everybody in this film are dead now, except Mickey Rooney who was a paper boy in the crowd. go ahead replay it and you can see him on the upper right end corner near the guy in the hat, selling newspapers. he's waving at the camera too.
This view is located at Fulton & Broadway near St. Paul's Chapel. The building on the left is different to the richly ornate Trinity building of 117 Broadway, corner of Thames St.
It's interesting to note that if you rode in the trolley you would move down the road steady - no traffic lights needed because of the slow pace - you simply stepped on and off the trolly. In fact you moved along quite quickly because it never stopped for traffic jams, traffic lights,double parked vehicles or to let people on or off except on occasion. Yet the road was safe enough to J walk. See the people casually walking through the carraiges and trolleys as they cross the road. I like it.;
A todos se les ve correctamente vestidos. Nadie en camisa ni con vestimentas desaliñadas, tal como aparecen a veces en las peliculas de Hollywood representando esos tiempos
Can someone please tell me how come in 1903 it looked so over populated and today same place its not as populated as 1903 ? i thought 1903 would have 50 people walking around and that 2011 would have this populated all over the city.. Well aniways its interesting. Big city new york and something allready exsisted that big in the year 1903 ? hard to believe... i allways thought 1903 was just small narrow streets muddy and smelly and rats all over the place and conflicts nd tiny little city.
@VOXS2 Well, in fact more people lived on Manhattan in 1910 then now. (check the stats on Wikipedia on Manhattan) As people moved to Brooklyn and other suburbs the population grew on Manhattan but not as astronomically. With the advent of suburbs & highways in the 40's and 50's there was a flood to the outskirts (suburbia)...Before that Manhattan was crowded and full of people. Afterwards only business' remained on the island...causing much less crowding.
If this scene were filmed just 20 years later, in 1923, the view would look quite different. There would be few, if any, horse-wagons but many cars. Of course there were cars in 1903, but they were individually hand produced toys of the affluent and still very few in number. between 1915 and 1920 horses almost completely disappeared from American city streets as mass production technologies made cars inexpensive enough for large numbers of people.
its sick to look at these early 1900's late 1800's videos if we think thousands of years back there is no video at all whats crazy is 5000 years from now they will be able to watch high deff videos of us doing all sorts of madness there gona look at us as cavemen lol
But in 100 years people will be watching holograms or 3D stuff (with no glasses) or something we don't even know of yet. So our 1080p videos will look primitive to them I am sure!
Every. Single. living. being. in this video is now dead. really puts things in perspective. Imagine how amazing it is going to be for people 100 years from now to watch the kind of videos we have now. Just think, maybe next time you take a video of you and your friends messing around, over 100 years later after your long dead will be able to look back and see it in crystal clear HD. People who had been dead for a century. Think about it.
What my mother gave me for a weekly allowance when I was a kid back in the mid 1980's in those days would have placed me in the upper middle class then in NY!!
I don't understand some reactions here; Some of you just seem to be looking at some freaking aliens!! Are you nuts? I think these people are not so different from us, except that they're just 100years older. That's it!
The police officer in the lower part of the screen is doing NOTHING to direct traffic, which is willy-nilly and all over the place.
Like others here, I, too, wonder what these people of 1903 would think about us here in 2010, viewing them on tiny screens. Or what the people of 2117 will think of *US*! Will we look as old fashioned and backwards (or quaint, if you prefer) as these 1903 people do to us?
Not one of those people could have ever imagined that over a century later, people would be watching them cross the street on something called Youtube.
@Blackboilingrobotoil , Or that (in this film made in 1903, the year the first airplane got airborne) 98 years later, but blocks away, two airplanes piloted by Egyptian enemies would crash into two 105-story towers, and topple down, sending vast billows of blinding white dust through the nearby neighborhoods. Inconceivable.
@Blackboilingrobotoil What would those people from the time era of 1903 saw what life is like in 2010 with cars , no horses, no smoking laws, different dress, women working ect Like a person being asleep for 107 years and wakes up from 1903 after 107 year sleep and wakes up in 2010 what would they think of 2010 can you emagin the shock, it might kill them. The 1920s was bad enough for the victorian age parents can you imagin the shock of 2010?
@Skylinesandsunsets They’ll probably just have some sort of chip in their brain that allows them to instantly access all of the accumulated knowledge of human history. They’ll watch us they way we watched this video and laugh while they read our comments and wonder themselves if we ever could have imagined them doing so. We did!
@Blackboilingrobotoil - I'm sure that the technology they will have is way beyond our 2011 imagination.
At any rate, if they are reading this, let me just say.... HI FUTURE PEOPLE! PLEASE DON'T LAUGH AT US TOO MUCH, WE DID THE BEST THAT WE COULD. HAVE A NICE LIFE :)
In my life I've visited some of the geat cities of the world...London, Tokyo, Paris, New York, Seoul, Moscow, and dozens of other smaller places. Of all the great cities I've seen, my favorite is Los Angeles. LA is stupendously huge in population and size. I look forward to every visit.
@DarthCormac I once spent a few days in a place called Balboa Island. It's on the ocean, or on a canal that leads to the ocean. My friends lived in a small villa. Very comfortable. I think Balboa Island is in Orange County. It was nice.
Statistically, people in NYC are still way thinner than the current national "bloat."
The average NY'er will typically walk any distance less than a half-mile and will typically do that at least 3 times a day; you can't keep a car in the heart of the city.
1) the 1st baseball world series was 3 months away, boston beat pittsburgh. honus wagner and cy young played.
2) in 1901 william mckinley was the 3rd president in 36 years to be assassinated, it happened in upper state ny. teddy roosevelt was finishing out mckinley's term.
3) there were 45 states and 75 million people.
4) henry ford opened his car plant.
5) a 12 minute movie, 'the great train robbery' about butch cassidy opened. it's on youtube.
I love watching these films and trying to see peoples reactions to one another. Look closely at people and you'll see hand gestures and such when they're trying to tell the other person something. You just want to know what they're saying!
@gatheringleaves smoking was a huge part of social behavior back then. Although you are correct that "everyone" did not smoke......thats like saying today "everone does not use a credit card". I am nearing 60 years old....and my older relitives when I was a kid would have lived fairly close to this era. I can remember absolutely all of them smoked....pipes, cigarettes, cigars (and all drank alot of alcohol). You were considered "odd" if you did not use tobacco in some form back then
@bdienstag ...Watch closely......NO FAT PEOPLE ! No diesel fumes, no pollution. I can see only 2 people smoking. And I would like to trade today's pollution for a few pounds of horse shit !! Believe me....those really were the better days. And I don't see much horse shit either.
@telescopereplicator as far as the "smoking thing"....believe me.....every male over tha age of 15 was smoking or chewing back then. I can remember as a kid even in the 1950s/60s.....cigarette/pipe/cigar smoke was everywhere.....in hospitals, dentist offices, all my doctors smoked....etc. I would visit my relitives on christmas, all the families would be around and it was like a gas chamber in the house....like a fog just hanging in the air
It was an age of men. Today, men shave themselves, play video games into their 40's, and need constant re-encouragement. I'll take then. Smoke, shit and all.
theres my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grear great great great great great great great grandpa lol
I remember my Grandmother saying the City was too crowded. Can't imagine what she'd say today were she alive. I don't think she'd even recognize it. It was definitely crowded in the 1960's and 70's, way more than it was in early 1900's. Everything is relative I guess. But they sure did move at a slower pace when common courtesy was the norm.
Actually in the 1920s most New Yorkers still lived in Manhattan and most of those lived below 14th Street, Manhattan had well over 100,000 people per square mile and Lower manahattan was well over 250,000/sq. mile. Today, its 68,000/sq. mile in Manhattan
Actually, this was shot by St. Paul's Chapel @ the corner of B'Way & Vesey, looking uptown. A pillar of the chapel is barely visible at left. The old Post Office is barely visible at right. Park Row would veer off east at this point. On left is Astor House or Building, which is still stands. If you went west, down this street, you'd be at the site of the World Trade Center. A foot bridge crossed over B'way at this point at one time and this film might have been shot from there. Maybe not.
But then, neither are there any "horse-drawn" trolleys as claimed in the description. NY, probably, all electric. In any case they are self-powered trolleys.
There is an east bound horse drawn crosstown car (not a trolley) @1.37, almost empty and taking a very leisurely pace. There were horse drawn cars in NYC up to the 1920's, the last one being on Bleecker St. on the east side.
I understand the concern about the horses. But what did they have in the alternative? Today, they have to be off the street when the temperature goes over 90 degrees. See the Animal Planet about this.
you feel sorry for the horses? are you for real? you wrote they didnt have much choice then? so you are saying that now they have better choices??? wtf r u on. we still treat horses like shit so i dont know why you all feel so bad for them. ever see a rodeo? or prehaps go horseback riding? oh yeah im sure thats alot of fun for them carrying around a 150 pound person and going where they want. grow the fuck up we been using horses like that for over 2 thousand years.
INDEED! if ur a chaplin fan u can check my channel i try to re-create his dance od the bread rolls. Chaplin opened my eyes to...THE BEST. he still is in my opinion the best of the best and gave me an inerest for that era. love seing old vids like this now.
@xandervaliya wow..........i never thought of that.......rise in sunglasses / hats. I can remember my dad up through the 1960s always wore the classic mens felt "fedora" or gangster hat. It's strange how a style that was considered in good fashion for decades will just vanish quickly.
your an idiot. what the hell are they suppose to use to help get the work done? Horeses were needed back then. today we are fortunate to have proper equiptment and trucks,etc...
And no there wasn't cheesy piano music filling the air either.
s0caltrukker 1 week ago
The only difference between then and now is the technology and the fashions. Take that away and they are no different than us today.
s0caltrukker 1 week ago
everybody in this film are dead now, except Mickey Rooney who was a paper boy in the crowd. go ahead replay it and you can see him on the upper right end corner near the guy in the hat, selling newspapers. he's waving at the camera too.
CosmicCaprice 2 weeks ago
crazy traffic situation
dhksrksalem 1 month ago
i really like old videos wonder what was the talk of the day $ weighed on their minds on this day that people all knew about? great upload.
youraverageuser 1 month ago
Those people... everyone is dead! Am I the only one who finds it creepy?
rosolek94 2 months ago
they all look clean and fancy than compared to now..
206funny 2 months ago
@206funny Not clean. But yes. I like the style back then. Wasn't it great?
StrangerYouKnow 2 months ago
@StrangerYouKnow yea i wish one day we could all be like them
206funny 2 months ago
Are these the occupiers?
Mufaso1000 2 months ago
I think none of those people we are watching live right now... how weird..
brunomj1997 2 months ago
This view is located at Fulton & Broadway near St. Paul's Chapel. The building on the left is different to the richly ornate Trinity building of 117 Broadway, corner of Thames St.
TigerRocket 2 months ago
the human race will be extinct in 100 years
TheWheels777 2 months ago
I stay reading the Book. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.
SoniaLenora 3 months ago
It was crowded even then!
TLW1955 3 months ago
This is New York City's history at its best! This is also part of American history as well!
RobertoLopezstudyis 3 months ago
It's interesting to note that if you rode in the trolley you would move down the road steady - no traffic lights needed because of the slow pace - you simply stepped on and off the trolly. In fact you moved along quite quickly because it never stopped for traffic jams, traffic lights,double parked vehicles or to let people on or off except on occasion. Yet the road was safe enough to J walk. See the people casually walking through the carraiges and trolleys as they cross the road. I like it.;
NowPleaseReadThis 4 months ago
gotta love the cops hats!
caesarcerf 4 months ago
its a sure bet EVERYONE you see in this footage is dead... maybe that will give you the idea on how old it is......
solidkid4 4 months ago
There was no Internet in those days, how the hell did people survive without it?
slowdream101 5 months ago
@slowdream101
there was no internet 20 years ago man.
tubub 3 months ago
A todos se les ve correctamente vestidos. Nadie en camisa ni con vestimentas desaliñadas, tal como aparecen a veces en las peliculas de Hollywood representando esos tiempos
ElConductista 5 months ago
Too many people in 1903. All of them are already dead.
edmundbenz 5 months ago
EVERYONE in the film would be dead?!? makes you think right. . .
benno781 6 months ago
Can someone please tell me how come in 1903 it looked so over populated and today same place its not as populated as 1903 ? i thought 1903 would have 50 people walking around and that 2011 would have this populated all over the city.. Well aniways its interesting. Big city new york and something allready exsisted that big in the year 1903 ? hard to believe... i allways thought 1903 was just small narrow streets muddy and smelly and rats all over the place and conflicts nd tiny little city.
VOXS2 6 months ago
@VOXS2 Well, in fact more people lived on Manhattan in 1910 then now. (check the stats on Wikipedia on Manhattan) As people moved to Brooklyn and other suburbs the population grew on Manhattan but not as astronomically. With the advent of suburbs & highways in the 40's and 50's there was a flood to the outskirts (suburbia)...Before that Manhattan was crowded and full of people. Afterwards only business' remained on the island...causing much less crowding.
RippleAffectMedia 5 months ago
everyone on this fotage is dead
crippa1983 6 months ago
@crippa1983 ^Yea think of all those rotting corpses.
jasonfish07 6 months ago
No one is in a hurry.
telpukona 7 months ago
I see INSANE CROWDED STREETS is nothing new in NYC!
depeche609 7 months ago
Wonder if the early 1900's version of the Naked Cowboy is lurking
rpietr1 8 months ago
If this scene were filmed just 20 years later, in 1923, the view would look quite different. There would be few, if any, horse-wagons but many cars. Of course there were cars in 1903, but they were individually hand produced toys of the affluent and still very few in number. between 1915 and 1920 horses almost completely disappeared from American city streets as mass production technologies made cars inexpensive enough for large numbers of people.
2indulgent 8 months ago
Waw, New Yawk without cars!
Nostalgico80 8 months ago
its sick to look at these early 1900's late 1800's videos if we think thousands of years back there is no video at all whats crazy is 5000 years from now they will be able to watch high deff videos of us doing all sorts of madness there gona look at us as cavemen lol
makaveli828 9 months ago 2
No traffic lights (or cops directing traffic). There were many fatal accidents.
msotil 9 months ago
@msotil that sounds about right
makaveli828 9 months ago
@msotil there are no cars in this video, so no fatal accidents.
Dirtfire 7 months ago
All those people....
Chrisspy704 10 months ago
But in 100 years people will be watching holograms or 3D stuff (with no glasses) or something we don't even know of yet. So our 1080p videos will look primitive to them I am sure!
CloverExpress 10 months ago
@CloverExpress Are you some kind of psychic person? How do you know? How do you know we won't be on mars?
hellomikie92 10 months ago
Can you imagine what it would take to recreate a scene like this for a period piece in a movie?
nickelstew 10 months ago
Every. Single. living. being. in this video is now dead. really puts things in perspective. Imagine how amazing it is going to be for people 100 years from now to watch the kind of videos we have now. Just think, maybe next time you take a video of you and your friends messing around, over 100 years later after your long dead will be able to look back and see it in crystal clear HD. People who had been dead for a century. Think about it.
crk416 10 months ago
Broadway still looks like that!! I work down there... just no horses and buggies :-p
LadyJay114 11 months ago
Broadway still looks like that!! I work down there...
LadyJay114 11 months ago
That poor horse at 1:25. I think he's pulling more than his own weight.... Still as busy today only taxis have replaced the trollies.
fortress1133 11 months ago
Typical New York jaywalkers.
CarlaLR74 1 year ago
What my mother gave me for a weekly allowance when I was a kid back in the mid 1980's in those days would have placed me in the upper middle class then in NY!!
DetroitLove4U 1 year ago
Truly amazing.
smellytoilet1996 1 year ago
Very cool! To think that footage was taken over 100 years ago! Amazing!!!
KScarlett777 1 year ago
@KScarlett777 You can say THAT again!
Thelookoutslookout 1 year ago
Very cool! To think that footage was over 100 years ago! Amazing!!!
KScarlett777 1 year ago
Very cool! To think that was over 100 years ago! Amazing!!!
KScarlett777 1 year ago
My god, there are people everywhere O: So crowded! I love watching old vintage footage like this. It is so fascinating. Thank you for uploading!
RememberRox 1 year ago
Wow..like 98% of the padestrians are men...
MusicLight123 1 year ago
look, how crowded was the city, they all dead, gone!
altin2007 1 year ago 2
how peaceful work processes produced from such a transfer speed
TheEndlessNote 1 year ago
I can't even imagine living in that era. Look at the congestion! And it appeared that there was no formal traffic control. That was insane back then.
canadian4sure 1 year ago
Hmm if you see that crowded sidewalk you would'nt say there wehere only about 1.5 billion people on earth back then.
ArcticRalph 1 year ago
where did you get this footage?
seylamoon 1 year ago
Great!
Jormaattori112 1 year ago
I don't understand some reactions here; Some of you just seem to be looking at some freaking aliens!! Are you nuts? I think these people are not so different from us, except that they're just 100years older. That's it!
ZZAZZAAZZA 1 year ago 12
@ZZAZZAAZZA Agreed. Not much has truly changed in 100 years. People are still people.
chem100 3 weeks ago
They're all looking for toilets or something.
spareaxe 1 year ago 2
The police officer in the lower part of the screen is doing NOTHING to direct traffic, which is willy-nilly and all over the place.
Like others here, I, too, wonder what these people of 1903 would think about us here in 2010, viewing them on tiny screens. Or what the people of 2117 will think of *US*! Will we look as old fashioned and backwards (or quaint, if you prefer) as these 1903 people do to us?
nhprman 1 year ago 2
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I think the rise of sunglasses is inversely related to the decline of hats.
ya eh!!!
joeblowthehot 1 year ago
why they walk like they're on the moon
UDM81D 1 year ago
Not one of those people could have ever imagined that over a century later, people would be watching them cross the street on something called Youtube.
Blackboilingrobotoil 1 year ago 51
@Blackboilingrobotoil , Or that (in this film made in 1903, the year the first airplane got airborne) 98 years later, but blocks away, two airplanes piloted by Egyptian enemies would crash into two 105-story towers, and topple down, sending vast billows of blinding white dust through the nearby neighborhoods. Inconceivable.
JudgeJulieLit 1 year ago
@Blackboilingrobotoil What would those people
from the time era of 1903 saw what life is like in
2010 with cars , no horses, no smoking laws,
different dress, women working ect
Like a person being asleep for 107 years and
wakes up from 1903 after 107 year sleep and
wakes up in 2010 what would they think of
2010 can you emagin the shock, it might kill
them.
wheelslarbac 1 year ago
wheelslarbac 1 year ago
@Blackboilingrobotoil you just blew my mind
xxwesdogxx 5 months ago
@Blackboilingrobotoil - It makes me wonder....A century from now, what will people use to watch antique youtube videos? :)
Skylinesandsunsets 5 months ago 12
@Skylinesandsunsets They’ll probably just have some sort of chip in their brain that allows them to instantly access all of the accumulated knowledge of human history. They’ll watch us they way we watched this video and laugh while they read our comments and wonder themselves if we ever could have imagined them doing so. We did!
Blackboilingrobotoil 5 months ago
@Blackboilingrobotoil - I'm sure that the technology they will have is way beyond our 2011 imagination.
At any rate, if they are reading this, let me just say.... HI FUTURE PEOPLE! PLEASE DON'T LAUGH AT US TOO MUCH, WE DID THE BEST THAT WE COULD. HAVE A NICE LIFE :)
Skylinesandsunsets 5 months ago
@Skylinesandsunsets lol they probably could jus teleport back in time an see you watchin youtube
GreasyRockabilly 4 months ago
@Skylinesandsunsets
governmenttube
ghjiop23 2 months ago
how slow are the trams and the horse trams how funny
MsValeriyaOss 1 year ago
@MsValeriyaOss tram?!?! where the hell are you from?
skymunro 1 year ago
This is by Trinity Church. It Still looks the same.
crzyhomey 1 year ago
Wow! Like going back in time.
rascal211 2 years ago
Nothing nostalgic about these pictures. New York looks like a dreadfrul place to live.
zeekwolfe 2 years ago
Unless you've actually lived there, in which case you know it would be hell to live anywhere else.
gpc 2 years ago
In my life I've visited some of the geat cities of the world...London, Tokyo, Paris, New York, Seoul, Moscow, and dozens of other smaller places. Of all the great cities I've seen, my favorite is Los Angeles. LA is stupendously huge in population and size. I look forward to every visit.
zeekwolfe 2 years ago
@zeekwolfe - While you were in LA, did you happen to visit Orange County? If so, what did you think of it?
DarthCormac 1 year ago
@DarthCormac I once spent a few days in a place called Balboa Island. It's on the ocean, or on a canal that leads to the ocean. My friends lived in a small villa. Very comfortable. I think Balboa Island is in Orange County. It was nice.
zeekwolfe 1 year ago
@zeekwolfe - Interesting! I've always wanted to visit SoCal, to see how the West Coast differs from the East. Thanks for the reply. :)
DarthCormac 1 year ago
No traffic signals or crosswalks, people just go as they please.
narutodayo 2 years ago
no road rage!
dancer46722 2 years ago 3
99% of the people in this film are dead now...its scary
daedralord1 2 years ago 2
That´s live
DeutschlandsZukunft 2 years ago
no one really cares, just focus on the video
gatheringleaves 2 years ago
im sure everyone in that video is dead now that was 107 years ago imagine that
jsimone1320 2 years ago
100%. Funny thing, look how thin they all are.
DocWyoming 2 years ago
cause they were to poor to buy food and they had to walk everywhere unlike today lol just to think nice looking bodies everywhere nice
jsimone1320 2 years ago
true, walking was a big factor
DocWyoming 2 years ago
DocWyoming--
Statistically, people in NYC are still way thinner than the current national "bloat."
The average NY'er will typically walk any distance less than a half-mile and will typically do that at least 3 times a day; you can't keep a car in the heart of the city.
SatchmoSings 2 years ago
I was born in Brooklyn.
DocWyoming 2 years ago
amazing footage ~ things going in 1903.
1) the 1st baseball world series was 3 months away, boston beat pittsburgh. honus wagner and cy young played.
2) in 1901 william mckinley was the 3rd president in 36 years to be assassinated, it happened in upper state ny. teddy roosevelt was finishing out mckinley's term.
3) there were 45 states and 75 million people.
4) henry ford opened his car plant.
5) a 12 minute movie, 'the great train robbery' about butch cassidy opened. it's on youtube.
tomitstube 2 years ago
this is so cool real people 100 years ago wow . I wish i had a time machine^^
TannerG1989 2 years ago
just think, they lived with no cell phones,internet,tv,cars and probably electricity. we are luckey for what we have
aj0446 2 years ago
@aj0446 back then it would have been gas lamps or keroseen in the home. In the country....certainly keroseen or some kind of oil
inkey2 1 year ago
1903 and new york is still crowded as hell. i wish this video had audio and color but black and white kinda fits the mood.
Verooo777 2 years ago
I love watching these films and trying to see peoples reactions to one another. Look closely at people and you'll see hand gestures and such when they're trying to tell the other person something. You just want to know what they're saying!
MattHatter 2 years ago
horses were very commom in early 1900's on the streets as vehicles...............
carlosmiller 2 years ago 2
horses. weird to see that. there
allyspencer 2 years ago
Everybody smoked, no pooper scooper laws, horse shit everywhere. Ah the good old days!
bdienstag 2 years ago 51
What this country needs is a good 5 cent cigar.
18Sheababy 2 years ago
Everyone didn't smoke in those days, and that is a great exaggeration!
gatheringleaves 2 years ago
@gatheringleaves smoking was a huge part of social behavior back then. Although you are correct that "everyone" did not smoke......thats like saying today "everone does not use a credit card". I am nearing 60 years old....and my older relitives when I was a kid would have lived fairly close to this era. I can remember absolutely all of them smoked....pipes, cigarettes, cigars (and all drank alot of alcohol). You were considered "odd" if you did not use tobacco in some form back then
inkey2 1 year ago
@bdienstag ...Watch closely......NO FAT PEOPLE ! No diesel fumes, no pollution. I can see only 2 people smoking. And I would like to trade today's pollution for a few pounds of horse shit !! Believe me....those really were the better days. And I don't see much horse shit either.
telescopereplicator 1 year ago
@telescopereplicator as far as the "smoking thing"....believe me.....every male over tha age of 15 was smoking or chewing back then. I can remember as a kid even in the 1950s/60s.....cigarette/pipe/cigar smoke was everywhere.....in hospitals, dentist offices, all my doctors smoked....etc. I would visit my relitives on christmas, all the families would be around and it was like a gas chamber in the house....like a fog just hanging in the air
inkey2 1 year ago
@bdienstag That may be true but they had REALLY REALLY cool hats!
MariktheChao 1 year ago
@bdienstag
It was an age of men. Today, men shave themselves, play video games into their 40's, and need constant re-encouragement. I'll take then. Smoke, shit and all.
Yoseman1 4 months ago
This is why the subway was built in 1903. Look at the congestion!
bayougrande 2 years ago
Can you imagine the stench of the horse shit?
lander4545 2 years ago
Haha... then we had horse shit... now we got gas from cars :P Whats worse? :P
MegaG15 2 years ago
You'd be surprised -- a lot of business people were asking that very question before the damned cars officially hit the streets!
riqzster 2 years ago
So what, not every place in the world in the 1800's had horse and buggy, and I'm sure there was beautiful unspoiled country lanes and forests
gatheringleaves 2 years ago
theres my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grear great great great great great great great grandpa lol
pladsailboat331 2 years ago
that places you in the 1200sAD
dvandassociates 2 years ago
im the one on the left.
apryllikespi 2 years ago
I would have had a tough time living back in those days. I don't see a Mcdonalds
Attila709 2 years ago 2
Mcdonalds dident come until 1940.
ilove1994 2 years ago
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marvy1118 2 years ago
just think about how old this is..
igonnagetfsx 2 years ago
I know what you mean...its crazy, like think of what it would be like to watch lower broadway in 2103..
thisisdakotaaa 2 years ago
Yeah, And think to be in 1900 when you are from 2009.. hehe... Strange to think about..
igonnagetfsx 2 years ago
Notice how nobody is in a rush to get anywhere.
1oxymoron1 3 years ago 3
So true nowadays time seems to be speeding up for us.. It almost looks like in slow motions
moled83 2 years ago
Average speed on a horse was 3mph unless racing...
HarborGuy 3 years ago
I remember my Grandmother saying the City was too crowded. Can't imagine what she'd say today were she alive. I don't think she'd even recognize it. It was definitely crowded in the 1960's and 70's, way more than it was in early 1900's. Everything is relative I guess. But they sure did move at a slower pace when common courtesy was the norm.
opelske 3 years ago
Actually in the 1920s most New Yorkers still lived in Manhattan and most of those lived below 14th Street, Manhattan had well over 100,000 people per square mile and Lower manahattan was well over 250,000/sq. mile. Today, its 68,000/sq. mile in Manhattan
ForzaJersey 3 years ago
poor horses
reservoitdoc 3 years ago 4
Actually, this was shot by St. Paul's Chapel @ the corner of B'Way & Vesey, looking uptown. A pillar of the chapel is barely visible at left. The old Post Office is barely visible at right. Park Row would veer off east at this point. On left is Astor House or Building, which is still stands. If you went west, down this street, you'd be at the site of the World Trade Center. A foot bridge crossed over B'way at this point at one time and this film might have been shot from there. Maybe not.
RRaquello 3 years ago
i like it how there wearn't any speeding accidents in the heart of the city.
MattstradLmtd 3 years ago
Right, there are no automobiles in this.
But then, neither are there any "horse-drawn" trolleys as claimed in the description. NY, probably, all electric. In any case they are self-powered trolleys.
theOlLineRebel 3 years ago
There is an east bound horse drawn crosstown car (not a trolley) @1.37, almost empty and taking a very leisurely pace. There were horse drawn cars in NYC up to the 1920's, the last one being on Bleecker St. on the east side.
RRaquello 3 years ago
Its ok to use horses you freaks need to calm down. Look at all those people walking its because they had no choice. I bet they had some mad stamania
jasonjinx 3 years ago
I understand the concern about the horses. But what did they have in the alternative? Today, they have to be off the street when the temperature goes over 90 degrees. See the Animal Planet about this.
janicesoprano 3 years ago
you feel sorry for the horses? are you for real? you wrote they didnt have much choice then? so you are saying that now they have better choices??? wtf r u on. we still treat horses like shit so i dont know why you all feel so bad for them. ever see a rodeo? or prehaps go horseback riding? oh yeah im sure thats alot of fun for them carrying around a 150 pound person and going where they want. grow the fuck up we been using horses like that for over 2 thousand years.
suicidalemming 3 years ago
we have cars now so shut the fuck up
67tr876 3 years ago
man..hats were SUCH a trend back then..i mean u hardly EVER saw any one of any age going outside back then without some sort of hat...weird hey!
sHaDoWoFsWoRdS 3 years ago 3
I think the rise of sunglasses is inversely related to the decline of hats.
xandervaliya 2 years ago 29
lol!!
You mean Chaplin's trademark would of been Ray-ban's?
foxpawz 2 years ago
:D Yup!
xandervaliya 2 years ago
dude charlie chaplin was a beast
j6282 2 years ago
INDEED! if ur a chaplin fan u can check my channel i try to re-create his dance od the bread rolls. Chaplin opened my eyes to...THE BEST. he still is in my opinion the best of the best and gave me an inerest for that era. love seing old vids like this now.
foxpawz 2 years ago
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j6282 2 years ago
heh heh, yeah i saw your video
j6282 2 years ago
@xandervaliya JFK IN THE 60's lead to the decline of hats. He was too cool to wear one at his inauguration and it eventually caught on.
chb018 1 year ago
@xandervaliya wow..........i never thought of that.......rise in sunglasses / hats. I can remember my dad up through the 1960s always wore the classic mens felt "fedora" or gangster hat. It's strange how a style that was considered in good fashion for decades will just vanish quickly.
inkey2 1 year ago
Crazy seeing horses and cars on the road at the same time. Then watch one from 1920's and there are barely any horses. They sure disappeared quick.
dizzyhorsie823 3 years ago
i don´t see any cars in this video. that are trolleys!
duhastdiehaareschoen 3 years ago
its kinda funny to see how people walked back then.
bobobo71 3 years ago 2
Early cinema is fascinating!
kcsunshine64 3 years ago 2
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that sucks those poor horses had to drag those big ass trollies, I wish PETA was around in 1903
MyPasswordIsUserName 3 years ago
NO KIDDING!!!! JAYSUS! :-( used to do the dirty work! thank god for peddy cabs! thats how i got around NYC! No Horses For ME! Thanks! :-)
JustaSideOrderOfLove 3 years ago 3
your an idiot. what the hell are they suppose to use to help get the work done? Horeses were needed back then. today we are fortunate to have proper equiptment and trucks,etc...
loaded1234567 3 years ago
yes its true...i feel sorry for the horses too but i guess they didnt have much choice then
sHaDoWoFsWoRdS 3 years ago
its still crowded a hell
ewf1983 3 years ago 5
still looks like this
gyrophuz 3 years ago 3
It's hard to believe that Manhattan looked this way a little over a hundred years ago. Times have changed!
YogaNate79 3 years ago 3
transit looks a bit chaotic
Seleukos 3 years ago 3