Love the old cars and trains! Brings back some nice memories of growing up in NY. Best of all everyone was paying attention where they were walking and not on cell phones.
*Born 1957 Da Bronx, I remembered all in this video from the 50's till 1965 and beyond nothing ever changed for me till my adulthood, my Dad partnered the Saint Francis Hotel at 124 West 47th st. between 6th & 7th. ave. I ran those streets back in 1965 I'll never forget now 63 years old!* 😷👍🏻
Yeah 1956 for me.Boy those people knew how to dress.lol before 1965 anyway.Remember when our men elders would go to the corner store in dress shoes,pants,shirts,maybe tie and a fedora. The hustle and bustle on Fordham Road&149st 3rd ave.Saturday was for bowling and Sunday was a trip downtown to the Theater.
@@frederickgriffith7004 for our family, it was Wednesday formal event night and friday casual party night. We always had some fascinating dinners, the great depression shook up our cooking styles to macaroni with C to B+ grade tomatoes and carrots chopped with bone marrow broth and chicken. It was a soupencheese for us. Better meals on party night, party night was a good night hehe. I lived in Salem till 1949, moved to Buffalo in summer of 1949 and spent the best years of our life in a large mansion esque suburban home on the outskirts of a historical town, and after many trips to Manhattan, moved their in 1961! Lived till 1973, I ought to believe you can guess why, too dangerous! Moved to Florida, heard grand things about it by family...Disney made it the tourist state instead of the Sunshine beach resort getaway state. Unfortunately I always upholded it as that, a tourist taken state, and now regret ever feeling that way back in the 1970s compared to the hell it is today. Yikes!!
@@artdecotimes2942 lol and I have no regrets about getting older.I remind younger relatives of that all the time because they always assume the opposite
@@frederickgriffith7004 yes, they act like its the end of the world. They also act as though they will he different when their older but heck I bet they'll be calling kids clueless and talking about the good old days of their tesla and playstations.
the days when you could own a home, buy two cars , get married, the wife didn't have to work, have half a dozen kids and send them to college, all on one salary
Yea that’s coz most jobs were not outsourced and our economy wasn’t dependent on Chinese products. We made our own shit be bought our own shit. Economy is always better when we have a international trade surplus. Not a deficit. Now made in USA products compete with Chinese products on the same shelf. Less money for American companies means less pay eventually for American workers. It’s a cycle. Bad trade deals and practices led to this. Being too “liberal” without stop gaps led to this avalanche.
@@ugotserved911 That's because Europe's manufacturing base was destroyed after the war in 1945. That's why an an average high school graduate could get a well paid after finishing school. It took 15-20 years for Europe to get back on it's feet again.
The NYC I remember includes bomb shelter signs all over the place (and 'duck and cover' drills in school), my White parents leaving the Bronx because Puerto Ricans were moving in, Mayor Lindsay failing to clear up after a massive blizzard. And crack? No. Heroin? Yes. New York certainly had its advantages (like free college). But it wasn't a fantasy land...with the possible exception of the Loewe's Paradise movie theater (a Roman Coliseum with faux stars above).
I recognize the opening picture. You must pause it because it goes so quickly. That is 97th Street Park Ave tunnel. In the late 80s early 90's I would bring my kids there and let them watch the trains go by. That picture is awesome because at that time there were no fences or obstructions to prevent people from going on the tracks. Now you can barely se from that angle. Thank you for these wonderful snapshots.
intersection of 108 and what street? strike that, found it. 64th road. it was driving me crazy. recognized the corner but it's been 30 years since I've lived in NY
Born in NYC 1959 and raised between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues on the Upper West Side (89th and 90th Streets) of Manhattan... Love watching old footage of NYC...
Sammy Davis and Dean Martin were names to be remembered. They were really performers unlike those we see today. I was born in 1950 and I really miss the good old days.
I'm from London and the first time I went to Paris when I was a kid, it was the most amazing place. When I recently visited Paris I couldn't believe how much it has changed and not for the better. I'm also nostalgic for my childhood London when I think about what it has become today.
great collection of pictures... thank you for sharing.... those "Gunn red" IND cars in your moniker bring back memories of riding the 2 and 5 from the Bronx down into Manhattan in the 80's and 90's.... I miss those "port hole" windows, the steel on steel, and those hairpin turns just south of 149 and the Concourse.... loved standing in the door window just outside the motorman's cab during those Lexington and 7th Ave (Broadway?) express runs.... got your adrenaline pumping....
Those of us who lived then and there had the best of all things. It made us who we are today. I'm proud to be a New Yorker from that time. I was born and "breaded" there. Luv youse all.
This is the NYC my father talked about and love so much. He lived in Brooklyn and later Queen between 1952-78 before moving across the river to NJ. Personally, I like NYC how it looks here. Doesn’t look like a whole tourist attraction just a city with more personality.
My father coming home from the Korean war met my mother on the lower East side both from Puerto Rico and we were born in Manhattan Bellevue hospital in the 60s. And I wouldn't change a thing.
Great video, and soundtrack! Growing up in The Bronx; I remember going to the Associated supermarkets. Love the old Third Ave. El . Thanks for sharing.
Oh cool, the luncheonette on 108 street in Forest Hills. A ton of kids hung out there from 1968-1973 as it was between Forest Hills high school and Halsey Middle School. Wish I could find pics from the Pizza Den and neighborhood during those years.
Oh my god, my parents {now deceased} were born in NYC and loved living there until December 31, 1973, that was the very last time living there, a day later my parents moved to Levittown Long Island that my mother loved living in Levittown Long Island very much, this is a great video!
Oh it was pristine as well, don't hold that off of it. It was gritty and pristine, like a incredible Automobile from 1935 that is driving through a side dirt road with it's wheels coated lightly in a layer of sand and dirt, perhaps needs a good clean at the car washing station.
Everyone is so well dressed 0:50 - 0:59. At subway 0:21, all men, not a woman. Marquis Cinema showing Anthony Quinn 'Savage Innocents', Robert Mitchum, 'The Hunters', Dean Martin 'All in a Night's Work' @1:40 (What a nice video! - Thank you for posting).
I can not believe this, but I was just feeling nostalgic and just wanted to see pictures of old NY and started to watch the video, but then @2:04, the image of the Associated Market on 145th St. and Broadway, my heart stopped for a second! I am pretty sure I see my father peeking behind the man in the gray jacket who is looking into the camera. My Dad would indeed be making produce deliveries circa 1965 in Harlem. I worked with him in the late 1970's and early '80's during summers, and he would stand on the sidewalk writing down what was taken off the truck for delivery just like in this image! It seems the produce manager of the store is hand trucking boxes into the Associated as, what is very likely, my Dad is standing next to boxes of tomatoes by his truck at curbside. I sent this image to my older brother, and he told me that was one of his big stops during that time, and it is a good chance that's him! Wow! What are the odds of that happening?! Thank you so much for this submission Trainluvr!! Even if it is not my father, I feel he just said "hello" to me, and I am very thankful!!
Perry Castellano wow that’s amazing that’s really your dad? What year is this? Old photos compared to modern photos much more amazing it captures a life much more simplistic
@@chloekit4861 I'm still not 100% sure, but all the evidence seems to point in that direction! That Associated Market was one of his biggest customers then, it looks like him although his image is not perfectly clear, and his truck on the left at the time that he named "Marianne" (for a popular song in the late 1950's that I believe had the lyrics in it, "All day, all night, Marianne" because he worked long hours and was out early in the morning buying fresh produce each day to load on the truck and then a long day unloading at customer's businesses throughout the Bronx and upper Manhattan until night.). I miss him every day. Old school hard working man who taught me more on his truck than they did at NYU! Looking at the pontiac in the image, it looks like 1965 or so... I was born in 1962 in the Bronx, the same year my folks lost a baby girl of 3 1/2 years old to leukemia, so I think my Pop literally worked his way through his grief by staying busy. This image hits me square in the chest. That truck proudly had my name and her name on the front of it.
@@NightcruiserMA clever boy, someone just taught you that, and now your very proud of yourself! Good for you. It was constructive criticism for the producer, I'm sure he'd like to have A well rounded production. You see when you make A public presentation the producer/director wants to get his subject matter across to the viewer, to do this you want the viewer to have to do ONE thing, follow the intent that the producer/director had envisioned, in this case it was to sit uninvolved, and take in the subject without any interuptions. That was compromised. Jerko!!
That was really something to see THOMSFORDS I used to go there when I was a kid on the corner of 125th & St. Nicholas Avenue, and right next door was the beauty salon and the sporting goods store which was later an the Optometrist and eyeglass store.I also remember that Associated Supermarket and Len Fong, which had the best Chinese food you eat right on 145th St. & Broadway.
The city was just THE BEST! So many things to see and to do or just to sit on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum and watch people. The best PIZZA and the best Italian ICES!
This is amazing history to have on UA-cam! Will be interesting to see all the videos today in high resolution in 50 years and see how things have changed again!
If someone from today dressed as they are appeared walking around the streets in those days they would have been considered a vagrant. People back then dressed up just to go shopping. This time was the last leg of an elegant era. It all changed in the mid 70.s.
@@johnlouisville It was a working city for sure. Industry, entertainment, publishing, fashion, finance, etc. The feds built the highway system after the war, the middle class moved out of the old industrial cities and the decline began. 1965 is when a steep decline of NYC began. By 1975 it was a dangerous shithole. You could literally buy a 4 story building in Manhattan for a few thousand dollars in 1975. NYC bounced along the bottom through the 80s and early 90s until Wall St took off. Now, as you pointed out, NYC is divided between the very rich and everybody else.
Per my parent's pics from back then, whether rich or poor, young or old, for parties the women were always tastefully dressed, and the men were in suits and ties... as if they were always ready for a job interview. Old archival 50s photos from my first employer's workplace showed that all the men wore ties... from managers to engineers to (!!!) mechanics (in smocks).
Thank you, great video...Also, living over 23 years in this city, I also like that these unique places, with these different kind small businesses still exist in New York, even after all not good things happened over the past decades......New York city is not just these famous skyscrapers, Time Square and so on., Manhattan, Brooklyn and other parts of New York have diferent kind places with different kind architecture, characters, history, with all these kind unique places, all kind vintage, retro places, small business, stores and so on...
One of my favorite places are " Gramercy Park" area, Upper West and East sides of Manhattan, places around Central Park, some places in East Village, and other parts of Manhattan, also Greenpoint, Williamsburg and other parts of Brooklyn and so on....
What a time of innocence! U.S. was the greatest nation in the world, almost all kids had intact families and Dads, people had personal standards of decorum and cleanliness...all gone now, for good.
GiveitUp 100 100 Ask blacks today and they will tell you despite the ridiculous JC laws, their families were a strong unit. Those black families had an alpha male father figure and classy mother figure, both well dressed! It took the civil rights act, feminism, and communism to utterly destroy the black community. You probably went to college, which is why you’re uneducated about our past and how great this country really is. Our nation would have beat the JC laws as most Americans were for segregation (including blacks) but against those democrat nasty laws. It took leftist to creat those policies and another group of leftist to “help” the black community right into the poor house! Try reading some Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams. That’s all the education you’ll ever need...
Yea i wonder what it was like for people who were around in nyc in the 40s and 50s and saw the dramatic transition in the late 60s 70s and 80s . Must of been heartbreaking
I'm almost 60 and a lifelong nyc-er So boy oh boy did I love this. Thanks for compiling/posting it.😊 Man there are so many racist comments below. Very sickening
@Jenn H. I love my country and my city passionately that's one of the reasons I served as a volunteer Auxiliary Police Officer for 23 years. I'm very concerned that my country and my city are in desperate straits right now. One of the reasons is for that is because we elected an evil , crooked incompetent, selfish man as POTUS. I just hope and pray that it's not too late pull upward and out of the death spiral we seem to be in. One thing that gives me hope for the future is that we have plenty of smart, talented , good people here of all different races ,creeds, colors and political views that should be able to work together to make things better for EVERYONE. if we are not willing and able to do that then we dont deserve to survive.
@@daviddemar8749 Just a friendly suggestion, David: Please don't feed the trolls; it's best to just totally ignore them. They absolutely _hate_ that. 😊 Me? I just downvote racist/bigot comments and move on.
Both the Lambretta and the woman are *beautiful* . And I like how her dress matches with the color of the scooter. It's crazy to think that that woman is probably now either *_dead_* or at least 85 years old
![New York City 1950s in color, Third Ave El [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/i6RG9-ZstyE/mqdefault.jpg)
Every photo is a feast for the eyes.
I had to pause for each. I'm digging that soundtrack.
Love the old cars and trains! Brings back some nice memories of growing up in NY. Best of all everyone was paying attention where they were walking and not on cell phones.
The trolley cars too,its a shame alot of the trolley tracks got covered up with asphalt.
*Born 1957 Da Bronx, I remembered all in this video from the 50's till 1965 and beyond nothing ever changed for me till my adulthood, my Dad partnered the Saint Francis Hotel at 124 West 47th st. between 6th & 7th. ave. I ran those streets back in 1965 I'll never forget now 63 years old!* 😷👍🏻
Yeah 1956 for me.Boy those people knew how to dress.lol before 1965 anyway.Remember when our men elders would go to the corner store in dress shoes,pants,shirts,maybe tie and a fedora. The hustle and bustle on Fordham Road&149st 3rd ave.Saturday was for bowling and Sunday was a trip downtown to the Theater.
@@frederickgriffith7004 for our family, it was Wednesday formal event night and friday casual party night. We always had some fascinating dinners, the great depression shook up our cooking styles to macaroni with C to B+ grade tomatoes and carrots chopped with bone marrow broth and chicken. It was a soupencheese for us. Better meals on party night, party night was a good night hehe. I lived in Salem till 1949, moved to Buffalo in summer of 1949 and spent the best years of our life in a large mansion esque suburban home on the outskirts of a historical town, and after many trips to Manhattan, moved their in 1961! Lived till 1973, I ought to believe you can guess why, too dangerous! Moved to Florida, heard grand things
about it by family...Disney made it the tourist state instead of the Sunshine beach resort getaway state. Unfortunately I always upholded it as that, a tourist taken state, and now regret ever feeling that way back in the 1970s compared to the hell it is today. Yikes!!
@@artdecotimes2942 lol and I have no regrets about getting older.I remind younger relatives of that all the time because they always assume the opposite
@@frederickgriffith7004 yes, they act like its the end of the world. They also act as though they will he different when their older but heck I bet they'll be calling kids clueless and talking about the good old days of their tesla and playstations.
@@artdecotimes2942 lol😂
the days when you could own a home, buy two cars , get married, the wife didn't have to work, have half a dozen kids and send them to college, all on one salary
Yea that’s coz most jobs were not outsourced and our economy wasn’t dependent on Chinese products. We made our own shit be bought our own shit. Economy is always better when we have a international trade surplus. Not a deficit. Now made in USA products compete with Chinese products on the same shelf. Less money for American companies means less pay eventually for American workers. It’s a cycle. Bad trade deals and practices led to this. Being too “liberal” without stop gaps led to this avalanche.
Plus a job you could keep your whole life if you wanted to.
Ronald Reagan messed things up. Trickle down economics 🙄
@@ugotserved911 That's because Europe's manufacturing base was destroyed after the war in 1945. That's why an an average high school graduate could get a well paid after finishing school. It took 15-20 years for Europe to get back on it's feet again.
maybe not that extreme
That's the NYC I remember as a kid.
I wasn't born yet....LOL!!!!
.however I love it ..
@@clarkclarke 👍
The NYC I remember includes bomb shelter signs all over the place (and 'duck and cover' drills in school), my White parents leaving the Bronx because Puerto Ricans were moving in, Mayor Lindsay failing to clear up after a massive blizzard. And crack? No. Heroin? Yes. New York certainly had its advantages (like free college). But it wasn't a fantasy land...with the possible exception of the Loewe's Paradise movie theater (a Roman Coliseum with faux stars above).
You mean MOB City 😂 it was so much violence going on
Jeff how old are you, and how was it then? I wished I would have been there at this time.
Perfect soundtrack!
It sounds like a Sam Spence NFL highlight film track.
I think some top 40 WABC or 1010 WINS clips would have been more appropriate. That’s what was filling the airwaves while these were taken!
The good old days. Gone forever.
The girl on the italian Lambretta scooter on the streets of NY. Just epic
*... and she happens to be passing by the Dakota building on 72nd St, John Lennon's building where he was murdered 20 years later !...*
@@tuveuxlademocratieoutuveux4692 yes I thought I recognized that unique structure instantly!!
Something that no longer exists in America, but you can still find it in Europe.
@@marcv2648 we had Honda scooters in the 80s
@@timafiggy My point was, you won't find many women riding scooters in America today.
I recognize the opening picture. You must pause it because it goes so quickly. That is 97th Street Park Ave tunnel. In the late 80s early 90's I would bring my kids there and let them watch the trains go by. That picture is awesome because at that time there were no fences or obstructions to prevent people from going on the tracks. Now you can barely se from that angle. Thank you for these wonderful snapshots.
Looks so much better back then
maybe if you were white
As they say looks can be deceiving
@@k.zohaib well most people in the US were white back then do yes
No garbage on streets, people dressed better, no graffiti on walls, The way it should be now!!
Love it and the cool music. thanks, if we could turn back time. Everyone dressed so nicely in those days.
Great video! Growing up in NYC in the 50's -60's, this brings back a lot of memories! I could watch these video's all day!
1;14 Was in that candy store everyday on 108th St. in Forest Hills. Grew up couple of blocks away.
intersection of 108 and what street? strike that, found it. 64th road. it was driving me crazy. recognized the corner but it's been 30 years since I've lived in NY
1:14 Chris
Time of my life; streets of my heart. Thanks for the trip in your time machine.
No fat people at all
I was born in Manhattan in the early 1960s (moved from there in 1968), so it's pretty cool seeing these great images.
Glad you enjoyed it
That soundtrack though! AWESOME!!
Born in NYC 1959 and raised between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues on the Upper West Side (89th and 90th Streets) of Manhattan...
Love watching old footage of NYC...
Funny I lived on 89 st between Amsterdam and Columbus ave also from 1969 till we moved to 87 street. Live in central America now.
0:25 lol 3 kids bumper hitching on the back of the trolley... lol
I just realised, what happened to nyc's trolley buses and trams??
@@Nexus104 too gosh dang crowded now
@@Nexus104 scrap
Damn kids, will never amount to nothin'
The way things are now, I wouldn’t mind traveling back in time AND STAYING THERE!
Don't forget to bring a sports almanac
People are dressed classy. Everyone seemed to have put an effort to look dapper.
Not A Single T-Shirt To Be Found Till The End On The Train.
No Sweat Pants, Hoodies...
Those were the good old days. No guys dressed like hoodlums and no women looking like a tramp.
New York's people still dress very nice. But, California on the other hand...
So true. “We” are slobs now.
@@fjm1991 true. Over here in NYC you have to dress your best. I still dress my best.
Sammy Davis and Dean Martin were names to be remembered. They were really performers unlike those we see today. I was born in 1950 and I really miss the good old days.
I wish they would bring back neon signs.
I am Parisian but these images of N.Y.city make me feel the same nostalgia as those of my childhood in Paris.👍❤
I'm from London and the first time I went to Paris when I was a kid, it was the most amazing place. When I recently visited Paris I couldn't believe how much it has changed and not for the better. I'm also nostalgic for my childhood London when I think about what it has become today.
Very nice ...even the music ..
Thank you !!.
I love all the vintage stuff.
great collection of pictures... thank you for sharing.... those "Gunn red" IND cars in your moniker bring back memories of
riding the 2 and 5 from the Bronx down into Manhattan in the 80's and 90's.... I miss those "port hole" windows, the steel on
steel, and those hairpin turns just south of 149 and the Concourse.... loved standing in the door window just outside the
motorman's cab during those Lexington and 7th Ave (Broadway?) express runs.... got your adrenaline pumping....
Those of us who lived then and there had the best of all things. It made us who we are today. I'm proud to be a New Yorker from that time. I was born and "breaded" there. Luv youse all.
✌️😊 Yes...The Best years of my life...Love and Peace to all always...🥰xo
that "youse" is all the money!!! TY Tom
I love how back in the day, people used to wear cool hats! And these vintage cars are lovely
Feels like a dream
This is the NYC my father talked about and love so much. He lived in Brooklyn and later Queen between 1952-78 before moving across the river to NJ.
Personally, I like NYC how it looks here. Doesn’t look like a whole tourist attraction just a city with more personality.
When folks were classy & stylish & modern♥️👍
Pretty cool shot of 42nd and Lexington Ave looking east. You can even see the 3rd Ave el’s 42nd Street Station.
Wow, everything looks clean, people are well dressed and skinny. It is night and day compared to today. Thanks for sharing
@World Coming Down 5780 ĺl
World Coming Down 5780 fuck off
Actually it was a lot tougher in NYC these days. It’s much safer now
@@lilpp4791 fuck off
@World Coming Down 5780 Stormfqg
New York City back then was sooo CLEAN and TIDY!
@Tommy Vercetti It was ruled by the mafia
@@userr5464 even better
Remember it well! I was 10! those cars wow! people had class!
Take me back. I want that black 1959 Cadillac!!!!
That's when they knew how to build them good
Excellent song choice with this excellent montage. Great job!!! Just fittin'.
Great video. So much to digest. I love how at 1:07 there is an Olmec Head casually on display on the NY street. Truly a different time.
My father coming home from the Korean war met my mother on the lower East side both from Puerto Rico and we were born in Manhattan Bellevue hospital in the 60s. And I wouldn't change a thing.
That's fantastic....welcome
Loves the cool sleek old version of our older generations this is amazing these pics
A time my parents were kids
Thank you so much for sharing! This lines up with the stories my dad tells me of his childhood in the city.
This music used to be the theme for "Outlook" on the BBC World Service back in the '70s.
And was used by Weirdo Video in its compilation of grindhouse and softcore porn trailers.
Whish I was around that time I was born way later, nice music goes with the 50s and 60s.
Damn! I wasn't born at the right time nor the right City!!! God I looooove New York! Best city in the whole wide World!!! BTW : Great tune!
Great video, and soundtrack!
Growing up in The Bronx;
I remember going to the Associated supermarkets.
Love the old Third Ave. El .
Thanks for sharing.
Loving the Bardot-esque on the Vespa;
nice vid,
Many thanks!
attractive I'd say.
Wow!
NYC. . . But with character, & soul.
What a time to be alive.
Great little video, & music.
Need another watch, Cheers.
How elegant clothing can truly transform a vibe of an environment. This generation knew it!
People. Look. Amazing. !!! So. Well. Dressed. And. All. !!!
Oh cool, the luncheonette on 108 street in Forest Hills. A ton of kids hung out there from 1968-1973 as it was between Forest Hills high school and Halsey Middle School. Wish I could find pics from the Pizza Den and neighborhood during those years.
its been a Russian neighborhood for many years now.
Damn Commies, 1st Brighton Beach, Now this Neighborhood!
That luncheonette was Ladd’s, owned by brothers Howie and Artie. Mike was the counterman.
Do you remember coffee charms candy? ...... 17 cent eggcreams, at the local candy store? Just imagine??
@@patricemarie2960 I remember the Pizza Den pizza slice was 15 cents.
Much safer place to be then it is today.
2019 lowest crime rate in history of new york morons
@Sunamer Z new york just had it lowest crime rate in the history of the city FACT
@Teejvil Thanks to R Gullianni.
@@jjblack4905 You mean in this century, almost low, as was in the 1950's
Its very, very safe today.
probably lower crime rates today than in the safer times. 1970s, 80s, 90s where safe times
Oh my god, my parents {now deceased} were born in NYC and loved living there until December 31, 1973, that was the very last time living there, a day later my parents moved to Levittown Long Island that my mother loved living in Levittown Long Island very much, this is a great video!
Back when NY was a gritty real city not some sterile, lifeless, corporate Disneyland.
Indeed
MusicalElitist1 Try waking up
Yes, it had a grittiness. And it's appealing in a lot of ways.
that’s manhattan, bronx and lots of areas in brooklyn are still gritty
Oh it was pristine as well, don't hold that off of it. It was gritty and pristine, like a incredible Automobile from 1935 that is driving through a side dirt road with it's wheels coated lightly in a layer of sand and dirt, perhaps needs a good clean at the car washing station.
i grew in the 60's it was fun..the music..had issues but not like today
Respect for the law, low prices, clean streets we had less of everything but we had more.
If only these people knew what was in store for their country and their city. They would be speechless and then they would cry.
Civilized unlike today. Great job DeBlasio
Are you this negative in IRL as well?
There was always 1980’s New York.
Decline started well before DeBlasio!
Everyone is so well dressed 0:50 - 0:59. At subway 0:21, all men, not a woman. Marquis Cinema showing Anthony Quinn 'Savage Innocents', Robert Mitchum, 'The Hunters', Dean Martin 'All in a Night's Work' @1:40 (What a nice video! - Thank you for posting).
That shot of the woman on the moped is brilliant.
That moped is called Lambretta, made in Italy.
@Galaxie Invader Maybe it was built in Brazil, Columbia or Argentina but under Italian license because the Lambretta was born in Italy.
@@djavidianmx1832 exactly.
Amazing bravo loved it I was born in 1965 and wish I was born earlier but what a great video
Glad you enjoyed it
Native doll,you are fine 🙂 👍
I can not believe this, but I was just feeling nostalgic and just wanted to see pictures of old NY and started to watch the video, but then @2:04, the image of the Associated Market on 145th St. and Broadway, my heart stopped for a second! I am pretty sure I see my father peeking behind the man in the gray jacket who is looking into the camera. My Dad would indeed be making produce deliveries circa 1965 in Harlem. I worked with him in the late 1970's and early '80's during summers, and he would stand on the sidewalk writing down what was taken off the truck for delivery just like in this image! It seems the produce manager of the store is hand trucking boxes into the Associated as, what is very likely, my Dad is standing next to boxes of tomatoes by his truck at curbside. I sent this image to my older brother, and he told me that was one of his big stops during that time, and it is a good chance that's him! Wow! What are the odds of that happening?! Thank you so much for this submission Trainluvr!! Even if it is not my father, I feel he just said "hello" to me, and I am very thankful!!
Perry Castellano wow that’s amazing that’s really your dad? What year is this? Old photos compared to modern photos much more amazing it captures a life much more simplistic
@@chloekit4861 I'm still not 100% sure, but all the evidence seems to point in that direction! That Associated Market was one of his biggest customers then, it looks like him although his image is not perfectly clear, and his truck on the left at the time that he named "Marianne" (for a popular song in the late 1950's that I believe had the lyrics in it, "All day, all night, Marianne" because he worked long hours and was out early in the morning buying fresh produce each day to load on the truck and then a long day unloading at customer's businesses throughout the Bronx and upper Manhattan until night.). I miss him every day. Old school hard working man who taught me more on his truck than they did at NYU! Looking at the pontiac in the image, it looks like 1965 or so... I was born in 1962 in the Bronx, the same year my folks lost a baby girl of 3 1/2 years old to leukemia, so I think my Pop literally worked his way through his grief by staying busy. This image hits me square in the chest. That truck proudly had my name and her name on the front of it.
A 65 Grand Prix.
Perry Castellano synchronicity!
That was my subway stop my first two years in NYC, on 149th.
First thing that comes to mind...the streets are A LOT cleaner! Today there is garbage literally flying in the air.
You go to some of the outer boroughs and its just trash, puke, you name it all over the side walks. I just don't understand it.
Also walking in the streets..
This makes me want to go back to the future when life was better in so many ways!
magnificent collection of photos!
This is a wonderful video, Trainluvr and the music is perfect. Thank you for posting these nostalgic views of NYC! Great job...
My time. I loved the old trains. They were fun to ride.
That was FANTASTIC!!!!
P.S Could have added A couple more seconds to each still shots viewing time. Still FANTASTIC!!!!
Quick tip: You can tap the space bar to pause the video, look at a slide for as long as you'd like, and then tap the space bar again to resume :)
@@NightcruiserMA clever boy, someone just taught you that, and now your very proud of yourself! Good for you. It was constructive criticism for the producer, I'm sure he'd like to have A well rounded production. You see when you make A public presentation the producer/director wants to get his subject matter across to the viewer, to do this you want the viewer to have to do ONE thing, follow the intent that the producer/director had envisioned, in this case it was to sit uninvolved, and take in the subject without any interuptions. That was compromised. Jerko!!
I got to New York two years later, 1967. Not much had changed, it looked much the same as in this video. I can recognise the scenes.
Like in the great movie Taxi Driver , New York City was a character of and by itself. This film displays that very well. NYC just oozed personality.
Oui c'est Magnifique , et bonjour de ma Normandie
New York in its finest era!
That was really something to see THOMSFORDS I used to go there when I was a kid on the corner of 125th & St. Nicholas Avenue, and right next door was the beauty salon and the sporting goods store which was later an the Optometrist and eyeglass store.I also remember that Associated Supermarket and Len Fong, which had the best Chinese food you eat right on 145th St. & Broadway.
The city was just THE BEST! So many things to see and to do or just to sit on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum and watch people. The best PIZZA and the best Italian ICES!
Love New York! But the pizza….nah, lackluster at best.
This is amazing history to have on UA-cam! Will be interesting to see all the videos today in high resolution in 50 years and see how things have changed again!
I wish I was in those times.
I know right , new york was a shit hole in the 70s and 80s , i would love to see how it was in the 50s
Go back to latin countries you make america like 3 world country
@@bustinjieber8324 i'm not latin. i'm european. my ex husband is. way two different worlds
This is great and I love the music!!👍
It was pretty clean I must say compared to the 70’s
no drugs
but also yeah just look how incredible that is you wouldn't find more than a kleenex in a back alley some of those days
i hope that's not a racist term i feel like i'm talking about homeless people now
Cool British jazz to accompany this wonderfully nostalgic video.
I grew up in Jamaica (143rd st & 87th av) during those years. Most haven't a clue.
Absolutely love it such a classic!! Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
At 0:24 There are three people hitching a free ride on the back of a trolly bus..🚃
My uncles told me they use to do that. Lol
If someone from today dressed as they are appeared walking around the streets in those days they would have been considered a vagrant. People back then dressed up just to go shopping. This time was the last leg of an elegant era. It all changed in the mid 70.s.
When New York was a solidly middle-class city. Not today where it’s playground for the rich and everyone else is struggling
@@johnlouisville It was a working city for sure. Industry, entertainment, publishing, fashion, finance, etc. The feds built the highway system after the war, the middle class moved out of the old industrial cities and the decline began. 1965 is when a steep decline of NYC began. By 1975 it was a dangerous shithole. You could literally buy a 4 story building in Manhattan for a few thousand dollars in 1975. NYC bounced along the bottom through the 80s and early 90s until Wall St took off. Now, as you pointed out, NYC is divided between the very rich and everybody else.
Per my parent's pics from back then, whether rich or poor, young or old, for parties the women were always tastefully dressed, and the men were in suits and ties... as if they were always ready for a job interview. Old archival 50s photos from my first employer's workplace showed that all the men wore ties... from managers to engineers to (!!!) mechanics (in smocks).
They were going to/from work. Most of those pics are of commuters in midtown.
We sure did! Just to go downtown in Brooklyn to visit May's department store you dressed up.
Those were the days. ( i wasn't even born back then but still)
You had billions of possibilities that you wouldn’t be born. But you did and millions of people didn’t. Appreciate it🙂
Awesome video loved the music definitely from a better time
Man, people dressed so nice back then! We dress like bums in the 21st Century. Let's bring classy back.
It's interesting, though, that the style of some of the men's hats shown in video are now being worn by hipsters and others in 'urban culture'.
They were mostly commuters going to/from work. Most of those photos are of midtown Manhattan.
Who’s we? 🤣🤣 step ur fashion game up then
Love that music Playing, real 60's sound!
Thank you, great video...Also, living over 23 years in this city, I also like that these unique places, with these different kind small businesses still exist in New York, even after all not good things happened over the past decades......New York city is not just these famous skyscrapers, Time Square and so on., Manhattan, Brooklyn and other parts of New York have diferent kind places with different kind architecture, characters, history, with all these kind unique places, all kind vintage, retro places, small business, stores and so on...
One of my favorite places are " Gramercy Park" area, Upper West and East sides of Manhattan, places around Central Park, some places in East Village, and other parts of Manhattan, also Greenpoint, Williamsburg and other parts of Brooklyn and so on....
Fascinating video, always so interesting to see the New York my Mother's family emigrated to from Ireland during this time.
Liked that you kept music of that era...would not have liked much if ut was any todays music...👍
Associated supermarket. First time I've seen the likes of one, even in a photo, from my childhood.
We already know no one was on their phones back then, everyone was thinner and the streets were cleaner.. No need to say it 😂.
when I saw the woman on the lambretta @ 0:35, I kinda had a slight sensation she was seeing something at her smartphone, haha!
They were on their cigars and newspapers. Not much different
Wow look how nice everyone was dressed
Rico Conti well, it was NYC after all, even the cars are classy.
@@darthjarjar5309 even, son they were entirely elegant and classy.
What a time of innocence! U.S. was the greatest nation in the world, almost all kids had intact families and Dads, people had personal standards of decorum and cleanliness...all gone now, for good.
U are dreaming, .. this is Jim Crow era, wtf was innocent about it?
@@GiveItUpDot - there was a lot more going on, then what you focusing on
GiveitUp 100 100 Ask blacks today and they will tell you despite the ridiculous JC laws, their families were a strong unit. Those black families had an alpha male father figure and classy mother figure, both well dressed! It took the civil rights act, feminism, and communism to utterly destroy the black community. You probably went to college, which is why you’re uneducated about our past and how great this country really is. Our nation would have beat the JC laws as most Americans were for segregation (including blacks) but against those democrat nasty laws. It took leftist to creat those policies and another group of leftist to “help” the black community right into the poor house! Try reading some Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams. That’s all the education you’ll ever need...
Way to be a downer.. there were many generations that existed before this one who probably had the same negative thoughts as you. Things change
@@panhead55 May Walter Williams rest in peace - he was a true gentleman and scholar.
At 1:28, we see the Third Ave El' 42nd Street Station looking eastward down 42nd Street.
Not a crack dealer in sight
Just give it a couple more years.
Yeah wait until Reagan becomes president and starts making the fbi sell crack to black people
Only heroin
During this time period there was a lot of drug use among dissatisfied housewives,however
Yea i wonder what it was like for people who were around in nyc in the 40s and 50s and saw the dramatic transition in the late 60s 70s and 80s . Must of been heartbreaking
I'm almost 60 and a lifelong nyc-er
So boy oh boy did I love this. Thanks for compiling/posting it.😊
Man there are so many racist comments below. Very sickening
I'm 59,identify with you completely my brother! Those were the days in Good 👍 Old New York! 😉
@Jenn H.
I love my country and my city passionately that's one of the reasons I served as a volunteer Auxiliary Police Officer for 23 years.
I'm very concerned that my country and my city are in desperate straits right now. One of the reasons is for that is because we elected an evil , crooked incompetent, selfish man as POTUS. I just hope and pray that it's not too late pull upward and out of the death spiral we seem to be in. One thing that gives me hope for the future is that we have plenty of smart, talented , good people here of all different races ,creeds, colors and political views that should be able to work together to make things better for EVERYONE. if we are not willing and able to do that then we dont deserve to survive.
@Jenn H.
But trump is an admitted sex offender....the p***y grabbing comment- as a woman aren't you outraged by that?
@@daviddemar8749 Just a friendly suggestion, David: Please don't feed the trolls; it's best to just totally ignore them. They absolutely _hate_ that. 😊 Me? I just downvote racist/bigot comments and move on.
@Jenn H. Yes the Dumocrap party has turned communist now,just say it ,they brought Cuba to the USA.
Both the Lambretta and the woman are *beautiful* . And I like how her dress matches with the color of the scooter. It's crazy to think that that woman is probably now either *_dead_* or at least 85 years old
Agreed.
Brilliant. Diggin' that tune.
i remember the early 60s even though i was just a kid
The good old time. Greetings from The Netherlands !
Great video, great soundtrack!
Wow brilliant, the video,music everything.👍🇬🇧🎼🎼🎼