Worker brushes off a pair of horses and barrels of beer. Worker transport barrels of beer. View of Broadway in New York City. Party celebrating the legalization of beer and end of Prohibition in ballrooms in New York. Couples ballroom dance as musicians play music. Lavish celebrations by wealthy citizens. Celebrations in Chicago at end of Prohibition. Nurses walking. Workmen walking. Various Americans seen working in various industries manufacturing automobiles, hats. Woman operates machine. Man working on rotating machine. Workers welding. Men digging ditch. View of steam shovel bucket scooping up dirt. United States soldiers, likely at West Point, in regalia march with American flag. Warship at sea. Flag of United States. View of U.S Capitol dome. Image of smiling Franklin Roosevelt framed by U.S. Capitol dome, with stars motif.
Titled 'Sons of Erin march in great parade to honor patron Saint' shows nearly twenty thousand people of Irish descent march through the streets in New York to honor their patron St. Patrick. An American flag flies atop the St. Patrick Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States) as a Roman Catholic priest and several officials stand outside it looking at the parade. Policemen control huge crowds along the sidewalks. A dignitary passes by the crowds in a car.
Secretary of State William Phillips signs the seal of the Department of State on the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, marking the end of the dry law, and the end of Prohibition in the United States. Trucks move cargo of liquor to hotels and restaurants. Boxes of liquor arriving at ship docks and being unloaded. Scenes of celebration in Chicago and New York. Elevated view of Times Square at night with street traffic and neon signs. People drink liquor and celebrate in night clubs, bars and restaurants. A wealthy group dressed in black tie tuxedo sings "Hail Hail the Gang's All Here" and drinks as an orchestra plays. Close up view of a bartender as he shakes a shaker drink and pours liquor drinks for patrons. A chef in chef's hat and apron is seen in a wine cellar where he selects wine bottles and wipes the dust from each bottle, and then hands them to a restaurant employee to bring upstairs. Men and women gathered at a bar enjoy drinks as bartenders move quickly filling orders. Men stand three or four deep waving money bills and trying to get the attention of bartenders to order a drink. Close up of a woman drinking. Waiter pouring from a bottle labeled Vat 69. A waiter shaking a cocktail shaker and pouring drinks. Guests drinking alcohol. A woman brushes her forehead showing she feels tipsy. Busy scenes of pedestrians, cars and trucks on the streets of New York City at Times Square.
New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad trains collide in Atlantic, Massachusetts, injuring hundreds of passengers. Wrecked trains lie at the tracks as people throng the area to look at the accident site.
Documentary about buildings of New York. The buildings and skyscrapers along lower Broadway. A dirigible airship floats overhead. The busy street with vehicles, streetcars and crowds of people walking. The New York City Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States), built over a hundred years ago. The high-rise Manhattan Municipal Building (1 Centre St, New York, NY 10007, United States). The James A. Farley Building housing the United States Postal Service (421 8th Ave, New York, NY 10001, United States) on Eighth Avenue. The Flatiron Building (175 5th Ave, New York, NY 10010, United States) stands on edge of busy crossroads.
Pedestrians creating havoc by jaywalking in the midst of streaming traffic on busy streets in New York City, United States. Several trapped in middle of the street with trafffic passing them on both sides. In accord with a new city anti-Jaywalking ordinance, a policeman nabs one jaywalker and writes him a ticket (issues a summons) for the offense.
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