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  • 1939 color video of New York City

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    Would've been taken right before WWII broke out

    Cool looking autos

    Last edited by Monk; June 2, 2013, 06:41 AM.
    Thom

    "The object is to keep your balls on the table and knock everybody else's off..."

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    Wow! The more things change ,the more they stay the same. Could have been my grandparents in some of those crowds !

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    • #3
      74 years.
      wow.
      my grandma would have been ten years old.

      no a/c.
      I'd like to see a video from the 60s, 70s into 80s.. could make you vomit.
      cat convertors aren't much for then.

      I was just looking at a dh4 airplane from 1917, a v12, 340hp..
      more power to weight than a p51.

      what really has changed.
      bouncing electrons in a controlled way I guess.
      awesome video.

      the city drove engineering to complete burns/efficient, only to be bigger than ever. I hate the city, any city.. but the crowd does have a way with the world.
      Last edited by Barry Donovan; June 2, 2013, 09:50 AM.
      Previously boxer3main
      the death rate and fairy tales cannot kill the nature left behind.

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      • #4
        The vid was on TV last night. Way cool! I love old pics/vids. If it was from before my time Edison was probably running the camera like this old film. Being in color in 1939, ME pointed out that this must have been a rich dude. The TV commentator said that it was shot on Kodachrome, hence the vivid colors.

        Dan

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        • #5
          Heres the 70's

          Two days in New York, through the eyes of a young Brit in 1975. Urban decay was a fact of life in many European and US cities. With the passage of time, some...


          and the 80's


          Almost no foreign cars around.

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          • #6
            Awesome video......thanks for sharing.
            Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet!!!

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