RIP Times Square. You were truly one of the best parts of NYC during the 70's and 80's.
@generationx-man6539
3 жыл бұрын
This is the Times Square Hipsters and Yuppies would've never survived
@zellah
Жыл бұрын
I was there in ‘83 during a garbage strike. I was 20 year old punk from the South Side of Chicago. It was scary.
@commiesnzombies
3 ай бұрын
@@zellah 5:55 lmao, i only visited nyc once in my life, times square 1989 new years, the whole place smelled like urine, vomit, and sh!t, never again
@Artgod626
2 ай бұрын
These are the original hippies and yuppies
@beverlyledbetter4906
Ай бұрын
Times SQ looked so desperate back then. I used to walk through it from Columbus Circle!😶🌫️
@JimmyConway60
4 жыл бұрын
I was in my early 20s back then. We would go down to Times Square, get a little high and drunk and just wander around until the sun came up. I can still remember the sounds, the people, the smells like it was yesterday. It was almost surreal. Glad I was there!
@joseantoniomoch4006
2 жыл бұрын
Any street characters that have stuck in your mind ever since?
@starpoint78
2 жыл бұрын
@@joseantoniomoch4006 maybe the Times square killer ......on Netflix there,s a docu about IT. ...
@benscotti1991
2 жыл бұрын
@@starpoint78 just watching this now, absolute mad place in the 70s, I'm from the UK, Americas a mad place anyway now haha
@fleadoggreen9062
2 жыл бұрын
When did it start being seedy? When did it get cleaned up?
@JimmyConway60
2 жыл бұрын
@@fleadoggreen9062 Not sure but my guess is sometimes in the 60s. It got cleaned up sometimes around the later 80s.
@MrNYCman530
7 жыл бұрын
Speaking as a native New Yorker, as seedy as it was in the 70's, it's more of a cesspool now. I wish I could go back in a time machine to those days!
@robertrogers2264
5 жыл бұрын
I was a teenager living in northern New Jersey in the 1970s. Driving through the Lincoln Tunnel into NYC was like crossing over into another universe. The action and vibe at that time were beyond description. I even met Johnny Thunders sauntering down the street one time!!!
@wayneh9218
5 жыл бұрын
Imust of been amazing & full of fun back in those days..
@robertrogers2264
5 жыл бұрын
Yes Wayne it really was. All kinds of people were up for heavy action and meeting other people.
@wayneh9218
5 жыл бұрын
@@robertrogers2264 I wish I could go back & check out those days
@sealisa1398
3 жыл бұрын
My teens too...Essex County NJ
@nothx962
2 жыл бұрын
I feel like Thunders was the face of all of this. My interest and admiration for him, the Heartbreakers, Dee Dee Ramone, and the NY Dolls is what piqued my interest in this area and time period. It's like the internet has allowed the world to keep on being perverted and dirty...but sent it back behind closed doors. The late 60s through late 80s/early 90s had sex, drugs and other pleasure seeking events bubbling over into the streets. People now say it feels like the end times, but imagine being around back then? The streets were filled with used syringes, feces, sex advertisements, blood...if people today even tripped and made contract with the ground back then, they would be panicking and getting tested for HIV. 35mm film and tube amps captured the feeling for us all. Long live rock and roll baby! Being born in 88 made me miss all of this by just 7 or 8 years.
@2011Savere
3 жыл бұрын
People used to be scared going to 42nd st back in the 70's. It was fun for me when i was a kid. I loved it.
@jbjacobs9514
Жыл бұрын
Lucky for you, not for most. I remember as a teen hanging there in the 80s - not nice...
@nunayobiz
10 жыл бұрын
Good Times back . You could see a legit double feature on the deuce for 6 bucks, get a Nathan's hot dog for $1 and you didn't have to spend your ENTIRE fucking paycheck on rent back then. 42nd had character and even with the sleaze element, I preferred it to what it is now!
@petercrowley41
7 жыл бұрын
Cheapest movie on 42nd Street in 1960 was 25¢. A real meal at Bickford's was about $1.25.
@joel8583
7 жыл бұрын
Oh wow, that's like Heaven!
@MrLanternland
6 жыл бұрын
Joe L More like Hell
@briggscharleton6139
3 ай бұрын
I saw a triple bill of Women in Prison movies there for $5 in 1986
@gonstotwriter
7 жыл бұрын
Brings back many memories. Lived near the Deuce for a number of years when I was a struggling young writer.
@elerlopez4770
3 жыл бұрын
You still write ?
@gonstotwriter
3 жыл бұрын
@omega Owens It was definitely different.
@jsslandro
4 жыл бұрын
A hotel room in times Square for 50 bucks. I remember going down 42nd street in the early 80s. It was like seeing ancient Rome at its height with your own eyes. Like the wild west. I'm so glad I was born here. I miss the old new York it was the most unbelievable awesome place.
@Uncashill
4 жыл бұрын
I was born in the late 50s. I would go into the city a lot in the early 70s. 42st and TS were a mess. Thanks for sharing this. It was all Smuttville.
@robinthomas4213
7 жыл бұрын
I had great times in NYC. The 60's & 70's when Times Square looked like this video. It was dirty and real.
@JimmyConway60
8 жыл бұрын
WOW! Thanks for making this fantastic clip. I remember taking the train to this area from New England..young guys in our 20's..stepping out to the surreal of NYC…the smells…the people..it was like a fantasy world..then we'd hop back on the train home and save up our dollars so we could do it all over again!
@MisterMel92
2 жыл бұрын
What were the smells?
@JimmyConway60
2 жыл бұрын
@@MisterMel92 It was a combination of things. Those food carts, faint smells of weed, urine, cigarettes, cheap perfume, car exhaust, and who knows what else.
@FingersPlainview
3 жыл бұрын
Glad to have stayed at 49th & 10th in ‘85 when I was 17 on a school trip from Ottawa, Canada. It was pretty scuzzy but it was amazing! Haven’t been back since to Disney York.
@Brooklyngunwild
9 жыл бұрын
Born and raised in Brooklyn and I'm only 39 but I remember as a kid walking thru 42nd with my dad, and clearly as yesterday I remember seeing tourists getting robbed dudes fighting and stabbings plus the drugs were everywhere on the open. Love them days I swear it sucks so much these days people just walk around like zombies, no more interactions with people. Just with their cell phones.
@snarkloaf
9 жыл бұрын
Brooklyngunwild So people getting robbed and drug deals out in the open was a GOOD thing?! wtf is wrong with you...
@surbon514
9 жыл бұрын
+snark loaf He's a smug hipster. That's what's wrong with him lol. Probably moved to NY from Ohio on his trust fund...
@ejay1118
7 жыл бұрын
I remember one porno theater in the upper 40's where they would put HUGE shots of the copulation over the entrance of the theater and then would paint "underwear" over the actors so they could say; "No. They're not having sex! They're dressed, see?"
@SeEyMoReBuTtS
7 жыл бұрын
no its sarcasm you fool
@dedricthere
9 жыл бұрын
Beautiful garage rockn roll. Love it.
@razorfistforce1
12 жыл бұрын
I'd give a year of my life for a day on "Forty-duece" circa '77. When time travel is finally a reality it's gonna be one of my first stops....
@simrac1832
5 жыл бұрын
I loved this period. Was living in North Jersey and commuted every day by bus to Port Authority. Very exciting times.
@serramanila
7 жыл бұрын
I miss it deeply. It was very exciting. NY used to be a Dream of excitement and intensity. Not now. 42nd St was great because it was so lit up at night with that specific kind of light from artificial sources, an alternate daytime. Like a carnival but in Manhattan instead of the country, with gum on the sidewalk instead of straw. And the lights buzzed, which made it very Sci Fi especially if you were tripping. You didn't have to be a complete degenerate to appreciate it but it helped.
@chrissarles1686
4 жыл бұрын
This video is the Times Square I remember as a kid in the mid 80’s big change from the Uber-clean touristy place you see now. No bleacher seating or naked cowboys or Batman, begging dollars. It was a wild place where the only rule was be smarter than the next guy and you could do whatever you wanted, buy whatever you wanted, guns, drugs, whatever, or get beat by all manner of con men. It was scary, fascinating and great.
@truefluekiller
3 жыл бұрын
Really recommend HBOs „The Deuce“ (from David Simon; who also created „The Wire“). Not only is it a great story with great characters, its also such a well done, detailed homage on this area in the 70s. You really get a feeling for how crazy, fucked up but also interesting it must have been
@loftgroover9271
2 жыл бұрын
Nice one
@GoHARD99
2 жыл бұрын
It was a great time to be living in NYC in the 70s
@truefluekiller
2 жыл бұрын
@@GoHARD99 Man Id imagine. Kinda jealous, when I‘m able to see it live for the first time, it will probably more resemble a theme park lol
@GoHARD99
2 жыл бұрын
@@truefluekiller it was crazy but hey it was New York 1970s I live in los angeles now and downtown LA is more old New York than New York is now lol
@truefluekiller
2 жыл бұрын
@@GoHARD99 Haha I believe that
@nyterpfan
9 жыл бұрын
Don't understand the folks bitching about the music.... IMHO it PERFECTLY compliments the filth and squalor of "The Deuce" back in the day---(and yes, it was a SHITHOLE!!)
@cagehfh
2 жыл бұрын
Had an older cousin who worked as a manager of a movie theater on the deuce. As a teenager it became clear what the allure was. Fascinating piece of Americana, time square, the deuce - danger, sex, drugs, freaks, fast food - heaven…..
@DeniseLaFranceCDNpainter
8 жыл бұрын
Nice Jamie Gillis *Waterpower* clips
@drlock978
2 жыл бұрын
Now,there’s someone who knows their stuff. Jamie Gillis. I miss the old Swedish Erotic days.lol.
@larman58
10 жыл бұрын
Wow! That was the NYC in knew and loved.
@vincentlara4563
11 ай бұрын
Wow, this was awesome and the music so fitting! I was a 19-year-old kid from Houston Texas when I first stepped foot in New York City! Couldn't wait for so long! It was everything I expected! This video reminds me exactly of how it was. I moved back there permanently in 1985 and stayed until 2000. Boy, what it a different place when I left! Also went back a few years ago for a visit. Sadly, the fun and exciting New York in this video is gone forever. Thank God for my memories! Thank you for this video, I really loved it!
@peacefuldays4255
5 ай бұрын
But why is the fun gone there? What happened
@whattheysay7179
9 жыл бұрын
Yeah man it was awesome back then, was a thrill. I lived in NJ and worked in the city always made it a point walking down 42 street,Could always get anything you wanted, but had to be careful got ripped-off a few timed to lol, it had a different feel at 6am after getting off the bus at the port authority and heading for work as well.At night was filled with suspense and adventure.
@VisualparanormalChannel
5 жыл бұрын
That’s the New York I remember! Fuck Disney in fact I saw the The Bird with the Crystal Plumage in the theater shown in this video. How cool.
@millenniummuscle7288
2 жыл бұрын
Walking through 42 st was an adventure. You never know what or who you would run into. And you could literally buy anything you could think of,as long as you had the money.
@bruceandersen9810
9 жыл бұрын
I am 52yo old and remember Times SQ back in the seedy days It wasn't a place for young children to go like it is today. I think most people were lost and tried to find themselves through drugs alcohol and sex.I started going to 42st when I was 16 and continued till go today now, I think its safer and cleaner. I think peoples manners and styles have gone down hill. People aren't as friendly as they use to be. No one speaks English, The hipsters are arrogant and boring. No classy Americans, they are gone.
@musicforthepeople4701
8 жыл бұрын
+Bruce Andersen True. Their are no cool people or true artists in NY today. There is nothing cool about today's generation in NY. Anyone who was cool is either dead, close to death, pushed out and priced out by corporate scum real estate whores. It's most of NY like that now. The Village is fucking lame now. Not like the 60s or 70s.
@oochiewally2783
3 жыл бұрын
You think people were nice in the 80s you must out.to gotdamn mind ..the same.exact morons that were pricks in the 80s are the same in 2021 i thankfully seen them back then..what goes around comes around
@tulayamalavenapi4028
2 жыл бұрын
Illegal, illicit sex is most abominable. But either illicit or legal, there are so many sufferings. So many sufferings. Illegal-now they are giving opportunity, abortion, killing the child, and so on, go to the hospital. That is also. And behind that, the killing the child, a very sinful, he has to suffer. We do not know. Ananta-duḥkhaṁ ca na veda mūḍhaḥ. He's taking the risk of suffering life after life. Those who are killing the child within the womb, they will be punished. They will also enter within the womb of the mother, and somebody will kill, and again he will enter another mother's womb; again he'll be killed. So as many child he has killed, he has to go to the womb of the mother to another womb, another. He will never see the light of the world. He'll be killed. This is the punishment. This is the punishment. But we do not know. This area of NYC, the greatest city of the world, shows the worst ignorance of human form of life. I was no stranger there, but also a great saint arrived in NYC, also penniless and with no friend, he began chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa in Tompkins square park. Now it's global.
@pontifixmax
3 жыл бұрын
Watching this, I can almost smell Times Square in the 70s.
@bigscore
15 жыл бұрын
i couldnt have said it better....i miss the old times square
@nikkiblaze3931
3 жыл бұрын
Had family there. They and the City have passed. Too many great memories. Miss them both!
@andyznuff
2 жыл бұрын
Phenomenal high energy song! Excellent! Total Rock n Roll attitude!
@sethseiden5736
4 жыл бұрын
I'm 46 ,I went there with my high school friends around 1990 and I just remember being blown away by all of the neon signs ,sex joints and midget pimps! I think that's why I fell in love with Las Vegas.
@amiracal74
3 жыл бұрын
Midget pimps😂
@NewsHistorian
6 ай бұрын
The thing to remember is that there were diamonds under the dreck. Historic theaters with magnificent architecture bloomed from the 1890's to the 1920's and most except for a handful survived and were returned to their previous glory. Four theaters were demolished to put up the Marquis Theater in the 1980's and there were large protests in the theater community to try to prevent it.
@alvaghar4465
10 жыл бұрын
Minus the graffiti on the subway trains, I think it looked better than now! At least it had a unique character. Now New York City looks like a giant boring mall with the same stores you see in every city: macy's, Bloomingdale, Banana republic, TGIF you name it................
@TheMastersuperblaste
4 жыл бұрын
@TheZoneRanger Yes indeed. NYC and Vegas lost it's subversive renegade charm when the corporate troglodytes closed in on them.
@Piggy-Oink-Oink
11 жыл бұрын
I wish someone had taken a video camera down into the seedy subway stations of the early 70;s ----it was a living hell....non working vending machines...dimly lit dirty walls, rats (well that hasnt changed) , graffiti covered trains, and walls, garbage all over the floors, burned out bathrooms..where the film lol
@willrobinson8846
7 жыл бұрын
This was back when NYC was actually affordable. Today its unbelievable how anyone can afford to live in that city.
@oochiewally2783
3 жыл бұрын
In 96 it was atill affordable you could buy a 1 bedroom for say 50-80 k in manhattan now they are.worth 500k
@robertszvetics210
9 жыл бұрын
THOSE WERE THE DAYS
@anitawatkins954
3 жыл бұрын
Time square aka The Duce was very interesting during those times.I miss the Duce.
@vertigomindwarp
9 жыл бұрын
I've not been to NYC but always wanted to go... Only now the New York I wanted to visit doesn't exist anymore
@puplover7991
9 жыл бұрын
Vertigo Mindwarp No it's not the same, but you should see it anyway!
@SaraBowercanada
9 жыл бұрын
Vertigo Mindwarp that`s a good thing
@musicforthepeople4701
9 жыл бұрын
Sara Bower In your gentrification lily white mind.
@musicforthepeople4701
9 жыл бұрын
Vertigo Mindwarp Don't go it sucks now. I've lived in NY all my life. If you like sterile chain stores and Disneyland you will love it. No hip or cool culture anymore. Nothing cutting edge or cool anymore. All the cool people are gone or dead.
@blueberry72
8 жыл бұрын
+Vertigo Mindwarp No, different than Haight and Ashbury. Things change with the times. Wouldn't you as a mayor like to have as many presentable neighborhoods as possible?
@wolfy1987
2 жыл бұрын
Love the song, and some great footage of gritty Times Square
@Zerkzeez
15 жыл бұрын
The band was called Egor- the song is called "The Street".
@thelastrebelshow1627
8 жыл бұрын
Warriors come out to play!
@RumbleFish69
5 жыл бұрын
Warriors never went topside at Times Square...In fact, they only got out for one fight against The Punks and hopped back on the train to Brooklyn! Know your fake history, bro.
@ciaartin2221
5 жыл бұрын
Ikr😄
@chrissarles1686
4 жыл бұрын
I’m sure he was referring to the time. Not the actual movie or what transpired in the movie. Duh
@Gladys971
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this amazing footage. I was born in 97 unfortunately to late to enjoy this fun era.
@petercrowley41
11 жыл бұрын
I was homeless in Times Square during the late '50s. It was easy then. Movies (not porn) cost a quarter and one could sleep in the balcony without being hassled. Salvation Army meals were also 25¢ (or you could suffer through a prayer meeting and eat for free. Police harassment was minimal and crime was highly exaggerated. BTW, If you lived in a hotel, then you weren't homeless.
@Oliphunk
Жыл бұрын
How old are you now, if you don't mind me asking.
@petercrowley41
Жыл бұрын
@@Oliphunk 82
@2indulgent
13 жыл бұрын
As a 20 year old from Minnesota visiting Times Square in 1977, I could not believe the incredible sleeziness of it. I had never seen anything like it. Of course we'll never see anything like that again. Those days are long gone. I visited NYC last year and it looked like a different city. It's certainly a cleaner, more maintained and a much more safe feeling city today than I remember from 1977.
@bb-gc2tx
11 ай бұрын
12 years after this comment nyc is almost as bad as 1977 just without the personality
@robs5688
11 ай бұрын
@@bb-gc2tx I was just going to say, it's back to being a dump.
@bb-gc2tx
11 ай бұрын
@@robs5688 and it will only get worse. the baby boomer generation of cops were real men who werent afraid to take care of business this generation of millenial gen z cops are nowhere as tough as those cops from back in the day
@ramencurry6672
10 ай бұрын
@@bb-gc2txNot true. NYC crime rate is relatively low. The biggest complaint about NYC is not crime, it’s how expensive it’s become because actually gotten nicer
@bb-gc2tx
10 ай бұрын
@@ramencurry6672 have you been watching the news crime is out of control and the city is being swamped with illegal aliens its a mess right now
@themess3558
3 жыл бұрын
The MUSIC!!!! The Soul! The spirit. Where has it all gone.... I’m sorry but not sorry to say or feel ... but this is what I think, and remember of NYC. Driving up from Baltimore to visit my “crazy” mother’s numerous art and uncouth friends who dared live there doing what they loved on the cheap. It’s all gone now.
@ejay1118
7 жыл бұрын
I remember walking down Times Square looking at the marquees. One of them was for the movie made of Harlan Ellison's short story; "A Boy and His Dog." I guess they didn't think this would fly on Times Square of the '70s because they'd changed the poster and the marquee to read; "A PYSCHO Boy and His KILLER Dog!"
@RobertoLopezstudyis
11 жыл бұрын
Times Square of the 1970s was much better than all those new buildings and hotels surounding them today! Thanks for the video! It is great!
@anitawatkins954
5 жыл бұрын
I miss the old Duce. It was a real seedy culture. But you learned something from everybody you met in that area good or bad.
@azaccone
8 жыл бұрын
Great times on the Deuce. Cheap, dirty fun at every turn. No dirty, asexual midwestern hipsters bumping into you with their hemp man purses. No overpriced chain restaurants and wax museums. Just seedy peep shows, three card monty dealers and a $3 steak dinner at Tad's. Great post.
@ejay1118
8 жыл бұрын
+PO Felcher Tad's is still there. The price has gone up a little, but it was 40 years ago.
@musicforthepeople4701
8 жыл бұрын
+PO Felcher True. You just had to know how to watch yourself back then. The sense of danger and grittiness did make it exciting. People weren't overly conscious about everything back then like today. Everything is so prissy and sanitized. People are like fucking brain dead robots. People knew how to have fun. NYC was a playground then with something for everyone
@johnnyoneye2641
5 жыл бұрын
I brought my girl to Tads That didn't go over well!
@doniellestenson3502
3 жыл бұрын
@@johnnyoneye2641 those rubbery steaks and hard cold baked taters...not exactly the way to a ladies heart...lol
@oldfriend327
2 жыл бұрын
3:53 Although I have never been to New York, it is still a mysterious place to me for many reasons starting with movies I saw in the late 70's and early 80's. My earliest memories of life in general are from the late 1970's and that picture right there exactly describes what my earliest memories of what New York is based on what was seen in movies and television. That world right there even to this day is what comes to mind whenever New York is mentioned. A very different and unique dimension of urban existence. It is amazing how many 3rd world countries do not even look that bad.
@mr.samurai901
Жыл бұрын
There are still places today that look like this. Kensington Philadelphia does, I'm currently in Portland OR and it is every bit as nasty and grimy as this currently. Certainly not as interesting or cool, but grimy trashed up drugged out graffitied places abound in the US still. I'm happy I'm moving back to NJ in a few days , so I can visit Times Square whenever I like. As somebody else mentioned here , no matter how they clean it up it is still seedy as hell. There is a bad juju there for sure. I love walking around there. I would have loved to have been there in this era.
@drewhunkins7192
8 жыл бұрын
These scenes were shot largely from about (about) 1978 to 1983. Gentrification really started to hit Times Square hard in the early 1990s. Though the clean up was slowly proceeding throughout the late 1980s, the clean up was arguably completed by the late 1990s. A marvelous book on the Times Square of the 1970s and 80s is called 'Tales of Times Square' by Josh Alan Friedman. Don't miss this book.
@MrCarlmorrow
8 жыл бұрын
are all the redlight districts gone,and what about the movie theaters
@THXEB-nj5wr
8 жыл бұрын
Bullshit, as usual. Gentrification really started to hit Times Square a couple years after Giuliani became mayor in 1994, you nutcase. Get your facts right. NYC was at its seediest for almost 30 years - starting with John Lindsay in the late 1960s to the mid 1990s when NYC was starting to get cleaned up by Giuliani. The first sign of Times Square getting Disneyfied/Gentrified was when the musical Beauty and the Beast play opened on Broadway on April 18, 1994 -- 3 months into Giuliani's first term as mayor. If you want to get technical though, Bloomberg is who really Gentrified NYC. All Giuliani did was made NYC safe with the crime rates going down, more police presence, and cleaned it up. During Dinkins’ four years as mayor, crime skyrocketed. In 1990 (his first year in office), the number of murders reached a staggering 2,245. The number hovered around (or near) 2,000 for the next three years. In 1993, it was 1,946. In 1994 (Giuliani’s first year in office) it was 1,561 -- and crime has been going down ever since. The gritty NYC era was with Lindsay, Beame, Koch, and Dinkins. Obviously, during the early 1990s (1990 to 1993) aka the Dinkins years, NYC was still gritty. No signs of Gentrification at all.
@drewhunkins7192
8 жыл бұрын
Judged by the amount of street walking prostitutes in Times Sq, the early 1990s were much, much less gritty than the late 1960s to mid 1980s period. As Friendman's book points out, in the 1970s it wasn't unusual to see a thousand (1,000!) old-school style hookers walking the streets of T Sq -- now that's gritty. By the early 1990s there wasn't anything even remotely close to that number (though of course there was still a lively street walkers' scene). Sure, the actual gentrification per see really didn't take off till the mid 1990s, but by '93 many of the old "movie theaters" were being shut down (not all of course). Look over Josh Alan Friedman's book "Tales of Times Square" it's an amazing read. We're sort of splitting hair here in certain respects between the early 90s and mid 90s it's hairsplitting that really doesn't warrant your tone of "b.s. as usual."
@THXEB-nj5wr
8 жыл бұрын
+Drew Hunkins wow. the same stupid bullcrap from you as usual. I love how morons like you assume that NYC in the early-mid 90s was not the same how it was in the late 60- 80s. NYC changed in the late 90s and early 2000s.
@tishgrier2522
6 жыл бұрын
yes, what was the "red light district" is gone now. In the same area you now have some very big, plush theaters. They took the old ones and restructured the insides, making them into multiplexes. There's also a Discovery Center, run by the Discovery Channel, and a Madame Tussaud's Was Museum. Never thought I'd see one of those there. One of the last ones to go was Show World, where they used to have live sex shows. Oh, and some of the theaters were turned into office buldings. usually there's a Starbuck's there, but you can't really recognize the theaters. The TImes Square and 42nd area is now full of people dressed in character costumes trying to hook the tourists. We went from one kind of hooker to another, if you think about it. There's still a real seedy vibe around there though, like bad juju. It's where the MTV studios are, and all the lights. Makes me wonder what the land was like back before the Dutch settlers came. Was it like a burial ground or a swamp? I always wonder. No matter how they try to clean it up, literally or figuratively, it's still awful. I'd hate to work in the Forever 21 or other suburban shopping mall stores that are now around there--and if any of the workers go from a mall to midtown, they're going to get some severe culture shock. You can still spot the hooker or two -- usually if you spot a very young woman in breakneck high heels and a really short skirt, by herself, or talking to one guy, she's probably a hooker. Usually young people will hang out in groups, esp if they're coming in from the surrounding areas or are tourists. I'm not sure if there's even any SRO hotels around there anymore, and, if there are, they're way more low key they used to be in the sleazy old days.
@jeffreyhawthornegoines8727
3 жыл бұрын
I knew Times Square in the late 80's and early 90's. Seedy and dirty, yes, but also so full of life, and so much fun. Times Square has become tame and polite. That's progress, I guess: more normality. On the other hand, it was chaotic and fun. With time, everything changes
@actionpressstunts
15 жыл бұрын
Very cool. love the grittiness of the film and the music too. Well done!
@videoreff
12 жыл бұрын
The day I landed in the U.S. in 1986 I thought Broadway/42nd Street might be a cool place to visit. It was 90 degrees, early afternoon so I thought it'd be safe. It was quite intimidating, porn movies playing on small screens to the street with kids watching them, weird people trying to accost you for God knows what reason, drugs being openly sold within yards of a Police station - glad I was there to see that side of New York, equally glad I didn't get mugged. Many fond memories otherwise!
@doniellestenson3502
3 жыл бұрын
Lol.Its true
@aarfeld
13 жыл бұрын
I liked it funky. Damn Suits! They're homogenizing the very soul out of the city.
@Sturgeon54
4 жыл бұрын
If you want to see what 1970s NYC was like, spend a night in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco - it's like a seedy time-capsule of urban decay.
@RyuEnGamer
2 жыл бұрын
Like Dave Chapelle said "Ain't nothing tender about the Tenderloin. That shit is rough!!"
@BingCherry11
2 жыл бұрын
@@RyuEnGamer Lol!!!!!!!!!!!
@ten4k964
2 жыл бұрын
i recently took my first trip to SanFrancisco and booked a Hotel online....in the tenderloin district. Probably should've done a little more research of the neighborhood b4 just clicking on the cheapest hotel i could find
@chriss1152
7 жыл бұрын
the memories as a kid when I was used to live there it's not the same anymore but still fun to go back to
@OofusTwillip
Жыл бұрын
My first visit to NYC was with my dad, in 1992. 42nd St. was still a bit gritty then, and innocent little me was delighted to discover a tiny shop where Asian ladies were making sequin-covered pasties of many sizes and shapes. We stood watching them for a while, as I mentally absorbed their techniques, and Dad remembered going to a strip club when he and a friend had visited NYC, during their misspent youth. Then, we bought a pair of small, pink pasties, as a present for Mom, who never wore them, but used them as hats for the crocheted angels on her dresser. But those few minutes in the pastie shop had beautifully "corrupted" me. Eventually, I joined the neo-burlesque scene in Toronto, as a performer and costume-designer. My masterpieces were Mitzy Cream's "Razzle Dazzle" costume with 142,000 Swarovski crystals; and Mysterion the Mind-Reader's red & black rhinestoned suit & cape.
@SRLovesPandas1
3 жыл бұрын
this was back when people would look at you weirdly for wanting to move to NYC. now it’s the place to go. I would love to time travel back to check out the music scenes in their prime, like disco and punk.
@taranolan3507
9 жыл бұрын
I am now 50 years old. born in 1964. I grew up in a little safe quiet town in Queens, NY. So my memories are sweet longing thoughts of those days. but then I see this and I realize so many things improved greatly since the 70''s and I'm thankful for the vast improvements. wow, things were really dirty and dingy. wow!!!
@computerpurple
4 жыл бұрын
I'm in my fifties (ouch i feel sooo old writing that) i grew up in Ohio . My dads parents lived in the Bronx . I visited my grand parents in the early 70's. They lived in a place called Rock away Park or beach. ???. I think that was the name , not sure. Don't know how far away that is from the wild 70's scenes in this video. Can't understand why anyone would want that back. Ok i can understand why the horny teenagers back then loved it. Other than that it really is not a good thing to want back. Oh well to each their own.
@Richard_John_Dick_Grayson
4 жыл бұрын
@@computerpurple Hi there. Rockaway Park and Rockaway Beach, are both in the borough of Queens. Times Square is located in the borough of Manhattan. They are far away from each other.
@Zerkzeez
15 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tip. His work is amazing.
@fcbsmokerunner22
5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful to this Cali dude. Wish I'd live in this Generation. while others were flockin to SF, definitely would have went East. Can only imagine the heat in the city at that time.
@bawoman
10 жыл бұрын
I would love to do a time travel visit for a couple of days to 1970s NYC.Not for more than that though, it all seems very cool and exciting, but in the end, alot more people were getting hurt back then, and thats not something I think anyone should revisit.
@Alex21441
3 жыл бұрын
@Shteena S. Sliggnits But more than half of those exciting people you speak of would say prevention is better than the cure.
@Motormouth2112
2 жыл бұрын
I miss the sticky floor's in the 25 cent peep booth shows, and the stuffed nickle bags....
@adik4309
6 жыл бұрын
Gritty and real now it's polished Mecca for rich.
@ras124
7 жыл бұрын
I loved the old gritty nyc. I got about a 7 year taste of it before the clean up/gentrification started.
@Zerkzeez
12 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir. I'm glad you enjoyed the song. Egor is a very enigmatic band. They never released an album, and no one knows who the band members are. The only surviving recording is this one song, which has appeared on a number of obscure compilations- including "Downer Rock Genocide".
@nothx962
2 жыл бұрын
I found out about them for you in just a few minutes. Their drummer is on here replying to a comment asking about them. They sound SICK...I love dirty distorted guitar like they dish out along with the Heartbreakers, Dolls, Ramones, Dead Boys, etc
@mikefoster2976
4 ай бұрын
I was the bass player in Egor. In 2022 Street was re released and in Dec 2023 an EP on vinyl was released by Ancient Grease Records in L.A.
@AIKevorkian
14 жыл бұрын
Hey thanks right on! Great video...great song.... What a total trip! Too bad I didn't make it there until 1992. I grew up in Washington State in the 70s and I remember when FM Radio ROCKED and played songs like this.
@GoHARD99
2 жыл бұрын
When New York was New York i am so grateful I was there for that time period
@bobbycormier
7 жыл бұрын
this is how i will always remember it. i miss it. it was an adventure for a young man. sex & drugs & ... i lived a few blocks south of times square in the '80s.
@curtsmith3064
8 жыл бұрын
Used to take the train from New Haven in the mid-70's with highschool buddies. It was discusting but we enjoyed it. Couldn't wait to go home and take a shower though
@belajadevotchka2
6 жыл бұрын
There's just something about this...I lived there late 80s-early 90s. Here for a bit and Alphabet City which I think the zombie latte swillin kale chewin hipsters call Clinton now. Ugh. They ruined it. Yes, it was gritty and scary but it's something that some artists needed to thrive and create. I know I did. My most inspired work came from living this.
@doniellestenson5231
7 жыл бұрын
a picture is worth a thousand words... it was an absolute shit hole.
@tishgrier2522
6 жыл бұрын
oh, it was. but if you got out of midtown, went downtown, it was very lively and interesting--not as dangerous as midtown. one place you did NOT go was 42nd and 8th ave, or lower. that was real hookerville. a few streets down, on 10 ave, is where the hookers used to hang out who would go with johns through the Lincoln Tunnel (they didn't work around the Holland or the GWB.) kind of creepy actually.
@anonymousrebel6614
3 жыл бұрын
Yes but I loved it...it was home!
@pewsterbaby
13 жыл бұрын
This vid rules. It'll come to mind every once in a while and I'll come over and loop it for like an hour. It sounds like sand paper and razor blades too. I feel like I havta take a shower afterwards. One of the best vids on you tube.
@primemanhattanrealty
10 жыл бұрын
I thrived well in old NYC - new NYC sux
@J-SH06
7 жыл бұрын
Jon Anapol were you a rent boy?
@target1850
6 жыл бұрын
Times change man.
@abe1018
5 жыл бұрын
No your life sucks
@Amadeu.Macedo
3 жыл бұрын
WOW! I clearly remember 42nd street when I first arrived here, in NYC in 1979. The first time I went there (on the second day after my arrival), I was a horrified young man vis-à-vis so much danger and filth... It's hard to believe that, the same area nowadays has been so gentrified that it includes a Disney store!
@Moondust0000
7 жыл бұрын
safest part of NY back in the day god bless it
@ACNC1
7 жыл бұрын
All the "Seediness" has move online
@sammavacaist
4 жыл бұрын
This is so true. There are parts of social media that are like the cesspool Times Square used to be.
@puplover7991
10 жыл бұрын
Ah, the NYC of my childhood. Always gawked at the 25 cent peep shows ads.
@tobygoodguy4032
7 жыл бұрын
Unless you lived it, you wouldn't believe that in the mid-70's,'The Deuce' was the real American juice. (Now its marketed as a tourist amusement park.)
@TheGunnCat
11 жыл бұрын
Was a great time to live in the city.
@oldskool228
9 жыл бұрын
I remember getting stoned with my friends and going down to times square.the adventure started when we got on the subway then into the peep shows and porn movies.seen all kinds of ungodly shit dude.smh.we did that every weekend.
@Buster842842
8 ай бұрын
This is the Times Square I remember. Many hot summer nights enjoying the city life in The Deuce.
@Extremmetzger
14 жыл бұрын
it's so fascinating how places can change! my first visit to the us and nyc was in 2009. but as a huge fan of 70/80ies trash and grindhouse movies I would love to travel back in time and see this weird place for my own. Maybe some eyewitness could tell something about "old" nyc and the "deuce" here?
@jerryakbar6147
Жыл бұрын
I used to drink at the exchange bar on 8th Avenue. I was and still am a elevator mechanic, local 1
@geraldmcwilliams7378
6 жыл бұрын
Believe it or not.some of the best times of my life.
@bigscore
14 жыл бұрын
I miss the hell out of the 42nd street aka Da Duece!!! Good and bad it was a HUGE piece of the flavor of the big apple.
@sheldonhchambliss1385
4 жыл бұрын
Worked on 42 in fifth ave for some years
@lesterdiamond6190
9 жыл бұрын
I often ask kids in their 20's if they've ever seen Taxi Driver. They don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.
@nedtruly33
8 жыл бұрын
Hey I'm watchin ova hea I'm watchin ova hea !!!
@puplover7991
8 жыл бұрын
+dennis ruley That's "Midnight Cowboy."
@nedtruly33
8 жыл бұрын
I know it was a joke about watching porno in times Square !
@puplover7991
8 жыл бұрын
dennis ruley Oh, yeah...you wrote "watchin" instead of "walking"...good job...I didn't catch that!!
@nedtruly33
7 жыл бұрын
mitch cumstein You should've told them Hey I'm tawking ova hear I'm tawking ova HEAR!!!
@hasonmorris5542
6 жыл бұрын
I have to admit NY has cleaned up nicely since then
@JVL171
4 жыл бұрын
2:50 The playpen is the only place that still stands there to this day. Everything else is all gone. I miss the seedy times square.😪😪😪
@lawrencenieroda7437
9 жыл бұрын
Amazing clip! The music's sound and pedigree are fantastic! If you need to see "Mr Rogers" videos, go elsewhere! This is NYC!
@Kell1295
13 жыл бұрын
It was a wonderful time despite the creepiness of Times Square. Young girls would often disappear if they went to the Playland arcade. Other than that it was nice
@prfu1222
12 жыл бұрын
Wow Jamie Gillis RIP. My first job out of High School was as a usher at the Empire theater. Good times in the 80's on the deuce.
@AReservoirDog
3 жыл бұрын
The real American Metropolis before Diseny flushed out all the soul, and real people for overpriced chain stores, and clean hipsters.
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