1939 New York City, In Color...
 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=WgqRN40TXrE

Cool look back in time. :)

Great color footage.

I've got a quarter in my pocket... I think I'll have a couple of those 5 cent pina coladas then go check out that crazy motion picture about some wizard in Oz that everyone is talking about:drinkup

:stoned

ADG

I always found that era so fascinating. how they are still very advanced in terms of mankind's accomplishments and capabilities, an economy that allowed people to prosper, people had respect, worked hard and had beautiful homes to show for it when they did, had good family values (usually) and sooo much less unhealthy distractions for their children. They seemed to enjoy life more than we do now..

I've seen both of those footages but not side by side like that... nice!:thumbsup

While family life may have been "better" then, the earthquake shook the economy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1907

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/200...inancial-world

America was then still isolated country compared to today omnipresent country.

NYC was not in color back then

Not till the 2nd season, but the earlier episodes have been colorized:upsidedow

Welcome back; seems like it has been a while

I feel the same way about that era - simpler better more civilized times. WWII changed the world and may have changed the United States more than any other country.

We are such slobs today. Looking at everybody dressed nicely, well groomed, very few fatsos - seems like they had self control and more self respect. We inherited a renewed sense of freedom through WWII, perhaps too much freedom.

ok, grampa

Nice color footage :thumbsup

Back then, air was clean. I wonder what that was like.

i kunt a4d 2b in color... :(

It always amazes me how they did that without computers and mobile phones.....

Imagine doing the accounts for a building like the Empire State on paper...

don't like watching dead people :) j/k

nice video interesting

i wouldn't be so sure about that. back then everything sold in america was made in america. now we export our pollution machines to third world countries.

everyone has this idea that this was some idealistic time and while i agree to some extent you've also got to keep in mind that duing this time the KKK and the like were huge. black men were lynched and hung on a regular basis. getting away with murder was much easier. you've got to wonder what the underground was like back then. its horrible now but there is also so much technology to catch them. back then there was almost nothing. it sure does look cool though watching that clip.

Cool stuff! :thumbsup

Very cool - Notice all the woman wearing dresses and the men wearing button up shirts and hats.

And the police man directing traffic... too much!

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They definitely had their share of heartaches, yeah. My gramma has told me many stories of how hard life was.. but isn't it funny, she always said that life was BETTER and happier.

Each era has it own specific problems, sounds like utopia, but not to the people who lived it:2 cents:

Thanks!:) Been out of the loop a bit dealing with back to back family losses and other calamaties:Oh crap

I enjoyed watching that, thanks.

My grandma and her siblings when not in school spent long hours farming and always referred to those as the good old days. In 1939 she was 18, had a job at a drug store cafe and just starting her fun times :)

Seeing old clips is enough for me, I too am so glad to be in this era. Wouldn't it be awesome to be able to know what people 80 years from now think of OUR era? Will our lives seem as simple to them as we see those 80 ago?:stoned

No deodorant though.

sure it was happier because they didn't know any better. the severe lack of information about what was happening in the world and even their state was huge. today we know everything (or most things), so its much easier to be cynical.

Love that city!

Where's all the black people ?

Sorry; hope it is [somewhat] sorted now.

Jungle Jitters (1938) pretty much sums it up.

No it wasn't. In 1939 the air quality in a big city like New York was MUCH worse than it is today.

Cars were much more polluting than they are today...but the real big problem with the air in a big city in 1939 was COAL.
That was THE fuel that everyone used for heating.

That's why in the 1900's up until the 1980's big cities were so horribly polluted in the air.
Today the air quality overall, even in small towns, is much better than it was during the big industrial era.

I know it sounds crazy...but Google it up for youself and check the stats on it.

Google up "what year did people start using deodorant"

It's been around for centuries. :)

No World Trade Centre then...no World Trade Centre now.

Doing good now, thanx! :)

The Tuskegee Institute has recorded 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites were lynched between 1882 and 1968.

of course i'm not diminishing the act but lynchings were not as common as most people think and it was confined to the South and Old West.

That is the sort of stuff I love. I saw the London one not too long ago.

yes, because lynching was such a well documented event.

lynching postcards!

https://www.google.ca/search?q=lnych...F%3B1100%3B816

15 cents and on of these pics can be yours!

He is bald and all :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

What's a 90 year old lady's pussy taste like?

"Depends"

Nearly 4,000 lynched black people is such a small number..