Harold Lloyd was a silent movie actor and stuntman. While these clips were obviously staged, I enjoy these old movies for the street scenes.

 

OMG!! I don't believe I've laughed so hard in years!  Thanks!

That is fantastic! Such great shots of the city!! And in the second one, on the trip to Yankee Stadium, was that really Babe Ruth in the cab? It looks like him. Harold Lloyd is classic -- one of the few silent stars to make the transition to talkies -- he did a bunch of movies in the 30s. A lot of his daredevil scenes were in L.A. -- most famously hanging from a hand on a clock tower.

 

Just Googled it -- yep: Babe Ruth played himself in "Speedy," starring Harold Lloyd in 1928.

Here's a clip of the clock scene:

 

Harold Lloyd was a silent movie actor and stuntman. While these clips were obviously staged, I enjoy these old movies for the street scenes.

 

 

Okay, I have a serious question after watching these old films and seeing tons of old pictures.

 

Were potholes invented in the 1970's?

He is only half the actor of the legendary Harold Zoid!

 

 

I was really trying to remember what shows have referenced Harold Lloyd, totally forgot about Futurama.  I think they reference him in Boardwalk Empire as well.

The clip is from "Speedy", Paramount Studios; 1928.  This is Lloyds last silent film and I think his best.  The film was shot entirely on location in NYC, Brooklyn, Bronx and most of the scenes are NOT staged.  The put a camera on an ambulance, turned on the siren and started driving under the assumption that traffic and pedesrians would give way.  In the next to last scene on the film, there's a chase in lower Manhattan.  You can recognize the buildings which are still there.  Also note the Manhattan skyline in the opening.  It centers on the tallest building in 1927:  The Woolworth Buidling.........

 

Check out Lloyd in the "Freshman".

 

Harold Lloyd was a silent movie actor and stuntman. While these clips were obviously staged, I enjoy these old movies for the street scenes.

 

 

Okay, I have a serious question after watching these old films and seeing tons of old pictures.

 

Were potholes invented in the 1970's?

 

Probably about the time we started using bargain basement road design, construction and materials. Plowing and salting the roads is also hard on them -- in the old days they used fiery cinders to melt snow and ice.

^Good call! Come to think of it, plowing might be the key. My grandfather told me that they started plowing his street in the 1930's.