1943. The Allies had just begun to turn the tide; were playing offense in Italy and Africa. Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen. What was the war news in that Life Magazine? All seemed so cleaned and pressed; all but one or two men with hats. All were well dressed, even the kids. No Naked Cowboy in Times Square. D-Day, Ardennes counter-offensive, Iwo Jima, Okinawa yet to come, but somberness oozes from the film. We hadn't seen anything yet.

My mother came to NY in 1943 from a dinky town in western PA to train as a nurse at Bellevue. When she went back home for a visit she was treated like royalty. The townsfolk were awestruck that a local kid made good. Lol.

@bighands69

5 жыл бұрын

How values have changed. I am sure today some small town people are going to try and make it in the porn industry as they want a quick buck. Most probably still go and work a normal job and put the hours in.

@lgmarquez5469

4 жыл бұрын

I just recently graduated high school class of 2019. A week after graduation I left the small town in the panhandle I grew up in. And went from Texas to NYC in a Greyhound with only a backpack with water my phone charger and some clothes. I came here in NY with less than $700 and 7 months later I’m still living and surviving in NYC. I’m a Bank Teller at chase bank and work at McDonald’s.And during the weekdays I attend my internship at a real estate firm. This has been an incredible journey I got here without knowing a single soul in New York or anywhere to sleep I slept at a shelter for 3 weeks until I could find an apartment. I will be going back to Texas in August to go back to school and get my college degree. This experience has taught me a lot more than what any university would teach me about life. And I’m glad I will always have this experience to look back on as I get older and wiser. So I can tell my kids and grandkids about my adventure and will be proud just as you are about your mother who was a small town girl who moved to the big apple.🗽

@ernestcastro6238

3 жыл бұрын

@@lgmarquez5469 Thank you for your story.

@deller5924

3 жыл бұрын

@@lgmarquez5469 I don't know why, but your story reminds me of Jerry. Lol.

@QED_

3 жыл бұрын

@@lgmarquez5469 Props.

Far better world than 2021

@toober316

3 жыл бұрын

It's fun to look at old pictures and admire the elegant fashions, the cool cars, the breathtaking architecture, and the great music (I would have preferred swing to the schmaltzy background music used in this video) of a bygone area, especially on a bright, sunny day in midtown Manhattan -- a tourist's view of New York City. But let's keep it in perspective. In 1943, when this footage was shot, the world was at war. Millions of people were dying in battle and in death camps. Jim Crow still ruled in the south, even as black soldiers fought in a segregated military. Women were second-class citizens. If you were gay, you were locked in the closet. If you had cancer or heart disease, you were a goner. The list goes on. Today's world is far from perfect, but I'm happy to be in it.

This is how i still picture New York every time i go and even as a 27 year old in 2019 it still sticks with me

@brkitdwn

3 жыл бұрын

Why do you pluralize "Mulholland Drive" ?

so beautiful, wish I could be teleported there in that time.

@gatheringleaves

7 жыл бұрын

Same here, everyone dressed so elegantly, there was no such thing as casual wear!

@naiafitria8857

6 жыл бұрын

same me too, I wish I could live in that years

@nobody9126

5 жыл бұрын

I wish that but I don’t want to age and start from 1700s when American revolution started

@JD-ny3vz

4 жыл бұрын

Ahh yes I wish I could too I love being in a time where I could get lynched for a glance. But hey their dressed well!

@thatguychrs9587

3 жыл бұрын

@@JD-ny3vz Please shit on peoples dreams of just wanting to visit the past because of that please. You can't change history you fuck

Beautifully done with the music and the scenes, etc.. Lots of sunshine.

I wonder what these people would think if they could have been transported to today's New York and see how people dress

@yung4evr

5 жыл бұрын

Scream in horror, no doubt.

@bighands69

5 жыл бұрын

They would be horrified by the way they Dress, behave and talk.

@ryanm4653

5 жыл бұрын

civita t yah and back then yellow cars were like everyone’s favorite car now it’s just red and hot pink

@yung4evr

5 жыл бұрын

They would be aghast and horrified, no doubt.

Everyone was dressed so well, and slim, to boot.

@Pau_Pau9

3 жыл бұрын

Less processed foods, commercials and more walking.

@Clloyd405

3 жыл бұрын

They didn't have air conditioning.

@markk3652

3 жыл бұрын

Except for the little fat kid by the pond.

Proper foundation garments such as those at sold at Gimbels were very important for the average working New York woman in those days.

The films show this was made in April 1943. 'The Human Comedy' was released on 9 April. 'Edge of Darkness' has been released on 2 March.

I wonder what Fiorello LaGuardia would think of Bill De Blasio...

@kpl4174

3 жыл бұрын

um..........lunatic....................but thats what doctors here in Europe think of the Left -.-

@godfrey_of_america

3 жыл бұрын

Birds of a feather. If LaGuardia was alive today he'd be a typical Demoncrat

@ThomasDeLello

3 жыл бұрын

@@godfrey_of_america That's very questionable.

@godfrey_of_america

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThomasDeLello A half-Jew, FDR progressive freemason who "railed against immigration quotas" and was a passionate internationalist....eh...he might not have been as vile as today's Leftists, but many of the worst weren't even as insane 5 or 10 years ago. I think he would have totally went with the flow if he had lived today.

People forget that we had double Decker busses in New York just like England did.

@None-zc5vg

3 жыл бұрын

Those rear-engined N.Y. deckers were some 20 years ahead of the British who introduced a similar chassis/engine layout in the late '50s. All the N.Y. ones had been retired around 1953 and weren't replaced by anything similar.

Simply beautiful! Thank you!

This was photographed in the summer of 1943, when "The Human Comedy", "Action in the North Atlantic", "Coney Island" and "Wings over the Pacific" were playing in New York movie theaters (as the marquees fleetingly note).

4:13 The Astor is playing "The Human Comedy" and that was released March 2, 1943 while 4:48 "Coney Island" was released June 11, 1943. Pity that so many film transfers are cropped. I used to be a film editor at the time when video tape was becoming common and transfers were always a problem. Used to be in the Film Center at 44th and 9th. Always "lunched" in Smith's Bar at 44th and 8th and have wonderful memories of Ernie the short in stature barkeeper. One day some big character was starting to be out of control and Ernie told him to get out as he, Ernie, used to be a boxer. The character left and then Ernie told use that "Yea I used to be a boxer. I boxed oranges in Florida" Wonderful guy as he gave use a round on the house.

my father joined the Navy one year later and went on the Iowa, there were a few sailors in the video.

This is beautiful, but I'm sad at the same time...

@phillipgraves4721

3 жыл бұрын

I hear you

@kpl4174

3 жыл бұрын

now lunatics run the societies

@nacatamal71

3 жыл бұрын

U R RIGHT AM FEELING SAD IN THE WAY THAT ALOT OF SOLDIERS AND MARINES WALKING IN THE PARK WERE KILL IN WORLD WAR 2 WHEN AMERICA ENTER THE WAR IN 1945

@SchmutzhardAquatics

3 жыл бұрын

@@nacatamal71 6th June 1944 and we Germans must also be grateful to these men for their sacrifice. Without them, this world would be a different one: Nazis or communism.

@riverwildcat1

3 жыл бұрын

Today New York looks like a post-Apocalyptic war zone; the mayor hates his citizens and the police; and New York's governor is a serial abuser of women and the killer of 15,000 elderly who were exposed to the Chinese virus on his orders. A huge hospital ship that could easily have accomodated them sat empty at the docks.

I smiled the entire video but I also felt my heart breaking. I really wish I could have ben part of that era.

@sclogse1

2 жыл бұрын

Go to Rockefeller Center. Inside then go to the rooftop. Trust me. It's amazing. A mint building.

@bobw4541

Жыл бұрын

@@sclogse1 Click your heels 3 times eyes closed and repeat 3 times "I wish it was 1940" you MUST be a Believer for it to work. Good Luck in your Travels !!!

A poster in one shot is for the movie 'Life with Father', which would date this footage to 1947.

The good days.

Not a lot of cars on the streets. That alone shows the US wasn't untouched. Gas and tire rationing made a big difference.

I see at 6:34 Cabin In The Sky was in theaters that came out April 9th 1943 so we now have a time range of this video. Its also cool to know an all Black Cast was being shown in theaters in the 40s in Time Square

@asprywrites6327

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder where all the black people are in the video.

@NRansom

3 жыл бұрын

@@asprywrites6327 harlem lol

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

2 жыл бұрын

@@asprywrites6327 walking in the video, and or scared of some of the military men.

When women were women,and men were men.

@emanborou7544

5 жыл бұрын

Henry Simpson what is that supposed to mean

@JD-ny3vz

4 жыл бұрын

@Joey Style Half those sailors was gay please

@hdgboy

3 жыл бұрын

When men were men and women were glad of it.

Enjoyed a brief look at the year my mom and dad had just gotten married, my dad was away in the navy, my mom waiting for him in Port Washington NY.

Notice how clean the sidewalks and streets looked

Here we see people going out and enjoying life .

@deller5924

3 жыл бұрын

Without masks and social distancing....and across the world there's a world war going on....I would assume following today's logic of COVID protection, everyone should have been armed and wearing armour vests. Lol

@drpepa09

3 жыл бұрын

@@deller5924 idiot

@deller5924

3 жыл бұрын

@@drpepa09 You, dipshit, go eat shit....a lot of shit. It's gonna do good. And the good is that one dipshit is gonna be gone for good.

@stormstaunch6692

3 жыл бұрын

@@deller5924 1. No, not everyone should have been armed and wearing armored vests. You don’t gear your whole civilian population in wartime, that’s not how that works. Not to mention the economic hardness of doing that, when you already need to supply millions of soldiers, build tens of thousands of tanks and planes a year, whathaveyou. 2. Masks and social distancing only apply in a pandemic. What does that have to do with any time other than now and some other specific times?

@deller5924

3 жыл бұрын

@@stormstaunch6692 Mandatory arms and armored vests for personal protection apply only in wartime. Going by your out-of-place question, you're a demagogue.

Now check out and compare to driving in NYC in 2018

Love watching these old films of how everyday life used to be. The women all wearing dresses and looking crisp and clean. Most men wearing suits. It just speaks of a social awareness that faded away thru the decades since.

Well done. Beautiful photography with perfect musical accompaniment.

Imagine if one of these nice people in 1943 was able to magically look at Manhattan and the rest of New York City in 2019? They'd throw up.

@JD-ny3vz

4 жыл бұрын

Nice ppl these racist close minded ignorant ass people back then fuck outta here. Hell most those ppl were prejudice to other white ppl at that time still. And imagine being gay they'd be real nice to you then too huh

@petehutchins7062

3 жыл бұрын

@@JD-ny3vz guess you are the closed minded projector with your raciss brain

@brkitdwn

3 жыл бұрын

@@JD-ny3vz If you presented yourself as a respectful, educated, but humble and smartly dressed individual, they would treat you with general respect. Go figure!

@TFlexxx

3 жыл бұрын

Some of the places in this film/video, like parts of 5th Avenue, Central Park, the skyline of the Upper West Side from Central Park, look pretty much the same today. As a New Yorker, the people here are what are most interesting.

@sclogse1

2 жыл бұрын

No.

went 3 year with no dislikes

3:32 you can see that guy's ice cream start to melt

Looks clean

People were happier and healthier then. See how much cleaner New York was! It was prosperous and less crowded. There's less obesity and people dressed better, walked briskly, and were clean. I wish women today dressed as well as they did 80 years ago. This film was done sometime in 1943 or later. A theater is showing a movie from that year, The Human Comedy. There's a war going on with both Germany and Japan! Can you believe it? Today there would be protesters in the streets.

WOW!!!.What a romantic video,while listening to this so delicious piano!!Loved this video!!!.Ahhhh!!!.New York!!!. New York!!!!.

Awesome.txs for sharing

Is there an HD version of this you could upload? It would look so nice! Thank you.

me da nostalgia viendo esas imágenes su gente la ropa casi todos husaban sombrero muy bonito como me hubiera gustado vivir en esa epoca

@mariangelasp1168

3 жыл бұрын

A mi tambien, la Gente se ven con una mirada de contenta , disfrutando, se nota la calidad de Vida era mejor, la inocencia se ve presente, las personas tenian clase para vestirse y para hablar. Nada de ESO se ve hoy en dia.

truly good times, so sad times we are living today

This was the last decade for center 3rd rail streetcars running through Manhattan.

I love the filmmaker's spectator shoes! I love to see men in suits! Really fun footage of the people and the area, but I did mute the music. Sorry. Otherwise lovely!

Can't believe that this was more than 80 years now! .. watching history as a film .. all those people with their dreams and issues ..all gone underground now !!

It's sad to think so many of the people have died already

@shrimpflea

2 жыл бұрын

We all gotta go eventually.

Outstanding.

2:15 Central Park !!

A brief moment in time

No cellphones, no internet, no drugs, people who know how to dress. In my case, I would like to live that time

@holycombo3471

4 жыл бұрын

vaso j there actually were lots of drugs as during this time smoking and drinking was widely accepted and promoted. Also there were more life threatening diseases like polio that could cripple you and lead you paralyzed but I guess everybody is different

@Babygorl1209

3 жыл бұрын

no drugs. lmao

@brkitdwn

3 жыл бұрын

@@Babygorl1209 Drugs were not the norm, nor were they prominant. They existed, but on a very small scale.

@ronaldwilliamson4762

3 жыл бұрын

There were phonebooths everywhere.Also no need for internet, considering how much was available at all the news and magazine racks.

@MrSloika

3 жыл бұрын

@@brkitdwn Nope, drugs were very common at the time, and not just in NYC. People were more discrete, that's all.

Woow Cool!! :-)

....... no pizzas.... People look much fitter and healthy

Very modern country

Back when Americans lived there.

We are.living.in the last days

The Human Comedy was released in March of ‘43. So this is likely late spring/early summer of that year.

If I were to teleport them and show them today's world, and let them see nowadays girls be dressing yoga pants + huge asses... And guys with sweatpants or jeans with underwear shown out... Listening to "music" shouting full of drugs sex curse words, and can't talk without saying the f word... I really can't imagine what they'd say other than "What... An... Enormous... DISGRACE!" That's also how I feel, too. As a 05 kid... I wish I could bring the elegance and class back to today's world. Thanks to my parents, whom showed me some good oldies. And Thanks to God, that I accepted and had ultimately fallen in love with the marvellous 1930,40s - 80,90s.

Looking nice.

Even though I grew in Queens,I would to want to see all 5 Boroughs 11 years before I was born.

boy we have changed

@brkitdwn

3 жыл бұрын

Evolving

@HouseWinchester1874

3 жыл бұрын

Changed for the worse.

When people dressed as human beings and not as ragged bums. A sense of dignity that is long gone

Those taxi-cabs with three windows on the side look like half-limousines!

une belle vidéo

NYC NYC❤️

These remarkable pictures are mainly of midtown Manhattan during wartime....few young men, other than those in uniform. Note to sentimentalists who find it extraordinary that most men in these 1940s pictures were wearing suits and ties and hats. That's because many of them worked in offices or were salesmen and were expected to look their best.... Once they got home after work, they would quickly change to old clothes or perhaps to casual short sleeved-shirts and an old pair of trousers. ("Old" is the operative word: new clothing wasn't always easy to obtain -- for instance OPA ration stamps limited purchases of footwear.). While some of the male sightseers are wearing suits, most are not exactly nattily dressed.

@wm631

5 жыл бұрын

Not exactly. Check out pictures of the breadlines, ten years earlier. Men in line generally had coat jackets (suits) on, often ties. Even in more rural areas there was a dress "decorum" expected at most times, men and women.

@cant144

5 жыл бұрын

Yes to the dress decorum. There's a wonderful short story by James Joyce, where his character, who wants to run out of the office for a drink, contrives to get his hat, without which no self-respecting gent would be seen in the street. But that's Dublin a generation or two earlier. The men in these pictures are wearing suits, ties, and hats -- well-fitting, if not necessarily expensive clothes, not the unpressed dirty and torn shambles worn by the destitute of the Great Crash.

@wm631

5 жыл бұрын

@@cant144 James Joyce! Not familiar with the story; will look through a Kindle collection of his I have for it (no, I'm not digging through "Finnegan's Wake" for it ...). I have a sweet, faded photo of my parents, a year or so married. April, 1949. Just a couple of kids, aged 25 and 23. Mom was dressed beautifully in a full Sunday outfit (probably went to church earlier), complete with a flowery '40s hat. My blue-collar, non-church-going Dad, open collar white shirt with a nice suit. Where were they going? Over to my grandmother's house for a basic Sunday dinner. As I explained to my nephew, once upon a time people dressed up on Sundays.

@cant144

5 жыл бұрын

Dress Decorum in Old Dublin “The chief clerk glanced at the hat-rack, but, seeing the row complete, offered no remark. As soon as he was on the landing the man pulled a shepherd’s plaid cap out of his pocket, put it on his head and ran quickly down the rickety stairs. “ From Counterparts (in the James Joyce short story collection Dubliners) And “Mr. Kernan was a commercial traveller of the old school which believed in the dignity of its calling. He had never been seen in the city without a silk hat of some decency and a pair of gaiters. By grace of these two articles of clothing, he said, a man could always pass muster. “ From Grace (in Dubliners) @@wm631

@MrSloika

3 жыл бұрын

@@wm631 That's true. If you saw a man in public wearing jeans and a t-shirt it was because he was doing some kind of physical labor. It was common for boys to wear shorts, but if a man wore shorts he was at the beach or in a boxing ring. Everyone, even the poor made their best attempt to look neat and clean.

2:43 Whoa, that woman is wearing pants.

I was hoping to see my Dad's newsstand at Bowling Green park.

At 2:41 is what look like a 5 year old kid. Since this film was created in 1943, that little kid would be about 83 years old now if alive.

I know we all love to romanticize the past as if it was unquestionably a better, and simpler time (I do it a lot myself), but the 1940s was the most wretched decade in world history. Even outside of the holocaust, soviet camps, and millions dying in Europe including women and children, there was even worse violence in Asia. And there was the partition of India which resulted in millions of deaths due to religious strife. Also unrest in many parts of Africa, the Caribbean, and South America. And as I see NYC in the 1940s and wish I was there to experience it, as a man of Indian origin, I have to remind myself that we weren't even allowed to immigrate to the US and become US citizens until the 60s due to exclusionary policies against asians and other colored nations. Black soldiers coming home from WW2 were treated like 2nd class citizens.

@southpuddle

3 жыл бұрын

Very well put. It's easy to watch a 7-minute video and think "oh what a wonderful time to be alive", but there was a lot of pain in the world in the 1940s. You could just as easily make a video today and make NYC look just as carefree and idyllic... Well, maybe not today, but once COVID is over haha...

@pstreet2027

3 жыл бұрын

@@southpuddle Exactly. We all do it. We look back with rose colored glasses, that's human nature. When I've read books from say the 1950s, the older folks then were pining for the good old days when life was simpler!

@ugaais

3 жыл бұрын

We need to get back to those immigration standards

@pstreet2027

3 жыл бұрын

@@ugaais which immigration "standards" are you even referring to? The anti-irish laws from the 19th century, or the anti-Italian and eastern european laws of the 1920s? If it's the asians, is that because Indians and others that value education come here in small numbers but have completely taken over and are the CEOs of IBM, Google, Microsoft, Mastercard, Adobe and many many others? While the "real" Americans are too busy doing opiods and collecting disability checks. I guess blaming immigrants for all of one's shortcomings is human nature.

Looked like it was entirely filmed in 1943

Gotta a kick out of the Phillip Morris cigarettes ad’s on the back of the seats.

It went all down hill from this point. What a Fn cesspool now.

Igual a la que me imaginaba...en 1960...

The more things change the more they remain the same

You should put the street names

We all hide who we are.

@shrimpflea

2 жыл бұрын

Thank God

During COVID, I've taken four- and five-mile walks through Manhattan twice a week. Know what? New York City still looks a lot like it's shown in this film. Sometimes beautiful. Sometimes awe-inspiring. Sometimes grey and shadowy. Still a global icon, good times and bad.

I could venture a guess that 99% of who we see here are six feet under.

@joemaxwell8991

3 жыл бұрын

Just like Trump's presidency

@uhohmybad1307

3 жыл бұрын

@Delightfully Charming I applaud your effort, however, what has your census info have to do with my statement of the 99% of these people being dead???

@uhohmybad1307

3 жыл бұрын

@Delightfully Charming Please try to understand that I simply said that 99% of the people you see in this video are dead. Any children you see are in their 80's or 90's. That's all I'm saying!!!!

@shrimpflea

2 жыл бұрын

No I'll bet some were cremated.

interesting

*click* N O I C E

How strange the time that period when j.lennon was born in England and then arrived in New York City and then died at the age of forty at the Dakota Building, incredibly like in a dream n. 9

@brucemarsico6

3 жыл бұрын

So? What does that have to do with viewing a nostalgic film about 1940s New York? Who cares? Forty years past....get on with your life before it's too late!

JESSON LEE

.... and back when No covid...

@shrimpflea

2 жыл бұрын

No, just the largest war in history going on.

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Interesting. Wheres african-americans? I cant see them in this footage. Were they sitting at home thosedays?

@shrimpflea

2 жыл бұрын

Mostly in other neighborhoods. It was more segregated back then.

This must have been shot during the war years or just after, due to men in uniform, which would have been a common sight, after WW2 many men left the army and tried to settle down, encouraged to become baby-boomers

All those people are probably now dead.

Footage not video

@shrimpflea

2 жыл бұрын

Film footage

.....NOW SEE WHAT YOU DID? ...WE CAN'T HAVE NOTHIG! ...ALWAYS GOT TO MESS THINGS UP... LEAVE IT ALONE!

Народу дахуя.

Stop putting a 1890s theme in the 40s 😑

No homeless, pooping on the streets, and people dressed properly. I seen this destroyed in my lifetime.

100 years later and everyone in that video is now dead. Crazy!

@rutter1ify

3 жыл бұрын

100 years later? What planet are you on? 🙄🤪😂

@brkitdwn

3 жыл бұрын

It was 77 years ago, so if there were any children in the film, teens, even young adults, could still be alive.

@shrimpflea

2 жыл бұрын

Did you fail math in school?

Utterly devoid of any minority presence. Such a shame.

@asprywrites6327

3 жыл бұрын

@@roncaruso931 you're very unkind.

@QED_

3 жыл бұрын

Why (?) If you made a film of downtown Tokyo or Bangkok or Monrovia or Harlem (!) in 1943 . . . it would be "utterly devoid of any minority [caucasian] presence". So what (?) Why do you see everything through a racist lens (?)

@asprywrites6327

3 жыл бұрын

@@QED_ you don't know how i see "everything." And you don't see much else beyond your own views either.

@asprywrites6327

3 жыл бұрын

@@roncaruso931 i understand your racism.

@asprywrites6327

3 жыл бұрын

@@roncaruso931 it's "you're." "You're."