This is one good find! I agree with the guys who say this looks better than a lotta videos from the 70s. But in my honest opinion, the New York of the 1930s and 40s is the most ideal.
Great video! Ignore all of the political arguments. They still think their party cares about them and looks out for their interests and not their own. The city must have been very interesting with most of the immigrants pretty fresh off the boat. Would have love to have experienced that.
- The dangers of NYC in the '60s, '70s and '80s were highly exaggerated by the media.... and all the vice for which those decades are (in)famous could be found in the '50s... just not so much out on display.
Actually you could still go to New York in the late fifties, but after that, unless you were a junkie or a whore, it was best to stay away. Now New York, in a funny way, is actually one of the safest big cities to visit.
@TLJAWSIMIB its film, the best stuff on earth... whats left of it. Buy a film camera, shoot a roll, develop it and love it. No LCD screen can ever compare
@TheMoonunit13 put all drug addicts in work camps for two years and dealers deport to small rafts drifting at sea . that work alot better to save america
Although it's much shorter, Alfred Hitchcock's film "North By Northwest," filmed the same year, shows some spectacular color shots of Midtown Manhattan in its opening montage, concluding with Hitchcock himself juuuust missing a bus as his name appears onscreen as director.
you sad sad sad little man gay people are the best company you could ever wish for you should get a life!!if you have one get out in the real world and take a look around you.typical straight lingo the only word you can use!!!you should be a shamed of yourself,call yourself a human being?i think not we are here and always will be so get used to it
The powers that were should have left the skyline the way it was is 59. What a wonderful testament to art deco it was. The Manhattan Chase bldg., for those in the know, was the beginning of the end of the charm of southern Manhattan.
@SatchmoSings I can't see the building in the film. They probably broke ground a year or two after it was filmed. However, you can see a clear shot of the building duing the last few minutes of the move Working Girl as the camera pans back.
Always been fascinated by The City... I wish i could go back to the late 50's and live there through the 60's, 70's and 80's.. Then i could die happy...
NYC in 1959 still had the big classy nightclubs - the Stork, El Morocco, Latin Quarter, the original CopaCabana, the Empire Room, the Persion Room, live television, like Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason and many more. The glamor (a little frayed by 59) of the 40's and 50's was about to be trashed by the explosive changes of the 1960's. We lost the old order and civility of the 50's and before in the 60's (esp late 60's). As a kid, I saw it all happen and i remember everyone talked about it.
Great footage -- much of NYC in 1959 was very much the same as it was in the late 40's. This footage documents the end of an era in NYC - it was a more innocent place than it was ten years later. The City in 1969 was a completely different place. We were a different people by 1969. In 1959, we still had the original Penn Station with many long-distance trains (more than Amtrak), the big movie palaces -the Paramount, Capitol and Roxy, the Astor Hotel - All gone by 69.
This is one good find! I agree with the guys who say this looks better than a lotta videos from the 70s. But in my honest opinion, the New York of the 1930s and 40s is the most ideal.
Great video! Ignore all of the political arguments. They still think their party cares about them and looks out for their interests and not their own. The city must have been very interesting with most of the immigrants pretty fresh off the boat. Would have love to have experienced that.
- The dangers of NYC in the '60s, '70s and '80s were highly exaggerated by the media.... and all the vice for which those decades are (in)famous could be found in the '50s... just not so much out on display.
Actually you could still go to New York in the late fifties, but after that, unless you were a junkie or a whore, it was best to stay away. Now New York, in a funny way, is actually one of the safest big cities to visit.
@TLJAWSIMIB its film, the best stuff on earth... whats left of it. Buy a film camera, shoot a roll, develop it and love it. No LCD screen can ever compare
@TheMoonunit13 put all drug addicts in work camps for two years and dealers deport to small rafts drifting at sea . that work alot better to save america
Although it's much shorter, Alfred Hitchcock's film "North By Northwest," filmed the same year, shows some spectacular color shots of Midtown Manhattan in its opening montage, concluding with Hitchcock himself juuuust missing a bus as his name appears onscreen as director.
you sad sad sad little man gay people are the best company you could ever wish for you should get a life!!if you have one get out in the real world and take a look around you.typical straight lingo the only word you can use!!!you should be a shamed of yourself,call yourself a human being?i think not we are here and always will be so get used to it
The powers that were should have left the skyline the way it was is 59. What a wonderful testament to art deco it was. The Manhattan Chase bldg., for those in the know, was the beginning of the end of the charm of southern Manhattan.
@SatchmoSings I can't see the building in the film. They probably broke ground a year or two after it was filmed. However, you can see a clear shot of the building duing the last few minutes of the move Working Girl as the camera pans back.
Always been fascinated by The City... I wish i could go back to the late 50's and live there through the 60's, 70's and 80's.. Then i could die happy...
NYC in 1959 still had the big classy nightclubs - the Stork, El Morocco, Latin Quarter, the original CopaCabana, the Empire Room, the Persion Room, live television, like Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason and many more. The glamor (a little frayed by 59) of the 40's and 50's was about to be trashed by the explosive changes of the 1960's. We lost the old order and civility of the 50's and before in the 60's (esp late 60's). As a kid, I saw it all happen and i remember everyone talked about it.
Great footage -- much of NYC in 1959 was very much the same as it was in the late 40's. This footage documents the end of an era in NYC - it was a more innocent place than it was ten years later. The City in 1969 was a completely different place. We were a different people by 1969. In 1959, we still had the original Penn Station with many long-distance trains (more than Amtrak), the big movie palaces -the Paramount, Capitol and Roxy, the Astor Hotel - All gone by 69.
its got that sunshine just after rain clean look, back when people used to give a damn about appearances, save for the parade, everything is so clean. I don't want to live in Singapore, I want New York to be this clean again
@vexviper I liked The old days for NYC as well. NYC sure started to get ruined around the 1960s and even worst in 1970s. I agree with your comments and while your at it, you should add that it was also ruined by taggers, vandals, graffitti, ghetto people, gangsters, rockers, rappers, hip-hop, hippies and other crap that happened. They are another reason why NYC is ruined. It will never be the same as the old days it was. :( R.I.P NYC.
Soon Muslims will be praying in the streets blocking traffic and more mosques will be built because you Liberals are afraid you might offend and like to appease them. This is why we are being walked on from the illegal’s spilling in from our southern boarders. Our freedom is in jeopardy because liberals have no backbone.
@hcvang I think you have that wrong; some democrats have no heart but plenty of greed. More taxes to suite their lavish life styles giving themselves pay raises and exempting themselves from the laws they push through congress as well as free medical. This is why we need to put a cap on the term spent in office. This is not a career it's a privilege by the people serving and representing the people they use this privilege by the people to serve their own agendas.
@vexviper Democrat greed my ass. What planet have you been living on. Look at the Reagan years, then the terms of both Bush 1 and 2. They were disasterous to the middle class, the very rich fared quite well. Clinton left office with a surplus, Bush blew it within 3 months. Reagan took office. 1/2 of 1 percent had 20 percent of the money and after his 6th year, that figure had changed to 26 percent. And Republicans won't do anything for a vote...again, my ass.
@9241937 hallo dummy look at Obama he has spent more money in 2 years then everyone together has in 60 years so fuck you stupid think with your dick and hole democrats you all should get jailed for treason and just being stupid. then look at all the social security money spent since it's creation all the laws to spend this money are democrat laws all of them. new democrat's the Mexicans the Haitians the scum of the earth are Democrats you fucking faggot
@zzzippo55 Have you any facts and figures to substantiate your crude, rambling, vulgar and inarticulate tirade that anyone with even a hint of intelligence would find repugnant?
@hcvang For example promising the poor and illegal immigrants a new future in order to get the votes that they need to stay in office and this is all done by raising taxes on everyone not just the rich but the middle class and businesses as well.
@vexviper and stealing by hidden laws from our social security we need a man as strong as Hitler to rid us of democrat's and their scum offspring bake em all
Right, because starting a three front war to show how strong you are and murdering millions of civilians in both your home nation and the territories you occupied worked out so well for Hitler and the German people, didn't it.
@vexviper I really dislike calling anyone names on youtube.....but damn vipe....where the hell have you been living in the past 25 years? Are you a fuckin idiot or what........Please don´t respond to this.....just reflect....please.
@vexviper I liked The old days for NYC as well. NYC sure started to get ruined around the 1960s and even worst in 1970s. I agree with your comments and while your at it, you should add that it was also ruined by taggers, vandals, graffitti, ghetto people, gangsters, rockers, rappers, hip-hop, hippies and other crap that happened. They are another reason why NYC is ruined. It will never be the same as the old days it was. :( R.I.P NYC.
Soon Muslims will be praying in the streets blocking traffic and more mosques will be built because you Liberals are afraid you might offend and like to appease them. This is why we are being walked on from the illegal’s spilling in from our southern boarders. Our freedom is in jeopardy because liberals have no backbone.
@hcvang I think you have that wrong; some democrats have no heart but plenty of greed. More taxes to suite their lavish life styles giving themselves pay raises and exempting themselves from the laws they push through congress as well as free medical. This is why we need to put a cap on the term spent in office. This is not a career it's a privilege by the people serving and representing the people they use this privilege by the people to serve their own agendas.
@vexviper Democrat greed my ass. What planet have you been living on. Look at the Reagan years, then the terms of both Bush 1 and 2. They were disasterous to the middle class, the very rich fared quite well. Clinton left office with a surplus, Bush blew it within 3 months. Reagan took office. 1/2 of 1 percent had 20 percent of the money and after his 6th year, that figure had changed to 26 percent. And Republicans won't do anything for a vote...again, my ass.
@9241937 hallo dummy look at Obama he has spent more money in 2 years then everyone together has in 60 years so fuck you stupid think with your dick and hole democrats you all should get jailed for treason and just being stupid. then look at all the social security money spent since it's creation all the laws to spend this money are democrat laws all of them. new democrat's the Mexicans the Haitians the scum of the earth are Democrats you fucking faggot
@zzzippo55 Have you any facts and figures to substantiate your crude, rambling, vulgar and inarticulate tirade that anyone with even a hint of intelligence would find repugnant?
@hcvang For example promising the poor and illegal immigrants a new future in order to get the votes that they need to stay in office and this is all done by raising taxes on everyone not just the rich but the middle class and businesses as well.
@vexviper and stealing by hidden laws from our social security we need a man as strong as Hitler to rid us of democrat's and their scum offspring bake em all
Right, because starting a three front war to show how strong you are and murdering millions of civilians in both your home nation and the territories you occupied worked out so well for Hitler and the German people, didn't it.
@vexviper I really dislike calling anyone names on youtube.....but damn vipe....where the hell have you been living in the past 25 years? Are you a fuckin idiot or what........Please don´t respond to this.....just reflect....please.
Add some music and this will be a masterpiece
tarzan73875 4 hours ago
This is beautiful including the pick of the USS United States in New York Harbor!!
Nova9581 17 hours ago
Amazing quality.
I was like 4 then. 50+ years later in the blink of an eye... Oh well.
Thanks for this!!
gli7utubeo 5 days ago
This is one good find! I agree with the guys who say this looks better than a lotta videos from the 70s. But in my honest opinion, the New York of the 1930s and 40s is the most ideal.
jaguarjaguarjaguarja 6 days ago
Great video! Ignore all of the political arguments. They still think their party cares about them and looks out for their interests and not their own. The city must have been very interesting with most of the immigrants pretty fresh off the boat. Would have love to have experienced that.
MrMattyB16 2 weeks ago
God bless whoever took this footage, oh, and I don't believe in God! Now I do...
AQWorldsTheFabled 3 weeks ago
sigh, Chinatown without hipsters....mustve been an awesome time
dizkoteck 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
When I think of chinese food, I think of Rathskeller
dizkoteck 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
Great. I just ate, and now I'm hungry again. ;])
buzzclick500 1 month ago
Great video. Thank you for sharing with all of us.
1999Mikee 1 month ago
No chemtrails, no haze.
chuck3377 1 month ago
- The dangers of NYC in the '60s, '70s and '80s were highly exaggerated by the media.... and all the vice for which those decades are (in)famous could be found in the '50s... just not so much out on display.
petercrowley41 1 month ago
Excellent Quality
gaguy1967 1 month ago
Are those doughnuts? Or what are they?? 6:31
janepeepshow 3 months ago
its like looking at a different world.
pinkbluegreeen 3 months ago
@pinkbluegreeen So so true, these days are long gone, quite sad actually when you think about it. A simpler time
BUBBASIMS 2 months ago
@CrimeSceneSex Youre telling me! Nothing but a hipster playground now
dizkoteck 3 months ago
Actually you could still go to New York in the late fifties, but after that, unless you were a junkie or a whore, it was best to stay away. Now New York, in a funny way, is actually one of the safest big cities to visit.
FanOfPopCulture 3 months ago
WOW this footage is a jewel. Thanks for posting.
caviper1 3 months ago
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mauriciobeltre 3 months ago
IS THIS REALLY MADE IN THE YEAR 1959!?. I WONDER WHAT KIND OF CAMERA THEY HAD THAT TIME TO MAKE THIS SO VERY CLEAR, CRISP STUFF.
TLJAWSIMIB 3 months ago
@TLJAWSIMIB Color film was freaking expensive back then :P
TheRemixer05 3 months ago
@TheRemixer05 HOW MUCH!?.
TLJAWSIMIB 3 months ago
@TLJAWSIMIB its film, the best stuff on earth... whats left of it. Buy a film camera, shoot a roll, develop it and love it. No LCD screen can ever compare
dizkoteck 3 months ago in playlist dizkoteck's favorites
@CrimeSceneSex I would say New York really died in the early to mid 90's
Now in 2011 stick a fork in it it's done. NYC is now for the wealthy and glamourous only.
Everyone else cannot live here.
mtanyc 4 months ago
It's my honest opinion, but I believe Art Deco architecture needs a revival.
azncommie97 4 months ago
Thanks for this marvelous video. I loved it. Awesome!!!
patertre 4 months ago
Solve Ameicas' problems -legalize marijuana and reform all drug laws.
TheMoonunit13 5 months ago
@TheMoonunit13 put all drug addicts in work camps for two years and dealers deport to small rafts drifting at sea . that work alot better to save america
zzzippo55 4 months ago
This video is amazing
duralate 5 months ago
Although it's much shorter, Alfred Hitchcock's film "North By Northwest," filmed the same year, shows some spectacular color shots of Midtown Manhattan in its opening montage, concluding with Hitchcock himself juuuust missing a bus as his name appears onscreen as director.
UncleMikeNJ 6 months ago
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hazymindstate 6 months ago
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rems1995 6 months ago
you sad sad sad little man gay people are the best company you could ever wish for you should get a life!!if you have one get out in the real world and take a look around you.typical straight lingo the only word you can use!!!you should be a shamed of yourself,call yourself a human being?i think not we are here and always will be so get used to it
mrjohntitanic1 6 months ago
@mrjohntitanic1 Typical fag. lern how2 spel gud & knot haf runon sentences
MORON FAG
Glinkaism1 5 months ago
very clear video for a 1959 camera. I've seen 1970's videos that look worst.
savere2006 6 months ago 10
bring on the GAY PARADES,being gay is the best thing i have many friends of gay people this person is so out of touch.
mrjohntitanic1 6 months ago
@mrjohntitanic1 You queers wouldn't even make good ashes. You will be defeated by the hets. It's happening now. More to come.
Glinkaism1 6 months ago
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In Russian it means Boobs
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proitguy 7 months ago
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proitguy 7 months ago
The powers that were should have left the skyline the way it was is 59. What a wonderful testament to art deco it was. The Manhattan Chase bldg., for those in the know, was the beginning of the end of the charm of southern Manhattan.
sanfrancisco89 7 months ago
@sanfrancisco89 Yes, the Chase building was what ended the skyline of lower Manhattan; is that it with the scaffolding on the side?
SatchmoSings 6 months ago
@SatchmoSings I can't see the building in the film. They probably broke ground a year or two after it was filmed. However, you can see a clear shot of the building duing the last few minutes of the move Working Girl as the camera pans back.
sanfrancisco89 6 months ago
@sanfrancisco89 Oh well; you can't stop "progress."
SatchmoSings 6 months ago
Always been fascinated by The City... I wish i could go back to the late 50's and live there through the 60's, 70's and 80's.. Then i could die happy...
KillaBeesOnDaSwarm 7 months ago
sure is glenn beck / o'reilly nostalgia in here
ministeroftuba 7 months ago
food probably tasted better then than now
gillmore2011 7 months ago in playlist OLD NYC
this is cool looking about the past
gillmore2011 7 months ago in playlist OLD NYC
I'm sure that must taste good what ever he is putting in tha grease with no gloves on, all them arm hairs in that batter
Turkeydoodlers 7 months ago
You'd think they could get more current footage. Well, I guess youtube is free.
elitemathlete 8 months ago
1959 was the year I was born.So this is how New York look.Mommy where are you .
PREZ150 8 months ago
love the cars!!!!!!!!!
pigidly 9 months ago
NYC in 1959 still had the big classy nightclubs - the Stork, El Morocco, Latin Quarter, the original CopaCabana, the Empire Room, the Persion Room, live television, like Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason and many more. The glamor (a little frayed by 59) of the 40's and 50's was about to be trashed by the explosive changes of the 1960's. We lost the old order and civility of the 50's and before in the 60's (esp late 60's). As a kid, I saw it all happen and i remember everyone talked about it.
bigcity233 9 months ago 2
@bigcity233 We lost civility when Rock & Roll started in the 1950's
PREZ150 8 months ago
Great footage -- much of NYC in 1959 was very much the same as it was in the late 40's. This footage documents the end of an era in NYC - it was a more innocent place than it was ten years later. The City in 1969 was a completely different place. We were a different people by 1969. In 1959, we still had the original Penn Station with many long-distance trains (more than Amtrak), the big movie palaces -the Paramount, Capitol and Roxy, the Astor Hotel - All gone by 69.
continued...
bigcity233 9 months ago
Love all of the old advertising....these days the advertising is like annoying pop-ups on the internet.
tiredguy71 11 months ago
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zachNewYork 1 year ago
Add some music and this will be a masterpiece
tarzan73875 4 hours ago
This is beautiful including the pick of the USS United States in New York Harbor!!
Nova9581 17 hours ago
Amazing quality.
I was like 4 then. 50+ years later in the blink of an eye... Oh well.
Thanks for this!!
gli7utubeo 5 days ago
This is one good find! I agree with the guys who say this looks better than a lotta videos from the 70s. But in my honest opinion, the New York of the 1930s and 40s is the most ideal.
jaguarjaguarjaguarja 6 days ago
Great video! Ignore all of the political arguments. They still think their party cares about them and looks out for their interests and not their own. The city must have been very interesting with most of the immigrants pretty fresh off the boat. Would have love to have experienced that.
MrMattyB16 2 weeks ago
God bless whoever took this footage, oh, and I don't believe in God! Now I do...
AQWorldsTheFabled 3 weeks ago
sigh, Chinatown without hipsters....mustve been an awesome time
dizkoteck 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
When I think of chinese food, I think of Rathskeller
dizkoteck 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
Great. I just ate, and now I'm hungry again. ;])
buzzclick500 1 month ago
Great video. Thank you for sharing with all of us.
1999Mikee 1 month ago
No chemtrails, no haze.
chuck3377 1 month ago
- The dangers of NYC in the '60s, '70s and '80s were highly exaggerated by the media.... and all the vice for which those decades are (in)famous could be found in the '50s... just not so much out on display.
petercrowley41 1 month ago
Excellent Quality
gaguy1967 1 month ago
Are those doughnuts? Or what are they?? 6:31
janepeepshow 3 months ago
its like looking at a different world.
pinkbluegreeen 3 months ago
@pinkbluegreeen So so true, these days are long gone, quite sad actually when you think about it. A simpler time
BUBBASIMS 2 months ago
@CrimeSceneSex Youre telling me! Nothing but a hipster playground now
dizkoteck 3 months ago
Actually you could still go to New York in the late fifties, but after that, unless you were a junkie or a whore, it was best to stay away. Now New York, in a funny way, is actually one of the safest big cities to visit.
FanOfPopCulture 3 months ago
WOW this footage is a jewel. Thanks for posting.
caviper1 3 months ago
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mauriciobeltre 3 months ago
IS THIS REALLY MADE IN THE YEAR 1959!?. I WONDER WHAT KIND OF CAMERA THEY HAD THAT TIME TO MAKE THIS SO VERY CLEAR, CRISP STUFF.
TLJAWSIMIB 3 months ago
@TLJAWSIMIB Color film was freaking expensive back then :P
TheRemixer05 3 months ago
@TheRemixer05 HOW MUCH!?.
TLJAWSIMIB 3 months ago
@TLJAWSIMIB its film, the best stuff on earth... whats left of it. Buy a film camera, shoot a roll, develop it and love it. No LCD screen can ever compare
dizkoteck 3 months ago in playlist dizkoteck's favorites
@CrimeSceneSex I would say New York really died in the early to mid 90's
Now in 2011 stick a fork in it it's done. NYC is now for the wealthy and glamourous only.
Everyone else cannot live here.
mtanyc 4 months ago
It's my honest opinion, but I believe Art Deco architecture needs a revival.
azncommie97 4 months ago
Thanks for this marvelous video. I loved it. Awesome!!!
patertre 4 months ago
Solve Ameicas' problems -legalize marijuana and reform all drug laws.
TheMoonunit13 5 months ago
@TheMoonunit13 put all drug addicts in work camps for two years and dealers deport to small rafts drifting at sea . that work alot better to save america
zzzippo55 4 months ago
This video is amazing
duralate 5 months ago
Although it's much shorter, Alfred Hitchcock's film "North By Northwest," filmed the same year, shows some spectacular color shots of Midtown Manhattan in its opening montage, concluding with Hitchcock himself juuuust missing a bus as his name appears onscreen as director.
UncleMikeNJ 6 months ago
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hazymindstate 6 months ago
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rems1995 6 months ago
you sad sad sad little man gay people are the best company you could ever wish for you should get a life!!if you have one get out in the real world and take a look around you.typical straight lingo the only word you can use!!!you should be a shamed of yourself,call yourself a human being?i think not we are here and always will be so get used to it
mrjohntitanic1 6 months ago
@mrjohntitanic1 Typical fag. lern how2 spel gud & knot haf runon sentences
MORON FAG
Glinkaism1 5 months ago
very clear video for a 1959 camera. I've seen 1970's videos that look worst.
savere2006 6 months ago 10
bring on the GAY PARADES,being gay is the best thing i have many friends of gay people this person is so out of touch.
mrjohntitanic1 6 months ago
@mrjohntitanic1 You queers wouldn't even make good ashes. You will be defeated by the hets. It's happening now. More to come.
Glinkaism1 6 months ago
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SeaSki 14:30
In Russian it means Boobs
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proitguy 7 months ago
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proitguy 7 months ago
The powers that were should have left the skyline the way it was is 59. What a wonderful testament to art deco it was. The Manhattan Chase bldg., for those in the know, was the beginning of the end of the charm of southern Manhattan.
sanfrancisco89 7 months ago
@sanfrancisco89 Yes, the Chase building was what ended the skyline of lower Manhattan; is that it with the scaffolding on the side?
SatchmoSings 6 months ago
@SatchmoSings I can't see the building in the film. They probably broke ground a year or two after it was filmed. However, you can see a clear shot of the building duing the last few minutes of the move Working Girl as the camera pans back.
sanfrancisco89 6 months ago
@sanfrancisco89 Oh well; you can't stop "progress."
SatchmoSings 6 months ago
Always been fascinated by The City... I wish i could go back to the late 50's and live there through the 60's, 70's and 80's.. Then i could die happy...
KillaBeesOnDaSwarm 7 months ago
sure is glenn beck / o'reilly nostalgia in here
ministeroftuba 7 months ago
food probably tasted better then than now
gillmore2011 7 months ago in playlist OLD NYC
this is cool looking about the past
gillmore2011 7 months ago in playlist OLD NYC
I'm sure that must taste good what ever he is putting in tha grease with no gloves on, all them arm hairs in that batter
Turkeydoodlers 7 months ago
You'd think they could get more current footage. Well, I guess youtube is free.
elitemathlete 8 months ago
1959 was the year I was born.So this is how New York look.Mommy where are you .
PREZ150 8 months ago
love the cars!!!!!!!!!
pigidly 9 months ago
NYC in 1959 still had the big classy nightclubs - the Stork, El Morocco, Latin Quarter, the original CopaCabana, the Empire Room, the Persion Room, live television, like Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason and many more. The glamor (a little frayed by 59) of the 40's and 50's was about to be trashed by the explosive changes of the 1960's. We lost the old order and civility of the 50's and before in the 60's (esp late 60's). As a kid, I saw it all happen and i remember everyone talked about it.
bigcity233 9 months ago 2
@bigcity233 We lost civility when Rock & Roll started in the 1950's
PREZ150 8 months ago
Great footage -- much of NYC in 1959 was very much the same as it was in the late 40's. This footage documents the end of an era in NYC - it was a more innocent place than it was ten years later. The City in 1969 was a completely different place. We were a different people by 1969. In 1959, we still had the original Penn Station with many long-distance trains (more than Amtrak), the big movie palaces -the Paramount, Capitol and Roxy, the Astor Hotel - All gone by 69.
continued...
bigcity233 9 months ago
Love all of the old advertising....these days the advertising is like annoying pop-ups on the internet.
tiredguy71 11 months ago
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zachNewYork 1 year ago
at 1:35, Morran tugboat!
pennyf9 1 year ago
@pennyf9 hehe, I remember watching them on the Hudson and wanting to grow up and work on one of them.
lunhil12 11 months ago
@pennyf9 hehe, I remember watching them on the Hudson and wanting to grow up and work on one of them.
lunhil12 11 months ago
for a few moments I forgot the world we live in today. What an escape!
murmurmouth 1 year ago
this is prime
beans909 1 year ago
this is the kind of footage i like to see not that goverment tourism crap
stSNOWMAN1 1 year ago
"Midnight Matinee" Pullman Standard lyrics/song on YouTube completes this:
DEFINITELY worth listening(and sing).
PEACE!
musiconfigure 1 year ago
some music would have been nice...
cosycleaner 1 year ago
@BarneyBenar wow you sound mean...that was a particularly ugly and stupid comment ! Grow up !
miltsar 1 year ago
its got that sunshine just after rain clean look, back when people used to give a damn about appearances, save for the parade, everything is so clean. I don't want to live in Singapore, I want New York to be this clean again
novembermember 1 year ago
amazing
DivinityzBeAsT 1 year ago
my dad was born 1959 outside Jersey City
MrTatamijo 1 year ago
@MrTatamijo your father is just a youngster in the scheme of things
redgrapeskins 1 year ago
Ah yes a much simpler time. Now it's all ruined by Liberalism and gay parades.
vexviper 1 year ago 6
@vexviper I liked The old days for NYC as well. NYC sure started to get ruined around the 1960s and even worst in 1970s. I agree with your comments and while your at it, you should add that it was also ruined by taggers, vandals, graffitti, ghetto people, gangsters, rockers, rappers, hip-hop, hippies and other crap that happened. They are another reason why NYC is ruined. It will never be the same as the old days it was. :( R.I.P NYC.
C40LF5419 11 months ago
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mrmn68 8 months ago
@mrmn68 Stupid comment.
sanfrancisco89 7 months ago
Please.. San Francisco wheres flowers in their hair.
mrmn68 7 months ago
@vexviper to make a statement like that your obviously at least 70. If so fine. If not, weird.
liquidchickens 7 months ago 13
@vexviper how conservative
dirty06maggot 7 months ago
@dirty06maggot
Soon Muslims will be praying in the streets blocking traffic and more mosques will be built because you Liberals are afraid you might offend and like to appease them. This is why we are being walked on from the illegal’s spilling in from our southern boarders. Our freedom is in jeopardy because liberals have no backbone.
vexviper 7 months ago
@vexviper and the world is at risk because conservatives have no heart but plenty of greed.
hcvang 5 months ago
@hcvang I think you have that wrong; some democrats have no heart but plenty of greed. More taxes to suite their lavish life styles giving themselves pay raises and exempting themselves from the laws they push through congress as well as free medical. This is why we need to put a cap on the term spent in office. This is not a career it's a privilege by the people serving and representing the people they use this privilege by the people to serve their own agendas.
vexviper 5 months ago
@vexviper Democrat greed my ass. What planet have you been living on. Look at the Reagan years, then the terms of both Bush 1 and 2. They were disasterous to the middle class, the very rich fared quite well. Clinton left office with a surplus, Bush blew it within 3 months. Reagan took office. 1/2 of 1 percent had 20 percent of the money and after his 6th year, that figure had changed to 26 percent. And Republicans won't do anything for a vote...again, my ass.
9241937 5 months ago
@9241937 hallo dummy look at Obama he has spent more money in 2 years then everyone together has in 60 years so fuck you stupid think with your dick and hole democrats you all should get jailed for treason and just being stupid. then look at all the social security money spent since it's creation all the laws to spend this money are democrat laws all of them. new democrat's the Mexicans the Haitians the scum of the earth are Democrats you fucking faggot
zzzippo55 4 months ago
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9241937 4 months ago
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9241937 4 months ago
@zzzippo55 Have you any facts and figures to substantiate your crude, rambling, vulgar and inarticulate tirade that anyone with even a hint of intelligence would find repugnant?
9241937 4 months ago
@hcvang For example promising the poor and illegal immigrants a new future in order to get the votes that they need to stay in office and this is all done by raising taxes on everyone not just the rich but the middle class and businesses as well.
vexviper 5 months ago
@vexviper and stealing by hidden laws from our social security we need a man as strong as Hitler to rid us of democrat's and their scum offspring bake em all
zzzippo55 4 months ago
@zzzippo55 So you're Neo-Nazi filth are you?
SlaineOz 4 months ago
@zzzippo55
Right, because starting a three front war to show how strong you are and murdering millions of civilians in both your home nation and the territories you occupied worked out so well for Hitler and the German people, didn't it.
anonUK 6 days ago
@vexviper I really dislike calling anyone names on youtube.....but damn vipe....where the hell have you been living in the past 25 years? Are you a fuckin idiot or what........Please don´t respond to this.....just reflect....please.
mauriciobeltre 3 months ago
@mauriciobeltre You call me an idiot and then demand that I respect your wishes and reflect? You are very confused and a bit narcissistic.
vexviper 3 months ago
@vexviper You are an ass.
sanfrancisco89 7 months ago
@sanfrancisco89 Nope that would be the democratic party. I'm the elephant.
vexviper 7 months ago
@vexviper Ruined or much more diverse? There is a difference you know :)
Coshka77 7 months ago
@vexviper Banish both of them.
Glinkaism1 6 months ago
@vexviper I liked The old days for NYC as well. NYC sure started to get ruined around the 1960s and even worst in 1970s. I agree with your comments and while your at it, you should add that it was also ruined by taggers, vandals, graffitti, ghetto people, gangsters, rockers, rappers, hip-hop, hippies and other crap that happened. They are another reason why NYC is ruined. It will never be the same as the old days it was. :( R.I.P NYC.
C40LF5419 11 months ago
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mrmn68 8 months ago
@mrmn68 Stupid comment.
sanfrancisco89 7 months ago
Please.. San Francisco wheres flowers in their hair.
mrmn68 7 months ago
@vexviper to make a statement like that your obviously at least 70. If so fine. If not, weird.
liquidchickens 7 months ago 13
@vexviper how conservative
dirty06maggot 7 months ago
@dirty06maggot
Soon Muslims will be praying in the streets blocking traffic and more mosques will be built because you Liberals are afraid you might offend and like to appease them. This is why we are being walked on from the illegal’s spilling in from our southern boarders. Our freedom is in jeopardy because liberals have no backbone.
vexviper 7 months ago
@vexviper and the world is at risk because conservatives have no heart but plenty of greed.
hcvang 5 months ago
@hcvang I think you have that wrong; some democrats have no heart but plenty of greed. More taxes to suite their lavish life styles giving themselves pay raises and exempting themselves from the laws they push through congress as well as free medical. This is why we need to put a cap on the term spent in office. This is not a career it's a privilege by the people serving and representing the people they use this privilege by the people to serve their own agendas.
vexviper 5 months ago
@vexviper Democrat greed my ass. What planet have you been living on. Look at the Reagan years, then the terms of both Bush 1 and 2. They were disasterous to the middle class, the very rich fared quite well. Clinton left office with a surplus, Bush blew it within 3 months. Reagan took office. 1/2 of 1 percent had 20 percent of the money and after his 6th year, that figure had changed to 26 percent. And Republicans won't do anything for a vote...again, my ass.
9241937 5 months ago
@9241937 hallo dummy look at Obama he has spent more money in 2 years then everyone together has in 60 years so fuck you stupid think with your dick and hole democrats you all should get jailed for treason and just being stupid. then look at all the social security money spent since it's creation all the laws to spend this money are democrat laws all of them. new democrat's the Mexicans the Haitians the scum of the earth are Democrats you fucking faggot
zzzippo55 4 months ago
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9241937 4 months ago
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9241937 4 months ago
@zzzippo55 Have you any facts and figures to substantiate your crude, rambling, vulgar and inarticulate tirade that anyone with even a hint of intelligence would find repugnant?
9241937 4 months ago
@hcvang For example promising the poor and illegal immigrants a new future in order to get the votes that they need to stay in office and this is all done by raising taxes on everyone not just the rich but the middle class and businesses as well.
vexviper 5 months ago
@vexviper and stealing by hidden laws from our social security we need a man as strong as Hitler to rid us of democrat's and their scum offspring bake em all
zzzippo55 4 months ago
@zzzippo55 So you're Neo-Nazi filth are you?
SlaineOz 4 months ago
@zzzippo55
Right, because starting a three front war to show how strong you are and murdering millions of civilians in both your home nation and the territories you occupied worked out so well for Hitler and the German people, didn't it.
anonUK 6 days ago
@vexviper I really dislike calling anyone names on youtube.....but damn vipe....where the hell have you been living in the past 25 years? Are you a fuckin idiot or what........Please don´t respond to this.....just reflect....please.
mauriciobeltre 3 months ago
@mauriciobeltre You call me an idiot and then demand that I respect your wishes and reflect? You are very confused and a bit narcissistic.
vexviper 3 months ago
@vexviper You are an ass.
sanfrancisco89 7 months ago
@sanfrancisco89 Nope that would be the democratic party. I'm the elephant.
vexviper 7 months ago
@vexviper Ruined or much more diverse? There is a difference you know :)
Coshka77 7 months ago
@vexviper Banish both of them.
Glinkaism1 6 months ago
51 years ago...wow.
Steven197981 1 year ago
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@Steven197981 Not that long ago, really
sclapione 4 months ago
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@Steven197981 Not that long ago, really
sclapione 4 months ago
I Heart NY shirts
iJavin1030 1 year ago