1940s THE BOWERY / SKID ROW NEW YORK CITY HOME MOVIE XD97645. Video(5:11) (m.youtube.com)
A Perscope Film
Dating to the 1940s, this well shot, silent home movie was filmed by an unknown visitor to New York's famous Bowery. From the 1940s through the 1970s, the Bowery was NYC's "Skid Row," notable for "Bowery Bums" (disaffected alcoholics and unhoused persons). At :22, a large crowd is visible outside what appears to be the Salvation Army soup kitchen. At :37, the Golden Labor Agency, some kind of employment bureau, looms large under the Third Avenue Elevated tracks. Visible in this film are several street people, including a man seen at 2:13 who appears to have his arm in cast — perhaps he was injured on the job and unable to work as a result. At 3:41, a vagrant lies on the sidewalk, while at 4:10 a man smokes while another sleeps off his drink on the sidewalk. At 4:50, the cameraman pans down from a glamor ad in a barbershop window for Wildroot Hair Cream to another bum, lying on the street unconscious.
[1940s THE BOWERY / SKID ROW NEW YORK CITY HOME MOVIE XD97645. Video(5:11)](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GpC9ByQFRUU)
A Perscope Film
>Dating to the 1940s, this well shot, silent home movie was filmed by an unknown visitor to New York's famous Bowery. From the 1940s through the 1970s, the Bowery was NYC's "Skid Row," notable for "Bowery Bums" (disaffected alcoholics and unhoused persons). At :22, a large crowd is visible outside what appears to be the Salvation Army soup kitchen. At :37, the Golden Labor Agency, some kind of employment bureau, looms large under the Third Avenue Elevated tracks. Visible in this film are several street people, including a man seen at 2:13 who appears to have his arm in cast — perhaps he was injured on the job and unable to work as a result. At 3:41, a vagrant lies on the sidewalk, while at 4:10 a man smokes while another sleeps off his drink on the sidewalk. At 4:50, the cameraman pans down from a glamor ad in a barbershop window for Wildroot Hair Cream to another bum, lying on the street unconscious.
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