I agree. As a New Yorker myself, seeing these familiar places is very interesting. Some have changed a great deal (like the look of highways in and around NYC) or not at all (like Fort Ticonderoga). It would be cool to visit the luxurious resorts located in the Catskills as they once were around the time this video was made.
I don’t know why, but old films make me so nostalgic for a time I never was even alive for. If only we could time travel back to these eras and just walk down the sidewalk and experience the beauty of a simpler time.
The thing is there has never been "simpler times". Life was harder then for other reasons; a simple operation or a cold could kill you for example, analgesics didn't exist so you had to bear all the pains without relief; also society was very harsh with anybody that didn't do exactly what others were doing, aka "being another clone".... This looks nostalgic because it is edited to look really good, not showing the really poor neighborhoods of New York and the crime, discriminations, injustices... The only show you the rich beautiful neighborhoods on a splendorous sunny morning that very few could afford to live or work in.
@@FehrGormenghastTodd the first evidence of painkillers being used by humans is 3400 BC. So they for sure already existed. They just weren't patented and sold by pharmaceutical companies.
@@BrodyYYC hey, didn't know that; I guess one does learn something new every day. I was talking more in terms of going to your bathroom cabinet and find relief to pain that easy. In the 50s you had to endure headaches, toothaches and any other ailment. Of course now we have gone too far and with opioids medicaments been prescribed left and right these last decades we have millions of average people addicted to them and with the new pain that comes with that addiction.
@@FehrGormenghastTodd Are you daft? All analgesics we use today were invented or discovered in the late 1800s and early 1900s and weren’t heavy regulated until 1970. Eukodol(oxycodone), dicodid(hydrocodone), morphine, heroin(both from 1800s) were all widely used in World War II. In the 1880s-1930s they were unregulated and anyone could purchase them. In the 1950s you could still have them prescribed for a minor toothache.
This film, produced in 1948, was one of a series of films commissioned by Standard Oil (Esso Oil) to John Bransby Productions of New York, to promote auto travel after WWII. Many of the original films were later revised, but the series was discontinued in the 1960s, but made available free on loan through Modern Talking Picture Service who handled Esso/Exxon's account.
@Mitch D....... you just pulled the curtain down and lo and behold its a compromised info rant by no less than a oil company . Happy Motoring guzzle guzzle $$$$$
Yeah, it's pretty pathetic the mindset in those days promoted by fossil fuel, predicated on environmental destruction and racism, the damage of which is still being felt.
have you noticed the awesome QUALITY if this film? The cinematography, photography, the production, and especially, the quality of the narrator? Everything super clear and super easy to see, hear and understand. Every word in wonderful clarity. Compare to today, where so many "politicians" cannot even speak without every other word being a "ah" or "um". America was at a better time then. And I am far too young to have ever been around then, by years. Why can't we have advanced technology and at the same time retain those qualities? I, myself, always strive to maintain good manners and respect for all people no matter who they are, but many times I am simply alone in this. Including in my family. Sorry for the rant. It's just so sad to see
I agree with you. It would be nice to have more formality and intelligence in our manners, speech and dress. I think the trend of "dumbing down" which was talked about in the early 1980's has really taken hold. Look at video of college students as late as the early 1960's. They are young adults. Now even adults are not adults.
@@nastashavalentinodefranco2990 I thought I remember seeing at least several in other groups, probably more. If this is true, then it can be considered a knock against. But considering this was done before I was ever born, I cannot speculate on those who created it. So I cannot knock it. All I can say is the quality is extremely high, and in many productions of today, the quality has simply fallen. And what I said about politicians (of ALL ethnic groups) stands. Judge someone NOT by the color of their skin, but by the Content of their Character!!
Same i can't get over 1950s, i love the clothing back then, also love 60s and 20s, mainly because women's fashion are so interesting i mean men fashion is cool but idk i love women's fashion as times progress onwards, i kinda a fashion historian but focus mainly on women😊✌️
Dude this is a propaganda film. NY is a huge city. It was probably just as dirty and dangerous then. But they aren't going to show that to a film made specifically to motivate tourism.
@@MRony Nope. New York, was New York then. Not Mumbai, or Shanghai on the Hudson. It was American, and a much more optimistic, and secure city. Not the crime ridden, over priced city with such extremes between the haves and the have nots. The city in the 50s was affordable, and offered employment readily to anyone who desired to work. New York made things back then. And that manufacturing aspect of it, gave the city balance. One could work a part time job, and still pay the rent and have enough left over to enjoy the city. While New York had its problems and concerns, today they are far, far greater in number, scope and scale.
@@MRony You are full of it. Had a neighbor who lived there and said he was able to go to Times Square at night as a kid in the 40s alone. The gritty crime ridden NYC started in the 70s and its been that way ever since. It was a little better when Giuliani and Bloomberg ran it but not by much.
@@user-or6yn8pm3c you understand that NYC is bigger than only manhattan right? It's possible that manhattan was cleaner than it is now. But there were criminal syndicates and ganga in NY since the colonial times.
awwww, this is the NY i dreamt of as a kid growing up in Texas ❤️ was blessed to live there from '97 to 2012. AFTER Giuliani cleaned it up & made it safe ☺️ best time of my life. i'll ALWAYS ❤️ NY
packed up all our things, left family and "HOME" behind, sold our cars, 2 college sweethearts moved there, got married there (in Brooklyn Botanical Gardens) and spent 15 glorious, romantic, fun-filled, exciting and enriching years. would do it all over again in a heartbeat. i recommend doing it while young. it can be a tough place for older folks. well, crap... now it's tough for everybody 😐
Grew up in small town in South Carolina, maybe 5000 ppl. So the first time I went through New York, i quite literally thought I had reached the center of the universe. You could say it was love at first sight!!
I think it’s like that for some. Both my parents were born & raised in the city. After having kids they bought a house in NJ. It was like Siberia to the rest of my moms extended family. But they never looked back. We had a great place to grow up in. But my brother went to Pace & that was it. Been living in NYC for 35 years now 😊
Its surreal to see this film and know what its like to be there in person, so different but also so the same, fantastic for any New Yorker whose grown up in the state and has travelled around
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Born and raised til age 14 in Buffalo, I often vacationed with mom, dad, and kid brother throughout the state, including the Adirondacks -- so I was thrilled to revisit the North Pole/Santa Claus Village I remember from a late 1950s trip! From the variety of auto body styles, I agree with the commenter who estimated that much of this video was filmed around 1951 -- the clothing worn by everyone also seems from the late '40s to early '50s too. One thing NOT mentioned (for obvious reasons) about NYS of that era was how much heavy industry was behind all that prosperity -- many huge steel plants and chemical factories were just as important to Buffalo's economy back then as the grain milling/food processing, and the pollution they brought sure made that city and others like it less charming places than this promotional film cared to note. The state is much healthier and lovelier to visit now that much of that heavy industry is gone (and its many good-paying jobs along with it) -- the trade-off between prosperity and health has been quite painful for upstate New Yorkers in the past several decades. But the beauty of the terrain remains, and the air quality is definitely better than when I was a kid.
True but we consume much more today, so somewhere in the world the air quality and pollution is high for our sake. Keep the industry here but insist of ecological sustainability. I think that this is possible, not easy but possible.
Remember the moccasins that were sold at the rest stops? My parents never bought me a pair or stoped at Santa’s Village. 😢. We traveled to Canada every summer from Rockland County. Can you believe Rockland is still considered Upstate. 😂
Thanks for uploading this fantastic video! As someone who was born in NYS and raised there, I've been to many of the places shown in this video...thanks for the memories!
I hoped I'd see my grandparents Hotel,Motel right on the main road but I'm not sure when they bought the land & put lil cottages on it,they had Place in Plattsburg & in winter headed to Fla & did for decade's,someone bought the place & took the cottages when they were sold & told they couldn't but they did.. ✌
@@BrianKOliver No why the fudge would I lie,I get it esp today's ppl lie about so much why idk & my grandma offered the buisness to me but I didn't want to take it over. She sold it I'm guessing in 90s or latter & new owners built another hotel looked liked condos & gran kept her lil house close by & close to the railroad tracks,but mom said ? Tore the lil hose down. My uncle had a house near the golf course & a tiny cemetery,he passed away not long ago & they tore his down to according to my family who live around there right on Route 9. Not everyone needs to LIE......
@@BrianKOliver according to my Gran she said they were not to be removed from the property & I was told that was in writing yet once they were removed & she was older & probably couldn't afford a lawyer to fight it & once they were taken I'm sure it would've been a hassle to fight it, but she wasn't happy it was done & family wasn't either,Luvd those and gramps made those. And U don't know who I am so don't call me a liar....... And I don't know You but why would my Grandma lie and there gone,family thinks they took and use for fishing shanties..
New York City at a time when there was a perfect balance between train, auto, air and ship transportation. The city was finely honed to be an incredible HUB for all these systems and that was essential to its economic dynamism.
I think they’re trying to fix up some RR stations & trestles for hiking trails. I remember Beacon & Hudson being bad & now they are all big fat & sassy
Newburgh is so beautiful. I work in Newburgh and love it. But yes, the loss of industry in the area has led to a city with considerable issues of poverty and crime
The city of Newburgh is just horrible now. I remember what it was like in the early 70s. It’s just a crime and drug ridden ghetto now. I don’t go near it.
i wish there was a "time machine" I would love to head back for a visit. My Mother lived in Bay Ridge Brooklyn. I would shock people with my Walmart shorts and top.
THIS JOHN ROCKER QUOTE 25 YEARS AGO AGED VERY WELL! "It's the most hectic, nerve-wracking city. Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you're riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing... The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?"
I have been all over this country, but I've NEVER been to New York City! Syracuse, Albany and others, yes. But not the Big Apple. Maybe one of these days, but I'm no spring chicken. I enjoyed the film. Thanks Kennedy/Shanahan 2024 Texas
@@dancewomyn1 Hahaa, I was a bit tongue-in-cheek, especially the NYC bit! I love visiting America & am sure most of these places are still there to enjoy 😉 but this clip has me wishing I was born 60 yrs earlier, when the world was a less “tense” place😢 ❤️❤️❤️
@Sherlock Ohms . maybe but not so much. just bring a fat wad of cash with you .... to feed NY states political hacks. don't forget its the Empire State and Empires require mucho money to keep on keeping on.
@@markbahouth2713 We understand, across the pond, that these days you need a fat wad of cash just for tips these days in NYC, unless you enjoy a torrent of abuse. Been there a few times back in the day, had a very enjoyable evening in windows of the original WTC. No plans to return.
How I wish I was a good few years younger and not shackled to a woman (ex wife), I would be on the next available flight to the USA (one way I would hope) to explore all he wonderful states and everything they have to offer, don’t get me wrong, I love my country and would want to become a dual nationality holder, but the United Kingdom has a lot going for it in terms of the countryside and historical sites, but I think the USA would be a place to live for a decade or two, just living simply, maybe in an RV, and exploring. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
N Bush, I have, unfortunately, seen and heard the same sentiment from a few different people, and that’s really saddening that citizens of the USA are actively telling potential tourists that the country is going downhill, whereas even a few years ago people were fighting to get visitors to one of the most environmentally diverse countries in the world, sorry to hear you say what you have as America is/was amongst the most patriotic countries in the world, and I hope that things turn around for the better. 😔👍🇬🇧🏴
I hope your wishes all come true! Please do not listen to negative information about the U.S. They refer to how some people can be here but trust me, there is so much beautiful sceneries and cool places to see and there really are good and kind people here. I love my country and it saddens me and angers me that people like, N Bush, had to call America a 2nd rate country, he must be a liberal, they don’t love their own country. Please don’t get turned or or even scared away to visit the U.S...Before 2020, my husband and I have traveled throughout different parts of the U.S., either driving to or flying to different states and I can tell you, all the places we have been to, is amazing, phenomenal and just plain pretty to see! Before I met my husband, I traveled a lot on my own and visited friends I made who live in other states and I would be invited to stay with my friends (Saved a lot on hotel rooms! lol)... In mid January or in February, we’re planning a road trip to Utah then Colorado, we have family in Colorado. We have two Toyota SUV’s but maybe you would prefer a RV, there’s a lot of RV camping grounds you can stay at, you just need to load it up with what you need. A lot of people travel in a RV for several months across the country! And you will meet friendly people! Don’t let anyone discourage you for visiting America! People in every country aren’t so perfect but a country in itself, is amazing to see! My husbands niece lives in Chippenham, England (I’m sure you know where that’s located), she has invited us to visit her our niece her family, we’re hoping to visit her someday real soon! And no, America isn’t a 2nd rate country. So many people from other countries, still want to live in the U.S. My mom lives outside of Los Angeles, her whole community is full of every ethnicities you can think of and she has the sweetest neighbors, they all share food with each other (especially right now), L.A. is a big melting pot of so many people from all over. Good luck and I hope it’ll all works out for you in time! 😁💖
@@nbush9169 Then why are you still here? Who’s forcing you to stay? Sad that you belittle your own country. Why tell that guy such negative things about America? Good thing you’re not a travel agent!! I love our travel agent, she recommended so many amazing places to see and visit in America! And we met the kindest people, too! All he said is he would like to travel here, see America and if he wants to live in America for twenty years, that’s his business and that means he thinks good enough and it would be nice for him to live in the U.S. But it’s sad that you think so little of your own country, why not move to a perfect country? Oh wait, there isn’t any! To put down your own country, is a big slap in the face to all of America. I’m so glad I don’t see America as a 2nd rate country, I see it as a beautiful country! I’ve seen so many gorgeous places and met so many wonderful people! I’m so lucky and so thankful to be apart of the U.S.. If you can find that perfect country to live in, please go there. America won’t miss you. There’s no other place I want to be at. America is great! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Being born, raised and lived in NYC...I am always taken aback at the streets and how clean they were. How drivers stayed in their lane without lines, how people dressed, etc. I love being a native NYer...Thanks for posting this...
Incredible! Hasn’t changed one bit after all of theses years . Why, …this film could have been made yesterday and no one could tell the difference. The city is still just as beautiful and clean and safe as ever .
6:44! That's my Dad's best bud Carl Snikner. He was our neighbor when I was little. I thought this film was lost! OMG! Carl and my Dad used to get drunk together. One time (according to my Dad, I didn't see it) Carl removed a lady's pantyhose at the Red Iron Bar in Queens and hung them from a light fixture over the bar. They stayed there for 30 years.
They said Grand Central Station that’s what I remember but now it’s grand Central terminal ,it’s a Mandela effect it’s always been called grand Central terminal
Being from Germany.....I was in NYC 1998. I will never Forget it. Great City. But you need Time. A Week will only slap you around with the Sheer Vision, the Outside Surface you would need Time to Climb deeper into it. To get into it. I was there for a Week and IT was more like a Rush i didnt even come to the Details. It Sucks when you get all the Good Ideas only when you are at Home again.:) Basically i Ran the Chessboard Roads in Manhattan buying Comics while my Eyes took in the famous City , like being Force Fed, being strapped into a Chair.🤪 Pretty Stupid. Makes me a bit Angry about myself. At least i got a Good Comic Collection together. I missed to Pick up Iconic Free Stuff...like Tickets etc. I regret that. When you Go to NYC take a Bag with you for Free Items like Business Cards etc. Broschures. Because this is more like a City it is a Symbol, a World Famous Legendary City....so every Little bit you can get, Original Stuff from NYC is Worth something. People forget that and New Yorkers may be Blind for it in the Day to Day Every Day Life. As an Outsider you dont have to Chime in trying to be Cool about the City.....be a Fan and take your Souveniers.
Best to remember NYC from when you were there. It’s very different now, I was a frequent visitor from when I was a teenager in the mid 70’s to mid 90’s. My last visit was 2018 and the special magic had all but disappeared, don’t think I’ll ever go back.
They would be impressed by how much the city has grown. Look at places like LIC or the Brooklyn waterfront, former industrial wastelands, now vibrant neighborhoods.
Tunnels that interesting had lowered than average heights at that time in order to prevent buses from going to the some of the “public” beaches. Guess who rode buses primarily, and didn’t own as many private cars then?
They just didn’t shed light on it because china town isn’t near the areas he discussed. The lower east side is where china town is. I’m not sure about little Italy in Manhattan but I do know little Italy in the bronx.
You couldn't afford a cardboard box in NY City . NY City is cleaner, safer, and more gentrified now than it's ever been. If you like cleaning up garbage, go clean up your trailer park.
@@themaskedman221 how is it safer than 1948? Or do you just say things and they magically becomes true in your head since you just have personal biased hate for the time frame so obviously. Your not good at hiding that you just came here to break peoples "rose colored glasses" aka their early lives they clearly remember as being good no matter how many time the you, who was never there, enthralls them with the thought that they are wrong..yet somehow you are correct. Did you even realize this is a color video from 1948, and not even close to the level of color you'd expect from a kodachrome or cinecolor film from the 1930's. It was the finest time, ungentrified new york, what a majesty of delight that was, with some of the finest penthouses you could ever witness, gorgeous custom automobiles with the most vibrant crowd on the streets.
It's crazy to see what the every day was like before we all started constantly vying for attention on little square phones, people could more easily just be content in the moment.
@@user-or6yn8pm3c I live there, nobody is walking around in fear, no idea what you are you talking about. Despite a slight uptick in crime following Covid - which is now subsiding - crime is the lowest its been since the early 1960s - and probably lower since crime reporting was not as advanced back then. One thing that was better back then was affordability for middle class residents.
Every culture is rotten by now - for nothing but chaotic deviant stupid stuff, absurd ideological idiocies and unnatural filth. The way of a society of the whole West which has become completely godless.
New York used to be called, "New Amsterdam." I'm sure you New Yorkers knew that already. I am so surprised they had no lines marking the lanes. I bet they had a lot of accidents. I know back in the late 1800's and early 1900's, when they had the horse and buggy and had some cars, it was awful.
places per se do not harm people, its people who harm abuse people that's all, all new found lands have sweeping beautiful majestic vistas... i have often mentioned there was good side of NY which was keen to help me then the bad abusive side took over in its insanity crazed abuse till mount Sinai cedar Sinai how does one explains that?
This should have been titled Old New York STATE travel log video, and Not New York, New York City, which implies it's mostly about New York City, which clearly it's not!!!
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Back when America was still great.
To be a New Yorker, to know exactly where these locations are located, and what these locations look like today is insane.
You are right. NYC is a third world shithole in 2022. Even in the 70s there were places to escape the insanity.
You got that right.
I think that it is much better than the majority of the other cities on the east coast.
@@christophermichael.w.7577 Nope. NYC sucks. Even the wealthy mostly left the past 2 years.
I agree. As a New Yorker myself, seeing these familiar places is very interesting. Some have changed a great deal (like the look of highways in and around NYC) or not at all (like Fort Ticonderoga). It would be cool to visit the luxurious resorts located in the Catskills as they once were around the time this video was made.
Time to make New York Great Again.
I don’t know why, but old films make me so nostalgic for a time I never was even alive for. If only we could time travel back to these eras and just walk down the sidewalk and experience the beauty of a simpler time.
The thing is there has never been "simpler times". Life was harder then for other reasons; a simple operation or a cold could kill you for example, analgesics didn't exist so you had to bear all the pains without relief; also society was very harsh with anybody that didn't do exactly what others were doing, aka "being another clone".... This looks nostalgic because it is edited to look really good, not showing the really poor neighborhoods of New York and the crime, discriminations, injustices... The only show you the rich beautiful neighborhoods on a splendorous sunny morning that very few could afford to live or work in.
@@FehrGormenghastTodd “very few”? America was 99% white so not very few.
@@FehrGormenghastTodd the first evidence of painkillers being used by humans is 3400 BC. So they for sure already existed. They just weren't patented and sold by pharmaceutical companies.
@@BrodyYYC hey, didn't know that; I guess one does learn something new every day. I was talking more in terms of going to your bathroom cabinet and find relief to pain that easy. In the 50s you had to endure headaches, toothaches and any other ailment. Of course now we have gone too far and with opioids medicaments been prescribed left and right these last decades we have millions of average people addicted to them and with the new pain that comes with that addiction.
@@FehrGormenghastTodd Are you daft? All analgesics we use today were invented or discovered in the late 1800s and early 1900s and weren’t heavy regulated until 1970. Eukodol(oxycodone), dicodid(hydrocodone), morphine, heroin(both from 1800s) were all widely used in World War II. In the 1880s-1930s they were unregulated and anyone could purchase them. In the 1950s you could still have them prescribed for a minor toothache.
This film, produced in 1948, was one of a series of films commissioned by Standard Oil (Esso Oil) to John Bransby Productions of New York, to promote auto travel after WWII. Many of the original films were later revised, but the series was discontinued in the 1960s, but made available free on loan through Modern Talking Picture Service who handled Esso/Exxon's account.
At 16:18 is a '49 or '50 Ford. That body style debuted for model year 1949.
@Mitch D....... you just pulled the curtain down and lo and behold its a compromised info rant by no less than a oil company . Happy Motoring guzzle guzzle $$$$$
@@markbahouth2713 These were postwar films to have people buy gas and travel around. There was a whole series made.
Yeah, it's pretty pathetic the mindset in those days promoted by fossil fuel, predicated on environmental destruction and racism, the damage of which is still being felt.
Seems like a school film.
It was crazy that there were no lane markings, seemingly no traffic lights, and the pedestrians just had to force their way across.
Fewer cars that's why.
I'm looking for more information, myself. I am intrigued.
It’s funny, my Dad grew up in the city & even went to NYU. So he never needed a license to drive until later in life.
I believe they had traffic cops.
To be fair, there were plenty of traffic fatalities then (of course, no seatbelts/airbags/safety glass, etc)
Seeing buildings built in the '30s and '40s being referred to as "modern" is pretty cool.
The word that kept repeating through my mind as I watched this was “paradise”. I can’t believe things were ever this nice; what a lost world.
have you noticed the awesome QUALITY if this film? The cinematography, photography, the production, and especially, the quality of the narrator? Everything super clear and super easy to see, hear and understand. Every word in wonderful clarity. Compare to today, where so many "politicians" cannot even speak without every other word being a "ah" or "um". America was at a better time then. And I am far too young to have ever been around then, by years. Why can't we have advanced technology and at the same time retain those qualities? I, myself, always strive to maintain good manners and respect for all people no matter who they are, but many times I am simply alone in this. Including in my family. Sorry for the rant. It's just so sad to see
I agree with you. It would be nice to have more formality and intelligence in our manners, speech and dress. I think the trend of "dumbing down" which was talked about in the early 1980's has really taken hold. Look at video of college students as late as the early 1960's. They are young adults. Now even adults are not adults.
Have you noticed the lack of Negros and other Ethnic Groups
@@nastashavalentinodefranco2990 I thought I remember seeing at least several in other groups, probably more. If this is true, then it can be considered a knock against. But considering this was done before I was ever born, I cannot speculate on those who created it. So I cannot knock it. All I can say is the quality is extremely high, and in many productions of today, the quality has simply fallen. And what I said about politicians (of ALL ethnic groups) stands. Judge someone NOT by the color of their skin, but by the Content of their Character!!
Right. It's not the same place anymore.
I'm 16 and I'm obsessed with these times.
I grew up in 1990s and even I am fascinated by 50s and 60s.
Same i can't get over 1950s, i love the clothing back then, also love 60s and 20s, mainly because women's fashion are so interesting i mean men fashion is cool but idk i love women's fashion as times progress onwards, i kinda a fashion historian but focus mainly on women😊✌️
Don't be
New York was a great place to grow up! It breaks my heart to see it today!
Dude this is a propaganda film. NY is a huge city. It was probably just as dirty and dangerous then. But they aren't going to show that to a film made specifically to motivate tourism.
@@MRony Nope. New York, was New York then. Not Mumbai, or Shanghai on the Hudson. It was American, and a much more optimistic, and secure city. Not the crime ridden, over priced city with such extremes between the haves and the have nots. The city in the 50s was affordable, and offered employment readily to anyone who desired to work. New York made things back then. And that manufacturing aspect of it, gave the city balance. One could work a part time job, and still pay the rent and have enough left over to enjoy the city. While New York had its problems and concerns, today they are far, far greater in number, scope and scale.
@@MRony You are full of it. Had a neighbor who lived there and said he was able to go to Times Square at night as a kid in the 40s alone. The gritty crime ridden NYC started in the 70s and its been that way ever since. It was a little better when Giuliani and Bloomberg ran it but not by much.
Jami you must be really old. NYC was rough since the 70s and that has not changed since.
@@user-or6yn8pm3c you understand that NYC is bigger than only manhattan right? It's possible that manhattan was cleaner than it is now. But there were criminal syndicates and ganga in NY since the colonial times.
awwww, this is the NY i dreamt of as a kid growing up in Texas ❤️
was blessed to live there from '97 to 2012.
AFTER Giuliani cleaned it up & made it safe ☺️
best time of my life. i'll ALWAYS ❤️ NY
Before it was gift wrapped and handed over as a gift to the absolute worst of society who aren't capable of appreciating life.
@@WaldoBagelTopper liberals?
All Americans love New York, whether we've been there or not. I'm from Dallas, Texas but images of New York are burned into my brain, I think.
packed up all our things, left family and "HOME" behind, sold our cars, 2 college sweethearts moved there, got married there (in Brooklyn Botanical Gardens) and spent 15 glorious, romantic, fun-filled, exciting and enriching years. would do it all over again in a heartbeat. i recommend doing it while young. it can be a tough place for older folks. well, crap... now it's tough for everybody 😐
Grew up in small town in South Carolina, maybe 5000 ppl. So the first time I went through New York, i quite literally thought I had reached the center of the universe. You could say it was love at first sight!!
I think it’s like that for some. Both my parents were born & raised in the city. After having kids they bought a house in NJ. It was like Siberia to the rest of my moms extended family. But they never looked back. We had a great place to grow up in. But my brother went to Pace & that was it. Been living in NYC for 35 years now 😊
Its surreal to see this film and know what its like to be there in person, so different but also so the same, fantastic for any New Yorker whose grown up in the state and has travelled around
This video is like a time machine. Thanks so much for sharing!!
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Watching Arsenic and Old Lace (such comedic genius) makes me wish to know that time when New York “was a good sized village.”
Born and raised til age 14 in Buffalo, I often vacationed with mom, dad, and kid brother throughout the state, including the Adirondacks -- so I was thrilled to revisit the North Pole/Santa Claus Village I remember from a late 1950s trip! From the variety of auto body styles, I agree with the commenter who estimated that much of this video was filmed around 1951 -- the clothing worn by everyone also seems from the late '40s to early '50s too.
One thing NOT mentioned (for obvious reasons) about NYS of that era was how much heavy industry was behind all that prosperity -- many huge steel plants and chemical factories were just as important to Buffalo's economy back then as the grain milling/food processing, and the pollution they brought sure made that city and others like it less charming places than this promotional film cared to note.
The state is much healthier and lovelier to visit now that much of that heavy industry is gone (and its many good-paying jobs along with it) -- the trade-off between prosperity and health has been quite painful for upstate New Yorkers in the past several decades. But the beauty of the terrain remains, and the air quality is definitely better than when I was a kid.
True but we consume much more today, so somewhere in the world the air quality and pollution is high for our sake. Keep the industry here but insist of ecological sustainability. I think that this is possible, not easy but possible.
Remember the moccasins that were sold at the rest stops? My parents never bought me a pair or stoped at Santa’s Village. 😢. We traveled to Canada every summer from Rockland County. Can you believe Rockland is still considered Upstate. 😂
And the water is better too, I hope. RFK Jr. should get some credit for that.
He should be President and can be if we all pull together and vote!
The sightseeing car was the best part. I was looking for any double deckers.
Thank you for uploading this great film!
Thanks for uploading this fantastic video! As someone who was born in NYS and raised there, I've been to many of the places shown in this video...thanks for the memories!
I hoped I'd see my grandparents Hotel,Motel right on the main road but I'm not sure when they bought the land & put lil cottages on it,they had Place in Plattsburg & in winter headed to Fla & did for decade's,someone bought the place & took the cottages when they were sold & told they couldn't but they did..
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@@tashathayer4069 liar
@@BrianKOliver No why the fudge would I lie,I get it esp today's ppl lie about so much why idk & my grandma offered the buisness to me but I didn't want to take it over. She sold it I'm guessing in 90s or latter & new owners built another hotel looked liked condos & gran kept her lil house close by & close to the railroad tracks,but mom said ? Tore the lil hose down.
My uncle had a house near the golf course & a tiny cemetery,he passed away not long ago & they tore his down to according to my family who live around there right on Route 9.
Not everyone needs to LIE......
@@tashathayer4069 we didn't take the cottages
@@BrianKOliver according to my Gran she said they were not to be removed from the property & I was told that was in writing yet once they were removed & she was older & probably couldn't afford a lawyer to fight it & once they were taken I'm sure it would've been a hassle to fight it, but she wasn't happy it was done & family wasn't either,Luvd those and gramps made those.
And U don't know who I am so don't call me a liar.......
And I don't know You but why would my Grandma lie and there gone,family thinks they took and use for fishing shanties..
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New York City at a time when there was a perfect balance between train, auto, air and ship transportation. The city was finely honed to be an incredible HUB for all these systems and that was essential to its economic dynamism.
We lived in Newburgh from 64 to 71.. beautiful on the Hudson but it's a shame the way these towns have deteriorated..
I think they’re trying to fix up some RR stations & trestles for hiking trails. I remember Beacon & Hudson being bad & now they are all big fat & sassy
Newburgh is so beautiful. I work in Newburgh and love it. But yes, the loss of industry in the area has led to a city with considerable issues of poverty and crime
The city of Newburgh is just horrible now. I remember what it was like in the early 70s. It’s just a crime and drug ridden ghetto now. I don’t go near it.
Grew up in Connecticut and remember some of the places in upstate NY that our parents took us to when we were kids in the blue Mercury Comet.
Still a lot of great attractions in New York City and state.
Whats that? Pollution? Noise? Crowds? Mentally ill and agitated people? Filth?
Upstate New York is totally different.
i wish there was a "time machine" I would love to head back for a visit. My Mother lived in Bay Ridge Brooklyn. I would shock people with my Walmart shorts and top.
Gonna be honest, 1950s New York looks more better, and less messed up than modern day New York.
THIS JOHN ROCKER QUOTE 25 YEARS AGO AGED VERY WELL!
"It's the most hectic, nerve-wracking city. Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you're riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing... The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?"
My family was born and raised on City Island in the Bronx!
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I have been all over this country, but I've NEVER been to New York City! Syracuse, Albany and others, yes. But not the Big Apple. Maybe one of these days, but I'm no spring chicken. I enjoyed the film. Thanks
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Gee! All these places look real swell, I’m going to go on an adventure this holiday! Is it still all the same?
Hahahahha!! Exactly the same Sherlock....Just like this wonderful gleaming portrait! ;)
@@dancewomyn1
Hahaa,
I was a bit tongue-in-cheek, especially the NYC bit!
I love visiting America & am sure most of these places are still there to enjoy 😉 but this clip has me wishing I was born 60 yrs earlier, when the world was a less “tense” place😢
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@@bendingspring ....I knew you were being tongue in cheek, and I really appreciated that about your
comment! ;)
@Sherlock Ohms . maybe but not so much. just bring a fat wad of cash with you .... to feed NY states political hacks. don't forget its the Empire State and Empires require mucho money to keep on keeping on.
@@markbahouth2713
We understand, across the pond, that these days you need a fat wad of cash just for tips these days in NYC, unless you enjoy a torrent of abuse.
Been there a few times back in the day, had a very enjoyable evening in windows of the original WTC.
No plans to return.
Rockefeller plaza is much more beautiful now but Central Park looks exactly the same and honestly I’m really glad about that.
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The Technicolor film looks fantastic.
How I wish I was a good few years younger and not shackled to a woman (ex wife), I would be on the next available flight to the USA (one way I would hope) to explore all he wonderful states and everything they have to offer, don’t get me wrong, I love my country and would want to become a dual nationality holder, but the United Kingdom has a lot going for it in terms of the countryside and historical sites, but I think the USA would be a place to live for a decade or two, just living simply, maybe in an RV, and exploring. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴
Visit but you wouldn’t want to live here. It’s basically a 2nd rate country, not a good place to live. Believe me I was born here.
N Bush, I have, unfortunately, seen and heard the same sentiment from a few different people, and that’s really saddening that citizens of the USA are actively telling potential tourists that the country is going downhill, whereas even a few years ago people were fighting to get visitors to one of the most environmentally diverse countries in the world, sorry to hear you say what you have as America is/was amongst the most patriotic countries in the world, and I hope that things turn around for the better. 😔👍🇬🇧🏴
I hope your wishes all come true! Please do not listen to negative information about the U.S. They refer to how some people can be here but trust me, there is so much beautiful sceneries and cool places to see and there really are good and kind people here. I love my country and it saddens me and angers me that people like, N Bush, had to call America a 2nd rate country, he must be a liberal, they don’t love their own country. Please don’t get turned or or even scared away to visit the U.S...Before 2020, my husband and I have traveled throughout different parts of the U.S., either driving to or flying to different states and I can tell you, all the places we have been to, is amazing, phenomenal and just plain pretty to see! Before I met my husband, I traveled a lot on my own and visited friends I made who live in other states and I would be invited to stay with my friends (Saved a lot on hotel rooms! lol)... In mid January or in February, we’re planning a road trip to Utah then Colorado, we have family in Colorado. We have two Toyota SUV’s but maybe you would prefer a RV, there’s a lot of RV camping grounds you can stay at, you just need to load it up with what you need. A lot of people travel in a RV for several months across the country! And you will meet friendly people! Don’t let anyone discourage you for visiting America! People in every country aren’t so perfect but a country in itself, is amazing to see! My husbands niece lives in Chippenham, England (I’m sure you know where that’s located), she has invited us to visit her our niece her family, we’re hoping to visit her someday real soon! And no, America isn’t a 2nd rate country. So many people from other countries, still want to live in the U.S. My mom lives outside of Los Angeles, her whole community is full of every ethnicities you can think of and she has the sweetest neighbors, they all share food with each other (especially right now), L.A. is a big melting pot of so many people from all over. Good luck and I hope it’ll all works out for you in time! 😁💖
@@nbush9169 Then why are you still here? Who’s forcing you to stay? Sad that you belittle your own country. Why tell that guy such negative things about America? Good thing you’re not a travel agent!! I love our travel agent, she recommended so many amazing places to see and visit in America! And we met the kindest people, too! All he said is he would like to travel here, see America and if he wants to live in America for twenty years, that’s his business and that means he thinks good enough and it would be nice for him to live in the U.S. But it’s sad that you think so little of your own country, why not move to a perfect country? Oh wait, there isn’t any! To put down your own country, is a big slap in the face to all of America. I’m so glad I don’t see America as a 2nd rate country, I see it as a beautiful country! I’ve seen so many gorgeous places and met so many wonderful people! I’m so lucky and so thankful to be apart of the U.S.. If you can find that perfect country to live in, please go there. America won’t miss you. There’s no other place I want to be at. America is great! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Unless you have money, I'd recommend you visit.
amazing content it was really entertaining
Society is incredibly degenerate now. An act of God is needed to get us back to this.
Being born, raised and lived in NYC...I am always taken aback at the streets and how clean they were. How drivers stayed in their lane without lines, how people dressed, etc. I love being a native NYer...Thanks for posting this...
I was born in Niagara Falls haven’t been back since second grade. We lived in North Tonawanda. I think 72 nd
Looks like it was filmed around 1951.
Incredible! Hasn’t changed one bit after all of theses years . Why, …this film could have been made yesterday and no one could tell the difference. The city is still just as beautiful and clean and safe as ever .
funny
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The old 6 x 8 forty eight state flag at 12:22 !
6:44! That's my Dad's best bud Carl Snikner. He was our neighbor when I was little. I thought this film was lost! OMG! Carl and my Dad used to get drunk together. One time (according to my Dad, I didn't see it) Carl removed a lady's pantyhose at the Red Iron Bar in Queens and hung them from a light fixture over the bar. They stayed there for 30 years.
Like looking through a time machine window
1950s NYCs golden age.
I'd like to see a video from this time that shows the darker side pf NYC. I have found some from the 80s, but not yet from earlier times.
Great videos you do.
I ❤️ NY
Awesome
Wonderful 👍
They said Grand Central Station that’s what I remember but now it’s grand Central terminal ,it’s a Mandela effect it’s always been called grand Central terminal
Ahhhh, back when new york cab drivers were Archie Bunker lol!
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merci pour les explications
Washington Square had open air art markets in the 1970’s.
I remember!
Being from Germany.....I was in NYC 1998.
I will never Forget it.
Great City. But you need Time.
A Week will only slap you around with the Sheer Vision, the Outside Surface you would need Time to Climb deeper into it. To get into it.
I was there for a Week and IT was more like a Rush i didnt even come to the Details.
It Sucks when you get all the Good Ideas only when you are at Home again.:)
Basically i Ran the Chessboard Roads in Manhattan buying Comics while my Eyes took in the famous City , like being Force Fed, being strapped into a Chair.🤪 Pretty Stupid.
Makes me a bit Angry about myself. At least i got a Good Comic Collection together.
I missed to Pick up Iconic Free Stuff...like Tickets etc.
I regret that. When you Go to NYC take a Bag with you for Free Items like Business Cards etc.
Broschures. Because this is more like a City it is a Symbol, a World Famous Legendary City....so every Little bit you can get, Original Stuff from NYC is Worth something.
People forget that and New Yorkers may be Blind for it in the Day to Day Every Day Life.
As an Outsider you dont have to Chime in trying to be Cool about the City.....be a Fan and take your Souveniers.
Best to remember NYC from when you were there. It’s very different now, I was a frequent visitor from when I was a teenager in the mid 70’s to mid 90’s. My last visit was 2018 and the special magic had all but disappeared, don’t think I’ll ever go back.
ahhhh real nyc before the shit piled up
sad but all too true there colonel
If those people could see it now...so sad.
Lot of them knew that was as good as it was gonna get.
They would be impressed by how much the city has grown. Look at places like LIC or the Brooklyn waterfront, former industrial wastelands, now vibrant neighborhoods.
To see Albany before the Empire State Plaza was built is kinda weird.
I like those movable signs .
6:19 is the highways and parkways that Robert Moses built.
The Bronx Whitestone Bridge (6:29)
RFK Bridge (6:37)
Tunnels that interesting had lowered than average heights at that time in order to prevent buses from going to the some of the “public” beaches. Guess who rode buses primarily, and didn’t own as many private cars then?
Gosh. NY has a lot going for it
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It's Grand Central Terminal ya dope. Grand Central Station is the post office.
In 2021, NY replaced "Empire State" with its state motto, "Excelsior" (ever higher) on its license plates.
How come I wasn't aware of this? I'm a lifelong Rochester suburbs gal...lol
It's always been the state motto.
@@dr.barrycohn5461 - But it's never before been on NY license plates.
They're getting higher for sure....crack....heroin
...fentanyl
7:56 "Beautiful Desolation." I wonder if the Buzz Aldrin got his phrase from this one?
Even Santa was skinny back then.
Boy, it's so clean and almost everybody is white. What a coincidence.
Interesting indeed. And I think I don’t see any glimpse of Chinatown, or Little Italy.
They just didn’t shed light on it because china town isn’t near the areas he discussed. The lower east side is where china town is. I’m not sure about little Italy in Manhattan but I do know little Italy in the bronx.
Notice they only showed out of state and in state but Manhattan and no brooklyn. It’s probably because it wasn’t a pretty sight.
You couldn't afford a cardboard box in NY City .
NY City is cleaner, safer, and more gentrified now than it's ever been.
If you like cleaning up garbage, go clean up your trailer park.
@@themaskedman221 how is it safer than 1948? Or do you just say things and they magically becomes true in your head since you just have personal biased hate for the time frame so obviously. Your not good at hiding that you just came here to break peoples "rose colored glasses" aka their early lives they clearly remember as being good no matter how many time the you, who was never there, enthralls them with the thought that they are wrong..yet somehow you are correct. Did you even realize this is a color video from 1948, and not even close to the level of color you'd expect from a kodachrome or cinecolor film from the 1930's. It was the finest time, ungentrified new york, what a majesty of delight that was, with some of the finest penthouses you could ever witness, gorgeous custom automobiles with the most vibrant crowd on the streets.
ALL THOSE LONG ISLAND BUSINESSES HAVE BE GONE FOR YEARS DUE TO HIGH TAXES
@ Tara Ann... yes due to outrageous taxes people are leaving the state of NY to head anywhere but here. thank you Gov Cuomo and his fiancé Hochul
Before White Flight.
Theres nothing special about white people
Before racist politicians defunded areas where non whites lived to fund the suburbs.
If I was american, Id be proud as american could be!
Wow
No graffiti. Guess who brought that with them as they jumped the fence.
Someone build a time machine.
It's crazy to see what the every day was like before we all started constantly vying for attention on little square phones, people could more easily just be content in the moment.
There is no traffic and no people. No wonder people think this was a good period
How beautiful ,clean, and safe NYC use to be :)
Wasn’t new york way more dangerous back in that time?
@@cogtroper Do you see anyone looking like they are in fear or wary? I dont.
@@user-or6yn8pm3c I live there, nobody is walking around in fear, no idea what you are you talking about. Despite a slight uptick in crime following Covid - which is now subsiding - crime is the lowest its been since the early 1960s - and probably lower since crime reporting was not as advanced back then. One thing that was better back then was affordability for middle class residents.
@@user-or6yn8pm3c this is literally a propaganda movie LOL I can't imagine being so dumb to fall for it.
@@supreme1572 Lol you the dumb one. I had family that lived in NYC in those days and it was a better place.
Everything are different even the way we spoke
Every culture is rotten by now - for nothing but chaotic deviant stupid stuff, absurd ideological idiocies and unnatural filth. The way of a society of the whole West which has become completely godless.
5:40 thats the site of the WORLD TRADE CENTRE
We are so screwed.
looks the same today wow truly impressive
Laugh out loud
I need to untangle some paperwork to be able to make an application
Please, someone invent a time machine.
So if NY still looks like this, let me know…
But its so.... CLEAN. D:
6:28 Even back then they considered Staten Island to be in New Jersey haha
New York used to be called, "New Amsterdam." I'm sure you New Yorkers knew that already. I am so surprised they had no lines marking the lanes. I bet they had a lot of accidents. I know back in the late 1800's and early 1900's, when they had the horse and buggy and had some cars, it was awful.
There were way fewer cars and lower speed limits.
@@buickinvicta288 I know that, but it still was chaotic.
5:40 Future site of the WTC complex.
i ve harm to Believe that NEW-YORK looked like to this .
It still does in the countryside.
Bet there are no dude ranches and tulip fields anymore.
A perfect illustration of how much america has declined . Pathetic isn't it?
And virtually everyone is slim and fit.
places per se do not harm people, its people who harm abuse people that's all, all new found lands have sweeping beautiful majestic vistas... i have often mentioned there was good side of NY which was keen to help me then the bad abusive side took over in its insanity crazed abuse till mount Sinai cedar Sinai how does one explains that?
white majority 1950's > black majority 2020's
Nice and no trash evident walking the streets.
New York City is like one big housing project now.
Been to Baltimore much?How about Chicago? Filthy-delphia?
new york? not a shithole? impossible!
4:10 to 4:40 ghostbusters
This should have been titled Old New York STATE travel log video, and Not New York, New York City, which implies it's mostly about New York City, which clearly it's not!!!
This is the 1940s.