Me too. London was a generous, relaxed, tolerant city. We really believed things would get better for everyone. Thank you.
@johnnyb8825
Жыл бұрын
What helped was that the post-WW2 economic boom was at its peak in the 1960s.
@griswald7156
10 ай бұрын
@@cliff-nb6bmand ridiculously expensive…
@silverstars7882
Жыл бұрын
I was 22 in 1969 living in London and having a fantastic life. Happy days.
@gezbo66
Жыл бұрын
I was 3 then and quite happy too.😀
@johnnyb8825
Жыл бұрын
@@gezbo66 I was 3 too (which I vaguely remember). The passage of time blows my mind sometimes!
@marilyngable398
Жыл бұрын
I agree! I was 21, London was an exciting time. There was an air of expectancy, that anything could happen. I lived, and still do, in the 'burbs,' but every Saturday night we went 'up West.' The restaurants were fantastic, lots of bistros as I remember, with live music, and very small dance floors! If I wasn't with a boyfriend, then there were some great clubs/discos to dance the night away. So happy I was the age I was, in this era.
@zeddeka
7 ай бұрын
It's great being young isn't it
@tattyshoesshigure5731
10 ай бұрын
I really liked the old neon signs at Piccadilly Circus, they had a warmth & character that cold soulless LED screens lack. You often see the neons as ‘scene setting’ shots in 1960’s TV shows like The Saint & Dial 999… also in feature films when a bright lights, big city type theme needs to be established.
@zeddeka
7 ай бұрын
Swings and roundabouts. The old neon lights may have been nicer, but back then the rest of Piccadilly was horrific. It was notorious for drugs and dirty old men picking up underage kids.
@tattyshoesshigure5731
7 ай бұрын
@@zeddeka…whereas these days it’s notorious for robbery, violent assault, sexual offences & anti-social behaviour. So no change there then!
@horsenuts1831
10 ай бұрын
Amazing, thank you. This is wonderful.
@seansmith445
11 ай бұрын
Is that background noise really necessary?
@Dawn-Songs
3 ай бұрын
Simply just turn the sound off !! 🙄
@griswald7156
10 ай бұрын
I ate my first pizza in Piccadilly Circus in about 1969…
@stephenspence1192
10 ай бұрын
Any good?
@griswald7156
10 ай бұрын
@@stephenspence1192 i realise now it was pretty bad…but as it was my first i thought mm that was reasonable.. But since then Pizza has been developed and have become luxurious… The 1969 Piccadilly one was about the size of a saucer it was hard solid construction with a sprinkle of cheese and a black olive in the middle..it left me confused as to why they were popular in Italy…i would have preferred just a cheese on toast on that day…it was more of a cultural continental foray..i wouldnt describe it as delicious…no way..i dont think you could buy a Dona kebab in London in 1969..but egg and chips was easy to come by at the “golden egg” in Leicester Square
@stephenspence1192
10 ай бұрын
@@griswald7156 I thought as much. The frozen pizzas in the early 1970s were nothing to write home about. I shudder to think what an Italian would have thought of them. Thank you for your reply.
@highpath4776
9 ай бұрын
@@griswald7156 Pizza Express in 1975 in Wimbledon Villiage , it was wet. Only had one (maybe two, Pizza Express ones since just to try and see If I was wrong). Used to go when a student to an independent 9pm on Thursdays opposite Liverpool Street station, they were Italians and about 12 of us would go , sharing the slices around was much better. Best Pizza I had was in Morningside, Edinburgh in 1993
@zeddeka
7 ай бұрын
Hope you got out as quickly as possible after that. It was an incredibly sleazy and notorious place back then .
@davidhathaway8271
Жыл бұрын
Would have been better if it wasn't for the pretend camera noise ( which I turned off ) 60's music would be more appropriate.
@lauraarcher1730
9 ай бұрын
But that is exactly the sound you would hear if you were watching a home movie. Really authentic.
@John-ls2gp
9 ай бұрын
Jackhammer
@davidhathaway8271
9 ай бұрын
@@lauraarcher1730 Yes I accept what you say but still a bit irritating! Cheers.
@Slinkygal
11 ай бұрын
Too much noise to watch.
@noelsalisbury7448
Жыл бұрын
If this was LA , Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention could do the voiceover from 'Plastic People' " I hear the sound of marching feet, down Sunset Boulevard to Crescent Heights and ... there at Pandora's Box .... we are confronted with a vast quantity of Plastic People " .... Substitute 'Pandora's Box' with the Statue of Eros and there's no a great difference 😄
@stud105
9 ай бұрын
Well the weather and the age of London compared to LA.
@ianthompson662
10 ай бұрын
when England was England and not full of illegal immigrants.
@howareyou857
10 ай бұрын
Don't be ridiculous
@horsenuts1831
10 ай бұрын
Oh, bless you, you've been groomed. It's fascinating how the simple-minded can be controlled so easily.
@ianthompson662
10 ай бұрын
yes i was groomed back in the 1950's when this country was not full of illegal immigrants and a better place to live. @@horsenuts1831
@acptelford1307
9 ай бұрын
@@horsenuts1831So where’s all the ethnics in these films?
@_B.M_
8 ай бұрын
Get your facts right. Most immigrants are legal. Yes, i agree there are some illegal ones but to say england is 'full' of them is pretty stupid
The 60’s, the decade of never ending roadworks! Should have dubbed the video , with a call to prayer even ,anything would be preferable to the awful noise of jackhammers!
@bohsgerry
5 күн бұрын
full of hippies.pity no skinheads-were out in 1969
@geoffcrisp7225
9 ай бұрын
This is the London of my teens, living in the NW suburbs we would go into the West End Friday and Saturday night's. Tiffanys night club in Shaftesbury Ave was a regular haunt, then onto a late bar or club in SOHO. Safe to walk around if on your own, few people not born in London wandering around. Leicester Square has been destroyed by over development and tacky fast food joints. Few buskers or street entertainers now. I don't feel at home in Central London anymore.
@highpath4776
9 ай бұрын
Done some early mornings around Oxford St when Elizabeth Line first opened and up at Warren Street for some riding old buses but London has changed, some of the films on YT show that skyline change at street level. I will probably get to Hamleys for Christmas but it gets difficult to get out and about. I was always aware of central london - probably from watching Simon Dee time on BBC , but never really went there other than a school coach tour at the end of the 60s yet somehow I knew where everything was. I suppose we went by car from South London to visit relations in Clapton so that covered London Bridge inc its rebuilding and I would go with Dad to a mission hall in waterloo on sunday afternoons doing tea for the rough sleepers in the area travelling on the much reduced weekend rail services. Was much older to do a deliberate trip to Trafalgar Square , then had some monthly meetings of a club in Farringdon (sometimes we used the Lamb and Flag in Kensington) and I must have visited my Cousin in Knightsbridge when she was a trainee nurse at St Georges Hospital Hyde Park Corner. Mid Teens I was all over Greater London travelling most bus services (couldnt afford rail) and it just seemed I knew everywhere and felt at home in the street markets of Fulham or the dying docklands of Canning Town. Went too with Dad early morning to Covent Garden Market to get boxes of produce for the church harvest festival. I should have made more out of the opportunity of working in the city If I had thought at the time.
@henrysmith883
9 ай бұрын
‘Safe to walk around cos there were few people not born in London’. Had to get that bit in didn’t you. How do you know where people were born - ask to see their birth certificates did you. Or do you mean black and Asian people in which case spell it out.
@highpath4776
9 ай бұрын
@@henrysmith883 I am so happy knowing everyone born within the M25 does not aspire to be landed with a criminal record. (TBH there was a problem with EE gangs coming over with a pickpocketing epidemic a few years ago in the touristy street places,. the present wheeze is the street begging - mostly using old (looking) indian ladies - its not agressive , just untidy !
@zeddeka
7 ай бұрын
It's weird how you seem to equate safety with people born in London. In fact, London was and always has been absolutely full of people not born in London. Interesting that you don't seem to have mentioned what was going on in and around Piccadilly at the time, which was absolutely notorious for drugs and as a pickup site for dirty old men preying on underage kids.
@seekingtruth4105
10 ай бұрын
No migrants or not allowed to say anything else 😢
@howareyou857
10 ай бұрын
Yeah you are so oppressed...yet here you are speaking your mind
@seekingtruth4105
10 ай бұрын
@@howareyou857 oh dear another knuckledraging woke
@howareyou857
10 ай бұрын
@@seekingtruth4105 Still providing us with evidence of your 'oppression' by calling people who disagree with you stupid names. 🙄 Sooooo oppressed....
@seekingtruth4105
10 ай бұрын
@@howareyou857 yeah
@howareyou857
10 ай бұрын
@@seekingtruth4105 sure you are 🙄🤣
@clivebaxter6354
9 ай бұрын
Not like that now is it!
@highpath4776
9 ай бұрын
yeah , someone took away all the neons at picc circ and changed all the buses.
@_B.M_
8 ай бұрын
No shit sherlock. Its been like 60 years. Is anywhere in the whole world the same as it was back then??
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