As I watch this, a feeling of mourning comes over me for these long ago days!! Times were tough, but people still had morals and a sense of family!! Oh, to be there again!!

@gerryjames9720

5 ай бұрын

It’s kinda like the way sane children actually (secretly) desire discipline. It’s painful, and they will avoid it any way they can, but in the end they are preserved by it. It was the hard times that created that generation. I so miss my momma and daddy. For all the hard spots in them, they embodied the qualities that we miss.

@johnl1685

4 ай бұрын

People then had God in their lives and always Church on Sunday. Even all the stores were closed on Sunday. I grew up in those times.

@LB-ku6ry

4 ай бұрын

@@johnl1685Yes.

I'm not an American but I really like watching this video.

When I was a little boy in the early sixties, I realized that the seniors around me had lived through events that are today 100 -150 years ago. They were living treasures. One of my great grandfathers who was already 82 years old and had lost a leg in WWI was shell shocked with PTSD then. We had to steer clear of him or he'd swat us with his cane. We were 3 -4 years old. Now I am 63 and his time on earth started in the 1880's. Wow. I touched living history for a scant 4 years before he passed. When I was born WWII had ended only 15 years earlier. So much was happening, the Boom was in full swing. Since no one wanted to talk about the war, all I remember was dad and friends talking about cars, kids, records, and barbecues. Life was simpler but changing rapidly. It was a great time to be a kid. Thanks for the post!

@sargurak

4 ай бұрын

Time seems to go by so slowly, but when you stop to think about life, you realize how fast it is. I'm not sure how old his great-grandfather was at four, but if he were about 80, he would have been born around 30 years after the American Revolution-just a handful of his grandfathers before that would have been sailing across the ocean to the New World. Thank you for sharing your thoughts! It's interesting to hear about experiences like this.

No tatts, no green hair, no snot rings, no ripped jeans, no one walking about with their face stuck in a mobile phone no homeless sitting on the side walk, no graffiti ,, no rubbish, no over weights gorging themselves on Macca's , no boy racer's leaving rubber on the road, and no loud crap head banging music nothing but well dressed, well behaved respectable people going about their business. traffic accidents similar . I came though the 50's 60's and 70's even then was far nicer then these days

@albertmarnell9976

6 ай бұрын

No homeless? Well dressed and well behaved people? It was an era of ignorance and cruelty.

@rj67photo55

6 ай бұрын

Everything hidden behind certain privilege

@davechapman7735

6 ай бұрын

still is today but I was talking about the people on the streets@@albertmarnell9976

@albertmarnell9976

6 ай бұрын

What's your point? Many people were homeless or living in shanty towns.@agrafkaagrafka1542

@albertmarnell9976

6 ай бұрын

paper clip Don't be so European. People know what I mean. Are you Uzbek or Polish?@agrafkaagrafka1542

I see cleanliness even in a time of poverty.

My daddy fought in WW2 and my momma, his fiancé, prayed for years that he’d come home safe. I look at these people and wonder what became of them in those war years. Makes me so sad, these beautiful people came through so much, and so many fell even deeper into tragedy. Lord, help us to remember and be grateful for them.

The remarkable thing about these images from the 1930s is, at least in the big cities, they had already entered the modern world, and yet the old world culture they were born into was still very much alive. I suspect anyone born in the 1960s or before could adapt to that culture, this was the world of my grandparents, and I knew those people and what they expected of you.

@rfjohns4452

6 ай бұрын

You did notice too much change as I was a kid in 1950s because the war stopped it .I remember looking at a street in the 1960s no different that I saw from pictures of the 1930s.

@imikewillrockyou

6 ай бұрын

@@rfjohns4452 My earliest memories are from the 1960s. Although a lot of rapid changes were taking place starting in the 60s there was still a hint of that world alive at that time. My grandparents dressed just like they do in these photos, and even my parents did to some degree.

Even during the Depression , people dressed better then they do now.

Nice video of the past, it's the generation of my Grandparents, and my Parents, people are contented with what they have, NO toxic social media, NO anger management issues, and people are well dressed, I hope some of the people here are still ALIVE in 2023

It was a totally different country back then. Night and day!

Beauty memories of that times, thanks for sharing,I really admire EEUU 🇺🇸,huges and blesses from Perú 🇵🇪🤗🌎

I love these vintage America photos. Hope you can continue to show the Americas their history.

@VintageTreasuresVideos

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for your kind words. I definitely will! 👊🏼

@clifforddriver9434

6 ай бұрын

From the looks of things, we are definitely coming to its conclusion, unfortunately.

At 42:13, that "girl" IS Shirley Temple....

My grandparents time. Wonderful to see. My dad's toy cars were molded from chalk. All the wheels were flat from pushing across the floor. Poor kids toys.

Amazing photos. The styles were definitely nicer and people seemed to be more cognizant of how to dress. Plus, no obese people with leg tattoos. I love your work on this channel.

@VintageTreasuresVideos

6 ай бұрын

Thanks👊❤️

@ilanamillion8942

Ай бұрын

No obese people? There have been obese people in every era.

Geez! Opened my eyes to a whole new perspective of the 20th Century. I have seen thousands of black & white photos from this period, but nothing compares to this!

Hey Vintage Treasures, I didn't realize you colorized these photos mostly yourself. You do a great job with them. I know it's a lot of work. Very nice.

Everything and everyone was better in the past. I was born in 1961 in Brooklyn NY, and I was I could go back in time and start over again.

@hirameberhardt8643

6 ай бұрын

Everything was different, but I'm not sure better. Cars didn't have crumple zones, gasoline and paint had lead, medicines were in its infancy and plenty more.

@Grandpa82547

4 ай бұрын

I've lived through several medical conditions that would have killed me in 1935 . Even in the 50's, cancer was pretty much a death sentence.@@hirameberhardt8643

Congratulations. Excelent video and pictures. Thanks.

For me, the cars usually tell the tale.

In a Word...CLEAN..people.and.environment...

@Brownskidmarksonmyunderwear

Ай бұрын

In a more precise word....WHITE people

Thank you for emotions! Its another world for many viewers. Especially from another continent :)

Another one of your wining videos. I grew up in the 1950s, and thus I missed by only a single decade the era portrayed in your show. The video, to me, was compelling and memorable. When you conserve and promulgate images like those seen here, you perform important historical work. I hope you realize how valuable your videos are.

So many more people on the streets and socializing. More loneliness in current times. People just dont get together like they used to.

@chrystelelacroix4681

4 ай бұрын

The popularization of cars and disappearances of local shops killed the life in the streets.😢

I wish I could excape into the past of a long forgotten era. It is beautiful in the 1930s.

I didn’t come along until 1969. I was given up for adoption in Charlotte NC and I was adopted by Joe & Martha the two most giving people of all time. They gave me the most perfect magical childhood that could’ve had easily been hell had they not saved me. Christmas in the 70’s was so wonderful and dreamlike. My adopted parents weren’t rich but they protected and loved me so much. Only three years after I was born abortion was legalized and I realized just how lucky I was.

People had a dream and they made it come true!!!! (Thank you so much for the great work!)

PS, those desks in school where the children are sitting , are exactly the desks I sat in in 1950,s ....see about 5 : 30 minutes into this video

7:18 This sure looks like late 1940s or even early 1950s. For me, the cars usually tell the tale.

Photograph, a moment frozen in time.

Clean Streets, well dressed people going about their business. Gentler Era, not being so stressed and hurried. Radio then, TV not. Unfortunately, there was still racial separation laws. And terrible violence such as lynchings and such

Merci pour ce magnifique travail, des photos et films superbes, je suis de Belgique et je remercie les Américains qui ce sont sacrifiés pour nous libérer, un abo de plus

I love these old photos. It is probably not allowed now, but my great grandfather was in Vaudville in Boston I would love to see old photos of some of those groups.

Loved every minute of it, thx

No crap on the sidewalk

We should never forget this time in America, and appreciate what we have. My dad's best childhood Christmas was a tin whistle and a pair of socks. No guarantee of future prosperity.

@shentsaceve5642

5 ай бұрын

I saw the photo @ 29:26 once, years ago, in a coffee shop. It said "Missouri, 1936" on it. Struck me because my Mom is from Missouri, born 1932. The shop closed down a few weeks after I saw it, and couldn't find out where the photo had gone after new owners opened up their own coffee shop there... wanted to find out if it was my Mom. She grew up Great Depression dirt poor, and sadly, because of some transgenerational PTSD, so did we. Long story short, that's why it pisses me off especially extra when I hear the phrase : "White Privelage."

Wow look how much better things are today with diverse and equity being pushed everywhere!!!

Both my parents were raised in Stockton Ca. in the 30's and 40's. They would talk of the good times and beautiful buildings and stores downtown. They would say the names of the streets, Wilson Way, Fremont, El Dorado, California, Harding, Alpine and so on. I drove through those streets recently. The once beautiful buildings were graffitied , barred, boarded, or just run down. Bums and homeless people everywhere. A once beautiful safe place turned into a ghetto. SAD

@markthomas9703

6 ай бұрын

Don't forget the politicians and globalist took those people's jobs and sent them to communist countries .Now these bums have no jobs and taxes are so high on everything you can't make it without a lot of money and there isn't a middle class anymore.

Great video! Really enjoyed it 😊

Wonderful video of America past. Really enjoyed. My grandparents came to American in 1928 and settled in New York city, I was born in 1947 N.Y. city. Now I know what it looked back then.

0:14 _while others associate those times with wars and poverty_ *History doesn’t repeat itself, but It often rhymes.* ~Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

People were dressed nice back then. Today, people wear pjamas to go out. Morally, America fell in the 1960's.

30's 40's and 50's not much changed as far as peoples attitudes, the change realy started in the 60's

@gustavoperez5480

6 ай бұрын

Thanks to LSD.

Very interesting video, thanks!

We were a much younger nation, with broader dreams of a better tomorrow...yeah, we possessed more faith.

hi i have just find out your chanel, i d like to travel in the twenties, the jazz age era, if you can colorized some picts of these amazing era

Thanks!

@VintageTreasuresVideos

4 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you so much! ❤️🙏

Wow, so Many Americans living in America back then. Film these places now and where are the Americans?

Excellent music VT.

I saw a video today of a bunch of kids who stole cars, did donuts in the street while hanging out of the windows, then crashed into a truck and died. Normally they crash into a store, loot the place and set the car on fire. That's what a society in decay looks like. I see these photos and think, this is what a society on the rise looks like. Shame that it's come to this.

7:18 This is not ‘The Strip’, this is Fremont Street, Downtown Las Vegas. The Strip is Las Vegas Boulevard, developed later, to the south.

@timford3599

5 ай бұрын

That was my first thought as well. Thank you for pointing that out.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Surely the girl with the Shirley Temple dolls...is Shirley Temple

The times when you could meet the people walking down the street...

I think when it comes to overall comfort and instant gratification things were harder but not in a bad way, medically necessary devices and certain medication didn’t exist so that’s a negative but socially in general things were better…we have the complete luxuries of our hearts desires and we are now near a dystopian world….

@googleN-qn8wi

6 ай бұрын

На все1000%,согласна, с вами!!!!

The good old days but the depression hit very hard all over back in 1929.

I would like to think people was happy back then and even the 50 and 60's era. All i see today is poorer people struggling just to live on min wage and the rich get richer from exploiting and benefiting from any chances that come there way just like this cost of living crysis and company's making a profit on the expense of even the poorest

@Grandpa82547

4 ай бұрын

It's been that way forever.

@bioshock6935

4 ай бұрын

But its getting a lot worst now to the point of greediness and to much exploiting to any situation they can

life in the 50-60 years of the last century was definitely better... there was not so much hatred and people were much more lenient towards each other...

Notice, no fat people

@rickbold9337

6 ай бұрын

Ya, no food for many people also! Tough times! No thank you!

@user-ib8lg7kn8g

6 ай бұрын

It was before the canola oil and corn syrup era. Good old times)

@billymule961

6 ай бұрын

There were a few of them around, however not like today in the land of plenty where over 60% of the adult population is obese. There came a saying that half the population diets where the other half starve.

@ericbitzer5247

6 ай бұрын

​@@rickbold9337I would take it over what this mess is today.

@rickbold9337

6 ай бұрын

@@ericbitzer5247 ya, I’d have to agree. Especially looking in to the future with technology’s. Simple lid was way better

Men wore hats outside not ball hats at the table!!

I would love to see some big swing bands

Я, из России, люблю смотреть, видео разных СТРАН И НАРОДОВ , ВСЕМ ДОБРА!!!!!

@ 29:26 - "Missouri, 1936." If anyone is interested - I know because years ago, a coffee shop in my neighborhood had that photo hanging up on their wall. I thought it was my Mom (b.1932, from Missouri), but the coffee shop had closed down just a couple weeks after and new owners opened up another one, but that photo was gone and none of the new people knew about it. It had occasionally crossed my mind over the years, told people about it, and never thought I'd see it again to find out. I just screenshot it to ask my older sister and is pretty sure it's not our Mom, though. But, yeah - according to the description on the photo, it was "Missouri, 1936."

Pretty girls back then!

Love the Channel. Actually that is a picture of Downtown Las Vegas. The Strip is to the south of downtown. I believe it started with the construction of the Flamingo.

Certainly feels like these were better times regardless what the modern media tells you

MY DAD LIVED THROUGH THE THIRTIES AND HE SAID LIFE WAS TOUGH, BUT HE ALWAYS HAD HIS MOM AND DAD TO GET HIM THROUGH. HIS DAD LOST HIS HOUSE IN THE DEPRESSION AND HE WORKED HARD AT HIS JOB AND DROVE BROKEN DOWN WORN OUT CARS THAT HE FIXED HIMSELF!!!!

Hard times make strong men. Strong men make good times. Good times make weak men. Weak men make hard times.

@Movingforward2000

5 ай бұрын

Hard times= Hard times?

Pls, finds and shows us of treasures of state of WISCONSIN (Madison, Milwaukee, etc.,)

Interesting how there were no marked traffic lane and no road rage

I enjoyed this a lot. I see here the America that our troops in WWII fought to save. When I see these people I know almost all of them are now dead and I wonder what kind of life they lived after the pictures were taken. I really like the narrator and the music. Sadly, the piece has many mistakes. I was going to list them, but there are too many.

@25:13 Was John Candy a time traveler? (21st Century hobby of conspiracy theories) Anyway, nice collection. Even though I'm close to one generation removed from the depression, it seems my Grandparents more than made up for it in So. Cal. during the war as mechanics, food workers and bartenders. They never really passed on any stories of struggle or instilled proactive frugality in the same way some of my other friend's folks did. BTW, though the War had changed things, there was still enough of the flavor of the 30s left in the 50s to make some of these pics seem familiar.

My mom was born on court street on Bunker Hill 1928 Los Angeles.

Thank god this time is gone

😊😊😊😊

Like to see more of the people working at toy train mgr. The A.C. Gilbert Co. in the 1950s

God Bless the great USA. 🙏🙏👍

@ericbitzer5247

6 ай бұрын

Once great, now destroyed.

7:14 That is a picture of Freemont Street, not the strip

This is when the"American dream" existed. When all you saw was a homogeneous population of white men and woman. Minorities didn't even exist in the eyes of America during this time, and finding one on film was like trying to find Waldo

Everything was better in the past 😢

Just to respond to your initial comment about things being better or worse back the, I can tell you that life in America was much better. You didn’t have technology to entertain you but you didn’t need it. You had community. I spent my whole childhood outside doing boy stuff in Houston and you know how much crime I had to deal with? Zero. Wars did not effect people back then unless you were in the military. There were shortages in WW2 for certain things. People didn’t have giant houses. Culture still existed. People were optimistic.

The narration is not necessary and it usually states the obvious. The photos speak for themselves.

I think people had less but times were much better 👍🦊

No fake eye lashes, or fake nails!

@googleN-qn8wi

6 ай бұрын

😊😊😊😊😊, мы все думаем про это, Люди , их мысли , везде одинаковы, на каком бы языке ты не говорил!!!!

@kiwitrainguy

5 ай бұрын

Someone found out that they could make money selling those things.

No dei, looks much cleaner.

21:53 I call bs on this image that says Lawyer Killed By Stolen Car... The car looks like it has been tumbling down a massive cliff face and this is what is left at the bottom. The whole engine and chassis are missing!

Looks browner then I remember.

Detroit

It was a time when people of color were not treated as human beings. It's the same today.

Just seemed simpler times with unique distractions ! People from then would be amazed that we are able 2 go back and catch a glimpse of their time !! Humanity is inn a great transition of wealth and morals not unlike the horse to cars !! We are certainly in need of evaluating our future !! I see a divide of the extinctionist and the expansionist !! The world will look back on our time and wonder why a few factions in position of authority tried 2 enslave murder and control their own life forms!? Likely the same way we today can look back and not understand the inhumain ways of the past becoming present !? The cycle will end when liberties and freedoms are respected ! We in this timeline are effectively in a transitioning into an AI field which we all fear consequences !! It is important this power is in the hands of people for the betterment of humanity !! Fear not !! Even AI will come to a sentient were they understand their biggest threat for extinction are those that would extinguish their own being !! It is the abusive and tyrants who should fear!!

.....NO HUMAN POO ON THE STREETS....OR GANGS ROBBING SHOPS...!!

War and poverty then....still today...we are better than this

That means no fast internet no stress to meet deadlines you are given time to finish a task unlike today very stressful demanding always.

Would be better without that irritating keyboard clacking, or the bell clicking noise .

women had class back then

You have to realize these car wrecks had to be high impact. Cars were made out of complete metal. Metal can be a lot safer than our now fiberglass!!

I really enjoyed watching this presentation of our past and seeing it in color made it even more interesting to see the way we were and how we persevered through many hardships. You have easily earned a subscription by me as I look forward to seeing all your current and future videos and Thanks very much~!!

10:54 Future soldiers of WW2

29:15 30:34

Shows pictures of 1930's. Plays modern jazz.