1966 Oatman Ghost Town. USA. Route 66. theme park located in the Arizona wilderness.1960s Old video.

1966 Oatman Ghost Town. USA. Route 66. theme park located in the Arizona wilderness. The town of Oatman was excavated for gold in the mid-19th century and was very prosperous for over 100 years due to gold mining. For more than 100 years, the town was very prosperous due to gold mining. However, the town declined after World War I and World War II.
It was filmed in the 1960s when a Japanese man went there on a trip. Very valuable footage. Smiling faces of tourists and staff.Oatman is a village in the Black Mountains of Mohave County, Arizona, at an elevation of 2,710 feet (830 m). it began as a small mining camp when two prospectors discovered $10 million in gold in 1915, but the area had already been settled for many years. The area had already been settled for years. Oatman's population grew to more than 3,500 within a year. in 1924, the town's main employer, United Eastern Mines, produced US$13,600,000 (equivalent to US$202,890,874 in 2019) worth of gold at a government-controlled market value of US$20 per ounce. After producing the equivalent of US$20 per ounce of government-controlled gold, it ceased operations altogether. By 1941, the district had produced US$40 million (equivalent to US$695,294,000 in 2019) in gold. At this time, the rest of the town's gold mining operations were ordered closed by the government as part of the country's war effort because other metals were needed. Oatman was fortunate to be located on busy US Route 66 and was able to accommodate travelers driving between Kingman, Arizona and Needles, California. But even that advantage was short-lived, as the town was completely rerouted when a new route was built between Kingman and Needles in 1953. by the 1960s, Oatman was largely abandoned.

About World Vintage Films

I'm doing a Youtube video of footage taken from the 1910s to the 1980s.
The footage is original and was filmed by my family and my friends while they were traveling.
That's why most of the footage was shot in Japan.

The first step in the editing process is to convert the video from analog to digital. Then I remove the unnecessary parts and add the original music and subtitles. We don't want to hide the footage, so we don't have many subtitles.
Black and white footage may be converted to color.

International and domestic travel around the world, before, during and after the war.
We have over 10,000 films that have not yet been released to the public. We will continue to edit and distribute a few more in the future.

There is a lot of valuable footage. Especially rare are old footage from less developed countries. At that time, the equipment for filming was rare. Pre-war footage of Japan is also valuable. Old cars and trains. There is also footage of airplanes shot from the sky. Towns and markets, and people. And people. Famous tourist spots and natural scenery. The fashion sense is also interesting and different from today. Enjoy the scenery in the old style.

Mostly on 8mm, 16mm, 9.5mm, 35mm, etc. Newer types of video, such as VHS, are not covered.

(I translate in multiple languages, so my writing is poor.)
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