A Roaring 1920's Bootlegging Photo Album Massena New York

[Drevier]

Great pictures of Massena. I was born there in March '72. Both my parents were also born there: father November '47 mom June '52. We moved the California in 1981.

[nInAg114]

Thanks for taking the time to do this and help preserve some history!  Wish more people did this because I think we lose a lot when we don't keep memories, good and bad, of our history!

[johnswackyworld]

old fart? yes, i am and i'm proud of being an old fart! i doubt you've ever been to massena. alot has changed in this place in 89 years.

[azulo65]

Great video, great music! Who was Doris Taylor? She looks like an interesting woman.

[Chicklet575]

Good question! I too would like to know who Doris Taylor was. My husband and I were watching this video and he almost fell of his chair when he saw her photo - an almost uncanny likeness of me and my last name (married) happens to be Taylor.

[Corrie121]

I am not an American citizen, but I must congratulate you on your presentation. It is most interesting. I enjoyed it so much.

Thank you for this glimpse into a past age.

[lowcoststore]

I was born and raised in Massena NY! That was really cool!

[jon7651]

john the spring brigd eis still standing. we went to spankys a day ago it looks alot like the one in the photo

[johnswackyworld]

the massena springs bridge has been replaced a few times over the years or repaired..in the late 1960's they actually re-routed the street with the bridge a little. the bridge in downtown massena was made to look almost like the old one from 1917.

[ericcecilie]

@johnswackyworld Where was the picture of the K.K.K.?? Good old 20's Pot was legal then.

[reckonman]

really nice but those people back then really looked fuked up

[tanynzh]

i love the music... hope to travel back to the roaring 20s :)

[serapidus]

I'll come with you but remember NO antibiotics,birth control,racism,sexism etc. we might might enjoy for awhile but I'm sure we both would say please take us back to the good ole 21st Century!

[ragtimemonk]

hey i'll come too, tell you what though, you can leave me there... coz i've had enough of the racism, sexism, population control and antibiotics that no longer work in this sorry century... and that's without georgie boy and his renegade dictators...

[serapidus]

Don't forget the black lynchings,the KKK march on Washington,the Teapot dome scandal,Warren Harding's illegitimate children etc.Children died of polio,measles,diptheria,scarle­t fever due to No antibiotics.People went blind or died from bathtub gin Reality check please! The music and spirit of the '20's is what we long for but things have improved by an large

[ragtimemonk]

firstly let me please add that i was speaking hypothetically and with humour. i didn't

realize that i was going back without the knowledge amassed in this life so far and without the striving to bring about change through re-education of the closed mind brigade (in

charge of society even back then) as i have been doing for 20 years. + also that i ain't a coloured fella...

kkk and racism are/is still alive and kicking although far more worryingly,usually

underground now

[ragtimemonk]

and institutionalized in the police force etc. invisible except for the odd

Rodney King incident and occasional hick truck drag... truly insipid... i would be more than interested to know about the Teapot dome scandal though, which i know nothing of...plenty of absent fathers nowadays including for myself...and have you forgotten your country bombing,almost back to the stone age,(twice), a country made up of more than

50% children!! + the children dying of hunger and from fighting wars

[johnswackyworld]

uggg...lets just go back t=to the 1920's for a month or two and enjoy the sites and smells of the old days --and forget about now!

[Goldenthrush]

Neat! Thanks!

[lilwillywicked]

look at this .... if only the world was so simple now a days

[nedsparks]

A very worthwhile endeavor, and tastefully executed!

[ragtimemonk]

i agree... the best i've seen, and the best 4.04 i've spent all day... johns wacky world rules ok... don't know where massena is though!!

[ManilaSyndicate]

Lovely video John, truly fantastic, quite a site to behold, it almost brought tears to my eyes. The comprehensive in-depth tribute to small town American life during one of it's defining eras is unique and well done. The choice of "Charleston" as the soundtrack is most apt as it perhaps is the most representative song of it's age.

[johnswackyworld]

wow! thank you very much for that comment! greatly accepted! enjoying comments and people watching my little movies for local history. never been done here in massena..but now its being done my me! im also preserving all of my collection I have salvaged over the past 20 years from garbages and other places..john

[ragtimemonk]

no, thank you... very much indeed.

[KawaiiRini]

what song is this?

[johnswackyworld]

this song is from 1925. its called "charleston" and recorded by the edison dance orchestra. the charleston was one of the biggest dance steps of the 1920's.

[Holland1935]

Like the "Charleston" and I am going to look for the record. Many thanks for shearing !!