I was born in 1953 -- Brooklyn. My favorite place to visit was the Bronx Zoo. If the people in this film could see NYC now, they would cry -- either that or they wouldn't believe it. New Yorkers had class then. Now, they're savages.

@michelgouverneur885

2 ай бұрын

it s with a tear in my eyes that i watch this vidéo.....

Great couple! She looks like a young Isabella Rossellini. And the clothes -- a wardrobe change in every scene.

Beautiful footage of New York City in 1956.

When i see videos of this era i was born in 1969 it makes me want a time machine, i'm not keen on modern life, everything's gone crazy.

@ivan_law

8 ай бұрын

Аналогично. Поддерживаю.

@kyzf

8 ай бұрын

Everything back then smelled of cigarettes, body odor, and manure. In a city in the 50s add a healthy whiff of urine, inuatrial waste, and leaded gasoline exhaust.

@J2_G

8 ай бұрын

KZread is as close to a time machine as you can get for the cost of an internet connection. I usually watch one of these a day.

@Ver5587

8 ай бұрын

@@kyzfyeah but it was 90% white and not 3rd world like today. So… all the stuff you said were just minor annoyances. And smoking inside = freedom.

@geemonster9179

8 ай бұрын

Rubbish that's selective memory@@kyzf

I was 3 and half years old when this footage was taken, and my brother had just been born. Yet, I have clear memories of that time. Even the NY City buses and the cars as seen here in the film.

@ukkfayooyay

8 ай бұрын

Thank you for these memories. At 3:25 your mom is standing in the same spot as a famous photo of James Dean from the same year.

Great video I was 1 year old living in Flushing Queens My Grandfather would take me to the Christmas show at Radio City to see the Rockettes What a world back then everybody dress up all the time

Humans used to be CIVILIZED.

I would go back in time in a NY second.

@michelgouverneur885

2 ай бұрын

me too, if you knew.....

The colour film makes it seem so much more real.

Very compelling time-capsule footage. Seem like lovely people. Love the Canadian Club, Admiral Television Appliances signs, Sheraton Astor Hotel, Giant Pepsi Cola Bottle Cap sign; Camel Cigarette billboard complete with puffing 'smoke'. Only thing I would add is a soundtrack, which you can select from the KZread offerings.

WONDERFUL footage. Thank you.

Outstanding. Thank you for sharing this.

The 1950's would have been an interesting time there. You had the grit that NYC is known for but at that point the crime and disorder of the late 60's and 70's wasn't yet an issue.

They were rowing in suits wow what a different era

The year of my birth. What a treat. Lately I have become interested in what was happening then.

Someone’s home movies from a trip to NYC. I wonder how the couple in the movie’s life was and if they’re even still with us

@michelgouverneur885

2 ай бұрын

unfortunately, i think they are all gone toward a better world ....

That was two years before I was born, and I’ve seen New York very busy, but this was way more tranquil and peaceful

Everyone is dressed so nicely!

Really loved your video -my Mom lived and worked in Manhattan from 1954 to 1959 . Really admire that everyone dressed so elegantly and the vehicles so classy weather cars truck or busses

@rusav81

8 ай бұрын

It exosted a time tjat in nyc that people were well dressed and watch their language

@michelgouverneur885

8 ай бұрын

the life seemed sweet ......

Brilliant!! - Great video!! - THANK YOU!!

The first few minutes are the Upper West Side & that original Fairway Supermarket is still open!

Fantastic.

And those noble GM buses running everywhere! Many of them retired and came down to Lima, Peru, (my city and country) where they served into the early nineties!

Interesting to note that spending $10 on groceries in 1956 sounds great until you realize that its 2023 value is over $110, and that's going to get you about the same amount of food. And you were in good shape if you made $60/week back in those days.

@JamesChatting

8 ай бұрын

Inflation isn't that simple. As an extreme example, a home computer was worth trillions of dollars.

@Ver5587

8 ай бұрын

@@JamesChattingthe beginning of the end of America was going off the gold standard. That’s why the govt is importing all the 3rd worlders to be exploited by corps for slave wages while they also eliminate whites. America is over.

@hewitc

8 ай бұрын

@@JamesChatting Tech objects are depreciating assets. Like boats and most cars. Homes appreciated.

At 3:56, James (not Jimmy?) Stewart and Doris Day starring in Alfred Hitchock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much." Showing in Times Square. Notice how much top billing Stewart gets, even more than the name of the movie itself. Funny this video doesn't seem to capture any current Broadway shows of the time. Also: In 1956, who could have ever imagined a future where these private home movies - destined to never be seen but by a few friends and family - would be available in any home on a personal computer, using something called the internet, presented on a video platform called KZread-wow.

@jody6851

8 ай бұрын

And can even be watched by astronauts presently in the International Space Station in orbit 200 miles above the Earth in Outer Space.

@ukkfayooyay

8 ай бұрын

Most Broadway theaters are not on Broadway but instead are on the side streets from West 43 to West 52.

@joeardinger3185

8 ай бұрын

Actually a basic form of the internet existed. The telephone lines that allowed people to reach out virtually anywhere to order things or make dinner reservations. And that is how we all got it when it first happened. Now our telephones are the internet of fiber.

1956 was the pivotal year in the history of mankind. Of course, it was the year I was born...in NYC. Mickey Mantle won the Triple Crown, Ike was in the White House, and the economy was strong. Life was aquamarine.

Beautiful.

I was born 1955. How interesting these are.

When the city was safe. No skells or junkies or illegals. We have fallen back very far in society.

1956, when it was a civilized, orderly, refined city. No more.

@bandygreen2456

8 ай бұрын

I hate to tell you this, but West Side Story takes place at this exact moment (last 50s in NYC). And if anyone knows anything about West Side Story it’s about gangsters. It was inspired by the ever changing city

@spideraxis

8 ай бұрын

@@bandygreen2456 I hate to tell you this, but gang activity was not the factor that made the city unsafe. I refer to subway crime, herds of shoplifters, people being mugged, robbed, attacked, Fentanyl, rapes. Look at the whole picture.

@pepsiq11965

8 ай бұрын

@@spideraxis Tell the truth, what groups of people are responsible for crime in this city? Is it the blacks and Latinos- mainly the PR & Dominicans? or maybe the Whites & Asians?

@gabrielsoto7495

8 ай бұрын

Both, I hate to tell you two this, but you're bad and you don't have any idea that how was living in those days.

@spideraxis

8 ай бұрын

@@gabrielsoto7495 Yes, I am old enough to remember.

Thank you Sandra sweetie! New subscriber. Greetings from Algeria.

Hats!😀

На 3:50 реклама классная! 👍

Clean, well dressed, polite, and white. Hate to be that guy but compare this New York City to today's. It's hard not to think we as a society screwed up somehow.

@rocketcab

8 ай бұрын

.... I'm with you.... you're not alone....

@Baz-Ten

7 ай бұрын

The Mohawks and Cayuga said something similar

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

2 ай бұрын

Black people existed in this city, and they were equally civilized.

At the 3.56 mark we see 2 West Point cadets, the one on the left is wearing a uniform when in class and the other one is wearing a full dress uniform with a tall cap with a pom pom. Except for the colors it looks like the U.S. Army uniforms of the Mexican American War of 1846 til 1848.

I was not born yet but i have strong feeling i remember that time very clearly. Just put some Miles Davis for sound track and makes perfect sense

very showy cars plying Manhattan, must've been monied ---altogether superb footage! 🍺

@discodirk48

8 ай бұрын

The only way to make it in this world is to be morally bankrupt they don't reward good moral people in Satan's realm.

Just noticed how many busses there are and not as many taxis. Tax is are more expensive then busses and in this world no one gets rewarded unless they are morally bankrupt. So the good people get the boot everytime.

Over the years, they have allowed over population of areas in the 5 boroughs, leading to our current situation. Shame, because of greed we now live in underwhelming infrastructure that is. Ot abke to support our people, transport and social services.

I was too young in 1956 to remember anything, but a few years later and yes, that's what NYC looked like. I remembered the buses. Some were red and some were green. I don't believe they were from different companies. Found it odd with two colors. And the red cabs! There were fleets of cabs that were red back then.

@Galidorquest

9 ай бұрын

Apparently, some cabs or cab companies had different colors, just like in Chicago...

@luislaplume8261

8 ай бұрын

There were 3 different private bus companies in Manhattan, The Triborough Bus Company, the 5th Avenue Motor Coach Company, and the Surface Transit Company. The city owned buses were light green from the roof to the window and dark green below the window to the bottom of the bus.

@OSTARAEB4

8 ай бұрын

@@luislaplume8261the Honeymooner buses with the porthole tops.

@luislaplume8261

8 ай бұрын

@@OSTARAEB4 It was called standee windows and were put there to allow more sunlight in. As a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era I am old enough to have ridden them on the Queens Surface Transit Company 2hich were painted yellow on the roof to the windows and orange from the bottom of the windows to the bottom of the bus. They had folding doors in the front and in the back. When the green light lit up above the folding doors on the back the folding doors opened automatically and you got off. They also had soft leather seats. Such were my fond memories of my old hometown of NYC in that time. This was in Flushing, Queens, NYC in 1961! 😁

@OSTARAEB4

8 ай бұрын

@@luislaplume8261 I remember them as a child the Orange and I thought the top was a cream color. I remember the green newer buses introduced about 1963-4 and throughout the 1970’s. Those were plastic seats and they rattled. Nobody wanted to sit in the back seat over the engine in summer because you’d nearly get burned and many didn’t have a/c. I too remember the round green light and the sound when the door would release. Obviously, you remember the string ding pull chord and the sifting of the token boxes. Those greens lasted until the early eighties when they introduced the Flexible Flyers they had problems with and the new blue and white GM’s. They introduced the reticulated buses about 2003. I remember those early buses too. I think in the seventies it was fifteen to twenty cents to ride. Those buses were so loud and the exhaust blast at the stops. Thanks for sharing your memories. I wasn’t aware of what those top windows were called. 😊

interesting. two things stand out: 1. people seem to be happy and carefree roaming the streets and sitting around. 2. no black people.

@butterfliesandfate

8 ай бұрын

I noticed that, too. Homogeneous white culture was the epitome of the good life. I used to parrot leftists self hate that was programmed into me years ago. After several decades of living, I realized that if one is of white European and Christian ancestry, mostly white society is the safest and happiest way to live.

@amyd5023

8 ай бұрын

@@butterfliesandfateso you’re old and racist now. Got it.

@bestchannelintheworld

3 ай бұрын

no blacks... but very few whites either. Whites, of course, being pure Anglo phenotype. Just because a person has little melanin doesn't make him white. We see melanin-deficient folks killing each other for no reason in Ukraine right now, and crime levels in melanin-deficient countries like Russia are through the roof.

So much memories, i was only 48 at that time. Good to see the city when i was young

@jeffitachi2589

8 ай бұрын

48 in 1950s and you are on KZread commenting?? 😂

@rocketcab

8 ай бұрын

.... so you're 115 years old and.... probably in better health than I am.... Stay blessed, Old Timer....

56 is around the time my grandfather came to New York from Jamaica through Ellis Island wow

Soviet propaganda press on the newsstand in NY in 1956 ? Wow!

@robbierox8013

9 ай бұрын

Fabulous, love it.

@MrSloika

8 ай бұрын

You could buy newspapers, books, magazines from all over the world in New York back in those days.

@discodirk48

8 ай бұрын

There has really been nothing but propaganda in this realm! The last 50 years was the grand illusion where everything was fake including money, politics, women, media, banking all a show to strip you of all your worth and the more things change the more they stay the same.

@ChinaDragon-te2vk

8 ай бұрын

Охуэть

@jody6851

8 ай бұрын

Not to mention the NY Times.

My birth year!

Born in 56 ..now?? Im old live in bx n queens whole life..but traveled many places..56..clean no litter....

NICE VIDEO

Cool footage for sure. But before scanning, blow off those dust spots that lay on the scanner screen.

Interesting how many office buildings and hotels still standing almost 70 years later!

I was definitely born too late.

The mid 1950s. When NYC was at its peak. Then: downhill all the way.

@Ortzmet

8 ай бұрын

Maybe if they had the Twin Towers, then I would I agree. But they had no Twin Towers yet.

@millabasset1710

8 ай бұрын

twin towers made the skyline better; not to mention NYC in the 80s and 90s was the city at its best.

@hewitc

8 ай бұрын

Today NYC has the lowest crime rate in 25 years. The streets are clean, businesses are thriving. Visit and you will see. Don't rely solely on videos put out by people with an "anti-blue" agenda. If FOX news really believed that NYC was so bad they wouldn't have their headquarters there and the Murdoch wouldn't own extremely expensive NYC condos. On the negative, the incentives for bicycling and other scooter type vehicles has created traffic problems and dangers for pedestrians. Not as bad as Amsterdam but needs addressing. Plus these are all people who otherwise would walk or take mass transit, so car pollution/congestion is unaafected.

@millabasset1710

8 ай бұрын

@@hewitc you mean the NYC that gives migrants free apartments in Central Park tower? The same NYC that neglects native New Yorkers for migrants?

Is this a 16mm video?

@rocketcab

8 ай бұрын

.... there's "film" (which this clearly is) and then there's "video"....

Stalin On The Front Of A Magazine!!😂

@bluemango7112

8 ай бұрын

No its Lenin

Soviet commy magazines 11:29 ?? O_O 1956? Nearly peak of 'Cold War'?

@meytv5691

8 ай бұрын

ха-ха советские газеты и журналы.😁😆

And everybody spoke English even if they were from another country. They still spoke English. Now I hear like 20 different languages is Depressing you're In America speak English.

NYC B.C. (Before crack)

@rusav81

8 ай бұрын

And snow❄️❄️❄️

@RapidCycling07

8 ай бұрын

Before the satanic liberals moved in and corrupted it. It looked so much better back then. All this so-called “progress” of the left did nothing but bring about evil and destruction to America and the rest of the world.

@rusav81

8 ай бұрын

@@Pandemicjoe the poisons of Western world. Situation is worstened,also in european cities, last fifteen years

@strengthandbulkMadness

8 ай бұрын

@@PandemicjoeJews were in on it too.

@philipbrown9185

8 ай бұрын

Way before crack!

Who was the guy smokin'?

There was the Presley years :))))

Were there dinosaurs back then?😂

How About Chicago, In 1956?

@centrasseptyni8277

8 ай бұрын

What about?

Things were so much better when the Mob ran things.🙂

@Baz-Ten

7 ай бұрын

ha! Even the tight control of all bakeries!. If you interfered you were toasted

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

2 ай бұрын

The mob wasn't running anything in Manhattan.

The Soviet magazines that appear in this video are Pravda and Izvestia. At the time this video was shot the prestige and power of HUAC and its Senate counterpart had been greatly diminished. Thus began the slow burn socialist takeover of the most powerful institutions in the U.S.

@suzylux

8 ай бұрын

New York City was built on the Dutch mindset of capitalism and tolerance; hence people living and working together in peace and prosperity. HUAC was stupid, illiberal and never should've been a thing.

@movingpicutres99

8 ай бұрын

That was the famous international newsstand at Times Square

too bad so many smoked back then, worse it killed most of them

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

2 ай бұрын

It infact didn't.

MAGA

I Was 3 Years Old, And Was Born, And Raised In Illinois, This Means Nothing To Me.

@geemonster9179

8 ай бұрын

Fascinating bullshit

@hewitc

8 ай бұрын

How interesting!

@tommycasidy3031

6 ай бұрын

Yeah well Illinois is pretty obscure and means nothing to anybody who doesn't live there.

@lindaloe

6 ай бұрын

@@tommycasidy3031 How Would You Know? I Bet You Don't Live Here, Not That ICare Where You Live.

No glass towers and people are dressed up on the street. Of course, this was not a good time for people of color and women couldn’t get a credit card without their husband l’s approval. Smoking was rampant and women were objectified. No one wore jeans and sneakers, besides, there were only white tennis shoes or black US Keds high-tops. Women mostly wore high heels in public. Different times.

@hewitc

8 ай бұрын

The only tattoos you saw were on the arms of sailors who were drunk or got them on a dare. Homosexuality was illegal. The gay bars (and most restaurants and of course the docks) were mob owned or controlled.

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

2 ай бұрын

Mostly misconceptions. Black people were not really seen as different by people then, they had been living in the city together for many decades, at least 130 years by then. I've seen home movies, no white person is staring back at a black person ever that is strictly a movie thing only (a today misconceptioned modern period movie). Women had bank notes and most women ruled mens credit cards and cash. Women wore pants at the time, what a ridiculous statement. Women chose to wear dress fashion because women loved wearing dresses, and had full choice except for a school uniform, to wear pants anytime they wished. Since the late 1930s pants had become 15% more common than 1915 when women started wearing the seperate pant style in cities like DC/NYC/Chicago. Trust me, history will prove misconceptions wrong at every turn.