Broadway & 88th St NYC - 1971
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- A view of Broadway, 1971, taken from the northern traffic island at Broadway and 88th St, Manhattan NYC. Also included at the end is a short segment filmed from the northwest corner of West End Avenue and 89th St.
I made this film when I was a teenager, with an old Bell & Howell Filmo 16mm newsreel camera that my Dad bought for me from a thrift shop for $5. This is the only film I ever made with that camera. The film's speed is indeed slowed down, but I did that in the digital conversion for upload to UA-cam, in order to make it easier to see what was going on.
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The nostalgia is painful. Sort of. But also sweet. I miss my city-- the one I grew up in, not the new one that's in the same place today.
I'm pretty sure the ones who lived before you miss their city the one they grew up in not yours and so on..
yeah nyc was a lot better back when we had leaded gas
you blink and every store on the street has changed
Was a dump then and still a dump today.
I'm pretty sure a lot of Americans Real Americans feel the same way
Little did these people know they were living in the best of times. Life after 9/11, especially now isn’t even living anymore. We’ve hit our peak as humans and now we’re devolved as a species. These people were truly blessed to be born in that time.
You're right
😂🤣 speak for yourself don't try to put down times of today because your miserable every decade is special and has it's ups and downs
@@rosebud8615 yes we. (I) sure was. I miss those beautiful moments at the time I kinda knew it. Alot started to change.........
I don't know what you mean exactly that your nostalgia leads you to believe that we have "devolved as a species". I grew up on 90th and Riverside and the early 70's were not pretty. Lots of garbage in the streets, the Vietnam war still lingering (Lt. Calley & My Lai, how about that for "devolved"?), crime was high like now. Pollution was the worse from all the leaded gasoline and diesel trucks up & down Broadway. Uggh, it was not the best of times. It's only the best of times when looking back. Reminds me of Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, one thinks prior eras were better than the one you are living in. We have evolved to think like that.
@@TECHLOVER_91 Today can't compare to back then. BTW, there is no need to get personel because you don't agree with someone.
MAJOR thumbs up for that fabulous look at all those gorgeous cars !!
I was 6 in 1971. I remember all these automobiles. Dad used to take us each Spring in the early 70’s to see the car shows in the city. I was in 1st grade here, living in Sunnyside Queens NY. My folks worked in Manhattan. Dad at the old Roosevelt Hospital and mom at General Motors across the street from The Plaza Hotel. Great memories.
Ahh, so you and I are the same age.
Trader Vics ! Got Otto Preminger's autograph on my menu early 70's there....
Yes, 1968 Plymouth Fury seemed quite popular still.
@@DTD110865 I was also born in 1965.
the New Yorker Theatre was between 88th and 89th on the west side of Broadway. Upstairs was the New Yorker bookshop, and next to the New Yorker bookshop, the bandleader Lynn Oliver had a rehearsal studio where bands playing NYC would rehearse. You'd be in the NY'er bookshop browsing and next door you could hear Basie. Classic! Thanks for the clip!
My friend's dad Pasquale played Tenor Sax with Lynn Oliver. I thank you for this post.
Have you ever went to the white house bar in Hell’s Kitchen?
OMG I was 6 yrs old in 1971 , wish I could go back in time, I really wish things didn't have to change , it was a better quality of life then, I love watching stuff from the late 1960s, & the early 1970s such a shame & so sad how much the world has changed, these times will always be my favorites 🌌✨🌌🌌🌠🌌🌌✨🌌🌠🌌✨🌌✨🌌🌠🌌🌠🌌
ME TOO
This is what I remember of my youth, my parenting years, the struggles to get ahead. I am comfortable today but life is not complete, life needs the abundance of mind of the years gone by. Yeah, the garbage stunk piled up in some boroughs, the subways were well adorned with graffiti, and times were hard, but nothing like we experience today. I don’t know how the young people of today do it, not easy I’m sure. For me, I have only the memories of what a great nation once was, how I got up every morning eager to try harder and see the result of my efforts at the end of the day. Keep rolling video. Clue me back into the past. Go ahead, make my day.
Thanks nick very cool. I grew up at 215 w 88th and was born in a taxi on Amsterdam heading to st Luke's.
The city I love so much. I wish I could go back in time and make all the "right turns" and life would probably be so much different than what it's today, God have mercy on my soul when my day of reckoning comes.
What is important you realized your mistakes. Can you imagine if we don’t. God always forgive. Peace. 🙌🏼
@@hazztv6317 Thank you.
Not too far away from my old drinking bar, The Broadway Dive. Hi Jude, you were a super fine barmaid.
Claremont stables, Arthur's candy store on Columbus Ave where we bought wooden tops! Merit Farms, the New Yorker book store, Belmore barbers and West Side Camera.
Brings back a lot of memories from the corner of 89 st Broadway. I hung out with a lot of of the locals there Peter Weber deceased now Claude worked at the paper stand for the New Yorker book store, Fat Mike, Melvin and a few more. I worked at the crafts store right there. I know drugs and alcohol took a lot of those guys. Great footage thanks for posting.
me too
Back when normal working class people could afford Manhattan. I miss the old days. Sickening what they've done to nyc.
time travel. What a remarkable window back.
I lived at 215 W 88th for many years up until 1977. I worked at Palmer (Theresa) Pharmacy, summers for 2 or 3 years during high school. This was a real flashback. Great to see the old neighborhood. Nick215, I have a feeling we were friends for a bunch of years while I was in the building. If so, I hope you are well.
DAVID - It's me, your old friend Nick from 215 ! Not only that, the guy running away from the camera at the end of this film is YOU. It's so great to hear from you. My email: ndnyc2003@yahoo.com.
Wow I remember those old Bus I think it was 35 cent to get on not sure, and even west end ave, someone should stand in the same spot a film today to see the big different.
Wow. I remember the New Yorker theater. It was the most beautiful art deco theater ever. I used to live at Bretton Hall on Bway n 86th. Thanks Nick.
Wow, what a walk down memory lane! I grew up on West End at 85th St., and fell such a sense of privilege and pride. Anyone go to IS44 in the late 60s? Remember the teacher's strike and holding classes in people's homes? Been away from NYC since '97 (Bay Area), but still think of it as home as folks and sisters still there. At least the old NYC, not the nearly unrecognizable one now. Sigh....
Me too. I used to walk over to the Hudson River on 85th street. Walk over to the Lowe’s theater. Walk over to the “Mets” supermarket on Amsterdam 86th. Walk over to Mc Donald’s on the corner of 86th and Broadway. Shop at the supermarket, I forget the name, on Broadway and 87th. Hang out at Saboos bar on the corner of Amsterdam and 85th street. And do my laundry across the street.
..between semesters at Columbia..I worked one hot summer..at the Old Beacon Theatre..near 75th St..and will never forget..all these working actors..everyone I ever remembered from all these epic movies.. and the Twilight Zone.. and all those great 60's and 70's NYC-based TV shows..lined up on the sidewalks along B'way..just to see the latest new Charlie Bubbles Film..and everyone sat and watched right through.. all of the ending film credits..in person..priceless..
Just discovered this. It's brilliant. Happy times. Well done!
I love it. My best friend moved to the neighborhood in the mid-70's so I started hanging around there circa 1976.
Boomer
@@everysimpdeservesthis7384 that phrase is getting older than boomers themselves
@@Mistamista69 i bet you're a hippie from the 60's, bunch of ldiotic nonsense
The New Yorker sedan and the Bel Air/Impala taxi at 2:20. Beautiful!
I agree 100%!
I lived on 84st and columbus in 71. I was 5 years old
0:20 - First car in line, across the street, parked in front of the pet shop:
A 1970 Ford LTD 4 door pillared sedan.
LOVE those early '70s LTDs!
That is the car I was hoping to see! In 1971, all the 1970 Fords were on the road.
Marvellous, we moved to NYC from NZ about a year earlier. So evocative. The final SloMo of the young guy running down the sidewalk away from the camera is profound, somehow.
That summer I was driving a yellow taxi called ding a ling on 57th and twelfth Avenue
I wish I could go back because everyone I cared about was alive.
I'm guessing this was filmed in November '71. Most, but not all, people are wearing coats. There are a few leaves on the trees. Looks late autumn. Thanks for posting.
Those cars were so comfortable! Great images!
John & Yoko at 53 seconds....coming into view from the right...cool!!!
Great! I lived at 86th and WEA from '62 to '85. Wonderful memories this video evokes. You can see the pick and pay at 87th, first national city bank at 86th. Can't quite see the Sloans between 86/87th.
Wow, what a great video of the neighborhood I lived in as a child from 1964 through 1972. I lived at 215 West 88th Street and can still recall the smell of the incinerator garbage cans placed outside the building. I also recall carving names into the street asphalt with screw drivers on hot summer days while fire hydrants were open wide as kids took turns using soda bottles to spray the water. What about playing stickball in the garage driveway between buildings on 88th Street.
Very Cool. I grew up at 251 West 89th and I remember it all very well. Nice to see the old Party Cake bakery but I remember it years before when it used to be the Laurie Bakery (not sure how Laurie was spelled). And I spent plenty of time buying things in Broadway Hardware. Not sure if I saw West Side Camera, will have to watch it again, but I know it was there even back then In the late 70's my brother Michael and I both worked there for the owner Barry Glick.. Nice David G
my first year of architecture school - Broadway and 133 St.
Wow this is so nostalgic I was 2 years old that year in 71 damn almost makes me want to cry.....
OLD CLASSIC NYC RIDES!
Wow thank you uploading and gifting us this footage... I too was a teen then, eighteen.
Oh boy that's a good time to live in New York 👍
Cars were so BIG back then !!
+kenmtb That's why they were the best cars ever.
+john first you are so right. I would love to have a 67 Bonneville fastback. If I ran out of gas I could pull the camry out of the trunk
And so comfortable.
And rode comfortably especially over the chewed up streets of the big cities.
Holy crap! That segment at the very end (starting at 3:13) when you turn onto West End Avenue and nearly bump into the older gentleman and lady strolling down the sidewalk and then there's some young guy running down the pavement...that's priceless! It's like watching a real movie. I was just in New York and stayed near West End Avenue and 89th. Great footage.
Thanks for posting this. Can’t get enough old school
Damn, it looks so cool. But NYC is one of the few places in the world that maintained its character, despite everything changing. I'm nostalgic for the old times, but also optimistic for its future. This is a city that will never die.
Nice memories there,in the wintertime going upstairs to get out of the cold and look at the books at the new Yorker Book Store. During the warm summer days we would play handball right there. I remember people like Peter Weber, Claude and Fat Mike who were always hanging there. This is back in the early 70,s a long time ago. Thanks for the film brings back alot of nice thoughts.
Nice footage. I adjusted the speed to 1.25 using the 'settings' feature at the bottom of the frame. It looks pretty close to normal at that setting.
I did the same thing. SO why is the guy at the end still running really slow?
Waiting for Tony Randall, Jack Klugman or Big Bird.
Very nice video! I also love seeing all the cool old cars too
I was there 20 years later in 1991 as a college student! Thanks for sharing!
I love this. I lived very near here. Amazing.
Thanks so much for those pictures too, Nick. What memories. Actually I just moved back to the neighborhood after living abroad for decades. - David G.
endless cool cars
Anyone else want to bang on the hood of a cab and yell HEY I'M WALKIN HERE!!!!
'Don't call me Ratso!'
Nah. They wanna get a vanilla chai latte and defund the police. Them days are over, I rarely meet a true NYer anymore. Peace.
@@jjcnyc6313 ?????
I turned 6 that year and what a eyegastic experience to see those cars.
Wow, classic Corvette, Camaro, Vega, Mustangs! Sadly, near the end of the muscle car era!
I love the old grainy black and white film. I would convert all film to it if I could
Wow! Thanks so much for sharing. I remember Party Cake bc I use to get good bread n cake there.
I can imagine this film with the Taxi Driver theme :)
Great video. Awesome quality.
omg thank you for sharing this i grow up on 88 str and west end ave i have a friend who is on my facebook lived on the same block thank you again
I remember 'Party Cake' bakery. 1970s. We lived in Midtown and they had one there someplace, I think on E57th. I think we ended up switching to Eclair Bakery on 1st & 51st. Man, I loved that stuff as a kid! And so many Impalas, Mustangs, and Pontiacs.
Hi degeleg: As I remember, this was in late winter...maybe March, around 3 in the afternoon.
I was half expecting to see Popeye Doyle running down the street.
Good one
No Popeye, just Boca's car 1:19 lol
As a British born guy in his 60s - love those big American cars (from the days when American cars were 'American'. On a different note, thought I might have seen a Sunbeam (Alpine or Tiger) sailing along there.
This is a Vintage Manhattan Picture!
Nick,
I live at 255 right above what was the New Yorker. I wish I had some photos but would love to see any you many have. My mom taught at PS 166. I miss watching The Rocky Horror Picture Show and any movie the owner of the bookstore would get me into
Taillights about to be styled into the bumpers in the early to mid 70s just another styling trend along with: LARGE SQUARE GRILLES/LARGE CHROME SURROUNDING FRONTAL SECTIONS (with no big square grille)/MASSIVE BUMPERS/LARGE SIDE MARKER LAMPS and note that 1967 PONTIAC coming along the street divider with its one year only front styling with BODY COLORED MOLDING ON TOP OF FRONT END (with top headlights in that body colored panel)AND LOWER CHROME WITH HEADLIGHTS IN THAT CHROME AREA IN LOWER FRONT END! Plus1969 MERCURY COUGAR passing that 1964 parked CHEVROLET as that 64 chevy would be seen up until 1979 in MY NEIGHBORHOOD! And a 1968 PONTIAC CUSTOM S (maybe it is?) sharing what looks like the 1968 CHEVY CHEVELLE body shell (side to rear body shell ?) And note in this 1976 (?) film what the heck happened to all those early 1960s bullett/torpedo styled cars?? (61 pontiacs/63 buicks/62 oldsmobiles and others) I GUESS CAR BUYERS FIGURED THE NEWER EARLY TO MID 70S CARS WERE SOMEHOW BETTER? and now (2022) press a hand held device and POP!! START YOUR ENGINE/OPEN THE CAR DOORS FROM A FEW BLOCKS AWAY AND THE CAR JACKERS LOVE IT (or sitting inside WAITING FOR YOU AND YOUR WALLET)
The Serpico saga was in full swing then....
I think I see my parents' Skylark!
To REMAY I guess the poorer or more as they call affluent type surroundings don,t make any difference where ones friends are raised as it is the indivigual who decides to GET HIGH as it is called and perhaps does not survive it* I,VE also lost so many from the drugs and whatever they seemed to go for* be strong about it and be a BETTER PERSON than those who do/or can,t help getting away from that sadness*THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENT and keep viewing!
Awesome cars. At 3:19, the fourth car (white) is a Porsche 356 Speedster!
That was my time to shine.
The NYC I first knew. It was heading for some bad times, near bankruptcy, the subway covered in graffiti, badly maintained roads etc. yet it was still what I think of as a real city and overall I loved it. Now its a bland boring place by comparison with just about everything owned by multi national corporations.
At least it was affordable in those days.
Wow! Just like watching Mad Men... a world that is so familiar and yet so foreign already. Amazing how much changes in "just" 40 years from when I was a kid living a couple of blocks from 88th.
Some changes are not so surprising, like clothing fashion, the car styles, or movie marquees. But the low traffic density is really a shocker. Do you remember what time of day you filmed this?
Honestly, to hell with that TV rubbish. New Yorkers were so much more alive than that moribund drama.
I was 19 years old and attended Robert Morriss College (Coraopolis, Pa) in 1971.
I was 11 years old in 1971 Thanks for sharing this video.
2:11 1970 BUICK ELECTRA 225.
Yeah my Dad drove 1 of those back in the day, I was 6 in 1971
Manhattan was Crazy & Sleazy back then
Wow these were the times where you could drive in Manhattan without all the congestion, bike lanes and jaywalkers.
I almost don’t even recognize it without all the traffic.
The Camera Makes it look old, Only messin, af course its old lol.......Brilliant Though
This makes 1970 look akin to 1920 with the footage form
Love the muscle cars and the almost invisible graffiti peace sign the most-est! Had a corporate apt for a few weeks right around the corner in 1998. I think the New Yorker theater was still there. Saw a Harold Lloyd silent film show there, I think. Ended up renting a huge studio at the amazing Parc Vendome til 2000, near the old Coliseum Books. Found true love at last at AMEX, he even put a "good" ring on it, and moved to his place across town to his rent stabilized 2/2 pad at awesome, Corbusier inspired Manhattan House. Miraculously had perfect and only child at NY Hospital age 41. Thank u Whitney, Rockefeller and (AIG) Greenberg families for funding hospital! The Upper Westside is still my fav side of town. I am not trying to name drop, folks. Just trying to give the details to convey "only in NYC" and God Bless American Express! Don't leave home without it!
+Brook G
Beautiful life. The New Yorker theater was a jewel. And the Thalia off 95th and Broadway.
Look at all the amazing vehicles.....wow!!! That's when a car was a car!!
I used to walk over to the Hudson River on 85th street. I walked over to Lowe’s theater on Broadway, then go get some snacks a The ‘Mets’ food market on Amsterdam near 86th street. Then go get some hamburgers at the Mc Donald’s on the corner of 86th street and broadway. I’d go sit at ‘Saboos’ bar on the corner of 85th street and Amsterdam. I’d walk over to the supermarket on Broadway and 86th street. Attend church on Amsterdam and 86th street across from that very expensive super rich coop apartments. Take my clothes to the ‘cleaners’ on the corner of Amsterdam and 85th street. Play the numbers on Amsterdam and 84th street.
When New York City was truly New York City, a little rough around the edges, somewhat dirty gritty but underneath a lot of soul great place back in the day although I’m sure someone will disagree. I was there from 74 to 84 best time especially as a teenager.
Went to the 71 New Year's there. It was a blast, some looting too. 👍
Came for John, stayed for the cars.
Fastback Mustang and Coupe Mustang at 0:45 😍😍😍
Is that an Austin 1300 at 2:32??!! Probably the rarest car there!! Probably that day too?!
I used to go to PS 9 at 84th St
Mrs Freund was my teacher
Update: The poster has claimed that at :53 seconds, John Lennon and Yoko Ono cross the street, capturing them on film. Whaddayas think? It does look like them.
The male has his face turned away from the camera and we never get a good look at the female's face either. More importantly, this footage dates from a time when they were in England.
John and Yoko moved to New York for good on August 31 of that year. Everyone is wearing coats and the trees are bare, so it has to be around October or November. Still might be them but probably not.
@@carlcruz9388 They researched the movie titles seen here in a Beatles-related group on fb and the finding is that this is spring 71 rather than fall.
John had a bounce to his walk that I'm not seeing here (this person looks older and walks kind of carefully )
and not positive that's Yoko's hair which I think was longer at that time.
Yoko's shorter than this woman in the video. And i don't think that's John either, he had a different walk that i'm not seeing here.
Thanks for sharing this!
+Todd HellsKitchen you are more than welcome!
am I the only one who sees J.Lennon and Yoko Ono passing by at 0:53?????
These are the last great years in NYC before the prices started to skyrocket in the late 70's. Everything was within reach price wise. You won't see a Palmer drugs anymore which looked like a regular affordable drug store. It's all chains now or upscale. Rents were affordable too.
Great stuff... I was car model spotting like crazy.. it's very clear footage.
2:27 Corvette stingray c1 😎
Good eyes, what a car!
Definitely John Lennon and Yoko at 55 seconds. Amazing!
Wow, that’s crazy. It definitely appears like it could be them but it’s not a certainty..hmmmm
Great video.
I visited my dad in NYC in July 1971, I was 10. Flew in on a 747, the stewardess (that's what they were called then) let me hand out alcoholic drinks to the passengers in the lounge. My dad drove a 60's Mustang and his girlfriend some big boat of a car. The neighborhood fireworks were insane. Everyone dumped all their fireworks in the middle of the intersection and lit it. We played in the fire hydrant water. I apparently got fat during my stay from all the great food because my mom yelled at my dad for me coming home plump.
This was my hood fifty years ago.
Very atmospheric, and the lack of sound gives it an 'other worldly' feel.
OMG John and Yoko! 0:54
Look at those big cars