A collection of colorful images of the Dutch cycling in the 1950s. In villages, in cities, for work, for pleasure: the Dutch cycled all over their country in great numbers. Even greater numbers than today.
Cycling in the Netherlands in the 1950s
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*sigh* if life where like the past =
Mooie beelden hoor!
Héle mooie auto’s!
Ik zag een oud volkswagenbusje op 3:18 die ik in de toekomst gewoon moet hebben!
I noticed 2 things:
1) more bikes then cars on the road
2) twice as many people got where they were going and enjoyed it more then those in cars!
3) any ?’s on what “rules the road”
wish the USA was like this
Yes this is how it was in de goeie ouwe tijd
Thanks for a really well produced video! Things must have been lots safer back then, no hemets were required.
Wow, that brought up some fine memory’s from my early youth. (like the “olieman” with his yelling on the streets) Thanks for uploading!
wonderful life , good health and happy people i fell in a more natural world, may be poorer than today but richer in nature
!!!Maravilloso!!!
Bike’s Sangri-Lah
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A perfect world indeed. And yet, all our parents were so happy once they could afford their first car and not get wet in the rain and not be a poor person on a bicycle anymore.
What a lovely film. I suspect many of the bicycles featured are still in use today – it is certainly a possibility.
The image of American women being beautiful is a joke… Wow Dutch women ARE beautiful! Add all the pollution killing brain cells, Dutch women are smarter, too.
@WestLABoy Petroleum in Dutch means that this was used for cookers, heaters and lamps. We call petrol for cars ‘benzine’.
I had to chuckle at the “petroleum truck” around 2:43. Imagine carrying fuel to cars by bicycle!
That back carrier basket at 1:45 – 1:50 !
my mother biked around with me in one of those when i was a baby in the early seventies.
Does anyone else feel we’ve lost some of the wonder since then? Loverly film, shows cycling in an urban environment to be friendly, fun and convenient
heaven on earth,.
The perfect world!
heaven.
That was completely delightful!
Thanks so much for sharing.
The really cool thing is that most of those bikes are still being used today!
Brilliant video! What fun!
paradise!
Er zit ook ouder materiaal tussen en oudere muziek.
Ach ja, toen Nederland nog leuk was.
WOW
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