1930s - Street Scenes New York in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

I colorized, restored and created a sound design for this video of New York 1930s, We start on Manhattan's West Side, at 12th Avenue and 42nd Street, at the ferry terminal of the West Shore Railroad, the New York, Ontario and Western Railway, and the Weehawken Ferry. aftre we have a Crowd Scene street we can see the beautiful fashion in 30s
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: Prelinger Archives, Internet Archive
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B&W Video Source: archive.org/de...
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[@NASS_0]

Which city in the world would you like to visit in the 1930s??

[@Pozafria]

Omg Moscow pls🥺🥺🥺

[@DC-jk9ts]

Kuala Kangsar

[@IDiggSocialMedia]

New York, Chicago and maybe Montreal and Paris (I don't know much French) with a video camera.

[@lordnandor3274]

Bogota.

[@norbertroza98]

Mrągowo

[@dee2251]

I look at all those people rushing around, leading busy lives, some with children and family. Most of them are probably long gone, yet this film brings them back to life. It’s like a glimpse through the window of a Time Machine. Amazing!

[@Voltomess]

90 years ago it was recorded yeah 100% of them are dead

[@bardo0007]

@@Voltomess Maybe except for the 1 year old baby

[@tylernewton7217]

Probably?!

[@richardrichmarcleveque3607]

Same today except fashions change

[@MrDetmold]

​@@Voltomess My father has an uncle. Born in 1923 but still alive. He was at least 7 years old at the time this video was shot.

[@glencmac]

100 years ago, everyone was dressed to the nines, had a news paper under their arms and were skinny. Oh how we have fallen.

[@gustavoperez5480]

Fast food and probably the hippie druggie generation from 60's.

[@gustavoperez5480]

By the way my hair style is exactly like the man who appears at 1:12.

[@billgreen1861]

Glen Clark, I miss those days and the people, they were the same up until 1965 and then something terrible happened. . . and everything changed. -

[@jjp7022]

@@billgreen1861 the cabal took over and now they are eradicating humanity

[@deanwilletts7428]

Fantastic. Closest thing to time travel !

[@jordanscherr6699]

What I love about these videos is how little imagination it takes to make it real in your mind. The motion, shapes and concept are all there, and it makes you realize this was everyday life in another time.

[@michaelcoder9119]

That's odd to say.

[@magmajctaz1405]

Yes, and I see the past as a place that I can never visit. I can never visit the NYC of the 1930s. I can visit NYC, I can visit Europe, pretty much anywhere in the world. The only limitation is time and money. But there is not amount of time or money that would allow me to visit the past.

[@anodyne57]

No less real than the news at 7 of today. Different quality "capture" is all. People are people, now as then as 2000 years ago. Different clothing, modes of transport. Same air (more or less) same sun up above, and ground beneath their feet, etcetera, etcetera.

[@jordanscherr6699]

@@Jiminy-trx What I mean is quality. There's something a bit distant about the original capture footage. Because it's silent, colorless and low fidelity, it takes some major mental reconstruction to see it as it actually was. This video reconstruction makes that process WAAAY easier.

[@kellyv3131]

@@jordanscherr6699 Took the words out of my mouth!

[@mattwuxx3888]

My father likely wasn't even born when this was shot, and he's 87. Amazing to think of all of the lives and spirits of the people in this vid and everywhere in America/Earth that are almost all gone and the precious few that are still alive. Amazing footage and even more amazing technology that can restore moving life like this to such resolution. Bravo.

[@MarkNOTW]

Based on what I’ve read from other peoples research, this video is probably in the 1937 to 38 range

[@MyLostToys]

It's a real privilege watching and being a part of Amazing everyday live footage from early to mid 20th century, the restorations are breathtaking and very inspiring to see how our families lived in these times. Thank you Nass.

[@NASS_0]

thank's ;)

[@chrishoskins77]

I admire the style of everything in this. Everything looked so much cleaner and it appears that people had so much more self respect and class. Thank you for this :)

[@fluffy1931]

New York City’s Madison Square Garden hosted a rally to celebrate the rise of Nazism in Germany. Inside, more than 20,000 attendees raised Nazi salutes toward a 30-foot-tall portrait of George Washington flanked by swastikas. Feb 20, 1939 event-advertised on the arena’s marquee as a “Pro American Rally”-was the German American Bund .

[@marilynhudson5805]

Yes they did 💯 I love watching this video of times long gone.❤

[@mtlicq]

@@marilynhudson5805 nowadays people are worse than barnyard animals, with nose-rings and tatoos branded all over their parts, and behaviour like agitated apes.

[@maricarmengarciadieguez7550]

@@marilynhudson5805 A mi mucho, mucho.

[@SamBrickell]

Also, the street itself is clean. It's almost like the city had self respect instead of "diversity".

[@rodrigolrodrigol]

Every man wears a suit and every woman wears a nice dress.... such a classy and elegant time !

[@JudahMaccabee_]

It's likely one of the only piece of clothing in their possession.

[@savannahglebe5165]

@@JudahMaccabee_Yet it was worn like they had bought it the day before because they respected their belongings and appearance.

[@alavarees2560]

Yes! Very beautiful and everyone is so slender. Now you look - 80% are fat, in terrible "comfortable clothes".

[@marangelasp7462]

@@savannahglebe5165 Excellent comment of yours to an stupid reply from R.S

[@Thomas.Pferns]

And everyone is thinking that colored people are on the same level as animals. Classy?

[@Bnguyen276]

Rip to every single person in this video. Great video

[@stefanschz7589]

oh man this statement is so true sadly :/

[@noaerrr]

There were a lot of kids at one point, at least one of them are probably still alive

[@RickyIcecubes]

Yeah, it's so heavy watching this video and realizing that every single person in it is now dead; with most of them been gone for decades.

[@DragonmasterAlex]

RIP to all of us eventually. People in the year 2100 will see our old posts and old tiktoks and instagrams and youtubes and think the same thing.............

[@RickyIcecubes]

@@DragonmasterAlex No, they'll see us for the idiots that we are.

[@ShawnC.T.]

Notice how many are hurried, but polite about it, classy. When they look into the camera, it gives off an illusion that they can see you, these old restored videos always blow my mind, placing me in a period of time I wasn't alive for to experience it...🙂

[@cryaboutit69]

Do you ever feel like your DNA or cells can feel them? Like a miniscule part of you can empathize? There's not many words for it but it feels universal.

[@ShawnC.T.]

Sure, but we all will be the same, you live/lived when you live/lived, and eventually, you're gone. The spirit of everyone will remain for infinity, and photos/videos of the deceased, stirs those spirits...

[@lucasw2880]

@@ShawnC.T. When I see a graveyard I think about how all those people buried there once had lives, they raised kids, purchased cars, had a job, and now they are gone. It tells me that you don't have a lot of time on this earth, and to enjoy it while you're here. Because (as dark as it may seem), you will be there in the cemetery with them one day. And to me, that is some deep motivation to enjoy the time you have, because you never know how much time you have.

[@FrankBrennosTheGreatest]

"When they look into the camera, it gives off an illusion that they can see you" That's because they're looking at a very real person: the cameraman.

[@guest6398]

Except for that guy in the white undershirt. He was definitely up to no good.

[@Sambuca25]

To think they had absolutely no idea in a hundred years time that over half a million people would be watching them on a magical device that fits in their pockets.

[@jms4406]

Tesla knew lol

[@paolorosi7551]

half a million people from every corner of the world....even from Rome....Italy

[@Dhabarweyne]

@@paolorosi7551From Africa Somalia 🇸🇴

[@lrosario20]

Wait guys!! …. How will they be watching us in 100 years? 😮😮

[@MediumJerm]

@@lrosario20 upload directly to the brain.

[@danielheinritz5958]

Best part, is the fact that there isn't one single person walking around with a phone out. It truly is beautiful.

[@anodyne57]

Ditto.

[@matthewobrien534]

Yes, and no one's fat and everyone dresses with style!!!

[@kevinbraden9445]

👍

[@vegasboy5931]

Of all the things in the video, the lack of cell phones is the most beautiful thing? What about the fashion, the architecture, the cleanliness, the cars, etc

[@cinderellacomplex7]

Yeah. Because they weren't invented yet.

[@TWELS20]

The picket line of striking workers for I.J. Fox Furriers depicted at the end of the video provides a reference point in which to date this series of movies. I found a brief article about the I.J. Fox strike in the New York Times dated November 27, 1941 (p. 24). So these movies were taken in the early '40s, not late '30s. However, looking at the cars pictured, my guess was 1937. I also saw NASS's post of a movie taken in New York in 1899. After comparing that video to this one it seems the street cars did not change much in 42 years! Thank you for posting.

[@geleterojodelgado8476]

Nov 27 1941 means a few weeks before Pearl Harbour. Many of these young workers will get mobilized and several killed in a short time.

[@NeTxGrl]

I love this. Two things immediately stood out to me. They clearly took pride in their appearance. The clothes are beautiful and our country didn't have an obesity problem back then. You can see what processed, junk food has done to our society. We also lead a much more sedentary lifestyle. The majority of people are gone unless you were a baby. My parents were born in the 30's and they're gone.

[@DREQON2005]

It’s so crazy how the food they make now has completely changed us for the worst almost everyone is overweight now after I saw your comment I was looking for an obese person and I don’t think I saw one I can walk outside right now and see 100 is like 10 minutes

[@coronaweeks4577]

You took the words out of mouth people dressed better and no one is overweight

[@steveb6764]

Everyone walked instead of drove

[@1946luke]

I'm from the 40's and I'm still hangin on. ✔

[@joesmith5159]

no diversity stood out

[@frankmiller3oo]

Crazy to think that a 79 year old person in 1930 would have been born in 1851. And their grandparents, who they would have talked to face to face, would have lived through the time of the French Revolution in 1799. While flying in an airplane across the ocean, driving a car, watching tv he would have known people born in the 1700s and could relate to their life first account.

[@garyschultz7768]

nice perspective of time to consider

[@Bradleehage]

wait tell 2130 people say they are all dead i bet from the old days of 2023.

[@fraink1100]

@George S we are 4 grandpas away from 1776. It seems so long ago but still right around the corner.

[@ROGER2095]

In the late sixties, I worked in a restaurant that employed a spry old man in his 90's. (The owner was a softy and let him do busy work so he had something to do.) The old man was born in the 1870's, meaning he was already an adult before paved streets, electricity, radio, cars, and airplanes were common. I wish now that I would have talked to him more.

[@ajames93]

FR 1789*

[@MyLady120]

WOW!! This is amazing. I have pictures of my mother when she was 17 in 1938. She was a seamstress and worked in a sewing factory in Manhattan NY making 4 dollars per week. This is a fabulous video. Thank you so much for sharing your great work. ❤

[@rstefanie2622]

My mother was a seamstress as well working in the Maidenform on Ave E in Bayonne NJ in the late 1930's. She was probably around the same age as your mother, as she was born in 1917.

[@siddhartham507]

Very nice, you can color it with apps now after scanning in phone and hung it somewhere in house, good day

[@swannoir7949]

My mom and grandma worked in a dress factory ❤

[@Andy_Holmes]

I think you mean 4 dollars per day. That's about $85 today, which is appropriate for a day's work, not a week.

[@ilovebeinggay6794]

I'm sure she must've stitched together alot of hooded white bedsheets for their year-round terrorist organizations.

[@DanJo-or2sz]

Everyone talking about looks, but can we just appreciate that we have something to remember history by, through a video of the 1930's. ?

[@Bluemojieatscookie15]

Yeah, like I get it, people dressed nicely back then, but you're so right

[@mr.t8068]

Yes, these were the real American people, but unfortunately we have begun to lose our people. Immigrants have become numerous in America, and the number of blacks has increased, reaching 46 million people, and we have become 50% of the local population. What a shame.​@@Bluemojieatscookie15

[@auroratorres7873]

I just love how elegantly dressed everyone walking along those streets looked. I think it would be wise to assume that all those individuals in the video are gone now, but seeing this film brings them back to life and gives us a glimpse of their busy lives. Life was so different back then. There seemed to be a strong sense of values and seriousness in thinking throughout people's lives. People cared so much more about their appearance as well as their sense of worth. And they passed that on to their children and grandchildren. What has happened to America? I sincerely hope that we can get back to that old fashioned way of thinking and living.

[@fluffy1931]

On Feb 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at NYC Madison Square Garden, organized by the German American Bund a pro-hitler movement. More than 20,000 people celebrated pro-nazi themes complete with amerika first slogans & swatzikas !

[@donaldbraugh2314]

And Communist rallies were also allowed. Stalins 1939 death numbers were higher than Hitler's numbers. Reading the Classic now, "The Gulag Archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn. He said nobody seems to care about the numbers killed by Stalin while Hitler got lucky, for he became famous by his.

[@Elgrano50]

Cared about their appearance but nobody showered. Cant imagine the stench of ass and armpit back then in the summer just because everyone wanted to show off their 3 piece suits.

[@Makeyourselfbig]

Been to any Trump rallies lately? How many guys do you see wearing a suit? All I see is a bunch of loonies in jeans, sneekers and MAGA caps. Remember the Shamen in his horned, hairy helmet carrying a spear. Average American voter no doubt. In Trump world only the "elite" wear suits. Real men dress like something the cat dragged in. So I don't think the good old days will be coming back anytime soon while the GOP panders to these dimwitted knuckle draggers.

[@susanedmondson1623]

We can't because the liberals destroyed our country.

[@mrlookin4mr]

Colorizing and adding the street sounds really brings it to life. Thank you for that peek into the past.

[@marcbrodbeck1861]

Sensational digital remastering of old footage! Great craftsmanship!

[@Pioneers_Of_Cinema]

HATS: Of course most people wore hats then. Hats served many useful purposes. 1. Kept your head warm 2. Hide bald spots or unsightly dandruff. 3. Used for holding on your chest in times of memorials, funerals or national anthem. 4. For waving about joyously above your head, adding to the spectacle of a ship or train departing or arriving. 5. For tipping slightly to greet someone walking past you, or coming into a room 6. Hitting someone over the head with your hat if you are angry at them. 7. Catching spiders. 8. Showing off the latest fashion. 9. Displaying social status - peak cap (poor) bowler (middle class) top hat (upper class) 10. Getting someone's attention.

[@capecon]

This was insightful, thank you!

[@janehex]

But mostly, sun protection.

[@Pioneers_Of_Cinema]

@@janehex Especially men's bald patches.

[@oxana.88]

​@@janehex статус

[@ljts7587]

Indeed Sir,,,I take my Hat of for you. I ware a flat cap. (Poor).

[@karenstanislaw8912]

Fascinating. And yes, the fashions of the 1930's were very beautiful, very flattering, actually. Thank you so much.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@stepanfedorov561]

In my subjective opinion, the men's suit of the 1930s is the apotheosis of the classic suit. It's comfortable in contrast to the starched collars of the 1910s, it's elegant and shape-enhancing, not baggy like a 1950s-1960s suit, it's not gaudy like a 1970s suit, but has uniqueness and accents like a tie.

[@allegrajane7205]

@@stepanfedorov561 Couldn't agree with you more! It was the height of male elegance.

[@ilovebeinggay6794]

How did they hide the horns on their satanically-indoctrinated heads? Were they retractable? 🤔

[@harisijazwarraich1306]

It's both fascinating and heartbreaking to see these vibrant street scenes from the 1930s, now beautifully remastered. The passage of time reminds us of the fleeting nature of life, as all the individuals captured in this video have long since departed. A poignant reminder of the bittersweet reality we all face.

[@auroratorres7873]

So true and so well expressed.

[@ShawnLH88]

not as heartbreaking as the fact that there are no minorities anywhere in this video

[@ilovebeinggay6794]

​​@@ShawnLH88 They would have gotten spat on (and worse) if they had dared to venture out into one of many of their public arenas of serpentine venom.

[@ajb.9094]

Respectfully, there is hope!! God offers hope of salvation if we should choose to accept it. :-) (P.S. Romans 15:13 & & John 3:16!)

[@pantherz9103]

It is not bittersweet! You do not speak for everyone 😠 I’m so tired of these kind of inane comments in these old footage videos! Some of us might actually look forward to shedding the mortal coil! I suffer from several chronic (yet not deadly) illnesses which have no cure. So I do not ‘treasure’ my physical life in which I am everyday a lesser version of my younger self. I’m only 40 yet in physical pain each day and therefore I am not afraid of ‘death’. I have done my own investigating about the big questions of life and death without the binds of outdated religions and atheistic materialism. The phenomenon of near death experiences and spiritualist phenomena give me all the assurance and comfort I need about the next life. I have nothing to learn from tired old evangelists who quote Bible verses and certainly not from fools who just go to these old videos to comment how ‘everyone is dead’ 😱

[@WilliamLesourd]

The sound bites and the imperfect colorisation really make these clips come alive

[@dr.h3333]

More interesting is when 90 years later from now, those future people will read our comments here while watching this clip and saying ; oh all these people who left comments here are gone now. At that time maybe they will be saying “ these people who left comments here had a great life as they had enough time to spend for leaving lots of comments here and chatting with each other ”. Conclusion is: we always see the empty part of the glass. Remember, life is always beautiful as far as how to live it and look at it. Let’s Enjoy our moments and be present fully.❤

[@NostalgiaforInfinity]

Bold of you to assume youtube would still exist 90 years later. Even Facebook is already on life support, despite being the biggest social networking website for over a decade.

[@heromiIes]

90 years from now, if the internet and youtube still exist, they will watch this clip from 1930, then watch a video of 2024 and wonder how NYC devolved.

[@kgkg4118]

​@@NostalgiaforInfinityright, not only that KZbin will still exist but that this particular video/channel will still be up....

[@GavinMalia]

Totally

[@Jaffar540]

I am really amazed at the way people are rushing to work to be punctual for duty. Everyone is on their toes to catch their ferry; people look so well-dressed up and happy 90 years ago compared to our time. I do not see any sign of worry or stress on their faces. God bless all those who are no longer around. Thank you NASS for this wonderful upload.

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@keetahbrough]

Greed. They're not happy, so much as anticipating fulfilling their greed. BECAUSE. While these guys were enjoying their built up illusionary world, thousands of indigenous peoples are being raped, beaten, separated, isolated, surgically modified, experimented on, isolated, given squalor from their civilization, to feed on. The society you're watching on this video is a VIOLENT and SUPREMACIST society.. notice all the white alien faces living this life? While brown and red people are enslaved to help them live it. CRIMINALS. Every single one.

[@sabrinahipps335]

Half of this video is a workers strike…

[@ugaais]

Western European values and work ethic..also no immigration was allowed outside of European countries…and from 1935-1965 very little immigration period to the big wave at the end of the 1800’ could assimilate….they are rushing to work because there were no social safety net programs..you worked or you starved…this is during the depression so people were grateful to be working and didn’t want to be fired…no stress because no diversity which means way less crime..

[@warrenlewis3977]

@@ugaais less crime? There was a major crime wave in Ny and in the Midwest. Don't forget the Irish and Italian immigrants were tearing the city up with Thompson submachine gun fire. FDR was about or already signed WEP or "welfare" into law and Social Security as well. I know ur knee deep in your bigotry but at least know what ur talking about.

[@markgettemeyer1145]

It’s so different from seeing a still photograph. The clarity of this video makes me feel completely differently about these people than if I were looking at a photo. The people in this video have lives - you can see it on their faces. The way they move their bodies contributes to their personalities. They’re not posed, but moving in very naturally human ways. I could watch this all day.

[@tonyb8660]

yup

[@1ndependentone568]

Colorizing is also a game-changer.

[@kennethwongatsoi4689]

Looking at these images in 2023 it is not possible to make a distinction between a store sales assistant and Bank department manager. Everyone looked so well kept and representable.

[@11bravo13]

And at 35cents an hr...

[@RepRedify]

@@11bravo13 Which is about $30/hr. in today's money.

[@thevet2009]

Dirty nasty leg...go airborne!@@11bravo13

[@DarkPlanet-hx1jz]

Yeah, respectable racist skum.

[@FlorenceSlugcat]

@@DarkPlanet-hx1jzgo back to your country if you arent happy

[@ladyaqua4544]

I love the 30s 40s Dress Styles, These People are polished, classy, Professional and all look Beautiful and Very Handsome.

[@harveyshaper360]

I could stare at this for hours. Brilliant artistry in creating this.

[@marangelasp7462]

Me too! That is exactly what I do, everytime I watch this type of videos.

[@ilovebeinggay6794]

And it doesn't make you wanna throw up knowing how filthy and diseased their stepford wives minds were? You must be a white American.

[@keithhoward4069]

Everybody looks so classy. The ladies are very elegant compared to today. This is during the great depression. We have really gone downhill in many ways.

[@thomasshelbyy5260]

yep true

[@ZZSmithReal]

These are folks lucky enough to have jobs. Tons of folks throughout the country did not have the means of looking so "classy" and "elegant." 🤦‍♂ Want to go back and live during the Great Depression? Talk to anybody who did. It forever changed how they spent and handled money.

[@keithhoward4069]

@@ZZSmithReal don't worry Biden is going to give it to us now

[@fluffy1931]

New York City’s Madison Square Garden hosted a rally to celebrate the rise of Nazism in Germany. Inside, more than 20,000 attendees raised Nazi salutes toward a 30-foot-tall portrait of George Washington flanked by swastikas. Feb 20, 1939 event-advertised on the arena’s marquee as a “Pro American Rally”-was the German American Bund .

[@ambientnature862]

@@ZZSmithReal Not my Grandma....I guess she didn't get that message!

[@laurenc2976]

I really admire how they all took pride in themselves and their appearance. I wish more people today would care about how they present themselves in public

[@cfogle1000]

Me too

[@hewitc]

Back then the average person owned one suit and wore it daily. Today fashion is more disposable and cheap.

[@weedermann]

These people represent the well-to-do and better, with more money and resources. In the 30's, the mass majority had NOTHING and looked it. Also at that time, less people took baths or brushed their teeth compared to now. But no one noticed because body-odor and bad breath was the norm.

[@weedermann]

@GG Sinatra and Dillinger had money. Most may have looked more like the fellow in the tucked-in t-shirt, slacks, and newsboy cap.

[@craighutchinson5045]

glad these days are over. how boring. but hey lady, if you wanna stuff yourself with three layers of cloth and cover your ankles everywhere you go, be my guest.

[@ollieoreoo]

Back then owning a camera and being able to document your face for future generations to see was a privilege. Now it is commonplace. It strikes me how amazing it is that we are able to see what may have been an otherwise mundane and insignificant day for these people who did not know their faces would be documented for the next 100 years.

[@KwameBerry]

Probably not you see the mastery in all the buildings that look 200 yrs old then

[@libertyann439]

My aunt was 9 years old in 1932. She will be 102 on April 2nd. She was raised by immigrant parents in Brooklyn.

[@Christina-bu2mo]

Yea legal

[@nikolai6489]

@@Christina-bu2mothey didn’t have the same immigration laws we do now

[@Christina-bu2mo]

@@libertyann439 oh

[@Ty-wy9he]

Wow I thought this was fake at first bc it’s so beautifully crafted and everyone looks like models. Unbelievable how responsible, well groomed, and purposeful everyone looks.

[@ilovebeinggay6794]

Are you referring to these satanically-indoctrinated racists? 🤔

[@Brando-wc8fz]

Robots seems like the perfect word

[@ilovebeinggay6794]

@@Brando-wc8fz An entire nation living nonchalantly under an evil race-spell in a real-life Stepford Wives existence 🤔 Very scary

[@vintageman91]

Thats because it was back in the day when it was popular to look proper.

[@SolangeMarilei]

​@@Brando-wc8fzKensington Av Philadelphia; People look Better.

[@PaulCaruso53]

Wonderful video. Yes, people "dressed up" to go downtown or venture into public places including public transportation, trains and later airplanes. I was a child during the 50s and during even the early 60's this was still the case. I grew up in Montreal,Canada and I recall the businessmen and women all dressed in business attire of the day when riding on buses and the subway. There was also common courtesy and politeness amongst strangers. Contrast that with people today dressing like slobs in public and being openly rude and hostile. Can't get over how clean the sidewalks appeared then!

[@haddadthemaestro2856]

Indeed.

[@marangelasp7462]

Yes, you are so right. I feel sometimes we are going back to the barbaric times, we live in a world of so much violence and discontent, uncivilized.

[@karimb972]

Clean streets was in the business districts which were swept daily. Just like today. And just like today it's the poorer neighborhoods that are dirtier.

[@Fauwkes]

@@karimb972no even in poorer neighborhoods, people tended to keep things tidy

[@DanJoGalicia]

Rude and hostile 😂 . In other words "Karen's."

[@tanzgold4968]

the 30s in New York would be my no 1 destination in a Time Machine . Must have been so great ❤

[@rhyfeddu]

I appreciate this shows more people on the street. I enjoy the car ride videos, but seeing people, fashions, the buildings and day to day sidewalk hustle-bustle is more evocative and immersive to me. Once again, hats off to you.

[@ManorHQ]

A strike at I.J. Fox furs on Fifth Avenue. That's the store front at 4:30. Opened in 1930. They were sponsoring some air flights around this time. 4:39 That's the Childs restaurant on Fifth Avenue, a popular chain at the time but would go out of business by the late 1960s. 🤓It's always fun to dig into these time capsules. Thank you, NASS.

[@sandramclaughlin3943]

I can't say I like the idea of Fox Furs....

[@taylormaddux8433]

Thanks for this extra bit of info!

[@coupleofbeers31]

It's amazing how quickly cities change. This is not even 100 years ago and it practically looks like another dimension or planet.

[@dudebro3250]

Let's not beat around the bush. Diversity will do that.

[@ilovebeinggay6794]

​@@dudebro3250 what sort of diversity did it take to conduct public lynchings while your children stood by watching and nonchalantly munching hot buttered popcorn... and sometimes with EXTRA butter.

[@Mike-mh6jd]

​@dudebro3250 i will not hear such blasphemy. Who needs a cohesive society when diversity is our strength?

[@Gunslinger353]

@@dudebro3250 It's a good thing the good guys won ww2

[@artemiscool67]

​@@Mike-mh6jdwhat cohesive society? The US was always diverse of ethnicities and cultures, they didn't think they were more cohesive then either, they just ragged on different groups of the time. And class levels were even more prevalent then

[@Braveheart-1300]

This footage is absolutely stunning. So beautiful to look at. Those people walking around could easily be one of your ancestors. Can you imagine that one of them could be a member of your family just casually walking past the camera. It gives you goosebumps just thinking about that. Bill

[@mscommerce]

As someone who lived in Manhattan and walked to work, wearing a suit, as part of the morning office crowd, this video of a time fifty years before that is absolutely fascinating. Men's ties were worn shorter, back then. I didn't know that.

[@samp7003]

So amazingly clear! It's so amazing that they are captured so long ago and the reactions of them to the person filming adds some humor to it. Very good!

[@damondominique]

Shout out to the typographers of that time. *Everything* was so well-designed. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@sabinehahn8838]

Es gingen auch viele zu Fuß. Also mehr Bewegung als heute.

[@kikichin]

Excellent work. The vintage footages looks so contemporary.

[@Starchaser63]

A time capsule, a glimpse of yesterday when life was simple. The less we had, the more we needed each other . The importance of video and Photography. Love these uploads. I recently watched a movie 🎥 of my home city of Liverpool UK from around 1900 and it was amazing to watch, especially as I recognised the areas. I'll be watching more of these fascinating movies from now on 🎥 ... 👍

[@michaelacaleb7919]

I feel like the 1930s is so overlooked in time & only labeled as “ the Great Depression” decade but people forget how top tier & classy everyone’s style was.

[@reginaldforthright805]

“They” would prefer you not know how they have destroyed society.

[@NancyRobertson-b8x]

These people were working in offices in the big city. Even 35 years ago, most people who had office jobs in the big city dressed well for work.

[@josephharden5592]

The Style was pretty great. Mostly because everything wasn't so overpaid for their time.

[@mathrewmarrero6942]

Style didn’t make economy better. 😂

[@dayzeereyes128]

Right people minimize it the era only down the economy but it was a fascinating time in terms of the gangster era, Hollywood was hitting its stride, and fashion had become sexy again after the waist became emphasized again after the roaring twenties

[@bombasticbushkin4985]

Beautifully attired, classy, self-respect. To think they could dress this well on 35 cents an hour, $2.80 a day, $14 per week.

[@MeMe-td1ye]

U heard of inflation??

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

Their clothes were very precious. It hid where they were from and made people second-guess, giving them the stink eye if a shopkeeper. There was no shame in being wary around people that grew up in the slums. Nowadays, everyone’s a potential customer, back then shop keeps and restaurants would discern.

[@markbuckley5109]

Google says 5.45 by today's standard

[@SRose-vp6ew]

Actually clothe cost far more back then. That whole protest is the workers who sells for coats wanting more pay. Most of these dresses were likely a week of a girls life buying fabric, finding a pattern, and sewing. Great grandma had one or two good Sunday dresses that she wore each Sunday (for morning and evening service) and when she went to town on another day for the shopping and lunch. Yes, she cared and took care of it. At home were more relaxed house coats that a women could work out and clean in and when she did dress up for dinner each night, she still had a fancy or well used apron over her dress so not to mess it up when pulling food out of the oven and feeding toddlers. House dresses and house coats were the comfortable equivalent of how women nowadays wear exercise clothes even if they haven’t exercised in years, people don’t realize they wear uniforms. The difference was they stayed in the home with that type of attire and even changed before their Husband got home from work (wear the men had suits) and their kids got home from school because the time for house work and cooking was done and now it’s time to be a family with food, scripture, conversation, and prayer and of course the secular menaces of the time listening to the radio or doing to see a trashy Hollywood movie together where a girl might show some shoulder and the guy in the flick might allude to something less than what the holiness movement tent revivals of the time supported.

[@timetraveler5246]

This was a time before fast fashion and consumerism. People owned timeless quality, not quantity and took care of their clothes and belongings. so they would last a long time. It was an entirely different mindset back then and one I wish society still appreciated and retained.

[@SceneGirly-11]

Wow these 94-85 year old videos are so incredible and amazing to watch! My great-grandparents were born in the Mid 1930s and they're still alive and healthy hehe ♥

[@sammoran1556]

What an incredible 9 minutes and 37 seconds that was. I felt transported.

[@marangelasp7462]

I felt the same.

[@ilovebeinggay6794]

To the era of a Stepford Wives existence

[@totallyfrozen]

WWI has been over for more than a decade and WWII isn’t even a thought yet. But, what hits me the most is that this is NYC and the streets are so CLEAN!! Wow! What have we done?!

[@Old-Dog00]

We become complacent and corrupt. This was initial stages of the Great Depression.

[@MrKaewkwan]

90 years ago. Looks really good. Thank you for your restoration.

[@NASS_0]

Thx ;)

[@cruzmakaveli9891]

This is 80years ago folks. I can recall back in the 80's as kid when they talk about the 1930's it was 40 or so years ago at that time. Now im getting on, Its humbling to know that all these people in this film are all gone except a handful still around today ( not sure ). This will be a person 80years from today watching vids from the 2020's knowing most of us today have been and gone !

[@shannaloyd6251]

Everything looks so clean and no homeless people or gangs messing about, no police everywhere or horrific traffic, no graffiti or trash - and look how dressed up everyone is!!! Not one person looks like they just got out of bed, like the lazy people of today - stunning work!

[@johnnolan4312]

Yes , and I honestly don't think I had seen 1 overweight person

[@rslongshot7453]

Back when we knew what gender we were.

[@venanciotochella6181]

They weren't all full of tattoos like gang members either! Nor did they have dyed hair blue, pink, etc. They were all elegant and neat. They were people! Today there is a decline in all aspects.

[@richystar2001]

Welcome to White Christian conservative America.

[@rslongshot7453]

@Stranded NYer I know they represent a tiny amount of people but the fact that they make 95% of the news is ridiculous. Anyways, let’s enjoy this flashback video from normal times.

[@chelimartinez9999]

Everyone woke up dressing up nicely to make breakfast for the family and off to work. It was a different era for sure. 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@Browninxx]

I just LOVE how they dressed back then, great footage, thank you!

[@jessica3218]

If these people were to see 2023, they would be so shocked and disgusted Lol

[@Browninxx]

@@jessica3218 absolutely! Lol

[@jenniferlloyd9574]

​@@jessica3218 I am shocked and disgusted by today.

[@IMANVANRULER]

It’s crazy how fashion reflects the spirit of the times. Back in the 30s, it was all about elegance. Suits, hats, everything super stylish and classy. Nowadays, it’s more about freedom and comfort, everyone doing their own thing. Someone from the 30s would probably think our fashion looks super modern at first but then realize it’s less about style and more about ease. And we’d probably admire the elegance of the 30s but feel like it’s way too strict with no room for individuality. In the end, fashion’s just a mirror of society. It's all about looks and meaning.

[@neptunemorales5292]

I'm from the Philippines. it's amazing to get a glimpse of the past and see how these people are well-dressed, disciplined, and hard-working.

[@brettk9316]

And thin!

[@theshitshow6371]

​@@brettk9316 and White

[@ct1216]

That's why western culture was 500 years ahead of the others but asians arabs and africans screwed the western culture

[@ilovebeinggay6794]

@@theshitshow6371 stark white. Bleach white. Blanch white. Glow-in-the-dark white 🤮

[@thevet2009]

And how it turned into a "shitshow" compared to today.@@theshitshow6371

[@Cam-vz2zk]

This was in the middle of the worst depression the United States has ever suffered and look how neat, clean and well-dressed people are..

[@cz5836]

I might be wrong but I think this is no longer the worst depression in the US. Or we have come very close to being worse in the last 15 or so years.

[@hewitc]

@@cz5836 2008 Recession unemployment maxxed at 8.5%, 1930's Depression exceeded 25%. 1930's was much worse.

[@cz5836]

@@hewitc I see. Well I did say I could be wrong

[@weedermann]

They represented the wealthy of Depression times. Even so, you are looking at their appearance, you have no idea what their lives were actually like.

[@Student0Toucher]

Clean doesn’t mean good….Italian Mobsters were the cleanest lol

[@ronijoseph8527]

NASS, this video was wonderful! As much as I love the travel videos, I LOVE this one. I’m obsessed with the 20’s and 30’s and to be able to view ordinary citizens going about their everyday life is such a treat! Thank you so much for sharing!👍

[@NASS_0]

thank's ;))

[@boblebovidge7049]

I was born in 1937 in Boston,MA,and i agree with just about all the current comments-just wonder how these same folks would react, if they knew what was about to happen in Germany & Austria shortly thereafter???

[@Larkinchance]

90 years ago and realistic, like yesterday.. Your work is so good!

[@Larkinchance]

It looks like late 30's just before the war

[@tkelly830]

This is absolutely amazing, incredible work. Thank you for it

[@jackdipasquale8199]

NYC's best days are long gone. Everything looks so clean, vibrant and safe here in this caption of time.

[@hfield07]

by safe you mean the crime was mostly white guys rather than poc. the 30s saw more murders in NYC per year than current day and was at its worst in the 70s/80s.

[@JerseyToTheBone]

Need to get rid of the Liberals; they are the disease that has caused this demise.

[@jenniferlloyd9574]

Homogeny.

[@niggardlyrajigga4992]

and then blacks and spics happened

[@SherrieSherrieSherrie]

Protesting 35 cents an hour wages! Amazing footage, thank you so much! I had 2 aunts who lived and worked in NY city during this time.

[@Idcanymore510]

Watched a few of these videos, and New York seems to have been such a classy place back in the 20s and 30s.

[@nunyabidness117]

Im sure that guy mindlessly buying a paper had no idea millions of people would be watching him 90 years later.

[@ef919]

On a computer, with 1 Gbps/FioS internet, or on a "smartphone" pocket computer....imagine trying to explain that to him in 1930!

[@nunyabidness117]

@@ef919 It's like a newfangled TV the size of your wallet..

[@ef919]

@@nunyabidness117 very good yes!

[@tommy7fun]

And 90 years from now people will be watching us. "Look how they dressed back in 2024".

[@عبداللهآلصالح-غ6ش]

​@@tommy7funPeople who carry signs, is it a strike, are they subjected to flogging and insults, and what is their work?

[@sandyman32]

Элегантно одетые люди, стройные и подтянутые фигуры, что у мужчин что у женщин, все в костюмах и платьях, на улицах чисто, эх как будто на другой планете жили люди...

[@talas12341]

и не одного негра!

[@ОлегВасильев-у2й]

А кто вам сегодня мешает так жить ?

[@Old-Dog00]

@@ОлегВасильев-у2й They are in Russia.

[@ГавриилБарборужевский]

​@@Old-Dog00 What do you want to say ?

[@nadlindemann2222]

@@Old-Dog00 подколол)

[@ZoonCrypticon]

Wonderfully restored !

[@janetmcneice6246]

Everyone looks soooo clean and sooo smart, beautiful video,thanx forsharig 😎💯👍👏👏👏👏

[@jmazz1127]

This is probably the closest we will ever get to a time machine.

[@jaimesmith2266]

I gotta agree seeing theses videos gives me chills.

[@robertacheson5976]

No way bro. I’m building one right now on Chat GPT. 5 years, max. Come back in 2028 and Ill be in this video

[@sirchadiusmaximusiii]

@@robertacheson5976 I’m goin with. Time to fix some things.

[@STEEPPOW]

A city with no you know who wilding out.

[@mtlicq]

The man at 7:15 travelled by time machine, still has his 2023 jacket on

[@NetshadeX]

Amazing how lean people looked and how well they moved. Even middle aged people moved so well and had great postures.

[@benadams1661]

They looked lean because they were half starved and the food was poor quality, most of them looked old before their time. You're dreaming if you think this was a "golden age" Life was brutal and mundane most people worked hard menial jobs with their hands for little pay with little to no mechanised equipment or machinery and what did exist was very antiquated. Life was very dull there was little to no entertainment like their is now or healthy and safety standards, people living in damp run down housing with all manner of infections and disease running rampant because there were no medicine

[@NetshadeX]

@@benadams1661 It's up for debate whether or not life is supposed to be easy and comfortable. Our generation, on average, has weakened significantly both mentally and physically as compared to prior generations.

[@BenjaminColeman-ni7uq]

​@@benadams1661 it doesn't make a difference between today and that period of time. People are still struggling bad.

[@beardedbaldie2698]

From my own observation, it’s mostly the women who were in better shape back then. Most men today are still generally lean, with the odd belly and occasional obese guy. On the other hand, the majority of women in the west appear to be some form of overweight these days.

[@Zoe-lj8rj]

They look lean becouse of healthier diet than junk grains seeds oils and high carb diet nowadays. They eat eggs and bacon for breakfast not a oatmil nor corn fleaks slop as obsessed people nowdays.

[@billsmith5433]

Makes me sad for what we've become.

[@Rob774]

Less-racist.? Less fair wrongful treatment of women? Longer life expectancy? Yeah... it must really suck now!

[@Mike-jv9cl]

Same. I particularly loved seeing the workers striking.

[@benadams1661]

@@Mike-jv9cl What great fun for them, they have to walk up and down the pavement all day like dullard human signs just to get their job back working shite jobs for little pay 😆😆

[@zillertalernazihass]

I agree. Less unemployment rate, no lynchings, we are able to use the internet and talk with the people we love even when they are thousands km away, we have television and much more... what a terrible world. I wish, I was born in 1930.

[@billsmith5433]

@@zillertalernazihass Suicide through the roof, fentanyl overdoses , terrorism, nuclear bombs, school shootings, family disintegration, drugs, depression, mental health crises, wokeism, feminist extremism, affirmative action [ aka state sponsored racism ], double standards, violent crimes through the roof etc etc yeah we're much better off now.

[@Mensaje970]

Is incredible how fast we have evolve, but what calls my attention is that we are nothing in time, we are brief, all of them are doing their life’s just like we are and yet they are long gone

[@Igor_Anokhin]

As always, you have a wonderful job. Looking at these faces, you realize that none of them are alive anymore and, thus, watching such videos is even more interesting. You come into contact with people you would never have crossed paths with in your life. Although, in the year when I was born, and a little later, many people were still alive in this world. Greetings from Russia!

[@jessebaldwin2661]

I've watched restored film footage from many areas of the world including Russia. They are a fascinating look into the past! Greetings from the USA!

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@thebuddha4208]

Those children have a chance of being alive very very old

[@sergei6572]

Заметьте, 9 минут видео и нет ни одного негра, как у нас принято говорить. Сейчас Америка изменилась в лучшую сторону.))

[@KM-qu3oe]

@@sergei6572 What point are you trying to make? There were Black people in the United States then as I’m sure you know… but very free walking freely in a city. Many were probably still enslaved!!!!

[@Liz-ro3pv]

fantastic image quality !

[@NASS_0]

thank you very much

[@bbayat4093]

Utterly delightful and so very haunting. The 60FPS makes it very relatable and quite poignant really. How non of these people are around any longer. Alas. You have one a very creative and socially important act. Thanks.

[@Chrisbajs]

1:43 When you pick your nose, and people are watching it in the millions a hundred years later.

[@OoRoYAL]

😂

[@robinsydney140]

How beautiful! Men and women well dressed, so elegant, unlike today, coming out in their pajamas.

[@toddinthemiddle]

they would have done the same if they'd been born 70-80 years later.

[@robinsydney140]

@@toddinthemiddle Probably, but it looks so nice that way!

[@reginaldforthright805]

Isn’t diversity wonderful

[@reginaldforthright805]

@@toddinthemiddleyes, because of the Jews

[@robinsydney140]

@@reginaldforthright805 Yeah, when it's nice; not otherwise.

[@SheaMinta]

These remastered videos always blow my mind. Hard to believe this is 90 years ago and all these people have passed! 🤯

[@MrMinuteman]

This is amazing. It’s so cool to actually see history in such good good video quality. It’s so weird when you realize that none of these people are alive anymore. Great job NASS!

[@NASS_0]

thank's ;)

[@MrMinuteman]

@@NASS_0 Of course!

[@kratoleaf7619]

there are numeroous people that are still alive when this was shot. They were very young but still alive. People are living well past 100 these days. A gentlemen who fought in WW1 was the last to go not long ago. Many ww2 vets are still alive today and closing in on 100.

[@patrickstevens3721]

Its cool to see an old video like this thats not in ×5 speed

[@clementreid907]

That is a fabulous job! It is like going in a time machine to where my Father was somewhere or other, working in New York. Amazing recreation of the 1930's!

[@phuongduynguyen2334]

This is like a time machine to me. So amazing to see people and the city back then

[@ilovebeinggay6794]

A time machine to a truly racist and Stepford Wives existence in this country

[@DavidGrush]

Look at these people, their clothes, their dignity... No thugs, no LGBT, no tattoo !

[@liamcragin]

You don't think there were gay people in the 30's? Also, you should look up Al Capone.

[@taylormaddux8433]

​@@liamcragin True, lots of gangsters and extortion in the 30s.

[@photobritain]

Everyone looks so well turned out. Stark contrast by today's standards. Thanks for sharing.

[@NASS_0]

Which city would you like to visit in 1930s?

[@michalbock7648]

Richmond, Virginia

[@perceptionmanagement2116]

Berlin, Germany

[@Napoleon1804]

Marseille, France

[@Марк-и2й2р]

Kiev, Ukraine

[@allicmw557]

More Los Angeles! Beaches / Westside?

[@patriciahall2223]

Evertone dressed to the hilt , how smart beautiful classic style , times were hard back then but they all cared & took great interest in their attire .....thank you

[@dontbsilly8104]

It’s absolutely amazing seeing everyone walking without their phones in their hands.

[@ijuggle42]

How can you walk around with something that hasnt been invented yet. lol Most of the men had papers on them and were headed somewhere to ignore everyone while they read it.

[@Cmunic8]

They had better phone etiquette back then

[@ilovebeinggay6794]

@@Cmunic8 Phone etiquette? The N word was their favorite term to describe all those people who are out sharecropping with their 5 year old children, suffering in the hot fields while the stepford wives community nonchalantly goes about their day referring to the very people (who physically built this country for free) by the N word. Phone etiquette? I'd say human decency is far more important.

[@pbxn-3rdx-85percent]

@@Cmunic8 Beware of the rabid gays. You just mention phone etiquette and the gays go biting and lashing like infected with bio-weapon grade rabies. 😄😁😂🤣

[@dudebro3250]

And it was free of the shackles of diversity. What a disaster that has been.

[@urbanfairy2108]

That fashion. And so clean everywhere!

[@michaelknapp8961]

My mom and dad were both born around this time. It’s like a Time Machine watching them live their everyday hun drum lives. They are all dressed so nice and respectful.

[@DarkPlanet-hx1jz]

I'm sure they were nothing more than virulent wight devils.

[@brodiecook1589]

Which means they would be dead along time ago, and you would be like 80,90 years old

[@michaelknapp8961]

@@brodiecook1589 hey you idiot. My mother was born in 1930 and my dad was born in 1935. I’m 56 years old. They were in there 30s when I was born in 67. They are both dead. The math works out. Do the math.

[@ilovebeinggay6794]

@@brodiecook1589 they likely lynched themselves to death.

[@brodiecook1589]

@@ilovebeinggay6794 wtf

[@taylormaddux8433]

Fun to see the transaction between the newspaper carrier and the stall man. Also to see the men tipping their hats and otherwise engaging with the camera person. Wonder how this film made its way from the camera back then to being on youtube today. Thanks for sharing.

[@Vonnie1490]

Ironic, I just watched a remastered clip from 1920 NYC and EVERYONE was strolling, they were walking soooo slow, compared to this, a decade later, and everyone is walking, even running. So interesting to see the different dynamics just 10 yrs apart!

[@Jane413]

This was right outside a ferry station so that may be why so many were running.

[@Documenting_Life_8619]

Unemployment maybe causing that ?

[@brittnaycattaneo6015]

​@@Documenting_Life_8619lol that and possibly low nrg

[@sopaman1234]

Notice how super clean the streets were.. People back then took pride in their work.. Not like today's humanoids

[@ccc3]

They look so clean because the image enhancement smooths out textures and details. Notice the furs on the coats at 4:00, they look like blobs. NASS does a great job, but there's only so much you can extract from ancient footage.

[@jagboy69]

People dressed nicer than. Today, more than half the world's population is wearing denim at any given moment.

[@QueenBee-gx4rp]

And today everyone would be looking at their phones!

[@sopaman1234]

@@ccc3 They still dressed a lot better then today.. Has nothing to do with movie magic..

[@ЛеонидОст]

@@QueenBee-gx4rp А тогда все смотрели в газеты))

[@kaktyc8bit79]

Спасибо ребятам и современным технологиям за то, что почти 100 лет спустя мы можем наблюдать эти кадры.

[@Serjant96]

за этим не нужно наблюдать, так нужно жить и в 21 веке и всегда, только белые и только культурные, остальные или на родину или в печь

[@redsandrock8073]

So beautifully dressed and most everyone had hats…love the low heels that women wore…really makes them walk elegantly unlike today’s spike heels. Totally different from observing people in NYC a couple of years ago.

[@Purplenpinkk]

The paper boy dropping off the papers is the stand out to me. It's like he notices and camera and is so interested in it. He pauses and looks back, kind of like he wanted to go back and talk to the cameraperson and ask about it.

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

Speak for yourself, that police officer was ready to kiss the camera man

[@gregg1152]

the paperboy looked like he could pickpocket you the moment you turned!

[@dans9463]

The camera on my phone gets less attention.

[@funkster007]

Looked like a young DeNiro

[@Jb-uy5zx]

Everything was beautiful, people were well dressed, the buildings and cars pieces of art. Note the lack of diversity.

[@SteviePaints]

I didn’t notice. What I saw was a lot of people, respectful of each other, no shouting, clean sidewalks, no destruction of anything. This was the 1930s, still in the Depression, so people didn’t have a lot of money, yet people took pride in their appearance.

[@topspin3788]

Diversity is our greatest weakness.

[@felipecastro8668]

@@topspin3788 You have no idea what you're talking about 😁. There have always been adversities. It's just that at that time everything was done in secret because of the dictatorship of the Catholic churches, which in public were full of morals and discrimination. But inside the churches they loved having sex with children. Everything has always been the same as it is today. The difference is that everything was done in secret.

[@ManofSteel216OC]

@@topspin3788 Agree to this day I'm black and like to be around my own and buy from my own

[@free_at_last8141]

I see plenty of Poles, Italians, Swedes, Irish, English, Scottish, and their descendants. I see Roman Catholics with Protestants and Jews. What passes for "diversity" today is a Maoist tactic to undermine Society by taking advantage of compassion to force division where there need not be. Skin color doesn't make a person any more than the color of their eyes or hair.

[@mikeyh0]

I wonder if the concept of six degrees of separation extends to time? Some of these people may have known a relative of mine or yours if only through mutual friends. Or maybe my grandfather sat down next to one of these people at a restaurant. Or frequented the same stores. This video was especially good - vivid and clear.

[@abcdeshole]

It probably does. I mean, I knew my grandpa who lived in New York in 1939 and again in the late 40s. Plenty of people know me, and they know plenty of people. You know the people who raised you and probably have known lots of older people, just like everyone.

[@MusicFanOnline]

Definitely! You make a good point. Being from NY myself, I'm sure there is at least one person from this recording that I share a somewhat interesting connection with. Too bad I'll probably never find out the details of what any of those connections might be.

[@peteb7992]

3 generations of my family in New York . My great and grandparents already were in the bakery business on Bleecker . Mom was around 7 . Dad in woodside and grandpa playing the viola in the New York Philharmonic with Toscanini…dad used to go down and swim at the beach where LaGuardia Airport is situated….they worked their hands to the bone to set up the next generation. God I miss them all

[@SamStone1964]

@@MusicFanOnline Check the online census to see where your family were living and working.

[@MusicFanOnline]

@@SamStone1964 Thank you. Yes, I checked the online census before. It's a good resource and a good suggestion for people to check out. Based on my family history, anyone in this KZbin video was less likely connected directly to my family, and more likely to have been connected to my current acquaintances (especially those around NYC).

[@nanasoul-inspires]

I have seen a lot of old footage from different countries, and what amazed me the most is ypu can definitely tell just by looking at the people clothes from which country tge footage was took- each country have their own traditional clothes is so sassy and classic atst

[@merissagarrison3955]

I love that we are seeing the real 1930s here. Those picket signs aren't movie props being held by actors! This is a visual feast and one of the dreamiest ASMRs I've ever heard. Really lovely 🩷

[@ilovebeinggay6794]

Satanically indoctrinated racists. I'm just sure you DO enjoy seeing yourself