A Day in Philadelphia 1920s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added

[@NASS_0]

Would you like to live in the 1920s????

[@Timothy1976]

Oh yes absolutely

[@olrikm]

No. Healthcare was abysmal, poverty was rampant and basic utilities like electricity and phones were just for the rich. I'd prefer the end of the 30's till the beginning of the fifties. But all in all, the end of the sixties and the 70's were the best years for humanity, IMO.

[@InterestedTuber]

Actually, my favorite eras are the 1980s and 1940s.

[@sonnycorleone8352]

Hi Nass, I would rather have my own Time Machine going into the 1920's Summertime for a month or two tops. I am a Yankees fan and would love to see Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig play some baseball games in New York City. And even go to Chicago and look at from a safe distance Big, Al Capone and his mob. I was always into Gangster lore too! Thanks for asking a good question friend.😊

[@Ivan_Afanasev1974]

Yeah. It was a time of a big possibilities.

[@senior_ranger]

Much of this is the "Delaware River Bridge." It opened in 1926. Name changed to "Ben Franklin Bridge" in 1955 as a second bridge over the Delaware River was being build a couple of miles downstream. That one was called the "Walt Whitman Bridge," honoring the poet who spent much of his life in Camden, NJ (where he is buried). Original toll on the Delaware River Bridge was 25 cents, and that was unchanged for 40 years. There were 15 deaths in bridge construction. The toll booths you see are on the Camden side (since there had been a raging battle about tolls --- PA wanted it free and NJ wanted tolls to pay for it). The mountainous areas are not Philadelphia. There are tracks along a rocky area along the Schuylkill River, but not mountains like you see in the distance. Fascinating to see the differences between then and now. Thanks.

[@TWELS20]

The train is traveling on the Reading line, made famous as one of the four railroads in the original Monopoly.

[@Most_Trustworthy_Weasel]

Route 76 would go right above it and the rail line is still there AND ACTIVE

[@bluepotatoes223]

@@Most_Trustworthy_Weasel I was thinking it was 76. You can see just how deforested everything was , and things slowly growing back

[@MyKnifeJourney]

These restored videos really help me understand how all the different parts of the world worked. Seeing them in action and use. Not just a snapshot or drawing. How the world has changed in the interim.

[@Timothy1976]

The streets were clean back then and people smartly dressed even the poor

[@daviderickson2072]

Same thing with me

[@mauiskater]

This blows my mind. Reminds us how short life really is ❤

[@yanakey953]

Short and endless at the same time.

[@kennethnero2011]

As we all welcome the New Year, I look at the yesteryears in just awe and wonder… how such a time it was just so different

[@Jeff-uj8xi]

I was born and raised in Philadelphia. So this is very familiar to me. The double decker Yellow Coach buses seen on the Delaware River Bridge were owned and operated by the PRT {Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.}. Some of the single deck buses on the bridge were probably Public Service. Public Service bought the double deck buses from the PRT. Some of the other single deck buses seen on the bridge were in service for small bus lines that operated from Philly to suburban New Jersey towns in South Jersey. I question the street running scene with the steam locomotive and coaches actually being in Philly. I might be wrong, but it looks like Atlantic City to me. I can't think of any street running passenger trains in Philly in the 1920's. Passenger trains did go to the Boardwalk on Georgia Avenue and on Mississippi Ave. in Atlantic City After 1929, those tracks were used for freight to Atlantic City Convention Hall. At 5:06, that's the Market-Frankford Subway/Elevated in Philly operated by the PRT., seen going Westbound underground under Market Street. At 6:00, that's the bridge over the Schuylkill River that had four sets of tracks. The inner set was for Market-Frankford trains and the outer set was for subway.surface streetcars operated by the PRT. In 1955, the subway was extended and that bridge was removed.

[@Most_Trustworthy_Weasel]

Haven't you even been on Columbus Blvd? There's tracks right down the middle of the split road STILL

[@SunShine-dk6rk]

Hi NASS, Thank you for uploading these great films and the work you do restoring them along with adding sound. Wishing yourself,loved one's and fellow viewers a Happy 2024❤❤❤.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much , Happy 2024

[@SunShine-dk6rk]

@@NASS_0 My pleasure.

[@barbarahowson8078]

This is the nearest thing to travelling back in time. Yes I would just have loved to have been there. Thank you so much for all your hard work restoring this video. Your efforts are much appreciated.

[@illmerica322]

NASS your work is appreciated...channels like yours are the reason I still use KZbin and haven't moved to Rumble 100%

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much ;)

[@illmerica322]

@@NASS_0 def

[@46magno]

Philadelphia,it’s History,it’s monuments,important history of this nation trapped on its street and its soul. For how long people will be able to preserve the history, and life of the nation. Thanks for those priceless views.!👏👏

[@EricLatek]

The restoration work you provide is stunning. I would love to see what you could do to classic silent films like Phantom of the Opera or Nosferatu. 🔥🔥🔥

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much ;)

[@The1313jeff]

Love the old cars always fascinating to watch!

[@NASS_0]

;)

[@disneyfamily5158]

Great, as always....for reference, the Ben Franklin bridge opened in July 1926 so this film dates from after that.

[@plunkervillerr1529]

It`s hard to believe this was as much as a hundred years ago, Thanks so much.

[@geneval3151]

WOW!!!! The added color\improved resoluton made this film extraordinary. May be your best work yet. Whatever you're doing please keep doing it. I loved it. Thank you Nass for brightening my day (as usual) May 2024 be kind to you.

[@NASS_0]

Thank you ;)

[@laundryroom9002]

Hey this is awesome! When I walk down this very street today in 2023 (soon to be 2024) I often use my mind's eye to envision what the city looked like in the past. This is perfect!

[@kathleenking47]

Almost like you're there. B&W is too "dreamlike"

[@sonnycorleone8352]

Nass, Another fabulous job. LOVE the scenes here! I never tire of your awesome videos! I heard in the 1920's Philadelphia was the second most populated City in America behind New York City!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@sonnycorleone8352]

@@NASS_0 You are welcome my friend. 😊

[@paullewis2413]

I believe by the late 50’s it was 3rd or 4th largest by population.

[@sonnycorleone8352]

@@paullewis2413 Yes, Paul, I agree. Because you had Chicago take second place in population by the 1930's. Then Philadelphia or so.

[@redblackandgreen1117]

Thank you for this upload on one of the most iconic and foundational cities of the United States of America. Much appreciated

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much ;)

[@alleswirdanders]

99,5% drive the same car 😂

[@bardo0007]

@@alleswirdanders Where can I buy one= Must be a lot of them still around

[@alleswirdanders]

@@bardo0007 Most of the treasures have now been recycled and are now called Tesla. Unfortunately.

[@frisk151]

These are really cool! Thanks for the work you've put into this! Kinda strange in some ways to think almost everyone in this has likely passed on, but I love history regardless... Thanks!!

[@JamesWoodring-mu2iz]

thanks nass. happy new year! maybe in a 100 years people will be watching videos of our lives today. thanks for all ur hard work my talented friend

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much my friend

[@seandelap8587]

Looks so nice and clean thank you so much for this video

[@NASS_0]

thank you

[@normrosen9404]

Looks kind of smoggy

[@diamondbed86]

Beautiful! These are like time machines.

[@MisterRico101]

Thank you for making these video's.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much ;)

[@monilaninetynine3811]

This looks so cool. So much better than still black and white photos.

[@MH3GL]

The greatest thing videos like this have helped me learn is: people are people. They were the same then as they are now - they went to work, they shopped, the socialized, they cohabitated; the main differences seem to be style (clothing, cars) and attitude (everybody seems to be well-dressed, and they take care of their communities equally as well - I don't see alot of trash lying around). Part of me wonders if the presence of beat cops constantly present and walking around in the community had a net positive impact overall.... 🤔

[@geoffolehane]

I had a Great Uncle who lived near there during the 1920s. Nice to see what his daily life might have been like.

[@jaisabai4155]

Brilliant footage.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much ;)

[@karthiktechy5958]

Now it's 2024..going far day by day from these clips😢

[@christopherauer9004]

This must have been mostly shot in the summer of 1926...when the Ben Franklin Bridge between Philly and and Camden was opened to the public. I keep hoping NASS restores some Rochester NY footage, where all the damn film was made.

[@joemanz4292]

GREAT GREAT VIDEO...THANK YOU FOR POSTING

[@mikemasiello9625]

Its interesting to see a steam engine go right down the middle of a street with storefronts on either side of it. People obviously had to take more personal responsibility to stay safe.

[@buckykattnj]

There are still places in the US where trains ride right down the middle of streets... like in Ohio and other spots in the midwest. Not a surprise to see the trains in the street, though it still is jarring to see them in motion, it was common in parts of New York and Atlantic City, as well. In Atlantic City, the trains once went right down Virginia Ave to the boardwalk to drop passengers... and down Georgia Ave to supply the original convention center.

[@Jeff-uj8xi]

Shore Fast Line trolleys went to Virginia Avenue and the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, not trains. But passenger trains did go to the Boardwalk on Georgia Avenue and on Mississippi Ave. After 1929, they were used for freight to Convention Hall. I question the street running scene with the steam locomotive and coaches actually being in Philly. I might be wrong, but it looks like Atlantic City to me. I was going to mention this to NASS. I can't think of any street running passenger trains in Philly in the 1920's.

[@glenonoko4918]

Most of the railroad-in-the-street scenes are the Reading Railroad's Franklin Street station in Reading, Pa. The scenes of the passenger trains moving at speed along a river and rocky cliffs are also on the Reading Railroad at a place on the southeast outskirts of Reading known as Klapperthal.

[@bardo0007]

@@buckykattnj That makes sense, no need for a train station.

[@DiscoverHudsonValley]

Excellent restoration as always NASS, nice work!!! 👍😉

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much ;)

[@mariavaldez5745]

Qué lindos videos, gracias por mostranos ésos tiempos tan bellos!🥰🚂🚃👍

[@rogerrendzak8055]

Shockingly, Philly, looks clean😲!!!

[@staralotzka5586]

You do such a fantastic job😊

[@bobbysands6923]

Wonderful restoration, as usual! At 4:02...I can fathom a train coming down your street. Probably easy to say, "got hit by a train..."

[@passiflora3122]

Bellissimo... complimenti e felice anno nuovo 👋👋👋

[@IamJunius]

Ben Franklin Bridge is open so the film dates after 1 July 1926

[@anteuzel5324]

GREAT VIDEO SUPER NASS PHILADEPHIA WAS GREAT IN 1920 BIG SUPPORT FROM CROATIA HAPPY NEW YEAR BRO

[@daveweiss5647]

Amazing footage! Thanks!

[@zurcherzurich213]

The roaring Twenties 🎉 Thank you very much

[@Most_Trustworthy_Weasel]

Home looks vastly different, but something of the things in the footage is surprisingly still intact!

[@luislaplume8261]

One complaint. No American steam locomotive whistle sounded like that of the European steam locomotives. C'MON MAN!

[@arvidpaulius7816]

Thank you for your efforts. I wish you a good New Year and productive work. I look forward to new shows 😉

[@NASS_0]

Thank you ;)))

[@matrox]

I like how everything looks so dirty and covered with soot.

[@shaunwest3612]

Great video nass, amazing footage,love seeing the steam train going down the street 👍👌😀

[@asan1050]

NASS! , ThanksMuch for sharing !

[@stevehein7884]

great job

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@MT-qu2tg]

Olde city Philadelphia has remained the same.

[@7and12inchvinyl]

Great job my town is waiting for a philly vibe

[@Shin-ei_Official]

That's so awesome!!!

[@NASS_0]

^^

[@herberthartwig8544]

Nice one Nass and a happy new year ahead 👍

[@NASS_0]

happy new year

[@ArtOfCrimson-art]

You half expect to see Robert De Niro or James Woods from Once Upon a Time in America. Walk down those streets. This Is very good.

[@rods3421]

0:58 couple of guys riding in the rumble seat. First time I've noticed that in one of these videos.

[@diamondtiara84]

I love those old cars!

[@NASS_0]

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[@moode122all4]

I have a simple question. Is it true that Israel takes the American people’s money from taxes from homes? It goes to Israel. The American people do not benefit from it. ‏أنا عندي سؤال بسيط هل صحيح أن إسرائيل تأخذ فلوس الشعب الأمريكي من الضرائب من المنازل تروح لإسرائيل الشعب الأمريكي ما يستفيد منها شي

[@ReckCenidoza-hl7vh]

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[@morthedgebuckle227]

That bridge must've really been something back then.

[@isabelarzoz]

Buenas noches. Feliz Año Nuevo y espero que esto continúe durante mucho tiempo (los vídeos). ¿Sería posible ver alguna filmación de época navideña?😊

[@edwardschweibinzkenny5789]

69th Street Terminal is at minute 5:43

[@buckgulick3968]

Ahhhh... a refreshing glimpse of what true civilization looked like.

[@TheDanEdwards]

"a refreshing glimpse of what true civilization looked like." - nostalgia is a powerful drug.

[@1GirlieGirl]

Yes all that black smoke billowing into the sky, the factories dumping their waste into the Schuylkill and the Delaware before there were regulations to stop them. Small children wandering the streets unattended. Ah, civilization ☺

[@crusinclassicslucas6218]

Happy 2024 Nass!

[@tombanes]

They really didn’t mess around with the hats back then. I could never.

[@RachelWeeping]

I THINK THESE VIDEOS ARE SO COOL.

[@ronaldmiller2740]

NASS, GREAT VIDEO.. WE LIKE THE BRIGDES AND TRAINS AND CARS,,.. THANKS,,, HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@buckykattnj]

Most of my family lived in Phila during these years. In fact, one of those trains might have been the one that ran over and killed my great uncle as a child.

[@oldglstuf]

Very Nice.

[@Sam.daruwala]

Beautiful

[@davidk2906]

The air pollution would of been brutal on asthmatics back then especially considering the medication available.

[@paul7TM]

Yes that would be the first thing you'd notice if you could time travel. Looking at the clip people were used to it. But then life expectancy was much less in those days. Penicillin was only entering trials in the late 20s. Wasn't really used until WW2. Still it is great to watch life from afar. And to admire the simplicity of life then. It's all got a bit complicated now. 🤔

[@davidk2906]

Thank you for the informative response. Happy New Year. @@paul7TM

[@bardo0007]

@@paul7TM They had the fresh ocean breeze, not a lot of cars in the streets at that time. So I think it was not as bad as you described. Maybe only in some industrial areas.

[@anthonyminimum]

2:55 Imagine being able to freely walk in that part of Independence Hall, hell, being able to walk inside the building today without going through a medal detector.

[@cynthiamincher5154]

Going back in time nice see

[@user-nu4um2gr3d]

The crazy thing about this video is it's 100 years old, but still looks a lot like Philly today, but if the people in this video could watch a video 100 years ago from their time, They would be seeing colonial Philadelphia.

[@scottnyc6572]

Gotta love that sound of the steam locomotive.These locomotive engines are synonymous with Philadelphia since it was the home of the Baldwin Company which built them.

[@DCDura]

At the approximate 6:30 mark in the video: we don't have mountains and gorges like that in Philadelphia where those tracks are running. Pittsburgh perhaps.

[@LongologoProductions]

Perhaps it was footage of the person filming and his spouse on their train ride into or out of Philly. I’m guessing the spouse is the woman appearing at 3:05 and again at 3:11. Thank you Nass for bringing these films to life!

[@buckykattnj]

Sure there is... those are the train lines that follow the Schuylkill River. It doesn't look so mountainous today, because the highway fills in the space between the tracks and river or is raised up quite a bit.

[@1GirlieGirl]

Someone who's never been to Manayunk.....

[@Poisson4147]

@@1GirlieGirl ... and especially hasn't *biked* it. Whew!

[@dobbins4323]

Great old footage.

[@nateplotkin6321]

I'm having such a good time scrolling through your channel. I was wondering if you have any videos coming out including footage of Milwaukee?

[@pmafterdark]

I think the rail system was probably in a lot better shape then.

[@freshfreshfreshfresh]

You can thank the suburbanization

[@Poisson4147]

@@freshfreshfreshfresh Along with politicians who restricted what private systems were allowed to do, and companies like GM that worked to undermine electric-transit operators. Within three years after GM started managing the PTC in the mid-1950s, they'd converted two dozen electric lines to buses and shut down three more entirely. Today only 6 streetcar lines are left, and maybe 25% of the commuter rail system has been eliminated.

[@siddrajput1029]

Wow very nice

[@cengeb]

Cool

[@zhekazving]

Хотелось верить в сказку, но увы. NASS просто умеет пользоваться программой искусственного интеллекта по созданию новых фильмов.

[@morthedgebuckle227]

When Chuck Bednarik was an infant

[@SergLa]

Обворожительно.

[@gyges5495]

Even back then there were drivers sitting in the left lane holding everyone up

[@poderosothor5571]

Tanks sr.. são Paulo..... brazil

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@1966camillis]

And There weren't global warming with all that pollution!

[@TheDanEdwards]

"And There weren't global warming with all that pollution!"

[@1GirlieGirl]

Lol what??? If I understand correctly, you're missing the fact that this was the beginnings of climate change thanks to humans.

[@courylanders4142]

I've noticed something about these older remastered videos about big cities like Philly and New York in the 1930 and earlier,these places are clean. NOT NOW!! What happened?

[@1GirlieGirl]

lol

[@EdwardHerman-j4h]

Minorities moved in.

[@zhekazving]

This new Movie, like all others a good work of artificial intelligence

[@Poisson4147]

Restored by AI but not *generated* by AI.

[@JayKarpwick]

And your proof is ... ???

[@tigran1993]

Old World Best World.

[@juliuschapman7707]

Old world was the real world. We're currently trapped in a 100 plus year old dark illusion

[@Wesley-bc1tt]

Que charme dessa epoca

[@azmike1]

The European Train Whistle was unexpected.

[@1GirlieGirl]

Some of our trolleys that go underground have that same whistle. Relax.

[@raymonddixon7603]

Well Henry Ford said you can have any Ford you like as long as its a model T Ford, or something similiar😀😀

[@kylek.sweeney5439]

Any idea which street that is at 4:02 where the train is coming down?

[@MrEdWeirdoShow]

Funny how most of these kinds of documentary videos show that fashion and style are not just that. Instead it looks like there's always a federal law on the books regarding how people must appear during certain time periods, or else they'll be hauled off to jail. Which is why so much early cinema is not mere fantasy material, but actual home movies of society.

[@ColonelNickSteel]

It's weird to think that some of these people are no longer with us anymore. 😢

[@bardo0007]

You mean all of them, unless the young boy next to the train is 110 years old.

[@kwamesmith3214]

Prohibition was one hell of a drug 😂😂

[@DCDura]

The Ben Franklin Bridge shown in the video was built between 1922-1926, yet here it already looks old and worn... even tire tracks on the roadway. Strange. It should be glistening.

[@buckykattnj]

The trains on the Ben Franklin and lots of nearby dirty industry putting out particulate matter... left a matte coating of soot on everything. Today, the industry has relocated to China and the trains are electric. As for the roadways, I've driver through this stretch hundreds of times, I could only WISH it was so smooth and perfect.

[@zhekazving]

@@buckykattnj мы видим, что это паровые машины, у них не было выхлопной грязи!

[@KungFuIsland]

5:12 trains had teleportation modules in the 1920s confirmed

[@bardo0007]

At 0:51, this used to be a seafood restaurant, does it still exist?

[@Pidalin]

it's crazy that they already had this "car anarchy" in USA in 20s

[@zhekazving]

NASS, это загадочно, как вы умеете перемещаться в прошлое и снимать фильмы оттуда. Или в параллельную реальность?

[@Relcilisity_Official]

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