I graduated FHS within the last 25 years.. Served as captain of the soccer team. This was America's finest generation and will never be matched, unfortunately.

Robert, your father was HANDSOME! Great film as always. Thanks for sharing with us a look at the usa in the 40s. It's culture, it's vintage it's lovely, and it's educational too.

This film is gold Robert, gold.

From a '67 FHS grad, thanks for sharing your film.Seeing Newtown Field also evoked memories: I lived in Corona when I attended Flushing, used Newtown Field for my summer workouts before fall practices at Flushing, had many friends who attended Newtown HS. I lived in Corona and worked out at Newtown Field before fall football practice. Queens Boulevard was filled with restaurants , apartment buildings, and traffic in my time, while the boulevard seems dominated by trees in your film.

Thanks for uploading. Brought back pleasant memories. I was in the Flushing HS class of '68. I also loved the soundtrack.

OMG!!! I went to this high school in Queens NY. I can't believe this footage. This is so amazing.

I wish I coulda lived in an era like this... I'm from bayside queens and 161st street from the Bronx but just recently graduated high school in Connecticut, I always wished to have grown up in a time like this tho

@gatheringleaves

10 жыл бұрын

Why Billy, what do you find so appealing about this era or time period?

@billyglynn9844

10 жыл бұрын

Lost of reasons but I'll start off with saying nowadays everyone's stuck on their phones/electronics, everyone back then knew who everyone was and had more respect for everything...I could really go on and on but I just thought I'd say a few simple things

@isle05

10 жыл бұрын

Infinite Sky See what Infinite Lie was trying to do was race bate you, Billy. It's clear in this video that America was free of 3rd worlders. Specifically for Flushing, this means Asians. You don't need to see a video to understand how times were better for AMERICANS back then, just ask a living person from the area that is mid 70s of age or above. Back then, people lived by the code of God, Country and Family. Today, the code is Agnostic, Open borders for Hispanics and Homosexual marriage. This is how it should be taught in school as history.

@billyglynn9844

10 жыл бұрын

Bobby bones I know quite a few people of age Bobby and u worded that very well, I'm VERY aware of how things used to be but what saddens me is that kids my age have no idea what the world and neighborhoods "used" to be like. Nowadays kids grow up programmed into thinking things such as accepting gay marriage and that every CEO should be a woman...

@fnchrstphr

7 жыл бұрын

Andrew Jami yawn

Certainly breaks my wrong preconceptions about life in the boroughs of NYC. Looks to be normal, wholesome, middle class. More greenery & open spaces than expected: in 1946, this was already one of the world's 3 largest cities: 11 million ! Also, spectators look as FIT as the athletes. How did they avoid he obesity epidemic ? Many thanks to Grandpa, a true film pioneer. Few people had home movie cameras, and fewer knew how to use them.

Probably some of the best years for America. Post war. These graduates got very lucky..

@magamaga1827

Жыл бұрын

perhaps but the Korean War and Vietnam would loom. Incredible the sacrifices these generations made.

@michaeldulmage8449

Жыл бұрын

True.

Beautiful footage. I grew up in Elmhurst and Jackson Heights. Used to be a member of the Flushing Y. Thank you for posting the film. Very clean transfer from 8mm to digital. Kudos to Duggal for their fine work.

I love those old time . People are so nice . Even the song is so good .

Thank you for sharing this. I was also from Flushing. This was when Flushing was great to live in. Those days are long gone. Sadly.

@magamaga1827

Жыл бұрын

can you imagine if in 1946 you showed them a picture of flushing today what they would think? they'd say we must have lost to the Japs or something in ww2 and the country was taken over.

My father, Warren, is the tall skinny fellow with the short black hair who appears repeatedly throughout the film. The older gentleman and woman who poses with Warren on the residential street are his parents, and the white haired women who walks with Warren is his Great Grandmother, which means that she is my Great Great Grandmother!!! She was born in the 1860s and died in the early 1950s when she was in her 90s.

@karenweinheimer150

Жыл бұрын

My mom, Carolyn Couch (Kisely) graduated from Flushing High in 1947, her sister Norma in 1949.

This was so enjoyable to watch. Thanks.

Some of the best Track and Field films ever shot by an amateur. Thank goodness for a steady camera hand and a roll of Kodachrome. And great title cards, Robert. I'll probably steal that idea from you and use it in my next film.

This is absolutely incredible ❤️

NICEEE Woow these clips are priceless!

Great footage, love the track meet footage!

This is a priceless video. I graduated from FHS in 1974 and it is not the same today as it was back then. It brought back memories for me.

@TJThunder

2 жыл бұрын

What was the school like from the inside? I'm in Flushing High School, 9th grade and personally never went to the school.

@luislaplume8261

Жыл бұрын

@@TJThunder Well back in 1974 some streetlights in NYC still had the 2 color traffic signals and incandescent light bulbs streetlights. I crashed my father's car while looking to the right hand side of the street to look for corner traffic signals when there was a new overhead 3 color traffic signal on the intersection. In old America in old NYC.

@TJThunder

Жыл бұрын

@@luislaplume8261 I hope you and your father's car is better, interesting story. I was in 9th grade and in quarantine, so I didn't know how the school looked like. I'm now in 11th grade since the comment I posted.

@luislaplume8261

Жыл бұрын

@@TJThunder Well I survive but the front fender was damaged. It still ran and neither me nor my father nor were the other couple in their car was hurt. It happened in Corona, Queens. By the way my father's car was the last he ever owned and he bought it used from the original owner. It was a 4 door Lincoln Continental that still had small, tailfins in the back. It was built in 1962 when Rock n Roll was still new. And it had power windows, power steering, power brakes and air conditioning and a AM band radio plus ashtrays inside next to the door handles. That was what the most modern cars were made for people who smoke inside their cars. I am old enough to remember going to the 1962 New York Auto Show in the New York Coliseum on Columbus Circle at 59th street and Broadway. How did my father and me get there? By subway and changing trains at Times Square station. The good old days of the Mad Men era.

thanks for posting

Flushing was a beautiful town then, and still suburban. Back in 1946, just about all of Queens was suburban and gentrified til all the subway lines and els were built, and the parkways and highways too. My father and his brothers and sisters grew up in Springfield Gardens with their parents, it was almost like the country in the thirties and forties.

@magamaga1827

Жыл бұрын

It makes me so sad to see what it was like back then and what it is now.

i live in colllege point and went to Newtown class of '87. thank you for saving this!

@RandomTvv

4 жыл бұрын

I went to newtown high school to but im 30 years old i think your older than me

i am born in seventies but i can relate to this video in many ways. Truely amazing how times make people and quality of life change. i got a fresh perspective on life just by watching this video. Thanx old timer....:)

I graduated Flushing H.S. in 2004.

Via google search it appears this young man, Warren Martens, passed away at 83yrs old back in 2012. To have lived thru WW2, the Korean War and Vietnam war is remarkable. Then 9/11 in the 2000's. What a long life.

What blows my mind is that the older people in this are likely from the 1870’s-1890’s. Imagine being born in that time period knowing that one day someone will be watching footage of you on a mobile phone at a WiFi Café.

Very sweet.

The poles used by the vaulters here are made of nearly-rigid steel, and are nothing like the flexible fiberglass rods found in contemporary track-and-field. A whole different type of competition back then. 8:00 As its only been four years since abandonment at the time of filming, it appears much if the old New York Central Railroad Getty Square Branch which traversed Van Cortlandt Park is visible at the base of the hill in the background.

Lol look at flushing high now .

These are Wonderful, Wish my family would of done this, would of been Awesome..

im a sophmore in the school right now be nice to ms. frank

cool to see the same trsck my late dad ran on in 50 and 51 not on the team he was the catcher also basketball and football made times super 11 all star on all 3 city teams 51 yearbook athlete of the year we believe he was inducted h.o f. 54 but photo got lost in 52 he was the first athelete from ny to play football at miss.state univ.teammates nicknamed him tank the yank played in the same backfield as art davis hall of famer steamboat fultom was his coach another article we have 55 compares him to armstrong enstice and the beast bonacorsa my aunt was class of 57 also

Yes, I know. My wife just recently retired from there. Good luck with the protest!

what a great time it must have been to graduate

"Charlie Sims, star halfback of the Baird School for Boys; they not only beat Exeter and Groton but Aquinas High School, too!" lol

so this has to be ur father graduating and ur grandfather right im so fasanated with ur movies just trying to figure out who is who

You're welcome!

I'm going to enter flushing high school next week as a freshman . Any tips ? :)

My Mom graduated from Flushing HS in 1944

dam people were much nicer back then now we have crazy smuts

dam...dam i go there now

im attending flushing high school, it so different i cant believe it.

@hectorrestrepo2704

4 жыл бұрын

Damn your comment has 10 years old

@RandomTvv

4 жыл бұрын

@@hectorrestrepo2704 crazy time flys

LOL my experience in flushing high school was the complete opposite from those guys.

My Dad graduated in 1939,.still have his 1939 (Worlds Fair) book of signatures.Any one know Sonny (Frank V) From College Point?

@marydunn4926

10 жыл бұрын

LOVED them track shorts!!!

Wally and beeve!

i go to this school now lmaoo

THESES KIDS WOULD BE 95 YEARS OLD IF THERE STILL ALIVE

SASF Program in room 141

Might want to know Flushing High School is slated for closure :( Despite announcing the plans yesterday, we can still protest this..

@cxstr0

3 жыл бұрын

just here to update that it's still up & running ;)

@ct1660

3 жыл бұрын

@@cxstr0 yeah it houses 2 more schools as well

@PandaLovesMakeupp what grade your in lol and so do i

Curious about the color in this? :D

@robertwmartens

6 жыл бұрын

It's Kodachrome film, which at the time was trademarked as Kodacolor by its manufacturer Kodak.

Anyone would like to purchase a copy of any Year Books from Flushing High School please let us know

@jiokovision

5 ай бұрын

How is that possible?

@Sheenkekebesties im a senior you?

Where are the girls, Damn they were beautiful then

@PandaLovesMakeupp Freshmen

@Mevs2012 its like the worst school around here lol

Sad most everyone in the video is probably dead now.

yeah its way different, now is all about the fake gangster wannabes. nobody goes to learn now a days.

wow good days because now fhs is a disaster!!!

well then now i believe it has to do with parents and the music/ culture that is made poplular. First people dont have parents to show them whats right .secondly stupid music is made poplular for ex Chicken noodle soup WTf is that?????/ Anyway american schools fails on so many levels because of how society is now and because kids grow up in broken homes