RE# Comments made about this reporter. To put things into perspective a little, this Aussie reporter had just started this low budget 1977 teenage music program. It's far from 60 minutes stuff. Let alone not having ready to hand info of the world as we do today to give a more accurate report. He was obviously directing the interview towards an audience that would be interested. Obviously if your a long time old New Yorker watching this now it would easy to look at it and say "WTF". But as an Aussie watching this I thought it was quite entertaining, so because I love the 1970's it was well worth uploading. With that said if a New Yorker came to Oz in 1977 and did a similar interview, a few Aussies would of responded the same. Thanks for watching New Yorkers and g'day from Australia😁👍Cheers Gezza
🦊 A video gem . As a Native New Yorker , it’s possible I was walking downtown when this was filmed . I moved to Boston in ‘78 . It’s sad to see what the DEMORAT Wokes have done to the Big Apple . Footnote : I wear Australian Red Back boots practically every day .
In 1977 , when I was a senior in high school, a friend and I walked from the world trade center. Went to to the top. Then walked to to the empire state building and went to to the top where I threw a paper airplane off the roof. Had a a lot of energy back then.
I rember my grand pop taking me & sis into the city in his car on the ferry. Quite exsighing. We walked around , Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, when you could look out of the crown, spiral staircase walk up, single file. Omg. Then to lunch at the automat. Elephant's trunk's serving u cholate milk,fantastic. Probably 1956 or so N.Y.. Now it looks like Tokyo.
@@simoncarlile1965 The 1970's also led to the further demoralization of America (and other countries perhaps) and is at least part of the reason why we are currently experiencing the global chastisement that is occurring and will get much worse. The party is over and now its time to pay for these wicked times. Magic is Satanic. Not trying to upset you Simon, just being honest about why the world is the way that it currently is and why it is going to get a lot worse, especially when deathvaxxed are re-exposed to the illness that they were deathvaxxed for as well as the flu. Hope you have a good day. Peace!
@gothatway09 Well, but it's logical that you would be more into the 80s/90s since you grew up then. I was born in 1978. So my childhood was mainly in the 80s and my teenage years in the 90s. Of course there was still some influence from the 70s and I like and can watch some stuff from the 70s, but to some things from the 70s I also can't really relate. It's like somebody in their early 20s now will probably also not have much relation to the 90s when they were born, but maybe was influenced and can relate to some things from then.
Tony Caban the city looked like the slums then. drug dealers were peddling heroin and murdering left and right. prostitution up and down the Streets. nasty asses. but old heads talking shit.
I was 9, living in the Borough of Queens! That was the year I got a 3 speed, Orange Huffy for my Birthday with the Banana seat! My neighbors brother had a 1967 Stingray he bought when he came back from Vietnam. It was the Summer of Sam, Disco, KISS Army, "Star Wars", and the year of the Blackout! The manager of the A&P told me, "Tell your friends, I'm giving away all the ice-creme and frozen treats you can carry!" Bless that man! It was a good time to be a kid! And even I knew that Australia was where Mad Max was filmed!
@Mor Dor Most 'muricans can't even locate half the states in our own country and worst of all, we're proud of our ignorance & stupidity. Lately, it seems we have much to be proud about, if you get my meaning.
If all those kids at the end of the clips are grandparents now, I can understand why nobody in New York knows nothing about anything. XOXO Love you guys.
Those kids are probably grandparents now.. I was a very young child in 1977, it doesn't seem that long ago sometimes but other times it seems like a different era.
But at least we have the internet now to educate ourselves. Kids today know a lot more about Australia than those in 1977, definitely not from the school system though.
@@myles432 Very true, I guess the only thing that's missing is the interactions we had with many of our teachers who truly cared back then. My grandkids Dell laptops could give a rip if you learn or burn!
Nathan the 5 boroughs were extremely dangerous do to Frank Matthews, Frank Lucas, Bumpy Johnson, and Nicky Barnes. they flooded the streets with violence and drugs.
After Crocodile Dundee everybody knew about Australia maybe the Outback but a lot of the shows had episode where they visited Australia when Steve Irwin came on TV we all became great fans of Australia he did more to popularize Australia and Australian and the love and care of species around the world my favorite Australian the man was tireless and I still miss him
For context as to what was in the minds of these people - Almost all of the middle aged people you see walking the streets were born between 1935 and 1949 - An 8-year old would have born in 1969 - The US was segregated only 13 years prior - The Year 2020 is as far to 1977 as 1934 is to 1977 - No one you see in this video has ever heard of the word "Nintendo", and they won't hear about it for the next 8 years. - The Atari was released two months after this film was taken - China was a third world country, with an average income of $185 per year. - If you were 45 years old in this film, you would have been born during the great depression, and would have been 13 years old when the atomic bomb was used on Japan. - Man first landed on the moon 8 years prior to this film. That would feel the same to them as we would feel if man landed on the moon in 2012. - If you were 75 years old in this film, your grandparents would have lived through the civil war and the ending of slavery. You would have seen the titanic sinking in the newspapers when you were 10 years old, and you would have been only 12 years old when world war 1 began. You would have been 28 years old when you saw the Empire State Building slowly grow taller over the next 13 months. - No one in this film knows anything about Star Wars, but they will when they watch it 2 days after this film was taken. (on May 25, 1977)
I was there..taking the Lexington subway to my summer job at 120 Wall street...making like 3 bucks an hour.We had a blast partying with this crazy city as our playground.good Times...
The city of my birth, of my family history, where my heart will always remain...t's the good old days because WE were different then. Better, stronger, wiser, simpler. Not addled with the modern madnesses that are ubiquitous now.
The first thing I did when I could read by myself was read a book about all the different countries in the world, because I was curious about other places. I thought that was something a lot of people did, but obviously I was wrong.
I was a teenager when I first visited NYC in the 70’s. It was a strange time, the city’s infrastructure was declining and crime rising but as a visitor I absolutely loved it. Today it’s a totally different place, a pale shadow of its former vibrant, exciting place. RIP NYC so glad I knew you in those unforgettable times.
Everyone in the comments is looking back on that time with rose colored glasses. That was a really shitty time in NYC. Crime was much higher, the city was bankrupt, Abe Beame was a terrible mayor, the subways were terrible, people were smoking everywhere, and a lot of areas that are now safe and clean were dangerous and looked like hell on earth. But hey, the music was cool! Here's what it was actually like. ua-cam.com/video/rHXAYddPLsM/v-deo.html
Look at all those people walking down that busy New York street. Police officers, business people, regular every day joes going to and fro, homeless bums. Each and every one of them with imperfections, perceived perfections by others, hopes, faults, dreams, thoughts, aspirations, friends, lovers, enemies, and families; all living beings with beginnings, middles, and eventual ends. Now think about this short film and the people in it that you can see. Then start to consider buildings you see and the offices filled with even more people. Then consider the amount of people in the world. Consider how many millions of billions of times the above has happened and will continue to happen. Kind of wild, isn’t it? Anyway, I wonder what happened to them all?
I am Just 12 Years old . Born in 2007. But i hate this time. i mean , that technology have fucked and killed our lives. A time , when communications and relationships were people's ordinary life. No needed iphone X or a gaming PC. just a pager and a pc , which could not do many things. people around with cellphones but not glued on Iphones and tablets. they moved their heads around , exploring an amazing city. but why? why did we destroy ourselves humans? we do not want to do it! I turn my tv on in winter . watching Home Alone And Just falling in deep imagination of nostalgic past 90's. I am nearly cry sometimes. I am proud of that time. and some memories that can get me inside lovely past , a past of relationships , love , hope , hummanity . Love You
Even though I don't live in that metro area but rather another region of this country, I do remember New York City in the spotlight nationwide in 1977 with the Son of Sam shootings, the blackout, the Yankees winning the World Series with Reggie Jackson, and the release of Saturday Night Fever later that year with the city featured, Brooklyn to be exact.
The population of NYC in 1977 was not 13 million, it was approx 7.2 million. The narrator is including the adjoining suburbs to the north, New Jersey and Long Island.
Yeh it's "what do they know about Australia". Rage is an Australian music show on ABC. It still has exactly the same splash screen even today. Though by the time I was watching Rage in the 90s it was just a music show (Recovery on after Rage would sometimes have segments like this).
mike65085 I think you’re correct. Thanks good pick up. www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/national/starstruck-boy-from-oz-made-it-20060502-gdngpg.html
I'm 36 years old and you know I love watching all these old videos of New York City even though I was born in Texas in 1986 I was raised in this part of the country the tri-state area and I really really love New York City and I love New Jersey I love to see old pictures videos of both New York and New Jersey but New York City most of all because of all the culture and all the things that were going on in the 70s 80s even the 60s I'll tell you my favorite thing is that at this time the mafia was around and had total control of nyc. It's just one of those things that's on my mind because I'm also a biig Mafia history enthusiast and I see this video and all I can think of is that all these different mafia families were just walking around doing all these things and all these like you know big mob gangster name characters were just alive at these times it's just kind of blows my mind
G'day BBQFanNo1, i can also remember hearing the same about NYC,a few years later, it may of been after watching the warriors movie , that would be a risky place to roam! :-] cheers Gezza
@@Gezza1967 Well these older4 clips are 1.33 X 1 99% of the time, plus if you look, you can see everyone is unnaturally stretched out like Paula Abdul in her PROMISE OF A NEW DAY music video. Hopefully there is a way to correct it, but thank you for writing me back and posting such a solid video!
Across the river in Brooklyn is where I grew up . But I was born there , on the island of Manhattan , some nineteen years before this film was made . So I heard " sharks " and " kangaroos " . Well , those kids knew a lot more about Australia than I did then , I'm sorry to say . I doubt if even I could find it - Australia - on a map then ! A neat little stroll down the lane of nostalgia , this video !
This was before the Wiggles, Crocodile Dundee, and even Men at Work. Australia just hadn't made much of an impact on American pop culture yet. They should have followed up with questions about New Zealand.
Fun fact : Did you know 60's 70's Iran and Afghanistan dressed like this and living with 'Western' culture before revolution(as they say) and war happened
yes I know as well as lebanon they were the party places of the middle east good god the women are beautiful. my friends father had an airline in Iran then had to flee in 1977. we are still friends to this day we would look at the old black and white photos with is mother. his mom is 80 now and still hot
Private enterprise and large monolith companies were just fine then. The city coffers needed money for municipal infrastructure projects which, given the population and age of the city and its roads, bridges, tunnels and subways alone, were -- and still are -- overwhelming.
Seeing all those a bit older guys, probably in their 50s and 60s, kinda crazy thinking a lot of them 30 something years prior to this video being shot were running through the fires of hell on the battlefields of WW2
jahwangful Its typical 70s fashion. This is how people dressed back then in my country Bulgaria. Even in the 60s they used to dress in a similar way. The 1980s was all about dressing like the disco divas, Miami Vice, clips of Michael Jackson and Glam rock groups. Totally different. The 90s were a decline of fashion here
Rage was first aired in 1987... However, this is 1977 footage. You can see at 2:25 that Silver Streak featuring Gene Wilder (a 1976 film) is advertised in the background.
God damn foreign reporters exposing the ignorance of us Americans. "They speak Australian in Australia." Leave us alone ok!!!!! We don't know these things!!!
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RE# Comments made about this reporter.
To put things into perspective a little, this Aussie reporter had just started this low budget 1977 teenage music program. It's far from 60 minutes stuff. Let alone not having ready to hand info of the world as we do today to give a more accurate report.
He was obviously directing the interview towards an audience that would be interested.
Obviously if your a long time old New Yorker watching this now it would easy to look at it and say "WTF". But as an Aussie watching this I thought it was quite entertaining, so because I love the 1970's it was well worth uploading.
With that said if a New Yorker came to Oz in 1977 and did a similar interview, a few Aussies would of responded the same.
Thanks for watching New Yorkers and g'day from Australia😁👍Cheers Gezza
That's the New York I grew up with and will miss for the rest of my life.
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@@hereisayana8207 Thanks!
@@hereisayana8207 you are so correct.
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🦊 A video gem . As a Native New Yorker , it’s possible I was walking downtown when this was filmed . I moved to Boston in ‘78 . It’s sad to see what the DEMORAT Wokes have done to the Big Apple . Footnote : I wear Australian Red Back boots practically every day .
In 1977 , when I was a senior in high school, a friend and I walked from the world trade center. Went to to the top. Then walked to to the empire state building and went to to the top where I threw a paper airplane off the roof. Had a a lot of energy back then.
This is a subjective call. Some folks even delight in how you could freely wear shirts with floral designs since it was in vogue back then
How far of a walk is that altogether, about 5 miles?
I rember my grand pop taking me & sis into the city in his car on the ferry. Quite exsighing. We walked around , Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, when you could look out of the crown, spiral staircase walk up, single file. Omg. Then to lunch at the automat. Elephant's trunk's serving u cholate milk,fantastic. Probably 1956 or so N.Y.. Now it looks like Tokyo.
chuck I was born in 1977 , how old are you now?
Chuck is now about 59 years old, R.D.
Loved the interview and how polite and sweet children were back then.
more polite than kids nowadays that make those stupid hand-signs when passing a TV reporter with a camera!
LOL, you mean thick as fk and knew nothing outside of the US, the fkn goons are still the same today
But they don't know what language is spoken in Australia.
Sure, Australian!
@@MrRedcarpet02 nah, that is just sibjective, in the past they have many violence and disrespectful kids, similar Problem like today
The nightlife in 1977 was out of this world though.
Id love to go back
You’d find me at cbgbs
History teaches us that from great turmoil and strife comes great art, music, literature.New York city 1970s gave us CBGB's,disco.Magical times.
@@simoncarlile1965 The 1970's also led to the further demoralization of America (and other countries perhaps) and is at least part of the reason why we are currently experiencing the global chastisement that is occurring and will get much worse. The party is over and now its time to pay for these wicked times. Magic is Satanic. Not trying to upset you Simon, just being honest about why the world is the way that it currently is and why it is going to get a lot worse, especially when deathvaxxed are re-exposed to the illness that they were deathvaxxed for as well as the flu. Hope you have a good day. Peace!
That so called "nightlife" was shown in "Saturday Night Fever" released in 1977.
I moved to Manhattan in 1974 and I’m still here. Best city on earth!!!
In 1977, I was born. My parents were alive. I do anything to return back then.
You want to be 1 foot tall and shit yourself 5 times a day again? :/
@gothatway09 Well, but it's logical that you would be more into the 80s/90s since you grew up then. I was born in 1978. So my childhood was mainly in the 80s and my teenage years in the 90s. Of course there was still some influence from the 70s and I like and can watch some stuff from the 70s, but to some things from the 70s I also can't really relate. It's like somebody in their early 20s now will probably also not have much relation to the 90s when they were born, but maybe was influenced and can relate to some things from then.
❤😢be strong
You are now 42/43 years old
I was born then too
3:02 Australia is an island with lots of sharks around it.....the kid already knows all he needs to know about Australia.
I could tell you a few thinks about Aussie Rules Football. Do you know what a “Coat hanger” or a “Shirt front” is?
@OceanBlue sounds like florida hahahaha
OceanBlue you realise there’s more to Australia than some desert with a rock in the middle right?
@occams99 "That dingo got your baby" and yes it did.
Jaja but in the 70s the People are diferent.more ignorant about the World map.
I was born in New York in 1979. I remember it still being like this in the early to mid 80's
‘86, too?
Beautiful scene of NY in 1977. Life was fun and exciting around these times.
They were born in the mid to late-60s, so probably parents and few grandparents.
LOVED THAT GRITTY CITY. THE OLD NYC.
It's still trashy, I was shocked by all the trash in the streets.
1970s rocked!!!!!!
Bruce Roberts agreed once they sanitized Times Square it was the beginning of the end...every city needs some “sleaze” to keep it interesting
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In 1977 my dad was about the same age as I am now. Quite interesting to see the city he saw then
yeah, especially with the towers there. What an awesome time.
Oh how I loooove seeing vintage videos of my hometown 🗽 ❤️❤️😙
Love and missed old days, which I go back on time machine , miss it a lot
I hear ya...
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I grew up in Brooklyn. I was 7 in 1977. I remember it well.
Tony Caban the city looked like the slums then. drug dealers were peddling heroin and murdering left and right. prostitution up and down the Streets. nasty asses. but old heads talking shit.
Tony Caban I mean America is a pretty big deal. It's not like every other country
My dad was 7 in 1977 as well
Rest in Peace Rob
04/05/1970-09/20/1997🙏🙏
You are now 49/50 years old
@@kingwyse6327 how come he died so young what's the cause of death
New York in 1977 had some of the best clubs - Ice Palace 57 and Studio 54 opened it's doors - Those were some great days...
Louis Caruso , David Mancuso's The Loft was my favorite...
for sure
I was 9, living in the Borough of Queens! That was the year I got a 3 speed, Orange Huffy for my Birthday with the Banana seat! My neighbors brother had a 1967 Stingray he bought when he came back from Vietnam. It was the Summer of Sam, Disco, KISS Army, "Star Wars", and the year of the Blackout! The manager of the A&P told me, "Tell your friends, I'm giving away all the ice-creme and frozen treats you can carry!" Bless that man! It was a good time to be a kid! And even I knew that Australia was where Mad Max was filmed!
I grew up in the 1970s, 50 years old now, and I still know almost nothing about Australia. G'day mate.
@Mor Dor Most 'muricans can't even locate half the states in our own country and worst of all, we're proud of our ignorance & stupidity. Lately, it seems we have much to be proud about, if you get my meaning.
It’s has kangaroos.
'The Blackout' documentary of 1977 sent me here
Thanks Honeybdream, what in the doco made reference? ua-cam.com/video/L4OipBR29Gk/v-deo.html
If all those kids at the end of the clips are grandparents now, I can understand why nobody in New York knows nothing about anything. XOXO Love you guys.
Says the guy butchering English. And they wouldn’t be grandparents yet.
@@OwyourhurtingmeYes, that was the joke, like... I mean... HELLOOOOOOO, is anybody home?
Those kids are probably grandparents now..
I was a very young child in 1977, it doesn't seem that long ago sometimes but other times it seems like a different era.
Nah they are grandparents now..The elders in this are laying to rest now..
i know it been 44 year today
The education system was bad then......guess what? Not much has changed!
Ralph Sanchico because God knows the public schools are the primary source of teaching kids. The parents are too busy watching talent shows on tv.
At least she knew Australia was at the bottom of the map. I wonder how many kids today even know that.
But at least we have the internet now to educate ourselves. Kids today know a lot more about Australia than those in 1977, definitely not from the school system though.
@@myles432 Very true, I guess the only thing that's missing is the interactions we had with many of our teachers who truly cared back then. My grandkids Dell laptops could give a rip if you learn or burn!
No mobiles phones and Facebook so nice
But already pretty uneducated...
Wow, excellent commentary and excellent coverage👌
Wow just found this I was here in 1977 nursing flash back what a great time
"There's only one word for it: horrifying." LMAO! that got me chuckling.
In 1977 ni was 17 and working in a clothes factory.I miss the the 70's
Nathan the 5 boroughs were extremely dangerous do to Frank Matthews, Frank Lucas, Bumpy Johnson, and Nicky Barnes. they flooded the streets with violence and drugs.
I knew all those cat was around at the in the 70's Except Bumpy Johnson who already pass on in 68.
I had just graduated h.s.!
I was 13. I lived on the Lower East Side. Those were "Dynomite Good Times" times. I spent hours playing Stick Ball and Skelly.
You are now 59/60 years old
2:43. "Americans are notoriously self absorbed with their country"
Somethings never change.
Yes we are!!!!!! With good reason!
I was born and raised in NY and having traveled abroad quite a bit, I find this statement to be quite true unfortunately.
@@joer.5196 Unfortunately that will be your downfall.
Jean-Luc Picard Oh do please enlighten me. Not
Jean-Luc Picard Lame
back when people had style
Style of the 70s.I miss that.
those kids look so happy the kids today look so depressed
Can you blame them?
After Crocodile Dundee everybody knew about Australia maybe the Outback but a lot of the shows had episode where they visited Australia when Steve Irwin came on TV we all became great fans of Australia he did more to popularize Australia and Australian and the love and care of species around the world my favorite Australian the man was tireless and I still miss him
I applied for a summer semester at the University of Dundee (Scotland) thinking it was in Australia!! ha ha. I went anyway.
@@juniorjames7076 lol
It's awful Steve is no longer on TV. He was awesome on TV. Rest in peace Steve Irwin.
And how did i learn about auastralia?
Remember the tv show... flying doctors?
70"s the right time boys and girls Thnx for upload blessyou!
I miss the 1970s, I wish I could go back. ❤
For context as to what was in the minds of these people
- Almost all of the middle aged people you see walking the streets were born between 1935 and 1949
- An 8-year old would have born in 1969
- The US was segregated only 13 years prior
- The Year 2020 is as far to 1977 as 1934 is to 1977
- No one you see in this video has ever heard of the word "Nintendo", and they won't hear about it for the next 8 years.
- The Atari was released two months after this film was taken
- China was a third world country, with an average income of $185 per year.
- If you were 45 years old in this film, you would have been born during the great depression, and would have been 13 years old when the atomic bomb was used on Japan.
- Man first landed on the moon 8 years prior to this film. That would feel the same to them as we would feel if man landed on the moon in 2012.
- If you were 75 years old in this film, your grandparents would have lived through the civil war and the ending of slavery. You would have seen the titanic sinking in the newspapers when you were 10 years old, and you would have been only 12 years old when world war 1 began. You would have been 28 years old when you saw the Empire State Building slowly grow taller over the next 13 months.
- No one in this film knows anything about Star Wars, but they will when they watch it 2 days after this film was taken. (on May 25, 1977)
I was there..taking the Lexington subway to my summer job at 120 Wall street...making like 3 bucks an hour.We had a blast partying with this crazy city as our playground.good Times...
Wouldn't 3 dollars an hour have been good money in '77?
I guess..enough for weed and beer!!
About double the min wage, which I was making !
The city of my birth, of my family history, where my heart will always remain...t's the good old days because WE were different then. Better, stronger, wiser, simpler. Not addled with the modern madnesses that are ubiquitous now.
Alot of those kids would not have been able to tell him anything about America either.
The teens they interviewed near the end are in my parents' generation and they're all mid-late 50's to early 60's today.
i love you New York
I love this . It’s a trip living it now . 2021. 🙌
Why yes
The first thing I did when I could read by myself was read a book about all the different countries in the world, because I was curious about other places. I thought that was something a lot of people did, but obviously I was wrong.
no you were not hence my move to Asia as much as i loved NY its not what it used to be.
Priceless!
I was a teenager when I first visited NYC in the 70’s. It was a strange time, the city’s infrastructure was declining and crime rising but as a visitor I absolutely loved it. Today it’s a totally different place, a pale shadow of its former vibrant, exciting place. RIP NYC so glad I knew you in those unforgettable times.
Wow! so peaceful, happy, lovely
In '92, I applied for a summer semester at the University of Dundee (Scotland) thinking it was in Australia!! ha ha. I went anyway.
Should have shown the tires and appliances in the East River!
It's incredible how classy and stylish everyone looks. A fascinating video of unparallel historical and cultural value.
Everyone in the comments is looking back on that time with rose colored glasses. That was a really shitty time in NYC. Crime was much higher, the city was bankrupt, Abe Beame was a terrible mayor, the subways were terrible, people were smoking everywhere, and a lot of areas that are now safe and clean were dangerous and looked like hell on earth. But hey, the music was cool! Here's what it was actually like. ua-cam.com/video/rHXAYddPLsM/v-deo.html
I was living in New York that year ... I remember Ed Koch and Graffiti covering Everything...
when the mistake that was the abandonment of the gold standard started showing..
Look at all those people walking down that busy New York street.
Police officers, business people, regular every day joes going to and fro, homeless bums.
Each and every one of them with imperfections, perceived perfections by others, hopes, faults, dreams, thoughts, aspirations, friends, lovers, enemies, and families; all living beings with beginnings, middles, and eventual ends.
Now think about this short film and the people in it that you can see. Then start to consider buildings you see and the offices filled with even more people. Then consider the amount of people in the world. Consider how many millions of billions of times the above has happened and will continue to happen. Kind of wild, isn’t it?
Anyway, I wonder what happened to them all?
we moved and the hipsters came in.
@@breakingdragon22 Thanks for that.....
I am Just 12 Years old . Born in 2007. But i hate this time. i mean , that technology have fucked and killed our lives. A time , when communications and relationships were people's ordinary life. No needed iphone X or a gaming PC. just a pager and a pc , which could not do many things. people around with cellphones but not glued on Iphones and tablets. they moved their heads around , exploring an amazing city. but why? why did we destroy ourselves humans? we do not want to do it! I turn my tv on in winter . watching Home Alone And Just falling in deep imagination of nostalgic past 90's. I am nearly cry sometimes. I am proud of that time. and some memories that can get me inside lovely past , a past of relationships , love , hope , hummanity . Love You
Even though I don't live in that metro area but rather another region of this country, I do remember New York City in the spotlight nationwide in 1977 with the Son of Sam shootings, the blackout, the Yankees winning the World Series with Reggie Jackson, and the release of Saturday Night Fever later that year with the city featured, Brooklyn to be exact.
That was fun. I was born in '80.
The population of NYC in 1977 was not 13 million, it was approx 7.2 million. The narrator is including the adjoining suburbs to the north, New Jersey and Long Island.
We use metro populations in Australia
I was not yet born this year! God where I was that year?
A twinkle in your dad's eye!
NY NY. A city so nice they had to name it twice!
My city no other place like it Nyc and state
The lifestyle in this were great.
The year of SNL of John belushi, Chevy Chase, and other cast members. Long live SNL in that time.
Он разве Джон??? )
@@ЮрийПетров-к3б joh belushi, a famous actor of the 70s.
On top of that, the release of Saturday Night Fever in late 1977.
@@robertmasina7388 John Travolta was so young.
I want a time machine NOW.
Destination 77.
I was not alive to see NYC then. Seems like life was simpler and happier.
It was happier before internet and iPhones.
"Don't know anything about Australia" shows you that even then, the public school system in our country sucks!
I remember the Cotton Club for nightlife, and a new opening Italian sandwich shop for dinner. NYC was safe at nights at that time.
Didn't know you had New York too Gezza, cool!
Chris Sutherland just the one😁👍
Yeh it's "what do they know about Australia". Rage is an Australian music show on ABC. It still has exactly the same splash screen even today. Though by the time I was watching Rage in the 90s it was just a music show (Recovery on after Rage would sometimes have segments like this).
If all the children in the vedio were ten years back then .. They are now 52
duh
Sometimes you just see a person in the background and wonder what life they've went through. Here they are, frozen in time.
I was 12 in 1977 I could have been one of those kids that he interviewed but I lived in upstate New York at that time
whats the language of Australia?? Australian!! LOLLL
Yea..I was kind of wondering about that question myself. Trick question. LOL
tca yes but we speak American. Mexicans don't speak spanish, they speak Mexican. lol
tca 😂😂😂😂
Lol~ i'm living in Australia but i speak English
If this reporter (Stephen MacLean) is the same person who wrote the 1982 film Starstruck then sadly he died in 2006.
mike65085 I think you’re correct.
Thanks good pick up.
www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/national/starstruck-boy-from-oz-made-it-20060502-gdngpg.html
Both of my parents were born in 1977
I'm 36 years old and you know I love watching all these old videos of New York City even though I was born in Texas in 1986 I was raised in this part of the country the tri-state area and I really really love New York City and I love New Jersey I love to see old pictures videos of both New York and New Jersey but New York City most of all because of all the culture and all the things that were going on in the 70s 80s even the 60s I'll tell you my favorite thing is that at this time the mafia was around and had total control of nyc. It's just one of those things that's on my mind because I'm also a biig Mafia history enthusiast and I see this video and all I can think of is that all these different mafia families were just walking around doing all these things and all these like you know big mob gangster name characters were just alive at these times it's just kind of blows my mind
It's crazy to think that things were different before now.
yeah, in this video, you see nobody with phones on their hands, there was no internet, and there was payphones to pay.
G'day BBQFanNo1, i can also remember hearing the same about NYC,a few years later,
it may of been after watching the warriors movie , that would be a risky place to roam! :-] cheers Gezza
awesome to see my city in the year that i was born!
Just how often did he have to say that the city was bankrupt.
What were the names of the music that was playing in the video
1997 Daniel Flores Living in the city, Stevie Wonder.
*After the original Yankee tune of course.
@@Gezza1967 thanks.
a 1979 Monte Carlo sighting
Is it me but does Midtown look a lot cleaner back then, than it is now in 2019?
oh no no no 1977 midtown was beyond unsanitary
Son of Sam got arrested 1977, yet still is alive in 2019
Loser
Why is this horizontally squeezed?
Because I had no idea about aspect ratio at the time.
@@Gezza1967 Well these older4 clips are 1.33 X 1 99% of the time, plus if you look, you can see everyone is unnaturally stretched out like Paula Abdul in her PROMISE OF A NEW DAY music video. Hopefully there is a way to correct it, but thank you for writing me back and posting such a solid video!
@@nicholassheffo5723 👍
Wow the year I was born
So a bunch of 12 year olds are supposed to be representative of the entire population's knowledge?
Across the river in Brooklyn is where I grew up . But I was born there , on the island of Manhattan , some nineteen years before this film was made . So I heard " sharks " and " kangaroos " . Well , those kids knew a lot more about Australia than I did then , I'm sorry to say . I doubt if even I could find it - Australia - on a map then ! A neat little stroll down the lane of nostalgia , this video !
This was before the Wiggles, Crocodile Dundee, and even Men at Work. Australia just hadn't made much of an impact on American pop culture yet. They should have followed up with questions about New Zealand.
I remember walking down the street in Manhattan on a visit from Montreal a cop on a horse came up from behind us and said hello ladies.
I did not exist in 70s yet. Looks more authentic.
Fun fact : Did you know 60's 70's Iran and Afghanistan dressed like this and living with 'Western' culture before revolution(as they say) and war happened
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BURN IN HELL THOSE OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORS-M ATOR-TURBINS COCKSUCKERS
yes I know as well as lebanon they were the party places of the middle east good god the women are beautiful. my friends father had an airline in Iran then had to flee in 1977. we are still friends to this day we would look at the old black and white photos with is mother. his mom is 80 now and still hot
@@teenageexecution7783 Idiot!
This was Joey Diaz's New York
It's a beautiful .amazing NYC
Private enterprise and large monolith companies were just fine then. The city coffers needed money for municipal infrastructure projects which, given the population and age of the city and its roads, bridges, tunnels and subways alone, were -- and still are -- overwhelming.
Seeing all those a bit older guys, probably in their 50s and 60s, kinda crazy thinking a lot of them 30 something years prior to this video being shot were running through the fires of hell on the battlefields of WW2
I remember Halloween 1977 I went as C3PO. The moonlight was gleaming off the gold.
His glasses and hair style and fashion look like 1987 not 1977
some fashions and glasses and whatnot lasted through the 1980's. :-)
jahwangful Its typical 70s fashion. This is how people dressed back then in my country Bulgaria. Even in the 60s they used to dress in a similar way. The 1980s was all about dressing like the disco divas, Miami Vice, clips of Michael Jackson and Glam rock groups. Totally different. The 90s were a decline of fashion here
Rage was first aired in 1987... However, this is 1977 footage. You can see at 2:25 that Silver Streak featuring Gene Wilder (a 1976 film) is advertised in the background.
Look at the cars in the background behind him. Will give you an idea of when this was made.
01DOGG01 __,Good eye!
Golly. I had no idea Australian was a language! Lol
God damn foreign reporters exposing the ignorance of us Americans. "They speak Australian in Australia." Leave us alone ok!!!!! We don't know these things!!!
THOSE WERENT NEW YORKERS...THOSE WERE REFUGEES
3:02 Say hello to your grandparents
Stephen MacLean passed away in 2006.
Who was that?
Sorry not 30 million, that would include NJ and Long Island and CT, which are NOT part of NYC
Besides, people today are far more educated than they were back then.