Main Street, downtown Richmond, 1937

[@dre4011]

I've been in Richmond since 1989.........I was 8 then. Love this town. ❤

[@marybarth5759]

So wonderful to see this video. My mother graduated from high school in 1937 I keep looking to see if I see a picture of her walking and shopping on Main Street

[@cmcneil233]

Even back then they still walked slow across the street

[@stevenray5176]

I though all were walking briskly!

[@noahholliday9761]

It's crazy too that if you look at the silhouettes of the buildings there's a lot you can recognize as still there. Of course a pretty large chunk was taken out in the explosion, but there's still a lot of ancient history in Richmond. I lived in a underground railroad house, and a old carriage hotel during my time in Richmond. It was once the crossroads of America, and crossroads are significant in supernatural happenings. Jim Jones was a Richmond native, Charlie Manson wrote in one of his books that he wanted to move there, and Terry McNichols lived there shortly before the OK City bombings. I know a ton of super freaks before I hit the road for good.

[@noahholliday9761]

@cannabisreviewpdx2 in 1968 a large area of the downtown promenade exploded and killed 41 people. This is Richmond IN.

[@LilGeniusesinvestigations]

I caught Charlie Manson Sr 1990s . And Daniel's felecia Edith Mirage Lydia Gail Yevette Yovenne Gary wanna steal Kia and Markus Jones Hi Chris C Chicken and Sweet and Sassy are mother and son and miracle and miracle worker are mom and son same mothers and sons and Weatherman and kenneth cheesecake and Lil runaway princess same mom of 2 sons and My brother and Lil genius Lil len len on snag tooth officer thumbs up is the same woman homeless woman. Oh who's kicking ass out . Lil gina marie gordon is the same woman the homeless woman not a shelter wearing a princess wedding gown is the same woman red hair curly hi aunt day amd aunt celine listen they are fucking with your neice now who is bigger then a blow up achim in royal vape shop or a mickey who caught you Charlie Manson 4th Sr JR Edith remember me achim skinny ass jj looking man burns and his in law momma boyfriend daniel Rochester bufflo I had a baby black baby guy an issue with that or oh beth Mary temeka tamatha temera Caroline walker Oh I'm not a felony person yall ganged up on me so they didn't like it when I had to say something so hey listen bitches wanna fuck with me now oh they thought it was funny when I was getting out Keith went after me Gina Jones committed a crime in illnoise im sure stacey who took my ID right cab driver right Gremblski officer wants to be a jerk Nikki human trafficking ring who Commissioner and Perkins hows jessica peters wait foster home Joe alot of adrugs being given and made keith Joe harsh vanzandt mickey lacie Sam daniel Sheryl Tim Jennifer Wright mark wright is a metg coke Crack addict Beemer achim James healthy choices walter jonathen Deanna melody James morels Courtney keith loves his drugs to ever change hows the drives wo nm with tons of woman jarred and dawn hows my evps from ky Ding dong hows my hard drive computers you brought to mickey that I bought with my own money and shawn had no computers Teri go blow your brother have keristen and keirsten had Shawn's baby and she left and was getting bigger and hows Courtney's kids with shawn and shawn and I have no kids together and I have no kids with Tom morgan or billy . My family are shorts and hows micheal peters amd jessica Kettering are not related and Dan is not a Gordon he was adopted out in fact mark does not have brown stringy hair thats Gremblski

[@CollinCook-em4qg]

@@noahholliday9761oh man I was thinking VA. This makes your comment make more sense if it’s MI. I want to visit the old cross roads now but from what I’ve seen it’s all build up and lived on now if the devil was making deals I think we’d know

[@noahholliday9761]

I saw the small IGA food store on the Promenade back then, I grew up from the mid 70's through the 80's in Richmond and IGA was a grocery store equal to any in that time.

[@jackzimmer6553]

Interesting…My grandparents used to live in Richmond during the 60’s. We would sometimes stay with them for a few days in the summer.

[@loristevens924]

Most everyone was dressed up to go downtown. I'm noticing a lot of white shoes, must have been before Labor Day. Not everybody was as stick thin as I thought they would've been, but still thinner than people today. Interesting to see the hustle bustle of the crowds.

[@truthadvocacy]

The film is distorted and make people look wider. Otherwise, they were much thinner than the overweight and obese population of the USA now.

[@southernman5839]

Everyone was dressed up to go to downtown.

[@treymcferrin4027]

I wonder if the roads were trash back then like they are now.

[@truthadvocacy]

surely not.

[@jesusmalgames]

Nice, people made an effort to dress clean and stylish, time has changed.

[@nivekkil2347]

My home

[@matrox]

This filmer is just Girl watching in 1937.

[@truthadvocacy]

There are a lot more women than men in the film. It is not the filmer's fault!

[@Drackleyrva]

Downtown Richmond was definitely more active back then---it's a dead zone now.

[@Pacers00]

Dead as hell

[@joshuaraleigh4648]

Beautiful! No nickas!!! 😀👍🏻

[@Bwh-rm3py]

All of those young men were gonna be in WWII in a few years.

[@rodneygolden2796]

This must be Richmond, IND., not Virginia. Am I correct?

[@LIBRAGOD90]

"Stubborn Love" by the Lumineers should be playing in this video

[@jerryuhte1284]

That was a good year !

[@emanz_wrld2987]

Lol no it rlly wasent my friend

[@JUBABU4]

This is Richmond, Indiana, not Richmond Virginia

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

No it isn't!!!

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

my bad, I was wrong. Didn't realize our namesake looked so much like us.

[@jumpstart9473]

It’s only a memory recorded on film. Can you imagine trying to explain what their future downtown will look like in the future . Sadley you could probably bulldoze most of these little cities right off the map without any real consequences .

[@jasonsmith2439]

Back when people had class and the cars were made of metal.

[@cxjeter]

Somebody was chick watching 81 years ago.

[@realbasherverse]

That's how it's done in Richmond lmao

[@noahholliday9761]

Yeah, and if you're looking from the beginning they weren't wearing bras back then.

[@AlterKaker-e2g]

Great footage. Too bad you didn't keep 4:3 aspect ratio. Black margins are not a deal breaker. Distortion is.

[@ronaldwilliamson7963]

2037 is just around the corner.

[@thomashernandez8700]

Main or Broad St? Cheers.

[@JUBABU4]

Richmond Indiana

[@USNVA11]

It’s a shame that women rarely wear dresses anymore. Different times now for sure.

[@fairfaxcat1312]

Oh Richmond in Indiana Lol.

[@madsupervilian.]

hmm, my grandma was born in 1917. She'd be 20 around this time.

[@truthadvocacy]

NICE AGE!

[@StabbinJoeScarborough]

I grew up here , glad i left

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

We're glad you did too!!

[@StabbinJoeScarborough]

@@kudjoeadkins-battle2502 So was I , I did ok at life , MUCH better than my friends that stayed there

[@kudjoeadkins-battle2502]

@@StabbinJoeScarborough my bad. I thought this was Virginia. I don't blame you for leaving Indiana at all. I apologize for saying that. Good for you.

[@LIBRAGOD90]

They're probably all dead

[@noahholliday9761]

Uh, yeah.

[@mariekatherine5238]

Mostly, yes, but not all. The children could still be alive in 2022. My great aunt is 98, her sister, 96, as was Queen Elizabeth until yesterday. My father passed in January at 97 and two people in my community are 102 and 103, respectively.

[@RN_BSN_PHN]

No. They're all still working at the cemetery

[@truthadvocacy]

@@mariekatherine5238 freak cases. Look at the obituaries and note at what *average age* they die in the US: around 75!

[@alfredocorreia9385]

1937! Ano em que GLENN MILLER formou sua primeira Orquestra e que não fez muito sucesso!

[@AllWeatherFirestarters]

All the women wore dresses.

[@xcppg6648]

Not many fat people back then.

[@truthadvocacy]

in spite of the camera distortion that makes them look wider!

[@cidguridy8389]

Very few hefty overweight people, unlike today.

[@truthadvocacy]

no mcdonalds or taco bell or wendy's, etc.

[@eddycorea4729]

Quiero más videos de Richmond no en fotos si no como este , donde la gente camina por las calles, no videos de fotos

[@briteness]

A nation on the way up looks different from a nation on the way down.

[@truthadvocacy]

👍

[@erikb8979]

The one lady’s top looked a little racy for the time period

[@lamarwilliams9439]

Sooooo an entire video of chics crossing the street.

[@StrikeValkyrie]

Judging by the large number of flower prints, contrasting outfits, signs, architecture, I would think this video would be a good candidate for colorization. I've lived in Richmond Indiana for 27 years now and you can tell there have been drastic changes to the layout and backdrops of the cityscape. I found it somewhat difficult to place some of the not-so-obvious locations. After watching the people scuttling all about I decided that what I was seeing was likely a lot of sore feet. Shoes have come a long way in the past 80+ years! Of course the people were in much better shape from the neck down and probably had a lot of poor eyesight, partial deafness, undiagnosed illnesses, broken, rotten, missing teeth from the neck up. A lot of strong women and expressions that todays world may have seen as disgruntled or perturbed but was likely just less emotional or expressive than us 'future folk'. 🚎💈🎡🎢🏢🏚

[@truthadvocacy]

"had a lot of poor eyesight, partial deafness, undiagnosed illnesses, broken, rotten, missing teeth from the neck up." Not when they were young and fit. And 1937 was not 1937 for "undiagnosed illnesses", at least not in urban areas.