Shout out to dude with the peg leg smiling and having fun. We get mad if we lose wifi

99.9999% of KZread is crap, but then someone posts a gem like this and it makes it all worth it. What a spectacular find. Inner City Baltimore in the 1920s wasn't exactly rich, and so very few people are going to have access to movie cameras, and if they do, they aren't going to be taking footage of everyday life. Truly fascinating. Thanks so much for posting this.

@tomkiefaber4297

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikekretmar please note my post above that sheds light on what this and why it was made.

@selinahester1163

4 жыл бұрын

They were so happy.

@sylcrawford5509

4 жыл бұрын

I love these videos. Just makes me calm. When I'm able to identify with people in a seemingly "long time ago" era it makes me realize how small my anxieties are in the grand scheme of things.

@speedracer1945

4 жыл бұрын

Not True ! U tube has a nest of good stuff how to fix a simple household or automobile problem doing it yourself . I just watched how to fix my computer screen for a fraction of a new one . Though the options are good on U tube but you maybe referring to most of the net and of course you have the political section here .

@ljwilliams4662

4 жыл бұрын

James M well said!

How did I bump into this .. beautiful just beautiful!!!! Love from California

Amazing footage! I'm Baltimore born, raised, and still live there. Was in Pigtown yesterday. The neighborhood's looking good.

its hard to think that this was 99 years ago

@spazdaangrymf3541

3 жыл бұрын

The PROHIBITION ERA

@dmv.paul09

2 жыл бұрын

102*

@cynthianichole2732

2 жыл бұрын

@@dmv.paul09 are going to update the comment every year (would be fun) 😃

@travelingdude1621

2 жыл бұрын

Much better, safer, prosperous times in Baltimore back then compared to modern times. I’d love my hometown of Baltimore to look like that again.

@crustcheese5003

2 жыл бұрын

Hard to think your people fucked everything up

that man with the peg leg... all the faces... such a wonderful document of history and humanity

I have pin pointed the camera's street location at 1223 Washington Blvd. Baltimore MD. The barber shop made that easy and little has changed on that street using google maps. Back then Washington Blvd was Columbia Ave. My grandparents lived less them one block from this location. Thanks!

@CasiodorusRex

5 жыл бұрын

Facing now MLK Boulevard and Camden Yards.

@awillis244

4 жыл бұрын

bruce shetrone, wow! Never knew about the street name change-thank you.

@simonemartini3017

4 жыл бұрын

Damn that area looks different now.

@malcolmcanning548

4 жыл бұрын

Are the wood stairs still in use

@traceycromwell864

4 жыл бұрын

I lived at 1248 Washington Blvd & so much has changed in just the last 3 yrs.

THIS BROUGHT TEARS TO MY EYES, BECAUSE ALL THE WAY TO MY GREAT GRANDFATHER, OUR WHOLE FAMILY WAS RAISED THERE AND MY FAMILY OPENED 2 BARS ON PAYSON STREET!!! HOW GREAT THOSE DAYS WERE WHEN KIDS ACTUALLY LISTENED AND HAD RESPECT, ND EVERYONE LOOKED OUT FOR ONE ANOTHER AND THEIR KIDS!!! YOU HAVE A PRICELESS PIECE OF A WONDERFUL, MISSED, AND NEEDED ERA!!! GOD BLESS YOU!!!

@nancywilson7112

3 жыл бұрын

Cindy my family too

@Kaodusanya

Жыл бұрын

there is a section where they tied a rope to a little black boys wooden leg and tripped him!!!!

@user-ce9ge7rz3p

4 ай бұрын

I love watching this moment ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊 reminds me of my childhood on case street in Lansing Michigan!!! We always had fun

@robertwilliams3527

Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Omg I am from Baltimore and this is a time capsule

@andrewcrane2786

4 жыл бұрын

I was born and raised in Baltimore md 1982 I can't believe how it's look back then. I love how those kids are playing having fun now it's not like that now. Kids are being bad.

@echoupnex5326

4 жыл бұрын

Still living in Hamnden Baltimore

@jackiehecker4863

3 жыл бұрын

I was baltimore in early 50s and south baltimore..looks all familiar

@delanoloftinsr.836

2 жыл бұрын

I think you had to know your place in society

My stepfather grew up in South Baltimore. Barney Street. He was born in 1919. This is outstanding.

@Pachydiplax1

2 жыл бұрын

My mother, born in 1920, lived on a section of Hamburg St. that's now part of the Raven's stadium parking lot.

@larrymbs

6 ай бұрын

I renovated a house on Barney Street in 2005👍

Different era. Imagine holding a children's party with two boys boxing today? Very nice video.

@terrynesbitt9671

5 жыл бұрын

The refferee was black with a peg leg

@TopBillinSports

Жыл бұрын

@@terrynesbitt9671 - Duh, Captain Obvious

Just think...these are someone's grandparents, great grandparents. I wonder how their lives played out. Did they live a happy life, did they fight in the war, did they become rich, poor...?

@georgefold

4 жыл бұрын

Someone actually reached out to me and recognized the guy playing with the kids as his grandfather whom he never met. Very cool! I'm hoping other can recognize some of these folks!

@margots1623

4 жыл бұрын

@@georgefold Hope they all loved a happy, blessed life. So cool that someone got to see their grandparent.

@williamsalter8388

4 жыл бұрын

Word

@bonniescherr9023

3 жыл бұрын

@@goodbro7846 Clearly you dont know Baltimore.

@romelmurdock4187

3 жыл бұрын

@@goodbro7846 no they didn't we transfered to all white school a few miles away not far from carrol Park /pigtown that was in the 80s plenty of white people live in Baltimore...... In late 50s they had 1.5 million people in Baltimore it was mostly white then

What a gem this is! Heartfelt thanks for taking the time/expense in processing this - and putting it out here. I was born in Baltimore in 1956, though our family moved from there (to upstate New York) when I was close to three. (I do actually have some memories of living there - taking my first unsteady steps outside (on Park Heights Blvd., where we lived) and mom's kind encouragement to help me along. I understand we lived very near the Pimlico racetrack - perhaps it's where my love of the sport started - LOL! Cheers to all from Niagara Canada!

OH my goodness! What a gem!! I know right where this was filmed! I went to #34 school during 1969-1974 I believe. My dad was born in 1936 he grew up on Washington Blvd then on Paca street in Pigtown. He married my mom in 1958 at St. Paul's Episcopal church, they lived on Hamburg st. My family lived on Hamburg street when I was born. We moved to Ostend street in the 70's so we had to walk on Washington Blvd everyday to #34 school. It's so awesome that you found this film! Thank you so very much for sharing this with us! God bless.

This great footage of early days of Baltimore.

Wow, my mother's family lived there during that time. My family lived in Pigtown until I was 5, from 1946 to 1951. I'm thinking my mom or her family knew some of these people.

I've been living in Baltimore for eight years. This is excellent footage of the streets that I have driven down, the people who have created the spirit, and essence of Baltimore. Thank you for this gem of footage.

I wish more people from our city could see things like this and appreciate their neighborhoods and want to take care of our city!

@palmharris4805

Жыл бұрын

Tell that to the police

@auntemmyd1604

Жыл бұрын

@@palmharris4805 they are not the ones littering, carjacking, and smoking crack on peoples porches!

@palmharris4805

Жыл бұрын

@@auntemmyd1604 if that’s how you feel

@auntemmyd1604

Жыл бұрын

@@palmharris4805 come down to my neighborhood of Baltimore City and observe with open eyes! Shit Rolls downhill politically! Cops are not allowed to make necessary arrest! When this shit leadership is out of their hopefully soon, the Changes will come and everyone will be like oh yeah they were horrible idiots! Do a bit of research, ask questions to the right people and you will see! This city is in serious trouble and its the citizen ruining it! Ignorance is not bliss!

@ph214

Жыл бұрын

@@auntemmyd1604 Baltimore cops are just as much to blame as the criminals . If you don't think so, read up on the Baltimore 12

Although Pig Town hasn’t changed much I still love south Bmore baby❤️❤️❤️Smallwood & Baltimore Street is where I grew up. Rest well Manchild & Mama Pearl💪✌️

@sashaprettyeyes2052

4 жыл бұрын

U MUST BE BLIND PIG TOWN LOOKS NOTHING LIKE THIS NOW. ITS 1000X WORSE

99% sure my great-grandma is at 3:19. She is the tall one on the right. She was from the next neighborhood over so it might not be her but I'm almost positive she attended School 34. She was born to a poor parents that were immigrants from Germany. She went on to have six children, one of which became my grandmother. Almost all of her descendants still reside in or around Baltimore, myself included. Amazing to see this. Thanks for posting!

@helenpurcell5742

11 ай бұрын

I think this video is the coolest thing ever I've done watched it like 10 x

@Moxiestechnical

5 ай бұрын

What was your grandmother name on your father's side I believe she could be related to me

Siemer family lived on Carroll St. in Pig Town from 1906 to 1984 in various generational stages. Nice to se film footage from that far back. Thank you.

@ExploreBaltimore

6 жыл бұрын

What house number?

@michaelgaynor6866

3 жыл бұрын

My Father's Family lived in Pigtown....not sure what street. James B.Gaynor and Mabel Lee Towner Gaynor from Baltimore Maryland.

This is so beautiful it should be a movie made call Baltimore then and now you get⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐stars for this one thanks for posting

How happy I can finally see @2:01 a street car come into view....my dad told me lovely stories about riding them as a young boy. This is the place and era my father grew up in.

@marilynntobash6420

5 жыл бұрын

I can remember the street cars on Washington Blvd. We took the #27 to go downtown, the stop was across the street from the elementary school I attended till we moved in 1951.

@shortliner68

4 жыл бұрын

That's one of the things I missed most in Baltimore after 1963 - the streetcars. We lived on Poplar Grove St. on the westside in the early/mid '50s which was on one of the last streetcar lines operating - #15 from Walbrook Jct. to Overlea. I still remember being in the front bedroom of our house on Summer nights with windows opened (no AC back then) and falling asleep while hearing the singing sound of the trolley wires when a streetcar would rumble by. Also remember streetcar rides downtown on shopping trips with my mother. They were part of the fabric of the neighborhood. The main terminal of the transit company is just a few blocks behind the camera in the opening shot looking down Washington Blvd. Back then it was called the United Railway & Electric Co. Later, Baltimore Transit and MTA, but still headquartered at the same pigtown terminal to this day.

I grew up a few blocks from here in the early 60's didn't look very much different then, other than the clothes, cars, and haircuts......very cool thanks for sharing this.

@shirleyharting405

3 жыл бұрын

Yes alot of our fathers family lived there.

This is definitely 1920's rather then 1930's. You can tell by the cars and carriages and the clothing they are wearing. Does anyone else think that the street actually looks wider than it is today? Or is it just the perspective of the camera?

@AbraCadabra0591

5 жыл бұрын

I don't thinks it's wider, if there were parked cars on the sides of the street, would you still think it's wider?

@yakamarezlife

4 жыл бұрын

@@AbraCadabra0591 actually some streets were because of the trolley lines

@oneworld9071

4 жыл бұрын

Wider street, yep...... noticed that too! Not like those 12-lane wide streets in Moscow, but definitely plenty of room for passing left or right :)

@maryhodgenson4766

4 жыл бұрын

Because no cars park on the street,that's why it looks wider

@maxinef6654

4 жыл бұрын

Washington Blvd in pug town isn’t that wide today. I used to work at the old Montgomery Ward building and don’t remember it being that wide.

What a delight. What a treasure! I truly enjoyed trip back in time. Blast from the past, wow! Thanx 👍🏼❤✌🏽😍

This is absolute GOLD.

As a history detective for the Southwest Partnership Historic Preservation Committee, I'm going to find out more about the tall lad with the wooden leg. I will start with the 1930s census.

@georgefold

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Let us know what you discover!

@phileciatyrell1165

4 жыл бұрын

That is a great organization, good luck!

@shakes.dontknowwhatyergettin

Жыл бұрын

Any luck?

This is awesome to see. Great historical value. Thank you for posting.

@georgefold

6 жыл бұрын

Pat Sadataki glad you enjoyed it. Wanted to share it with as many as possible.

I could watch this all day. Simpler times. Just fascinating. I wish audio had been available back then.

@spazdaangrymf3541

3 жыл бұрын

PROHIBITION ERA????

@delanoloftinsr.836

2 жыл бұрын

No you don't , lol

Oh...so THIS is what kids did before video games!! I love this George. Thank you so much for sharing with the world and our community!!

George Fold - what a 25 kt gold treasure this is!!!!! I'll bet John Waters and his troupe since the early days would love to see this. There are still people who will be able to recognize these scenes not too long after they were filmed. Seeing these shots are like seeing through the eyes of H.L. Mencken, who I've thought of as Baltimore's Mark Twain. My father owned the rowhome directly next door from the Mencken house on Hollins near Stricker. I'd read Mencken thinking that so much of it was written right through the wall :) Thank you for sharing this..... very generous and definitely hit the target:)

A true treasure, thanks for sharing

Wow simply amazing Thank You for sharing this..I grew up just down the street from here... Such a shame what it turned into today.

I grow up in Southwest Baltimore in the 60s. My Great Grandparents told me stories of the streets were all dirt when she moved there. That was in the 1920s. Have seen family pictures of them. The area has changed too much. The houses which were kept and clean most are boarded up. Very sad. But thanks for sharing this gem.

People seemed relaxed and happy back then.

My family lived on Nanticoke St. in Pigtown during this era and I keep trying to zoom in and catch a glimpse of them. Fascinating and captivating footage. Also incredibly rare! Thanks so much for posting this.

My mom lived in Pig Town for several years of her life either in the 40's or 50's. She may have had relatives living there in the 20's. What an awesome video thank you!

An amazing piece of archival footage of a lost world. Pigtown was never what you'd call a silk stocking area. In fact, it was working class but relatively safe - unlike the war zone it became, like so much of inner-city Baltimore today.

@BiffTannon1983

5 ай бұрын

Pigtown acquired its name, because in the 1850+, the B&O railroad used to offload pigs coming from the Midwest, to slaughter/packing houses in the area. I believe they herded them down Cross St. & Ostend St.

I grew up in Pigtown in the 80's i lived on the 700 block of Carroll St from 88-02

Notice how all the girls and ladies have a bob haircut. Those were the Roaring Twenties.

Wow,fascinating rare footage!! I love the big barber pole 💈 out on display.They really didn’t spare any expense making them like that.You can easily differentiate the kids from more well off families in how they dressed back then.I noticed no one had railings on their front stairs. Great content and high quality video.Keep it coming!!!Thanks

It's odd to see a street scene at regular speed! So many old reels are sped up when we play them.

@tomkiefaber4297

4 жыл бұрын

By the time this was made the 35mm standard frame rate was 24 per second hence the normal movement. Prior to that the lesser unstandardized frame rates below 24 per second were used in both filming and projection. Once the standard was established at 24 all the old slower frame rate film were then run at that 24FPS rate hence the speeded up weird movement. The trade off on projectors that slow the frame rate to what the film was shot in less than 24 and the movement become more natural but then the image "flickers" At less than 24 frames a second (each flashed twice by the shutter) the illusion suffers from flicker or a flashing effect. Hence early movies were called the flickers. Increasing the frame rate to 24 stopped that flickering effect on the screen.

@oneworld9071

4 жыл бұрын

One reason for that speed-up is they'd crank a little slower while filming to make the reel last a little longer. When it got to the projector at industry standard 24 frames per second and the cameraman was cranking at 15-20 fps, it will definitely appear faster. Now we can shoot video at tens of thousands of frames per second. When played at an industry standard 30 fps, we can see lightning bolts forming and changing direction. At 1 frame every 60 seconds we play it back at 30 fps and see fungus growing, flowers blooming, etc.

@tomkiefaber4297

4 жыл бұрын

@@oneworld9071 Correct a mundo in noting that the early hand cranked 35mm film cameras were often hand cranked at varying frame rates for different causes particularly away from the studios out in the real/reel world. That erratic lack of frame rate standardization in filming during that era resulted in undesired artifacts like unnatural movement on screen. As the newsreel industry expanded they did their best to train the camera operators to try and be cool calm and as emotionless as possible in response to the at times exciting or harrowing events they covered live. It seems that yes, the operators concerns over the length of their raw stock film reels in the cameras and when they must be switched out and that often resulted in conscious or unconscious "undercranking' . Unconscious overcranking was also problematic when the subject would excite the emotions including fears etc. of an operator, and temporarily alter the operator's subjective perception of time and they would begin unconsciously overcranking while swearing their frame rate exposures were the same throughout the exposed reel,.

@tomkiefaber4297

4 жыл бұрын

An early slam dunk mathematical proof to the dubious of how their measurable subjective human perceptions, however accurate they may seem to them, can often be at odds when checked against an objective unemotional factual reality. Those beguiling subjective effects and their downside results in millions of speeding tickets issued annually. "Judge I do respect law enforcement, I do yet despite the officers testimony and the proof that the radar was accurately calibrated I (wait for it) I simply could not have been barreling down Rt 50 to the ocean at 110 MPH. No way judge no way." Guilty!!

I would assume most of these kids were veterans of WW2 if this were late 20s early 30s! The Greatest Generation!

@planesense7390

4 жыл бұрын

So true my Grandpa fought in WWII and was born in 1921

@jeremybear573

4 жыл бұрын

@@planesense7390 God Bless your grandpa sir

Thanks for sharing this with us, I loved it! All the happy children and adults put a smile on my face.

Born in Baltimore, and sitting about one and a half miles away from where this was filmed in Baltimore! Awesome video, thanks for posting it!

This was very special. Still notice that litter was a thing even back then.

Thank you for uploading this!

I believe the smart ass kid with the skull cap and baseball glove ,white shirt and tie maybe my pops Karl F.L. Grosche he was about 12 and lookin like a lot of sons and grand sons ,then him being born in 1916 and this is a awesome find thank you for posting George Fold!

@louisdrennon4619

4 жыл бұрын

Frederick Grosche morning I

@deannasoriano2771

4 жыл бұрын

No that's my Grandad

This was the Best Video i think I've ever Seen in my #LIFE and I'm not Kidding. I got so Emotional for Different reasons of this Video, there's something Different about this One. There's So many things to Point out and You'll find something Different everytime you Rewind the Video like i know you Did. 😂 3:12 was Special along with all the Kids Jumping onto the Tall guy's back nothing but Madness filmed at the right Moment. See if you can Spot Dennis The Menace during the Boxing Match, i #Love this Video. 😎

Damn, Pigtown will never see these good ole days again! Even back in the 80's it wasn't bad, now it's gone to shit! So sad!

@kelloggs5473

5 жыл бұрын

@Roy Patterson Pigtown in 1985 was bad. Remember cats getting struck by cars frequently? Decomposing bodies lay on the sidewalks and near storm drains. Pedestrians had to walk around them. Cats were prevalent in the 1200 block and 1300 block of West Lombard Street. Anyone who has a pet cat and can’t take care of it properly should go to hell. Poverty is a poor excuse for neglect of a helpless animal that belongs to you.

@butterlevisellman5895

4 жыл бұрын

I go through pig town just about everyday and it is sad how things are you telling the truth..

@mr.ridiculous723

4 жыл бұрын

@James Buttler The only thing that changed about pigtown since this video is first it was a poor white neighborhood and then it was a poor black neighborhood

@thomasjones7850

4 жыл бұрын

Mr.Ridiculous it’s actually about 85 people black 15 percent white

@anthonyjoynerbaltimore

4 жыл бұрын

Pigtown never was shit... If that's the perspective you want to take

I only lived on Washington Blvd for such a short time, but even without reading your description, I recognized \where it was being shot. I left there in 2017, but it's amazing to see it almost a century before so familiar.

Wow hard to believe all those children and probably gone with the wind. Thanks for sharing.

It’s sad to think that a lot of those kids dad died in the first world war and a lot of the young boys on this video died in the second

@MukoroJr

2 жыл бұрын

America engaged in ww2 not 1

@rogervill2391

2 жыл бұрын

@@MukoroJr No, both.

@MukoroJr

2 жыл бұрын

@@rogervill2391 🙌🏿

Parts of it look like an Our Gang short! Appears to be approx. 1930 from cars and cloths. Could have been an itinerant film maker, which would account for the use of 35 mm as well as the professional -looking inter-titles. So interesting to watch individual kids as they react to the presence of the camera. Some walk back and come down the street again, and one girl at the start of the backyard "show" portion continually moves to our left to stay in the frame. A lot of economic diversity in this group, with clothing cleanliness, quality, fit and whether mended or not providing a wealth of info. Looks like a fall day, a little chilly. Coats and sweaters in evidence, though some have none. The clown/MC guy might have worked with the cameraman to organize the kid's various tricks. His outfit appears to be made from an old patent medicine banner, with the word ELIXIR clearly readable. If you look at his left sleeve when he's on his hands and knees, a bearded face, no doubt depicting Dr. "Whoosis," inventor of the elixir, can be easily made out. The young African-American man with the wooden leg may be in on things as well, as his role as referee in the boxing match - where a string tied to his wooden leg is pulled by a boy to make him take a tumble - and his work as handler of fake horse "Spark Plug" (also the name of comic strip character Barney Google's horse) might indicate. There is also a slightly crude joke made with the two boys portraying the horse having to come out for air while holding their noses and giving accusatory looks at one another for "passing wind" under the cover of the costume.

@tomkiefaber4297

4 жыл бұрын

(A copy of what I posted above for your info.) I believe I can help direct you to accurate information as to the origins of this wonderful footage and in particular why it was made, its original purpose. (did you say btw you had it 'processed' all these years later? I must assume from a negative already developed? yet I digress) What I have to transmit of significance is family business lore plus a couple technical observations, and a guess or so enough that perhaps the (free!) Pratt researchers can confirm and fill in the gaps. I grew up in the moviehouse biz as my grandfather was Frank H. Durkee an industry pioneer who's first location was The Paradise at Washington and Federal on the east side. Durkee Enterprises grew to own and operate over 45 movie houses in Baltimore in a century in the business starting in 1909. Coming up I heard about an enterprising fellow (Marhenke perhaps?) that would work out symbiotic relationships with the local moviehouses to provide unique added attractions to put butts in seats as regularly as possible. He would then set up his 35mm camera at a wide variety of 'local' events picking shots that allow regular folk to know they had just been filmed in an actual movie! Keep in mind this was before TV and so other than still photos most people have never had the experience of seeing themselves and all their friends too in moving pictures, particularly in such high resolution just like the actors in the movies they were attending on average 2 times a week in that era. The B & W film was shot MOS (mitt out sound) and when these short films were screened in the theatre(s) as part of the show there would be musical accompaniment of some sort as the silents were never silent. I gotta speculate that the camera operator or an assistant was verbally letting everyone in that initial parade know that they can see themselves that weekend at the Whatever local moviehouse. My family's theatres in this era were more oriented to the east side of town (The State, Belnord, Redwing, Patterson, Grand, etc.) and among these these locally produced shorts would often be a simple sidewalk camera setup covering parishioners leaving a service interacting with the priest or whenever only a week before! While that may sound bush league to todays folks, it was a significant added attraction. Imagine 8oo kids packed into a moviehouse matinee watching themselves just days earlier in some school parade where everyone has their few seconds of fame then screams in delight at all their friends appearing on the giant screen. at the time...it was Yuge as they say. OK so that's my major download for now. Hopefully it is helpful in putting what you have there in an historic perspective that makes some sense. Finally I am curious about the actual film you found and if it was undeveloped 35 or a developed 35 negative or a 35mm B & W positive MOS print? You've sto0ked my curiosity in that regard.

This video shows how we’ve gone back as a society. They are better dressed than 90% of people today.

@nephetula

4 жыл бұрын

And...they're not shooting at each other.

I could be looking right at my paternal relatives and not realize it. My Grandpop was born in 1915 and my Grandmother in 1920. My Dad and his siblings went to old School 34 in the 40s and 50s.

Thank u for the trip to the past feel as though I belonged to that era. It's a warmth cozy feeling overcomes me as I'm watching video. Fascinating ❣️🤗

This is so awesome. Thank you for sharing it with us.

I lived @ Washington Blvd & Scott St 2009-2013. Pigtown. They still have the Pigtown Festival every year. U could smell the pigs in the summertime when it got hot. I had a goodtime in Bmore....don't get it wrong...its a tough town

Oh wow! Great find, great video! Anything " BALTIMORE" especially historic Baltimore, gets my thumbs up, love it!!!! Renee'- Born and raised in Baltimore Maryland.

It’s great seeing aspects of the city I love. Having lived in Pigtown (Carrol and Ostend) myself, I can say that there are still small places that have that sense of community.

My grandma is from here.... She told me alotta stories about how her mom , had a bar and how she used to run numbers...

Wow!...those kids are outside and playing and clowning around like people did 15 or 20 years ago. Of course kids don't do that today because they are texting and are home on their computers.

@rebeccagutierrez1401

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, maybe that's where the work clowning around came from.

My guess was Washington Blvd. Thanks for sharing.

I love this thanks so much for posting.

All the boys wore knickers back in the day! My dad told me that he received his first pair of long pants when he was 14 yrs old. I love this video....thanks for sharing!!

WOW! Thank you so much for sharing this!!!!!!!!

They’re all together now🙏🏿

I wish I lived back then

As a child riding on the train, I always remember looking out of the train window at the white steps on the front of each row house. Such wonderful and fond memories.

love thanks!! I took my kids to the pigtown festival last year and it was awesome!

It's crazy that I have family still alive that can remember times not that distant from this. Cherish your elders. I guarantee there are many stories you still haven't heard. The other crazy thing...those houses are still there and look pretty similar, but now just run-down with garbage in the streets. It has been forgotten. Used to live nearby, but had to move out after the riots. This video reminds me of my family and ancestors along Lombard street. It is a joy to watch.

@WestmoreCorp

9 ай бұрын

Which riots forced you to move?

I literally live around the corner. Wow.

Love this!!!! Better times and better people.

@WestmoreCorp

9 ай бұрын

...Not necessarily better for everyone, but definitely different.

Wow I love history especially when they show the town u were born n raised in from 1920s. How cool is this!!!

My mom was born in Baltimore in 1926. They ended up in CAlifornia. Navy folk.

thanks for posting this

This video WHOLESOME TRUE LIFE VALUES. A BLAST FROM THE PAST. HOW AMAZING

I loved watching this. I was born in Baltimore at University hospital in 1943 and lived on S. Carey St, in Pigtown until I was 8 and we moved to Anne Arundel County so I I'm not old enough to recognize any of the people. I recognize Washington Blvd, the camera is looking towards downtown, right? I went to P.S. 34 from kindergarten to 3rd grade but I didn't see either of the 2 schoolyard playgrounds that I remember using. I'm sure I am related to some of these people. I will have to send a link to my cousin so she can show it to her mother, my 94 yr old aunt, I'm pretty sure she will recognize some of the people.

This is historic gold nice job Thanks for the post God bless

Thank you for sharing this! Has UMD or the Maryland Historical Society been made aware of this rare find?

Wow! Amazing footage. This should have way more views than it does.

We used to walk from Westport past Montgomery ward and Carroll park to pigtown many times

Good times my friend thanks for sharing.

Pretty sure this was mid-late 20s when this was taken. I’m basing it on the fact that my mother had that exact same haircut, that the girls in this film have have and she was born in 1920. The picture I have of her is from 1927 with that haircut.

What a gem! I was hoping there might be some footage of St. Paul the Apostle Episcopal Church which in it's time was a significant source of daily Pigtown life with it's bowling alley, basket ball court, class rooms, community hall, stage. large kitchen, rectory for the priest and church. It was sad to see her close up just a few years ago! What had been a real center of community life! The Rev'd Frank K. Staples was rector for some time there. Anyone with pictures or other information to share please contact me through your comments below for the Episcopal Diocese of Baltimore Archives !

The best I’ve seen,fascinating look into their life.👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

I'm going to speculate that the two gentlemen at 2:48 may well be associated with the theatre or theatres this short is being produced for to be screened as part of community based moviehouse show to put butts in seats.

Thank you for posting this. No cell phones, no TV, no air conditioning, but in some ways a better time. Sure, there were problems back then, but something important has been lost.

Guy with wooden leg Legend

wow bet zip of these people would ever thought 100 years later they be on a site like youtube better yet this film may of never been seen if it wasn't for those you restore it and put up history like this!

Thank you so much!!!!

Precious video....even though everyone is dead, so are we a hundred years from now !

I'm born and raise in Baltimore md 1982 and still live there until this day. I can't how its look back then wow. Old street cars

I love seeing stuff like this👍👍👍

Excellent discovery!!!!

Love this! I’m Baltimore born & raised. Still live here, in Baltimore City. This is amazing!! Can I ask where you got the film processed? I have an old camera of my grandmother’s that has a roll of film in it. I’ve gone to several photo shops to get it developed but everyone says they can’t do it.

James M. I couldn't say it any better. I grew up in Ellicott City. Amazingly I just finished a book called The Big Bam, The Life and Times of Babe Ruth. His Dad's Saloon was probably very near these sites!

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Do you know a Damian Peach?

Look how clean it was back in those days