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As someone that used to live there in NYC, I think the year is 1947. 1942, '45, '47 New York State had the black background and school bus yellow license plates. 1943-1945 they did a ribbon strip atop the plate to save steel for the war. 1948 had a yellow background with black letters and 1949 they started an upper right corner tab insert affixed to the slot. I believe I saw an 1946, 47 Chrysler in the opening before the guy swerves at the beginning of the bridge. I thought perhaps this might be the Third Avenue bridge from The Bronx into Manhattan but not really sure. Great footage as usual NASS. Keep them coming!
@@Lockk9 ok. Thanks. I knew after several views it was farther up as the configuration and height did not match the Third Avenue Bridge. Also, I don’t think it had a streetcar traverse from The Bronx into Manhattan. Thanks for your reply.
There was a '47 style Studebaker rear in one shot (I know because I own one)It was the first all new body of any American make after WW2,and that means you are correct..in'48 Cadillac came out with a new body(w/fins!),then in '49 everyone else unveiled their new bodies..so this is '47!!
So great to see The Bronx, my old hometown. I was born a decade later but it still looked pretty much the same. Brings back many childhood memories riding in the back seat of our family car, thank you!
@@magamaga1827 Mostly socioeconomic... We had the post war boom followed by the energy crisis in the 70s, 12% inflation, 17% interest rates, plus back to back recessions Many lost their jobs and ended up on welfare then turned to crime and drugs. Landlords were burning down their own buildings to collect insurance. NYC was broke from lost revenue even to the point of selling animals from the Bronx Zoo...
Great, great video! I was a kid in the Bronx in the 50's. How great it is seeing the old Yankee Stadium and crossing the Macombs Dam Bridge (161 Bronx/155th St Manhattan ) and seeing the surrounding buildings. If the camera had panned to the left (North) there would have been a view/glimpse of the old Polo Grounds.
@@magamaga1827 There are numerous reasons. I don't mean to be a wise guy but I am surprised to read your question. Some of the reasons are as clear as day.
in the late 40's we lived on University Avenue not too far from the Yankee Stadium and often walked up into the old NYU campus. Now, it's a veritable zoo...
Opening scene is, of course, 161st Street coming out from under the Interborough Rapid Transit's No. 4 line Yankee Stadium station. Bronx County Courthouse looms in the background. 0:28 The location of today's Yankee Stadium. 0:33 The concrete structure in the left background is the IRT Ninth Avenue elevated's Anderson-Jerome Avenues station. 1:31 A Third Avenue Railway System trolley, likely on the company's 163d Street crosstown route, heading across the Macombs Dam Bridge. 3:48 The sawtooth-roof buildings give a hint of the Bronx Terminal Market. 4:17 Another TARS car, this one definitely operating crosstown. 5:31 The Anderson-Jerome Avenues el station is seen again. As the residential neighborhood with its apartment buildings on the hill comes into view it marks the only location where a pure New York City elevated line operated underground. A tunnel enabled the route to reach the Harlem River and a connection with the New York Central Railroad's Putnam Division Sedgwick Avenue station.
At 4:32 there's a billboard for "The Late George Apley" - a movie starring Ronald Colman (also late). It was released in the United States on Thursday 20 March 1947.
Can you imagine what these people would have said or thought if you told them that in 80-some years, people would be watching you on computers and phones across the world! The incredible vision that these filmmakers had to document for history. Just "wow!"
@firesurfer remember calling a calculator a computer? So funny, I remember my grandparents calling them that! Tabulation machines were the first real computers. And enormous units that were used in aircraft.
You’ve probably seen the picture ‘A Bronx Tale’, right? Permit me to tell you my Bronx tale. I lived in the Bronx in 1944 on University Avenue very close to where assaults have taken place. Back then, it was a very safe place. My younger brother and I could walk on the sidewalks and play in the back yards behind our apartments. Aside from the occasional traffic noise, it was a very quiet place. Fast forward to 1987. After a business meeting in Manhattan, I drove to the Bronx to check out the old neighborhood. I parked my marked company car (a Chevette) in front of the building and went in. There was hardly anyone around. The couple who were then occupying my grandfather’s apartment graciously let me look into a hall closet where my grandfather had recorded our ‘growth’ with pencil marks which were still there - Cool! When I went back to my car, all 4 hubcaps were missing and the antenna was bent like a pretzel. Again, there were no visible packs of kids on the street. Strange! Next, I walked over to the Holy Spirit Church where my mother, I and my brother were all baptized. The church was locked up tight. After knocking on the rectory door I heard 5 locks unlock and a very nervous priest cracked open the door to his fortress - held by a strong chain. I told him that I just wanted to make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament, and he told me that I was ‘nuts’ to walk around there in a business suit as I could very easily be mugged, or worse. So, I want back to hubcap-less car and drove up to the old New York University (NYU) location which is now called Bronx Community College (with free tuition subsidized by working New Yorkers - sound like socialism to you???). My grandfather (who was a Cornell graduate and a school principal) and I spent many pleasant evenings walking on the campus back in the 50’s. There were beautiful ivy covered buildings, plenty of squirrels and really green grass. An occasional NYU student could be seen in those tranquil summer evening hours either sitting on a bench or reclining on the grass, quietly conversing or studying. That’s how I remembered the old NYU. When I entered the property, I was ‘greeted’ by an armed guard, so I flashed my company ID and I was allowed to enter. What a pronounced difference. The college campus which once graced the hallowed strains of ‘Gaudeamus Igitur’ was now covered by the raucous din of (pre-rap) boom boxes, one of which was easily as large as the one seen in Charles Bronson’s Death Wish. There was trash (papers and fast food wrappers) all over the place, and the campus looked to be in really bad shape. The trees and the ivy were gone, but thankfully the grass was still green. My grandfather and I used to frequent the Hall of Fame which houses the bronze busts of important Americans - like Alexander Graham Bell, so I had to check it out again just to see if one or more of the busts had been stolen for drug money. Apparently, everything was still intact, but that could have changed since 1987. On my way back to the George Washington Bridge I noticed that all of the friendly little grocery and butcher shops along University Avenue had been ‘repurposed’ into food stores with armored pull down shades and plenty of graffiti (check it out here www.instantstreetview.com/@40.854024,-73.912065,300.18h,-3.57p,1z). Really classy! When I was finally leaving, someone from an alley threw a stone at my car which bounced harmlessly off the front tire (parting shot?) The Bronx is hardly unique. I worked for a long time in Philadelphia and it’s much the same. Take a ride down Broad Street if you don’t believe me. What’s common with these and many other declining American cities is their previous and current Democratic (so called) ‘leadership’. To retain their power base, democrats pander to their constituents by providing all kinds of freebies like (generational) welfare, section 8 housing, free college tuition, Obama phones, and other perks probably too numerous to mention. And now, they’re advocating open borders to ultimately augment their voting constituencies.
sorry your homecoming was bittersweet... but no surprise.... remember how parts of the Bronx were allowed to burn and the drugs and guns just flowed in.... amazing the level of class and design from clothing to cars to buildings to bridges that was the norm in 1947...
Very cool. My Mom lived on Woodycrest Ave. when she got to the US in 1951; you can just make it out on the left at around 6:10. My folks got married nearby. Had their reception in a hotel near the old Yankee Stadium. Loved the candid shot of the walking-man @ 6:45.
my family is from Washington heights ( via Greece) but I had an aunt in law who grew up on Woodycrest Ave..in the 40s/50s.( Her parents were from Ireland)..
The Cross-Bronx Expressway destroyed thriving, integrated middle-class neighborhoods like East Tremont. Read about Robert Moses, and how destructive that man was to the Bronx.
Don't where you were able to procure these videos. Aside from the lower capacity of buildings erected, I noticed the extremely lower amount of cars parked on the streets. In those days, many, many fewer cars on the roads. Households were lucky to have 1 car , nevermind the 3 or 4 of today. Less congestiion, less pollution, less stress and a yeah, the aftermath of war affected life until the early 50s in Eisenhower years. Those were The Happy Days of the birth of Rock and Roll, no Inflation, hrowth and Hope everywhere. Happy New Year, THX for the nostalgia ( I was born in Queens , never lived in The Bronx but it was a nice rememberance of what was Once Was.
So swell! What a quiet time used to be back then, at least in the United States. How calmly and well dressed the man at 6:50 walks on the side-walk of that bridge. And no Wall-Street or World Trade Center in sight.
Hey Robert, people were More Considerate and Yielding to one another back then. Because the country just came out of another Devastating WORLD WAR. And they didn't drive as if they were always in a road race to get to the next intersection.
@@davemckolanis4683 I was born in the 40's so I saw some this. No doubt that people drove slower back then , road rage was still not really a thing. With that said there are still stupid people in any era. LOL And with the booming population and more cars on the road every year is why they eventually had put in the lines and many more red lights by the 1960's. 😀
I was born in 58..and it pretty much looked the same in that neighborhood around Yankee Stadium..well into the 70's/early 80's...brings back CRAZY memories..thanks 😉‼
Oh to only live back in those times! So simple......but hard and alot more secure! A more trusting generation! Love seeing these old movies! keep up the great work!
I was at that "old" Yankee Stadium in the late 1960's. 296 feet to the right field foul pole. Sadly as soon as Steinbrenner bought the team he totally destroyed a great stadium and then pretended it was the same when they opened it in 1976.
I don't know what was more shameless, the 1973-76 renovations that stripped Yankee Stadium of much of its character, or its demolition for the current mallpark. But I guess they COULD have done one worse by building a domed replacement in the Jersey meadowlands....
As an ex-Bronxite, watching this upload makes my heart weep because, although it brings back my fondest memories growing up, the local districts, once humbly liveable and ethereal back in the 1940s, are gutted today. Even Parkchester, my childhood homestead, was known as one of the safest and family-oriented communities in the Northern Section and is downtrodden due to drugs, violence, and other crime-ridden atrocities. Who would think it would take over 50 years for the Bronx to turn into a despairing and life-fearing borough?
Actually, Bronx has always been a despairing and life-fearing borough. You've only gained with intelligence to realise it. Cause reality in general, sucks.
so Many Old things are Romanticized. That was a City of Tenements. It took a little longer to go downhill than the Lower East Side of Manhattan (it was also newer...with the oldest buildings dating from 1900-1910.) When it DID become a Slum, however, the area was less valuable, so it took a Long TIME to finally demolish and rebuild everything.
Does any of the image processing done on these clips find and remove or blend-in street trash? All these old clips show urban streets and highways remarkably free of litter.
There wasn't as much disposable packaging or disposable goods. No Starbucks cups, Big Mac boxes, chunks of styrene foam. Yes, there were paper bags and newspapers, but people saved them for repurposing. And bottles and cans had deposits... people would pick it up as it was free money.
@@buckykattnj My mother talked about doing that (picking up bottles and cans for money) as a child in Iowa. It honestly is a FANTASTIC idea that we really should look into bringing back in some ways.
@@thunderbird1921 Well, in some areas, it is still done. NYC, for example. Problem is, five cents per can adds up, so if you need several cases of soda, you try to get them in NJ. NJ cans and bottles don't scan in NYC as deposits. Of course, anything unscannable gets left at the scanning facilities. You have the homeless and older ladies from Asia who prowl the streets looking for deposits... aggressively enough that they rip open all your trash bags looking for bottles and cans... which then doesn't get cleaned up and feeds the local vermin (rats, roaches, pigeons) and blown apart all over the block over time. You'd think you could put your trash in clear bags so they can see there are no cans or bottles... but no... trash bags have to be of a certain type in NYC. Deposits are one of the ways the city indirectly funds the homeless... but it also causes more problems than it fixes at this point. Cans will always have some value to scrappers... bottles, not so much, as the market for plastics is so convoluted and nobody is willing to pay, even pennies for small collections of plastic.
Hi I was Born in that hospital in the Background in 1970. Its so nice to see my neighborhood i grew up in so Regal. Thanks for Sharing this amazing video.
Interesting to see a huge rooftop sign (it’s written on the flat of the roof as opposed to a stand up sign) for Father Divine. He was a radio preacher who also had live stage meetings. At first he seemed on the ‘up and up’ and many gave hard-earned dollars toward the ministry. He would have numerous young women around him whom he called his ‘angels’ and rode in a chauffeur driven Cadillac or Packard. Naturally the ‘angels’ were his constant companions. Eventually the supporters caught on to the extravagant lifestyle and the ‘companions’ and his notariety began to fade.
I think that was Macombs Damn Bridge the old Yankee Stadium ,Odgen Ave. Polo grounds 155 Street Skyway viaduct. Also i saw the old 9th Ave Elevated and of course the 161 street station of the 4 train
Thanks Again Nass. Another Time Travel Back in history to a Far More Un-Hurried Era that young folks today seem to have a Hard Time relating to, compared to the high speed video game mentality they've been brain-washed with. Keep up the terrific job. It's Greatly Appreciated.
Therss no need to bash younger generations for understanding technology. I'm obviously younger than you but despite your boomer mentality these videos are appreciated by younger people. Try not being an old fucking crab
@@curbyourjingoism There is technology and there is obsession with it. I remember playing Doom for hours on the first computer I built myself. Now I cringe when I'm driving and see people texting and trying to drive and I laugh when someone glued to their phone walks into a lamp post. Strange days have found us!
@@curbyourjingoism Hey Timothy, Unless you have A Disability of some sort; Have you ever gone away from your video screen and actually had A PHYSICAL REAL Job? Where you come home from work Exhausted, grabbed something to eat and had to Crash In Bed because you were so Completely Played Out? Sadly I have a son that quit his Gravy Job of driving a Local Delivery Truck, and now has an Even Easier one at a building supply store. Where he helps load items into customers vehicles, and bringing in any transporting dollies that were left in the parking lot. Then back home to his lap top, wife and video entertainment. Talk about LIMITED Life Experiences Indeed. TWO Completely Different Views and Upbringing Expectancies Compared to our More Mature Generation. A Lot of you younger people Can't even write a Smooth Sentence, having punctuation marks to clarify their message. Just a bunch of words Hurridly Rammed Together, (with single letter replacements for some words), and other small pictures added as well for some reason. As if the writer Never received a Proper Education and was in a Damn Big Hurry. So Don't Over Credit Yourself.
With these tour-about-town videos, I think the camera car is trailed by at least one other vehicle which has the job of keeping other vehicles from getting too close and blocking the camera from filming a wide panorama.
5:42: Did people always stroll casually in white gloves and a tux on a hot summer day in those days??? It’s like he was about to pull birds out of his sleeves!! Now for my next trick!
Why were these movies taken? Were they used in movies during in-car scenes and this was what you'd see out the back window of the car in the movie? These are great!
Problem is that with the war, production stopped after a shortened 1942 model year... so it could be late 1945... and the newest things on the road would be '42s (exceptions apply... farmers and businesses could get commercial trucks that were '43 and '44 models, but they were really rare. A lot of the '42s were blackout cars, since chrome and stainless was diverted to the war effort. The '42 Chrysler was a real looker.
I recognized Yankee Stadium, the Concourse Plaza Hotel, and perhaps the bridge over the Harlem River at 207th Street. Otherwise, I could not tell which side of the Harlem River we were on. Voice over, please.
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looks like a nice place to visit , i think ill go there
As someone that used to live there in NYC, I think the year is 1947. 1942, '45, '47 New York State had the black background and school bus yellow license plates. 1943-1945 they did a ribbon strip atop the plate to save steel for the war. 1948 had a yellow background with black letters and 1949 they started an upper right corner tab insert affixed to the slot. I believe I saw an 1946, 47 Chrysler in the opening before the guy swerves at the beginning of the bridge. I thought perhaps this might be the Third Avenue bridge from The Bronx into Manhattan but not really sure. Great footage as usual NASS. Keep them coming!
1:28► Macombs Dam Bridge.
@@Lockk9 ok. Thanks. I knew after several views it was farther up as the configuration and height did not match the Third Avenue Bridge. Also, I don’t think it had a streetcar traverse from The Bronx into Manhattan. Thanks for your reply.
There was a '47 style Studebaker rear in one shot (I know because I own one)It was the first all new body of any American make after WW2,and that means you are correct..in'48 Cadillac came out with a new body(w/fins!),then in '49 everyone else unveiled their new bodies..so this is '47!!
Thank you
I just traveled across this bridge yesterday, there is tons of rust like it hadn't been painted since the 40s.
BX STAND UP!!!
So great to see The Bronx, my old hometown. I was born a decade later but it still looked pretty much the same. Brings back many childhood memories riding in the back seat of our family car, thank you!
why was the area so safe back then? i grew up in the 80s.
@@magamaga1827 Mostly socioeconomic... We had the post war boom followed by the energy crisis in the 70s, 12% inflation, 17% interest rates, plus back to back recessions Many lost their jobs and ended up on welfare then turned to crime and drugs. Landlords were burning down their own buildings to collect insurance. NYC was broke from lost revenue even to the point of selling animals from the Bronx Zoo...
At 2:30 to 2:55, we get to see part of the exterior of old Yankee Stadium.
Great, great video! I was a kid in the Bronx in the 50's. How great it is seeing the old Yankee Stadium and crossing the Macombs Dam Bridge
(161 Bronx/155th St Manhattan ) and seeing the surrounding buildings. If the camera had panned to the left (North) there would have been a view/glimpse of the old Polo Grounds.
I was looking forward to seeing the Polo Grounds but then the camera returned to the Bronx.
it looked great. why was it so safe back then? i grew up in queens in the 80s.
@@magamaga1827 There are numerous reasons. I don't mean to be a wise guy but I am surprised to read your question. Some of the reasons are as clear as day.
in the late 40's we lived on University Avenue not too far from the Yankee Stadium and often walked up into the old NYU campus. Now, it's a veritable zoo...
@@joeburch9515 Things change but always for the better. Sad but true.
Opening scene is, of course, 161st Street coming out from under the Interborough Rapid Transit's No. 4 line Yankee Stadium station. Bronx County Courthouse looms in the background.
0:28 The location of today's Yankee Stadium.
0:33 The concrete structure in the left background is the IRT Ninth Avenue elevated's Anderson-Jerome Avenues station.
1:31 A Third Avenue Railway System trolley, likely on the company's 163d Street crosstown route, heading across the Macombs Dam Bridge.
3:48 The sawtooth-roof buildings give a hint of the Bronx Terminal Market.
4:17 Another TARS car, this one definitely operating crosstown.
5:31 The Anderson-Jerome Avenues el station is seen again. As the residential neighborhood with its apartment buildings on the hill comes into view it marks the only location where a pure New York City elevated line operated underground. A tunnel enabled the route to reach the Harlem River and a connection with the New York Central Railroad's Putnam Division Sedgwick Avenue station.
do you know what the building next to yankee stadium at 3:12 is? I've been trying to figure it out but haven't found any mention of it
In the opening frames, I played in those parks. I walked that way home. I could see the building I lived in -1949-1966. This is amazing
Wow! That must have been a sight to see.
do you know what the building next to yankee stadium at 3:12 is? I've been trying to figure it out but haven't found any mention of it
Check out Old Yankee Stadium from 3:10 to 3:40. Well done, love your work!
The Bambino was still playing there just 20 years before.
At 4:32 there's a billboard for "The Late George Apley" - a movie starring Ronald Colman (also late).
It was released in the United States on Thursday 20 March 1947.
Nice spotting. I saw that and began to look it up, then realized someone else may have already caught it.
@@afewgoodcats I think I see a 1947 Buick at 2:14 (the big black car on the left of the screen).
Yes, too many ‘40’s cars to be 1940.
I came to Bronx NY on 1998 from Japan.I watched the game Newyork Yankees vs Seattle Mariners.I love Yankees.Very Exciting!
Welcome to New York! Glad you enjoyed the game!⚾ I love Japan and it's culture would love to visit one day👍🇯🇵
Can you imagine what these people would have said or thought if you told them that in 80-some years, people would be watching you on computers and phones across the world! The incredible vision that these filmmakers had to document for history. Just "wow!"
Computer? Why would they be seeing it on an adding machine?
I think this way all the time! I would love to see the expression!
@firesurfer remember calling a calculator a computer? So funny, I remember my grandparents calling them that!
Tabulation machines were the first real computers. And enormous units that were used in aircraft.
They’re mostly dead or in a retirement home
Imagine if they had seen a video of today, the traffic! It boggles the mind, those large swaths of free roadway between cars! 😮
You’ve probably seen the picture ‘A Bronx Tale’, right? Permit me to tell you my Bronx tale. I lived in the Bronx in 1944 on University Avenue very close to where assaults have taken place. Back then, it was a very safe place. My younger brother and I could walk on the sidewalks and play in the back yards behind our apartments. Aside from the occasional traffic noise, it was a very quiet place.
Fast forward to 1987. After a business meeting in Manhattan, I drove to the Bronx to check out the old neighborhood. I parked my marked company car (a Chevette) in front of the building and went in. There was hardly anyone around. The couple who were then occupying my grandfather’s apartment graciously let me look into a hall closet where my grandfather had recorded our ‘growth’ with pencil marks which were still there - Cool! When I went back to my car, all 4 hubcaps were missing and the antenna was bent like a pretzel. Again, there were no visible packs of kids on the street. Strange!
Next, I walked over to the Holy Spirit Church where my mother, I and my brother were all baptized. The church was locked up tight. After knocking on the rectory door I heard 5 locks unlock and a very nervous priest cracked open the door to his fortress - held by a strong chain. I told him that I just wanted to make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament, and he told me that I was ‘nuts’ to walk around there in a business suit as I could very easily be mugged, or worse.
So, I want back to hubcap-less car and drove up to the old New York University (NYU) location which is now called Bronx Community College (with free tuition subsidized by working New Yorkers - sound like socialism to you???). My grandfather (who was a Cornell graduate and a school principal) and I spent many pleasant evenings walking on the campus back in the 50’s. There were beautiful ivy covered buildings, plenty of squirrels and really green grass. An occasional NYU student could be seen in those tranquil summer evening hours either sitting on a bench or reclining on the grass, quietly conversing or studying. That’s how I remembered the old NYU. When I entered the property, I was ‘greeted’ by an armed guard, so I flashed my company ID and I was allowed to enter. What a pronounced difference. The college campus which once graced the hallowed strains of ‘Gaudeamus Igitur’ was now covered by the raucous din of (pre-rap) boom boxes, one of which was easily as large as the one seen in Charles Bronson’s Death Wish. There was trash (papers and fast food wrappers) all over the place, and the campus looked to be in really bad shape. The trees and the ivy were gone, but thankfully the grass was still green. My grandfather and I used to frequent the Hall of Fame which houses the bronze busts of important Americans - like Alexander Graham Bell, so I had to check it out again just to see if one or more of the busts had been stolen for drug money. Apparently, everything was still intact, but that could have changed since 1987.
On my way back to the George Washington Bridge I noticed that all of the friendly little grocery and butcher shops along University Avenue had been ‘repurposed’ into food stores with armored pull down shades and plenty of graffiti (check it out here www.instantstreetview.com/@40.854024,-73.912065,300.18h,-3.57p,1z). Really classy! When I was finally leaving, someone from an alley threw a stone at my car which bounced harmlessly off the front tire (parting shot?)
The Bronx is hardly unique. I worked for a long time in Philadelphia and it’s much the same. Take a ride down Broad Street if you don’t believe me. What’s common with these and many other declining American cities is their previous and current Democratic (so called) ‘leadership’. To retain their power base, democrats pander to their constituents by providing all kinds of freebies like (generational) welfare, section 8 housing, free college tuition, Obama phones, and other perks probably too numerous to mention. And now, they’re advocating open borders to ultimately augment their voting constituencies.
sorry your homecoming was bittersweet... but no surprise.... remember how parts of the Bronx were allowed to
burn and the drugs and guns just flowed in.... amazing the level of class and design from clothing to cars to buildings to bridges that was the norm in 1947...
Of course, this all becomes a diatribe against Democrats and cities. SOS -- same old ****...
Trump is a loser, so are His servants.
Republicans are partially to blame its not just one party's fault 😮
Astonishing. Another classic.
I love history.Ive ALWAYS wondered what life was like before I was born.This is what life was like during both of my parents childhood.Thank you-
I was born in The Bronx in 1946,I was raised in California, I have always wondered what it looked like. Thank you for sharing.
Very cool. My Mom lived on Woodycrest Ave. when she got to the US in 1951; you can just make it out on the left at around 6:10. My folks got married nearby. Had their reception in a hotel near the old Yankee Stadium. Loved the candid shot of the walking-man @ 6:45.
my family is from Washington heights ( via Greece) but I had an aunt in law who grew up on Woodycrest Ave..in the 40s/50s.( Her parents were from Ireland)..
The "hotel" was most likely the Concourse Plaza on the N/E corner of the Grand Concourse & E.161st St.
Great shot of old Yankee Stadium
The Cross-Bronx Expressway destroyed thriving, integrated middle-class neighborhoods like East Tremont. Read about Robert Moses, and how destructive that man was to the Bronx.
Don't where you were able to procure these videos. Aside from the lower capacity of buildings erected, I noticed the extremely lower amount of cars parked on the streets. In those days, many, many fewer cars on the roads. Households were lucky to have 1 car , nevermind the 3 or 4 of today. Less congestiion, less pollution, less stress and a yeah, the aftermath of war affected life until the early 50s in Eisenhower years. Those were The Happy Days of the birth of Rock and Roll, no Inflation, hrowth and Hope everywhere. Happy New Year, THX for the nostalgia ( I was born in Queens , never lived in The Bronx but it was a nice rememberance of what was Once Was.
I was a kid growing up in that era. This video nailed it! Lived 15 minutes from the big ballpark.
How old are you in the 1940s?
Born 1948 and lived there til 1960.
@@MrMarkgeller based on your birth year you clearly fit to be my great grandparent, you are 52 years older than me
Amazes me how a number of buildings shown is this video are still standing today even after the old Yankee stadium got torn down and replaced.
Not only the Yankee stadium. A bulk of housing was lost to arsons and abandonment in the 70's.
So swell! What a quiet time used to be back then, at least in the United States. How calmly and well dressed the man at 6:50 walks on the side-walk of that bridge. And no Wall-Street or World Trade Center in sight.
so many areas where there is no line separating lanes... hmmm, did Kramer go back in time..🤪 Is amazing there was not an accident every 5 minutes..
"So luxurious" lmao!
Hey Robert, people were More Considerate and Yielding to one another back then. Because the country just came out of another Devastating WORLD WAR. And they didn't drive as if they were always in a road race to get to the next intersection.
@@davemckolanis4683 I was born in the 40's so I saw some this. No doubt that people drove slower back then , road rage was still not really a thing. With that said there are still stupid people in any era. LOL And with the booming population and more cars on the road every year is why they eventually had put in the lines and many more red lights by the 1960's. 😀
This hasn’t changed. I routinely drive in the city where you have to guess where to drive lol
@@davemckolanis4683 except for this guy 1:05
I was born in 58..and it pretty much looked the same in that neighborhood around Yankee Stadium..well into the 70's/early 80's...brings back CRAZY memories..thanks 😉‼
I think it still looks the same, well before the new Yankee stadium
Another fine tour with NASS. Awesome restoration, as usual. Thanx again. 👌
Oh to only live back in those times! So simple......but hard and alot more secure! A more trusting generation! Love seeing these old movies! keep up the great work!
Generally speaking, far more civilized back then.
Thank you for the videos. Enjoy the time trips. Nice shot of Yankee Stadium.
So cool seeing Yankee Stadium!
The original and the best Yankee Stadium !
I was at that "old" Yankee Stadium in the late 1960's.
296 feet to the right field foul pole.
Sadly as soon as Steinbrenner bought the team he totally destroyed
a great stadium and then pretended it was the same when they opened
it in 1976.
I don't know what was more shameless, the 1973-76 renovations that stripped Yankee Stadium of much of its character, or its demolition for the current mallpark. But I guess they COULD have done one worse by building a domed replacement in the Jersey meadowlands....
Great post.MERRY CHRISTMAS 2021
As an ex-Bronxite, watching this upload makes my heart weep because, although it brings back my fondest memories growing up, the local districts, once humbly liveable and ethereal back in the 1940s, are gutted today. Even Parkchester, my childhood homestead, was known as one of the safest and family-oriented communities in the Northern Section and is downtrodden due to drugs, violence, and other crime-ridden atrocities. Who would think it would take over 50 years for the Bronx to turn into a despairing and life-fearing borough?
Agree. Parkchester. Was ideal.
Actually, Bronx has always been a despairing and life-fearing borough. You've only gained with intelligence to realise it. Cause reality in general, sucks.
so Many Old things are Romanticized. That was a City of Tenements. It took a little longer to go downhill than the Lower East Side of Manhattan (it was also newer...with the oldest buildings dating from 1900-1910.)
When it DID become a Slum, however, the area was less valuable, so it took a Long TIME to finally demolish and rebuild everything.
I was so hoping we'd get a shot of The Polo Grounds after crossing the river by Yankee Stadium.
Me too!
😉 your videos are the best.stunning footage and almost real colors......SO PERFECT THANKS.
Wow, this was fascinating!! Thank you!!
Does any of the image processing done on these clips find and remove or blend-in street trash? All these old clips show urban streets and highways remarkably free of litter.
People weren't as piggish in the roads back then
There wasn't as much disposable packaging or disposable goods. No Starbucks cups, Big Mac boxes, chunks of styrene foam. Yes, there were paper bags and newspapers, but people saved them for repurposing. And bottles and cans had deposits... people would pick it up as it was free money.
@@buckykattnj My mother talked about doing that (picking up bottles and cans for money) as a child in Iowa. It honestly is a FANTASTIC idea that we really should look into bringing back in some ways.
@@thunderbird1921 Well, in some areas, it is still done. NYC, for example. Problem is, five cents per can adds up, so if you need several cases of soda, you try to get them in NJ. NJ cans and bottles don't scan in NYC as deposits. Of course, anything unscannable gets left at the scanning facilities.
You have the homeless and older ladies from Asia who prowl the streets looking for deposits... aggressively enough that they rip open all your trash bags looking for bottles and cans... which then doesn't get cleaned up and feeds the local vermin (rats, roaches, pigeons) and blown apart all over the block over time. You'd think you could put your trash in clear bags so they can see there are no cans or bottles... but no... trash bags have to be of a certain type in NYC.
Deposits are one of the ways the city indirectly funds the homeless... but it also causes more problems than it fixes at this point. Cans will always have some value to scrappers... bottles, not so much, as the market for plastics is so convoluted and nobody is willing to pay, even pennies for small collections of plastic.
Now the cleanest,safest most civilized place in the Bronx is the zoo. Diversity is our strength 😂
Not to mention the biggest, least populous area of all 5 boroughs!
WOW, i was born and grew up in the Bronx. this is awesome!
Dan - me, too - grew up on University Ave - Morris Heights...lovely back then -
Hi I was Born in that hospital in the Background in 1970. Its so nice to see my neighborhood i grew up in so Regal. Thanks for Sharing this amazing video.
I kept hoping he'd get in a shot of the Polo Grounds; he looked like he about to pass there when the clip ended.
I also was hoping to see the Polo Grounds.
Absolutely fantastic ❤️
Interesting to see a huge rooftop sign (it’s written on the flat of the roof as opposed to a stand up sign) for Father Divine. He was a radio preacher who also had live stage meetings. At first he seemed on the ‘up and up’ and many gave hard-earned dollars toward the ministry. He would have numerous young women around him whom he called his ‘angels’ and rode in a chauffeur driven Cadillac or Packard. Naturally the ‘angels’ were his constant companions. Eventually the supporters caught on to the extravagant lifestyle and the ‘companions’ and his notariety began to fade.
That extravagant lifestyle and the ‘companions’ were domiciled in a ginormous mansion in the Park Hill neighborhood of Yonkers.
@@tobygoodguy4032 Thanks, good to know. I have always lived on the West coast and only have read about this.
Father Divine was greatly admired by the young Reverend Jim Jones.
@@roydidlock1867 Why does that just figure. I didn’t know that.
I tapped in a comment stating that I recall going to one of his MANY inner-city restaurants,in the early 70's,as a child-
Lovely video in Color.Love it ❤❤
Amazing video ❤
I think by increasing your YT speed setting to 1.25 the speed is more accurate.
Yup, setting up video quality at 720p and playback speed at 1.25x actually made the film footage feel like it could have been shot now!
Wonderful old streets scenes of 1940s The Bronx
I remember riding the 3rd Ave El before it was torn down. My mother took us on it the last day it was open.
So cool! Love seeing the trolley
Has anyone else noticed the clean, unlittered streets and no graphedy . I was born in the Bronx in 1941, a great place to grow up.
What a beautiful moment in time. No fires, no gunshots, no garbage, no graffiti , no wild animals running loose. Now it’s a disaster. What a shame.
Nice video 😀👌
0:16 to 1:05 I love the green asphalt. It makes it look like you're driving on someone's lawn.
Love this video..Bring so many memories . I wish I could have been living in those days.
Seeing all those tenements is dreadful. A dark metropolis.
Provided staying during 1932-34.
haha most of them were destroyed in the 70's, now there are lots of new buidlings especially in the south bronx
if only this video was a second or two longer we couldve also seen a glimpse of the Polo Grounds
I was hoping that would be the case.
How close was the Polo Grounds? Was it in Harlem?
Nice video.
Streets are so clean. Could of been my Grandfather in the black Buick on the left of the screen at the light.
I think that was Macombs Damn Bridge the old Yankee Stadium ,Odgen Ave. Polo grounds 155 Street Skyway viaduct. Also i saw the old 9th Ave Elevated and of course the 161 street station of the 4 train
do you know what the building next to yankee stadium at 3:12 is? I've been trying to figure it out but haven't found any mention of it
An Industrial Archeologist's dream ... lovely shots of massive buildings and infrastructure
crazy how the old yankee stadium looks like a castle there.
The part from the beginning to 2:30 is crossing the 155th Street bridge from the Bronx to Manhattan.
This is so awesome, #Excellent!
Beautiful
1:00 - Black car making a right-hand turn nearly causes an accident - the black car on the inside lane was squeezed for room!
Thanks Again Nass. Another Time Travel Back in history to a Far More Un-Hurried Era that young folks today seem to have a Hard Time relating to, compared to the high speed video game mentality they've been brain-washed with. Keep up the terrific job. It's Greatly Appreciated.
Therss no need to bash younger generations for understanding technology. I'm obviously younger than you but despite your boomer mentality these videos are appreciated by younger people. Try not being an old fucking crab
@@curbyourjingoism bit touchy aren’t you. Nobody’s bashing your sensitive generation. Back to your video games now.
@@mikehaynes1769 Thanks for the back-up Mike. Spoiled Children Maybe?
@@curbyourjingoism There is technology and there is obsession with it. I remember playing Doom for hours on the first computer I built myself. Now I cringe when I'm driving and see people texting and trying to drive and I laugh when someone glued to their phone walks into a lamp post. Strange days have found us!
@@curbyourjingoism Hey Timothy, Unless you have A Disability of some sort; Have you ever gone away from your video screen and actually had A PHYSICAL REAL Job? Where you come home from work Exhausted, grabbed something to eat and had to Crash In Bed because you were so Completely Played Out? Sadly I have a son that quit his Gravy Job of driving a Local Delivery Truck, and now has an Even Easier one at a building supply store. Where he helps load items into customers vehicles, and bringing in any transporting dollies that were left in the parking lot. Then back home to his lap top, wife and video entertainment. Talk about LIMITED Life Experiences Indeed. TWO Completely Different Views and Upbringing Expectancies Compared to our More Mature Generation. A Lot of you younger people Can't even write a Smooth Sentence, having punctuation marks to clarify their message. Just a bunch of words Hurridly Rammed Together, (with single letter replacements for some words), and other small pictures added as well for some reason. As if the writer Never received a Proper Education and was in a Damn Big Hurry. So Don't Over Credit Yourself.
With these tour-about-town videos, I think the camera car is trailed by at least one other vehicle which has the job of keeping other vehicles from getting too close and blocking the camera from filming a wide panorama.
Yes that's why the 1941 Dodge overtook the intruding Plymouth that came in from our right.
Wow it looks cleaner and more safe in comparison to the 1980s.
Depended on where you were. Remember that The West Side Story took place around this era. Gangs even then were a problem.
@@thunderbird1921 ?... Nothing compared to the gang problem these days!!!.. and it was much cleaner and safer cuz I was there.. on the west side
Love it my home, thank you for uploading.
Funny how these cars still look old even in the '40s when they were new.
5:42: Did people always stroll casually in white gloves and a tux on a hot summer day in those days??? It’s like he was about to pull birds out of his sleeves!!
Now for my next trick!
Es como viajar en el tiempo y poder tocar New York!
Beautiful. Id' sure like to pay a visit back there for a while. Maybe sty forever. I saw a new 47 Buick in one shot. I guess that's the year.
Very nice video!
I can't wait to watch these video I imagine I'm going back in time
Well dressed gentleman on the bridge !
Hey NASS, got any videos of country living back in the day?
Love it 😍😍
Why were these movies taken? Were they used in movies during in-car scenes and this was what you'd see out the back window of the car in the movie? These are great!
You got it! They're what was known as background projection plates.
@@tomkent4656 Cool... learned something new! Thanks Tom!
4.55 What was there before the new Yankee Stadium!.....
Big park
Anyone else up for a nice glass of Black Horse Ale?
Thank you so much,👏♥️
I saw a 47 Studebaker. It was probably early April, 1947.
In the Bronx was aircraft model store, i walked 5 miles from the train to the store.
I love this.This like a video portal.
Around the 1:00 mark I would've been really tempted to overdub the theme from "Taxi". lol
So this is what it looked like in my grandfather’s teenage years
This type of film was (probably) shot as rear projection for a movie JMO
With or without separate lines, its all about who is driving.
1:05 white car goes into oncoming lane to cut in front.
The car he went around, must Not Have Been Paying Attention to their driving, and texting on their 1940 model smartphone instead.
Road rage.
That driver turning at 1:05 might be the worst driver ever. Yikes!
I believe the fault is of the black car who enters very hastily a few seconds before (using translator)
And they still drive that way in The Bronx!
I would say it's 1942 based on the 1942 Chrysler New Yorker and the 1942 Buick.
Problem is that with the war, production stopped after a shortened 1942 model year... so it could be late 1945... and the newest things on the road would be '42s (exceptions apply... farmers and businesses could get commercial trucks that were '43 and '44 models, but they were really rare. A lot of the '42s were blackout cars, since chrome and stainless was diverted to the war effort.
The '42 Chrysler was a real looker.
Later. There is a post war Studebaker in there
At 4.25 you see a 1947- or later Studebaker! Soit must pe post-47.
This city is just amazing. Even back then.
NEWEST CAR SEEN ON THIS FILM WAS A 1948 FORD 2 DOOR SEDAN !
I was hoping to see Addie Vallins in that first shot!
Is this Chicago at Minneapolis Circle near the ghetto?
I recognized Yankee Stadium, the Concourse Plaza Hotel, and perhaps the bridge over the Harlem River at 207th Street. Otherwise, I could not tell which side of the Harlem River we were on. Voice over, please.
Every crossing was from Bronx west into Manhattan, over the Macombs Dam Bridge. The bridge you saw south in the distance was probably Madison Avenue.
I wish there was footage of queens village
I was thinking, jeez in the 40s it looks people just drove wherever they wanted. Then I realized nothing really changed in 80 years, has it? 😁
So many people are driving old cars.
My new nabe,thanks for the ride