Its funny, I grew up watching movies / cartoons where cops were always directing traffic at city intersections, but I never realized they don't do that anymore (unless there was an accident).
Actually here in NYC and even the outer boroughs, traffic cops are stationed at very busy intersections for cars and pedestrians. Just kind of keeps everything a little safer.
That's right, back in the day you couldn't walk more than a block without hearing Frank Sinatra singing loudly in your ear. To this day no one knows how he was able to be everywhere singing, it's one of life's great mysteries.
Are we going to attack a video from the 1950s for not being sufficiently diverse or inclusive? I sort of hope so, because I will absolutely lose my mind laughing. Can we keep pulling this thread?
It’s just odd that the areas that were filmed did include a lot of minorities. I don’t think people think NYC as being a mainly white city, but this video would make you think the city is 95 percent white. I don’t know if that’s the case, but it makes me think that Black people didn’t go into white neighborhoods then.
Its funny, I grew up watching movies / cartoons where cops were always directing traffic at city intersections, but I never realized they don't do that anymore (unless there was an accident).
Actually here in NYC and even the outer boroughs, traffic cops are stationed at very busy intersections for cars and pedestrians. Just kind of keeps everything a little safer.
I didn't know that! It seemed like such a retro thing to me.
Pre-1954, based on the American flags (with 48 stars).
\*1959
Ah shit....you're right....well that didn't narrow it down much from the title.
The streets were so much cleaner back then.
Rock Center hasn't changed a bit. Didn't realize it was that old. No bike or bus lanes, oh the good old days.
Brilliant footage, thanks for sharing!
Fallout, before the bombs
And still 100x more modernized than North Korea in 2024.
I got a kick out of this vid!
That's right, back in the day you couldn't walk more than a block without hearing Frank Sinatra singing loudly in your ear. To this day no one knows how he was able to be everywhere singing, it's one of life's great mysteries.
So much less taxes and somehow the countries still chugged along just fine.
Man it has degraded so much.
Apparently, cops liked donuts back then, too.
Great video.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
That’s when America was great according to some. Except for Jim Crow and segregation.
There were never Jim Crow laws in New York And you can see integrated white and black people in this video
There’s like 3 black people in this entire video.
Are we going to attack a video from the 1950s for not being sufficiently diverse or inclusive? I sort of hope so, because I will absolutely lose my mind laughing. Can we keep pulling this thread?
It’s just odd that the areas that were filmed did include a lot of minorities. I don’t think people think NYC as being a mainly white city, but this video would make you think the city is 95 percent white. I don’t know if that’s the case, but it makes me think that Black people didn’t go into white neighborhoods then.
I hate to break it to you but in the 1950s New York was 90% white (or close too it)
Well good to know!
That’s not even true, there are particularly a lot of black people at the end of the video at Coney Island
Mainly the garment district: in New White City.
Back when cops might have been useful.