Summer of 1931 - College Point, Long Island

[@wolfpak8228]

I love those cars and the puppy too

[@violinpaganini2651]

I love those old time . People were sooooooooo nice . Thanks for showing us .

[@tommiesperrazza9500]

Thank you for the clips of college point LONG ISLAND. You should see it know what a mess. It was great growing up in College Point. Dirt bike trails everyplace. Very safe to walk the streets

[@ripman3616]

I just found this. it is nice seeing college point in the old days. I have lived in cp all my life, sometimes change is not good.

[@c.l.a.m.9378]

How wonderful to have these movies!

[@josecaraballo8644]

Your grandpa Look like a loving man 🙏 Bless him in heaven, With his wife and parents 🙏🙏🙏

[@raindear60]

As usual...excellent. You are so fortunate to have these chronicles of your family history.

[@michaela.chmieloski3196]

The lady waits for the gentleman to open the car door and escort her into the house. Nicely, and properly, done. Love the ornate downspout straps visible on the house at the very end of the video--a time when form was just as important as function for even the simplest of things.

[@NightStars1122]

Oh My! How different now College point is compared with back then. This is 80 years ago. WOW. Back then it was like a suburban area, everything is wide open. What a change. Thank you for uploading.

[@RatPfink66]

Marvelous. What a different place Queens was in 1931. You would hardly know you were in Da Boroughs. And that is some dog. Very talented ears.

[@rosebudame]

I'm sending this to my friend who grew up in College Point!

[@genebigs1749]

Fantastic footage! It's nice to see Queens when it was "The Country"! What a great record of your family history as well. Thanks for posting this!

[@Qboro66]

Wonderful! Would have loved to have heard Grossey talk,imparting her years of wisdom on all of us. That block looked nearly brand new.

[@BSS14285]

love looking at these old memories I used to live there in the Schleicher Mansion which has quite a history in and of itself

[@seftonwallet]

Beautifully filmed. So clear, so fresh. Wonderful

[@MARKMANIATT]

A wonderful film and a wonderful looking family.What a treasure to have of your folks.It could only be improved if it also had sound.Thanks for sharing....

[@robertwmartens]

Thank you for the identification!

[@RobyHappyDad19]

Beautiful memories

[@hep2jive]

Oh America. what we were! what an era!!

[@gravitas7583]

Amazing

[@tinamagnuson2]

You should make a video showing the locations today

[@robertwmartens]

@joclance22 Oops, I made a mistake in the title - it's really 7th Avenue, between College Place and 119th Street. Thanks for bringing my attention to it - I added a corrective caption to the title at 3:32. Sorry if I caused any confusion!

[@whoyodanny]

Astounding to see wuch wonderful footage from the tender year of 1931. What sort of camera was used? I didn't think there were home movie cameras until the 40s. Great. Thank you.

[@wolfpak8228]

Hard times for most every one !

[@robertwmartens]

I have in my possession the camera that I believe my Grandfather used from the early 1930's up till the 1950's. Its a 16mm CINE KODAK Model K manufactured by Eastman Kodak. It's main body is 8 inches long, 2 inches thick and weighs about 5 pounds. Grandpa had to wind up a spring to operate it, and he had to load and unload the film in a darkened room - there were no cartridges back then! I just tried winding it up - it still runs!! Sounded a bit cranky, though.

[@manuelaparedes2708]

What street was the house

[@robertwmartens]

@ihateyourfaceee True, but geographically, both Brooklyn and Queens are on the island known as Long Island (look at the map), and at the time that my grandparents lived, College Pointers generally identified themselves more with residents of Nassau county than with Manhattan or The Bronx. Before Zip Codes were instituted, they would put "College Point, L.I." as the return address on their mail, and the post office made no issue of it. That's how it was up until the 1960s or so.

[@travelingman484]

Mr Martens. Would you happen to have the street address of this scene of the house. I am a new york city bus operator and would be curious to see what it looks like tooday. I have a book with pictures of bridge street and college point blvd during the late 1800's

[@gatheringleaves]

Subscribed!

[@robertwmartens]

Actually, it is indeed a part of Long Island - geographically speaking. But I see your point. When people today say "Long Island" they generally mean Nassau and Suffolk counties, but back in the days when my grandparents were young, residents of College Point just as often said "College Point, Long Island" as "College Point, NY" or "College Point, Queens." In fact, before zip codes, residents often wrote "College Point, LI" on their mail.

[@TROUBLEMANFISH]

I was born and raised in college point and wish it was like this now not like all the garage that moved in

[@horacewild]

cool

[@caroltenge5147]

at 0.59 thats a 30 buick! Wouldnt ya rather......... WOW!

[@queenzzgal]

get that guy ihateyourfaceee a map!

[@robertwmartens]

@ihateyourfaceee It is also important to know that before the year 1898, Queens was a county of New York State, NOT a borough of NYC, and it's residents called themselves Long Islanders. Then in 1898, Queens County was split into the NYC Borough of Queens and Nassau County. But old habits die hard, and the residents of Queens continued calling themselves Long Islanders long after the split and consolidation into NYC occurred.