The scene at the end in the industrial neighborhood is Paterson - starting at Spruce & McBride near the Great Falls on the Passaic River, turning east on McBride down the hill and ending on Mill Street. The building on the corner of McBride and Mill is today the same as seen in this video.
Thanx - I grew up in Fort Lee in the 50s & early 60s; the old man had a store on the corner of Main & Hudson...love seein' these now old cars with the split windshield and some with the sun visor...we had either a '51 or '52 blue Dodge Coronet,,,great memories here. Also the footage of those buildings along the Passaic River - WOW!! I used to pass this way on my way up to Caldwell College to visit my aunt who taught there...IIRC at that time (mid-70s after I'd gotten out of the Army those buildings belonged to a carpet manufacturing company...Thank you so very much for these memories, my friend... CB in FL
Mohammed Cohen In 1951 my Dad had the ice cream parlor and pool room at the corner of Main St and N. Central, across from where the In Napoli restaurant is today. It later became a second hand store, I believe was named Moorehead's.
Yes we are...my dad's family, Brosnahan, (he was born in the upstairs apartment in Aug of 1918) had the corner (169 Main St) on what I guess would be the west side of Hudson (My Great grandfather, Hugh, immigrated from Ireland around 1854 and bought the place...I've got a VERY old picture of him standing on the front steps - ca. I guess, 1900)...it started as a general store/feed store in the mid 1800s and IIRC it stayed as a general store until right around the end of the War...in the early 50s he and his business partner bought an appliance store and moved the business to 169 Main St as Dealers Electronic Appliance Laboratories - later shortened to DEAL TV as he quickly ditched the appliance business and focused on the them new TV phenomenon...later his business focused on repair only...I started 'workin' for him around the age of 7 or 8....doing odd jobs...sweeping, testing tubes - as I got older -answering the phones etc...BTW 'Mohammed Cohen' is my 'nom de guerre'...there is a FB group called "I Grew up in Fort Lee, NJ" I'm a part of it and it's always good to hear from a fellow resident - no matter where they live today...Thanx for the history lesson!!!
I remember Deal TV. I grew up in Pal Pk but my father's family lived on N. Hudson. St. In the 40's and 50's, my grandmother lived in a rented house on Bigler St and then to an apartment above a store on Main St across from the fire house.Three of my cousins lived above Ghent's Plumbing Supply on Parker Ave. One became a cop and eventually Chief of Police, another is an attorney on Palisade Ave and the Sister was Married to Jimmy Hunt of Hunt Funeral home. I could go on and on. Nice hearing from you.
I remember Jimmy Hunt (on occasion he'd stop by the store to say hello to pop)...thankfully not through his services..I passed his 'establishment' every Saturday on my way to and from my piano lessons (Helen Fischer on Whiteman St)...next door to Hunt's was my family doctor Louis V. Angioletti...the street across from his old office (near the park) has been renamed for him)...I grew up on Linwood Ave from '50 until we moved to Wayne in 1961....dad maintained his shop on Main St and eventually bought the opposite corner property (McArdle's General store and the Hook homestead...he sold it ca 1973 while I was in the Army in Germany...afterwards there was a big scandal in City Hall and the proposed development that was supposed to take the plave of both corners of Main & Hudson never happened...pop passed away in '84 here in FL (a state he SWORE he'd never, ever visit, much less live...he's buried here).
wow. I have no less than 100 questions I would like to ask you about this vid but I will just ask you these: 1--where was the footage @4:20 taken? was this filmed originally as a documentary? I am in total awe right now. thanks for posting this
go to 5:45 if you noticed when the get to the end of McBride and Mill St you can only make a right or left in the present day you can do straight onto Ellison Street
Do you know anything about an ancient mid 1800s industrial building now derelict on broadway just after the bridge .Must be vacant 40 years or more .by Ryle
A route I have taken thousands of times in my life, decades later of course. Awesome stuff. I didn't know there was a tunnel that led up the westbound ramp onto the bridge like that in the days before the GWB/Cross Bronx approach.
its funny I know people from washington heights on the other side of the bridge in NY and they swear its thier bridge and not ours! the nerve of those people. ;-)
Wow no traffic!! Right after 9/11 it took me 2 hours to go from the Nyack exit of the Palisades Parkway across the bridge to 57th Street and 10th Ave to work. $9 for the bridge and $200 a month parking... National Guard with machine guns stationed on the bridge for years after 9/11...
Not at all, that what life was really like then on the GW. Not like today being shot at up by guys on mini bikes with no plates and no Port Authority cops suddenly stopping traffic for forty five minutes with no explanation nor any care about annoying people who need to be somewhere or truckers who have a destination point and time for their deliveries, nor the shit load of traffic and exhaust fumes and stench of today.
![George Washington Bridge and New Jersey 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/aGKOyZmiYg0/mqdefault.jpg)
The lack of traffic makes me envious!!!
The scene at the end in the industrial neighborhood is Paterson - starting at Spruce & McBride near the Great Falls on the Passaic River, turning east on McBride down the hill and ending on Mill Street. The building on the corner of McBride and Mill is today the same as seen in this video.
Thanx - I grew up in Fort Lee in the 50s & early 60s; the old man had a store on the corner of Main & Hudson...love seein' these now old cars with the split windshield and some with the sun visor...we had either a '51 or '52 blue Dodge Coronet,,,great memories here. Also the footage of those buildings along the Passaic River - WOW!! I used to pass this way on my way up to Caldwell College to visit my aunt who taught there...IIRC at that time (mid-70s after I'd gotten out of the Army those buildings belonged to a carpet manufacturing company...Thank you so very much for these memories, my friend...
CB in FL
Mohammed Cohen In 1951 my Dad had the ice cream parlor and pool room at the corner of Main St and N. Central, across from where the In Napoli restaurant is today. It later became a second hand store, I believe was named Moorehead's.
Yes we are...my dad's family, Brosnahan, (he was born in the upstairs apartment in Aug of 1918) had the corner (169 Main St) on what I guess would be the west side of Hudson (My Great grandfather, Hugh, immigrated from Ireland around 1854 and bought the place...I've got a VERY old picture of him standing on the front steps - ca. I guess, 1900)...it started as a general store/feed store in the mid 1800s and IIRC it stayed as a general store until right around the end of the War...in the early 50s he and his business partner bought an appliance store and moved the business to 169 Main St as Dealers Electronic Appliance Laboratories - later shortened to DEAL TV as he quickly ditched the appliance business and focused on the them new TV phenomenon...later his business focused on repair only...I started 'workin' for him around the age of 7 or 8....doing odd jobs...sweeping, testing tubes - as I got older -answering the phones etc...BTW 'Mohammed Cohen' is my 'nom de guerre'...there is a FB group called "I Grew up in Fort Lee, NJ" I'm a part of it and it's always good to hear from a fellow resident - no matter where they live today...Thanx for the history lesson!!!
I remember Deal TV. I grew up in Pal Pk but my father's family lived on N. Hudson. St. In the 40's and 50's, my grandmother lived in a rented house on Bigler St and then to an apartment above a store on Main St across from the fire house.Three of my cousins lived above Ghent's Plumbing Supply on Parker Ave. One became a cop and eventually Chief of Police, another is an attorney on Palisade Ave and the Sister was Married to Jimmy Hunt of Hunt Funeral home.
I could go on and on. Nice hearing from you.
I remember Jimmy Hunt (on occasion he'd stop by the store to say hello to pop)...thankfully not through his services..I passed his 'establishment' every Saturday on my way to and from my piano lessons (Helen Fischer on Whiteman St)...next door to Hunt's was my family doctor Louis V. Angioletti...the street across from his old office (near the park) has been renamed for him)...I grew up on Linwood Ave from '50 until we moved to Wayne in 1961....dad maintained his shop on Main St and eventually bought the opposite corner property (McArdle's General store and the Hook homestead...he sold it ca 1973 while I was in the Army in Germany...afterwards there was a big scandal in City Hall and the proposed development that was supposed to take the plave of both corners of Main & Hudson never happened...pop passed away in '84 here in FL (a state he SWORE he'd never, ever visit, much less live...he's buried here).
wow. I have no less than 100 questions I would like to ask you about this vid but I will just ask you these: 1--where was the footage @4:20 taken? was this filmed originally as a documentary? I am in total awe right now. thanks for posting this
A wise move to hang four cables when the bridge was built. When the lower level was needed, it was all ready to install.
Can they put one more maybe?
go to 5:45 if you noticed when the get to the end of McBride and Mill St you can only make a right or left in the present day you can do straight onto Ellison Street
Do you know anything about an ancient mid 1800s industrial building now derelict on broadway just after the bridge .Must be vacant 40 years or more .by Ryle
My favorite bridge to climb and photograph. Legally!
A route I have taken thousands of times in my life, decades later of course. Awesome stuff.
I didn't know there was a tunnel that led up the westbound ramp onto the bridge like that in the days before the GWB/Cross Bronx approach.
Yes. That tunnel was for local roads. I-95 was done in 1960. The Hamilton Bridge and X Bronx Expressway was done in 1963.
wow. I grew up nearby in Teaneck so I consider this my bridge.
I grew up in Fair lawn and feel the same way!
its funny I know people from washington heights on the other side of the bridge in NY and they swear its thier bridge and not ours! the nerve of those people. ;-)
Me too went to St. Annastasia in the 70s.
Here's one more: Driving down California Street in Beverly Hills in 1935. Stabilized in 2012 (Adobe After Effects)
Wow no traffic!! Right after 9/11 it took me 2 hours to go from the Nyack exit of the Palisades Parkway across the bridge to 57th Street and 10th Ave to work. $9 for the bridge and $200 a month parking... National Guard with machine guns stationed on the bridge for years after 9/11...
Everything looks so clean. Were the last 2 clips of Paterson, around the falls?
I tried looking for the Riviera restaurant on the cliffs but couldn't see it. I think it was torn down in the 50s.
This is phenomenal! Thank you so much!
I read several years or so ago that the GW is overdue for a total overhaul,maybe 2 billion dollars,has the project started yet?
Given the lack of traffic, I wonder if this was during WW2 w/gas rationing?
Not at all, that what life was really like then on the GW. Not like today being shot at up by guys on mini bikes with no plates and no Port Authority cops suddenly stopping traffic for forty five minutes with no explanation nor any care about annoying people who need to be somewhere or truckers who have a destination point and time for their deliveries, nor the shit load of traffic and exhaust fumes and stench of today.
Try it with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse footage.
No Cross Bronx yet !!!!
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Alas the eastbound clip ends too early- would like to see a drive through of that 178th Street Tunnel!
You get to see a little of it later on in the film going westbound! And this is before the 179th was opened!
wow that's fantastic
Smooooooth! Well done!
Very cool. Thank you!
No Traffic - Awesome :)
very nice ... love that at the end it show a part of The GREAT FALLS IN PATERSON N.J .. NICE TO SEE THAT.....
Thank you, I was wondering where that was.
I wish the traffic was like that now
Back then a car was a luxury for the well to do. People used public transportation to go places.
Good job! I just checked out the original footage
So back then it was just a ramp to the bridge. There was no Trans Manhattan Expressway
50 cent toll in this video, crossed it yesterday and paid $13.
Too bad it isn’t this way today…
just keep safe on driving
sending my full support to u
@madison26
40 trips for $10.00
With that little traffic,the Democrats could never get after Gov.Driscoll.Christie was born too late.