Wow - nearly all of the buildings and green spaces are still there today - and look nearly the same. Heck, even the swan boats are still running. Boston has done a great job of preserving it's character over the years.
I could sob just looking at this. My family goes back to Medford and Somerville MA, just outside of Boston, to the late 1800's. I went to school at Newman Prep on Marlborough Street right near here. Copley Square is So Beautiful. This is Amazing. You do AMAZING WORK. Thanks so much for Posting This. :)
Ce fil invisible qui nous relie et nous rapproche au cœur de cette communauté avide de plonger encore et encore dans ce passé merveilleux mais aussi tellement souvent difficile... et c est par votre intermédiaire Nass..merci pour tout ce travail de mémoire...
I WISH I CAN GO BACK IN TIME TO THE YEAR 1920 BOSTON AND SEE THE CLOTHES THEY WEAR AND THE CARS THEY DRIVE WHO WANTS TO GO BACK IN TIME WITH ME GIVE ME A HELL YEAH
I was thinking just the opposite. Many of the buildings are covered with soot and grime. The Old North Church looks really ratty - needs work and a paint job.
My home town, too. Amazing that so much of this is still recognizable after 100 years. Even saw a shot of Harvard Medical School at 9:24. Worked right behind that at the Brigham, but loved to sit out on the quad on nice summer days.
Hard to believe this is the 1920s, so much looks the same (but for the awful skyscrapers). I tried to find Scollay Square in the above views but couldn’t recognize it. Of course that was all demolished after WWII. Views of the Charles & Cambridge were nice. Nice to imagine my father and grandparents there. Thanks for sharing this high quality video.
Very interesting. Thanks for uploading. 😊 I remember all the stories my great- grandparents and uncles/aunts told me about the 20s. The story of my great uncle seeing a black person for the first time was a funny one. (No, it wasn’t racist or divisive in any way)
for non-local history buffs; just in front of the doors of the meeting house @02:03 is the site of the Boston Massacre. The church steeple @03:26 is where the two laterns were hung to signal the British approach by sea. @03:48 we're now 12 or so miles outside the city in Lexington at the Battle Green. Where the Revolution began.
No West End. At about 9:49 the camerman looks down on Custom House tower and Quincy Market area and in next few seconds you see the blocks destroyed to put in the Central Artery. Later there's more footage of blocks in the path of the artery. At 10:32 you see Dock Square behind Faneuil Hall and farther to the right, Hanover St in the area destroyed to build City Hall and Govt Center. I'll say this is like a lot of other photo documentary work of the period-- the camera always lingers on the historic sites, the parks, Harvard, but ignores the everyday areas. You never see photos or movie footage from 100 years ago on the South End or the West End.
The footage spent a lot of time focusing on architecture and statues that remain the same to this day. I really longed to see more of Boston in the context of the 1920`s. Images of the State House or the Christian Science Church and other structures and sculptures and monuments, which still exist in nearly the exact same form did not really take me back to Boston in the 20s. Sorry if that sounds ungrateful but it is this old Boston native`s honest opinion of this video.
Definitely, they should have focused on expanding the subways and kept the expressway and the Mass. Pike out of downtown without sacrificing the Fens for the inner belt.
7:44 the Charles River and the Smoot Bridge! Measured length is 364.4 smoots + 1 ear. Measured by drunken MIT students. Formerly the Harvard Bridge 😉😁😏
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It's unreal how noisy the cars were. They had Mr Ford to thank for this noise shock after they had been used to horse drawn wagons. Today's cars, especially the electric ones, are quiet in comparison.
Every four to six seconds the screen/frame image jumps. About 8 minutes into the video I think I threw up in my throat. Other than that, nice video and nice colorization.
So sad . All these old cities buried under skyscrapers, ugly architecture, endless roads. Such a shame. American cities have retained almost nothing of the past. I guess we can drive to our local dozen or so strip malls on every block of every city.
@@EdwardM-t8p Yes, although what they got in the West End was generic new development with no character. At least Dock Sq and Scollay were replaced with distinctive urban design, architecture, and all public space not just private gated complexes. Artery terrible but considerably improved by putting it underground.
Actuslly it doesn’t look all that different for the older stuff…. Amazed how we built cites between 1680 and 1940… most of that stuff is still standing and better than ever…. Minus the typical ugly glass skyscrapers…. Amazed how Europeans could build such beautiful places
@@brianog5267 The grass is always greener. . . . When Europeans comer to America, the want to see the new and modern stuff (the ugly glass skyscrapers as you call them). High on their list are cities like Las Vegas, LA New York and Miami.
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Don’t tell us what to do! lol jk
thanks for doing my states capitol @NASS_0 :)
I’m from Boston I work for the MBTA. Some of those buildings are still there . Wow great video
Wow - nearly all of the buildings and green spaces are still there today - and look nearly the same. Heck, even the swan boats are still running. Boston has done a great job of preserving it's character over the years.
;)
best city in the us imo
An aerial view too?? This is amazing.
People were so calm.
I could sob just looking at this. My family goes back to Medford and Somerville MA, just outside of Boston, to the late 1800's. I went to school at Newman Prep on Marlborough Street right near here. Copley Square is So Beautiful. This is Amazing. You do AMAZING WORK. Thanks so much for Posting This. :)
I was born and raised in North Cambridge, Tricia. I still live here, but now In Everett.
@@paulsullivan1650 I love Cambridge. My Father was a Fireman in Medford. He jogged at Fresh Pond for Years. Nice to Meet You. :)
This was my birthplace. Really wonderful to see it so many decades ago. The aerial shots were really something.
The city of my birth. Many things have changed.....But many remain the same. Thanks for making this NASS!
;)
Ce fil invisible qui nous relie et nous rapproche au cœur de cette communauté avide de plonger encore et encore dans ce passé merveilleux mais aussi tellement souvent difficile... et c est par votre intermédiaire Nass..merci pour tout ce travail de mémoire...
Merci à vous
Wow, my grandparents could be in there somewhere! Thanks so much, sharing with friends & family!👍👍
;))
Excellent job, Nass! A+ to you! 👍👍👍💯💪
thank you very much
Weird seeing the Trinity Church without the Hancock Tower (200 Clarendon St) next to it, very cool!
I WISH I CAN GO BACK IN TIME TO THE YEAR 1920 BOSTON AND SEE THE CLOTHES THEY WEAR AND THE CARS THEY DRIVE WHO WANTS TO GO BACK IN TIME WITH ME GIVE ME A HELL YEAH
I do, people dressed with class back then. Cheers
HELL YEAH xdd
x))
All caps. LMAO
@@TheMixxon2HELL YEAH
Great video super NASS Boston was great in 1920 big support from Croatia
thx bro!
I know the city so well. This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing!
Another great production.
My grandfather graduated from MIT in 1921. Cool to see the area as he would have seen it.
My grandfather as well, I wonder if they knew each other? :-)
@davebushnell9283 Quite possibly.
Everything looks so clean!
I was thinking just the opposite. Many of the buildings are covered with soot and grime. The Old North Church looks really ratty - needs work and a paint job.
My home town, too. Amazing that so much of this is still recognizable after 100 years. Even saw a shot of Harvard Medical School at 9:24. Worked right behind that at the Brigham, but loved to sit out on the quad on nice summer days.
I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN CAMBRIDGE. I STILL LIVE JUST A FEW MILES SOUTWEST OF BOSTON, IN NORWOOD.
Amazing. Thank you
As good as it gets.
Hard to believe this is the 1920s, so much looks the same (but for the awful skyscrapers). I tried to find Scollay Square in the above views but couldn’t recognize it. Of course that was all demolished after WWII. Views of the Charles & Cambridge were nice. Nice to imagine my father and grandparents there. Thanks for sharing this high quality video.
4 minute mark looks like Lexington. Can anyone confirm or I am completely wrong?
Yes, Lexington and Concord both.
Thank you for making these video's.
;))
Very nice
thank you
Boston… with a little Lexington and Concord thrown in. Plus a dash of Cambridge.
No Lexington and Concord, but Cambridge and Charlestown!
@@tomtalley2192 Lexington at 3:48, followed by Concord. (I live in Lexington and totally recognized it.)
Amazing
No traffic. No middle fingers. No drunk fights or obnoxious sports fans. No one in a hurry. And I'm supposed to believe this is Boston??
no drunk fights?!
I could literally go to 90% of the places in this video right now. It's amazing how much it still looks the same after 100 years.
excelente !!
;)
Seeing Boston with no business skyscrapers is so weird
Gracias amigo.
Very interesting. Thanks for uploading. 😊 I remember all the stories my great- grandparents and uncles/aunts told me about the 20s. The story of my great uncle seeing a black person for the first time was a funny one. (No, it wasn’t racist or divisive in any way)
I understand. In fact Massachusetts was one of the few states were lynching was extremely rare. If it happen once in a few decades was too much.😐😐
Very nice. would love to see some of the places which no longer exist like Scollay Square and the West End
The West End is still there, the heart of Boston
for non-local history buffs; just in front of the doors of the meeting house @02:03 is the site of the Boston Massacre.
The church steeple @03:26 is where the two laterns were hung to signal the British approach by sea.
@03:48 we're now 12 or so miles outside the city in Lexington at the Battle Green. Where the Revolution began.
If you look closely you can see some of the MBTA trolley cars that are still in service to this very day. Why, I rode on one of them a week ago.
go to the boylston green line station, there's a real old trolley car there off on the side.
NASS! Thank you!
I couldn't tell if the West End shows up in this video.I do see MGH.If anyone knows where it shows up please comment on how many minutes in it is.
No West End. At about 9:49 the camerman looks down on Custom House tower and Quincy Market area and in next few seconds you see the blocks destroyed to put in the Central Artery. Later there's more footage of blocks in the path of the artery. At 10:32 you see Dock Square behind Faneuil Hall and farther to the right, Hanover St in the area destroyed to build City Hall and Govt Center. I'll say this is like a lot of other photo documentary work of the period-- the camera always lingers on the historic sites, the parks, Harvard, but ignores the everyday areas. You never see photos or movie footage from 100 years ago on the South End or the West End.
The footage spent a lot of time focusing on architecture and statues that remain the same to this day. I really longed to see more of Boston in the context of the 1920`s. Images of the State House or the Christian Science Church and other structures and sculptures and monuments, which still exist in nearly the exact same form did not really take me back to Boston in the 20s. Sorry if that sounds ungrateful but it is this old Boston native`s honest opinion of this video.
I hope to find more sources!
03:48 what were they doing?
texting on their iphones.....older versions of course.🙂
Buenos aires please, Good video🇦🇷❤
I see the MIT main entrance very briefly.
The colorization made some of the granite buildings look ancient…. They weren’t that old at the time-
La ciudad más acendrada de Estados Unidos
Bittersweet. Beautiful architecture but made a major wrong turn in this period toward overly autocentric development which chokes us today.
Definitely, they should have focused on expanding the subways and kept the expressway and the Mass. Pike out of downtown without sacrificing the Fens for the inner belt.
Looks like, people had more joyful and calm life over there.
In a few segments of the sounds I could hear modern car horns. Otherwise it was pretty good.
I believe NASS uses generated sounds depending on the footage. Plus sound wasnt around until the mid 1920's anyway.
Great! at about 7:40 it goes into Cambridge.
7:44 the Charles River and the Smoot Bridge! Measured length is 364.4 smoots + 1 ear. Measured by drunken MIT students. Formerly the Harvard Bridge 😉😁😏
Something really strange about our history, if you take a closer look on these videos
See if you can see future president JFK as a kid carried by his mother?😎😎
👏👏👏
0:33
Thousand years old?
No mass pike
I’ve lived in Boston for almost 25 years and today under the Wu/Healey
administration we are falling so bad!
Wish I was born during this time 😢
Yeah, you could live through The Great Depression and then go fight in World War II and get measles along the way.
The city and the Commonwealth have never been better. Do us all a favor, and take your whiney - - - and go back to where you lived 26 years ago.
looks like early to mid 1930's
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thx bro!!
It's unreal how noisy the cars were. They had Mr Ford to thank for this noise shock after they had been used to horse drawn wagons. Today's cars, especially the electric ones, are quiet in comparison.
The sound was added when the video was uploaded. I don't believe it is real.
yes sound design!
Even then the traffic was awful..1920s
Man. Wasn't smart enough. To have. Cell phone. Cars just went around 40 mph from this time. Till. Now. Technology. Just. Has. Came along way. Wow
Communicate much? This is what happens when you spend your day on a cell phone.
Every four to six seconds the screen/frame image jumps. About 8 minutes into the video I think I threw up in my throat. Other than that, nice video and nice colorization.
8 minutes?? You must do great on rollercoasters lol I couldn't last more than a minute and 8 seconds before I had to bounce.
thank you very much
So sad . All these old cities buried under skyscrapers, ugly architecture, endless roads. Such a shame. American cities have retained almost nothing of the past. I guess we can drive to our local dozen or so strip malls on every block of every city.
Could not disagree more. Boston has wonderful modern buildings and the mix of old and new is what makes the city so interesting.
Wow!! They really made a mess of Boston. Used to look so historic. Now it's just mostly generic highrises. Friggin shame😢
Destroying Scollay and Dock Squares, the New York streets, and the West End, and building the artery through downtown were the worst.
That’s g/0balism for you
@@EdwardM-t8p Yes, although what they got in the West End was generic new development with no character. At least Dock Sq and Scollay were replaced with distinctive urban design, architecture, and all public space not just private gated complexes. Artery terrible but considerably improved by putting it underground.
By the time they took the wrecking ball to Scollay Square, it was nothing but a seedy dump.
Mal grabación del pasado !
all beautiful things are gone, The past of USA was the best🗽
Actuslly it doesn’t look all that different for the older stuff…. Amazed how we built cites between 1680 and 1940… most of that stuff is still standing and better than ever…. Minus the typical ugly glass skyscrapers…. Amazed how Europeans could build such beautiful places
@@brianog5267 The grass is always greener. . . . When Europeans comer to America, the want to see the new and modern stuff (the ugly glass skyscrapers as you call them). High on their list are cities like Las Vegas, LA New York and Miami.
first
THAT SAME OLD JOKE DIED IN 2006. 😒.
@MrTamiya89 second
The “first people” are always sent to back of the line
@@spacewurm im first tho
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