New York: The Wonder City 1938

A tour of New York in 1938.Footage from this subject is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com

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[CrummyCurtis]

This film is from the 30's, not 1945. The ladies' fashions give it away.

[travelfilmarchive]

Thanks - you're right. It's 1938.

[cannuckistan]

It just seems to me that everything, from architecture to attire to peoples' manners, was more elegant back then. I don't really think our era has much on that one.

[GQOfficial]

Theres Something about the 30s fashion of New York thats so cool. They had a pretty cool style

[inuyasha1sasuke]

The 1 dislike is obviously a redneck~ ;D 

[Geostrategic1]

The general era is always given away by the cars, ladies hair and dressing styles.

[NP4Mayans]

This was likely a professionally made silent movie intended for home use. Most home movies had no sound. Castle Films was a big marketer of this kind of "home video" long before TV. Other themes were silent cartoons and comedies.

[BraunMannn]

@PhilMahnken

Dear Phil, try x-tube, and cut out the middleman.

Cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[BraunMannn]

3:28

Even in the lower east side, shameful behaviour of guardian or parent; hitting that child, now-a-days child abuse is reported to child wealfare.

Cheers.

from,

del-boy.

[PhilMahnken]

Phil M.

What can you8 tell me about that large male nude statue in the City Hall pictures?

[OSTARAEB4]

I'm reminded of those unique songs of New York like, "East Side, West Side all around the town... Trip the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York, me and Katie O'Rourke"..

"The hit parade and ballyhoo, the lullaby of Broadway" Back from the days of Mayor Jimmy Walker, Fiorello La Guardia.

Ah,,, the gridlock, the blaring horns of a gridlocked intersection when you're watching the light knowing you're NOT getting through the intersection. Anyone remember Norm-N-Nite with doo-wap oldie

[OSTARAEB4]

(con't) instead of those ugly hanging street lamps. I even miss those old yellow-black street signs that were in place for about forty years! Her skylina has always impressed me with the building of sixty, or eighty stories and how they do this amidst the daily flow of a city of 8.2 million! She's like no other city! I miss her, my first love!

[OSTARAEB4]

Amazing pulse of a grand city! I agree that it's definitely before the war. The cabs look like 1932-33, with an occasional 1937 car passing by. Buses were double-decker until about the early 1950's. Most of the Avenues were two-way until the early 1960's. I wish they kept Penn Station, The Astor and Claridge Hotels in Times Square, and I wish for nostaglia they'd bring back those old two direction signs. In the past fifteen years or so, they've brought back a modern version of T-arm street lamp

[CrummyCurtis]

@inkey2 Like archeologists, we've combined the fashions and the cars to come up with the right era!