Wonderful New York 1961. In Technirama and Technicolor by Pan American Airlines.
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- A magnificent New York time capsule released by Pan American Airlines to entice you to visit New York. And that it does, filmed in Technicolor and wide screen Technirama. The streets, the cars, the people, the buildings, the sites day and night. Fantastic aerial shots, Central Park, the Guggenheim, NY Stock Exchange, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty. Grants Tomb, George Washington Bridge, the suburbs, as you tour these places in an automobile. Redevelopment of the old neighborhoods. This travel film is a must see! Mastered from a 16mm Technicolor film.
I was born at Mount Sinai Hospital, June 1961 on 5th Ave. in Manhattan. I remember NY City looking like this, while I played in Central Park. The Biggest Thrill, was all of us going to New York World's Fair in Flushing during 1964-1965 & we got to meet Uncle Walt Disney! I still have my white hat with the blue feather in it, with my name embroidered in orange on the brim of my Fair hat. Happy Memories! Too bad all my family members & everyone I knew from back then, are all dead now, it's so long ago.
Thanks for sharing your recollections.
Yes ! I was born in 1960 & went to the Worlds Fair from Buffalo, with my dear late parents. Unforgettable
Things may change and time passes, but the precious memories that bring us joy live on forever‼️ 💯👍🙂
If this was shot in 1961, then it was made on the year that I was born. I was born in Brooklyn New York. I enjoyed the 60s and 70s so very much and would go back in a heartbeat.
Thess cau you ignunce. Skrate up ignunce.
You take your smart phone with you. 😅
Tony, I was born in the late 1960's in New Jersey, and I enjoyed the 1970's very much. My family went to Disneyworld back then and had a lot of fun with friends. We visited New York often. All the best.
I was born in October 1961 in Asheville, NC.
Born in Sept. 1961 in Seattle. My Dad was from New Jersey, in Aug. 1976 he took me to NYC, among other things we went up in the World Trade Center, stood on the observation platform on the roof. Bygone era.
i was born in brooklyn ny. i have good memories of the 1960's 70's & 80's 🌇🌆 i feel old will become new again. people will return to this simple time again. it was a special time 😁
Well said
I was three years old then. Brooklyn too. Fond memories of those eras. To think majority of those ppl walking in the streets are dead by now.
Remarkable how clean and traffic-free New York was in 1961.
I remember when NYC was like this. Not even close anymore!
Can't beat the nostalgic comments!
@@johnmc3862 What's wrong with nostalgia, John?
new york looked better back then than today 💪🏼
Very little crime and no moral decay and no internet or cell phones. A few channels on a black and white TV 📺 playing andy griffith or leave it to beaver. There is no comparison today to the American experience in the 1950s and early 60s. Its never coming back
I was there in '57. As I remember the sound of police sirens was near continuous. It got worse in the 60s. According to the stats the crime rate was worse in '62 than it is now.
I think we are better informed now so it just seems worse.
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It was, LOL. This may have been the highlight.
@@notabot2928 Very little crime, huh? Wonder what the guys delivering milk to Hell's Kitchen or the south Bronx on the days it was time to collect the money would have to say about that. I wasn't around in the 50s but my relatives told me you didn't hang out east of the 3rd Av El back then, due to Irish and Italian gangs. I generally agree with your sentiment, overall the city was nicer, despite the choking air pollution from garbage incinerators and unchecked vehicle emissions. And the 70s were shit, but I still had fun in NYC, you could get away with smoking weed in the movie theaters by then or at MSG during a concert. The attitude was more fun and spirited in those days.
@@soundshaper Of course there was crime but it’s nothing like it was now and if you think that and you’re going to use Hells kitchen as some excuse to say it’s the same as now you’re just completely delusional
Amazing to see the old Pan Am airport terminal operating as it was originally designed to.
If I had a Time Machine, I would flee into the Past to get away from mobile phones.
And you told us this from your smartphone.
@@joedimaggio3687, no, of course not. Every time I get home from work, I turn off my mobile phone. I do not like phones.
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I hear Ted Kasinsky's cabin is available.
@@ADAMSIXTIES, so too is Marilyn Monroe's
I'm starting to think this was filmed at the peak of civilization because NYC has certainly regressed over the past 63 years.
New York City was still good until the towers went down…after that time it seems everything got messed up… 😢😢😢
Oy Vey!
“Not everyone can stay at the Waldorf”. Well as a 21 year old on my first visit I did”. I had been in awe of that hotel since I was a kid and it was like a dream come true. I loved the city then but sadly no more, it’s completely changed and overall not for the better. Such is life.
Loved that Rolls Royce parked out front. It was always a treat to see one of those when in NYC back in this day.
The good old days! The streets were generally clean; no graffiti; people were well dressed; crime was low, etc. I would love to go back to those days as an adult. I remember Pan Am Airlines. If I am not mistaken, my parents and I were passengers on Pan Am; I was a child at the time.
NY in the 70's was graffiti every where
@@allanzylbert1306 This was in the 60's!
there was trash everywhere back then. The streets were certainly not clean. Just check out historical photographs, not a a PR piece like this one. And the fumes from cars were terrible.
How the world was much more beautiful then !
Demographics.
And White!
Beautiful fashion, beautiful vehicles, beautiful aircrafts - 60s❤
Yes they are
Fantastic video, the building, the cars , the people, central park, the cinemas whith big actors, Kirk Douglas, Clark Gable, Briggitte Bardot, Alan Ladd, Sofía Loren, thanks very much! bests regards from Santiago, Chile
Many thanks!
Ladd and Gable were hasbeens by then.
@@yvonneplant9434 Thanks ! best regards
@@yvonneplant9434Gable was a dead "has been" by 1961 and Monroe would be gone in '62.
I was in NYC that year for Christmas, at age 5. I can't believe how clean the city was back then.
RIP NY
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@@johnmc3862 Oh, shut up.
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This is absolutely amazing. Thank you for posting. A priceless snapshot of Manhattan back in 1961. Seeing Tad's steaks off Times Square made me yearn for one of their juicy sizzling steaks.
Thank you too!
They had one of those in San Francisco until they closed it down a few years ago… Iconic
Hormone and antibiotic laden then. Thank goodness for Millenials demanding cleaner foods!!!
@@billybob1620 Actually reopened...it's on Ellis Street right across from John's Grill.🙂
New york city has always been amazing.
It's a damn shame what the last two Mayors have done to help tear it down
A few short years later I would visit NYC for the first time with my family to the 64-65 NY Worlds Fair.
😃 me too
Please God let me go back to then.
Bye. Go back to the past.
Lol. It's a propaganda movie, mate. Are you too smart to realise that? Lol
After this life, you will because time is irrelevant.
I received my selective service draft card in 1959 which meantthat I could drink at a bar, went to Birdland the Jazz corner of the world that night, for the next 5 years I almost never was awake in daylight becoming a night time worker ,but what jazz music I was listening too ! My life was not like this travelogue and now wished I had a movie camera back then!
Lots of childhood memories
Having been born in Manhattan and lived on 66th St across from Central Park in the 50s and 60s,the film showed so much of structures which were there at that time and no more. The Blue whale,for instance.❤
Forget all about the Blue Whale.
Great footage of Grand Central Parkway
Was that airport JFK or LaGuardia?
Anyone of a certain age who grew up on Long Island remembers those wooden lampposts along the parkways.
I remember them on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn where I grew up.
@@roncaruso931 Belt Parkway for sure but they were also out east on the other highways too. Seeing them instantly brought me back to those times.
I miss Pan Am and those days, most of them anyway.
So do I
When it was exciting to be there. When Macy's was the biggest store in the world and floor after floor of fantastic merchandise. When Broadway was sublime and to see a movie in NYC was thrilling. Paddy's Clam House was there, the Taft Tap room, TV shows, and MLB baseball when it was still baseball. I will never return; I refuse to to be overcome with grief.
It's still great. The opening of our borders. But it's still great. The new 20th century wow
I want so much to go to see the Yankees at home. My son said it's too bad but he watches the news around the clock, and he served 20 yr in service a Marine and he's been everywhere and all over the middle east. Trump saw big plans for the city he loved. His dad said maybe you need to start slowing on some of the large buildings and he said trust me...And well you can see for yours self......
@@vickimingus9281 Whatttttt?
@@vickimingus9281I have family that works there & he says it's a crime haven. Not surprised.🙄
"I will never return; I refuse to be overcome with grief." Very moving comment.
Pan Am... A name in the past !
Too big to fail!
it's embedded in my mind. Nomatter how long it's been when I think air travel...I think Pan-Am
PAN AM - the ultimate in transatlantic jet travel in the early 1960s.
Born in 1957 but I love the 60's, I have the archive of Life Magazine on my computer only section I read are the magazines from the mid 60's.. Love to see old footage of the city, even back to the 40's and beyond and try to figure out what street that is and what is there now.
wow , when life was so simple
No, not really.
@@scarpfish when you have less crime
Nyc best of times
The narrator keeps referring to mist, but I suspect it is actually smog. Back then, coal was burned for heat and for electric power generation. Many cars used leaded gas, and none had catalytic converters.
It was smog. Remember it as a kid. On some brutally hot July/August days I swear you could taste it😖
Yer looked like smog😩probably the cabs😅
So iconic in the past, now New York is old news
Nonsense.
@@TheMisterGriswold Oh, it's done like dinner. I'm a Bronxite born and raised. New York is long past her glory.
@@liamsandal6360 Bollocks.
@@TheMisterGriswold Stop upvoting your own comments, Mister.
When America was great.
The traffic on the roads seemed very light.
Beautiful NYC 60s .amazing video
Thanks for visiting
New York 1961. A bit before my time. I was a 1970's kid from Jersey. But went to New York often. Love scenes at 12:47 "The Misfits" sign with Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe. And what's New York 1961 without movie sign "West Side Story at 12:15 on far right. Plus, Love the Ferry boat and Pan Am plane scenes! At 2:57 far right the guy still has his black 1940's car! Plus look at 6:28 the young lady on the horse. You really do not see this sort of thing anymore riding like that in New York! Thanks for the upload.
Glad to oblige...
Another well preserved gem, in wide-screen no less, by Moviecraft.
New York was very cool city during those days, unlike today's influx of countless people from all sides. However, I do appreciate the style of this genuine American English accent through the narrator. I can't recall specifically now, but perhaps this person also narrated some other TV documentaries during 50s and 60s. Surely, we nowadays miss this kind of manly voice which was often heard then in movies and TV programmes.
Thanks for sharing!
Hello - Yes, the narrator's voice reminded me of this person, from that era: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_MacNeil
@@EricLehner I am positive that it is Robert MacNeil. I recognize his distinctive voice. I watched the news hour with him and his partner Jim Lehrer on PBS often, back in the 1980s, when I was young.
@@jackmeeellleee4896 Excellent! Cheers from Canada...
I still remember the Pan Am building when I came to New York in 1987. 😊😊😊.
Great film Larry! Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it
At 9:51-9:55 I like the nice, clean-cut hair of the Cute boys on the ferry, young blonde lady dresses nicely. And man at 10:19 too! The males and females dressed up more back then! Good blast to the past video! ♥
Thank you very much!
That's all they ever wore in public. Men wore suits and the women wore dresses, even for food shopping or a ballgame. Kids wore whatever they could find for them! Hand-me-downs mostly.
Wonderful video TY.
I Remember going to the children’s Zoo in CP around 5 years old.
If only time travel was possible... I was not born until 1968, but would give anything to go back and experience NYC in the 50's and early 60's
I am old enough to remember when traffic looked like this in my old hometown of NYC. I started kindergarten in September of 1961 in Flushing, Queens, NYC. The streetlights had florescent lights that gave off a white color. And most traffic signals were 2 colored lights, red for stop and green for go. 😊
I think New York City City was at a peak when this was filmed. A lot of the problems New York and the USA in general had of the later 60s and 70s had not materialized at that point in 1961. An ideal point in time to set your time machine for New York City and before you go pick me up. I want to come along for the trip or at least get a lift back with you.
I hope you aware that you couldn't take anything invented after 1960 with you.
@@jackmeeellleee4896I kinda agree with you.
@@jackmeeellleee4896 Can you fit one more person in your time machine?!
14:30--15:00...that footage became part of the credits of the television series MAUDE.
Hey Yeah ‼️👍 Good catch ‼️
Yes, that scene going over the GWB made me do a double take!
Wonderful video! This was all way before my time. But Woweee! If I was an adult young lady back then, I would have loved being a Pan Am Stewardess! Haha! Thanks for the upload. 😊♥
From a time when people had a more civilized appearance. The woman in the white dress reminds me of so many neighbourhood mothers and teachers of that day: 15:18
heck you still see white gloves here and there
JFK was then called New York International Airport (1:11).
AKA Idelwild Airport in those days.
I would date this film 1963 or later based on the shot looking up Park Ave. @4:47. The Pan Am Building, seen behind the Helmsley Building, was completed in 1963.
Yes i thought that✅records show the pan-am building was topped out May ‘62 officially opened in ‘63
Wonderful!! Thanks for posting!!
I remember these times quite well.
I couldn't help but smile at 1:12 when I saw the former name of JFK airport: New York International Airport, more commonly known back then as Idlewild Airport.
God I love the 60s. Early 60s, that is
The Empire State Building looks so majestic poking up through the smog.
🎉😊
Qué emoción una película de New York. Recordaré mi amada ciudad❤❤❤❤
Loved the video, better than todays 4k videos
Wow, thanks
42nd Street before it ... changed. I've spent a lot of time at pretty much every spot shown in this, and it's all the same physically, and it hadn't changed too much from my early days, but society was just about to get hit with a hammer. They were keeping up with the maintenance then, but that began to fail soon after. People dressed well, and that changed soon, too. The 1960s were a real turning point for NYC, this caught it right before all the issues. It's amusing that the narrator says "The winds of change blow strongly" - they just blew in the opposite direction than he was implying.
well said
Muito bom obrigada
Hello World ! The pinnacle of western and world civilization before WW3 will be recognized to have transpired in mid 20th century New York City… Very proud I was born in Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn at that time… incomparable perch from which to survey and judge millennia, thank you and good night😅🎉
Narrated by Robert MacNeil, later the co-producer and presenter of MacNeil Lehrer Report at PBS.
Except the opening credits list narrator: Robert Ware
Wonderful memorabilia if you were lucky enough to be around then. Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it
Wonderful memories! It was an end of an era - when ladies were smartly dressed , many men still wore hats and nearly everyone smoked cigarettes!
..." when ladies were smartly dressed, many men still wore hats - and nearly everyone SMOKED cigarettes." All true!
No smoking
☝️🤔
holy crap! Look at the smog. Didn’t get cleared up until the EPA in 1970.
And Richard Nixon. Right?
Actually it was more like the 1990s. Same thing happened in Los Angeles. Natural Gas/LPG busses was a huge factor. Catalytic converters also which did start in the 1970s
It was that line of cabs😅
Wonderful
Thank you! Cheers!
Love the sound of those early jets & their sleek much smaller engines much less likely to ingest birds.
I was ten when this was filmed, growing up in Manhattan. Very nostalgic for me, but it's hard to miss the smog that has been mostly eliminated due to unleaded gasoline and banning of incinerators. I'm still living in Manhattan, happily aging in place in my beloved city.
No one speaks English there now
All the wonderful illegal immigrants there today!!!
@@user-or6yn8pm3cYes! Just like in days gone by. Land of opportunity and all that.
@@esmekaffen4961 The city you see in the film doesn't exist anymore. The location is there today but it's a completely different place. Whatever nostalgia you had much of it is no longer there.
@@esmekaffen4961 The ones then integrated. I don't see that today. Keep deluding yourself. Why don't you go out of your Manhattan condo and see the rest of the city???
I adore the opening jazzy background music that is so typical of the sixties, like in Mannix or Mission Impossible. Puts you in the right mind from the start.
About seven years before slob culture and drug culture took over. I remember NYC in the 80s and it was a mess. I got assaulted twice in broad daylight just walking over to my dad's office on Park Ave from the Port Authority.
The Giuliani team led the clean up and that seemed to hold up until about five years ago. Maybe the youngsters of today will get to experience the adventure and thrill of the 70s and 80s again...or maybe they'll just have to step over human feces.
It's rampant there today.
It was not Giuliani it was Bloomberg who cleaned up, put in bike lanes, millions of new trees. Giuliani did next to nothing except try to ban food carts. Ridiculous remark about feces.
If a person is old enough he or she can remember a time before there was visual clutter everywhere, before ugly spray-painted graffiti, before plastic trash everywhere. A time when most people behaved with some level of dignity and courtesy, especially in public.
I can.
It is much better today. Most of the graffiti is long gone, Manhattan is kept pretty clean, and there is a general high level of "I'm pleased to be here" The million tourist a week who come looking for the raw experience this will tell you New Yorkers are much easier to chat with than Parisians on Londoners. And crime is a small percentage of what it was in the 60s and 70s, the era of gang warfare. Central Park was almost universally avoided.
NYC has certainly changed a lot since 1961.
I think this is actually 1963. The Pan Am Building was under construction in 1961. It has actually been the Met Life building longer than it was the Pan Am Building.
I also thought that ,and probably Pan Am would put this out closer to the opening of the NY World's fair.
I'd agree on that basis alone, in terms of the release in this form. Much of the other footage came from '61 though, with the buses and their color scheme (from Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, before their lines were taken over by MaBSTOA) being the main giveaway.
Sidney Poitier "all the young men" released 1960-08-26 shown on movie marquee.
@@whereisthedollar - Let's face it, the shots they used, in terms of when originated, were all over the place.
@@wmbrown6 god grief you kareians.
I noticed a movie called town without pity in the time square segment that movie came out in 1961.
Plus "The Misfits" with Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe movie sign at 12:47 came out same year.
A lot of good movies and actors of the past appeared on those marquis.
I was 6 years old and in school on the upper west side. 💗
...Pan Am Airlines & Idlewild Airport!!!
This was a very different place from today. Everyone is white, all dressed up, and the city is clean.
I grew up right across the river. No, not everyone was white back then, but yes, people did DRESS. The city is much cleaner now than it had been during the crises of the '70s, but it's almost astonishing to see how clean it was in '61. However, the air was much dirtier as you can see in the long shots. Now, it's much cleaner and clearer.
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@@hudsony777 American cars were the first to have catalytic converters in exhausts- but that was not till 1975..but other things were better in 61
I lived there till '69.When in last year and a half I had a pt.job after school and on Sat. at B.Altman's at 34th and 5th Ave kitty corner from the Empire State.My Supervisors and closest co-work were Black women,all cleany stylish as any NY women in those times.
How did such a grand city of the world become such a cesspool today?
Out of control spending
And sending the wrong
People to congress for
Starters..irs blackmailing the American people every
Freaking year didn't help
Either..also military spending went completely bonkers...
Now homelessness
and joblessness is tearing the country
Apart...vote Trump
Or were toast.
@NoPrivateProperty the progressive democratic party.
You're confused. The city looks amazing and is very safe and attracts 1 million tourists a week. Shopping is the best. Broadway sells 40,000 seats every night.
Democrats
@@richardanderson5078 Ooooh, spoooky, do hold mommy's hand.... In fact Democrats grow the economy faster at every level. Hundreds of billions annually are transferred from Blue states to Red.
Family emigrated there 1896. Born there 1960. Raised and educated there. Loved the city. What the left wing socialists and communists have done to that city is a disgrace. Compared to other great cities, especially those in Asia like Hong Kong, NY is nothing but a pathetic shell of what it used to be.
No one is more proud of being a New Yorker than I am 🗽
Thank you for sharing. The NY I long for
Staten Island Ferry going by at 10:30
I dont think the GW had a lower level yet
Thanks for watching
Commented 6/2024. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Park avenue, Central Park and many of the roads and highways look much the same today as they did 63 years ago with the exception of the peoples dress code, vehicles and smog. Man has done excellent when it comes to clean air, preservation of waterways and conservation. You don’t hear any talk about the Ozone layer depletion and for that I must give credit to man.
NY used to be wonderful indeed!........Sadly not any more..enough said😢..
Oh mines loved it just watched it on a projector 📽️
I was born in 1962.So neeed to wait some more years to know about this nice city.I am from Spain
I love the Cars ...but I remember cars before catalytic converters , Smelly and Noxious gasses when you were behind a untuned V - 8 . Carbon Monoxide was a big problem then.
American cars of the 50s & 60s were ridiculous . the amount of raw materials used in their making and the size of them ...often carrying no more than 2 people going shopping..but then petrol was very cheap-too cheap
Make America Great Again. 🇺🇸👌
Seeing the Jersey side of the GWB is interesting. In this film it looks rural, today it's all covered with skyscrapers.
GWB?
@@clarklk George Washington Bridge.
Went to observation deck of Empire State Building as a kid and looking down at street below all the people looked like tiny ants.
While many comments say how clean everything looks, people forget how polluted the air was back then. I rmember as a kid being told it was like smoking 2 packs a day just breathing in NYC.
707s benefitted from the Comets problems and ruled the skies .
Boeing was the best of them back then.
The majority of those theaters/cinemas (12:52) had become either strip clubs and peep shows or Kung Fu/Black Exploitation film venues by the late 1970s/early 1980s. It fascinating to see footage of the area just before it began to decay into depravity. Don't worry, its all Walt Disney World and Broadway is back again.
Just been, February '24...fascinating place
At 12', many great 59/1960 movies titles on cinemas lights ! West Side Story, The Misfits, The Truth... and others.
Haha! True. Those theaters all became porn theaters, then were torn down and replaced by one big building along most of each side of that block, made to look like many cafes and theaters.
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I'd like to see these rescored. That "modern" mix of '61 hard on the ears and chops the heck out of the flow.
Live with it, lol. We had to😉
Ahh, the 60's, I remember it well...Edwin Astley wrote the music for the TV series Danger Man and The Saint back then. He is a accomplished composer of the period.
Yes, Edwin Astley later wrote the original themes and scores for "DANGER MAN" (the hour-long episodes became "SECRET AGENT", with a new theme for American viewers in 1965), "THE SAINT", "THE CHAMPIONS", and "RANDALL AND HOPKIRK" {aka "MY PARTNER, THE GHOST" in the U.S.}.
@@fromthesidelines Any relation to Rick? Or Jon, whose song "Jane's Getting Serious" was used in a Heinz ketchup commercial.
Yes, Jon was his son.
No world trade center in 1961.The construction of the WTC started in 1966 and was finished in April 1973. My dad was 25 and my mom was 19 in 1966.I didn't exist yet.
I was in catholic elementary school 1965-73 in Jersey City, NJ. I could see them building WTC from some of my classrooms on a sunny spring or fall day. Little did I know I would work on 77th FL in WTC 1 late 80's into early 90's for a Japanese insurance company. Yasuda Fire & Marine. It was pretty surreal to look across the Hudson to J.C. when working there
What’s that’s got to do with the price of fish in New Jersey😩
Born in Brooklyn in 1949 and graduated in 1967 from Stuyvesant and in 1970 from Brooklyn college. Was out of town from 1971 to 1975 when I returned to NYC. Still have the apartment in coney Island which mom,dad and I moved in to at Christmas 1965. Coney island was still glorious until the early 1960's until decline started with steeplechase closing in 1963. Beach and board are still great for bathing and walking.The Russian population has invigorated the eastern part of the boardwalk with some decent restaurants.
NYC what a place in 1961. Today what an Shole.
What he calls mist was smog.
Who cares?
At 10:04, the neighborhood I was born in grew up and is currently living!
More time has passed between the time this was filmed and today than between the 1800s and the time this was filmed.
Sounds like Robin McNeil narrating.
A forgotten world overwhelmed by over population, pollution and debt.
Ahh yes, New York before "diversity is our strength!"
Right on cue, some traditionalist has to ruin the nostalgia with their subtle, but not so subtle racism.
@@scarpfish The only racism was inferred by you. I don't care about my neighbor's provenance, accent or way of life so long as they love America, work hard, and don't commit crime, and want to pass those values along to their children.
Look at those clean streets😅😅😅😅