1940s USA - Real Street Scenes of Vintage America - Colorized

Good times

2 minutes and 19 seconds into this video I have to admit I am turned off that you're showing the '40s playing music which sounds like it's from the 1950s when there was such great music in the 1940s Benny Goodman Glenn Miller Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey!

Look hit me up again in the beginning of the month I live on Social Security no pension so towards the end of the month I'm pretty well broke but I got to tell you THIS IS SO DAMN GOOD EVERY TIME WE SEE THE 30S AND '40S IT'S AND '50S IT'S IN BLACK AND WHITE AND TO REALIZE THERE WAS COLOR BACK IN THOSE DAYS AND PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THE COLOR IT'S MORE ALIVE IT'S MORE RELATABLE THIS IS JUST F**** AMAZING!

And Then Came The Electronic Age And Runne'd Everything IE: Social Media

The 1940s have always interested me. This video is cool.

Orange - 1¢(earn 50$ weeks) - now Orange 150¢(earn 1000$ weeks) - 5/7 times increase!

Mt. Oreb, Ohio caught my attention since I lived there as a boy. Had to use google street view to refresh my memory. Reminded me of the song “Reflections of My Life” by Marmalde.

The human race is overpopulated now. People need to stop multiplying - each family should consist of no more the two children, one is best for the sake of the planet

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Notice how thin almost everyone was.

It was less diverse back then and before civil rights act was passed. That’s the difference between back then and today

look on the streets, the children reading their favourite magazines, now children take drugs and smoke and drink only watching a damn phone screen

Can you put together baseball, 1890s to 1930s?

First, most if not all, of this film is commercial. And costly to shoot. That means they’re not going to show you the bums, the trash, the loutish atmosphere. A lot of this footage is contracted out and shot by local film companies. “A Trip Down Market Street” is a classic example of this. Shot by a San Francisco film company for a NY company. They just turned on the camera and let it run. The joke was that the good thing about an amateur film is that it wasn’t that much different from a professional one. Second, the reason you don’t see many black people is that they’re edited out unless they’re servants. Let’s be honest. Like all advertisements, it’s propaganda. There’s nothing “objective” about it.

Gorgeous video of America the beautiful.I Love to go back into those wonderful years.

Not many fatties around back then either ….

I see many in the comments are wearing rose-tinted glasses. Rose-tinted glasses and nostalgia always help to make the past seem better than the present.

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didn't black folks live in the 1040's?

FYI Seattle is in Washington state not Washington DC

i was born in the 40's. in my neighbourhood you had to be tough, but it was still a great time to grow up. i spent my younger years listening to the big console radio. i'm in my 70's now and i can put a hockey game on the radio lay down and enjoy it with my 55" flat screen turned off.

Beyond the glittering facade of fame, one uncovers the concealed agony of innumerable celebrities, wrestling with profound isolation, yearning for refuge amidst the radiant mirage.

Beautiful. I am a Japanese born in 1950s and I say this is America that Japan has long been infatuated after the War.

Yeah, don’t forget segregation and open racism. 😂😂😂

No internet back then, no one asking you to subscribe

respect ran deeper thats a lie prejudice was major them years lmao yall lie to much again his-story

The 1940s are the days when people use to have respect for 1 another and everyone treated everyone with respect.. People dressed with respect..

Nostalgia are memories with all the bad parts edited out.

The images are amazing and so is the choice of music ... great work 👍

Segregation, sexism, internment camps, antisemitism, WWII, labor unrest, no rights for the disabled, pollution were all part of living in the USA in the 1940’s. I love looking at these old photos, but realistically, life was not ideal for all Americans then.

It's worlds apart between Class and Crass

Wonder what our clips and pictures will look like to the generation of 2070…..🤔

Beautiful women. No tattoos and kim kardashian wannabees.

Before America was infested.

No litter in the streets and not overcrowded

Travels back in time to 1943 "Can you tell me what a woman is?"

Anyone living in that time "Awww, your one of them special people! Well bless your little heart!"

I would like to see the small town America, Norman Rockwell Midwestern places back in those days the 30s and 40s.

I would take those “dark aspects of the past” anytime over the new dark and I mean dark aspects of today.

1940's America, brought to you by Coca-Cola apparently judging from the crazy amount of times the signage can be seen all over the country (except the one grocery store that advertising Pepsi and 7UP instead). LOL

These photos were from immediately before, or during, WWII, but you don't get the feeling of the world's turbulence ...

How about photos from the fifties that show the first quarter mile drag strip in the U.S. I was called Paradise Mesa ( in San Diego.)

2 lamb chops and beans with coffee. Forty cents. Mmmmmmm!

There’s no charm nowadays. People are so tied up in their own little world and most have no respect for themselves let alone others. People don’t realize how much they are missing in life by being so self absorbed.

Is it just me or were the women of the 20,30,40s much more attractive than most modern women😮.