolished and rebuilt due to the number of toxic chemicals found in the fillings and foundation
@@sophia-O Part of what you say may be true, but the mindset in America is "out with the old and on with the new". Perfectly good Picture Palaces from the 1920's that were in decent shape were demolished to make way for a parking lot!
Congratulations......Great job with the films !!!
Thank you Very Much for sharing
Amazing & so much beautiful places.....
That's why many people all over the world love New York City !!!
It's a dream for me.....I hope near in the future I can make it come true.
You can tell that most of these people are fascinated and attracted to the Photographer .!
The camera was a very rare big piece of equipment or a time traveler 🤔🤣
@@laurajaye9 The camera was not rare at the time---just very expensive and cumbersome to handle .!
My late father was born in 1910 and worked around Wall Street post WW2 and I used to live, work and go to a university and fashion art school in the late 1960s and 70s in Manhattan. This brought back many memories of seeing some of these iconic buildings! The former Metropolitian Life building looked really sky high for 1910! Have always loved those straw boater hats the men wore back then , so much classier than backwards baseball hats says this former retired NYC fashion illustrator, imho! Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane!💗💗💗💗
Lol the “tour bus” near the start which said “Seeing NY” on the back of it. My sister and I would have been in that if we lived back then. Except in 2008 we were Seeing NY in one of the open top busses. How similar things are now except so different! Hello old NY from new Ireland 🇮🇪❤️
I just love the saying, - "Nothing changes...but everything changes". Hello from Sydney (currently in a late lockdown, siiigh).
Hello mate from Liverpool England 👍🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧
at 0.55 they’re in Columbus circle after getting in the carriage, too bad a bus comes right in front of them to block out the scene fro a few seconds. My father was 3 years old living in harlem at the time , some of it was Italian back then , his father brought him here in 1907 from Abruzzi Italy .
Wow, it’s so weird seeing people without masks on. Amazing footage
But they wore them at least for 2 years and more when the spain epidemic broke out. There's lots of videos about that matter on you tube to watch at. And no modern medical means at that time.....not to mention a vaccin.
@@gudrunleopoldsberger3377yep no tinkering with human genome back then
GOOD TO SEE THAT STATUES WERE STILL STANDING IN THOSE DAYS.
The statues are still there.
Great video! :) The building at 8:24 seems to be the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building and Tower, Madison Square
Astonishing. Beautiful world.
I grew up a few miles from Coney Island... surprised to see so many cars in 1910...the air pollution was horrendous!
Enough with the air pollution and enjoy the past...
Why didn't you note also all the crackheads 🤔