This Wednesday’s video comes from the Romano Archives , this footage of New York city shot in Kodachrome color film in 1939 by French tourist Jean Vivier is in impeccable condition and offers a rare look at NYC.

Stray Observations:

• 5 cent pina coloda!
• bring back the stair busses
• Rockefeller plaza looks the same almost 75 years later
• Women in 1939 did not dress as differently from women today as one would think, check out the hair turban on the lady at 1.35, back in style.