Men Of Gloucester (1949)

Describes a deep-sea fishing trip with a highly trained Gloucester fishing crew. The home life and religious ceremonies of these people who live in the Cape Ann section of Massachusetts are also portrayed.
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[@Dagrizzb]

This minidoc was beautiful. The narrator gave me secondhand nostalgia. That is how good a job was done.

[@subaru7233]

My home for 45 years, this is a gem, thank you.

[@TeknoMediumsParanormal1111]

I'm 64, in Plymouth, Ma. Not so different. ❤ Sept. is my birth month and it still comes too soon!

[@susanbelida6981]

I recall some of this as a little girl from Beverly, Massachusetts. The seafood is the best!!

[@heathershelton4676]

My Grampy 9:17 and 12:32 (center in overalls) 17:52 Anthony Savalli ..... The greatest man I have ever known!

[@heathershelton4676]

2:44 my Nana, Grampy and baby Auntie Toni!!!!

[@pgroove163]

.. has there been much gentrification to change the overall character of the city ?..

[@pgroove163]

@@heathershelton4676 like a time machine.

[@eldonbrean6142]

Thanks Bob, great story really enjoyed it.

[@moceri55]

18:08 That’s my Great Grandfather Lawrence Ciulla the last man carrying the statue. That was cool.

[@terilecuyer863]

Beautiful

[@buckshot_honeymoon]

Awesome!

[@jv-ep2tc]

at around 2:30 we see main street with a sign that reads Barker's. in the 60's this spot would have been occupied by Rexall Drug and the Tic Toc restaurant. the front area of Rexall's was called The Waiting Station.

[@kennethstickney8819]

Barker's Drug was next to the Waiting Station next to Til Tock Donut Shop😀

[@jv-ep2tc]

@@kennethstickney8819 why does your name ring a bell to me?

[@kennethstickney8819]

I am surprised as I left Gloucester many years ago.When the next the generation invaded my city it was time to move on.Made me sad😞

[@jv-ep2tc]

@@kennethstickney8819 do you ever return to visit? I try to spend the day every summer. you might find it interesting to watch the old route 66 episode that was filmed there, early 60s. its on YT called Once to Every Man. lots of scenes of old rocky neck.

[@kennethstickney8819]

I was in the crowd scene of that episode of Route 66

[@brownmeadow]

The credits indicate it was fixed in 1946 but that sure looks like a 1949 Ford. either way the story is told very well.

[@rapman5363]

Nice whitewalls on that Ford.

[@keeppunchin2302]

GLOSTA HISTORY!!! PISSA!

[@rapman5363]

Trust the Gortons’s fisherman....with Gorton’s of Gloucester

[@rateyesmertz3785]

3:28 into the video . Hoiw did they figure Gloucester was born in 1610----- 10 years before the Pilgrims landed My computer says 1642

[@wyndwalkerranger7421]

1623

[@Sennmut]

The credits say 1946.

[@starkdilemma4916]

We used to be a proper country...