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Springfield New Jersey USA 1944 stock footage and images
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Various scenes of daily life in Springfield, New Jersey during WW2
Opening title "The Old Home Town". A young woman opens the front door of a house with a Service Flag in the window during World War 2. Service Flag displayed in house window showing one star, meaning 1 person in the household is serving in the military. Camera pans inside living room, displaying photographs of relatives serving in the military. Woman writes a letter to her son. Hand writing out letter with pen. View of the First National Bank of Springfield on Main Street, Springfield New Jersey. Woman buying ticket at movie theater box office. Movie theater displays sign that reads “Buy War Bonds and Stamps Here”. A woman enters Hoffman Drugstore Luncheonette with her child. High School students drink soda while sitting at drugstore counter while soda clerk fills soda from soda fountain. View of downtown Springfield, New Jersey. Women out shopping and eating ice cream in downtown Springfield, New Jersey. Children exit the James Caldwell Elementary School at 36 Caldwell Pl, Springfield Township, NJ 07081 and line up in front of the police crossing guard. Mailman walking down residential street and delivering mail to a woman at a house. Smiling woman closes door with Service Flag displayed. Woman shares letter with neighbor. Women read a V-Mail from abroad. Paperboy riding bike throws evening newspaper to porch. Man gets newspaper from porch. Man reads newspaper while sitting in living chair. Wife and daughter read from behind the man reading newspaper. The family reads the newspaper together. A Lions Club Honor Roll signage containing every person fighting abroad in Springfield, New Jersey. View of Springfield Township military Honor Roll. A Lions Club member adds a star beside the name Howard Lott, a soldier who died fighting in the Mediterranean. Two Lions Club members look mournfully at sign. A “Handy-Man Association” meets together near the Lions Club Honor Roll signage. Old man sawing wood while wife watches. Old man fixes bureau drawer. Man cleans window while on ladder. Old man climbs ladder to remove window screen. Woman gives doorknob to a man and he re-attaches it to a door. Man paints a porch while a woman sweeps. Townspeople enter the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, New Jersey (37 Church Mall, Springfield Township, NJ 07081, United States). Townspeople attend church service. Pastor delivering his sermon. Women lower their heads in prayer during church service. View of bell tower of the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield, New Jersey.
Activities in Springfield, New Jersey and its citizens' interest in the war effort at home, during World War 2.
Screen magazine film 'The Old Home Town' shows activities in Springfield, New Jersey and its citizens' interest in the war effort during World War II. Blue star service flag in the window of a house to symbolize a family member in service. Close up view of the blue star service flag. Interior of the house. Framed photographs on the mantle in the living room, including some of young men in military uniform. A mother writes a letter to her son describing the latest activities of Springfield. 1940s small town America views include the First National Bank of Springfield, a store for War Bonds and Stamps, a Luncheonette for soda, candy, and ice cream. High School teenager children at a packed drug store soda fountain area. Cars line a street downtown. Women outside stores in the market. Children rush out of a school building. A mail man approaches a house to deliver mail. A blue star service flag is seen at that also. Two women share news received in a mail from a son at war. A newspaper boy delivers the newspaper to a doorstep. A man reads the newspaper with his family in the living room. An Honor Roll erected by the Lions Club in the town square. Two men put up a star near the name of Howard Lott, lost in the Mediterranean. Men fix handy work around houses like: saw wood, fix bureau, wash windows, fix doors and paint landings. People of Springfield in a church pray for the young men and women in service.
National Marble Championship held at Ocean City in New Jersey, United States.
Shows the National Marble Championship held at Ocean City in New Jersey, United States. Contestants from round the country take part. Match played on hexagonal rings. Cliff Seaver of Springfield, Massachusetts wins the title. The crowned champion poses for the camera
"By Request Department" shows scenes of soldiers' home towns for soldiers deployed overseas in World War 2; views of several American towns circa 1945.
Busy streets of the cities in the United States. A woman officer at a desk of Army-Navy Screen Magazine's "By Request Department" addresses U.S. soldiers overseas during World War 2, and says they will show views of various American home towns by request. Busy intersection along Capitol Street in Charleston, West Virginia. 1930s automobiles on roads and American citizens walking on city streets. Next scene shows the main street of Wytheville, Virginia with cars, pedestrians, and shops. Next scene is of main street area in Fall River, Massachusetts. Buildings seen on either sides of the streets and buses at bus station depot. Next view is of Springfield Street, looking toward Market Street in the center of Newark, New Jersey. Main streets of Winslow Arizona, with citizens dressed in Western wear, and then a main intersection in Tucson, Arizona, where a paper boy sells newspapers on a street corner.
New York Yankees and New York Giants baseball teams train in the north during World War II
The New York Yankees train at Atlantic City New Jersey for the 1944 baseball season, during World War 2. Yankees players, wearing long sleeves, jog around the infield. Manager Joe McCarthy addresses the club. Players warm up with throwing and batting drills. Outfielder Ed Levy (#9) swings in batting cage. Second baseman Stuffy Sternweiss (#2) takes a swing. Manager McCarthy clowns around with movie camera. Action shifts to New York Giants spring training camp in Lakewood, New Jersey. Catcher Gus Mancuso takes part in camera tricks. Manager and Hall of Fame slugger Mel Ott looks over his squad. Shortshop Billy Jurges hits a ground ball. (Note: Spring training for all Major League Baseball clubs was in the north that year because of travel restrictions during World War II.)
Destruction in coastal northeast USA from the 1944 "Great Atlantic Hurricane" (First example of a named hurricane in the US)
Views of The Great Atlantic Hurricane lashing at northeast United States areas (after having already hit the North Carolina Outer Banks), and views of the aftermath and early cleanup following the storm. Regions shown include Atlantic City, Long Island (where it came ashore as a category 3 hurricane on September 15, 1944), New York City suburbs, and parts of New England. High surf flooding boardwalks and coastal cities. Trees bent over and snapped in high winds. People walking with difficulty in the high winds. Streets of towns submerged in water. Coastal docks destroyed and large boats scattered high onto shore areas. Trees, poles, and wires downed over roads and homes. Entire homes moved off of their foundations and placed down the street. The "Great Atlantic Hurricane" was the first example of a named hurricane by the Miami Hurricane Warning Office, which later became the National Hurricane Center. The name was meant to reflect the hurricane's size and intensity.
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