Brooklyn in the sixties
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2017
- Back in the late 1960s, long-haired, Dylan-loving Brooklyn kids gathered at a place they called Hippie Hill, described as “a long grassy knoll just up from the Totem Poles,” in a 2008 Daily News column.
The “Totem Poles,” below, are Stanford White-designed Grecian columns marking the entrance to the park near the 15th Street subway station.
“On some summer nights in the late ’60s, the crowds would exceed a thousand, young wanna-be troubadours strumming guitars and singing Dylan tunes, which was an instant hippie chick magnet,”.
“Eight-track tape decks boiled with angry Dylan songs. Even returning Vietnam veterans joined the scene, love beads dangling with their dog tags on Hippie Hill, where Dylan provided the soundtrack for our war-torn generation.”
Frorn in Brooklyn and lived there from 1949 till 1985 Funny I dont recall the racism..we insulted everyone and they insulted back and there were people of many nations and races on the block..
I lived in Brooklyn then and I must say that Brooklyn at that time was more than a place of racial and ethnic strife. As a working-class Brooklynite, I knew a borough made up of an ethnic patchwork within what I was taught was the melting pot of New York City. There was some strife that erupted from time to time, but this video makes it seem as if we were constantly at each other’s throats. Brooklyn in the 60’s was like other places in the 60’s. The racial and economic changes of the 60’s were manifested there, as they were in other urban locations at the time. We were all people trying to live the best way we could. It wasn’t a bed of roses, but it wasn’t a battle field either.
Very true! I was a few months old when we moved from near the crash site to St. Albans. My mother grew up in 1930s - 50s ENY, north of Pitkin Avenue & her siblings & my grandparents never had any problems in what was a majority Caucasian neighborhood.
We ended up moving back there in 1965 & we kids, of all colors & ethnicities played together, our parents hung together, sitting on the stoops & while there was an incident or two & I'm not saying that there were no prejudiced people, 99% of us got along. Truth be told, most were likely to have problems with members of their own race, than any problems based upon race.
I had heard of those who after dark, were chased from Highland Park, back across Fulton Street, or across the Conduit near City Line, I went to school a few blocks away from Highland Park & from the late 60s through the mid 70s, had plenty of friends of all colors, had Caucasian parents invite me to their homes to play with my classmates & for me & most of my friends, that's the way it was.
I saw the neighborhood change in the late 70s through the 80s & grew to hate a neighborhood that I once loved. I'm not crazy about it today because it's a neighborhood that I no longer know & it's nothing like the ENY in which I grew up.
I was born in 1957 and grew up all through the 60's in an Italian home on 18th ave across from the "EL". I had 3 other younger siblings that played outside everyday without fear. I saw my share of drunks and glue sniffers, but they were all harmless. I walked to catholic school several blocks away. Brooklyn are where I store my fondest memories.
Do you remember the Walker theater on 18th Avenue
@@jimmyolsen5897I remember a theater but it was called the Culver theater. I remember watching the coming attraction of "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" and couldn't sleep for days. I lived a few doors down from over the amazing candy store across MacDonald Ave. I also remember when it became a bank and they gave away toasters for new accounts.
@@bobdaman98 I lived in east Flatbush in the early sixties to 77 but I had friends in Bensonhurst and an aunt in Bay Ridge 8th Avenue and 70th street I sure miss Brooklyn
@@jimmyolsen5897I can relate, I had family all over the boroughs except the Bronx.
@@bobdaman98 I took my shoeshine box and went in to every bar beginning at Nostrand and Church avenues all the way to the bocci ball courts right where they were building the Verrazano, Narrows Bridge then I hitched on the back of the bus with my box and a pocket full of nickels dimes and quarters man I wish I would’ve saved those coins they were all made of pure silver back then
Born and raised in East Flatbush safest neighborhood I have a lived in my life from 55 to 77
Where was I? I missed this horror. We were fine.
My parents were around in Brooklyn.in the 60s . They shared with me of happy moments not much crime. I always wanted to be in the era of the 50s and 60s. Men respected women. Women.were more like ladies love the clothing back then Love the music as well. I'm a 70s baby. Born in 1970. I'm 51.
I grew up in Brooklyn...born in 1949 lived on Ocean Ave. Road my bicycle everywhere..parents didn't worry about child predators...we were fine !!
Back when junk food, prepackaged meals, pop tarts and sugared artificially colored beverages were a regular part of every new york kids diet!
I don't remember this racist hell.
Me neither
Could not you find positive stories, instead of CRIME?"
What is your source for the photo at 1:20?
my father has a piece of ebbets field!!!
ballcaps or stadium ?
HE DRUNK
@@desinews8 HEY HOCKEY PUCK U DRUNK
Mine too
This was super interesting.
Born in
Flatbush
If you believe this canned PC tripe you'll believe anything. First of all, for a long time, the normal middle class controlled Brooklyn up till about 1968. Prior to the "civil rights movement era, you could walk from Coney Island to Park Slope and no one bothered you. There was very little crime and drugs were only among jazz musicians in the village. Certainly prior to 66-67 Brooklyn was for the most part a garden spot and a very good place to live. Only the John Lindsay era ended that. After that, sure there was "white flight" I wonder what might have caused that? Terrible bigotry or...what was being done to the taxpayers?......
No shit Cindy, I forced myself to watch all two and a half minutes of this stuff. I grew up in the Bush Terminal section (now it's all called Sunset Park) in the 1950's/60's. Spent a lotta time in Bay Ridge and moved there in 1973. My first apartment (studio) was $90/month with gas and electric included! I left that apartment and NYC in 1988 for upstate NY. In the 60's/70's and even the early 80's Bay Ridge (also Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst) was a great SAFE place to live. Shore Road was safe anytime day or night as was the rest of Bay Ridge. Pretty much no crime and Norwegians, Italians and Greeks ONLY lived there. You're quite correct about Mayor Lindsay, whata schmuck. Still though, I miss old Bay Ridge.
There were crime an drugs going on in Brooklyn as well as the Ocean Hill Brownsville elementary school boycotts. The 65' blackout wasn't like the 77' one but with King getting assassinated in 68' things changed.
Yeah aldeb, a whole lotta crime. Only not so much in some neighborhoods. I worked in the Robert Halls and also christmas help at A&S on Fulton in 1968. Fulton street was on the border of some really crappy areas (Tillary projects) near there. Went to summer school in 67' at Brooklyn Tech in Ft. Green, talk about shitholes.
I remember both blackouts. Lived in Bay Ridge during the 77' one and it wasn't bad at all, friends and I even helped direct traffic by Bohacks on 75th street. I remember store owners sitting on chairs with shotguns and Coleman lanterns in front of their shops. No problems as I recall. Still my man, with all those "changes" a lot of Brooklyn was a sweet place to live. Maybe not; East NY, Bushwick, DUMBO, Greenpoint or Crown Heights.
Hey Preston, my memory is a bit fuzzy. Is Red Hook part of South Brooklyn??? That was a tough area in the 1960's, real badass. You're right about the P C stuff. You can take the kid out of the city but you can't take the city out of the kid!
Holy crap man, you know your stuff. My mom was born and grew up on Van Brunt street a few blocks from the water. That was in the 1920's, and she's still alive at 98 years old. Doesn't the Gowanus canal run through there somewhere?? Seems like a million years since I've been in that neighborhood, had a buddy on Smith and 9th near the F train el. Thanks for the history lesson, ain't gonna find that info in books.
Narration very annoying
what was that plane crash
In 1960, a United Airlines passenger jet crashed into Park Slope on Sterling St. and 7th Avenue. It had collided with a small commuter plane over Staten Island. The passenger Jet was crippled and the Pilot was trying to get to Prospect Park to avoid crashing into the streets. He did not make it. Everyone was killed except for one little boy. But, unfortunately, the boy dies several days later in the hospital. You can do a Google Search on this an dread more about it.
Jim Morris I heard about that plane crash in Parkslope in 1960 but back then Parkslope was a ghetto because a local newspaper's headline read PLANE CRASH IN BROOKLYN GHETTO
I heard about this about this on NPR WNYC
@@paulfrombrooklyn5409, FYI. That plane crashed into a church. The name of the church was Pillar of Fire, no shit. Google it.
@@paulfrombrooklyn5409Actually it collided with a Lockheed Constellation which was a large 4 engine piston airliner designed and built for long range flights. It was one of the larger pre jet age airliners. I do remember hearing the explosion when that jet crashed into Park Slope. I was in East New York Brooklyn and it shook us as well. At first we thought it was a sonic boom. Then later we heard the news of the crash.
Narrator sounds fake.Must be a Artificial Intelligence voice,not a real person
How come 1940s big band music is playing??? Shouldn't the music be the Beatles, Stones and Animals. More fitting especially the Animals song :We got to get out of this place.