Mexico City 1940s in color [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added

[@NASS_0]

Which city in the world would you like to visit in the 1940s?

[@rx65m]

Monterrey, Mexico.

[@EBR1411]

⬆️

[@leonciohernandez]

Berlin or paris

[@robavento]

Berlín

[@paulpetock2836]

Coyoacan Mexico City .

[@joaopedrovale7687]

Muy lindo! Mexico City em Los anos 1940. Saludo a todos irmanitos mexicanos desde Brasil.

[@nahualollin61]

Saludoooos hermano viva Brazil 😎

[@Neogarcilaso]

Saludos, desde la Ciudad De México 🙋🏻‍♂️🇲🇽

[@erincedillo8554]

Obrigado desde CDMX ❤

[@neofia9832]

Saludos hermano, ❤

[@franciscoromero6768]

Abrazo grande Joao

[@danielbean868]

Thank you so much for taking the time to restore this film! My mom was born in Mexico City in 1946 and it's incredible to see it showcased during that era in such spectacular fashion ✨🇲🇽

[@3001ortiz]

The same year of this film.

[@adelaluz]

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[@raulmoreno6515]

Una verdadera cápsula del tiempo. El recorrido empieza por Av. Juárez a la altura de Bellas Artes, pasamos la Alameda, incluso se pasa por el Hotel Regis como al minuto y medio, entronca con la escultura de Carlos IV (El Caballito) y luego se comienza un largo recorrido por Paseo de la Reforma tan majestuoso y arbolado en ese entonces, cruzando el Ángel de la Independencia y la escultura de Cuitláhuac, entre otras glorietas. Alrededor del minuto 8:13 hay un espectacular de la película Canaima, por lo que se presume que esta filmación es de 1945. ¡Una Joya!

[@freeculture]

Me sorprendió ver algo tan Venezolano ahí, ahora miro en Wikipedia que es una película Mexicana basada en la novela del Venezolano Rómulo Gallegos.

[@armandovera2304]

Gracias por informacion. Cdmx muy. Bella 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

[@martinestrada3155]

También pudiera tratarse del anuncio de un ron que ya tiene muchos años en el mercado, y que es el Ron Canaima. Es de Venezuela, lo que no impide que se anuncie en México, y es muy antigua su elaboración.

[@martinestrada3155]

Corrijo y reconozco mi error. Sí se trata de la película Canaima, porque en el anuncio se ve la imagen de un sombrerudo que me imagino corresponde a Jorge Negrete, como sale en el film. Saludos a todos!

[@jesusgonzalezmartindelcamp7940]

Aclaración: No se trata de la escultura de Cuitláhuac, es la escultura de Cuauhtémoc, aunque en la base se mencionan a Cuitláhuac, Coanacoch y otros nobles aztecas.

[@CM30-e1q]

So beautiful! I showed this film to my dad we recognize the main avenue is Paseo de la Reforma, still a beautiful avenue to this days. Also the publishing posters were all painted by hand! So beautiful thanks

[@phil2u48]

I recognize Reforma also, though most of those buildings disappeared in the tragedy of 1985 if not earlier. I was there a few years ago (2017) during another but much less powerful earthquake when buildings collapsed. It is terrifying. Fortunately today, the large structures are fortified and resilient.

[@Hao06]

Muy sorprendido de todos los edificios que aún existen hoy en día. Que ciudad tan única e histórica.

[@Neogarcilaso]

×2. Y, ahora con el Presidente AMLO, que se está restaurando mucho la Capital... 💗

[@bernacasa8677]

@@Neogarcilaso Te salió lo solovino NI HABLAR

[@Hao06]

@@Neogarcilaso No mames jajaja el metro cayendose a pedazos.

[@gustavoquintela7526]

@@Hao06 solo conocen ese pinche argumento jajajja

[@CarlosRojasOficial]

Yo estoy sorprendido de ver todos los edificios que ya no existen. Hoy vemos puras torres que le han quitado la personalidad al Paseo de la Reforma. Ya quisiera ver qué dirían los parisinos si de repente demolieran la arquitectura original de los Campos Elíseos para elevar rascacielos.

[@Tatseryu27]

Qué bella la Ciudad de México. Ver la ciudad de esa época a color me hace sentir que no fue hace tanto tiempo que se tomó esa cinta. Me hace sentir nostalgia de un tiempo que nunca viví.

[@adelaluz]

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[@juventusventuno9213]

I’ve always wanted to visit Mexico City. What a beautiful and rich city it was in this film.

[@CJPeiper13]

It's amazing how clean city streets were back then.

[@mando074]

And smooth! So smooth!

[@900108Chale]

That Street Av. Juarez has Always been quite clean and smooth. It's one of Mexico City's most representative Avenues.

[@nehuge]

So what changed?

[@funkyfurballs1078]

@@nehuge Accountability and corruption! State and local govs (like CA), spending the money allocated for street repairs... also paving standards are not enforced, with all the cable and utility companies tearing up the roads.

[@900108Chale]

@@nehuge Depends when and what... 1. 1940s-1960s: The "Mexican Economic Miracle" Hence why you see so much construction on this video (1940-1960). Mexico profited heavily in WWII as a supplier of goods to the US & allies: textiles, rubber, food, small arms AND hemp (marihuana; the origins of Mexico's drug trafficking history). This lasted until the late 60s, BUT mostly for the wealthy and well connected. 2. 1970s The Government realizes Mexico is out of steam so, they start subsidizing everything even bread, grain and tortillas in an effort to maintain the "well being". And closes its borders hoping to kickstart "self-sufficiency". It utterly fails since Mexico didn't even produce key machinery for construction (e.g. Caterpillar) so generating Tech was impossible. HUGE currency depreciation. Government starts borrowing like mad since money loans were cheap (abundance of funds worldwide during the Oil Crisis of the 70s). HOPING to find more oil and pay with it. 3. 1980s Finally they discover more oil (with the help of Haliburton called Zapata Oil back then: Bush family; which limited profits heavily due to Unofficial ILLEGAL loyalties). BUT the president thinking he is the leader of America's Saudi Arabia keeps on borrowing and spending like a fool. It backfires terribly, he devalues the currency once again and the excess of badly invested borrowed funds pushes the country into hyperinflation... In order to meet loan payments, he's forced to nationalize Mexico's banks to gain access to their cash. 4. Late 1980s, the final blow to Mexico's economy comes in the form of an earthquake which devastates the Economy. 25% of Mexico's GDP is based in Mexico City, an earthquake took that away in "one shake". *Same as Chernobyl where a nuclear reactor destroyed the USSR, an earthquake demolished Mexico...* 5. Mexico finally opens up to World Trade and spearheads Globalization (after the Asians). It starts recovering the Chinese way: producing basic goods for the US market. But hyperinflation prevails, a very convenient way to export cheap goods but impoverishing people even further (besides the wealthy and well connected as was the norm). 6. 1990s. The final blow before the "New Mexican Miracle" emerged , another president decides he will kickstart our economy (again) and convinces Mexicans they'll soon join the "Developed World", does so by lying his way through his regime, first renegotiates existing loans than after acquiring credence proceeds to take loans like a fool and wasting whatever funds we had... Once again betting on oil reserves. *He became the world's beloved example of economic reform: big friend of Clinton, Mulroney, Thatcher and all the "great ones" of the time: their posterchild of "the future."* All what the did is buy support by selling government enterprises for cheap to his friends and allies hence creating a false image of "economic growth". This is where his biggest friend *Carlos Slim* build his empire, he paid almost $0.00 for acquiring his stronghold: Telmex. 7. 2000s. Mexico finally realizes the only way out is to work, let private enterprise free and AVOID foreign loans if possible . Fiscal discipline and non dependence of varying oil revenues becomes the norm. *So finally after 40 years of fool leaders AND pampered lazy abusive often subsidized tycoons, Mexico seems to have found a path...* *Corruption HAS ALWAYS been big in Mexico BUT it's as OLD as the Spanish Conquest. It has AWAYS been part of the system. Aztecs were as corrupt as it comes.* It represents some 20-25% of the economy BUT in Asia and some other countries Corruption is ALSO part of the system: USA, Canada, UK, Spain, France, Russia, China, etc. The only difference it's that Mexicans do it "in your face" while the other countries use "lobbying". Germany has big corruption issues (check Dieselgate), BUT that gov-industry marriage (established in the 1930s by Adolf's regime) is so close that it's hard to distinguish between "policies" and "favors". *By now Mexico climbed BACK to being the 12th to 15th largest Economy of the World, depending on how you measure it.* Bigger than Corea, Canada, Italy, Australia... So the country finally seems to be on he right path.

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[@nurpoxdandthecollector9027]

where do you find the recordings?

[@ΔημήτρηςΓαβαλάς]

Your channel is amazing to travel into the past σε ευχαριστώ.

[@NickName-ms3zc]

Before litter bugs obviously

[@gloriadiaz11]

Felicidades por tu trabajo 👏👏👏

[@13зимородок]

мехико сити, это столица страны мексика или штат сша?

[@Angelica71771]

I've seen a lot of cool channels here on KZbin but this channel is AMAZING!!! I absolutely love looking back in time. How does anyone even have all this footage?!!

[@ErikBreivik]

I wonder the same…how is it that this footage and so many others like it on youtube, even exist? Time travelers? Could it possibly be? The truth is out there.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Looks like this was filmed in pretty ritzy parts of Mexico City! Nice cars (some Buicks and Cadillacs) and apartments. There's a broken down, 1940s prewar Hudson with its hood up at 7:56. A vintage streetcar car with a Coca-Cola ad on the back at 8:19. Thanks for sharing!

[@paulmaudlin7651]

Good catch...throw to second... SAFE !!!!

[@900108Chale]

That's downtown Mexico City. What you see are mostly middle class Mexicans enjoying the WWII bounty Mexico gained as a goods and small arms supplier of the allies during the war... It was called *"The Mexican Miracle"* which lasted until the mid 60s...

[@KingIvanFilms]

@@900108Chale Mexican citizen here. No, it’s not downtown. Is the Avenida Reforma, until today, one of the richest parts of Mexico City.

[@egmjag]

Marvelous! My dad always tells me when he visited Mexico City in the early 60s how enchanting and beautiful it was. He especially remembers the magical atmosphere he felt as he saw the view outside from his room after he took a bath in a very nice hotel. Unfortunately I was born too late because I first saw and experienced Mezico City in 1980. Sure, it was fun and exciting as a preteen but my brother and I were robbed by a few guys years later in 1985. It didn’t sour my experiences though. I just wish I had visited Mexico City during a time when decency, moral values, and sharp, modest dress standards were standard.

[@RafaelGomar]

Mexico City is much safer now than in the 80's, has a great gastronomy, cultural sites and interesting places: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIaukn6Vd7ynjdU

[@eric.7311]

By the 80s Mexico was selling off it’s nationalized industries to government officials or other already wealthy people in order to join NAFTA (now the USMCA). In the 60s though, things were more stable, though the government (PRI) held a lot of power and had no accountability whatsoever. Once the PRI was defeated in their elections, the nation had to deal with all of the problems that they helped created, including the ongoing drug wars. I just hope that Mexico is just able to become a more stable democracy, purge corruption and issues plaguing the country so that it can become a nation that it always deserved to be after so many centuries of subjugation under so many nations, including itself.

[@axelaguirre5014]

Now at days we are having a second golden age, come visit

[@egmjag]

@@axelaguirre5014 How about the cartels? If they're the only ones with guns besides the police, I wouldn't want to take my chances. In that case I'm not much better off being in L.A. or any leftist CA utopia like💩Francisco.

[@JorgeASantana9023]

@@axelaguirre5014 jajajajaja edad de oro igual a más pobreza que nunca con el gobierno actual.

[@smuggledaudio6121]

Aside from the older cars and the cleaner streets, Mexico City still looks like this. Unlike the U.S they don’t destroy old buildings so you can still see old european style architecture

[@Tiqerboy]

I would have thought most of it was destroyed in the 1985 earthquake. Good to hear that there's a fair bit of it left.

[@900108Chale]

*Actually this movie is witness to the first Huge destruction of the city...* Hence why so much construction. The postwar Mexican Boom wanted to do away with the old Mexico, and bring in "functional architecture" for a modern City. Doing away with the hundreds of mansions and estates which were located on Av Reforma (2nd. part of the video). *What once was called the City of Palaces.* Then became this: multifamily 4-8 story high urban blocks in downtown. It wasn't until later (1960s) that authorities stepped in to protect classic buildings...

[@atrax2888]

Nope, the whole road at 4:00 today is full of modern skycrapers

[@atrax2888]

Google paseo de la reforma

[@presidentkiller]

Most of the buildings in the video, specially the palace-like structures no longer exist. They were replaced by ugly "modern" buildings in the late 1940s all the way to the 1970s and most of them didn't even survive the 1957 or 1985 earthquakes. They've been replaced by yet more modern skyscrapers, but nothing compared to the beautiful late 1890s and early 1900s architecture that was so savagely destroyed in the name of progress.

[@900108Chale]

*Mexico City, 1945* *Part 1:* Filmed on Av. Juarez, once the city's most important Av. 0:05 *Corona Beer* sign, co. established in 1925. Despite it's worldwide fame, Corona Beer has never been Mexico's best. For a longtime, it was the beer of the masses NOT ingested by the "well to do". 0:05 Orange building is *Mexico's Central Bank* aka Banco de México. To the left, behind those two sculptures is the "Palacio de Bellas Artes", Mexico's historical "Fine Arts Concert Hall" a gorgeous building, too bad they didn't film it. 0:27 To the left, those trees mark the South East corner of the "Alameda Central" Park, a historical park dated back to the Spanish Occupation. *_It used to be fenced, and reserved ONLY to the Wealthy._* 0:35 On the right, *"Cine Alameda"* Once Mexico's landmark cinema. On top of the sign it is the logo (diamond shaped figurine) for *"Chocolates Larin"* famous (even today) for their Kit Kat inspired candies. 1:19 Round squared Building Complex to the right: *Hotel del Prado" in it's finishing stages (1948). Mexico City's most luxurious hotel for decades to come. Until the *earthquake of 1985* destroyed it, taking the lives of hundreds of tourists in it's "downfall". 1:30 *"Telefonica Mexicana"* the privately owned ancestor of TelMex (Teléfonos de México) which was later nationalized and then sold to *Carlos Slim* making him one of the wealthiest men alive today... 1:36 Left, "Haste" and "Timex" watches were used by most Mexicans back in the day... 1:49 *Motorcycle "Transit Cop"* nicknamed "the Tamarinds" for their tamarind colored uniforms. _Many of these Harley Davison bikes were gifted by the US government to Mexico._ 1:54 *"El Caballito" Sculpture* (the Horsey), honoring Spanish Monarch Carlos IV. The last monarch before Mexico gained it's independence (early 1800s). *Part 2:* 1:58 *Mexico City's most iconic avenue: Avenida Reforma or Paseo de la Reforma.* Build in the mid 1800s for Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, to link his castle to downtown Mexico City. Mexico's Elite once lived on this avenue. Hence why the city was once called. _"the City of Palaces"._ 2:47 *"el ángel de la Libertad"* aka "Angel of Liberty," Mexico's equivalent of the Statue of Liberty build to honor Mexico's independence. 4:34 Those figures you see on the sidewalk are hundreds of "Mexican heroes" who contributed to Mexico's modern history, Reforma Ave. is packed with such characters. 5:41 "Cuiltlahuac Monument" this was the last Aztec emperor before the Spanish took over. 5:41 This marks the juncture between Mexico's City most important avenues: Reforma and Insurgentes. Once the "two Axis" of the city... 5:43 *Pemex Gas Station,* (Petróleos de México) this specific gas station was Mexico's pride since it represented the ability of Mexicans to get rid of foreign intruders who had taken over the oil business... 6:08 This is where the House of the Senate stands today. 6:56 *The hated Statue of Cristopher Columbus* sabotaged and paint smeared through centuries... Even today the authorities don't know what to do with it. It was taken down for "refurbishing works" in 2019, but authorities are hesitant to put it back up... _They're currently looking for something to replace it._ 7:21 *Mexico rebuilding for the Future: So much construction!* You're witnessing the beginning of the "Mexican Economic Miracle", Mexico profited heavily on WWII as a goods (food, textiles, rubber, oil, etc.) and smaller weapons supplier to the US & allies. *(Don't forget all the Marihuana, the US Army was importing for their troops...).* This boom lasted some 30 years then Mexico went bust. 7:21 *The old Palaces on Av. Reforma* started to get replaced by office and apartment buildings in mass "modernizing" the whole city. 7:48 *COMEX Paint* Mexico's largest paint producer, one of the country's top cos onwed by PPG now.. 8:07 *Canaima Rum* once huge in Mexico, bigger than Baccardi Rum. 9:41 Current *Mexican Stock Exchange* location. 9:49 *Speed Limit Sign:* Cars 50k (km/h) or 31 mph, Buses 30k (km/h) or 19mph, and Trucks are forbitten. 10:13 *Current US Embassy* where that 4 floor squared building stood (looks like an period school) is where the curren US embassy stands. _Soon to be vacated..._

[@Calixto96]

Woah, you’re so knowledgeable about Mexico’s history. Thank you! If I may, how do you know so much about all of this?

[@gustavotrevizo6957]

Very good job 👏 👍

[@ibeatasthma]

thank you so much for the knowledge

[@Luiscartoonist]

Some minor mistakes, but grateful for your attention to detail.

[@mauriciofigueroa-cz4hl]

8:07 That ad is not from Canaima Run, it is from a movie called "Canaima" from the novel written by Romulo Gallegos and starring Jorge Negrete.

[@IvanSalcedoMx]

En esos tiempos, debió ser impactante para los que venían de otros lados ver la CDMX, porque incluso ciudades grandes hoy como Guadalajara, Monterrey o Puebla todavía eran muy pequeñas comparadas con esto que vemos. Aquí en Guadalajara "avenidas" prácticamente solas, lugares donde trabajo y vivo literal no había nada, etc. Aquí ya se veía en el "monstruote" de ciudad en que se iba a convertir. Al parecer vivir ahí en ese tiempo era placentero.

[@voit4090]

Dependde mucho de tu contexto en la época. Mis dos abuelas fueron niñas en esa época y cuentan distintas anécdotas, una cerca de La Raza y la otra en Clavería. Recuerdan bonito la alameda y Chapultepec pero lo demás es según tus recursos.

[@Neogarcilaso]

Siempre es y será placentero vivir aquí, y siempre impactará a todo viajero, nacional y mundial.., y aun a los de Gdl., Pue., y Mty... Con todo respeto...

[@carlosandresmunozalatorre8049]

La Ciudad de Mexico originalmente abarcaba lo que es el centro historico y tlatelolco...lo demas no existia era baldio no habia nada.....coyoacan era un pueblo aparte

[@venanciotochella6181]

Yo no conozco la Cdmx, soy de guanatos, pero solo con ver videos actuales se ve la gran diferencia de la cdmx con cualquier otra ciudad del país. Por más que los regios y su soberbia crean que ellos son lo mejor de la creación, cuando ellos mismos salen de Mty salen de su nube de auto-engaños. La cdmx es otro pex, aunque claro no me gustaría vivir ahí, es demasiado grande y caótica, además de que por lo mismo que hay millones de personas pues la misma gente se vuelve más mañosa y tranza, que es la fama que tienen los shilangos en todo el país xD. De igual forma es como toda ciudad, tiene sus zonas chidas y sus barrios pobres, pero en general se ve que es otro show comparada con Gdl o Mty.

[@e3724]

​@@venanciotochella6181cuántas veces es mas grande ciudad de México que guadalajara?

[@chanclie]

Amazing job!! Just for the record, there is a publicity banner in the second 0:53, announcing a movie called "El recuerdo de aquella noche", that movie came on november 2nd year 1945. So, I guess the film was taken between the year 1945 and 1946.

[@juanbrujo8233]

que video tan precioso y con gran calidad, en ese año nació mi papá y acaba de fallecer hace unos meses, pero me da un sentimiento indescriptible el saber que el en ese momento de las tomas ya existía y era un bebé sin imaginar la larga y buena vida que le deparaba.

[@adelaluz]

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[@Guadalupefan]

Yo entré a ver el video también pensando en mi papá, que murió hace 9 años, y en ese video sería un niño, pues nació en 1937. Qué hermosa es la ciudad monstruo. Saludos y lo siento muchísimo por su padre 🌱

[@billace90]

This was probably filmed in 1946. For classic Mexican movie buffs: At 1:44 we see to the left two huge cinema posters one of them referring to Flor de Durazno (1945), starring David Silva, Esther Fernández. And side by side La Rosa del Caribe with Katy Jurado (1946), both Mexican productions, when the golden age of Mexican cinema. And at 8:20 we see another huge billboard announcing the movie Canaima with Jorge Negrete filmed in 1945.

[@danielbean868]

Thanks for posting this! My mother was born in Mexico City in 1946.

[@900108Chale]

*Or late summer 1945...*

[@cehoga]

Yes probably late january 1946 0:52 La Barraca premiered 27 July 1945 0:54 El Recuerdo de Aquélla Noche premiared 2 november 1945 1:41 La Rosa del Caribe premiered 10 january 1946 1:43 Flor de Durazno premiered 8 September 1945 8:06 Canaima premiered 4 october 1945

[@shulkeryang9824]

Que buenos ojos tienes bro what good eyes you have bro

[@chehuicho]

1945

[@JorgeLuisco75]

Me gusta ver cómo eran los vehículos en ese tiempo, las decoraciones públicas, los edificios, el estilo de la ropa 😮😮 incluso la tranquilidad que se ve en todo el video🎉 felicidades por remasterizar este video y pedazo de historia ❤

[@adelaluz]

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[@mando074]

So beautiful. A lot of those trees are still there today. 🌳

[@SovietDog123]

That looks like a european city like Paris! Greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽

[@oscaribarra7241]

In fact, that's how it is... at the end of the 19th century, President Porfirio Diaz ordered the construction of some parts of the city as shown, following the French style.

[@DarkCornerOfTheSpace]

@@oscaribarra7241 Right. In additon, before Porfirio Diaz, Paseo de la Reforma (the avenue in the video) was designed at the behest of Emperor Maximilian by Ferdinand von Rosenzweig during the era of the Second Mexican Empire and modeled after the great boulevards of Europe, such as the Ringstraße in Vienna and the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

[@jesusflores2324]

No response lol viva los mexicas....viva Guadalajara

[@juanelizondo16]

Ahora mucho ambulante y pobreza

[@SovietDog123]

@@juanelizondo16 lastima, y pensar que era una ciudad tan linda 😿

[@arjivar]

The trees that adorn this avenue are impressive.

[@sonnycorleone2602]

Nass, I love your uploads they are AMAZING & PRICELESS ! Beautiful 1940's scenes ! WOAH! at 2:23 watch out for the Mother and her baby! The car on 2:35 left is Gorgeous with the white walled wheels to boot ! I have been to Mexico as a kid in the 1970's but less scenic part. LOL. Thank's for another smashing upload !

[@EmilyTienne]

Beautiful, world class city.

[@Mercy384]

was

[@sunsetdesign8415]

Where are You from world clases Beauty?

[@ltahoe9257]

​@@Mercy384everywhere *was*

[@jeffwvu4602]

Ask yourself why it was nice in the 1940s than in 2023.

[@EmilyTienne]

@@jeffwvu4602 For one thing, this is a propaganda piece. The photographer is being paid to film highlights of the city only.

[@rbarajas86]

My grandparents were born in Mexico city in the 1940s! Ty for this one! 🙏🏼

[@unknownwolf4046]

Man time sure has flyby fast was this before Ww2

[@latkagravas5142]

@@unknownwolf4046 That was during the Ww2.

[@youwot2430]

no no you're both wrong that is was after the ww2

[@adelaluz]

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[@Tormentor100]

Paseo de la Reforma looks so clean!! Thanks for sharing this video 🙏 great work

[@adelaluz]

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[@stischer47]

Every summer a little after this my aunt and uncle from around Houston would drive down to Mexico City for vacation. They would return with photos and tales about how beautiful the city was. Now I know why.

[@deadpul1984]

¡Asombroso! esa era la ciudad en la época de varias películas de Pedro Infante, TinTan, etc. Da una sensación tan extraña verla en semejante calidad, nitidez y fluidez, como que fuera de hace unos días, pero es de hace muchos años y mi cerebro se confunde y es extraño. ¡Asombroso!

[@fernandom6724]

imaginense a todos los artistas extranjeros que emigraban a Mexico para hacer carrera en la llamada Epoca de Oro del Cine Mexicano en la decada de los 1940's con razon se nacionalizaban mexicanos y se quedaron a hacer raices en Mexico, y como veian la Ciudad De Mexico en aquel entonces . ?...

[@adelaluz]

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[@marleenscholz4386]

The roads there are very long. I love these many trees in the streets

[@latinluis69]

Que desprotegidos se ven los peatones al no existir banqueta central en reforma. Muy bonito e ilustrativo video.

[@Alex-966]

Eso fue en esos años, ahora ya existen esas banquetas que dividen el paso peatonal de vehículos y gente que puede cruzar tranquilamente.

[@1940limited]

I don' 'know who shot all the footage of street scenes in various cities but I sure am glad he did. Looks like 46-7-8 to me and a nice place to visit.I like the pedestrians in the middle of the street with no protection from errant automobiles. We didn't worry about stuff like that back then. We did all right.

[@900108Chale]

1945 post war boom, hence constructions all over...

[@WeLoveRankings]

I experience a strange sensation when observing the crowd. A moment of their lives is immortalized forever, and my eyes behold what those same people experienced in their existence. They have all departed now, and the vehicles that used to traverse have completely disappeared. Only the visual memory remains, stored in this video. It makes me reflect that, just as I visualize all these people, someday future generations will perceive us as a mere remembrance of an extinct era.

[@davidraf3067]

Minute 1.43 Rosa del Caribe film 1946 and Flor de durazno film 1945. So many and beautiful Art Deco buildings. And at the end some of the last french 1900 palaces over Reforma Avenue. Thank you very much for this incredible video.

[@dr.fernandodiezgarciaalons305]

Reforma, siempre majestuosa. que buen video. Saludos cordiales.

[@Jesvox1234]

beautiful and classic Mexico before cartels and violence took over, ty for this one bud.

[@chibiromano5631]

This was Mexico when it was still socialist. You mean before the Neo Liberals took over. Cartels of sinaloa funded by the dea or do you mean banking cartels funded by the harvard/chicago school think tank groups?

[@igot40movies]

Mexico city is still an amazing place, still beautiful as well

[@sergiomiranda3780]

Igual que EEUU y el fentalino 😢

[@juancarlosdelgadillosalas1998]

Great Historic Film! It can be dated in 1945, thanks to the movie advertising (second: 0:53) "El recuerdo de aquella noche" (Memory of that night) of mexican actor Emilio Tuero. Some of the buildings in the right sidewalk and the magnificent "Regis Hotel" seen in the left sidewalk in minute 1:23, were destroyed, 40 years later by the September 19th, 1985 earthquake. There is even a sadly notorious photograph of that terrible day in 1985, that shows the same clock on the building next to the Hotel Regis, on the left in the image (minute 1:29) that stopped at the time the earthquake hit the city, and the Hotel, with occupants inside, collapsed, at 7:19 am. Great historic value for the memory of the City and its inhabitants. Thank you.

[@bartonlee3594]

Beautiful drive down Avenida Reforma. Monument to Cuauhtémoc at the intersection of Avenida de los Insurgentes and Reforma is at 5:40 .

[@Shadow_of_Yharnam]

This is awesome. Thank you for uploading this.

[@brianhemstreet9267]

wonderful, as usual. It is amazing how people walked in a lane between the car lanes...in limbo as they try to cross the street...those ladies at 3:40...for all we know they might still be there...

[@KylianDash]

I hope u don't mind if I use this footage for a Caifanes' video, it's awesome Thanks a lot for this❤❤ I'll share your channel

[@IanV10]

I love how it was a free for all in the streets while driving 🤣🤣🤣 and also thanks for the videos!

[@Unknown-uk7nk]

Its still like that today! Lol all you need is a working horn and a middle finger 😊

[@susanfarley1332]

Any chance of a video taken during the 1950's and 1960's? I lived there in the late 50's and early 60's and love to see that again. Or a video of all the beautiful monuments and statues that are everywhere. I loved those when I was a kid.

[@MrAlxrose]

Cómo me fascinan estos vídeos, hacen que me transporte a ese pasado que no conocí, pero que me intriga y me parece maravilloso conocer mas de nuestra ciudad y su historia, que increíble poder tener la oportunidad de ver estás imágenes y viajar en el tiempo

[@900108Chale]

*"Mexico rebuilding for the Future" So much construction! LATE 1940s.* This was the first time (out of 4) that Mexico City was half "refurbished". _But probably the most hurtful..._ *_You're witnessing the beginning of the "Mexican Economic Miracle"_* Mexico profited heavily on WWII as a goods (food, textiles, rubber, oil, etc.) and smaller weapons supplier to the US & allies. *(Don't forget Marihuana, called hemp back then, the US Army was importing for their troops...).* This boom lasted some 30 years, then Mexico went bust (1980s). On this occasion, the once called *"City of Palaces"* gave way to a _"functional modern city."_ On Reforma (2nd. Part) all those new white squared buildings replaced *beautiful classic Mansions* built in the 1800s. *It was a true massacre of classic architecture.* Few were left, as historical building protection laws were NOT enforced until the 1970s. _More comments on my other post..._

[@igar42herm42]

Good. May more of European architecture disappear/be locked in some museum. European architecture is overplayed. You see the old same buildings everywhere... Boring!

[@gadslca]

Una verdadera joya este video!

[@MHCP]

La época de posguerra, donde la Ciudad de México comenzaba a experimentar un carácter cosmopólita y mucha expansión demográfica debido a la industrialización y los estímulos fiscales durante la II guerra mundial. Aquí es donde se marcaría el inicio del "milagro mexicano"

[@carlosgrey37]

Todavía no empezaba la segunda guerra

[@raulromero5300]

​@@carlosgrey37séptimo de 1939 inicia la guerra🎭🎭🎭

[@georginamendez4076]

Que joya de video,mil gracias por compartir,fue la mejor forma de meternos a una maquina del tiempo 😊

[@haraldh.8223]

Tolle Aufnahmen von Mexico als die Stadt noch nicht so überbevölkert war...

[@900108Chale]

4.5 Millionen damals vs. 21 heute...

[@mrtrollnator123]

@@900108Chale my god...

[@universojuanluis12]

Even though with over 20 million people living in that city! Still you can see and visit a lot of beautiful places and museums!!

[@ElTropitronic]

For those interested in Genealogy, it could be interesting to research who owned the license plates "045-76" in Mexico City (4:04). Some family would be surprised to find this clip from 1946.

[@RICKY972100]

Woooow que hermoso video, desde Juárez, la Alameda, el cine Alameda, el Caballito, se ve un pedacito de la casa de los Limantour.... ida y vuelta del Paseo de la Reforma, se distinguen casas de la era porfiriana y la mayoría de estilo Art Deco, elegantísimo, los automóviles que eran amplios y de una laminación excelente.....

[@Sereno44]

I just saw a title of a movie and seems that this short film is from 1945. It is very interesting the city and way the Mexicans used to drive in those times.

[@JoseLuisGarcia-wl6vo]

Wow, I was born in 1964 in Mexico City and remember a lot of buildings in this reel, of course before de 1985 earth quake. Thanks

[@mejsjalv]

Qué bonito recorrido, y se ve impecable la calle, todo muy limpio. Y me gusta cuando le agregan color a las cosas filmadas en B/N y hacen que se vea casi como algo grabado ayer.

[@MrSupernova111]

Beautiful! Thank you!

[@amparogarcia1164]

Gracias por tan hermoso video, y por compartirlo. Hermosa Cdmx !!!!😊

[@mandocool]

Very cool! Love to see the clothes

[@nurpoxdandthecollector9027]

friend...I didn't think that we are an inferior race...we only speak Spanish...

[@mandocool]

@@nurpoxdandthecollector9027 But you said that in English.

[@nurpoxdandthecollector9027]

@@mandocool I write like this so that you understand me :/

[@mandocool]

@@nurpoxdandthecollector9027 Piensa en mí cuando mires el cielo nocturno

[@astrofabio68]

@@nurpoxdandthecollector9027 le podés escribir en español y que traduzca o que aprenda

[@JPee-x4you]

I get tired real easily on car rides. Great job as usual. Thanx again👌

[@arturoayala6362]

Se dan cuenta que la gente vestía mucho mejor que ahora y que casi no había personas obesas?

[@aktchungrabanio6467]

exacto la vida era mas bella

[@venanciotochella6181]

Soy fan de ver fotos y videos antiguos de todo el mundo, y esa es la característica que más me gusta, la gente antes era super elegante, y no solo en su vestir, en sus valores morales y su forma de hablar tan correcta. La sociedad ha venido en una decadencia tremenda en todos los aspectos: *1- Vestimenta:* Todos elegantes y pulcros. Ahora parece competencia de haber quién se viste peor, parecen payasos(as) con sus jeans rotos, hiper entallados, las mujeres semi-desnudas. *2-* El porte:* Ahora todos llenos dr tatuajes y argollas por todo el cuerpo. Peinados exóticos. *3-* Lenguaje:* Hablaban con propiedad y educacion. Hoy puro "wey wey wey wey wey wey... No mmes, no mmes, no mmes... Pndeja pndejo pndeja" etc etc. *4- El respeto a los adultos:* Hoy los adultos le temen a los jóvenes, empezando por los padres alcahuetes con sus hijitos.

[@JoseAlbertoGarciagonzale-ku8jg]

Sobrepoblación y pobreza

[@hmtnhk]

What you do with these movies is outstanding!!!

[@victorm777ify]

Gracias a esta remasterizacion y color nos damos cuenta que el mundo siempre ha sido igual. Solo que gracias al material dañado nos hacen pensar las cosas diferentes

[@zzzmylife]

Con solo pensar que el pasado no es blanco y negro sino a todo color ya te podés hacer una idea e imaginàrtelo como es ahora en la actualidad...

[@pauleypavillion6088]

This is life almost 80 years ago and vast majority of the adults are either dead or very elderly (90's and above) The children are in their 80's.

[@octaviomarquez9942]

Impresionante ver cómo se conservan aún muchas jardineras y monumentos actualmente en Reforma ,... Ver la famosa Glorieta de la Palma en su esplendor fabuloso !! Gracias NASS 😊☺️

[@germangarcia8497]

great job in colorized this picturade

[@edmendiola3330]

Nice , clean , beautiful city .......its amazing

[@elviramcintosh9878]

Wow! This old film leaves Google maps far behind. Thank you for sharing, It's a beautiful time capsule of Paseo de la Alameda before subsequent earthquakes flattened the beautiful buildings.

[@Jorge0012]

It's always nice to be able to look back at the past. This time in Mexico City most likely...

[@jarriolag1967]

Fantastic. I was born there, near the buildings on the left side minute 3:04

[@TheOpusChristi]

¡Qué valioso documento! Muchas gracias-

[@robertogomezs2705]

Excelente video. la población en 1940 era de 1 millon y 400 mil habitantes aproximadamente. Y ahora 2023?

[@leosaura1993]

Beautiful Mexico City was beautiful in the 1940s thanks for posting it.

[@alanvanlandschoot4001]

I live p/t in Mexico City. The city is much more pedestrian-friendly now; ie crosswalks, safe medians on streets.

[@Josephlunar824]

Beautiful 🤩🇲🇽

[@israelwero7959]

Limpieza, orden, elegancia, cielo azul hermosa mi ciudad

[@juanmanuelromanhuerta3439]

Gracias por compartir esté video tan bonito me encantó ver cómo era mi ciudad en esos años!??

[@ElJLuigi]

Muchos arboles eso es lo que necesita la Ciudad de México, ya que hay muy pocos.

[@edgarpoinsot5502]

1a parte: Ya hay demasiados, y - muy muy malos -. Los eucaliptos, pinos australianos y fresnos, dada su baja calidad visual, no ayudan a que la CDMX realmente se vea como una - ciudad de primer mundo -. En las avenidas anchas, sean baquetas o camellones, es común ver el patético alineamiento de árboles disparejos, uno muy alto de una especie, el siguiente muy chaparro y de otra especie, el que sigue torcido del tronco e inclinado hacia la calle o banqueta, el siguiente enfermo a medio morir, el siguiente totalmente muerto,... y así consecutivamente, y eso ocurre incluso en las zonas mas elegantes y caras. Es el corrupto-hipócrita resultado de no hacer las cosas bien y no querer gastar mas recurriendo a gente especialista. 2a parte: El centro histórico antiguo de la CDMX y Zócalo son TOTALMENTE incompatibles con los árboles. A que rata de albañal del municipio se le habrá ocurrido que la piedra tezontle roja "va bien" con la fronda verde de un árbol que parece un denso brocolí, y que muchos iguales en conjunto tapan las fachadas coloniales y porfirianas. Aparte, las antes bellas perspectivas urbanas a lo largo de la calles, quedaron totalmente bloqueadas en su otrora bella esencia urbana europea. Ejemplo práctico: En París, la ciudad mas arbolada del mundo, sólo hay árboles en avenidas, boulevares y parques, no en calles. El zócalo capitalino lucía en su máximo esplendor arquitectónico - cuando no había árboles en ningún ángulo de la inmensa plaza. Tengo 63 y se bien de lo que hablo. Los árboles de buena calidad quedan muy bien en anchas avenidas, ya sean con anchas banquetas o anchos camellones, también en parques, plazas y zonas suburbanas.

[@carlosgrey37]

Pues hay más gente que querías

[@edgarpoinsot5502]

@@carlosgrey37 No se trata de que haya mas árboles de cualquier tipo, y sólo por razones ecológicas y porque haya mas gente en la ciudad. Sembrar arboledas y bosques en las afueras ayudaría mucho en ese aspecto (el oxigeno que generan se corre también a las ciudades). De lo que se trata es que los árboles en la CDMX realmente sean de gran calidad (aunque cuesten mucho en su mantenimiento) y ayuden a embellecerla de verdad y la dignifiquen al máximo, cosa que a todas luces no ocurre demasiado, excepto quizás en Reforma. Y compare mentalmente esta bella avenida (sólo en sus árboles) con las avenidas de zonas populares, y sabrá a lo que me refiero. Nuestra ciudad se merece algo mucho mejor, pero la despreciable corrupción y mezquindad no lo permiten.

[@mayramurillo4932]

Cuando podias salir sin problema sobre insurgentes avenida Buen trabajo

[@Lauratejeda1978]

En esos años era una ciudad cívica y civilidada la cuidad de México! No lo que es ahora, muy moderna!! Pero sin nada de civismo!

[@richterbelmont857]

Igual a tu fotiko, y todo involuciono a lo que conocemos hoy, gracias a la derrota mundial de 1945 😔

[@voit4090]

Hasta que recordamos a Goyo Cárdenas o como Los Olvidados era tan costumbrista

[@leonciohernandez]

Nomas estan sacando una parte de la ciudad aqui no aparece tepito o iztapalapa

[@Neogarcilaso]

@@leonciohernandez 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@deltharion]

Oh la ironía

[@rorrolfogomez9778]

2:40 vean la escaleras del angel, hoy dia debe tener mas de 10 escalones extras, el hundimiento de la ciudad !

[@SusieQ-]

El año en que nació mi abuela en la tlacoquemecatl del valle su barrio de juventud 😍que hermoso video .

[@UncleTyrion]

seguramente el año es 1945 ya que en el minuto 8:16 se ve un cartel de una pelicula que se estreno ese año (canaima). excelente trabajo de remasterización.

[@sarahr5513]

Very cool footage 👍👍

[@Nicolas-u1l9k]

En varias,de hecho creo que en mi vida pasada,vivi en esas época,años 20,30,40 y 50's ,me encantan esas épocas y esros videos me conectan con muchas cosas,me hubiera gustado vivir en Viena, París y desde luego la Ciudad de México,gracias por tus esptupendos videos,gran trabajo de verdad👍🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💯

[@堅実ひむら]

Reforma en partes parece congelada por el tiempo 😮se ve tan limpia, tranquila y ordenada la ciudad 😊

[@josealvarotames7074]

Fantástico que nos permitan viajar por el tiempo,gracias más registros de CDMX por favor.

[@ameliasanchezplata9944]

Hermoso súper limpio tranquilo 👍👍👏👏🙏🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

[@alkssalazar1]

Bellísimo video.. Felicitaciones y gracias por compartir... Es claro que vamos para atrás jajajaja

[@mschiffel1]

And none of these cars had A/C back in those days. It was hot AF !

[@adolfd7663]

People don't use AC regardless out here

[@outlander234]

2:23 walking with a kid casually in the middle of street

[@franciscogarcia3654]

Qué imágenes!!!! Las miro y supongo lo hermosa, limpia y segura que era la ciudad de México en los años 40s...

[@gustavoquintela7526]

la Ciudad de México sigue siendo hermosa e imponente ante cualquier ciudad del mundo.

[@MichaelWolfe1000]

Amazing... can tell every street corner... some buildings remain, others that I remember have been torn down since and others never new they existed where new buildings are now... me llamó la atención la Escuela Bancaria y Comercial ya que yo llegué a verla así... era un reto atravesar el Paseo de la Reforma sin ese camellón central.... pero aparentemente los autos eran más lentos que ahora...my city!

[@vicenteramirez9450]

Parece que no; pero como ha cambiado mi ciudad natal en tan poco tiempo ; yo conocí esos edificios y esos vehículos y ahora ya no se miran los camiones y algunos edificios; pero gracias a este video han revivido mis recuerdos.

[@aosoriog1]

thank you that you didn't use the yellow filters

[@ramur51]

Era bellísimo, nunca me imaginé. It was wonderful. I could never imagine!

[@adelaluz]

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[@manumor2270]

Estoy realmente impresionado, lo que se aprecia en el video son calles limpias, ordenadas, bonitas, sin comercio anbulante...

[@adelaluz]

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[@gushitl]

Maravilla de video, sólo encuentro una impresición el video señala que es de la ciudad de México en el año de 1940, pero se advierte (en el segundo 54) una publicidad de la pelicula "EL RECUERDO DE AQUELLA NOCHE" y dicha pelicua se estrenó en noviembre de 1945.

[@deadpul1984]

Buen observador y buen dato.

[@ersogcho]

El titulo del video no especifica esactamente de que año es este video, solo dice que es de la decada de los 40's

[@MarceloVnt]

Que hermoso video gracias por subirla gracias.

[@Leliel.]

Este video a mi no me sorprende, pero por ejemplo, pónganle un video realizado en el año presente y producido con la tecnología actual; 4K, dolby atmos, HFR, 4D a alguien de 1940 y veremos quien se caga pa'dentro y en colores. 😂😂 (maravilloso trabajo muchas gracias por el video) ❤

[@DaveDott]

According to the shadows it's about 12:00pm

[@mando074]

Speaking of that. Whoever did the light reading did a job of it. I did not see anything under or over-exposed. 🎥

[@fszocelotl]

Zenithal sun happens around may 18th and jul 25th every year.

[@carlosa9298]

I visited Mexico City a couple of yrs ago and still a beautiful happening city…this capital puts a lot of American cities to shame…

[@ChatGPT1111]

Yeah that's why half the country is moving north to the U.S. It is as beautiful as it is because of all the money migrants send back to Mexico which then winds up in the tax base.

[@igar42herm42]

@@ChatGPT1111 Haven't you been watching the news? More Americans are heading to Mexico than vice versa for the past years now. Mexico has the most American immigrants in the world. Those heading up north aren't really Mexican most of the time. Also white Americans came to Mexicans. Half of the USA was Mexico. Mexicans are native, whose ancestors roamed North America for over 13k plus years. So don't go around here pretending Europeans were in North America before Mexicans.

[@ChatGPT1111]

@@igar42herm42 you must be joking, or high, so if Mexico is so great, why don’t the immigrants stop there? Why do absolutely zero of them stop in your glorious Mexico? I guarantee you once the US becomes North Mexico, everyone will get bored with zero prosperity, 10x the murder rate, and no opportunity real fast.

[@mud616]

​@@ChatGPT1111the school shooter talking about crime

[@666-tarantino]

@@mud616 xddddddd