this footage looks to day like a science-fiction movie !!! unreal BUT things, back in those days, were this way !!!! I do realize how lucky I 'm coz I was around ( I 'm 60 ... :-)
I used to love the 50s a lot when i read it in my history books as a kid. Later, when I found out about segregation, I realized I'm glad I wasn't born in this decade. I'm black and I'm a woman. What did the 50's have to offer me?
@aboutashow : Segregation was mutually agreeable. The federal government had no business interfering in the cultural affairs of states. I see black people now, acting and talking like they're still living in the 1930s--chumming each other up, complaining about prices in the store and holding up the line, talking about "white people" shamelessly, etc. It's embarrassing. We need a new government, so we can move on with American reality.
@buzzclick500 you're right. Even still, the 50s was a violent time for blacks, especially in my region. There's a difference between people keeping away from each other and hating each other. even still, the 50s was a time of conformity and ignorance. I used to like the 50s, but i don't anymore.
@aboutashow : The reality that is America has nothing to do with skin color--it's all about attitude. A decade is a decade, as any time is a time. Categorizing specific frames of time and defining them is a wasteful pursuit. All we need to do is to try to get along with each other, because we're here until we die, then we stand before God and Jesus Christ to be judged.
@PrismaMD : A friend sent me some photos of the Empire State Building under construction..."Safety harness?! Ha! Whaddya take me for, peculiar or somethin'? Look, good joke, but I gotta get back t' rivetin'--hey, Johnny! quit gabbin' an' get over here! We gotta finish the 88th floor today, or the boss's gonna have a fit, an' I told the wife I'd take 'er to a movie t'night! Hey, careful on those loose boards, you wanna finish up the day a grease-spot, ya dumb Dago?!" ;])
Then, just before Mom and Dad kick it, she tells them, "Oh, by the way, remember my roommate? Well, she's actually my lover, too. Wanted to tell you back then, but, well, you know how people were about that BACK THEN...." ;/
@PrismaMD Yes. And we had real film stars like Clark Gable, Jimmy Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. Ward Bond, James Stewart and John Wayne. Henry Fonda, Cary Grant and James Dean. Singers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr.
A time when doing something for your neighbour freely was the norm. A time when people could speak their minds without fear of retribution.
A time of innocence and childhood and life without fear. I pray for days like that again but it won't happen in our time.
@battlecircus10 : No. It WILL happen in our time--if that's what we decide will happen. We're Americans, and everything that goes along with that title. ;])
@FamilyGuy1FTW : Hope is a needy, hungry emotion. We need to expect and be part of the solution. We're not the ancient Greeks, we're AMERICANS; the last, and the greatest people on earth.
@battlecircus10 : We USED to dress, talk and act like the people we saw in the movies. The problem is, we still DO. If that doesn't make ya laugh, I got nothin'. God bless the whole lot o' ya. ;])
@Goldenchild795 : Driving around looking for a phone booth that wasn't vandalized so that I could call my girlfriend isn't actually such a BAD memory. It sure built up the tension, expectation and hope. ;])
@PrismaMD The thought of people being caught up in post terrorist attack paranoia and hysteria at that time was unthinkable. This was also before the threat of terrorism in America was known.
What are you people talking about?! In the 50's people were extremely sexist and racist! The world was closer to doom than ever before, or after for that matter, and the only reason america and the soviets were so wealthy was because they both murdered, raped, and stole most of the worlds cultural heritage, excusing themselves with the fact that the other side did the same thing, and that they (US(SR)) weren't the ones who started it. (Which is kinder garden logics)
@ChetzNation How old are you? Did you live through the 50's? Are you saying this from your own personal experience? If so, do you REALLY think that we are in a far better state in society now as a whole? Really? I don't think so. Granted, people were blissfully unaware of a lot of things then. But I still maintain that peoples lives were on the whole, more fulfilling, happier and not as self-centred than nowadays? Am I wrong?
@SuperBC10 Gee whiz! If you're a woman, get back in the kitchen. If, by chance, you're a gentleman, then chap, get back to work and don't complain about inequality or the CIA will make you disappear. Remember to duck and cover; It will save you from the bomb. And please, have a cigarette while being with your children, don't forget to be nice to the mob, and one last thing, make sure your wife makes good coffee! There's nothing more shameful than a woman that can't do what she's designed for!
@ChetzNation : So...if you were UNHAPPY with the way things were when they were GOOD, I can only assume that you're ECSTATIC about the way things are at the present time, and wish that they could go on like this forever. Ain't gonna happen, because Americans aren't as stupid as we act. In our own way, we're rather cagey--and patient. ;])
@SuperBC10 ...What? No I was referring to what life was like in the 50's. But since you failed to realize this, I can only draw to the conclusion that you, my dear sir, are retarded, and you should therefore end this debate by admitting your utter defeat. :)
Sure, a new era brings new problems, but the 50's were neither better nor worse. Well... Maybe worse with the political bias, nuclear war, sexism, homophobia, christian fanaticism, Vietnam intervention, cold war... Well you get the point.
@ChetzNation I am very sorry Madam, I bow to your obvious superior intellect and perfect knowledge of the chronological history of the US. However, don't you think that the word "retarded" is somewhat politically incorrect? Surely that word was something that us ignorant kids used in the 50's?
@ChetzNation : Let's be honest with ourselves, if we can stand the strain; we had black architects, black dentists, black retail professionals and managers, sports coaches, well-heeled entertainers, etc. People accomplish what they make up their minds to accomplish. Our government is the most racist organization to ever exist so far.
@mtanyc : We complain, yet I see little corrective action on our part, like GETTING BACK TO WORK, and caring about what we're doing. Firing our present government would be a great start. "Globalism" is the new word for treason.
@yankeesman14 ... never will be that way again - that way of life died with the people born from 1880 thru 1940 ---and most of those people are dead now!!
I had actually thought before that the WTC was being built at the time this video was being filmed though it was built in the 60's. I wish they were still there!
1955 was the year that my mother married and moved from New York with my dad to Florida, where I grew up and she still resides. It's fun to see it as she knew it.
@yankeesman14 It's too late, liberals have made up their mind that they are going to destroy White western culture and society and they have enough support from third World "people" to get the job done.
This is wonderful! I believe the aircraft we're seeing is the original Lockheed 1049, before the Super C, Super G, and Super H came into service. Beautiful airplane from a more civilized time!
@SRMeadows No the world is much more tolerant today. It's just that at the time there was a great deal of segregation, and it's a tourism advertisement so they were trying to make New York look good to the rest of the country by not showing any blacks, which is ridiculous because diversity is what makes a city a city.
@macpduff I was a child growing up in NYC at the time. It was a very good, polite time to live. People had standards and lived by them. The world made sense and we all were convinced that 'progress' would prevail for all people.
@5RocketMan5 so the racism, pollution, and ignorance of the 1950's was better? not really, we live in a more globalized community with diversity that is better.
The majority certainly had it better in those days! Yes there was institutionalized racism but in cities like L.A. there were vibrant pockets of African American middle class people. In the 1960s when the drugs became more common it started to decline and after the jobs left in the 1970s and 80s it was all lost and much of America became a welfare state.
Most of the buildings that were there at the time of say, "On the Town" are still there today. Unfortunately, all three baseball venues from the time of this film are now gone.
Of course, some of New York never had any "good old days" like most of Harlem, the Bowery, Hell's Kitchen or what some call the "war zone" east of Tomkins Square Park(neo-Nazis, I was told). Then again, no good host then would let visitors anywhere near those places(the Bowery was touched on in a Traveltalks, though).
@fgldnglbs There are two inaccuracies in your comment. First, Harlem's 'good old days' are known as the "Harlem renaissance," (1920s-1930s) which saw significant contributions to our uniquely American culture.
The second is the misinformation you were given about "neo-Nazis" in what is Manhattan's Lower East Side. The notion of this is absolutely hysterical to anyone who lives in NYC or has experienced east of Tompkins Sq. even briefly. The mix of cultures there are astounding to say the least.
eight hrs - awkward jet time - but no issues about tsa - great, still today a great guide to New York - maybe even more interesting than most today city guides.
Something they didn't show was the competing mode of travel--the train. I was hoping to see the original Pennsylvania Station or Grand Central Terminal here, too. Oh well, but the footage of this bygone era is fascinating.
My dad used to take me to Steeplechase Park at Coney...it was a great treat....I still have a postcard from a Borden's Milk Elsie the Cow promotion that was there one summer... Riding the horses that ringed around the park is still one of my happiest memories .
Wow...how much money does this guy have??? Even back in the day...taking someone to the ballgame radio city the race track coney island....that costs a bundle!! I guess he likes her!!
@progay Sure, they had Rachel Maddow all set to go, but at the last minute Keith Olbermann got an angry telegram from a very jealous Chris Matthews and Keithy had to, unfortunately, deep six the gig.
@lasuvidaboy Definitely more civilized. Except for the extreme racism and sexism. Oh and accepted wife and child abuse behind closed doors. Actually, maybe they were just better at hiding it, along with everyone who wasn't white.
This is an advert for tourism purposes. It's a glossy, polished version of history.
@dinfinite It was civilized, before they started the diversity crap. Before they let the filthy deceptive greedy murderous BEANERS take over. So shut your fuckin hole.
@nerdflanders8710 You have a point, but conservative americans dont do ANY of that shit, and fight it. Americans need to decide exactly what they want their drug laws to be and stick with it and cut mexico out. completely. The ozone and global warming, i find myself agreeing with you. It's a hoax. Unfortunately the Left, the Liberals, have taken over and put a TRAITOR in the white house.
@MassDeportation re the prez...well in a country of 300 million all you could find to run for the top job was McClain? or Palin? or the guy from Blazing Saddles? what gives? anyhoo I think Ojama is ok .
@nerdflanders8710 they werent my choice. Palin wouldnt be too bad. shes immature and would need tough people around her. but at least she has a measure of respect for her own country. Obama is a fucking muslim "converted" to christian during his fucking campaign so soften the christians and make more of them vote for him. Obama is a traitor who has done everything he can to destroy america. Including mass immigration which is literally an invasion under another name. Never even showed id.
@MassDeportation I hadn't realized that filthy deceptive greedy murderous beaners had taken over New York. When did this happen? Does Mayor Bloomberg know? What about Governor Paterson, Police Commissioner Kelly, Senators Gillibrand and Schumer. None of those names sound even slightly "beaner-ish". But you're right, diversity sucks. I wish everyone was just like you. Because you're obviously very smart and kind, probably well educated too. You would never spew hate behind the safety of anonymity
I dont see black people
spaska96 1 month ago
Back when men had real cars.
dudeandmude 1 month ago
Its is so crazy too see this time in colour
ThirdElexis 1 month ago
this footage looks to day like a science-fiction movie !!! unreal BUT things, back in those days, were this way !!!! I do realize how lucky I 'm coz I was around ( I 'm 60 ... :-)
redtorso 1 month ago
sally,s about 75 now.
boleynali 1 month ago
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I'd rather watch this than 99% of what's on television today
lierxagerate 2 months ago
@PrismaMD and women were not trying to be men*
GrapeJamAndFish 2 months ago
only if i had one wish, it would be to live my teen life in the 50's
middleastboxer21 2 months ago
I used to love the 50s a lot when i read it in my history books as a kid. Later, when I found out about segregation, I realized I'm glad I wasn't born in this decade. I'm black and I'm a woman. What did the 50's have to offer me?
aboutashow 3 months ago
@aboutashow : Segregation was mutually agreeable. The federal government had no business interfering in the cultural affairs of states. I see black people now, acting and talking like they're still living in the 1930s--chumming each other up, complaining about prices in the store and holding up the line, talking about "white people" shamelessly, etc. It's embarrassing. We need a new government, so we can move on with American reality.
buzzclick500 2 months ago
@buzzclick500 you're right. Even still, the 50s was a violent time for blacks, especially in my region. There's a difference between people keeping away from each other and hating each other. even still, the 50s was a time of conformity and ignorance. I used to like the 50s, but i don't anymore.
aboutashow 2 months ago
@aboutashow : The reality that is America has nothing to do with skin color--it's all about attitude. A decade is a decade, as any time is a time. Categorizing specific frames of time and defining them is a wasteful pursuit. All we need to do is to try to get along with each other, because we're here until we die, then we stand before God and Jesus Christ to be judged.
buzzclick500 2 months ago
@aboutashow : All there is is right and wrong. It's too simple, which is why most people miss it.
buzzclick500 2 months ago
I have seen this at least 10 times. I never bore of it.
cadrolls 3 months ago
I was born in the wrong decade :(
MrMafia2player 3 months ago
@PrismaMD lol - so true
mywonderjam 4 months ago
@PrismaMD : A friend sent me some photos of the Empire State Building under construction..."Safety harness?! Ha! Whaddya take me for, peculiar or somethin'? Look, good joke, but I gotta get back t' rivetin'--hey, Johnny! quit gabbin' an' get over here! We gotta finish the 88th floor today, or the boss's gonna have a fit, an' I told the wife I'd take 'er to a movie t'night! Hey, careful on those loose boards, you wanna finish up the day a grease-spot, ya dumb Dago?!" ;])
buzzclick500 4 months ago
Then, just before Mom and Dad kick it, she tells them, "Oh, by the way, remember my roommate? Well, she's actually my lover, too. Wanted to tell you back then, but, well, you know how people were about that BACK THEN...." ;/
buzzclick500 4 months ago
@PrismaMD and mexican tacos were indeed mexican tacos
ELconchesumare 4 months ago
@PrismaMD Yes. And we had real film stars like Clark Gable, Jimmy Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. Ward Bond, James Stewart and John Wayne. Henry Fonda, Cary Grant and James Dean. Singers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr.
A time when doing something for your neighbour freely was the norm. A time when people could speak their minds without fear of retribution.
A time of innocence and childhood and life without fear. I pray for days like that again but it won't happen in our time.
battlecircus10 4 months ago
@battlecircus10 : No. It WILL happen in our time--if that's what we decide will happen. We're Americans, and everything that goes along with that title. ;])
buzzclick500 4 months ago
@buzzclick500 I hope it will.
FamilyGuy1FTW 4 months ago
@FamilyGuy1FTW : Hope is a needy, hungry emotion. We need to expect and be part of the solution. We're not the ancient Greeks, we're AMERICANS; the last, and the greatest people on earth.
buzzclick500 4 months ago
@FamilyGuy1FTW : In America, things are the way the MAJORITY of people WANT them to be--that's the FIRST clue. ;])
buzzclick500 4 months ago
@battlecircus10 : We USED to dress, talk and act like the people we saw in the movies. The problem is, we still DO. If that doesn't make ya laugh, I got nothin'. God bless the whole lot o' ya. ;])
buzzclick500 4 months ago
Nice video, I enjoyed it very much.. It was definitely simpler times and people got by just fine without laptops and cell phones
Goldenchild795 4 months ago
@Goldenchild795 : Driving around looking for a phone booth that wasn't vandalized so that I could call my girlfriend isn't actually such a BAD memory. It sure built up the tension, expectation and hope. ;])
buzzclick500 4 months ago
I was born in the wrong fucking decade.
WynnterReverie 5 months ago
16:24 When you didnt treat your girlfriend like a piece of crap
legomaxmania 5 months ago
3:19 so fake its justs funny
legomaxmania 5 months ago
23:08 You'd think someone added sound effects to those punches; gloves must not have had much cushion.
sinimabeats 5 months ago
U CAN ALMOST TASTE THOSE EARLY YEARS!.
THX!..
fred...
stekel60 5 months ago
@PrismaMD The thought of people being caught up in post terrorist attack paranoia and hysteria at that time was unthinkable. This was also before the threat of terrorism in America was known.
MIKON8ERISBACK 6 months ago
I wish they still made cars like those...
seethroughskin 6 months ago
The beginning of mass short-haul flight air pollution. Let's allow the trains to disintegrate while we invest in flying everywhere.
nakedmambo 6 months ago
Congratulations for this marvelous and interesting video. New York, my city.
patertre 6 months ago
What are you people talking about?! In the 50's people were extremely sexist and racist! The world was closer to doom than ever before, or after for that matter, and the only reason america and the soviets were so wealthy was because they both murdered, raped, and stole most of the worlds cultural heritage, excusing themselves with the fact that the other side did the same thing, and that they (US(SR)) weren't the ones who started it. (Which is kinder garden logics)
ChetzNation 6 months ago
@ChetzNation How old are you? Did you live through the 50's? Are you saying this from your own personal experience? If so, do you REALLY think that we are in a far better state in society now as a whole? Really? I don't think so. Granted, people were blissfully unaware of a lot of things then. But I still maintain that peoples lives were on the whole, more fulfilling, happier and not as self-centred than nowadays? Am I wrong?
SuperBC10 4 months ago
@SuperBC10 : No, you're NOT wrong, and God bless you.
buzzclick500 4 months ago
@SuperBC10 Gee whiz! If you're a woman, get back in the kitchen. If, by chance, you're a gentleman, then chap, get back to work and don't complain about inequality or the CIA will make you disappear. Remember to duck and cover; It will save you from the bomb. And please, have a cigarette while being with your children, don't forget to be nice to the mob, and one last thing, make sure your wife makes good coffee! There's nothing more shameful than a woman that can't do what she's designed for!
ChetzNation 4 months ago
@ChetzNation : So...if you were UNHAPPY with the way things were when they were GOOD, I can only assume that you're ECSTATIC about the way things are at the present time, and wish that they could go on like this forever. Ain't gonna happen, because Americans aren't as stupid as we act. In our own way, we're rather cagey--and patient. ;])
buzzclick500 4 months ago
@ChetzNation Huh! HIT A NERVE DID I? Ha!
SuperBC10 3 months ago
@SuperBC10 ...What? No I was referring to what life was like in the 50's. But since you failed to realize this, I can only draw to the conclusion that you, my dear sir, are retarded, and you should therefore end this debate by admitting your utter defeat. :)
Sure, a new era brings new problems, but the 50's were neither better nor worse. Well... Maybe worse with the political bias, nuclear war, sexism, homophobia, christian fanaticism, Vietnam intervention, cold war... Well you get the point.
ChetzNation 3 months ago
@ChetzNation I am very sorry Madam, I bow to your obvious superior intellect and perfect knowledge of the chronological history of the US. However, don't you think that the word "retarded" is somewhat politically incorrect? Surely that word was something that us ignorant kids used in the 50's?
SuperBC10 3 months ago
@SuperBC10 Nah you'd call me a nigger instead. Which reminds me, didn't America have apartheid back then?
ChetzNation 3 months ago
@ChetzNation : Let's be honest with ourselves, if we can stand the strain; we had black architects, black dentists, black retail professionals and managers, sports coaches, well-heeled entertainers, etc. People accomplish what they make up their minds to accomplish. Our government is the most racist organization to ever exist so far.
buzzclick500 2 months ago
lockheed constellation L-749A
TheMPSScissors 6 months ago
This was when everything was made in america, now everything is made in china...
mtanyc 7 months ago 9
@mtanyc That's capitalist manufacturing for you, it follows cost efficiency.
nakedmambo 6 months ago
@mtanyc : We complain, yet I see little corrective action on our part, like GETTING BACK TO WORK, and caring about what we're doing. Firing our present government would be a great start. "Globalism" is the new word for treason.
buzzclick500 4 months ago
@yankeesman14 ... never will be that way again - that way of life died with the people born from 1880 thru 1940 ---and most of those people are dead now!!
roselandalvin 8 months ago
@yankeesman14
I had actually thought before that the WTC was being built at the time this video was being filmed though it was built in the 60's. I wish they were still there!
Deleanredtiger 8 months ago
FANTASTIC ! ! !
chiparoo222 8 months ago
sally is left handed
sup3rkangkong 8 months ago
1955 was the year that my mother married and moved from New York with my dad to Florida, where I grew up and she still resides. It's fun to see it as she knew it.
aarfeld 9 months ago
@yankeesman14 It's too late, liberals have made up their mind that they are going to destroy White western culture and society and they have enough support from third World "people" to get the job done.
MrBEB123 9 months ago
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@MrBEB123 keep crying and moaning white boy
while i keep impregnating white women ;D
BlacknesUnforgivable 9 months ago
@BlacknesUnforgivable Negros do not even rate as Monkeys.
MrBEB123 9 months ago
@MrBEB123 Then going by your logic , the highest paid male model ever (a black man) does not weven rate as a "monkey"
and we still impregnate your women and destroy your filthy satanic race via miscegenation :)
BlacknesUnforgivable 9 months ago
Back in the days before airport security & all that bull!
Madness832 9 months ago
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HamlinSellers 9 months ago
One city, five districts and ... as always... almost only Manhattan.
Lubomir57 10 months ago
My father never wore a suit or tie for dinner. I guess we did'nt have class.
ziggycat999 10 months ago
Everything was so different back then. Why has it changed so much??
I absalotely love looking back in time. Its like a whole different world.
Moviestar20 10 months ago
Perfect video! Only things missing are the urine stained homeless guy asking for cigarette change and the corrupt cop shaking down tourists...
harrison58 10 months ago
To think, they could make something fly 61years ago. Is amazing... But what's even more amazing is that 20-30years later, the internet comes out.
foshizzlemygrizzlful 11 months ago
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Arrr! I love these old movies!
casmatori 11 months ago
Arrr! I love theses old movies!
casmatori 11 months ago
America was so cool then, the leader all us minnow western nations stood behind and followed by example.
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JoshuaJVazquez 1 year ago
what a failure modernity is
1x93cm 1 year ago
Forget Sally and Francis - I'd rather have Connie! she was fit..
(connie - lockheed constellation.... aircraft they flew on??? never mind ;D)
freddielaker2 1 year ago
What a charming film. A relic of a bygone age. An America relaxed and confident in itself'.
ckristo21 1 year ago
@yankeesman14 I wish TWA was still in existence and flying those beautiful Lockheed Constellations!
billyguns2 1 year ago
They mention the airport as being "Idlewild International Airport". That is now known as JFK International airport.
endocondor 1 year ago
Those were some busy girls that day.
jefboyardee 1 year ago
@yankeesman14 I visited NYC yesterday and it was fantastic! Great city even better I think!
MrReminisce 1 year ago
Where is sally now?
imundiath 1 year ago
@imundiath She works for the TSA, inspecting passenger’s scrotums.
jefboyardee 1 year ago
look at those trays of food on the airplane!!
halftone420 1 year ago
"Thats a good even steven proposition."
13Kukis 1 year ago
my country is not gr8 even in 2010 as compare to your country in 1954
xxxyboy3000 1 year ago
college chum
jsunac1 1 year ago
This is wonderful! I believe the aircraft we're seeing is the original Lockheed 1049, before the Super C, Super G, and Super H came into service. Beautiful airplane from a more civilized time!
billyguns2 1 year ago
thows wher the good old days not like today
themamagoatshow 1 year ago
Omg, i wanted to slap the narrorater so freaken bad!
xQuenne 1 year ago
Of course they never film any black people.
N1CKF3D 1 year ago
@N1CKF3D Yeah,......the "white man" has kept them blacks under their thumb...the nerve of them! Huh?
SRMeadows 1 year ago
@SRMeadows No the world is much more tolerant today. It's just that at the time there was a great deal of segregation, and it's a tourism advertisement so they were trying to make New York look good to the rest of the country by not showing any blacks, which is ridiculous because diversity is what makes a city a city.
N1CKF3D 1 year ago
"Well, Mother and Dad, we may as well confess, we have a plan - we're lovers and we're moving to New York"
cosycleaner 1 year ago
wena aterrizaje , komo piloto de guerra
kyshiwokarumono 1 year ago
the inflight meal was go enough even in today standard.
applesweeter 1 year ago
wow coast to coast in 8 hrs planes were alot slower...
mickycee64 1 year ago
@mickycee64
Yes, it is. However, it would be very fast in 1950s, doesn't it?
applesweeter 1 year ago
Coast-to-coast aboard a Lockheed Constellation
SFConifer 1 year ago
This family had money by the standards of the time.
The daughter was in college, - fewer than 5% of American women had college degrees, AND the student loan programs did't exist.
She drives a red convertible,- at a time when most families had only ONE car many had none.
Sally can afford to buy a plane ticket on short notice - no discounts. And Sally can fly to NYC, not work for the Summer.
Not your average mid 1950's American family.
Ads like these started "keeping up with the Joneses"
Thanks
macpduff 1 year ago 2
@macpduff I was a child growing up in NYC at the time. It was a very good, polite time to live. People had standards and lived by them. The world made sense and we all were convinced that 'progress' would prevail for all people.
macpduff 1 year ago
simply a marvelous piece of americana -
cathode1990 1 year ago
This - in time and space - was the peak of human civilization. The world has became a shit place since then, and it's getting worse year by year...
5RocketMan5 1 year ago 11
@5RocketMan5 so the racism, pollution, and ignorance of the 1950's was better? not really, we live in a more globalized community with diversity that is better.
2fast4uspartan 7 months ago
@2fast4uspartan Theri were two black girls in the parade at 10:36
TheMPSScissors 6 months ago
@5RocketMan5 So fuckin' true..it sux...
mtanyc 6 months ago
A very sweet time in America....nice to see.
B73879 1 year ago 2
Cool Video..A time when the cars were American and the toys were Japanese
oldtilter 1 year ago 2
@oldtilter and the president was white.
nerdflanders8710 1 year ago
@Steven197981 True; it's now bigger and better.
A1R5N1P3R 1 year ago
The majority certainly had it better in those days! Yes there was institutionalized racism but in cities like L.A. there were vibrant pockets of African American middle class people. In the 1960s when the drugs became more common it started to decline and after the jobs left in the 1970s and 80s it was all lost and much of America became a welfare state.
lasuvidaboy 1 year ago
Most of the buildings that were there at the time of say, "On the Town" are still there today. Unfortunately, all three baseball venues from the time of this film are now gone.
Of course, some of New York never had any "good old days" like most of Harlem, the Bowery, Hell's Kitchen or what some call the "war zone" east of Tomkins Square Park(neo-Nazis, I was told). Then again, no good host then would let visitors anywhere near those places(the Bowery was touched on in a Traveltalks, though).
fgldnglbs 1 year ago
@fgldnglbs There are two inaccuracies in your comment. First, Harlem's 'good old days' are known as the "Harlem renaissance," (1920s-1930s) which saw significant contributions to our uniquely American culture.
The second is the misinformation you were given about "neo-Nazis" in what is Manhattan's Lower East Side. The notion of this is absolutely hysterical to anyone who lives in NYC or has experienced east of Tompkins Sq. even briefly. The mix of cultures there are astounding to say the least.
TigerRocket 1 year ago
how about staten island? lol :-(
oldieschick16 1 year ago
Very cool video (err, advertisement). Very entertaining to see such quality color images from so long ago.
AquaChevy96 1 year ago
1:23 - LOL. Sounds like our trip to Roseburg, OR. By 11pm, pratically everything was closed. HUGE difference from New York.
411NewYork 1 year ago
eight hrs - awkward jet time - but no issues about tsa - great, still today a great guide to New York - maybe even more interesting than most today city guides.
Druschba77 1 year ago
:49 Sally about puts her face through the windshield ;^~ splat
oldcremona 1 year ago
Something they didn't show was the competing mode of travel--the train. I was hoping to see the original Pennsylvania Station or Grand Central Terminal here, too. Oh well, but the footage of this bygone era is fascinating.
towringer 1 year ago
didnt know cars could be racist?? why don't you go buy a Toyota hope you get one with a good gas pedal moonrunner303!
ramblergarage 1 year ago
The good ol' times!
KillZappOMatic 2 years ago
TWA closed down years ago time sure flys.
SaberTanker22 2 years ago
she forget to tell her parents that she was a lesbian!
SpeakingMyMind7 2 years ago
Constellations and DC 6's, 7's were pressurized. The DC-4 was not.
RickC50 2 years ago
people had class back then.
ramblergarage 2 years ago 16
@ramblergarage I totally agree
crissy214 1 year ago
love the shots of the cars, no jap and koren junk then!
ramblergarage 2 years ago
to true...we should never have dealt with them again after the way they treated the POW,S.
agaichapter25 2 years ago
@ramblergarage if youu're gonna be racist then at least learn how to spell the disrespectful terms you label our fellow brothers.
moonrunner303 1 year ago
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milepost53 2 years ago
Thank you for posting this. :-)
BoudiccaBlanc 2 years ago
That's when air travel was wonderful! It was an adventure; everyone dressed in their best and were very polite.
Not like the cattle-car airlines of today!
Ugh! People are so rude nowadays!
BoudiccaBlanc 2 years ago 2
25:33 Is Sally blind or somethin,looks like it, look at her eyes! kind of spooky. Wonder if she is still living?
cylinder4ify 2 years ago
Yankee legend Whitey Ford at bat at 21:40.
WhiteCamry 2 years ago
The Central Park Fountain at 18:40. How many movies & television scenes have been shot there?
WhiteCamry 2 years ago
My dad used to take me to Steeplechase Park at Coney...it was a great treat....I still have a postcard from a Borden's Milk Elsie the Cow promotion that was there one summer... Riding the horses that ringed around the park is still one of my happiest memories .
miltsar 2 years ago
Parachute jump is still there,right
next to the home of the Brooklyn Cyclones.
febreeze59 2 years ago
It looks about the same now that the Towers are gone....go figure.
conewells 2 years ago
in 2-3 years we are back into the mid 70's for sure
colazero83 2 years ago
Wow...how much money does this guy have??? Even back in the day...taking someone to the ballgame radio city the race track coney island....that costs a bundle!! I guess he likes her!!
jlomax 2 years ago
I wonder if he got any???
MerleOberon 2 years ago
I wonder if Idyllwild airport is now JFK international?
jlomax 2 years ago 2
Yes.Idlewild became JFK airport I
believe in 1964.
febreeze59 2 years ago
Is there a version showing a gay couple?
progay 2 years ago
what kind of question is that?
itom85 2 years ago
@progay Sure, they had Rachel Maddow all set to go, but at the last minute Keith Olbermann got an angry telegram from a very jealous Chris Matthews and Keithy had to, unfortunately, deep six the gig.
hansboofer 1 year ago
hey, is that Art Gilmore doing the narration. Sounds like him, but I'm not sure.
RRaquello 2 years ago
Oh, to be a lesbian in the fifties.....
dawnnaYT 2 years ago
......actually she's into sadomasochism....(she gets pleasure from pain)
ConnaughtVaughan 2 years ago
LOL! I can tell you're a funny gal, dawnna.
conewells 2 years ago
Outside of technology, has our society really improved?
JohnMc52 2 years ago
No metal detectors, no security checks, no x-rays, lots of food on a flight--oh, for the good old days!
wlhardy 2 years ago 23
Oh, I love this video!!!!
maryjulie2 2 years ago
drip dry gloves
BigBishop1 2 years ago
nice TWA ad! Great video ;]
rosinisme 2 years ago
Thanks so much.
kannika12 2 years ago
Damn the food looks good now a days you are lucky if you get peanuts on a flight.
Wilde2020 2 years ago 4
Peanuts? On a flight? WTF?
ELFELICIANO 2 years ago
LOL!!
dawnnaYT 2 years ago
That was a far more civilized era in the states.
lasuvidaboy 2 years ago 28
@lasuvidaboy
This was the real America and the real american people
yoalfairu 1 year ago 2
@lasuvidaboy Definitely more civilized. Except for the extreme racism and sexism. Oh and accepted wife and child abuse behind closed doors. Actually, maybe they were just better at hiding it, along with everyone who wasn't white.
This is an advert for tourism purposes. It's a glossy, polished version of history.
dinfinite 1 year ago
@dinfinite It was civilized, before they started the diversity crap. Before they let the filthy deceptive greedy murderous BEANERS take over. So shut your fuckin hole.
MassDeportation 1 year ago
@MassDeportation yeah well you americans make a demand for drugs, so shut yoiur pie hole.
You're quite happy to piss and moan about the ozone layer and global warming but what about all the coke you asholes sniff.
nerdflanders8710 1 year ago
@nerdflanders8710 You have a point, but conservative americans dont do ANY of that shit, and fight it. Americans need to decide exactly what they want their drug laws to be and stick with it and cut mexico out. completely. The ozone and global warming, i find myself agreeing with you. It's a hoax. Unfortunately the Left, the Liberals, have taken over and put a TRAITOR in the white house.
MassDeportation 1 year ago
@MassDeportation yeah ! fucking a! sieg heil!
nerdflanders8710 1 year ago
@MassDeportation re the prez...well in a country of 300 million all you could find to run for the top job was McClain? or Palin? or the guy from Blazing Saddles? what gives? anyhoo I think Ojama is ok .
nerdflanders8710 1 year ago
@nerdflanders8710 they werent my choice. Palin wouldnt be too bad. shes immature and would need tough people around her. but at least she has a measure of respect for her own country. Obama is a fucking muslim "converted" to christian during his fucking campaign so soften the christians and make more of them vote for him. Obama is a traitor who has done everything he can to destroy america. Including mass immigration which is literally an invasion under another name. Never even showed id.
MassDeportation 1 year ago
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dinfinite 1 year ago
@MassDeportation I hadn't realized that filthy deceptive greedy murderous beaners had taken over New York. When did this happen? Does Mayor Bloomberg know? What about Governor Paterson, Police Commissioner Kelly, Senators Gillibrand and Schumer. None of those names sound even slightly "beaner-ish". But you're right, diversity sucks. I wish everyone was just like you. Because you're obviously very smart and kind, probably well educated too. You would never spew hate behind the safety of anonymity
dinfinite 1 year ago
@dinfinite Show me where i said beaners have taken over nyc.
MassDeportation 1 year ago