Old NEW YORK in 1925 & Coney Island

[@williamlevi5051]

Feels like going in a time machine.. WOW LOVE IT. IM A NATIVE NYer Born in brooklyn. My father was born in brooklyn in 1928. And hearing his stories of growing up in the 30s 40s and 50s made it sound almost mythical. Seeing these old videos just validates everything he ever told me.. I live in staten island now I drive for Pepsi cola so I deliver to coney island once a week.. sometime I stand on the boardwalk and wish I could travel back to those magical early decades so long ago. Your videos are as close as it gets.. BEAUTIFUL KEEP EM COMING..

[@kalashnikovkhodorkovsky8153]

This is the closest to going back in time! Love these videos.

[@hamiltoncarvalho2383]

Good happy times that will never come black!

[@jurgensala7181]

This video is amazing nearly 95 years ago.

[@utubebiznu]

I was taken back in year 1925. Thank you for sharing the video. God bless you.

[@sterlinggreg]

Amazing video but you should lose the soundtrack because it's wrong. The car horns are all wrong. way to contemporary those cars should be going" a wooga "not beep beep "in the key of f

[@roccomanucci]

sterlinggreg a Wooga ......LMFAO 😂😂😂

[@Biden2024_]

@@roccomanucci lmaooo

[@craigsmith157]

Kirk Douglas and Olivia de Havilland were 9 and Betty White was 3 when this video was filmed and they are still living. Awesome.

[@brandoncastro2441]

Hunter deja so sry about mama and that you're able to reminisce with good memories

[@brandoncastro2441]

Wow 88 years what a blessing. Hope you enjoying pic and most definitely the memories🤗😇

[@fr2ncm9]

My late father was about 5 months old when this film was shot. My grandfather was a bricklayer. He worked on many of the major projects such as Rockefeller Center.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

fr2ncm9 He did a good job.

[@alvexok5523]

In 1925, Eleanor Powell was 13, Ruby Keeler was 14, Ginger Rogers was also 14, and Judy Garland was 3

[@alkent6422]

Thank you! This was wonderful. I have many photographs of my grandmother Elsie as a teenage girl at the beach at Coney Island during this time, with her brother Albin and her friend Chickie along with some pics of her mother too. I've never before seen motion picture. Adding the sound was lovely. Great job!

[@CoolLimitedNYourStuf]

Even in the 60s days were like this. More more more !

[@alkent6422]

@@CoolLimitedNYourStuf My Mom used to take me to Rye Beach, The Bronx Zoo and the Automat. Coney Island too.

[@Dakotadarkwolf]

I really love the fashion back then. When most people dressed their best and almost every man and woman you see in this video are wearing such nice hats. Seems like the boater hat is very popular during this time. I believe it was more of a summer hat that a lot of men would wear. I also saw a lot of early Fedora's and I love how most of the boys and young men would be wearing the classic Newsboy hats. Awesome video! I actually wear suits and my hats most of the time myself. Course it is mainly for the work I do, which is going around antique shops, pawn shop vintage shops and homes to fix antique clocks, watching and pocket watches. Usually I will be dressed up like this when I make a house call. I usually only do house calls on large clocks, like huge heavy wall long case clocks and tall grandfather clocks. I actually did a house call yesterday on a 1938 Howard Miller grandmother clock that the guy was actually wanting to have fixed and was wanting to sale it. When I asked how much he wanted for it "me thinking he is going to want like $1200 and up" and he sold it to me for $50 bucks!! I was honest with him when I looked this type of clock up and saw that is goes for about $5500 to $8300 is the highest I have seen on this type. Anyway he said he didn't care what it was worth, he just wanted to either get it running and give it to his son "which didn't want it anyway" or sale it as fast as he can to make room. Not to mention he said it belonged to his ex, course he did not say it like I did lol. Still cannot believe I got this really nice grandmother clock for so little!! I got it running last night and I have to say that it is now one of my favorite clocks out of my entire clock collection! I also work on pretty much any time piece you can throw my way. I do love a challenge! Oh well, just thought I'd share this with whoever wanted to read this.. Again I really enjoyed the video! I always felt that I was in the wrong time, I would have been a lot more happier growing up in the late 1880's up to the 1920's and would be awesome to have skipped the great depression! Everyone in their lives will always witness some sort of tragedy.

[@manp1039]

i have heard that sometimes or often these filming events were advertised in advance and people were encouraged to come out to be in the film and to dress nice?

[@jasonkhan854]

I felt like I grew up in the wrong time period too. Instead of growing up in the 80's, i wish I grew up in the 1950's.

[@paulluchter137]

The 50s were peddle pushers and the first bikinis. These old films show people in too heavy and hot as hell in the summer clothing. Flappers exosted in 1925, not everything was so conformist.@@jasonkhan854

[@roncbrady456711]

Great video so important to preserve the history of man kind. Kids today should watch these kind of films.

[@john-viki]

Great video. Thanks for your work.

[@usmale4915]

I really enjoy your film clips. They give a little insight of days long past! Very entertaining. Thank you so much for the upload!

[@justiceLaw0000]

Not one single person had a clue that 95 years later they would be on a thing called KZbin in a thing small enough to fit in a briefcase or even a pocket of their shirts or pants. And that anyone can see them from any part of the world.

[@TIBBIEGIRL1]

Well I don’t know about all the other comments but I do know I enjoyed it thank you for taking us back in time

[@lovethosebudgies]

Fabulous & fascinating! I love old images of Coney Island too. Thanks so much for sharing - it's priceless.

[@shartingfish5761]

My great grand parents can be one of the people on that beach.. first in my family in America from italy, lived in sheepshead bay and would spend weekends at coney island. In 1925 they would have been 27 and 35.. Younger than i am watching this.. Thank you for uploading this amazing footage..

[@lordapophis5723]

Is it me or was there a swastika on the back of that bus @2:46?

[@medicineman2210]

It still means peace. Time to bring it back

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

@@medicineman2210 I agree. Why let the Nazis have it? We surrender too easy. The fasces, a Roman symbol of government authority, was on the back of the Mercury dime. Changed when the Italian Fascists used it.

[@sgtmjrazamommy231]

@@DavidSmith-sb2ix Because it's too synonymous with Nazis. People are not that interested how it's rotated. It means genocide to too many people and their perception is their reality. I don't ever see it being used unless the Alt-Right try to claim it as meaning "peace" when they would want it to instill fear and hatred.

[@SHx589]

Blue Skies you’re wrong.

[@CarlosCruz-ll5ez]

So sad how the nazes ruined the peace sign!

[@janellesadler]

This is great, Michael. Thanks for adding sound. It just takes you back to another time.

[@melissavidic2895]

I just went back in time, thank you! I love clips like this😊

[@caroltenge5147]

at 7:48 the merry go round sequence has such a magic effect!

[@Idelia412]

Great video...nice to see an old roller coaster along with the Luna Park Entrance which are gone. Old buildings in New York in the beginning of the video are probably gone as well. So much history that is no longer around.

[@MsFancy-rx1ur]

April '2019, Remembering When FAMILY ENJOYED THEIR DAY TOGETHER !!! AND RESPECTED EACH OTHER AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS !!! Thank You for SHARING !!

[@robertruffo2134]

Many people still do that, and without all the homophobia, laughed about family violence and racism.

[@lornelz]

You did a good job with the subtle sound effects, enjoyable to watch. preserving old films give us a window to the past.

[@michaelijsbrand]

After a fall i a. Revalidating. Hope to resumé before i become 91 🙂🙂

[@victorsamon9672]

Hope you are doing well,! I am 76 and recovering from a hit and run car that hit me while walking home,!

[@rubysparrow479]

Ahhhh, Coney Island in the summer with Hot dogs and Italian ice. Remembering my childhood just not as far back as then, lol. Thank you for the glimpse of the past. I enjoy watching these old reels.

[@simonjacquesdarmon1955]

je suis d . . . .

[@thetooginator153]

Michael Rogge - Thank you for this wonderful video! It makes sense that a Dutch couple would bring an expensive camera and film from the Netherlands in 1925, because a trip to New York was pretty expensive and time consuming back then. Even for well-off Europeans, it was usually a once-in-a-lifetime trip. It’s not hard to imagine how popular the film was when the couple returned to the Netherlands. Home movies from across the Atlantic were extremely rare (that has certainly changed). I liked watching the reaction to the camera of (usually) boys. Adults knew that it was a movie camera, so they tried to act natural, but the boys had probably never seen a movie camera, so it was pretty exciting.

[@bedfordbanjoshop]

Nice sound, Michael. At 8:47, we hear the conductor announcing "F train to Coney Island". Of course, in 1925, it was called the Culver Line. But, of course, you knew that.

[@bedfordbanjoshop]

@@pexaminer Yes, of course. That is the point, that the added sound referred to the line as the "F Train". That subway line was not called the F Train in 1925. It was called the Culver Line.

[@pexaminer]

@@bedfordbanjoshop Oh, I see. Somehow I missed the fist sentence in your original comment. Thanks.

[@bedfordbanjoshop]

@@pexaminer Yes, I understand - thanks. It's always nice when someone responds to comments I leave.

[@georgekinsey4132]

I have a fold-out/accordian-fold postcard souvenir from Luna Park that belonged to my paternal grandparents (who were old enough to my great-grandparents). The object is copyrighted 1920 (same era as the film). This is the first time I have seen motion pictures of Luna Park. Thanks for sharing!

[@djfritz2001]

That is amazing!! To see it running with a normalized frame rate makes such a HUGE difference. They feel like real people rather than cartoon-ish.

[@darrellsadler2848]

Time Travel is great!

[@nobody9126]

Darrell Sadler would love to go back in time and see it all for myself

[@gregd3551]

@@nobody9126 Bring your straw hat.

[@threexladi]

@@nobody9126 The people would be amazed at how fat I am.

[@After4th]

For white men that is.

[@myezbk1289]

@Zenon Antruzinon that's how stupid and dumb Luna is.

[@violettmurasaki3572]

Thank you very much for sharing this video!

[@patriciaburrows298]

Love your Video. Wish I could go back in time.

[@mtlicq]

Me too! I'd love to vacation back to the 1920's, I'd be enthralled seeing all those cars from back then, and ALL food was real and organic food. ...and the 1920's jazz music ! ♫ ♥

[@Str8From215]

Would be amazing to go back in time for one day and just walk around I love this

[@caroltenge5147]

you would have to wear a hat.

[@connerkirk1043]

@@caroltenge5147 I was just thinking that 🤔

[@abc64pan]

By the looks of it, slim pants and straw hats were all the rage. Also, everybody looking their best for all occasions.

[@FORRESTJASPER]

Straw hats were in style like 60 - 80 years! Nothing in comparison today

No Walmart fatties trolling around....

[@alvexok5523]

Nope. Most people couldn't afford to indulge and pig out back then, plus people in general physically worked harder and were less lazy than many people today. I'm sure that most of us have had a grandpop born and raised in that era who's told us "you're all so spoiled and lazy today, back then we all had to really work to get what we wanted".

[@amandajean7738]

No processed, genetically modified food.

[@moegreenback6854]

BTV= Before TV.

[@lennisefuller3721]

☺️ These are Awesome I can look at them All Day ❤️

[@mikeroerig2499]

I was surprised when I saw the swastica (sp?) on the back of the tour bus at 2:45. Was that common in 1925?

[@The.Renovator]

Before the Nazis used the swastika, it used to be a symbol meant to represent good fortune and well being. The Nazis took the symbol and pretty much destroyed it's original meaning. It would be like if a terrorist organization that caused a war and killed millions used the peace sign, eventually the peace sign will lose it's original meaning because it will be associated with the terrorist organization..

[@kipfogarty6832]

I also noticed this at 2:45, but in 1925 America it had a different meaning. The Nazis had yet to come to power in Germany

[@mrdiplomat9018]

Mike Roerig The American Indians also used the swastika as well. I believe the Finnish Air Force still uses a swastika on their planes, I saw that not long ago.

[@doolally1478]

Spain uses the swastika and kkk type outfits in their ,I imagine very old )traditions. ceremonial outfits

[@doolally1478]

@Chadwicked B your mom.

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

Good work with the sound Michael!

[@Joyce-id3dr]

Just a brief sentence to tell you how enjoyable this film was and with the added sound. Thank you very much.

[@doolally1478]

Just found your channel ! The images come to life with The great sounds you add. :D

[@jemgonzales12]

Thanks for sharing ... love to watch this old flicks 😘😘

[@dixondiaz8448]

In 1925 the swastika was not known as the Nazi Party symbol. It was still the ancient Hindu sign for good luck.

[@jacobmatthew8389]

Hitler designed the nazi flag in 1920 and by 1925 he would have been widely recognized as its leader

[@shalomccs]

1920 to 1928 were the glorious years in New York, but the 30s were pure hell when the market crashed.

[@philipk917]

wow! Thank you for sharing this! Fascinating and amazing to look back in time! :-)

[@SpaneenOomlong]

I saw some 1930's home movies from Holland, and there was a goat hauling a wagon full of one-gallon fuel cans, with the Shell logo on the side. Fuel for stoves I would imagine.

[@clayjo791]

Many of the little boys seen here would have grown up to fight in ww2.

[@ellierfromthebronx4531]

My Dad being one of them...God rest his soul.

[@clayjo791]

@@ellierfromthebronx4531 Your father is a hero from an era of heros. God bless you.

[@Tony_Spilatro]

Clay Jones God doesn't exist.

[@subrosa7708]

@@Tony_Spilatro You do not belive in God, but He believes in you!

[@Tony_Spilatro]

subrosa Fuck How can he believe to me, he doesn't exist.

[@tattyshoesshigure5731]

Fascinating footage of wonderful old NYC... love the boater hats many of the gents are wearing, so cool!

[@richardwilliams4976]

Everyone's so elegantly dressed! 😊😊

[@theenforcerbadguy6566]

Thanks for the video Mr Rogge. Congratulations! Since Brazil, Feb,28,2020.

[@casiswell2135]

Thank you for sharing. There is something special about how people dressed back then, especially when you look at the baggy sloppy shorts that creates laziness and disrespect.

[@GeorgeVreelandHill]

Little did they know how good they had it.

[@PauloOliveira-iw7dq]

🇧🇷 Brazil. Amazing images of a so busy city even in 1925!

[@irisheyes5890]

Much history and architecture lost when they pulled down so many of the old buildings. Thanks for the video.

[@joelee662]

A great look back in time my father was born in 1925 I was born in 1954 it's wonderful to see these old movies how life was I have to say there are to Heroes here one is the men who took the video the other one are the people that are now showing the video thank you so much 👍🇺🇸

[@manp1039]

also remenber the many people protected this fim for the 100 or so years till i got transfered to digetal media

[@davidweber1277]

Fantastic! Thanks for posting this. Had a little chuckle over those late 20th century horn sounds.

[@davidtosh7200]

I remember the old fashioned street lights in New York City with an "acorn" shaped glass refractor (lens) does continued into as late as 1968 as seen on the pictures before switching into more modern Mercury Vapor lamps in 1968 in some area of New York City, then several years later, Sodium Vapor lamps, and now LED street lights. It show the vintage street light as shown on the upper right of the screen at 1:13. Sure gonna miss them. Same thing to the vintage street lights in Detroit Michigan with an "acorn" shaped refractor (lens).

[@alexx-ie1hk]

LED lights are insane

[@jeanmasonmcmahon2515]

I loved this thank you so much my folks were growing up then.

[@keepsmiling5937]

I am from Pakistan and I am loving your old videos. Sir they are interesting

[@altamo3805]

I know, back then in Pakistan, England owned big Indian ans all your asses....

[@threexladi]

The 'handsome boy' Pashto dance video is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.

[@bohemoth1]

😎

[@SimpleMan-wn3nu]

The best thing about this life is it will come to an end. Most of these people are dead and took nothing with them. They left everything behind. We just don't take notice and think about what come next. We just think about this brief life and justifying our greed and evil souls

[@knotgood9077]

TY for all your hard work and content contributions. TY again.

[@lordcron]

Isn't it cool to literally look through time and see people who are long gone now after having lived long fruitful lives. Even the children in this video are gone. Entirely new generations of people are on the planet. Kinda cool.

[@arkady714]

The el train stop at 9:24, might it have been Brighton Beach? My grandparents were from there.

[@mr.salvatorejpluchino8467]

Great video brings back so many memories, great 👍

[@getparadox]

Amazing how much is still recognizable.

[@starbuono3333]

I expected to see Harold Lloyd hanging from one of those buildings !!

[@Myplop]

Hooray for Harold Lloyd bad ap bad ap bad ap

[@DavidSmith-sb2ix]

That was when actors had guts. Or were just plain crazy. Check out Lillian Gish in the icy river scene in Way Down East. It's all real.

[@cyrinecerise3687]

I'm looking for Rodolph valentino ♥️ in 1925 he was still alive ...

[@thesamson1091]

It was so good to see this again thank you those was the good old days

[@Shinobi33]

God if I can just go back to the roaring 20s one day. Visit all the food places. See the sites and then go to a speakeasy at night where they played big band jazz

[@rangerdave1973]

What was the church at the beginning?

[@darrellsadler2848]

This totally awesome! More please.

[@michaelijsbrand]

I have some more on New York. Search with: 'michael rogge new york'

[@Vet-7174]

My great grandfather drove streetcars,Immigrated from Ireland in 1889

[@TheNextGoogification]

It was something to see the wooden spoke car wheels and the bias-ply tires on the Manhattan cobblestone streets. I'm surprised half the cars weren't pulled over at the side fixing flat tires! I wonder how well they held up?

[@1234circle]

nicely done, great sound effects. Thank you

[@avijitkundu8614]

I amazed from where you always got all this footage

[@aollendorf]

My grandfather, 25-years old at the time, was living in Brooklyn and frequenting speakeasies with my grandmother who was a ‘Flapper.’ Life was good until Wall Street ‘Laid an Egg’ in October of 1929. Shortly after, work was hard to come by and my grandparents moved up to Winthrop, Maine so my grandfather could work in his cousin’s mill. My father was born in Winthrop May 1st, 1936. My grandfather contracted tuberculosis there and spent a few years in a Sanitarium. My father, who turns 83 this Wednesday (5-1-2019) did not even know he had a father until he was 5-years old.

[@robertcole1865]

Thanks Mike. Enjoy your weekend.

[@TwilightRO1]

I would give so much to visit 1905-1940's coney island. Luna Park, Dreamland, Steeplechase, and the late 1950's coney island. I grew up in the 90's and some of the steeplechase remnants was still around such as wallpaintings and the burnt Thunderbolt, but by the late 2000's, everything was gone. The old school 90's dj's are somewhat disappearing from the rides as well, stuff i grew up with.

[@brandoncastro2441]

Thanks for sharing love it.

[@CharlieMager1992]

This video is now remarkably 100 years old! Love it

[@tomsmith8781]

Used to take the train to Coney from the village. The boardwalk was new and the water was clean!

[@Zardoz4441]

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing!

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Manhattan 1925, the year Scribner's published F. Scott Fitzgerald's great American novel The Great Gatsby.

[@edenmoreno8705]

I'm a door and there is a scribner family living here

[@edenmoreno8705]

Sorry I'm a doorman and there's a scribner living here

[@723lion]

Thank you for these valuable records

[@AlejandroOjedaN]

Outstanding job with the sounds! I wonder if those buildings are still standing.

[@paulluchter137]

Most of the buildings they show are landmarks, churchs, Woolworth Bldg was tallest in world until late 1920s

[@nysaxman]

Henry Ford started mass producing the Model T in the early 1900s. By 1925 the streets were full of cars. shareholders of Ford stock in the 1920s got rich (or comfortable) later on if they held their shares.

[@frankdiaz9783]

Woaaaa..... What a great footage, I can't believe am actually watching this. NEW YORK NEW YORK. Thanks man!

[@TheCerebralDude]

Native New Yorker here I recognize lower Broadway, the Woolworth building, the Brooklyn Bridge, The Williamsburg Bridge at 2:51 I believe. BMT subway line, Coney Island beach and Boardwalk , the Cyclone roller coaster . Didn’t show Nathan’s on Surf Avenue though. They should have! It opened in 1916 and still going strong! Going to Coney in the summer a ritual for every native New Yorker

[@victorsamon9672]

Was that the Cyclone,,,? or the old Thunderbolt,??!

[@TheCerebralDude]

@@victorsamon9672 I think this too old to be the cyclone

[@vambas.fofana5433]

What a fantastic Old New York City!

[@cheryllthompson5092]

Thank you for these. I'm so glad I found your channel.

[@camboxe]

FANTASTIC! an episode of "Time Tunnel"! . Tanks....

[@elsiegon7118]

Wow this is such a great video!! That roller coaster isn’t t the cyclone or thunderbolt or tornado. I think that was chase to the clouds after it was moved from Brighton beach then they changed the name.

[@professorpatpending8731]

1925 the year my mother was born. She passed away in 1990.

[@abdulrahmanabuhammoud2139]

Professor Pat Pending God bless her soul

[@mtfunnybones469]

Professor Pat Pending very sorry for your loss.

[@professorpatpending8731]

MT FunnyBones. thankyou for your kind words MT FB.

[@stacase]

Mom would have been 18 in 1925 here she is a few years earlier, oldest of three: oi48.tinypic.com/qrcej8.jpg

[@nkley1]

My Mom was born 1925 also. Came up from North Carolina in 1934. The stories she could tell about her life in NYC and Brooklyn during the depression and war times, then to move to Long Island in the 1950’s until her death just this year at 92 and had been still as sharp as a tack.

[@dudemeisterSC]

I find it fascinating to get a glimpse of everyday life a century ago.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

The PanAm building was built in 1963 just north of Grand Central Station on Park Avenue. Eighteen years later it became the MetLife Building.

[@dennismiddlebrooks7027]

The Coney island boardwalk, the long pier, the jetty rocks and some of the buildings on the boardwalk are still there. And of course, that large, long sandy beach.

[@pl5675]

A smartly dressed, gracefully moving boy of about 12 or 13 appears in some scenes, obviously conscious of playing a role in them. I suppose he was a child of the Dutch couple traveling with them. Note that as they approach the beach at Coney Island he mimes swimming motions as if to introduce what is about to come.

[@michaelijsbrand]

Well observed. In fact this couple traveled on to London, Paris and Rome, but I do not recall seeing him in the clips of those visits.

[@390rambler]

The Swastika seen @2:47 is The Aztec Symbol for The Sun. Before Hitler used it, It had no association with Nazis. And the term "Swastika" was unheard of. In German it loosely means " The Crooked Cross"

[@francisferretti148]

This stuff drives me crazy!!! I feel like I've slipped back in time!!!

[@sr633]

Such a treasure, from someone who made a difference in history.

[@barbaraalva2830]

What a time to have lived in

[@terryfriend16]

Great. .. such a great capture. We went to Coney Island on the subway, enjoyed knishes. .. the breakers are still there. Good times. God Bless America.

[@temasek65]

What a definition of a modern world the film represented way back then. Beats most cities even today!

[@deannasoriano2771]

Grandma was 30 this year. Hi grandma. I'm looking at sights she saw. Amazing!!! My dad born 10 years later loved Coney Island. Everyone in this video are just memories now.❤ I'd of rather lived back then wouldnt you???

[@donnaleeclubb119]

I don't think I'd like to live back then. More disease. Though I am no feminist, women did not have many rights. Once you were married, if you had any money whether you earned it or not, it became your husbsnd's money. There were no child labor laws and children were made to work like adults or worse than adults. Diabetic likely died, especially Type 1 and many times Type 2 diabetes. They knew even less back then how to treat it. I could go on.

[@nusratjamia7953]

Beautiful outstanding amazing presentation 😍😘👑👑😘👑😘😍😍⁦❣️⁩🌼🌸

[@Trishafuninthesun11]

I love it thanks for sharing!