1939 - Our Car Trip To Miami (Home Movie)

[@user-ov4bb8ii3w]

I am loving your grandfather’s home movies - bet he never knew a complete stranger would be enjoying his home movies during COVID 19. Thanks again for posting ❣️

[@omegaman1409]

I wished more people uploaded more vintage videos.

[@MrDHiland]

What a treasure for your family...and a pleasure for the rest of us. You are to be commended for preserving this special film. Your grandfather would be very proud of you. As a person who wishes I had been born back in such a time...it was a very good trip to the past. Thanks for sharing this....

[@slarson8044]

I just found this video. Very well done; the captions and information were great. Loved every minute of it.

[@DaveHogerty]

Your effort to save time is appreciated. Especially thanks to Gus.

[@frankbruno8556]

What a joy to watch! Loved the music, too. Thanks for posting!

[@sirhanj]

Thank you for sharing this great video. I grew up in Miami when it was beautiful and not crowded. This brough back many memories of when I was a child. Unfortunately Miami changed so much that we moved to North Carolina.

[@kilroy4123]

Sir im apart of the new generation in Miami (im 21) and im torn between if i should stay or go as well. I love this city, theres pros and cons between how it is versus how it is but i hope i can afford to stay.

[@thebubbacontinuum2645]

@@kilroy4123 Get out while you can.

[@99baggett]

Well done, Sir! As a fellow film preservationist, I sincerely appreciate your efforts to preserve history.

[@stephiesteph7]

Wonderful to see beautiful Miami. Thank you for uploading this history!

[@jazzbo13]

Oh, that there was such a time!

[@Jpkjr52]

Thanks to your Grandfather for this wonderful film. I have been going to Miami every year since 1962 . John in Chicago

[@MikeyD22]

Thoroughly enjoyed this video! Thanks so much for sharing!

[@cynthiafroley4415]

What a wonderful film! Excellent footage of a bygone era! 👍😊👏

[@geoffjacobs1898]

Very very nice!! I enjoyed this immensely!! I've been to al of the places you've mentioned, only decades later and lived in Miami in the 60's, to the 80's. 27 years. Thanks!

[@jger419]

Ah, the family auto trip! Far more a big deal then than now. You always took pictures -- usually snap shots, developed by the drug store photo service and pasted into albums for safekeeping and future reference. This film is so typical of the era, it made me want to get in a time machine and go back there.

[@insaiyanmangaka7277]

I'm 17 this feels so amazing to see how a place looked years ago

[@deny77]

My grandmother Jessie Easton Walsh and my mom, Barbara Walsh, knew your relative Barbara E. Martens. I went to her house in Whitestone a couple of times in the early 1960s. I remember she had a cuckoo clock. She may have been my grandmother's piano teacher. I love these films. Tried leaving a comment on the other KZbin site. Anyway, as a former tv news video librarian I really appreciate that someone took the time to convert these and post them. Thanks!

[@glennpaull903]

Enjoyed your film - brings back memories - Thanks for sharing

[@MarkFS225]

Excellent! Thanks for uploading.

[@raulortal1]

Lovely film . Thank You

[@thebubbacontinuum2645]

Funny how he thought royal palms were "coconut trees." I grew up in Miami, and I recognized exactly one structure: Freedom Tower. I had no idea it was that old. It's nice to know some parents took their kids on long trips and tried to make them appreciate America. When my dad was young, he was selfish and cynical. Not very involved with his family. He didn't mind spending money on golf, but we never got to see much of America. Videos like this remind me that Miami was once a nice place. My the time I arrived there in '69, it was full of rude people, and it's much, much worse now than it was then. A real snake pit. Every single day, I thank God I was able to leave. I don't just mean I say I thank God. I literally thank him.

[@lesliearblaster2711]

This is so cool. My Dad would have been 11 at the time. He and his parents made road trips as far south as Virginia. They lived in Mahoning County Ohio. My Mom would have been 12. Her Dad took road trips to a whole new level, taking his family every summer to a different State by car. My Mom, her Brother, and parents saw places I could only dream of. But we did see the pictures. 😊

[@leversforever9748]

Very cool thanks!! The tower at the end to the right was originally completed in 1925 as the headquarters and printing facility for the newspaper "The Miami News" Then in the 1960s the government used it to process and document refugees from the Cuban Revolution and to provide medical and dental services for them, It's now called "The Freedom Tower"

[@frankhall7005]

Can you imagine how hot it was in August in 1930 with no A/C?

[@lesliearblaster2711]

Yep. It was pretty hot in the 50's too.🥵

[@someguy4911]

Looking at the downtown Miami skyline at the end it's amazing how the courthouse and the Freedom Tower dominated the skyline.

[@cinecelestial6055]

this is amazing

[@benjamindover5676]

We all are born, we all live and we all die. Such is life. Life is short. Don't waste one minute.

[@robertwmartens]

Truly a philosophy to live for!

[@pahoboye]

lovely to see this, very nice of you to share;) i like the colouring at end... quite beautiful.

[@raymondnavarro50]

Amazing that skyline in 1930. I grew up in Miami in the 60s and the skyline grew from the 30s a lot. I went to my sons apartment in the Beach in 2024 and driving back to Miami I told how sorry I was that Miami now its just another scrappy Chicago skyline. No longer the beautiful tropical Miami I knew in the late 60s.

[@jorgejuanlopezdelgado7875]

Nice video , thanks

[@vaxwiz]

Wonderful video of a Florida that no longer exists!

[@davidblanc458]

Wow dude ! Miami back then . . . So beautiful

[@seftonwallet]

Brilliant Robert ......... another piece of history preserved!

[@Silverhorse32]

What a cool movie, thank you for sharing it with us.

[@wesleyAlan9179]

Thats real real cool! Thanks for sharing,sir!😁👍

[@guaromiami]

Great movie! Thanks for sharing.

[@marieelena]

great home movie,thanks for sharing.

[@mmarovitch]

thanks for sharing

[@robertwmartens]

You're welcome!

[@robt5818]

The young man had quite an adventure!

[@jeanneewaseck3987]

TY for sharing!

[@patromano4]

Excellant thanks for sharing .

[@mgzayas]

Thanks for sharing...

[@nicholasyoder]

Fantastic! thank u

[@JD-mv8tl]

Very cool video

[@ernestoalonso2992]

I wish i could've lived on different eras in Miami and seen the changes

[@423alonso]

Great video thank you for sharing God Bless....

[@taurusguy95]

Outstanding!

[@vlogs5894]

Wow its like a timetrip

[@paintbrushful]

great film footage but may I suggest that you 86 the General Patton music. ....maybe something a little more soothing to share these old memories.

[@susanlester1]

👏👏👏👏👏 wonderful!

[@MsElenaPM]

Very good.

[@zero1fifty8]

Ponce De Leon actually first landed a little down stream a ways near Melbourne Beach

[@Dr.Pepper001]

12:13 There were no traffic lanes in Miami. Every man for himself.

[@chu8139]

Great piece, the funniest was seeing people in three piece suits and trench coats in the Florida and Miami heat. lol

[@jerryhayes2351]

And hats!

[@AP-kk4ys]

Hello, I live in Miami. Was the child I saw your grandfather? My father was born in 1928 and my mother in 1935. My mom was 4 years old when your grandfather took this trip. She passed away on January 10, 2020. My father still alive age 93. Thank you for sharing this.

[@robertwmartens]

The child is my father, Reverend Warren G. Martens 1929 - 2012.

[@jerryhayes2351]

Between two wars and a depression, dust-bowl, they still had fun.

[@josecaraballo8644]

Love it

[@patcurry966]

Thanks for posting . I was not born then.

[@wattehel]

They did it right, sounds like they used a rank type transfer.

[@wattehel]

Aside from the jitter it looks great. Looks as though the base has shrunk. Was it done on a projector or a rank transfer. The rank type is more expensive but can handle the shrunk base better.

[@dougthompson5586]

what happened to Philly..Baltimore..Raleigh and Jacksonville ?

[@robertwmartens]

I wish I could ask that question to my grandfather who made the movie, but he's been dead since 1977, and my father (the little boy in the movie) is gone too. I can only surmise that their time was limited (it was a business trip for Grandpa after all) so they could not have possibly squeezed all those other cities into the time they had available. But they did get to see Washington DC, Mount Vernon, Charleston and St. Augustine in addition to Miami. That must have been plenty enough for one long car trip back in the year 1939 when there was no Interstate system.

[@roydean1137]

What time of year was it? It looked like April because there were leaves on the trees in DC. People were wearing coats there. What I found funny was people were wearing coats in Miami. That was cool. My how Miami has changed.

[@dadsoldtapes]

Wow this is so cool... I just wish there were scenes of the actual drive down (I would assume) US-1... btw, the Benjamin Franklin Bridge across the Delaware in Philadelphia was built at the time, I wonder why they didn't cross over it instead of a ferry.

[@michaela.chmieloski3196]

I'd take a relaxing ferryboat ride rather than a bridge everytime.

[@mikhailpuzeev8961]

Вот это качество съёмки 80 лет назад!!!

[@robertwmartens]

I'm not so good with the terminology, but I do remember the service saying that they used a "wet gate" to remove the scratches, and instead of running the film by its sprockets, they used flat rollers to move the film. I hope that's enough of a description to answer your questions. Otherwise, you could contact Duggal NYC directly - [phone] .

[@wattehel]

Where did you get the transfer done?

[@delta0921]

Nice video but music was so annoyingly loud. Horns blaring too much, I just ended up muting the sound.

[@bluenorm]

Ferde Grofe 1964-65 new York world fair suit. commissioned by Robert Moses

[@cwb0051]

I love these, but could do Without the music..

[@karenhargis9824]

It's a shame that Miami is covered in concrete and trash.... Miami should have been better protected from what it has been become presently.

[@robertwmartens]

Duggal Visual Solutions, Inc. in Manhattan.

[@ЛевоПравыйЦентроРадикал]

7:28 12:15

[@kirkmarrie8060]

2021.03.01

[@ct1762]

Meanwhile in Europe...

[@edwardroche2480]

That music really sucks it just makes it less interesting. The music's so annoying I'm not even going to finish watching it

[@LAUS-DEO-HAWAII]

THERE ARE PLENTY OF COMPANIES OUT THERE THAT WILL TAKE YOUR FILM AND CLEAN IT UP FOR YOU AND GIMBLE IT DOWN, WHY DONT YOU FIND ONE?