Swing is in the Air

1930's autos music by Ambrose and his Orchestra

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• 1930
• cars
• autos
• swing
• jdproductions2

[eidius1989]

what was the average speed that these cars went with on normal roads and in highways? was there even highways?

[JDProductions2]

@eidius1989 The Interstate Highway system was started in the 1950's. There were however, Federal Highways ( mostly 2 lane) like the Lincoln Highway in PA and Route 66. In metropolitan areas there were parkways, most of them still in use. Speeds on these roads would have been 30-40mph but most cars could go 60 or better, if the roads were good.

[miccione1718]

Love your videos, pieces of Americana

[JDProductions2]

Thanks! Glad you like them.

[larbacmc]

I am surprized that so many people had cars in the depression. Did most people who were homeless sleep in their cars? Their was something like a 30% unemployment rate in the depression, probley no one knows since those who lived it are dead or in a nursing home.

[JDProductions2]

My mom was a kid during the depression and lived on a farm. Since they got most of their food from the farm, she rarely saw any of the sights from the photos you see from the big cities at that time.

[gregwddriver]

I was born too late.

[inkey2]

watching this makes me want to smoke lucky strikes, wear spats and slick back my hair.

[silverstartrucker]

I used to have an old Ford Pop and a long nosed Wolsley...memories of the past.

[Abricialio]

Imagine if the 1950's were 2011. Look how beautiful and luxury the world was in the 1950's.

[pkatsiv]

CAN ANYONE SEND ME THE LYRICS OF THE SONG??

CAN'Y FIND THEM NOWHEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

PLIZ!!!!!!

[35GEmonitorT]

I've watched it more times than I can count, still not enough! Love it!

All the "right ingredients" cars, trains and the MUSIC! Ambrose really turned out a hot one with "Swing is in the AIr" in '35! With 18-25 % unemployed during that time, there still was the better part of 70% employed who did own cars. :-)

Amazing how the Great Depression turned out such amazing tunes and styles! With music, trains, movies and cars like that, who needs health care?!

[MrJm323]

@walshamite "...no health care unless you were well off, ...." Labour propaganda.

[walkerskyzzz]

swing romantik^^

[walshamite]

@boazrg Many of us in the UK too seem to think a lot like you on such matters, BUT, caution, we may be glossing over some old problems they had back then (no health care unless you were well off, and not a lot of education either) and we could be imagining a bygone golden age, of course. No age ever seems golden at the time, not till you're older, as you know. The past is a place we can comfortably live in - why? - cos it's predictable, so it ain't half so scary as the future.

[walshamite]

Just watched this full screen - so enjoyable, the song too - many thanks, JDP !!

[TimeOutGirls]

Great video. Driving back then was like driving in a third world country.

[SatchmoSings]

@larbacmc Unemployment at its worst was 25% (with underemployment also at the same rate) during 1932-33 so unemployment through most of The Depression was more realistically at around 18% if not a bit lower.

I guess you could go online and look up figures for automobile sales in the 1930s and how they changed from the 1920s.