Early Last Century

[IsabellaDonnaM]

amazing....wow.....old is gold....wow

[Armandtanzarbo]

I remember a great aunt of mine telling me how she worked in an umbrella factory in the twenties. After her shift she was expected to take materials home and make ten umbrella's by the following morning. We shouldn't complain about our lives now.

[MPL029]

haunting photo at 1:07..wonder what was going thru that girls mind...working in a factory at that age..and with an old woman at the sewing machine right in front of her..."will that be me in 50 years"..or was she thinking.."I will NOT be that in 50 years"?!?!

[TheSteverino1]

nicely done..I really enjoyed it..Thank You JDproductions

[italobambino43]

Thank you for posting this, I have to say the picture of Market street in Philadelphia caught my eye, I recognize that photo, I have it in a book. You must be from this area, some of the photo's are of Old North Broad street and downtown near city hall. Great piece and good choice of music, makes me think of my Grandparents, they were born around that time.

[carlosmiller]

Sometimes just looking at old pictures I have the feeling that I lived in that time!

[Talulah1997]

When I see them, I wished I would have lived back then!!! Life seems to have been so much more quiet and friendly and marvelous with people focusing on entire different things in life compared to today s consumption society...

[carlosmiller]

very true!!!

[italobambino43]

I understand what you are saying, we have lost so much in this country, my late father lived through the depression, he always said that our generation would never know how to cope with the lack of luxuries that we have come accustomed to. He told me that people actually sat around in the living room after supper and listened to the radio! He talked about my older brothers back in the 60's in front of the TV, he said his sons looked like little white faced zombies, in front of the "boob tube" !

[MPL029]

@italobambino43 I understand..but its all relative to time..in 100 years they will look back at us and wonder the same thoughts...as Im sure your father did about people who lived in cica 1880. And people in 1880 would se listening to a radio as grandiose!

[italobambino43]

Oh, I agree, I was a teenager in the mid to late 80's, and sometimes the things that I find myself remarking on now a days that I view as being odd makes me realize that I have morphed in to my parents. Jesus, I hear kids my nephews age saying the 90's were old school, LOL.

[italobambino43]

@MPL029

You are so right, my father was born in 1928, my mother 1932. They remarked on things that their parents ways and beliefs to, I guess like you said 100 years will pass, and they will do a film about 2001!

[GeminiNightOwl]

I agree it seems so familiar to me

[josseppie]

I love watching old photos. I believe in reincarnation and I wonder if I was in any of these pictures in a former life lol

[StewedTomato]

Just want to let you know, I watch and listen to your videos often to relax with and injoy! Thanks again JD !

[cowboys4good]

I really love it! Keep posting something like this more please. I am so in love with an old footage and old still picture.

Thanks for sharing this!!

[JDProductions2]

Thanks for watching!

[cowboys4good]

I really like the music too. What is the name of this song if I may ask? It's beautiful and nostalgic.

[JDProductions2]

It's "The End of August" by Yanni

[llamaduckquackkk]

really nice video!

[JDProductions2]

Thanks!

[GuinevereJuliet]

Absolutely lovely. This was when America was still America: innocent, elegant, hopeful, magical, and genuine. Thank you for reminding me of what our once-majestic nation was like. I now understand my grandfather's remark that "1910 was one of the best years" he remembered. Despite some hardships, it was a better era in terms of decency, morality, and culture.

[JDProductions2]

Your Grandfather was correct.

[UnconventionalViews]

Yes indeed, and I think of how free they were. The nanny state didn't exist; there weren't silly laws controlling down to every last detail. I would rather have less modern conveniences and more freedom.

[GeminiNightOwl]

I'm with you all the way on that thought

[mistacord]

Hi Jd awesome pictures i've seen this video several times and i don't get tire...

could you upload something about sutro baths

please.

[JDProductions2]

Glad you enjoy it! Sutro Baths looks very interesting. Let me see what I can dig up.

[sHaDoWoFsWoRdS]

i LOVE the pic at 2:35....looks like a soda shoppe.....sooo awesome...thats where ppl went if they wanted ice-cream or lemonade...not like us today just pulling it out the fridge...

[JDProductions2]

There were still a couple of "parlors" like that left when I was a kid. Everything was made of marble; they were like palaces. The ice cream and sodas always tasted better there...

[sHaDoWoFsWoRdS]

I bet they did...i bet everything tasted better back then!

[ImFrom1900]

You're probably right. They probably didn't use anything artificial in food in those days.

[mistacord]

it's like travelling in a time machine

Thanks.

[JDProductions2]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!

[hep2jive]

done very well! do some more 1940s stuff!!

[JDProductions2]

Thank you!

[Aentnothan]

Outstanding pictures (so clear!). Perfect accompaniment. I use it as a kickoff for my playlist, The Past, Part 2 -- its a little like an overture.

[JDProductions2]

These are mostly from the Ontario archives and the Library of Congress. Glad you liked it.

[Aentnothan]

Wow, serious research. Do the Ontario archive and LoC have pictures on the web, or do you have to show up in person?

[JDProductions2]

The LoC has them under "American Memory"

I can't post the website for Ontario here, but if you google image search say, "Yonge Street", you'll find it.