...P.S. ...looks as though Miss Knapp had failed to instruct her young ladies as to the "proper" way a young woman rides a horse side-saddle...as opposed to spreading th' ol' bloomers. ...as an aside -what went on in NYC of yore...UNDER the walkways hither there was a wonder(and a ho -o' two')...to behold... ...now 'bout 'em sam-itches, m' ladies...
@ETThExtraTerrestrial That was the hired car of the day, especially for a large group. I've said a few times around YouTube to bring back the old rides, but, dear God, some of those rides, not too safe, huh?
No offense, but there are certain things about that society I am glad we don't have anymore. Videos always paint certain times to be better than they truly were.
@searchanddiscover Well, yeah, but people have no morals today. You really can't deny that. Plus, romanticism is fine with me. That's my style. I enjoy things like this because I understand, appreciate, and have a connection with the time. Some people don't.
I am a history major. Sure people don't have morals today but its not like they were perfect.
And please don't try and make assumptions that I don't appreciate or understand history or enjoy it. I just don't try to glamorize or pretend that it was something that it wasn't based on a video that intentionally shows only one aspect of life albeit more than likely scripted.
@searchanddiscover Oh no, I really didn't mean to insult you in any way, I'm sorry. All I'm saying is that I like to romanticize things - that's just the way I think, because I see no reason not to. I don't mean offense at all. I love history, but I'm also an artist, so tha'ts probably all the explanation I need.
@agprincess013 The danger in romanticizing history is that it leads to ignoring or ignoring the reality of what was wrong with any particular period. This period of pride, hedonism, opulence, aristocratic rule, and a thirst to prove manhood through great battle, combined with the new psudeo-philosophical attitudes towards people and advances in science - the MORALS lead to a terrible war with 35 MILLION casualties.
@Direness Yes, I am aware, but I also romanticize in my work. I do that in my life as well, or else I wouldn't get by with the mess that is America today. I'm an idealist, tis what I do ;)
white dresses were very popular in those days for some reason, look at pictures of young girls from the turn of the century, almost all the dresses were white literally
Being their age (adolescent) 105 years later, it never fails to baffle me how things have changed. I do not like to say this time as 'primitive' it is just 'simpler'. The whole concept of teenage angst and rebellion was not borne until about the 1940's (that is not to say it didn't happen) and there was not this whole talk of adolescence as an 'awkward' or 'troubling' time, it was just a child growing up to be an adult...some teens today could do with that type of simple attitude.
Now those were sensible swim suits or "bathing costumes" as they were called. Most of the girls didn't get more than knee-deep in the ocean. Learning to swim was more a guy thing then.
Thank you so much for posting this. It is like watching a distant dream...My grandmother was born in 1905 - it is very nice to see how things looked when she was born. Amazing footage - I really enjoyed it. I wish i could have lived to see those times. Although I did go to Coney Island a lot as a child.
@gatheringleaves Yes, well men were gentlemen in those days too. Not like so many of the skirt-chasing beer guzzling do nothing bums that we call men these days either!
I love in the beginning how the one girl just climbs right onto the car without the ladder and the teacher seems to reprimand her to use the stairs... "Now ladies, at the count of three I want you all to put up your umbrellas..."
Gosh I can't imagine walking around Coney Island wearing those dresses. :)
Ok...those flats are now$3500 a month. Taxi is $2.50 mile. Does anyone know why the "sailor" swimming dress look was so popular? Cause it was nautical?
@vendooza Because they couldn't show any skin and dark fabrics and stockings were the norm back then. Also, it was similar to a uniform - they all looked the same and that's the way it was back then.
Of COURSE just the wealthy could travel like this! It wasn't better for women - they didn't even have the vote! And look at those outfits in the hot sun! The real Luna Park and Dreamland must have been wonderful though. These rides look pretty rickety, though the steeplechase looks like fun.
It never fails to amaze me how little so many people know. If you want to see how naive, ignorant, and bias people are... just log into youtube and read comments. Cringe to know how ppl are spending their time instead of reading or researching things- yet! People still have the nerve to air opinions publicly without knowing what they are talking about. Things to research before posting on this vid: 19th century culture and fashion, urban decay & post industrialism, CI history, and sociology.
@piniarosa I was on that ride back when i was 8 years old living in Brooklyn. It was really FAST. I wish one of the super parks would bring it back for nostalgia sake It was the best ride at Steeplechase had By 1964 it was torn down forever
@Rollman1 Hi, that's interesting. Good for you! :) Definitely different to a roller-coaster ride. This film is so nice. Great to see this, it's almost like ghosts from the past.
These are some spunky gals! No wonder the Victorians were so shocked by the new generation. So glad to see this, only wish I could hear what they were talking about! Do you know where this school used to be?
i give them credit i couldnt be wearing that many clothes in the summer time id be going crazy but it its nice to see women being ladies compared to some of the stuff you see today lol
@collegegal79 IF that was all you knew to wear in summer and you were expected to you would do it otherwise you'd be outcast from society. Besides, if you've ever worn period attire you'd know you don't sweat the same. You're hot but the fabric absorbs the perspiration and you don't become dirty. They were also used to this and summers were not quite as bad as today, the sun not as strong either.
@ibtheonlymarktoo I went to Magic Mountain in Valencia last summer after not being there since 1981. What's with the Jet Stream. It seems like they've took the fun out of it.
Amazing and very well preserved. I'm amazed how proper the ladies look and I'm wondering if that part of the neighborhood is run down in this century.
I remember seeing the "Steeplechase" horses as a kid, and was too young at the time to go for the ride. If you fell off, you'd be in some serious hurt!
Looks like an excerpt from a silent film, circa 1925-1928, in which they engender humor by setting the plot in a more conservative time period (i.e. 1905).
This footage is so cool! Prior to seeing this, the rides and sights from that time period that are shown in this film, like the entrance to Dreamland and the original Steeplechase ride, I had only seen in artists renditions of the day. Really cool to see what they actually looked like.
I don't know about that, international diplomacy was very complicated 9 years from this moment. Everyone has umbrellas and hoop skirts, they've gone insane with power.
OK.. I've changed my mind.. Looking at this a few more times.....Incredible Film Footage of our Great or in some cases GGreat Grandparents era.... Does anyone wish they could go back in time to this era and why?
Well Rollman, that would kinda be like back to the future.... Nah...I wouldn't want to take back anything (other than a cigarette lighter and a pack of Clove cigs and just be a stranger looking about etc. You have to remember, we have a lot of great stuff, but to them, they were on top of the world for their day. They knew how to enjoy simple things.. WE don't know that feeling today... Not really.
For 1905 this is pretty good- pre chaplin, etc., not many films had any sort of "plot" this early on . But one has to sort of wonder - did they need to utilize the first two or three minutes of film of them getting in and then out of the car? Wonder if there was originally more to this film as it ends rather abruptly. It really leaves one wishing for more shots of steeplechase and dreamland! Stuff like the chutes the chutes is missing completely but the swings scene is drawn out. Interesting.
One thing I found interesting is that I paid more attention to the ladies clothes of 1905 as they were boarding the car..not sure why.. I also find this film incredibly clear and focused for 1905.. it makes me wonder a little bit...Is this really a 1905 film or Hollywood and it's back-lot and just costumes?
What a fabulous video. I love the school teacher chasing after the girls as they defy her having too much fun, especially in the barrel ride! She's always chasing the girls and waving her umbrella at them!
no its true, it was terrible for people who were not white and rich then. kids had to work if the folks were poor, and it really sucked for all but the wealthy but this part here, its great, and look how clean the water is, thats the atlantic, kids!
The politically correct will lambaste me for saying this but we all know it's true. When you allow EVERYBODY from the 3rd world without restriction into the country & ration immigration from civilized nations, the quality of your nation goes down along with the state of the cities Coney Island is now part of a foriegn land whose origin is unknown. I am certain that if we let more Europeans into the country vs the 3rd world, the US would be a lot better off! Just beware of those Norwegians!
I have to say in response to you saying I am wrong that "Of course you would say that!!" But you also did say it looks nothing like it used to.... It isn't purely by chance that it looks the way it does now... or is it? I am quite certain that the place looks like it does as do many of the rundown cities because of a certain element.... And it isn't because of the Belgians French or Germans either!
@beefnotfish You're so very very right. Cities look the way they do now because of man issues. Main reason: flight of industry and working class to other places. White people wanted to jump on the suburbia bandwagon so they all moved out into their little houses with picket fences. The jobs left. Rent went way down. No work + plentiful and cheap housing = haven for those who are poor, unemployable, and don't want to work.
@Amaranth Try learning a little about it before you pass judgements, it isn't that simple. It didn't just happen to Coney or Asbury Park, it happened in Brighton Beach UK as well.
@beefnotfish SO when do Americans actually get off their high horses are start doing something about the problems of their country instead of whining? i doubt this was the only reason cities fell apart. Where did the industry go? Where did the tax paying working class residents go? They moved and and made room for the ppl who had no money.
I agree with Amaranth, and yet, I still think the Wonder Wheel and the Cyclone are great! It would be nice if the place would be returned to it's past glories again.
it took 3 times watching it, i realized that this is the earliest form of movie location acting. the beach scene it is the one without the stockings who falls in the hole, the ladies are told also not to look at the camera, the camel scene with schoolmarm running after them and hoops with same scolding thing are acts prepared in advance by a director. i did not notice the first two times. these are rich girls and edison was part of the business deal to do this bet it was connections with dads.
where did they get the bathing costumes from? was this rental and leave the clothes in a cabana?the bathing suits are wool i heard, how awful that must have been wool and saltwater and sand, ugh, and sun too! the girls look like todays people when their hair is down. somehow the past people seem in a way not like they are going to be like us, you know?weird that all in the film and the filmer are dead, but the stuff is still here. those were rich girls, private school. camel in coney island, wow
@redonionsauce I've got swimsuits from this era in my collection. They were wool but it wasn't as heavy as you might assume. However, they were very heavy when wet.
@Benayrunyon Why would they rent if they were rich girls? They probably had them in trunks and changed in the changing house. Rich schools from a private school would not rent a swimsuit unless they had reputable places to do so...
@firewilson81 Yes, most of them rented suits in the Cabana like stalls. If you've ever watched the silent film Coney Island with Buster Keaton from 1917, you will see that the rooms that they changed in were almost like large dressing rooms. I believe the clip of the film is here on youtube.
...P.S. ...looks as though Miss Knapp had failed to instruct her young ladies as to the "proper" way a young woman rides a horse side-saddle...as opposed to spreading th' ol' bloomers. ...as an aside -what went on in NYC of yore...UNDER the walkways hither there was a wonder(and a ho -o' two')...to behold... ...now 'bout 'em sam-itches, m' ladies...
SittingMooseShaman 2 weeks ago
...h-m-m-m. I'm surprised the "make us some sam-itches while you're in Hells' Kitchen" guy hasn't struck the comments yet...
SittingMooseShaman 2 weeks ago
for some reason I can't help but think that somewhere in that city there will be someone alive that will die on Titanic.
I am weird....
searchanddiscover 1 month ago
It appears "Miss Knapp" was none too thrilled with a few of the rides 6:08, and 7:56. What a skit!
macandrewes 2 months ago
What did they jump onto in the beginning! A Sherman tank! Hey girls lets get to the dress store, jump into the battering-ram.
ETThExtraTerrestrial 3 months ago 3
@ETThExtraTerrestrial That was the hired car of the day, especially for a large group. I've said a few times around YouTube to bring back the old rides, but, dear God, some of those rides, not too safe, huh?
1958debs 3 months ago
Coney Island has become a Zoo where the monkeys are no-longer caged. its sad!!!
Kevin56957 4 months ago
I wounder, what was the accident rate in 1905. some of these rides look too dangerous.
Kevin56957 4 months ago 2
Where did you get this? It is very interesting!
fcmsinger 4 months ago
Geente! A a Hebe e a Glória Menezes estavam nesse carro. Incrível.
manilitomano 6 months ago
This is beautiful, and tragic.
Life isn't like this anymore.
Society isn't like this anymore.
And, most unfortunately, people aren't like this anymore...
agprincess013 6 months ago 5
@agprincess013 It's so sad. I agree! :'(
Liquaza 4 months ago
@agprincess013
No offense, but there are certain things about that society I am glad we don't have anymore. Videos always paint certain times to be better than they truly were.
searchanddiscover 1 month ago
@searchanddiscover Well, yeah, but people have no morals today. You really can't deny that. Plus, romanticism is fine with me. That's my style. I enjoy things like this because I understand, appreciate, and have a connection with the time. Some people don't.
agprincess013 1 month ago
@agprincess013
I am a history major. Sure people don't have morals today but its not like they were perfect.
And please don't try and make assumptions that I don't appreciate or understand history or enjoy it. I just don't try to glamorize or pretend that it was something that it wasn't based on a video that intentionally shows only one aspect of life albeit more than likely scripted.
searchanddiscover 1 month ago
@searchanddiscover Oh no, I really didn't mean to insult you in any way, I'm sorry. All I'm saying is that I like to romanticize things - that's just the way I think, because I see no reason not to. I don't mean offense at all. I love history, but I'm also an artist, so tha'ts probably all the explanation I need.
agprincess013 1 month ago
@agprincess013 The danger in romanticizing history is that it leads to ignoring or ignoring the reality of what was wrong with any particular period. This period of pride, hedonism, opulence, aristocratic rule, and a thirst to prove manhood through great battle, combined with the new psudeo-philosophical attitudes towards people and advances in science - the MORALS lead to a terrible war with 35 MILLION casualties.
Direness 4 weeks ago
@Direness I should say "forgetting or ignoring"
Direness 4 weeks ago
@Direness Yes, I am aware, but I also romanticize in my work. I do that in my life as well, or else I wouldn't get by with the mess that is America today. I'm an idealist, tis what I do ;)
agprincess013 2 weeks ago
One of them had a fine ass.
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hbwassermann 7 months ago
lol look at the girl on top hitting the other girl with her umbrella at 2:03 hahaha. i would been like bitch stop!
BoneThugsEternal 7 months ago 2
Lol... is that a car or some kind of bus? :P
BohemianAsh 8 months ago
wheres the 1911 button when you need it
JackIsASexyMf 9 months ago
6:10 just shows that some girls are the same in whatever era -- they like to get high . . .
greenrate 9 months ago
No tattoos.
GuitarMirth 9 months ago
Wow. What an enormous car!!
chanctonbury63 9 months ago 2
Does anyone know where Miss Knapps Select School was located? If it in fact even existed that is....
MPL029 9 months ago
HAHA!!
I'm the baby at 4:16
right!
Xtubelis 10 months ago
Great footage. What kind of truck/car is that? Anyone???
abbeykroeter 10 months ago
@abbeykroeter
It's an early NYC sightseeing bus, electric. Check this URL. Looks stupid I know, hope you figure it out; trying to get around utube
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Xtubelis 10 months ago
It's nice to see people having fun and enjoying themselves.
SatchmoSings 10 months ago
A wonderful document of past times.
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nycCameraGuy 11 months ago
she s always waving around with her umbrella stupid matron
lunafringe10 11 months ago
@lunafringe10 Im sure she was told to be like that..."youre the chapperone...act mean"
MPL029 9 months ago
the driver must had good time
SuperAlexrios 11 months ago
wow ... a stone age amusement park, before machinery ... the rides were powered by simple gravity .
MasterMark123 11 months ago
All these People are dead now. Think about it!
beerdeddi 11 months ago
@beerdeddi
who cares!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did you know these girls personally, no, so shut up and just watch the darn video!
gatheringleaves 11 months ago
That touring bus looks like a tank.
Lockbar 1 year ago
There is something to be said, for young girls to act like ladies. Too bad, those days are long gone!
califgirl11 1 year ago
@califgirl11
Yes it's very unfortunate
gatheringleaves 11 months ago
ah, those were the days!
1400deadwood 1 year ago
Wow, very interesting! My oh my how life has changed. I wonder how they kept their dresses so white???
CountryConcertGirl 1 year ago
@CountryConcertGirl
white dresses were very popular in those days for some reason, look at pictures of young girls from the turn of the century, almost all the dresses were white literally
gatheringleaves 11 months ago
@gatheringleaves In summer months white isnt as hot as dark colors....it was self protection from the heat to wear white
MPL029 9 months ago
Being their age (adolescent) 105 years later, it never fails to baffle me how things have changed. I do not like to say this time as 'primitive' it is just 'simpler'. The whole concept of teenage angst and rebellion was not borne until about the 1940's (that is not to say it didn't happen) and there was not this whole talk of adolescence as an 'awkward' or 'troubling' time, it was just a child growing up to be an adult...some teens today could do with that type of simple attitude.
MusicLight123 1 year ago
Even as primitive as it was, that barrel looks like fun.
carrotville 1 year ago
Now those were sensible swim suits or "bathing costumes" as they were called. Most of the girls didn't get more than knee-deep in the ocean. Learning to swim was more a guy thing then.
carrotville 1 year ago
Impressive they way people dressed back then.
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BethanyFionac 1 year ago
hmm, pile a bunch of girls in a giant weel, and push it,...safety first XD
shugarush97 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting this. It is like watching a distant dream...My grandmother was born in 1905 - it is very nice to see how things looked when she was born. Amazing footage - I really enjoyed it. I wish i could have lived to see those times. Although I did go to Coney Island a lot as a child.
GeminiNightOwl 1 year ago
BEAUTIFUL !!!
sugoizonippon 1 year ago
Dangerous looking rides with all those skirts
anderdorm 1 year ago
They had to wear their stockings in the water............I am glad I live now
anderdorm 1 year ago
This is good quality 100 old film! Back to that time. The ladies worn long dress! Funny look at them run around with this dress!
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beadbird 1 year ago
Wow, those young ladies were SO fun-loving!
Tsubahi 1 year ago
What kind of car is that?
That is a pretty high jump to get off the car.
It's a wonder they didn't hurt themselves jumping onto the pavement like that.
planetcheck 1 year ago 2
Hehe... crazy girls , nice classic.
TheGucio1981 1 year ago 2
Wow these girls seem very civilized, friendly, and dignified, unlike the trashy anorexic, bitchy whores that are so popular nowadays
gatheringleaves 1 year ago 29
@gatheringleaves Yes, well men were gentlemen in those days too. Not like so many of the skirt-chasing beer guzzling do nothing bums that we call men these days either!
lindaneddermaneaton 11 months ago
@lindaneddermaneaton
ha ha very true, it was a more honorable age to quote Stephen King
gatheringleaves 11 months ago
@gatheringleaves and then the camera was gone, and they were the same as everyone else.
zazeify 9 months ago
@gatheringleaves back then a man had to work for women! and now.. it's a phone number away :o
shitoky 7 months ago
@shitoky No now you just have to be black
sclock2 6 months ago
@sclock2 or have a skateboard..
shitoky 6 months ago
@gatheringleaves
unfortunately, looks like we're de-evoluionizing; its sad, really.
evilgenius314 5 months ago
de-evolutionizing*
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SarihRdsia 1 year ago
These videos are amazing
DannyJustiniano 1 year ago
@DannyJustiniano
Not as Amazing as you in Bed!
gatheringleaves 1 year ago
@gatheringleaves OMG ROFLMFAO
DannyJustiniano 1 year ago
@DannyJustiniano
Yeah ROFLMFAO too! It's so true
gatheringleaves 1 year ago
The way Coney Island used to be was spectacular, shithole now
Gilly1917 1 year ago
@Gilly1917
Nothing good ever lasts
gatheringleaves 1 year ago
I love in the beginning how the one girl just climbs right onto the car without the ladder and the teacher seems to reprimand her to use the stairs... "Now ladies, at the count of three I want you all to put up your umbrellas..."
Gosh I can't imagine walking around Coney Island wearing those dresses. :)
clovyan 1 year ago
i <3 the victorian style of clothing
x0x0beeches 1 year ago
@x0x0beeches
Me too, in fact if I could go around wearing those clothes and not be made fun of I literally would wear them
gatheringleaves 1 year ago
I love the horse ride I believe at 7:00. There is no way a fun park could have a ride like that today. It would be too dnagerous.
63gstone 1 year ago
Ok...those flats are now$3500 a month. Taxi is $2.50 mile. Does anyone know why the "sailor" swimming dress look was so popular? Cause it was nautical?
vendooza 1 year ago
@vendooza Because they couldn't show any skin and dark fabrics and stockings were the norm back then. Also, it was similar to a uniform - they all looked the same and that's the way it was back then.
GeminiNightOwl 1 year ago
Ok...those flats are now$3500 a month. Taxi is $2.50 mile.
vendooza 1 year ago
Where did u get this film?
sandman9705 1 year ago
Of COURSE just the wealthy could travel like this! It wasn't better for women - they didn't even have the vote! And look at those outfits in the hot sun! The real Luna Park and Dreamland must have been wonderful though. These rides look pretty rickety, though the steeplechase looks like fun.
corinne54 1 year ago
It never fails to amaze me how little so many people know. If you want to see how naive, ignorant, and bias people are... just log into youtube and read comments. Cringe to know how ppl are spending their time instead of reading or researching things- yet! People still have the nerve to air opinions publicly without knowing what they are talking about. Things to research before posting on this vid: 19th century culture and fashion, urban decay & post industrialism, CI history, and sociology.
BreezesofConey 1 year ago 8
A ride on a fake horse (at 6:50) - never even heard of a thing like that. What a weird thing! :)
piniarosa 1 year ago
@piniarosa I was on that ride back when i was 8 years old living in Brooklyn. It was really FAST. I wish one of the super parks would bring it back for nostalgia sake It was the best ride at Steeplechase had By 1964 it was torn down forever
Rollman1 1 year ago
@Rollman1 Hi, that's interesting. Good for you! :) Definitely different to a roller-coaster ride. This film is so nice. Great to see this, it's almost like ghosts from the past.
piniarosa 1 year ago
this is so fasinating i never get bored of watching these old clips
collegegal79 1 year ago
Thanks future ladies......for showing some flesh on the hot beach.
ziggycat999 1 year ago
These are some spunky gals! No wonder the Victorians were so shocked by the new generation. So glad to see this, only wish I could hear what they were talking about! Do you know where this school used to be?
BreezesofConey 1 year ago
i give them credit i couldnt be wearing that many clothes in the summer time id be going crazy but it its nice to see women being ladies compared to some of the stuff you see today lol
collegegal79 1 year ago
@collegegal79 IF that was all you knew to wear in summer and you were expected to you would do it otherwise you'd be outcast from society. Besides, if you've ever worn period attire you'd know you don't sweat the same. You're hot but the fabric absorbs the perspiration and you don't become dirty. They were also used to this and summers were not quite as bad as today, the sun not as strong either.
BreezesofConey 1 year ago
@BreezesofConey The UV rays weren't as strong, but the heat
certainly was - look up temperature highs and lows from that era
and you will see. Many women fainted from heat spells under that
heavy clothing weighing as much as 20-30 lbs.
GeminiNightOwl 1 year ago
Primative sums it up, surley everyone here is dead by now
PuppyPetite 1 year ago
the world's first school bus lol....automobile's must have been a rare sight on the roads back then....still mainly horse and carriage days
youtuuberoxx 1 year ago
How old are you
gatheringleaves 1 year ago
so much for 'progress'....the times seems simpler...it's hard to connect 'now'...and 'then'....
ibtheonlymarktoo 1 year ago
@ibtheonlymarktoo I went to Magic Mountain in Valencia last summer after not being there since 1981. What's with the Jet Stream. It seems like they've took the fun out of it.
1958debs 1 year ago
Haha I love when they're in the car with all their parasols open. So funny.
nebula402 1 year ago 11
@nebula402 And how they had to use a short ladder to get in the car. My they were high up there.
1958debs 1 year ago
@1958debs Makes you wonder how they got back in without that ladder.
BreezesofConey 1 year ago
Amazing and very well preserved. I'm amazed how proper the ladies look and I'm wondering if that part of the neighborhood is run down in this century.
katanaburner 1 year ago
It probably is, most neighborhoods nowadays in NY are messed up
gatheringleaves 1 year ago
@gatheringleaves No thanks for white flight to the suburbs in the 50s and 60s... it's your own faults for leaving the city with such vacancy.
BreezesofConey 1 year ago
Those dont look like "girls", more like women...they sure knew how to feed em back then..No wonder swim suits weren't allowed.
phillipjfry1979 1 year ago
I remember seeing the "Steeplechase" horses as a kid, and was too young at the time to go for the ride. If you fell off, you'd be in some serious hurt!
yobobinKY 1 year ago
@yobobinKY Holy shit you must b 90, no offense...I have great respect formy elders, especially the ones around B4 TV.
phillipjfry1979 1 year ago
some of the fun stuffs looks really great and safer than now
blackfairy28 1 year ago
Some things might have been safer, but I don't know about those rides!
MorroccoSurrogate 1 year ago 3
coony use to be a high class place until all those puerto ricans moved there.
Rico8458 1 year ago
LOL i hope they have alot of airbags for that car are tank haha.
SaberTanker22 2 years ago
Omg their teacher was telling them ot get off lol.
Simba92 2 years ago
Looks like an excerpt from a silent film, circa 1925-1928, in which they engender humor by setting the plot in a more conservative time period (i.e. 1905).
96rorrim 2 years ago
No it is actually from 1905
gatheringleaves 1 year ago
Nowadays the girls dont wear anything @ Coney Island beach.
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cylinder4ify 2 years ago
This footage is so cool! Prior to seeing this, the rides and sights from that time period that are shown in this film, like the entrance to Dreamland and the original Steeplechase ride, I had only seen in artists renditions of the day. Really cool to see what they actually looked like.
harrycrowe3 2 years ago
I appreciate the modern world. Things like penecilin and... you know the internet.
capablemachine 2 years ago
nah things were still much better during these times, much simpler and quieter
gatheringleaves 1 year ago 2
I don't know about that, international diplomacy was very complicated 9 years from this moment. Everyone has umbrellas and hoop skirts, they've gone insane with power.
capablemachine 1 year ago
What the heck are they driving? It's some kind of tank car that holds 50 people.
capablemachine 2 years ago
fantastic footage.. makes you think too.. nobody on that film will be alive today.. make the most of today!
zenthra 2 years ago 2
such high quality for 1905!
my webcam today has lower quality. check out my vids lol
callenishss 2 years ago
wow this was 104 years ago
cogkiller45 2 years ago 6
@cogkiller45 a yea ago
1thanman123 1 year ago
Fantastic piece of social history..Thanx
DOKK212 2 years ago 2
Mad Max called he was his viechle back!
Leonlavoe1973 2 years ago
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UM....I think i just wasted 30 seconds of my life ugh!
ZakiyaSmithNotSoSane 2 years ago
OK.. I've changed my mind.. Looking at this a few more times.....Incredible Film Footage of our Great or in some cases GGreat Grandparents era.... Does anyone wish they could go back in time to this era and why?
rturnerful 2 years ago
Yes Id like to go back there I was born and raised in Bklyn. near Cony 1954
I m nastagic about old Bklyn.i live in Florida now Id like to show thees ladys how my I-Pod works Will they be impressed?
Rollman1 2 years ago
Well Rollman, that would kinda be like back to the future.... Nah...I wouldn't want to take back anything (other than a cigarette lighter and a pack of Clove cigs and just be a stranger looking about etc. You have to remember, we have a lot of great stuff, but to them, they were on top of the world for their day. They knew how to enjoy simple things.. WE don't know that feeling today... Not really.
rturnerful 2 years ago 3
no because there were not even complex things available then. doesnt mean they arent prone to addiction to materialism
callenishss 2 years ago
well stated.
pinkeyscareymya 2 years ago
Wow, this is the only time i've seen the original eight-lane Steeplechase ride in action.
SkippyStopmotion 2 years ago
with all this photoshopeistics out there it's hard to tell!
robertrivasphotos 2 years ago
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im in russos class and this is mad gay
phligglethorp 2 years ago
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this is gay
phligglethorp 2 years ago
For 1905 this is pretty good- pre chaplin, etc., not many films had any sort of "plot" this early on . But one has to sort of wonder - did they need to utilize the first two or three minutes of film of them getting in and then out of the car? Wonder if there was originally more to this film as it ends rather abruptly. It really leaves one wishing for more shots of steeplechase and dreamland! Stuff like the chutes the chutes is missing completely but the swings scene is drawn out. Interesting.
friendsfamilyaccount 2 years ago
Cars were a pretty new thing back then - hardly anyone had one yet.
LODGE4444 2 years ago 2
One thing I found interesting is that I paid more attention to the ladies clothes of 1905 as they were boarding the car..not sure why.. I also find this film incredibly clear and focused for 1905.. it makes me wonder a little bit...Is this really a 1905 film or Hollywood and it's back-lot and just costumes?
rturnerful 2 years ago
@rturnerful Doubtful it's a Hollywood back lot. Most of the footage
looks authentic in every way. It could have been digitally enhanced as
so much is now. Look at how clear the old Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton
movies are - as well as a lot of other silent films.
GeminiNightOwl 1 year ago
"beefnotfish"...are you in a male-male relationship?....this is a great video...don't spoil it with your drama!!
pokerd27 2 years ago 4
Thought i saw the Dover Boys from Pomento University Good old P.U.
flowing these gals on the beach Watch out for Dan Backslide that cad and bully
Rollman1 2 years ago
I love that cartoon.
rainydaywoman1957 2 years ago
What a fabulous video. I love the school teacher chasing after the girls as they defy her having too much fun, especially in the barrel ride! She's always chasing the girls and waving her umbrella at them!
EarthdancerSteph 2 years ago 4
these young people today... showing their bare forearms for all the world to see. disgusting. flag!
bearswilleatme 2 years ago 22
@bearswilleatme
But we have the right to bear arms. It's in the Constitution. Kidding!!!
LindaDooWop 1 year ago
no its true, it was terrible for people who were not white and rich then. kids had to work if the folks were poor, and it really sucked for all but the wealthy but this part here, its great, and look how clean the water is, thats the atlantic, kids!
bettygoodbody 2 years ago 2
The water was clean, that just show how bad we all are. :)
Catnapay96 2 years ago
Coney island use to be really good. Look at it now. Nothing compares to what we see in this video.
Amaranth 2 years ago 7
The politically correct will lambaste me for saying this but we all know it's true. When you allow EVERYBODY from the 3rd world without restriction into the country & ration immigration from civilized nations, the quality of your nation goes down along with the state of the cities Coney Island is now part of a foriegn land whose origin is unknown. I am certain that if we let more Europeans into the country vs the 3rd world, the US would be a lot better off! Just beware of those Norwegians!
beefnotfish 2 years ago
I have to say that you are wrong for saying that,Regardless of one's Race, whoever owns, or has rights to Coney, that is their fault.
Amaranth 2 years ago
I have to say in response to you saying I am wrong that "Of course you would say that!!" But you also did say it looks nothing like it used to.... It isn't purely by chance that it looks the way it does now... or is it? I am quite certain that the place looks like it does as do many of the rundown cities because of a certain element.... And it isn't because of the Belgians French or Germans either!
beefnotfish 2 years ago
@beefnotfish You're so very very right. Cities look the way they do now because of man issues. Main reason: flight of industry and working class to other places. White people wanted to jump on the suburbia bandwagon so they all moved out into their little houses with picket fences. The jobs left. Rent went way down. No work + plentiful and cheap housing = haven for those who are poor, unemployable, and don't want to work.
BreezesofConey 1 year ago
@Amaranth Try learning a little about it before you pass judgements, it isn't that simple. It didn't just happen to Coney or Asbury Park, it happened in Brighton Beach UK as well.
BreezesofConey 1 year ago
@BreezesofConey Did I say it was simple? No
Possible yes.
Amaranth 1 year ago
@beefnotfish SO when do Americans actually get off their high horses are start doing something about the problems of their country instead of whining? i doubt this was the only reason cities fell apart. Where did the industry go? Where did the tax paying working class residents go? They moved and and made room for the ppl who had no money.
BreezesofConey 1 year ago
I agree with Amaranth, and yet, I still think the Wonder Wheel and the Cyclone are great! It would be nice if the place would be returned to it's past glories again.
loopydloop 1 year ago
it took 3 times watching it, i realized that this is the earliest form of movie location acting. the beach scene it is the one without the stockings who falls in the hole, the ladies are told also not to look at the camera, the camel scene with schoolmarm running after them and hoops with same scolding thing are acts prepared in advance by a director. i did not notice the first two times. these are rich girls and edison was part of the business deal to do this bet it was connections with dads.
bettygoodbody 2 years ago
where did they get the bathing costumes from? was this rental and leave the clothes in a cabana?the bathing suits are wool i heard, how awful that must have been wool and saltwater and sand, ugh, and sun too! the girls look like todays people when their hair is down. somehow the past people seem in a way not like they are going to be like us, you know?weird that all in the film and the filmer are dead, but the stuff is still here. those were rich girls, private school. camel in coney island, wow
firewilson81 2 years ago
firewilson81 - They probably rented the suits from a bath house and stored their clothes there too.
As for the suits made of wool, I'm not sure of that, but I wouldn't be surprised.
LOL! I said the same thing when I saw the camel.
I lived in Coney Island for a few years, and have always been fascinated by old Coney Island.
Benayrunyon 2 years ago
They were wool suits. My grandfather told me about Coney Island from when he was a boy in the 1900's. Wow.
redonionsauce 2 years ago
You must have some amazing stories then! :)
Catnapay96 2 years ago
@redonionsauce I've got swimsuits from this era in my collection. They were wool but it wasn't as heavy as you might assume. However, they were very heavy when wet.
BreezesofConey 1 year ago
@Benayrunyon Why would they rent if they were rich girls? They probably had them in trunks and changed in the changing house. Rich schools from a private school would not rent a swimsuit unless they had reputable places to do so...
BreezesofConey 1 year ago
@firewilson81 Yes, most of them rented suits in the Cabana like stalls. If you've ever watched the silent film Coney Island with Buster Keaton from 1917, you will see that the rooms that they changed in were almost like large dressing rooms. I believe the clip of the film is here on youtube.
GeminiNightOwl 1 year ago
Those times look fascinating and simple
deviliciousangel235 2 years ago 5
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watching this makes me want to kill myself, ugh
gatheringleaves 2 years ago
gatheringleaves should kill himself
cgboomer 2 years ago
Ha Ha I'm Still Alive
Sorry
gatheringleaves 2 years ago
The only non whites on Conely Island were the employees.
articsnow 2 years ago 2
ha ha
gatheringleaves 2 years ago
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what a horrible past this country had only a few years ago.
articsnow 2 years ago
mzwere1
White guys like this still unfortunately exist. mzwere1, I am going to post the racist comment you deleted.
"Yes because we all know that having to fight your way through gangbangers at today's parks a sure sign of "progress" "
The people that are around you may think you are a fine human being, but the rest of us know who you really are.