Old NEW YORK in 1925 & Coney Island
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- A Dutch couple took this 16mm film almost a century ago. Dino Cali commented: 'Lower and Central Manhattan and Brooklyn, the Woolworth Building and the Metlife Tower (at the end)'. How much has changed in the meantime ? In the 17th century New York = Nieuw Amsterdam, was a Dutch settlement. We still lament having given it up ! Note that at 2.47 a swastika is painted on a touring bus. The Rialto Sightseeing New York City used a right-facing swastika as their logo at the time.
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Not one single person had a clue that 95 years later they would be on a thing called UA-cam in a thing small enough to fit in a briefcase or even a pocket of their shirts or pants. And that anyone can see them from any part of the world.
In 1925 the swastika was not known as the Nazi Party symbol. It was still the ancient Hindu sign for good luck.
Hitler designed the nazi flag in 1920 and by 1925 he would have been widely recognized as its leader
After a fall i a. Revalidating. Hope to resumé before i become 91 🙂🙂
Hope you are doing well,!
I am 76 and recovering
from a hit and run car that
hit me while walking home,!
This video is amazing nearly 95 years ago.
Many of the little boys seen here would have grown up to fight in ww2.
My Dad being one of them...God rest his soul.
@@ellierfromthebronx4531 Your father is a hero from an era of heros. God bless you.
Clay Jones God doesn't exist.
@@Tony_Spilatro You do not belive in God, but He believes in you!
subrosa Fuck How can he believe to me, he doesn't exist.
This is the closest to going back in time! Love these videos.
Good happy times that will never come black!
I have a fold-out/accordian-fold postcard souvenir from Luna Park that belonged to my paternal grandparents (who were old enough to my great-grandparents). The object is copyrighted 1920 (same era as the film). This is the first time I have seen motion pictures of Luna Park. Thanks for sharing!
Kirk Douglas and Olivia de Havilland were 9 and Betty White was 3 when this video was filmed and they are still living. Awesome.
Hunter deja so sry about mama and that you're able to reminisce with good memories
Wow 88 years what a blessing. Hope you enjoying pic and most definitely the memories🤗😇
My late father was about 5 months old when this film was shot. My grandfather was a bricklayer. He worked on many of the major projects such as Rockefeller Center.
fr2ncm9 He did a good job.
In 1925, Eleanor Powell was 13, Ruby Keeler was 14, Ginger Rogers was also 14, and Judy Garland was 3
I was taken back in year 1925. Thank you for sharing the video. God bless you.
Amazing video but you should lose the soundtrack because it's wrong. The car horns are all wrong. way to contemporary those cars should be going" a wooga "not beep beep "in the key of f
sterlinggreg a Wooga ......LMFAO 😂😂😂
@@roccomanucci lmaooo
Feels like going in a time machine.. WOW LOVE IT. IM A NATIVE NYer Born in brooklyn. My father was born in brooklyn in 1928. And hearing his stories of growing up in the 30s 40s and 50s made it sound almost mythical. Seeing these old videos just validates everything he ever told me.. I live in staten island now I drive for Pepsi cola so I deliver to coney island once a week.. sometime I stand on the boardwalk and wish I could travel back to those magical early decades so long ago. Your videos are as close as it gets.. BEAUTIFUL KEEP EM COMING..
By the looks of it, slim pants and straw hats were all the rage. Also, everybody looking their best for all occasions.
Straw hats were in style like 60 - 80 years! Nothing in comparison today
No Walmart fatties trolling around....
Nope. Most people couldn't afford to indulge and pig out back then, plus people in general physically worked harder and were less lazy than many people today. I'm sure that most of us have had a grandpop born and raised in that era who's told us "you're all so spoiled and lazy today, back then we all had to really work to get what we wanted".
No processed, genetically modified food.
BTV= Before TV.
Hey no ones looking down at there phone or texting 🤔🤔😂😂😂😂
gee i wonder why
If they were smart enough to invent them, then they would have used them.
@@ronaldmayle1823 right
I know. That's amazing. It proves that it IS possible to actually walk down the street without constantly playing with their phones. (Yes, I know cell phones weren't around back then.)
FumariVI yes wish I could go back there no cell phones,no tv a simpler life 🙂
I expected to see Harold Lloyd hanging from one of those buildings !!
Hooray for Harold Lloyd bad ap bad ap bad ap
That was when actors had guts. Or were just plain crazy. Check out Lillian Gish in the icy river scene in Way Down East. It's all real.
I'm looking for Rodolph valentino ♥️ in 1925 he was still alive ...
Amazing..100 years ago...as much as things change..as much as they stay the same.
My uncle was 7 and my dad was 9 and both were in the coming WW2. Good thing that we can only see their future here.
Like these old films. Thank you Michael. I wondered how you were personally I had not seen you on posting any videos for several months now. .
What a fantastic Old New York City!
Time Travel is great!
Darrell Sadler would love to go back in time and see it all for myself
@@nobody9126 Bring your straw hat.
@@nobody9126 The people would be amazed at how fat I am.
For white men that is.
@Zenon Antruzinon that's how stupid and dumb Luna is.
I wonder if people back then could ever imagine what shit it would turn to....
people are not as well dressed now as they were then, still it is not a shitty place today nor did everyone in all five borough live comfortable lives back then. Keep in mind that in the 1920s America was in an economic boom before the great depression.
Yes, some people could see some things will come. Compared to the times before 1925.Even today you can sense the coming troubles.
In 1929, it was sure a long fall from the top
Even with the depression and war coming it was better than this fucked up place.
@@susanb2015 really...
Fascinating footage of wonderful old NYC... love the boater hats many of the gents are wearing, so cool!
I remember the old fashioned street lights in New York City with an "acorn" shaped glass refractor (lens) does continued into as late as 1968 as seen on the pictures before switching into more modern Mercury Vapor lamps in 1968 in some area of New York City, then several years later, Sodium Vapor lamps, and now LED street lights. It show the vintage street light as shown on the upper right of the screen at 1:13. Sure gonna miss them. Same thing to the vintage street lights in Detroit Michigan with an "acorn" shaped refractor (lens).
LED lights are insane
If I went back there I don't think I would return.
Outstanding job with the sounds! I wonder if those buildings are still standing.
Most of the buildings they show are landmarks, churchs, Woolworth Bldg was tallest in world until late 1920s
"We're going to the beach? Okay, let me just put on my best 3 piece suit."
I amazed from where you always got all this footage
☺️ These are Awesome I can look at them All Day ❤️
Would be amazing to go back in time for one day and just walk around I love this
you would have to wear a hat.
@@caroltenge5147 I was just thinking that 🤔
wow! Thank you for sharing this! Fascinating and amazing to look back in time! :-)
Thank you! This was wonderful. I have many photographs of my grandmother Elsie as a teenage girl at the beach at Coney Island during this time, with her brother Albin and her friend Chickie along with some pics of her mother too. I've never before seen motion picture. Adding the sound was lovely. Great job!
Even in the 60s days were like this. More more more !
@@CoolLimitedNYourStuf My Mom used to take me to Rye Beach, The Bronx Zoo and the Automat. Coney Island too.
I just went back in time, thank you! I love clips like this😊
Manhattan 1925, the year Scribner's published F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel The Great Gatsby.
I'm a door and there is a scribner family living here
Sorry I'm a doorman and there's a scribner living here
Is it me or was there a swastika on the back of that bus @2:46?
It still means peace. Time to bring it back
@@medicineman2210 I agree. Why let the Nazis have it? We surrender too easy. The fasces, a Roman symbol of government authority, was on the back of the Mercury dime. Changed when the Italian Fascists used it.
@@DavidSmith-sb2ix Because it's too synonymous with Nazis. People are not that interested how it's rotated. It means genocide to too many people and their perception is their reality. I don't ever see it being used unless the Alt-Right try to claim it as meaning "peace" when they would want it to instill fear and hatred.
Blue Skies you’re wrong.
So sad how the nazes ruined the peace sign!
Thank you for sharing. There is something special about how people dressed back then, especially when you look at the baggy sloppy shorts that creates laziness and disrespect.
Isn't it cool to literally look through time and see people who are long gone now after having lived long fruitful lives. Even the children in this video are gone. Entirely new generations of people are on the planet. Kinda cool.
1925 the year my mother was born. She passed away in 1990.
Professor Pat Pending God bless her soul
Professor Pat Pending very sorry for your loss.
MT FunnyBones. thankyou for your kind words MT FB.
Mom would have been 18 in 1925 here she is a few years earlier, oldest of three:
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My Mom was born 1925 also. Came up from North Carolina in 1934. The stories she could tell about her life in NYC and Brooklyn during the depression and war times, then to move to Long Island in the 1950’s until her death just this year at 92 and had been still as sharp as a tack.
Great video...nice to see an old roller coaster along with the Luna Park Entrance which are gone. Old buildings in New York in the beginning of the video are probably gone as well. So much history that is no longer around.
That was one brave policeman standing in the middle of the street with all of that traffic.
Thanks for sharing love it.
Great video. Thanks for your work.
Thanks for sharing ... love to watch this old flicks 😘😘
Everyone's so elegantly dressed! 😊😊
I really love the fashion back then. When most people dressed their best and almost every man and woman you see in this video are wearing such nice hats. Seems like the boater hat is very popular during this time. I believe it was more of a summer hat that a lot of men would wear. I also saw a lot of early Fedora's and I love how most of the boys and young men would be wearing the classic Newsboy hats. Awesome video! I actually wear suits and my hats most of the time myself. Course it is mainly for the work I do, which is going around antique shops, pawn shop vintage shops and homes to fix antique clocks, watching and pocket watches. Usually I will be dressed up like this when I make a house call. I usually only do house calls on large clocks, like huge heavy wall long case clocks and tall grandfather clocks. I actually did a house call yesterday on a 1938 Howard Miller grandmother clock that the guy was actually wanting to have fixed and was wanting to sale it. When I asked how much he wanted for it "me thinking he is going to want like $1200 and up" and he sold it to me for $50 bucks!! I was honest with him when I looked this type of clock up and saw that is goes for about $5500 to $8300 is the highest I have seen on this type. Anyway he said he didn't care what it was worth, he just wanted to either get it running and give it to his son "which didn't want it anyway" or sale it as fast as he can to make room. Not to mention he said it belonged to his ex, course he did not say it like I did lol. Still cannot believe I got this really nice grandmother clock for so little!! I got it running last night and I have to say that it is now one of my favorite clocks out of my entire clock collection! I also work on pretty much any time piece you can throw my way. I do love a challenge! Oh well, just thought I'd share this with whoever wanted to read this.. Again I really enjoyed the video! I always felt that I was in the wrong time, I would have been a lot more happier growing up in the late 1880's up to the 1920's and would be awesome to have skipped the great depression! Everyone in their lives will always witness some sort of tragedy.
i have heard that sometimes or often these filming events were advertised in advance and people were encouraged to come out to be in the film and to dress nice?
I felt like I grew up in the wrong time period too. Instead of growing up in the 80's, i wish I grew up in the 1950's.
The 50s were peddle pushers and the first bikinis. These old films show people in too heavy and hot as hell in the summer clothing. Flappers exosted in 1925, not everything was so conformist.@@jasonkhan854
I am from Pakistan and I am loving your old videos. Sir they are interesting
I know, back then in Pakistan, England owned big Indian ans all your asses....
The 'handsome boy' Pashto dance video is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
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The best thing about this life is it will come to an end. Most of these people are dead and took nothing with them. They left everything behind. We just don't take notice and think about what come next. We just think about this brief life and justifying our greed and evil souls
When people were proud to be American and NYC was the greatest place in the world.
A smartly dressed, gracefully moving boy of about 12 or 13 appears in some scenes, obviously conscious of playing a role in them. I suppose he was a child of the Dutch couple traveling with them. Note that as they approach the beach at Coney Island he mimes swimming motions as if to introduce what is about to come.
Well observed. In fact this couple traveled on to London, Paris and Rome, but I do not recall seeing him in the clips of those visits.
I love the view of the church at the beginning . Sadly , dwarfed by new high rises .
🇧🇷 Brazil. Amazing images of a so busy city even in 1925!
Tomthink some of those youngsters would have gone on to fight in WW2,,,,to go on and see Rock n Roll,Elvis an ever evolving world cars like Cadillacs with fins skin to space ships,alien compared to an old model T,,,great stuff
My Dad emigrated to Brooklyn from Stavanger, Norway, at ten years old in 1925. I have pictures of him dressed just like these young boys here with the cap, knickers, high socks. He later signed up for the Navy, but was needed for the infantry in WWII, Battle of the Bulge, Staff Sergeant, machine gunner- Purple Heart recipient. Gratefully he lived ‘till 1990. He would have loved to see have seen this film footage.
Nancy Beth wow. Thank you for sharing that anecdote. 😊
My Dad was eight in 1925 my gosh He sure did see a lot of changes in his life time. He passed away in 1995 . Miss Him.
I was surprised when I saw the swastica (sp?) on the back of the tour bus at 2:45. Was that common in 1925?
Before the Nazis used the swastika, it used to be a symbol meant to represent good fortune and well being. The Nazis took the symbol and pretty much destroyed it's original meaning. It would be like if a terrorist organization that caused a war and killed millions used the peace sign, eventually the peace sign will lose it's original meaning because it will be associated with the terrorist organization..
I also noticed this at 2:45, but in 1925 America it had a different meaning. The Nazis had yet to come to power in Germany
Mike Roerig The American Indians also used the swastika as well. I believe the Finnish Air Force still uses a swastika on their planes, I saw that not long ago.
Spain uses the swastika and kkk type outfits in their ,I imagine very old )traditions.
ceremonial outfits
@Chadwicked B your mom.
Great video so important to preserve the history of man kind. Kids today should watch these kind of films.
Haha, I like this cheerful young boy mocking a cameraman at 3:00 🤣
And to think that boy is now most likely dead.
No cyclone yet. Built in 1927. Luna Park burned down around that time I think.
Actually, Luna Park burned down in 1944.
Fabulous & fascinating! I love old images of Coney Island too. Thanks so much for sharing - it's priceless.
That is amazing!! To see it running with a normalized frame rate makes such a HUGE difference. They feel like real people rather than cartoon-ish.
I have a 1925 model T coupe in original condition. When younger folk look at it they dont know what to make of it. "Where is the radio?" "Does it have air conditioning?" Haha. Sure it does, if I roll down the windows and drive.
It's a real time machine. Top speed was 40mph.....but who was in a hurry?
Was 40 mph 😆
@@6421rich you got that right! "Was." 94 years of rattling nuts and bolts......top speed is now 30mph..
When I show folks my 1927 Durant Star, I take care to tell them that the factory-installed SATNAV system *sucks*.
Ha! horns, traffic & ppl walking into traffic! That has not changed! And the Cyclone still stands. gives ya whiplash but it's fun! Thank You for this! luv my city! 😊
at 7:48 the merry go round sequence has such a magic effect!
Just one thing...wished they showed Nathan’s
Nice sound, Michael. At 8:47, we hear the conductor announcing "F train to Coney Island". Of course, in 1925, it was called the Culver Line. But, of course, you knew that.
@@pexaminer Yes, of course. That is the point, that the added sound referred to the line as the "F Train". That subway line was not called the F Train in 1925. It was called the Culver Line.
@@bedfordbanjoshop Oh, I see. Somehow I missed the fist sentence in your original comment. Thanks.
@@pexaminer Yes, I understand - thanks. It's always nice when someone responds to comments I leave.
cool.....I love seeing old film like this.....* if that was the "Comet " roller coaster in Coney Island.....it is now in use up here in Lake George, NY at the Great Escape Amusement Park....
1FM
Lake George, NY * thumbs up !!!
Great vid,,,without the past there isn't a future,,,,funny to watch these folks much like today,dreams,ambitions or just downtrodden,,,,,,it's likeness Ellington back and an exploration into another dimension,,,,,,big Thanx from me in lil old England,,,
4:31- I wonder if those same jetties are still there...
What a time to have lived in
God if I can just go back to the roaring 20s one day. Visit all the food places. See the sites and then go to a speakeasy at night where they played big band jazz
Beautiful outstanding amazing presentation 😍😘👑👑😘👑😘😍😍❣️🌼🌸
2:44 13 years later the company became bankrupt
New York City of 1920s looks the way more civilized and developed than some parts of Russia these days, not to mention such countries as Pakistan, or whatever...
Not anymore
Thank you very much for sharing this video!
It was something to see the wooden spoke car wheels and the bias-ply tires on the Manhattan cobblestone streets. I'm surprised half the cars weren't pulled over at the side fixing flat tires! I wonder how well they held up?
My grandfather, 25-years old at the time, was living in Brooklyn and frequenting speakeasies with my grandmother who was a ‘Flapper.’ Life was good until Wall Street ‘Laid an Egg’ in October of 1929. Shortly after, work was hard to come by and my grandparents moved up to Winthrop, Maine so my grandfather could work in his cousin’s mill. My father was born in Winthrop May 1st, 1936. My grandfather contracted tuberculosis there and spent a few years in a Sanitarium. My father, who turns 83 this Wednesday (5-1-2019) did not even know he had a father until he was 5-years old.
The PanAm building was built in 1963 just north of Grand Central Station on Park Avenue. Eighteen years later it became the MetLife Building.
Nothing has changed with respect to horn blowing lol
FYI, this is all sound added. There was not recorded sound on film for a few years.
There were. Not too many people in New York with the last name of Hernandez Sanchez Rodriguez it was more 90% White ! The people who built this country 😉
Hat sales off the charts
Amazing how much is still recognizable.
I'm glad they took the movies, which are mostly good, but they made the error a lot of amateur film shooters made (including myself): they'd pan up and waste valuable film shooting uninteresting buildings.
I would give so much to visit 1905-1940's coney island. Luna Park, Dreamland, Steeplechase, and the late 1950's coney island.
I grew up in the 90's and some of the steeplechase remnants was still around such as wallpaintings and the burnt Thunderbolt, but by the late 2000's, everything was gone. The old school 90's dj's are somewhat disappearing from the rides as well, stuff i grew up with.
Who filmed this and why? Your average person wouldn't have a camera.
Indeed. 16mm was introduced only two years before. They were well-to-do and journeyed on to London, Paris and Rome. See my clips on these places.
+MichaelRogge Thanks! I will. Very cool stuff.
This is New York. If there was one camera in the world back then this would be the place to film.
Read the caption if you could be bothered.
@Steve Witte uh, really!! Cause I filmed this.
Sounds like the background noise was added in, the sound of modern day car horn is heard.
i had no idea roller coasters existed in the mid-1920's... probably sketchy beyond belief
We still have an original "Cyclone" coaster here in Denver! It was built in 1927! I've been on it many times! However, it is a pretty tame ride!!
Just found your channel ! The images come to life with
The great sounds you add.
:D
Wonderful use of inserted sounds. BTY--a swastika is an ancient good luck symbol. Many antique postcards have swastikas.
I was wondering if I was the only one that noticed the sound effects!
Really great 👌 I guess yet there was no sound at the time. The sound appeared a little later 😉
Marcin tak, to Ja yes the Horns are not from that era
louis reniers damn i was gonna say that
If someone fiqures out how to jump in this film please let me know
The Swastika seen @2:47 is The Aztec Symbol for The Sun. Before Hitler used it, It had no association with Nazis. And the term "Swastika" was unheard of. In German it loosely means " The Crooked Cross"
Love my city New York
Rehman Amjad what?
New York is just fine.
Rehman Amjad sadly it turned to illegals socialist and welfare tun by commie mayor de Blasio
@billyfromtheusa When is the last time you've stepped foot in NYC, billy? Also, where do you hail from?
@billyfromtheusa If you've never actually set foot in NYC exactly how do you arrive at the conclusion that it is "the #1 cesspool of the u.s."?
Do you feel that it is worse than say, St. Louis, Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, Birmingham, Baton Rouge, Milwaukee, Washington DC, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Memphis, Oakland, Atlanta, Richmond...etc, etc. If you do, tell us in what way. Okay? I'm very curious.
It is fair to assume that you live in a rural area and not in a city?
Wow 94 years ago it's like looking into the past with a time machine.
A great look back in time my father was born in 1925 I was born in 1954 it's wonderful to see these old movies how life was I have to say there are to Heroes here one is the men who took the video the other one are the people that are now showing the video thank you so much 👍🇺🇸
also remenber the many people protected this fim for the 100 or so years till i got transfered to digetal media
''Swastikas were very common on food labels in the 1920s, especially food and produce from the West Coast. Here is a label from a crate of oranges by the Western Queen brand out of Rialto, California.
The image was also a very common image of Native Americans during this era.''
Well I don’t know about all the other comments but I do know I enjoyed it thank you for taking us back in time
Não tem um vivo mais dessa época.
I can’t wait til the day virtual reality is so complex and advanced we might be able to experience this first hand.
Cool idea!
Like a Star Trek Holodeck
Why don't you just go to Coney Island?
I totally agree but please don't wait to make wonderful memories of your own whether it's in NYC or Coney Island or wherever you are at any given moment for time marches on and tomorrow's not promised. ☮
Sad you can't enjoy today.
Ladies on boardwalk -- I adore the cotton dresses. I get plus-size manmade-fiber ones on mizrak. Everywhere now, you see women bulging out of jeans. Dresses look nicer, add a touch of formality, are cheaper!
Ahhhh, Coney Island in the summer with Hot dogs and Italian ice.
Remembering my childhood just not as far back as then, lol.
Thank you for the glimpse of the past.
I enjoy watching these old reels.
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Henry Ford started mass producing the Model T in the early 1900s. By 1925 the streets were full of cars. shareholders of Ford stock in the 1920s got rich (or comfortable) later on if they held their shares.
This totally awesome! More please.
I have some more on New York. Search with: 'michael rogge new york'
I love it thanks for sharing!
Used to take the train to Coney from the village. The boardwalk was new and the water was clean!
My great grand parents can be one of the people on that beach.. first in my family in America from italy, lived in sheepshead bay and would spend weekends at coney island. In 1925 they would have been 27 and 35.. Younger than i am watching this..
Thank you for uploading this amazing footage..
Great video brings back so many memories, great 👍
I’d love to see this restored.