Florida 1930's in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of Florida 1930's, Includes views of railroad station with streamlined the Hotel Villa Hermos, an airport terminal (probably Miami) and Miami Beach
Video Restoration Process:
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second
✔ Image resolution boosted up to HD
✔ Improved video sharpness and brightness
✔ Colorized only for the ambiance (not historically accurate)
✔added sound only for the ambiance
✔restoration:(stabilisation,denoise,cleand,deblur)
Please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
B&W Video Source: Internet Archive, US Archive National
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[@NASS_0]

Like And Share Please!

[@vityamba1274]

Дякую,BRO🖐️👁️☝️😇🇺🇦

[@Ann65.]

This is such an impressive film. Thank You! ❤

[@FrankMartin-qj8nj]

Where is the little girl right now? Can somebody tell me?

[@FLYEAL]

Hotel Villa Hermosa, Hollywood by the Sea. The Miami train station shown here was at 200 NW 1st Ave. West Palm station filmed was @ 201 S Tamarind Ave. Seaplane and Pan-Am terminal at Dinner Key, Coconut Grove. The beach and fishing location I can’t identify. Probably near their hotel at Hollywood by the Sea. And the hotel or nearby pier. Finally, Venetian Pool and Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. Note: I’m a 3rd Gen Miamian

[@bawillard2578]

Thank you !!!! Fabulous information. I am a, Floridian ...

[@NASS_0]

Thank you 👍

[@garyjones2582]

This looks like the Hollywood Beach hotel... If it is, it was bought by FL Bible college in early to mid 70's... I spent a few nights there.. What a view waking up to sunrise on the ocean...

[@butterbook]

The racetrack at the end looks like Tropical Park. Grandpa arrived in 1925....what a time!!!

[@Jumpjoe4587]

At West Palm Station is still in use today

[@LimorArika]

The vibrant colors make it feel as if it was filmed this morning. Forgetting the fact it was filmed nearly 100 years ago. What a treat! Thank you for sharing.

[@kristensorensen2219]

My dear mother was born in September 1931. She had an outstanding life and remembered everything about her life until her last day. I miss her deeply and to think this is what her world was like when she arrived. I love the way her generation lived!! Kind civil loving with great family. She traveled the world in her 60s through her late 80's. Thanks for the look back in time!!🎉❤

[@mikeseier4449]

So very true.🙏

[@NASS_0]

👍👍

[@EL-nc1cs]

@@NASS_0 Thanks for Sharing Kristen...... I enjoyed sitting down listening to you and your Moms stories.

[@jeltoninc.8542]

My grandfather was born in 29 and my grandmother 31. They were the strongest, most hard working people. I miss them both dearly, but I am so thankful to have known them and for the wisdom they imparted to me.

[@mikeyh0]

So calming. My blood pressure dropped 15 points. Thanks. My Mom was the same age as that little girl.

[@shootfirst2097]

Fascinating. I love these slices of live from the past. Like a time machine.

[@Jumpjoe4587]

I notice how well dressed everyone is when they travel you paid attention to yourself. The journey was just as important as the destination.

[@nick_0]

alright nerd

[@gevans5446]

And consider the fact that many buildings didn't even have air conditioning back then.

[@kenkenichi7461]

I believe they dressed that way everyday my grandmother was born in 1911 and she dressed that way whenever she left the house.

[@ScarabChris]

Born and raised in Miami, now at 50 I live in Dania. Very cool seeing places I have been all my life back in the 30's. If only it were that peaceful again. That little girl on the beach is sunburned pretty bad. I bet she was crying later that night. The eerie thing about watching this, is that everyone in the video has long passed away. Maybe the little girl on the beach with the sun burn could still be alive but would be in her 90's now assuming this was say 1935.

[@dillardc81]

The beginning of the clip says the colors are not historically accurate, so that burn could just be from the AI trickery.

[@richardnovikas920]

Kids didn’t get burned back then, they learned it in the army.

[@billyski6798]

A bygone era, will never see this beauty ever again. 🌹🌹👍👍

[@saracuse8114]

The only thing that has changed are the people and what they’ve built really, I would’ve love to see what it was like back then.

[@costernocht]

"NASS just dropped a new video!" And he never disappoints ...

[@NASS_0]

Thanks !!!! ^^

[@MacheteMambi]

Hermosa hotel was in Hollywood FL about 30 north of Miami. The scene with sea planes and Pan AM Airlines was where the current Coconut Grove Miami neighborhood is near City Hall and Dinner Key auditorium. These planes flew to Havana Cuba. The last scenes at 10 min mark of VENETIAN POOL in Coral Gables. Upscale town next to City of Miami. Still there. Venetian pool is a man made pool of fresh water carved from coral rock. Has underground caves and feels like Venice. Still there. Worth a visit. The last building is the famous and glamorous BILTMORE HOTEL is same Coral Gables. Beautiful hotel. Still there. Many presidemts have visited. Large golf course and massive pool. Still very high end hotel in greater Miami. Located in town of Coral Gables.which is like the Miami Beverly Hills

[@johnwheaton1659]

Venetian Pool still exists!

[@josefradisz2133]

Colours, sound design, everything is so real ! Lovely seashore scenes.

[@annagruber7040]

In 2130 people won't be amazed with now like we are amazed with back then.

[@cigarrett]

How nihilistic. The truth is, your brain can’t even comprehend what 100 years from now will be like… people have been saying what you just said for thousands of years.

[@annagruber7040]

@@cigarrett Just because your brain is too weak to comprehend, don't think anyone else's is. This age is full of reruns, shit that's been done before...most of it will just be perfected more.

[@Jumpjoe4587]

When you came to Miami from New York, you went from drab brown dirty buildings to this beautiful city with all white buildings. It was their Disney World.

[@aponytale4820]

Wow. A Florida video, people with clothing, no t shirts, shorts, flip flops or bikinis!

[@hot88s23]

Bikinis would've been cool.

[@visionseeker68]

Another place I had yet to visit, during the present or past. Thanks again NASS!

[@lisamareeaccary5132]

It’s amazing to be able see how people lived nearly 100 years ago and the fact all these people are dead

[@Nylgk]

I love historic video that includes a lot of people/fashions, as this does. Everyone here looks so elegant, everyone wearing a hat…and not a tee shirt to be seen anywhere! Yay. Thanks for the video, very nice.

[@dopeMike_]

They had a camera on them and they new it was a special event. I'm sure aft wards all that came off and the wife beaters were put back on and the beer came out Floridaman style.

[@Nylgk]

Nope, I don’t believe that…different time. People didn’t wear their underwear when they were traveling or attending theater.

[@vesperv]

t-shirts aren't inappropriate and were ... definitely worn at this time. are you thinking of a different article of clothing?

[@shadykatie100]

Thank you for another amazing video!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@scottnyc6572]

Lots of old money blue bloods arriving on the train..

[@esotericveritas]

Wow - the Venetian Pool is still there. I am a local and have never been - it's on my Summer to-do list though for sure

[@j1st633]

Just returned Amtrak sleeper train from Orlando. Pictured the station in the 30's.

[@erick-gmz]

Imagine having a train in Orlando, such a good thing we have all these efficient highways and stroads!

[@EL-nc1cs]

Who would ever imagined the new FEC Bright Line train replacing the old time Florida/ Havana Special!!!!!

[@Just1American1966]

The Brightline partners with the FEC-RR to share tracks, but it operates as a separate venture. The FEC itself is much older, originally running as a passenger line established by Henry Morrison Flagler. It was crippled in the 1960s by a labor strike and made the switch to freight at that time. In South Florida, one is left with rail choices of the Brightline or the much-older (1980s) Tri-Rail system for commuter travel, and Amtrak for further.

[@sooke54]

Spectacular! Like time travel! I guess the Havana Express . was the train to Key West then a ferry or seaplane to Havana. No road to Key West then, just the railway.

[@dopeMike_]

No it just ran into the ocean.

[@lilamayoral1031]

People look so sophisticated with hats ...

[@PalmBeachFlorida24]

Excellent video. ❤

[@TheresOnly1Stef]

Were full suits the only available attire back then lol? I would’ve been greatly depressed too looking at that day in and day out LOL

[@cynthiamincher5154]

Going back time❤

[@michaelt2606]

They dealt with the heat because thats the way it was back then i'm sure the heat was not on there minds it was more important to look good in public

[@JSFGuy]

All right, this is before / after hurricanes.

[@NASS_0]

Hi!!! ^^

[@JSFGuy]

@@NASS_0 🙋 Aight now

[@victoria2050nin]

I cannot believe these films were taken over 90 years ago!! People have not changed much❤.

[@BBaldwin]

People have changed a lot. We are a much fatter society and far more ill-mannered.

[@gregdolecki8530]

Old Florida - I want to go there....... 7:14 I'll bet that guy regretted the decision to lay in the Florida sun.

[@Jumpjoe4587]

Friday Miami you could take the ferry to Havana wow that was the ultimate dream

[@johnaugsburger6192]

Thanks

[@paulanomoly7977]

In a lot of those shots, the only difference between then and now are the cars and cloths

[@Slrpics]

The little baby on the beach would be in her 90’s now.

[@misterx420]

The high frame rate makes this look like cheap video. You should have kept the natural film rate of 24FPS. Also, you removed too much of the grain making everything look unnaturally smooth and it reduces the sharpness. The colorization isn't bad, but the color of certain objects fluctuates within the same shot. I would love to see the original footage capture unaltered.

[@co.1157]

It's probably all done with ai

[@miguel--rush]

Excelente trabajo...estimado. Gracias por compartir.!

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much!!

[@edwaldocamargo4387]

Um grande pesadelo político. Muito muito pior e maior que 1929. Esse número tem seu mistério. Nada é um acaso

[@Ruslan.M66]

На 0:22 был короткий гудок клаксон локомотива. Упущение озвучки 🤫 Гудок на паровозах делался паром из общего котла и всегда сопровождался выбросом облака.

[@reedmoon3630]

Isn't this Topaz w/ Deoldify?

[@DavidinMiami]

Wow, where are the tight shorts and shirts, flip flops, purple hair, and tattoos?

[@Jumpjoe4587]

My dad would go to Hialeah and he would buy a ticket in the colored section because it was so much cheaper and he wasn’t Black

[@JonathanCLacy]

Man if only we invested into rail and not road....

[@Alic3IiWL]

They are not fat, they will rise out of the depression, defeat fascism and usher in an age of prosperity. Exactly the opposite of this generation.

[@johnwatson8323]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@JSFGuy]

👍 don't you need to watch it first?

[@xm1193]

❤

[@matrox]

2:15 Kids wearing a jogging suit.

[@dopeMike_]

He was east coast before east coast knew it was east coast.

[@rebjorn79]

It's "1930s", not "1930's"

[@dopeMike_]

Thanks for noticing the real problems.

[@mach16j]

and now it's overcrowded and over priced

[@ElisabetaTofalvi]

❤🎉❤👍😍🎉💯👌

[@beachrose88]

people now spoiled, weak and self absorbed

[@hachuelo69]

Where all the fat people were in the 30s?

[@outdoorlifemaine6691]

Look at black people dressed nice to

[@mikeseier4449]

Excellent!.. Thank you.👍

[@NASS_0]

Thx!!!

[@john-lenin]

Just stop with the shitty colorization.

[@joelrebollar7055]

Man I wish us Floridians still had the ability to go to any town, big or small, on a train

[@floridiantv]

No

[@floridiantv]

Well yeah

[@mjo3275]

This video was taken in South Florida. You still can.

[@Major_Tom98]

Brightline

[@joelrebollar7055]

@@Major_Tom98 That service only takes you to six cities, I'm pretty sure Florida has more than six cities

[@minaiorgova8388]

❤

[@thfield2417]

Back in that day my relatives would drive fresh tropical produce non-stop from Florida to high-end Chicago restaurants. Can you imagine the roads back then - no interstates yet!

[@ChatGPT1111]

At least they were paved, because just 10-20 years before this, they would've been dirt roads.

[@stephenmcguire7801]

​@@ChatGPT1111I remember our family driving past a nuclear reactor under a dome of earth and grass, operated by the Agriculture College on the edge of campus at the University of Florida. Road was still graded dirt in the early 1960s.

[@CosmicTaco333]

Great footage. People certainly dressed well back then.

[@NASS_0]

Thx👍

[@themechanic9226]

At the train station, the “station wagon” (luggage cart) was marked “FEC”. That would have been the Florida East Coast Railway. Still exists today.

[@someguy4911]

Brightline now uses FEC's right of way on their south Florida segment.

[@Just1American1966]

Yes. Originally developed by Henry Morrison Flagler as a passenger line, the FEC was debilitated by a rail worker's strike in the 1960s. The company switched to freight at that time to remain in operation.

[@TeeGar]

No fat people. Gee I wonder why. Thanks McDonald's!

[@donniebrasco4114]

Nobody is forced to eat Mc Donald’s.

[@number1pappy]

It amazes me how they dealt with the heat and humidity back then ,especially considering the majority of the men are wearing suits and the women are wearing heavy dresses.

[@DC-ev2jf]

Because they didn't really have much climate control inside either so you could acclimate so much better plus they weren't all obese

[@Jack-xo2zp]

I think that was the winter of 1928 or 1939. The temperature gets chilly down there at times.

[@paul7TM]

I think they covered it up as well with lots of cologne and perfume. I grew up in Australia in the 70s. My memory of the old ladies was they were always immaculately dressed even in summer but you could smell the perfume at the other end of the bus.

[@thehapagirl92]

@@DC-ev2jfNot being obese helps 😂

[@BillVol]

Had to have been awful. Guessing not much aircon until the '50s.

[@necrisro]

Damn back when US had civilization

[@dopeMike_]

I think you're confusing civilization with demeanor. We make excuses for bad behavior so now its accepted as normal.

[@sheriff1178]

Yes, when USA was more anglosaxon and had less massive immigration from the south

[@Jumpjoe4587]

In those days, West Palm Beach was a ghost town after the season ended. It’s still that way on Palm Beach. The building I work in. They have 22 units occupied in March and five in june

[@WAL_DC-6B]

The flying boat seen at 6:05 at the Pan American seaplane terminal is a Consolidated Commodore. Interesting 1930s Florida travel footage and thanks for sharing!

[@NASS_0]

thank you

[@erikmanzano8144]

That area has completely been redone… Miami city hall, Regatta park. The old Naval station and Pan Am water planes is Regatta Grove Restaurant .

[@WAL_DC-6B]

@@erikmanzano8144 Nice to know the building survives as another use.

[@zoso73]

5:48 That is now City Hall for the City of Miami. As shown here, the Pan Am terminal for its seaplane Clippers.

[@DesertVox]

It looks so modern. The 100 years after is not so different as the 100 before 1930.

[@wayneroberts4144]

My Mother grew up in Miami in the 1930's and I have family photos of them dressed so nice, the home and surroundings such as Key Biscayne, Coral Gables, etc...............what a beautiful time to be in Florida.

[@ungrateful-66]

It's still a beautiful time. Most of this country is ugly, boring and depressing as well as miserably cold.

[@Sonnycorleone162]

Hi, Nass, Great video as always! This was way before my time but I like the idea of train travel. Love to travel by train and have my own car too. Love the 1930's- and 40's-men's dress. Everybody- men, ladies and children looked so nice back then. Thanks for the upload.

[@NASS_0]

hi!! Thank you❤🙏

[@eddieraffs5909]

They were great days when people weren't looking at smartphones, bouncing off each other like billiard balls and dressed properly.

[@vesperv]

things being different today does not mean the 30s were better... especially if you consider what was happening in that decade

[@BBaldwin]

@@vespervIn many ways they were better. The people were more moral, selfless, mannered and properly dressed-a complete contradiction to today’s devolved, ill-mannered, depraved society.

[@vesperv]

​@@BBaldwin they were absolutely objectively not! for example, they were still hanging people (many for no reason, especially when you consider racism) in public with an audience (including children) during this period of time, among other horrific things. there were still plenty of immoral people, selfish people, ill-mannered people, and people who inappropriately dressed. you just aren't aware of this because tv and the internet didn't exist to allow anyone to depict life 24/7. so we have to rely on texts rather than visuals (which typically portray just snippets of life back then; similarly, if you reviewed only snippets of life in 2024, people would seem just as ordinary as they do in this video). keep in mind that world war 2 occurred and nazism became prominent at the very end of this decade as well. i would recommend researching laws and crime in this time period -- especially from the perspective of minorities who suffered most.

[@flicewatter]

Florida was a great place back then..

[@gasmith7486]

It still is!!

[@RealROI]

So was America.

[@LeydenAigg]

Unless you were black. Other than the children, EVERY black person I see is a servant of some kind. Less than 10 years before this footage was shot, white rioters destroyed the all-black town of Rosewood, and killed most of the residents, following a false rape accusation. The KKK was in full control in Florida in the Thirties, and a black man or woman could be lynched for making eye contact with whites.

[@michellep.6482]

​@@gasmith7486 I agree !! 👍

[@williamlevy1981]

More free than any state north of it.

[@EdwardM-t8p]

Florida was so much nicer then! West Palm Beach was but a resort town in the country next to the posh beach town of Palm Beach, and Miami was but a small city with few suburbs. Today they are all engulfed in a continuous sea of auto-centric suburban sprawl. 😠😡🤬

[@Hakim21210]

The villa hermosa hotel still exists. Its address: 93 SE 1st St, Dania Beach, FL 33004. Idem for the Venetian pool who was created in 1924 by George Edgar Merrick

[@ungrateful-66]

I miss living in Dania Beach so much. Currently I live in Punta Gorda but am a SE Miami/Gables native though lived in Dania for years. Last time I was there I was horrified by the traffic which was as bad or worse than Hialeah.

[@worldwidestuff5567]

Venetian Pool is still there in Coral Gables as well.

[@CM_Burns]

That baby at 8:50 would be almost 100 years old today.

[@thehapagirl92]

Yep! A grandma or great grandma

[@NiKokaKolaeva]

It's the 1930s, so she's not 100, she's 90. She may still be alive.

[@someguy4911]

@@NiKokaKolaeva My father was born at the end of the 1930s (1939) and is turning 85 next month. He's still alive and kicking.

[@NiKokaKolaeva]

@@someguy4911 It's great! I wish your father good health and long life!

[@jf752]

and the older people after would have lived during the civil war. 😮

[@KnightOnBaldMountain]

These don’t look like the people I see at the airport and definitely NOT like the people I see at Walmart.

[@asan1050]

NASS! Thanks for posting this video.

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much!!bro

[@codex3048]

3:41 Hawaiian guitar -- a common sight and sound of the '30s.

[@Jumpjoe4587]

You were considered very wealthy if you could afford to come down here in the winter months from up north it’s something you bragged about a place of dreams Camelot

[@draff1662]

Another awesome time capsule. Thanks for restoring these.

[@NASS_0]

Thanks

[@heinkle1]

If you were wealthy, it must have been a remarkable time to be alive

[@lguzmn66lg]

The waves never change.

[@Just1American1966]

We recycle them here. There are only so many. ;-)

[@TrollMeister_]

These videos are far more fascinating than period movies.

[@dopeMike_]

More Florida videos please! I couldn't even tell the difference between West Palm now and then. Pinellas and Pasco county. But I'll take Tampa Bay ya know since I'm the one not editing and uploading these videos.

[@NorthernHandle]

Imagine getting the chance to time travel and talk to someone the same age as you. Just to talk about their wishes and wants and the world they live in.

[@jody6851]

The elegance of the clothing and the cars won't be matched. The film seems to start off in the very early 30's considering many of the men are wearing 1920's style corncob hats, but then the cars and the clothing, especially the men's' hats, seem to look more like the later 1930s into the 1940s. The film also starts off with the expected steam locomotives of that era but then suddenly you see a diesel engine that looks far more like the 1950s. Is this correct? I don't recall seeing such diesel locomotives in use until the mid 1950s. No? Also, the early footage is obviously restored and colorized. But the later footage looks like real color film that didn't need extensive restoration which means that footage is much more likely to be from the 1940s for sure. There wasn't any color film commonly used that I know of until the very late 1930s into the 1940s such as the Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind both released in 1939 which were expensive Hollywood productions rather than film for sale to the retail general public, and later color footage during World War II filmed by official military correspondents, though black and white was still far more common altogether until Kodak 8 mm movie film became common in the 1950s.

[@nwicconsultants6640]

Great observations!

[@jaysverrisson1536]

Streamlined diesel locomotives like the one in the clip began to appear in the late 1930s, including some that pulled fashionable trains in the Florida market. The pace of dieselization varied from railroad to railroad, with steam surviving on some roads at least into the mid-1950s. For example, railroads operating in coal country--think PA and WV--tended to hang onto steam longer. There were some feature-length Hollywood color movies prior to 1939, even some silent ones. That said, color was more likely to be seen in short subjects than feature-length films in the 1930s due to cost, evolving color technology, etc. (Some of those early color shorts can be seen on KZbin.) Color home movie film was available by the 1930s, but like a lot of cutting edge products, it was undoubtedly pricey and it would be several years before coming into common use. However, affluent east coast snowbirds who flocked to southern Florida in those days would likely have been "early adapters" for color home movie film.

[@princebuster93]

@ Jody, Great comment, it seems like the world has been in a slow decline since that time, and in reality the opposite of what we are told to believe, - that the world is in progress with all the technology, AI, etc.

[@dopeMike_]

Floridas always been about 15 years behind the rest of the US. Not that its a bad thing.

[@nightowl5475]

Right around 7:53 you see the south entrance gate to the Boca Raton Hotel and Club. I know that place pretty good. I worked there from 1984 to 1986. The round tower is years from being built to the right of the South Gate along with the great hall. The South Gate entrance hasn’t changed in all those years.

[@bardo0007]

Bravo, amazing restoration, so clear footage and colors!

[@FilmbuffWSussex]

Great stuff again…people will love to see the cars,the fashions,the locomotives….and we were SO slim then…

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@marstondavis]

Nice video, Nass. Always good viewing.

[@NASS_0]

thank you so much!!

[@RadianceRush]

This was great! I always love seeing beautiful Florida but it's even more interesting seeing it in the 30s and in color!

[@sadjaxx]

Such pretty hats the women are wearing!

[@rogerflavell]

Wonderful job of visual restoration. Florida was truly a quiet escape destination during this time period as opposed to today. No wonder the likes of Al Capone and his crew gravitated to Miami during winter in Chicago. You can picture Big Al getting of his train dressed in a white suit smoking a big cigar.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@DanRichter]

I live in Florida and couldn't imagine standing outside wearing something like this for more than 30 seconds.

[@duongtran9272]

Tôi rất thích những chiếc xe ô tô thời đó

[@chrislindsay3104]

Imagine being able to travel by air between Key West and Havana via Pan Am back in the 30's and 40's!

[@Highlander-s5p]

the last clip is of Tropical Parc racetrack Hialeah , another one looked like the old Florida bible college on Hollywood Blvd and A1A

[@seandelap8587]

I love seeing the transport that people used during that time in particular