vintage videos

Grand Central Terminal as we know it turns 100 years young today; you can watch four vintage videos showing New York railways in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s below.

"A bicycle is a comfortable and cheap way of getting about. A boon to man…A faithful friend ever waiting to take tired workers back home. And after work, to bring relaxation, health, and happiness."

The vintage newsreel below, from the digital archives of British Pathe, shows window washers cleaning up the Empire State Building in 1938. The name of the gravity-defining reel? "Paneful Business."