DAWN OF TOMORROW, 1939 New York World's Fair Part 2

[1957pinup]

3:39 classic bus lover's dream!

[leedumett444]

iam from the uk , but i love america, and nyc.

[1957primetime]

My dad was an electronics engineer from NH, and had a booth at this fair in 1939, the year I was born. Nothing in America is innovative now as it was then. My dad was a genius in sound. I have his photo standing in front of his booth. He also had the first tv, in the state of NH in 1948, and my photo was in the Manchester (NH) Union Leader in 1948. The mayor then, was a part of this opening. He got the TV zoomed up from WBZ Boston. These are great videos.

[mmaselli12]

thanks for all video....

[Aspanaut]

Hay at least wes got these old gents left ta tell us the tail ;)

I mean they could be restin in peace right know :'(

[rcenzo]

The point that is missing here, people left their country and came to the USA for a better life.Today, all the shit comes in, and they bring their shit way of life with them. They act like animals ,and destroy the beauty of the USA. Yes some things have gotten better for the blacks , gays, and they are people just the same and deserve respect like we all do and should respect as well. We all need to wake up and make the USA a great country again..

[verdefull]

when america looked European and was European not some multi crap..

[hep2jive]

that was the future. we are in the post future...which sux

[ORUPRANKSTAZ]

@TomsLastJoint

Troll. By the way, you're 21. Talk to me when you're in your 80's like they are.

Bitch.

[ORUPRANKSTAZ]

@TomsLastJoint

Because almost all of my relatives are currently living, and they were alive to see it.

[heypalhowru]

look how clean the subway was. now its a garbage dump

[Geostrategic1]

Great footage!

[Hemimopar1]

I had to laugh a little, when this old man tells about his dad´s 1926 Hudson and how interested his dad was in technical stuff. I´m 100% sure that all Hudsons that came out of the factory in 1926 had electric starter! It sure came with a crank in case of a dead battery, but that was not the intended way to get it going! Even the Ford model T had electric starter 1920. Maybe his "mechanically interested" father just didn´t know how to fix a broken starter and simply said the car didn´t have one..

[theonethatgoofs]

if i could only use the modern time machines

[Quex01]

What these old farts are explaing, pictures speak for themselves very well

[BuickDoc]

@Quex01 You too will be and old fart some day, if you live long enough...

[Joe402]

I like the modern day better than the old days pictured here because I am not white and if I lived back then I would be discriminated against all the time. Society in general has made progress deal with it old people.

[fearguis]

@Joe402 Yep, so many white people (of which I am one) always seem to forget this simple fact. It was the good old days as long as you were white, Christian, heterosexual, and in the case of women... attractive, otherwise you'd be living with your father for the rest of your life.

[rickster348]

Women were respectable, Men had integrity,

Now all we have are old photographs.

[Jcolinsol]

@rickster348

And rose-tinted fantasies about the past, apparently.

[rickster348]

@Jcolinsol I lived though some of it. You should have been there.

[parrot0051]

Back then people had more respect for themselves than they have today, notice the people wearing what would be their best cloths for some, not one person looks like a citizen from skid road. but basic living in those days wasn't easy either, working long hours was the norm, but I'd still like to be back there.

[malcommerriweather]

WOW...did I see a Hoverround chair at :36?

[Wa3ypx]

Always liked the women from this era

[malcommerriweather]

@Wa3ypx You mean 70 year olds?

[Wa3ypx]

@malcommerriweather They weren't 70 back then!! Heh heh

[KingFahtah]

@Wa3ypx

No. They where minus 1

[Wa3ypx]

@KingFahtah OK, How 'bout this, women MY age. Thats better!

[string0pearls]

yeah, Carolyn 426 paints a pretty picture of the "all you can eat" society of today. Back then you had to go to the circus to see the colossal fat lady or the amazing illustrated man. Advertisements were on billboards, not on clothing. A little dignity and pride in appearance would make the world a better place.

[llopisblai]

I totally agree with carolyn426...the disease of the flip-flops has even hit my own country, Spain in the summer. I´m 29 and still wear ties and shoes on a daily basis. That's the old school NY I like, not the commercial and fake rubbish of today.

[NYYMGMG]

Jamaica and Flushing were connected directly by subway back then?

[Jeffbear1]

Awesome color footage of old buses, trolleys and subway trains. This is quite a find for the transit historian.

[LynchChasingHisTail]

@Jeffbear1 - Yeah! I paused and resumed repeatedly during the parking lot scenes, taking in all the buses and cars. Wow.

[Jeffbear1]

Where does one find the other parts to this film? I couldn't locate them.

[ORUPRANKSTAZ]

Back when Americans consumed what Americans produced...

When America was its greatest... when people still cared about each other...

[dallasluce]

That was also during a great depression, accepted racism, and before an extremly bloody war for us.... :(

We need to look forward

[BarneyBenar]

@ORUPRANKSTAZ Just as long as your white. LOL.

[ORUPRANKSTAZ]

@BarneyBenar

Yeah yeah... I'm pretty sure everyone's aware that we fucked up. Guess what? There's still black-on-black violence. That's not racism? Or what about black gangs murdering white civilians? That's not racism? Damn. I guess we're all guilty, huh?

[buzzclick500]

@ORUPRANKSTAZ : Now, we consume everything we can get our hands on. ;]

[fernsalz]

@ORUPRANKSTAZ back to the time when blacks could ride only on the back of hte bus, when women had no choices in life, when gay people where beaten up and laugh at... those where the days...

[ORUPRANKSTAZ]

@fernsalz

You are making a deliberate misinterpretation of my comment. I fully acknowledge the civil issues that existed. For all you know, I could be a gay black female (I'm not). Additionally, I've received national awards for essays concerning the topic of racial discrimination.

And you want to talk about racism? Any time someone finds out that a couple of my girlfriends have been Asian, I am immediately tagged as having a sexual fetish. And don't get me started on Hollywood...

[neqquah]

@ORUPRANKSTAZ Well, as long as you were white. I'm pretty sure it kinda sucked for the rest of us.

[XxSTICH666xX]

Wow at 2:43 does that guy have a very young sounding voice.

[filmwannabe2009]

Wow. I agree his voice is like not old sounding at all!

[italobambino43]

Wow, there were ceiling fans on the Subway cars, can you imagine if you had that today? there would be lawsuits out the wazoo, people would sue the transit company because they lost a finger, lo..

[mikemanners11]

Seeing what a sewer American has become I weep when I see what once was......

[italobambino43]

You are correct, a sewer indeed, and where will it end? I saw this coming in the 80's when I saw young guy's my age or younger in there early teens embrace a certain type of music that has destroyed a generation, I know every generation has had it's music that the previous generation criticized, well, this garbage altered an entire generation in the worst way. This current generation has very little respect for anything, they produce nothing, and so, the future looks like a ghetto!

[LynchChasingHisTail]

@mikemanners11 - I understand where you're coming from Mike. I was born in 1960 - which was the year of the future world depicted in GM's transportation exhibit.

I remember first noticing the cheapened, vulgar aspect of the public atmosphere beginning to take hold around 1977 - Jimmy Carter's administration. The harbinger of the Obamanation yet to come. That was a time of reduced expectations as well. What else does now and then have in common? Total Democrat control of the Government.

[Georgewos]

Flushing was really doing downhill until the new wave of mostly Asian immigrants came and started building new homes and apt buildings. Flushing is a very large area and there are many many areas with beautiful homes . I love to walk around parts of Flushing and see all the changes that have occured.

[carolyn246]

Looking at the crowds, I notice there are no morbidly obese specimens shuffling around in flip-flops, their grotesque physiques accentuated in form-fitting spandex. No one is wearing sweat pants or sucking on sixty -ounce sodas. No one has baseball hats or clothing with advertisements on them. Progress is a double-edged sword.

[kenneth11361]

You also get a look at America before the dreaded 1965 "Immigration Act." The whole of Queens has just about been cleansed of its hated whites.

[edp128128]

I wonder where you live now. I find Queens quite an exciting multi-cultural place --- much better than when things were declining badlly in the 70s. No, I am not an immigrant, I was born here.

[ForzaJersey]

You can thank Teddy Kennedy for that trash, he betrayed America.

[kenneth11361]

We will soon be saying good riddance to this swine. BTW, go to Pat Buchanan's site and his article dated 6/26/09. Pls see my comments posted; i am # 408 i believe.

[corgi4u]

Yeah, but lying to the American public is just great rigfht? Maybe you would like to be one of the people hurt by the republican crap. Only a greedy pig thinks all people do not deserve equality in access to food / shelter / healthcare. But then maybe you like seeing those soldiers your buddy bush sent over to his war living in the streets gotta keep the poor down so you can have more - piggie. Thats why you hate Ted Kennedy and probably Obama too

[ForzaJersey]

So, you actually believe the crap we deal with is the GOP's fault alone? Come on, don't belittle yourself with such stupidity. Obama and Kennedy are just some more fat cats living off the people.

I'm a low-income, antiwar, Patriot that does not support anyone being a slave to state. I support the church to help those that hit hard times.

I suppose you support killing babies of poor whites and minorities, drugging their minds and perverting their lives into welfare drudgery, huh?

[BennyB5555]

So true!

[buzzclick500]

@carolyn246 : The people pushing the word "progress" are the politicians who look like that when they're not in their suits. "Two legs(sloppy, arrogant)good, four legs(civilized and decent)BAD!!" We can fix it...open laughter at (voluntarily)deformed ectomorphs needn't be strictly confined to the comedy stage indoors. ;]

[holmeed]

@carolyn246

oligarchys and plutocracy's like we have in place do that to a countrie.

[bigcity233]

@carolyn246 I totally agree! It's amazing to see how dignified and well put together the crowds looked in '39. It's certainly a different world in that video - like old family photos of that era. We've lost something along the way - despite tremendous progress in so many other areas.

[skot66]

@carolyn246 Class went out the door.

[humbleradio]

@carolyn246 Oh man, you said it. What happened to humanity?

[princette]

I wonder if blacks were allowed, was there special coloured days, or was the progressive world of 1939 still racist.

[rmcnyc]

Of course blacks were allowed in, they were more civilized back then. They had to be, there wasn't an overabundance of bleeding heart liberals giving them everything they wanted without working for it.

[BennyB5555]

True..

[wimpie25]

In here it are the Socialists that do that.

[HardBodyNyC]

Im not sure when the last time any of you were in Flushing but its the biggest dump east of the Mississippi since the south bronx of the 70's.

[CrazyWedz]

so?

[rmcnyc]

Crazy Wedz, if you grew up in Flushing and saw what a dump it has become like HardBody stated, you wouldn't be asking, "So?".

[edp128128]

See my comment above to kenneth11361 - Flushing today is one of my favorite neighborhoods! What dump are you seeing - I think it is what you WANT to see?

[rurbert]

Television is worthless but You Tube is a real gem!!! Thank for such great material.

[jgrab1]

Where do you think most of the stuff on YouTube comes from?

[internetwaffle]

i wish there where more clips of the fair it self, but very cool video overall