1930 BROADWAY BY DAY CLASSIC TV SHOW CARTOONS NEWSREELS on DVD at TVDAYS.com

[allibrooke1223]

I'm 13 and I love the song Puttin' on the Ritz, own a newsboy cap, love Gone with the Wind, loved this video, and wish I lived in the 1930's!

[inwoodnyc]

Great video...wish the Bronx and Northern Manhattan were shown a little longer...it seems anything North of 125th is almost an afterthought when talking about "NYC"...

[fromthesidelines]

This was originally released in 1932; a similar short in this series, "Manhattan Medley", was released a year earlier.

[Clinton0707]

I'm 18 and this looks like a dream to me! :D If only I had been born 80 years ago lol

[Kirtev]

What a gem, what a great little vid!! Can't watch it too many times, if you ever make a dvd like this, extended out to a hour or more - I want a dozen! GREAT job, keep up the good work and THANKS!

[badreality2]

It's hard to believe that this is New York City. It looks so pristine.

[aldiboronti]

Wonderfully evocative! tvdays, your channel is an absolute treasure, one of the jewels in youtube's crown!

Many, many thanks for all the great vids!

[edsternet]

Is this particular clip available on DVD without the annoying logo in the corner. Can't find it on the website?

Thanks anyway

[cody56108]

wow omg new york was so much diiferent back then never been there but yea it really does look different

[odysseetheater]

wonderful treasure ! thanks for uploading. i am a great fan of the broadway but sure will never ever have the chance to visit this jnique place. so much historiy on there.. well thanks eva

[hallj100]

Was it called the "1" Train back then, too?

[VI36196]

@hallj100

It is the Broadway IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) train running from South Ferry to Van Courtlandt Park.

[goldenoldiesPete]

Great assemblage of memorable slices of Americana. I love this vid. So heartwarming and cool at the same time. Nice background music also. 15 stars ***************, tried to but could only give 5.

[OKStudios]

Weird times

[cushtichavi]

I don't think its rigid dress clothes .They look elegantly dressed and are men and women today people are dressed like tramps and the genders are dressed awful

[ViktorLovricsgs8]

Omg!Omg! This remembers me of a Mafia game,placed in mid-30 has all places in video,cars,everything,that game was too realistic!

[nakamichiguy]

I love NYC, love its history. I do agree that it's safe now but seems less exciting and edgy. Times Square needed help in the 80s but they gave it far too much 'help' IMHO! Rip out all of the history and character and turn it into a shiny mall. Well, it works I guess but they lost the soul of it. Art also flourished back in the day but now everything seems so corporate and planned. Still, I do love NYC and am glad I at least got to go there last year.

[tcrownprince]

AWESOME car 5 54

[tcrownprince]

AWESOME

[GeminiNightOwl]

Great trip back in time - wish I could have been there. Mom Cat and her kitty were adorable. And the cars...oh, one can dream right? Thanks for a great video!

[chris200999]

All the people were watching are Dead though

[RikerNYC]

The nostalgia for the "old days" is probably by the people who didn't live in them. The city back then was dirty, smelly, and crime-ridden. When I arrived in NYC in the 70's it was dirty, smelly and crime-ridden. Today it's clean, well-kept, and crime is at very low levels. All eras have their problems, but NYC today is terrific!

[up2space]

i agree with your sentiment although i think historically your inaccurate. back in the good old days (i.e. this video) there wasn't crime like in the 70s. the 70s was probably the epitome of dirty boulevard ny with muggings, drugs, hookers and homicide. it spawned great tv detective shows. Guilani cleaned that up. thank Ed Koch for the homeless situation. but nyc today is a skeleton of what it was. dare say it's dead, ask anyone in this video (guess dead man tell no tales- pity).

[mic33george]

If this is 1932 as indicated by the "Grand Hotel"advert,I think this is an earlier 1929 soundtrack,as "Broadway Melody"came out then and also the two "Sunnyside up" tunes,the title song and"Im a dreamer arent we all".Maybe stock orchestral recordings were kept just for this type of thing?

[gregoryagogo]

Very cool... hated the horn honking in the first part! Love the little mother kitty at 5:24!!

Since there was a title card in the film I'm guessing it was originally a silent film. I think the sound track was added in the early '30s based on the song selections.

[rainydaywoman1957]

the people look like like they may have just arrived out of the 20s..the cars are 1920s and the woman are still dressed as such..so mabye its early into the 30s. the 60s didnt become 60ish until the beatles and jfk, and the 80s were still 70ish until a few years in.

[blondex21]

thats when men were gents and wore neckties

no matter how poor they were..and NO grafiti

how clean everything looked back then until

the liberals took over and destroyed all the decency with their All Men being created equal....

[petercrowley41]

Liberals wrote the Declaration of Independence???

[gregoryagogo]

Probably wasn't by choice. Rigid unspoken dress codes were ingrained in the psyche of the day.

[Gossage54]

You say that as if it was a bad thing. People are animals now. Look at our myspace facebook twitter society. Texting and ignoring people right in front of us. 13 year old girls posing in porn star positions on these sites, people like Lindsay Lohan and Kim Khardasian as role models. There's not enough characters for me to write how we're worse off now. Common decency thrown out. With the new generation taking over I don't see any hope for society. Sorry.

[10mintwo]

Thanks but I'll gladly take a few ill considered trashy teenage snaps on social media sites and dumbass starlet Lohan/Khardasian types of the 2000's and you can keep your lynchings, institutionalized racism, polio, ascendant european fascism and rampant poverty of the 1930's. Hows that sound, mmk? stfu.

[IAMtheNewWorldOrder]

@Gossage54

No seriously, this is 7 minutes of video with music and no sound. We could easily do the same thing in 2010, even use the same areas of the city, and send them back in a time machine to the 1930's, and hide all the economic problems, the social/racial/political tension, and the debauchery, and the people of the 30's would think it's a utopia. The only thing they might wonder about is the obesity, but they'd probably just think "looks like they are eating in the 21st century."

[IAMtheNewWorldOrder]

@Gossage54

And as for the debauchery, I'm sure a lot of the men in the 30's wouldn't have much of a problem with it. Even if they complained about it vocally, it would be a guilty pleasure for them.

[HarborGuy]

Looks so clean - much different than today, and the people seem warmer .....

[mic33george]

This is great and i love the original music of the day,that adds authentic period atmosphere to the pictures better than a modern soundtrack.Many thanks.

[deemilieu]

wow, the City looked so, well, civil. i think we've lost a lot. people don't respect each other like they used to.

[IDLERACER]

At 3:06 there appears to be a transparent "ghost skyscraper" in the background.

[rainydaywoman1957]

thats the empire state building

[ice5l]

this is amazing...i can recognize many locations near where i live (ex. the 72nd street subway stop). thank you!

[ManilaSyndicate]

Fascinating. I like how clear the quality of the film is: it gets rid of the myth and shows the place as it is.

Impressive and quite moving view into a bygone age.

[wamcalif5]

Fascinating. Much has changed but I am surprised I was able to follow the film all the way downtown and still recognize where I was. Riverdale looked like farmland! What a trip.

[dotsymae]

Thank you for giving us this useful tool to learn about the past.

[wordpolice]

Didn't B'way go all the way up to Albany?....Love this stuff!

[saphopoem]

I don't know how you do it but I am sure glad you do! Thnx for this wonderful piece of history!

[TWELS20]

My guess would be that these movies were taken in 1932. A theater marquee shows "Grand Hotel" playing, and there is a glimpse of the Empire State Building, completed in 1931. I believe "Grand Hotel" won the Oscar for 1932.

[photo10]

thanks Ira, great fashion, it brings my past lives alive again,

[gwengoadalso]

Don't stop Ira! this is history! thanks!

[lozfalcon]

I'd love to see images like this with out the silly music. And with real sound you get a better feel for the time.

[LittleErnieWise]

What is 'real sound'? How did you arrive at this conclusion? Do you have technology skills?

[Mavrilon]

The header says this is from 1940,but the womens' clothes and the cars

( and the fact that the film is silent) leads me to belive the time frame is more likely the late 1920's

-mid 1930's.Nevertheless, it's still a wonderful chance to look at how things have changed in New York City.

[1400deadwood]

Wonderful nostalgia video.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

[dyinglikeflies]

Funny stuff- it starts where the Broadway line still starts, around the Riverdale area (but down the hill below Manhattan College-grew up there) which was farmland back then.

[LumierexCosmic]

Right! Me too, I recognized the beginning of the El at 242nd! Crazy!

[lukeabout]

Great stuff!

Thanks for posting!