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  • The kid in the last 3 seconds who smiles at the camera kinda creeped me out

  • what a splendid filmographer old chap

  • its amazing to think how was life was back then

  • wow. great post.

  • that's how they have fun at that time..

  • I wonder what people smelled like back then, wearing all these multiple layers of heavy clothing in the middle of the summer! O_o

  • @atomicgirlnyc And this was 1901. There was little indoor plumbing then. Not much in the way of showers or toilets. Yeesh! O_o is right!

  • I worked on 23rd street from c.1969 to 1990. I guess that's the 6th avenue EL in the background.

  • my grandmother was one year old when this video was made

  • @rookerzzz wonderfull world right? :) .... awesome

  • Even poor people dressed classy back then.

  • Where did so so much memory to record such a long video came that time?

  • @dhara302

    memory? there were no memory cards back then ya know. it's called film.

  • I would love to visit that era. Maybe I lived in it in a past life...you never know.

  • That was probably the most fun the couple had all year.

  • @scottbaino lmfao !

  • The oldest living man in the U.S., Mr. Shelby Harris, was born on March 29th of that year. So yeah, everyone in this little flick is dead and some day you will be as well. It's not that wierd. Hell, little Zuzu is the only known living cast member of "It's a Wonderful Life" and that was only 1946.

  • RIP everybody.

  • 1:10

    Queen Victoria shits her dress.

  • wow their generation looks very interesting!! I wouldnt mind wasting

    one of my wishes to go their for vacation by traveling to 1901

    then when ever i would get bored there I would time travel back to 2011..

    But I will be staying in that generation for pretty long time ..

  • Music - 20-30 yr XX - no in 1901

  • @Tm123P because the 1900's music sucks, believe i know what i'm saying.

  • at 0:39, that guy was like: I'm Gonna Cross the Street.. Whoops! I'm interrupting a picture..

  • Great video! It is awesome to think that in the year 2101, people will be watching us in our daily lives.

  • @pettyofficer30 We do now... watching people's vlogs...

  • @CoastlineSA LMFAOOOOO

  • Yeah, all these people are dead. But then, everyone you see around you today is going to die someday as well.

    That's what life is all about.

  • Every single living thing in this film is dead.

  • @DJBell1986 I watch this video and I wonder what those people had to on that day. I wonder what they did for work, what meal they were going to have for dinner that evening. Youtube is awesome! We don't know who these people are, but videos like this allows us to remember their existence.

  • @pettyofficer30 They were going to have a wank. They were all prostitutes and dogcatchers, and they were going to eat Jello pudding for dinner.

  • @CoastlineSA got me excited (you can tell I don't get out much)

  • I love the clothes then :D

  • so cool! hah

  • The sidewalk was a lot wider in 1901; they had cable cars & horses. Now we have the dull M23 and a monotony of senseless traffic. The footage was great.

  • @CoastlineSA thats why they kept it

  • A mi me paso lo mismo en Madrid en el 2011

  • wow im gonna visit 23rd st. tom..

  • *WOW*

  • That young couple appeared to be made not at all melancholic by the wanton effects of that blustering sidewalk grate. They seemed rather gay, by cracky!

  • this music you added is GAY

  • @Burritoast

    Pretty sure this came with the Video. But anyways, this is the type of music that you should be appreciative of. If it weren't for inovations in this field of music, developing new styles and such, you wouldn't have your dubstep, or Metallica, Led Zeplin, RHCP, Nirvana, etc...

    Love what came before, Classical's Where it's at. If you can't stand to learn these things, you don't deserve to be a musician, much less even listen to it. And I grew up with all this Metal, rock, etc..

  • @supersmashermeta This message goes out to everyone, not just this Guy.

    (He's not a Musician, some adrenaline Junky.)

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  • Wonder if it smells as bad then as it does know.

  • to me this video feels like it was more a 1919-1920 but no... its actually 1901.. I just never new what the world beyond looked like in at that time i suppose.. like i said 1901 well u would of think there wasnt such a exsisting city and tall buildings... i only thought it was like tiny city with conficts and rats all over a dirty muddy narrow streets. But here it looks like a giant city.... So what did new york looked like in 1988 ? other then 1901

  • @VOXS2 I thought it would look more like the town of Blackwater from Red Dead Redemption... I wasn't too far off! :D

  • @danerogil well hard to believe this was really 1901.. well that thing on the ground looks high tech for a 1901. if you know what i mean. Plus the city looks huge considering ti was 1901.what would the city had been like in 1888 or less ? course 1901 looks there more like the year 1919 instead. Well kind of. and 1901 you would think there wasnt such an exsiting city.. only small black dirty towns with buddy streets and grawling rats all over the place and a petter pan look alike with the floot.

  • @VOXS2 ... Yeah...

  • does anyone now exactly what the porpose of this video was meant to be for in 1901 ? Doesnt look real. Well it is real 1901 but it looks like everthing there is an act just for this movie set in 1901 ? Also new york looked quite advance and lots of tall buildings look alike in 1901.... i thought in 1901 there was such no city look alike. I had the feeling a city would look like dirty little towns with rats all over the streets and rape gangs around and dark narrow streets. But this looks advance

  • A fortuitous turn of events in 1901, captured forever on film.

  • All of the people are dead :p

  • 1:10 how could they put that on television??? there are children watching this!!!

  • 1:20 yay a black person

  • them people walked fast af

  • Hats...hats everywhere. To think that Hitler was twelve when this was filmed.

  • @ChristmassApe dont start that nazi shit again

  • There musit be someones's grand father or grand mother.

  • This is sad and creepy lol

  • @CoastlineSA i think she knew what she was doin too........

  • i like the woman in the background on the left that had walked by

  • Of those who left in this movie ... There will be some still alive ?

  • @bompiberlot Thats like 110 years ago. Anyone in the film would be dead, There may be someone who was born around that era, alive today.

  • Now I wonder how many men would have wolf-whistled at that back then!

    But yeah, showing so much as ankle would have been pretty raunchy stuff.

  • The most hated state in the union...but look here at the normal New Yorkers before they got angry and pissed off at the world, Lived there for 23 years (brooklyn) was born in California (Santa Fe) and never new how bad it was until I left and went back home god it is good to be back home.

  • @nichols4326 Maybe if you had grown up in New York instead of California, you'd know how to spell "knew" and use punctuation. Don't hurry back here, genius.

  • Wow, who knew? Marilyn Monroe in 1901!

  • Now 23rd STREET HAS A LARGE GAY POPULATION , WHICH IS GOOD.

    BACK THEN LIFE WAS SO HARD COMPARE TO NOW, PEOPLE WORKED HARDER.

    THERE WERE NO DIVERSITY, IT WAS VERY RACIST, IT WAS BORING.

  • @ciel222 In Manhattan during that year, there was TONS of ethnic diversity as immigrants were pouring into the U.S. heavily at that time. Yes, it was very racist. Some may argue that it still is. Boring? I've observed that those who find their lives boring are generally boring people. One can find a world in a leaf and boredom is what one makes of their surroundings...in most cases.

  • anybody notice that dude in the white shirt just standing there the entire video? thumbs up if you see him.

  • I. See. Dead. People. O_O

  • The importance of documentating the most we can: what seems banal to us now, will be considered extremely important footage in 100 years.

  • Vito Corleone can't even speak English yet!

  • What is that powered vehicle at 0:40 that goes from the right to the left and pulls up to the curb?

  • Poor girl, caught in the wind. What a gorgeous smile. I wonder what her name was.

  • Today on 23rd street, all you see is drunk adults running around and taxi drivers who run red lights.

  • WHEN LIFE WAS TOUGH..NO SUCH THING AS WELFARE OR RETIREMENT. U WORKED YOUR ASS OFF TILL U WERE DEAD...MAN WE R PUSSIES, COMPARED 2 OUR GREAT GRAND PARENTS...WE HAV IT 2 EASY.

  • @chadberry75 Welfare doesn't make life easier. It ruins societies.

  • @chadberry75 What's wrong with having it "2" easy? Along with that, we have better communications, education, health, longevity, reduction of disease, and last but not least...You Tube. Apparently you long for this time. All you have to do is move to where conditions are as you like, say Haiti?

  • Where is my tea, tophat and monocle??!

  • I still don't know what happened.

  • the man and that lady is a time traveler..

  • People back then had better manners and were much more kinder than people today. Males are arrogant and selfish and don't care whereas women are too stuck on their cell phones and obsessed with their looks. Men didn't wear earrings too. Which is good. Why should men wear them? It looks stupid!

  • Incredible.

  • The walking dead

  • obesity was not as prevalent back then

    

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  • Why did the fat woman cross the street?

  • That's gotta suck back then just look how they walk!

  • 1:09 = Marylin Monroe circa 1901

  • @jimmy10798 LMFAO :D

  • Granmas had real legs under their skirts.

  • @teogrimo You know thats right!

  • Everyone looked pimp back then.

  • For all those posts stating thatall these people are dead is so irrevelent and stupid. We're all going to be dead 100 years from now. That's like people 100 years from now people looking at videos of us and laughing and saying "Ha! Ha! Those people are all dead!"

  • @caban70 Thank You!

    

  • I'm going to go back in time with my 4028p Camera and film around in 1860s, and release it on YouTube

  • @SMGJohn thats my dream as well...race you to it lol

  • @SMGJohn Why not earlier eras? If given the chance, I would film hunter-gatherers, the people called "cavemen" even though most didn't live in caves the whole time.

  • @Rao665 Now I see thy oneself is being so ubiquitously garrulous flexing one's whims in such a flamboyantly omniscient manner must I be so mildly egregious in reply to such mastery of nebulous obfuscating prowess? I simply can attest that you unkind Ma'am is one of whom personifies an individual with the mere callousness of being indirectly prudent with confabulating paranoid retorts to obtusely address your own profound points in some sort of medium of pragmatic pretenses. Lady - slap yourself.

  • just fresh off the boat from ireland walking down the street. WTF IS THAT THING? Dude just keep walking idk what it is

  • those gosh darned irishmen, shoulda sent them off when we had the chance.

  • Their all dead now! Noooo! T_T

  • Great music!

  • Impressive, we've gotten so used to the things that make our life so easy nowadays. We always wonder how we could ever do without them. This video shows the answer: we'd actually be very merry people!

  • Where is this? when i go to New York i want to film this exact spot so we can all see how it has changed :)

  • 0:22 THERE I AM!!!!! no im joking(:

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  • There was no "Big Apple" in New York then only Big Pockets and Big Egos??? Fuck there still are today - like Snake said in "Escape From New York" The more things change the more they stay the same. Well two buildings did come down and I have a vague understanding if they're going to rebuild something there? I've always said New York effects America the most - Not Los Angeles nor California. Los Angeles compared to New York then is like comparing a cherry to the world's biggest pumpkin.

  • @DetroitLove4U

    exaclty, and that cherry has more flavor than the worlds biggest pumpkin. yeah by the way, youtube and the rest of the fucking Internets is based out of California. New York may be america's zygote, but California is the world's future.

  • @Rao665 Uhhh - you might want to reconsider what you're saying when California has SO MANY ECONOMIC PROBLEMS from both the private and public sectors. Some flavor that Cherry has. Where is the Wall Street in California - please do tell.

  • @DetroitLove4U

    UHHH...uhh....you might want to take a look at your fucking name there buddy. UHHH...You might want to consider this website your using right now were made from kids living in California...Uhhhh you might want to consider most of the Internet corporations come from California...UHHHH you might want to take a look at your damned You Tube handle...before you go and tell me about Economic problems. Uhhh...where is the wall street in Detroit uhhh....please do tell Uhhh -

  • @DetroitLove4U

    Uhh. - you might want to consider that...Uhhhhh there's no Wall Street in LA because uhhhhh there never was a need to build walls around the city like New York did like n the early years of the country. Uhhhh, and uhhh...every city has their financial district uhhhh....the one in New York had more time to evolve so uhh no shit it would be the location of the Nations stock exchange so uhhhh..

  • @DetroitLove4U

    And Uhh...if your the kind of idiot who would rather eat giant pumpkins than sweet cherries, then be my guess. But uhh don't bring up "Economic" issues when New York City had its Economic problems in the 70's-and 80's...and uhhh California's GDP is STILL equal to that of whole countries like Spain, and Italy. And right below that of China.. Uh please do tell.

  • @DetroitLove4U

    And Uhh "New York effects.."

    you meant "affects America the most" right?????. Uhh please do tell, where are the Military bases in New York? Uhh why is Pendleton, San Diego Naval Base located out in California? You want to talk that junk on "how NYC affects the US the most"? take a look at the US's military arm. and you'll see where its located at.

  • @Rao665 Uhhh you might want to get a life outside of your computer ego. I thought we were talking about now ........ according to what you said California "is now" and you're talking about New York in the 70's and 80's what the fuck does that have to do with California's economic ebb? The verb "effect" means to CAUSE MR. LOSER ASS although it is not used as often. Funny how you're rambling mind just jumped to Detroit - sounds like you have nothing better to do than be so impishly profound.

  • @DetroitLove4U

    "Loser ass"?? talk about "ego" you shitbag. and using "fuck" is that suppose to make your point stronger?

    Your the one who brings up Californias economics. When its still on par with sovereign states. And what the fuck does New York in the 70's and 80's have to do with it? Every state goes through a cycle you fuck. Dont know why you even bothered mentioning california's current economics.

  • @Rao665 You brought up the 70's and 80's about New York dunce face. Get a clue - READ WHAT YOU STATE. Get another clue you menacing asshole - CALIFORNIA IS VIRTUALLY RUNNING ON ECONOMIC FUMES. Geeez - got to spell it all out for you. Tell Governor Brown about "how on par" the state of California is. Making what point stronger????? Lady get the hell off this forum you motormouth jack ass magoo. Take your ego to mommy while your at it.

  • @DetroitLove4U

    "dunce face" what are you? straight out of the 1920's? How bout them Brooklyn Dodgers ehh...How bout that Lomax Wakowski...finest ball fielder west of Rochester! I'll tell you how 'on par' Detroit is...and apparently someone doesn't know ebb and flow in Economics. Talk about ego...i don't go around calling people "dunce face"....dang nammit! How about that Cockrel! You might want to tell him commercials isn't going to save the city. By the way, you voted for Taft didn't you?

  • @DetroitLove4U

    dang nammit. I knew yous was a Tafter! That ole Taft...crazy sonnofabitch! Heard he sat on a trolley and crushed it he did! how bouts a game of stickball sir!?

  • @Rao665 New York has always made America what it is for the most part with several other Eastern towns. All your "Uhh's" make me think you become too infatuated with your ego on a computer. Must be California life - by the way shit for brains I live in this state. For the record - Don't recall California having much stake outside of a gold rush in the shape of America coming forth to fruition. America didn't start in California.

  • The guy, or kid, in the middle standing next to the carriage is holding a sign.

    What does it say?

  • The old air up the skirt prank eh........nice

  • @MusicPerson531 no its not

  • The original Marilyn Monroe scene..............

  • @MusicPerson531 i know! its so weird like even when i watch the wizard of oz i think everyone's dead but i think one person? :$ its fucking weird

  • @8173415 yea weird! one day they will look back at us and say were all dead

  • @MusicPerson531 you can say the same thing looking at many 1960's photos.

  • I like the young boy in white who tries so hard to stay in the shot. This might be the first recorded case of autism.

  • 100 years later and Toronto has the same streetcars ... lol ..

  • So that's where Marilyn got the idea from!?!

    I'm suffering in England from the viruses that have been on the planet long before humans were, and they'll be here long afterour species has gone.

    It amazes me to think how much has happened in around 100yrs!!!

    Can anyone explain this technological advance?

    Reasonable theories only please!

  • haha love the boy lookin at the camera in the back ground.

  • Look at all those horses!!!

  • Fantastic film great song wow 1901 110 years ago.

  • Look at all those dead people walking around.

  • @shakedownstreet48 No there still alive they been transported to another planet.Where things stay the  same and you never die.It's call the old time planet.

  • @PREZ150 Interesting idea. Now it's time for your medicine and your return to the planet Earth.... ;)

  • @shakedownstreet48 And very soon us too, how exciting

  • Im sure her chicken pot pie felt better after that. It was probably screaming for air since they wore so many clothes!!! Hahahahahaha

  • Im sure her chicken pot pie felt better after that. It was probably screaming for air since they wore so many clothes!!! Hahahahahaha

  • that kid looked over ten. even if he was ten he'd be 110 years old.

    doubt it.

  • @DimixDivine Assuming the kid was 10 in 1901 then that means he would be 120 yrs. old now not 110.

  • everyone in this video. is dead. weird huh?

  • @DimixDivine Maybe not, there was one boy

  • @DimixDivine yeah death comes to us all & that is strange that is has existed for all living life forms, weird huh?

  • Thank god for the new modern subways running under the street. Now we can see women's shins! To think that we would become so wicked as to be waiting for ladies dresses to be blown up around their ankles. Now lets go down to the Bowery, buy a whore, contract syphilis and die in a sanitarium!

  • wondering where on 23rd this is... is that the flat iron building in the back?

    this is where the phrase 23 skidoo came from. Guys would stand on 23rd street and wait for women's dresses to rise up... so the police would tell them... "23... skidoo" in other words... move along

  • Marilyn Monroe @ 1:09 - 1:11. Haha.

  • Hmm, looks like New York traffic has always been crowded.

  • funny...

  • The couple walking into frame at the end may have been a set up as the lady's skirt blew up over the grate(from a subway train?-pretty risque for that time), anyway, he was NOT a gentleman as he allowed the lady to walk nearer the street than he, for as any gentleman knows, the custom of the man walking nearer the street was because of the possibility of horses or later cars kicking up dust, dirt and water. In that case the gentleman would be splashed and the lady protected.

  • women looked so beautiful back then and men looked decent not like today most people walking around in joggers lol

  • This is kind of depressing.

    This is what we'll be in a hundred years, just blurry videos for our descendants too poke fun at.

  • That girl looked beautiful...

  • @Lasse3030

    Nope its real

  • women had class back then...not like our little girls today! sorry. but its sooo true. even men were gentilemen not assholes like today. 

  • Im going to recreate this!

    im going to try and find the exact location and make this video all over again. it would be amazing to compare these side by side with the music from our generation :D

    if you think this is a good idea rank me up and ill get this remade.

  • @avalaunchmods it's a good idea but you will probably get mugged and some asshole take your camera

  • @avalaunchmods yh do that man i would love to see the video!

  • @avalaunchmods please do it. I would if I lived in the US

  • That's when women looked and dressed like women. That when the true feminism existed.

  • that was a good movie. did it win an emmy? i like how she looks across the street after the calf flash, somebody whistled or something at her, so the boyfriend grabs and is like "all right that's enough you floozy, we're going to church right now."

  • "SOME LIKE IT HOT" moment :)

  • Wow even in the 1901 people in New York always look stylish! I love when a woman passed through with a puffy blouse and a long skirt with a lacy umbrella :)

  • THE ORIGINAL MONROE...WITH HER DRESS BLOWING UP...1901 STYLE

  • This film is cursed. Everyone in it is dead. Now that youve watched it, one day you too will die.

  • The unknown boy who stays in the shot from beginning to end is the world's first movie star!

  • We've been sold a lie and the frightening thing is how many are still blind to it. Some people didn't live past 50 back then, sure, but would you trade a wonderful 50 for a lousy 75? There's no denying people were happier and better adjusted, I don't even recognize humanity in most of the masses any longer. They're a different breed. Just look at a few YouTube channel comments, people are dead inside.

  • @italianace yes but did they miss those things they never had? We bought into the myth that technology would make our lives simple and make us all happier and more at ease, it's a fact that were the most psychologically depressed, anxious, phobic, traumatized generation ever. Another fact is, people back then were truly happy with those "simple things" you're trashing. Do you even see men smiling as they walk down the street anymore?

  • about 10 yrs later my grandma was born..

    she passed away last year at the age of 98

    R.I.P.

    I love this footage

    thanx a bunch

    ;-)

  • It's almost like something out of a cartoon to see so many horses and buggies. They seem out of place, comical. Very strange.

  • ah jay walking at its finest

  • Not one overweight person that I could tell...