Would You Like to Live in the 1940s???

@dougnewton3099

2 ай бұрын

I did.

@aheat3036

2 ай бұрын

Yes but not possible!… Almost all the cities today in America have been turned into 3rd world dumps.

@donaldwilson7717

2 ай бұрын

I did too. When I was going on seven, my dad bought his first house in 1944 for $ 6,500 (now listed for $ 90,000 on Zillow).

@TopHotDog

2 ай бұрын

​@@donaldwilson7717 only 90k? You mean 900,000.

@HacksignKT

2 ай бұрын

NO. Lol

The clothing, the billboards, the vehicles, and the characters....the fat kid with the yo-yo and the little girl coaxing her mother into the ice cream shop...the elevated train and the people all seeming to have a sense of going somewhere significant...the Kress store with its iconic 5-10-25 cent boast...the grocery store and price of food and the sheer life of the city in every form. Thank you for another excellent restoration.

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

thank you very much ;))

@TopHotDog

2 ай бұрын

The five & dime was the period Dollar 🌲 Tree.

@siddrajput1029

2 ай бұрын

I believe Kresge was the founder of K-Mart

@gustavoperez5480

2 ай бұрын

Were those cars capable to work out to drive them from East to west coast?

@paul7TM

2 ай бұрын

​@@gustavoperez5480Oh sure. Ever read On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Many people made the journey from the dust bowl states in the thirties out to California. You just needed to change the oil a lot more as most of these cars didn't have oil filters. And they really pumped out some fumes. Great looking though. My favourite period for cars 🛺

People are watching where they’re going, which is no longer the case with mobile phones. The definition is beautiful. Another beautiful moment in the time machine. A huge thank you!

My parents were born and raised on the North side. They would have been kids in middle school. They were the most loving, giving, and honest people I have ever known. I lost them 4 months apart in 2017. They couldn’t understand how the world turned into what a mess it is today and the last 7 years even worse. Thank you so much for these videos. Miss and love you mon and dad.

@christinacarey465

2 ай бұрын

Where...my folks were from Rodgers Park...

@rockerdowns6051

2 ай бұрын

@@christinacarey465 Armitage Ave. Old Town & Lincoln Park. Mom gave birth to me at St. Luke’s and I was raised at Irving Park and Pulaski. Different days then. How about you.

@christinacarey465

2 ай бұрын

@rockerdowns6051 Well my grandparents came over from the Ukraine...Ashkenazi Jews..off of Harding in Rodgers Park. I was raised in Aurora.

@sonjagatto9981

2 ай бұрын

I can't understand it either. I very much understand your missing your wonderful parents...I miss mine too. 💔 All the best for you❣

@petrasant5495

25 күн бұрын

God Bless you and your parents. Greetings from Wales, UK.

Like And Share Please!

Shopping was so efficient. There's a Sears next to a Krogers grocery store which was probably next to a hardware shop then a shoe repair place and then a drugstore. You could walk down a city block and get all your errands done.

@TopHotDog

2 ай бұрын

The problem was parking and traffic. You'd be lucky to find a space nearby and then face backing out of diagonal spaces and if the approaching driver wasn't courteous , you'd be fiddling with the clutch and accelerator pedal and brake, all three of your feet. In the street cars you'd be faced with being packed like sardines, stale cigar smoke and sweaty armpits. Congested downtown shopping gave rise to shopping centers on the outskirts of most big cities.

@pawelpap9

2 ай бұрын

You mean it was more efficient than shopping from your couch using an iPhone?

@user-uo7fw5bo1o

Ай бұрын

And there's always the chance meeting up with friends and neighbors or meeting someone new. The automobile, the television, and the internet all destroyed all that.

These are unfortunately tiny clips strung together. Would love to see the full footages of this magnificent city! BTW, loved the dress styles, and virtually everyone is fit and trim. That doesn’t exist anymore.

@corneliusthecrowtamer1937

2 ай бұрын

go back in time and film a longer video

@EmilyTienne

2 ай бұрын

@@corneliusthecrowtamer1937 Yes, that would be nice.

Any one of those bobby-soxers at 0:45 could represent my mother at that age at that time. So near and yet so far.

Thank you for sending us on another stunning trip to the past! What a delightful video this is, Chicago at its best, so clean, so pristine! I love your work, and thank you always for allowing us all to be a part of what you do….❤

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Hi!! Thank you!!

I'm amazed at how people used to dress so elegantly back then.

@markkinsler4333

2 ай бұрын

Office workers and shoppers usually dressed to go downtown. My parents did.

Anyone remember the Simon&Garfunkel lyric from the song America. “So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies”. Pretty cool in 2024 watching a video from 1940 and reminded of a song lyric from 1970.

@silvertube52

2 ай бұрын

Yes, the only place I'd heard of those pies was in that song. Now I know they were singing about a popular brand of pies, not woman they knew named Wagner.

@noblesvillepreservat

2 ай бұрын

That lyric came into my head when I saw the billboard

I love these videos, because they show what absolute slobs we have become.

@rongendron8705

2 ай бұрын

I'm 78 & was alive for part of the 40's ,but would you really want to go back to a time where you had to get dressed up, even to go to a darkened movie? Men had to wear suits & women dresses, that they couldn't afford, to go to jobs that paid too low salaries!

@sandrafreedom

2 ай бұрын

​​@@rongendron8705Melhor é o DESLEIXO então ??? E com 78 anos vc nasceu em 1946 ...4 anos após esse vídeo ...era um bebê .Crinaça nos anos 50 ,logo Não sabe o que está dizendo.

@brianboye8025

2 ай бұрын

Men wearing suits, ties and hats. Women in dresses, stockinged, some hats. Really not a one that isn't thin and walking strong. Oh yeah, one old guy taking his time. I'm fat so don't think I'm bias.

@mikepetrik907

2 ай бұрын

@@rongendron8705 We've gone way too far the other way. People don't even dress up for church or funerals. Gents with sandals on an airplane. People used to dress with self-respect and respect for others.

@NICO6ride6mosh6

2 ай бұрын

We live in a world where you have to get undressed in the airport in order to be let on the plane - so what if people wear sandals??

A Walgreens on every corner and kids dragging moms into the soda fountains..priceless. Your work on these resto films is exceptional....but I wonder who the guy with the clipboard was? Traffic engineer? FBI? Reporter? Data resource gatherer for the Mob? Cameraman's brother in law? Some mysteries are buried in the past. Thx again NASS...keep em coming!

@furtim1

2 ай бұрын

I would guess it was a traffic counter for that billboard.

@salomoncisse7787

2 ай бұрын

Ça semble être un contrôleur du trafic bus...

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

@Kerygmame

2 ай бұрын

I thought mob, mebbe Frank Nitti

@bobbylawsen9638

2 ай бұрын

And no pillagers too.

It's great seeing the various car models.

@Jan96106

2 ай бұрын

I've been thinking lately that with all the SUV's on the road, we've gone back to the old shape of cars. Everything old is new again.

NASS........you just keep out doing yourself. I enjoyed that film very much. The resolution, color and frame rate are superb. You bring so many hours of enjoyment\education to so many people. Seems like saying "Thank you" just isnt enough. Please know when I do say "Thank you" it is with the most heartfelt sincerity and complete admiration for you and your work. So........Thank You NASS!!!! Thank you x1000.

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Thank you ;))!

1:55 I like how the kid forces her mother or big sister into the store.😁

In a few of the shots L Fish furniture store is visible, that is Chicago’s west side, Madison St. just west of Crawford Ave. called Pulaski Rd. now.

@dc10fomin65

2 ай бұрын

I remember a L Fish store around North Ave and Rockwell St, in the same pic I see a MADIGANS store, I remember their big store in Melrose Park in the Winston Park shopping plaza, on North Avenue as well!

This was at the beginning for WW2. My mother might have been in the downtown footage... ps.. i wish you would have put the streets in as with the exception of downtown... no idea where this was taken... if you have anymore of Chicago.. would love to see them.

@AdaKizi248

2 ай бұрын

Agreed. Even the names of the nearest intersections would help.

McCormick building at 01:13 is still there. 300 block of south Michigan ave

1942......The year rationing started in the USA. This must be just before it started in 1942 as I see no gasoline ration stickers on car windshields and there is still enough gasoline to fill the streets with cars. No war effort posters and signs in store windows or billboards either. The rationing got pretty extensive after this. My late mother who died at 92 years old told me a humorous story about "ration stamps". She was with her younger sister in a store to buy something. She (the younger sister) dropped some of her ration stamps on the floor. Just as she went to quickly pick them up a big man grabbed them away from her. This kid actually jumped on the mans back and pounded her fists against his head and ears till he dropped the stamps and ran out of the store.

How nice,peaceful and calm city at that time. And now😳😾🥲As I always say : historical footages. Thanks!

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

;))

I've seen a similar film. It was produced by a billboard company. That's why there are so many shots of billboards in this. But the dead giveaway is near the end when we see an employee of the billboard company counting people or cars going by the board. Professionally shot which makes it so much easier to watch than home movies

Looking back fond memories when we had a civilized society.

Another trip in the NASS time machine......thanks NASS

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

thank you very much

American heritage and culture . What a great time capsule. Great work my friend. I didn't see a single bum/hobo.

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!! ^^

Everything at once immediately recognizable as Chicago but yet...everything looks different, Thanks for sharing my hometown 20 years before I was born.

Great video nass, incredible footage,so beautiful, great work 👌😀👍

Fantastic work as always.

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

thank you very much

My grandma told me about the streetcars in chicago. So cool to finally see them. Thank you 🙏

@levine023

9 күн бұрын

They were still around in the mid 60's I remember them. Sadly "progress " got rid of them.

Love these videos. It's interesting to see how people interacted on the streets years before my time.

i wish i had a time machine so i wood go back to the 1940s and leave the year 2024 any one want to go with me

@furtim1

2 ай бұрын

shotgun!

@candyapple7445

2 ай бұрын

I was just thinking how cool it would be to wake up in 1940, just to spend one day-that would be enough for me.

@bardo0007

2 ай бұрын

Not for good, unless I am old enough to retire. I am sure I could find a paradise there

@donniekramer660

2 ай бұрын

😂​@@candyapple7445

@bardo0007

2 ай бұрын

@rowdyjr2318 I would love to change history. Sign me up.

This video DEMANDS at least one million views. I have no illusions about that era as there was a war going on and we just recovered from the Great Depression. Add to this is the fact that there was too much racial/ethnic discrimination going on. Despite all, I'd still love to have a TARDIS just to visit, for at least a little while. Thanks for making this highly entertaining production.

Incredible! Love this video. Always glad to see something new from you!

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

278 views 13 minutes after posting. Not bad.

This is an excellent video, it looks to me like this video is related to the advertisement boards, they show a guy counting people walking by maybe looking at the advertisement? The funny thing is I saw people doing that here in Seattle, next to advertisement sign also with a hand counter, I guess that has not changed in 80 years, pretty funny. I love the old store fronts for Walgreens, Kroger, Sears and the others. Walgreen Drug changed their name in 1948 to Walgreen's as it is today.

@aliceryan3399

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for telling me what that guy was doing! I couldn’t figure out what he was counting.

Thank you for your hard work and dedication to restore this video.

Nass, Great video. Love all your videos, especially New York, Chicago, and San Francisco in the 1930's and 40's. I just love the men's dress and the cars of the period. At 1:31 for a second, I thought man at far right was going to flip a coin up and down like Hollywood Gangster George Raft in the movie Scarface in 1932. LOL. I like the big billboard signs too! Oh Uh, At 1:55 Mother and daughter differences of where they want to go! LOL. Cute scene though! Thanks for the upload.

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Hi!! Thank you

Incredible Time Machine you got going! Great work as always!

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Thank you! ^^

Another great video restoration - a piece of time. Thanks!

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Thank you ;))!!

Thanks for another fabulous video

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

Everything is so clean and well kept, and the people were dressed to the nines! Most of the shops were mom and pops or small chains. This country has changed completely and not necessarily for the better.

This is amazing. Definitely subscribing.

My parents were children in 1942, in Chicago. South shore for my dad. Roseland for my mom. They used to tell us stories about growing up in Chicago. Another time.

@The_best_days_are_yesterdays

2 ай бұрын

I was born in Roseland, 1959

@wayneadams7829

2 ай бұрын

Did they ever go to raceway Park at 127th and Ashland?

@thinkplease7114

2 ай бұрын

@@wayneadams7829 I don’t know. Heard of raceway park

@thinkplease7114

2 ай бұрын

Think it was open when I was growing up. Never been

Nice seeing all the red Chicago Surface Lines (CSL), vintage streetcars and the newer PCC type ones as well. Back when it cost 7 cents to ride on them. Thanks for sharing!

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Hii! Thank you!! ^^

Great video. I wish more time was spent for each clip. I recognize Madison Street on the West side where I use to live, but I wish I could see more of it.

Very nice footage. Thanks for sharing. One question, if you don't mind: where did you get those images from.?. Thanks again.

Absolutely incredible video!

Really magnificent footage! So much fun to watch!!

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

Growing up in a Chicago suburb , and loving this city, of course I recognize so much of the place I used to love. Michigan Ave, Downtown, Lake Shore Drive. So much history. We just went to a wedding at the church shown here, it’s beautiful! Now the city I love is so far from the wholesomeness you see here and when I grew up. Be careful taking parts of it in. It’s been ruined unfortunately.

Great video 👍🇺🇸

The longcoat was essential attire of the time. Heavy and durable, but they were pricey. Some second hand stores sell them now, the real McCoy.

@Ann65.

Ай бұрын

Yes, those coats were de-riguer! Also in the 1950’s. I think that in Ireland they were called “Crombies”.

Watching these videos before sleeping. Such a soothing feeling.

My parents were 10 and 6 at the time and they are still around. My father lived in Melrose Park and my mother in Oak Park at the time of this video.

Back when everyone dressed nice and people could afford to wear shirts with stuff like buttons , a collar , sleeves , ... Well people could afford to wear a real shirt ...... Back when pretty much everyone was smart enough to know what a real shirt was .... That kinda sums it up .... Back when ,,,,,, well things were just a lot better back then when it came to the clothes .

@drscopeify

2 ай бұрын

Yeah I know what you mean but on the other hand people were very up-tight and society was very formal, even too formal I would say. If you were to transport back to that time, maybe you would actually miss our less informal world of today, would you not? Having to dress in heavy clothing to go anywhere might get tired after a while, I wear Khakis and short sleeve T shirt all year even in winter but I do agree that seeing people like with nasty Tattoos or just ugly flimsy clothing or exposed people is not very civil but at least here in Seattle most of the year it's raining out so people tend to dress heavier clothing which makes everyone look more dressed up than say in Texas or Florida or California that's for sure.

@randyscott3386

2 ай бұрын

@@drscopeify I wear bluejeans , a khaki Red Kap workshirt with a collar , chest pockets with flaps , sleeve cuffs that button and a white t-shirt under it everyday with either nike air monarchs or carolina journeyman work boots . I own a small real estate investment company and I'm a Landlord Partner with a rapid rehousing program for the homeless . I've had to wear suits but everyone knows me by my khaki workshirts I wear that go way back . I get mistaken for a homeless person all the time because I'm always dirty and in the same places like thrift stores where all the homeless people are . I love old work clothes Oh and my everyday jacket is a black Red Kap panel jacket from the late 50's early 60's and it has chest pockets on it for cigarettes . They don't make em like that anymore . The people working at Famous Barr noticed . Told me I'd be killed in Tokyo for it .

@TopHotDog

2 ай бұрын

@@drscopeify don't confuse being formal with contemporary fashion and conformity. None of those people were dress formally, they were just wearing casual attire of the period. Dime store dress shirts were 39¢. Sears and higher quality shirts were over $2.99. clothes were better cared for and lasted longer because many people used professional laundries. A nickel had a shirt laundered and a dime got that plus had it folded and wrapped.

@IDiggSocialMedia

2 ай бұрын

Today it's a zombie apocalypse! Tea shirts, shorts, jeans with large holes, sneakers. pajamas worn in public, etc.!

@txquartz

2 ай бұрын

It's not like clothes were proportionally cheaper. It was just simply what you had to do to be part of society. Lots of people only had one or two outfits and washed by hand daily.

Good editing job.

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Thank you ;))

We've all been there, Mom. Some things never change. 1:56

@nwicconsultants6640

2 ай бұрын

lol.....happens again with another mom @4:12 😁

@davidmendel1466

2 ай бұрын

good natured mothers, this is cute

Fantastic, I Love ❤️ It 😊!!

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

NASS! Thank you for posting.

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

thanks bro!

My mom was born in 1923. She always talked about the streetcars, the Loop, how dressed up they would get just to go shopping. How relatable this made those stories. I felt totally immersed in that time. Brilliant work!

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

thank you very much

I also noticed in all the videos I watch whether it be New York Chicago, London in those days everybody was dressed up nice compared to today.

Please, people, this channel gives us great clips, and 100% people litter the comments with DEPRESSING things, which they would realize are not “it” if they took a moment to think it thru. Do not comment, “all of these people would be dead now” or how much better, cleaner, nicer those times were. It was extremely rough for all marginalized communities. So, no, not a universal thought or very nice. Do not be too sentimental for dead loved ones in the comments; it is depressing and not nice to us. We worry about your mental health. If the current times are not amazing for you, go make it better! Meet some friends! You can do it.

@peterpiwoski

Ай бұрын

What a depressing comment.😒

Life’s one big movie🦋🕶🦋

@jody6851

2 ай бұрын

Consider you are living ancient history at this very moment because the day will come when it will be.

6:51 I love how The Wrigley Building and the drawbridge shelter thing in the background on the left are the exact same look up Michigan Ave to this day! That’s pretty incredible!

Parts of the film were shot with a wide angle lens, but this is beyond cool 😎

Good to see the streamliner streetcars which had entered service a few years earlier. Ridership increased because of their superior riding qualities and speed. Chicago had plans to buy many more, but sadly wartime shortages and the rush to encourage car ownership meant these would be withdrawn by the 1950s.

Looking very nice!!😊

Everyone in the comments is fawning over how "civilized" everyone was back then. I just wish we still had an extensive streetcar network.

@gengebhardt6066

2 ай бұрын

Cars were the worst thing to happen to cities.

Outstanding job with your editing. My grandparents met in April of 41 and married in November of 42. This was the timeframe they were together in Chicago. We really did used to have a civilized society at one time.

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Thank you

This is wonderful footage! A different world!

"Hey buddy, what's the big idea cuttin' into my lane?" "Well, on accounta ya movin' too slow." The road rage was outta control back then.

My home town! And I don't see anyone out in their pajamas and slippers like you see today.

Dress so nicely

Parabens o obrigado por nos mostrar essas belas imagens !! verdadeira maquina do tempo !! ❤

I miss the aunt Jemima buckwheat pancake mix. It was my favorite not only that I miss aunt Jemima. What the heck? Love the video! ❤ happy it just popped up in my feed

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Thx!!

Beautiful real street life ! Better colours and sound design. A survey inquiry about billboards ?

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

Thank you!! ^^

These films were obviously made by and for the outdoor advertising people. Great street car and bus shots.

To go back in time would be amazing. Nice clothes, kind people, family owned businesses, you name it!

Well done, NASS!

thanks nass love all ur work ! never miss an old school history lesson.

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

thank you very much!!

The first thing I notice in this video is how uniform in design are the cars driving down the streets. Not a lot of variation in design. The second is how busy and crowded the Chicago streets are with people.

Not going to pretend these are the 'good old days', but you really notice how slim EVERYBODY is! And such formal clothing - really is a different time.

@onlythewise1

2 ай бұрын

was good o days only thing better now is tech

@JohnDoe-tx8lq

2 ай бұрын

@@onlythewise1 🤣

@gengebhardt6066

2 ай бұрын

Not 'formal', just regular business attire.

@JohnDoe-tx8lq

2 ай бұрын

@@gengebhardt6066 what?? formal compared with today, obviously...🤨

I'm curious. How long did it take you to digitize, upscale, colorized and clean-up this footage?

@bardo0007

2 ай бұрын

About 10 hours with work I believe

@NASS_0

2 ай бұрын

it takes a lot of time to get a good result

no fear walking down the streets and the mass of people, no malls in the suburbs.

Fabulous look at the 1940s, similar to the downtown 1930s motion pictures of Los Angeles. The unvarnished look at yesteryear. It was incredible that someone had the foresight to take these motion pictures. A lesson to us today: we need to do the same thing now for future generations.

Jeez. Traffic was bad even back then! But looked like it was moving. Unlike Lake Shore Dr at 5pm today.

Amazing

@JSFGuy

2 ай бұрын

It just posted, you haven't watched it yet.

@emirarrab

2 ай бұрын

​@@JSFGuyvi todo el video.

@JSFGuy

2 ай бұрын

@@emirarrab translate to English

I've lived in the Chicago area since 1970. I still recognize many of these locations despite the changes. Sadly it's a bygone world.

It shows the prosperity which we used to have as a country before outsourcing.

So clean

Do you still use AI for these? I think they are amazing

Looks like some great B-Roll

I love looking at the buildings and seeing how they're vaguely familiar... Probably because they're jus that old and/or they were renovated in a similar style. I should know, given I've lived my whole life here

Amazing how many people jaywalked and how beautiful they dressed!

@TopHotDog

2 ай бұрын

It wasn't considered "jaywalking" at the time.

One thing totally missing are jeans. Men wore trousers or slacks.

I would most definitely love living back then. I didn't know that they had A&P foods all the way back then. I did not know Walgreens had been around that long. You could barely recognize Chicago back then.

Such simpler times thanks. Does anyone else have a slightly purple hue to the color balance when playing these videos? I saw one car change from pink to yellow but everything else is slightly purple. Was just curious. These days we can’t even watch a black and white movie without being offered a colorized version. Back then I think it kept everyone’s imagination running when they watched TV or went to the movies. Thanks for these video clips. Do you know why they were taken in the first place and if the sound is original?

Some clips I recognize as being Madison and Crawford now Madison and polaski since they change the name of Crawford Some clips are of the loop and I would suspect state and Madison because at that time it was considered the world's busiest intersection

Very interesting footage. However, the scenes were only a few seconds each. Which is too brief to observe everything in the frame and capture the period.

Pulaski (Crawford) and Madison Street

The demographics of Chicago was perfect back then