A Day in New York 1940s in color [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added

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• NA

  @NASS_0 · 2 years ago · pinned

  Which city in the world would you like to live in the 1940s?

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• AU

  @Aussie-Taipan76 · 2 years ago

  The city looked so clean back in those days.

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• PK

  @PKTraceur · 2 years ago

  It’s impressive how well developed New York was in the 1940’s, imagine you’ve come from Belfast or Liverpool, you’ve never seen a megalopolis like this before in your entire life, and the awe you feel from the view.

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• JI

  @jimbobbb7631 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Its weird that we look at these people as "history" but to them it was just the present. They werent attempting to live a documentary. They were just people going about their lives just like us.

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• EA

  @EagleFang74 · 2 years ago (edited)

  NYC was so advanced back then. It’s amazing that within a few decades or within one lifetime we went from reading by candles and traveling by horseback to electricity, lightbulbs, telephones, phonographs, automobiles, airplanes, television, movies and the atomic bomb. One person born around 1860 and blessed with a long life could’ve easily witnessed the birth of some of the most significant technological advancements in human history.

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• AH

  @aheat3036 · 2 years ago

  The people looked so much nicer back then and everything is so clean and orderly.

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• CO

  @community1949 · 2 years ago

  Everyone all dressed up because if you were going out or to work that's the way people dressed back then - no casual clothes if you were going downtown to shop or work.  No shoving, pushing, lewd behavior and everyone is alert and relaxed at the same time.

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• OG

  @ogoj2 · 1 year ago

  This time capsule of a time gone by is amazing.  I keep thinking I'm watching a period movie, but this was actually the real thing.

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• FA

  @fastgoturbo · 1 year ago

  No cell phones no texting and no social media THE BEST

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• TH

  @TheIndependentVoter · 2 years ago

  Look at all these people just living their lives. Not a single phone in sight.

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• LE

  @leonidesreyesweshouldinven6246 · 2 years ago

  I am a native New Yorker and I  LOVE ,  this film . Some times the ghost of the 40' s  working class would walk on the sidewalk , and I wouldn't mine .

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• JE

  @jessewolf7649 · 2 years ago

  Kudos to whoever had the foresight in 1940 to record this.

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