My Old New York - Times Square of the Late 1970s
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- Here is a little movie I made using my old pictures from when I lived in New York back in the late 1970s. I also used some video clips that I found on the web too. I found a couple extra pics I wanted to put in, thus...version two!
NOTE: I originally had the music from Taxi Driver as the background music for this video, but it was removed by You Tube, so I had to select from one of their choices, so I selected A Sad Pathway by Musicshake.
The drummer at the end of this video is Gene Palma.
I don't know if he is still around or not. There was a neat message thread about him that I was just looking at, and all kinds of people were riding in saying about their experiences with him. The guy said it was like puzzle pieces coming together. He used to put shoe polish on his hair so we would look like Rudolph Valentino. He was consumed with the drums. Excellent drummer. I heard that someone stole his snare drum. All he had was a snare drum. Then he started playing on the metal newspaper machines. He became a fixture in Times Square. I guess that's when they saw him and featured him in the movie Taxi Driver. I heard that for his pay for doing the movie they gave him a snare drum. He was playing it in the movie.
I remember those days. I was a teenager living in the Bronx. Those peep shows and adult theaters are all gone now in the non-smoking, gentrified, sanitized, transient-filled NYC of today. In some ways the city feels a lot safer today than in 1977 but the people these days are such fucking corporate drones, lacking any kind of creativity or originality, that the whole place is just a box of boring. The 70's and 80's in NYC were at least very exciting.
I went there in late 80's. Checked out the peep shows and porn shops in times square, got a fake ID and fake Rolex. I had some fun. I should have got a hooker though, but maybe I would have caught AIDS so was probably for the best.
@@nazur72 just rubber it up. Crap I know but these days even teen civvies can give you something nasty
Same with me. I was in my teens during the 1970's. I still dwell on them. I wish those days would come back especially the adult XXX entertainment.
TheZoneRanger don’t worry with deblasio your wish may be granted...careful what u wish for though
Yes sir..I was there too,its totally worse today
I sure miss the old Times Square. It’s funny, when I walk down the street I can still see it. I suppose it’s energy will be there forever, layered along with the other amazing past eras.
cathycva Same here with me too
Do u recommend any documentaries that show what it was like back in the 70s & 80s? I’m fascinated! Thanks.
JONEONDISS If you do a UA-cam search of 1970s New York you will see a lot of videos, but here is a documentary I found that gives two different perspectives of New York in the 70s:
ua-cam.com/video/zW6Fv_aSFQk/v-deo.html
@@cathycva Thank you so much for posting this treasure time capsule video; Jesus Loves you cathycva
Hi there. I feel the same way. The 1970s were my favorite times. I was in my teens. It's always fun to say hello to generations from that era. I still miss it too.
This is really great. I was a teenager from NJ in the 70s and this is exactly how I remember Times Square back then - a somewhat scary, but endlessly fascinating place. You've truly captured the feel of it from back then.
as a man living in Turkey i always find the 70s and early 80s Newyork intresting and these scenes are just great...
I also remember the movie Taxi Driver which was shot at 70s Newyork..I watch it over and over again ..
thanx for the video
Yep, that's me too. I was 17 in that pic.
Thank you🙏
I'm 57 now and I remember those days well.
That’s so cool!
I love this!! I was stationed in New Jersey from '79 to '82, and this was the NYC I had access to whenever I had time off and money to burn. Exciting, fast-paced, and a little bit scary - the perfect adrenaline rush for an 18-year-old from a small town in Arizona on his own for the first time in his life!! I came back in 2010 and it's just not the same. The edge is gone!
I love this footage it's so authentic,I was born and raised in NYC and miss the Times Square from the 1970's and 80's.Times Square today is a joke.
i love nyc i have been but i am from Liverpool uk
I've always been fascinated by New York. I'm particularly intrigued by 1970's New York and what little I knew was from watching movies, documentaries and so on... thanks for this, Cathy. And by the way, you are super gorgeous!
cruising (1980).
Yeah, same.
Me too brother🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Me to it looks so a amazing
You certainly rocked that late 70s look!
I love this, i miss the old dirty ny.
I'm with you. The 1970's all the way to the end were fun. I missed them so much. Now where do we go ?
Beautiful young lady. ..
what a beautifully created montage. Oozing with nostalgia. The music is perfect.
Beautifully shot film of the smut theaters
idiot @@footerotica882
Boy do I miss the 70s, Manhattan, coffee and donuts 24 hours, run down Times Square. Sure it was seedy---but hey, I was young! Thank you so much for posting this.
Manhattan is cool ❤
Thanks for posting this. I'm 48 years old and grew up In NY. I lived on 147 W. 47th street, which is now a parking garage. This was like a time machine. Great memories of the best days of my life as a an 8 year old.
Nobody staring at a cell phone... that alone is refreshing.
i went to ny in 03, only stayed for a week but that was enough to fall in love, the noise, the steady hum that you can feel more than hear. the smell of the wind. the way the sidewalk just keeps goin, in all directions, to all the places full of all the most interesting of people. NYC i miss u
Oh man! 70s-era New York absolutely fascinates me! What an amazing place, both wonderful and scary all at once. I always wanted to live that life.
Good and bad, times we will never get back, I'm not a New Yorker but i was there in the early 90's for a visit I saw 42nd street, I remember people were telling me to be VERY CAREFUL, I tell you this.. I will never forget it. Now when things are so clean and see Starbucks on every corner like every cities all over the world, I have to say, it's kinda nice to have a bit of dirt, it made you a little bit " street smart " instead of worrying on what instagram is telling you
Great comment hariod! That's like the cultural equivalent of the way people grow up with better immune systems if they are exposed to a degree of dirt as a child; ie. too clean/safe a culture and people end up overly sensitive, bland and boring. No wonder we have SJWs.
yes I totally get you. went to NYC twice back then. I was 18 then, old enough to understand and never been back since ( I'm in Toronto...funny ..close enough but never visit ).This video is close to the Manhattan I saw and remember. Whenever I think on NYC, the vision I have is this, I know it's totally different now, even when I talk about going to New York I have this in my head. If I do go back, I'll probably be disappointed :)
I have been watching this video for years now, I miss the old gritty cheap Times Square. I used to hop the 1 train from Washington Heights to the deuce, buying 12" records from Music Factory. RIP Mr Walt, and RIP to the last relic from Times Squares gritty days. Show World on 8th ave, just closed this year, end of an era.
You nailed it..as a kid who's had a summer job handing out flyers for a massage parlor several years straight let me say you brought some of the best summers of my young wide eyed life. I still wonder who paid for all those distributing circular tickets I was handed from new York's finest
Wow, I remember the old Times Square like it was yesterday.. It still boggles my mind, that not ONE of the Times Square movie theaters are around anymore., not even for plays or other live shows.. Oh wait.. ''It's valuable real estate''..How could I forget??? . A good example and typical was McGlade's bar/grill near Lincoln Center becoming a Starbucks. Sure, the city is safer and cleaner (in general) But there's a certain grit and character that's gone. Good example, the original version of the movie ''Fame'' from 1980, nailed NYC
My entire sex life transpired in 42nd Street cinemas in the 50's. Well, there and on the rush-hour subway trains.
so sad. All the uniqueness is gone
One of my favorite videos on You Tube. I remember this New York so well. The music fits it so well. I miss the dirty, sleazy and wonderful New York that I used to know. Thanks so much.....
+Korova Milkbar I feel exactly the same way.
Cities all look the same now. Same corporate places. Those days each city had it's own flavor.
The nostalgia I have for the 70's era I never lived makes me realize that I must be an old soul and I was born too late!
eric gregorio- I was a teen back then & lived on L.I. & I would go to manhatten back in the 70's & early 80's and it was everything you think it was! people were always friendly,everything was a lot less,you could park your car on the street without worrying about getting towed! it was great.
You are nostalgic for a highlight reel, not the whole movie.
Eric Gregorio I am born in 2000 and seventeen years, but I love the 70s and 80s, Why couldnt they make it like Then. The identity of cities and places are gone. That makes the world bad, same with climate changing, these two problems must be fixed. Than we have the best world that we can get!!!
I was young but I remember driving in my dads 68 cutlass Supreme v8,good times as a kid in NYC
Please like the Facebook page " The Real NY 70's/80's.... A lot from this era will be shared there
Funny how perspective is everything. This video is, to me, the NEW New York, me being so damned old as to remember it before the blight horror of the late 60's.
What lucky you are. I had liked to have lived this age in this city. To have been a teenager and to have known everything. I have an incredible fascination for the 70s in NY. Thank you for sharing.
I have always flet like an old soul and these comments are making me realize that even more.
This is nostalgic for me. I use to go to school and work in the area from 1973 to 1977 and this video floods my mind with memories of a time and place that once existed and shall never be again. Good job.
How i loved those days, lived in a cold water flat on 3rd ave 5 flights up...was HAPPY>
now i live in a huge home in westchester...somethings missing..
tb717 sorry mate, that is down to you. No one forced you to be a slave to suburbia
I lived in the same on 3rd Ave and 70 Something Street in the 50's. But in at least a dozen other addresses as well.
i would have loved to take a walk in the nyv of the 70s.
This is great. Every day life that everybody takes for granted, then it's gone. But you've taken the time to capture some of the history.
Don’t, you’ll make me cry. It’s too easy to miss ones youth. Honestly, I loved NYC then, but I don’t think I would enjoy it at this age.
That's the key word "age."
I was just 18 years old when I came to New York to visit some of my mom's family in Brooklyn. What was supposed to be a one week visit has extended itself for 32 years. But now, I'm ready to go, why? The city has lost anything that resembles charm. Nightlife has been restricted to the posing yuppies, neighborhoods have been completely homogenized. It's become, well..middle America. So, if I can actually have all the mundane with out the exorbitant cost of living, it makes sense to move on.
This is the best stream of Hell's Kitchen consciousness I've ever seen of what was and no longer is. A big, rotten apple THANK YOU!
This is when New York was amazing
Maybe for a day I'd like to go back , thanks for sharing your memories.
Great memories!! Yes, it was filthy, but WE LOVED IT AND IT WAS OUR HOME! Not just A TOURIST TRAP or a SHOPPING MALL!!! Manhattan has been taken away from its own people and given over to tourists and corporations. Makes me sick...
I can not describe this music.
It is amazing
Thank you!
This video is a classic . I've watched it a dozen times . It's great to see the real New York .
Thanks Cathy for the great work you put together, it brings me back to that special time. I was born and raised in the neighborhood and remember all of it. Not only our famous drummer Gene but there use to be this older man with just a torso and arms who would use a home made skateboard to navigate around those heavy crowds. This use to be such a crazy insane place full of pimps and weirdos for the sex and drug trade that flourished just feet away. My rent back then was $45.00 per month in Hell's Kitchen and seeing your film reminds me how the neighborhood got it's name. Well done and thank you very much.
Remy Sampson yeahh this video is perfect, but nothing is better than seeing it in real life. Why couldnt they start up more Peep shows in New York
Where even are the Peep Shows gone now??
Where can you find them now??
@@roanlindeman2942 the internet would probably have finished them off regardless, sad but true
Remy Sampson ...Yes, I remember that guy on the skateboard. I was on a very crowded Lex Ave subway standing and I see this poor guy with just his torso and arms pushing himself the crowds through the car with a tin cup. That was 1973 and I was a college kid working in NY. This is the first time since then, 47 years ago, that I’ve read this mentioned.
Even in early 70s when I was there it was a strange combination of depressing and exciting. And a look and energy of general decline as business and people were leaving. It was no longer a place most people wanted to move to or visit.
Thanks for sharing David it seem we both have touched on a moment of time from the old nyc we both once new. Crazy how life is! I lived in the apple for 21 years and remember well that gritty dirty Streets we left behind. I wonder what ever happened to our old unfortunate man who ran the streets and trains on that skateboard. He must have had a tremendously hard life. I hope people shouldn’t have to live that way but we are dealt our cards and we play them as we seem fit! Peace and thanks for sharing.
Yes Remy Sampson,I remember Gene the drummer very well! I wonder where he is today..Those peep shows,Tad's steaks,grit and grime,excitement and great street food,low rents too..we paid $138.76 in 1979 for a 4 room walk up railroad apt on 12th Street in the East Village,I was 18 in 1979! Great times! Glad to have lived it!👍😎
I was there. I miss the gloriously gritty NYC of the seventies. All that freedom, it was a life-enhancing place back then.
Look at 1940s Time Square....another time engulfed by beautiful eternity...countless stories..
We too are being engulfed until we are no more...
i was there in 1977 as a kid.. at midnight walking thru as a tourist.. burnt a memory into my head that i will never forget.. winos in about every stairwell laying on the ground.. lots and lots of them.. XXX porno theaters, street walkers.. horse and carriage.. electronic shops.. cabbies.. and movie billboards.. i picked up the karma of the place as a moment in time.. it was when America was recovering from the defeat of the Vietnam War.. and u had this general sense of sadness amongst u..
Great video. Great background tune. Thanks for sharing.
@TheGirlFromCRUSH You guys should said it. 70's NYC had its problems but it was an amazing time to live, and experience. The character, the charm, the personality...as you stated, people LIVED. The city was rocking.
The old New York was the best.. I love these memories
The background music is called "A Sad Pathway" by Musicshake.
It was one of the selections I could pick from out of the UA-cam music tracks. I originally had the music from the movie "Taxi Driver", but UA-cam took it off. I like this selection too.
Great clip Cathy,thanks for the memories! I was a teen in the city in the 70's,remember every little bit,what happy days living in the East Village one block from Veniero's and DeRobertis pastry shops on East 12th Street! My good old New York!
Would be so cool to meet you Cathy,
thanks for the memories!👍😎
It has that melancholy sadness that somehow reflects how some of us feel seeing the old NYC/Times Square compared to now.
Your the best god bless you
It was the greatest show on earth. I hate what they have done to Times Square. I was a teen when I first visited Times Square in the 70's. I fell in love with it.
Wow, you caught my old hangout on film good old Playland. Thanks for the memories.
I love this video and I was six and seven years old when I lived in New York City in the late 1970s.
I would come to Times square from Brooklyn.It was crazy but it was New York.Now the city is only for the rich.Great video,and music.
grew up in the metro area 1970's; miss it so much. thanks for the nice vid!
I've heard and read the same thing about cities all over the country. It seems sometimes like the whole world is losing it's character.
Every inch of charm and specialness has been methodically stripped from my favorite cities around the world, replaced by family friendly franchises and awful prefab coffee shops. London? New York? San Francisco? Unrecognizable. Haven’t been back to Rome, Amsterdam or Hong Kong to see what they did to those cities.
@@AFaceintheCrowd01 result of overpopulation, migration, diversity!
From Germany. I was in New York for a week in August 1973. I was 16 years old. I spent that time with my father at the Paramount Hotel near Time Square. I still have SUPER 8 movies (transferred to CD a few years ago) showing Time Square with the Canadian Club light commercials. I remember there was also a 'WIENER WALD' restaurant there. I went there for lunch because my father didn't speak English and my English was poor at the time, but the waiters there all spoke German. What I also remember is that there were always ice cubes in my father's beer. That was very unusual for him and he always asked for beer without ice cubes because it was too cold for him. Now I'm 65, how time flies. Unbelievable. New York unforgetable!
Upload your videos, would be great to see what you captured of that era.
You did a really good job in putting this video together. Although I've never been to NY and I was just a kid in the 70's, I feel an affinity to the place (NY) and the time (70's) featured in this video.
It amazes me folks would want to swap this for the bland corporate wasteland there now.
I think people over estimate the danger of old NYC, unless you were actively engaged in buying or selling illegal drugs or an ignorant tourist then the chances of something bad happening to you were pretty slim. It was just used as an excuse for big business to gain control of a huge chunk of prime real estate, while also getting huge hand outs from the government.
Indeed, and isn't it ironic that back then, for all that there were porn movie cinemas, peep shows, etc., there were nonetheless behind closed doors, it wasn't in the middle of the street, whereas now the sanitised Times Square has topless women having their boobs and butts painted, for all the passers by and youngsters to see. Talk about a moral fliparound.
Classic.
It was still a very dangerous time. And it affected everyone. You might never be a victim of a violent crime, but knew someone who was. It taked its toll, like shell shock. Even when a total stranger like Brian Watkins is murdered in the subway protecting his mother it affects you. I've only had this perspective since i recently left the city after living there 60 years.
Thank you for taking me back home when I ran free on the streets of Manhattan in the late 1970's. Playing gigs at CBGB's to Max's Kansas City to uptown at Harrah's and so much more Thank you
My old Times Square. I remember.
this video was effective in certain way, i cried lool grew up in 70's
By the way, this music is a HELL of a lot better than the other "Times Square in the 70s" video I clicked on. Thanks for that.
Love this. Ahhh my youth.
I miss everything about times square during the 70s 80s 90s and early 2000s.... My dad passed away in 2012.. He owned the hotel carter. This video made me sad.... But thank you for sharing it.
tran10022 Sorry about your dad..
LateDecember1 thank you :0)
Why did your fam have to fight & loose it after his passing? He did indeed own it.
God. What an amazing film.
Looks more like 1968 to about 1971 to me.
Thanks . That was awesome!!!!!
Excellent post! Wow. The memories you brought back. Incredible.
I'm so glad you liked it! I miss the old Times Square too.
Nice video. You were absolutely gorgeous!
NYC 70s nostalgia at its best: seedy and gritty...with a hot director to boot. Thanks and post more!
Great video Cathy, thanks for posting it. It really is quite poignant to watch and see how cities like New York have had their true character destroyed over the years. Cities today might be cleaner and more efficient than they were, but they're also a lot less interesting.
I remember this well, and yes, even though I probably shouldn't, I miss the sleaze and the "anything goes" feel of the place. Thanks so much for sharing!
***** I wonder if people in Soho, London, might feel the same way; in the 1970s it had a similar look to the NY in this video.
I visited NYC in 2000 and it was awesome (stayed in a hotel just off T.Sq.). Some here have said it's slipped since then, become commercial, etc., which would be a shame, as back then I found the people of NY to be the finest I'd encountered in any city for their friendly and helpful attitude to visitors.
I absolutely agree about the friendly, helpful attitude of most New Yorkers. I think they've gotten a bad rap; I found people went well out of their way to be helpful to me when I visited, and later, when I moved there.
***** Definitely!! Partly as a result of how impressed I was with NYC, I felt compelled to create this 14 years ago (check the final example video clip, entitled, "You don't want to eat there!"):
www.sgidepot.co.uk/tribute.html
Hmm, I really must recapture the clips in a modern format full-size; back then the net couldn't handle anything bigger than smallish MPEGs.
I remember a bus driver helping a lady with her shopping, a cheery lady at a post office, so many people, getting along with each other in a manner I'd never seen back home (UK). Best example was perhaps a basketball court, in Central Park I think, a whole bunch of people, strangers and friends, various ethnicities, all playing together. I couldn't help wondering whether any of them realised just how precious what they had was, the fact they could be that way with each other; vive la difference! 8)
The fact that it all looked so different in the late 70s though is what makes Cathy's piece so good, because somehow it captures that sense of the fact that people still *lived* in those times, if you see what I mean.
hariod's comment about a little bit of dirt perhaps being a good thing alludes to this, ie. maybe in an ultra-safe Gattaca-style world, we'd all end up being horribly deficient in our appreciation of things, instead obsessed with the shallowness of the publicised self as seems to be increasingly the case atm.
Ian.
mapesdhs Still play ball together...been here 18 yrs..and to me it's only gotten better and safer...
LateDecember1 I'd love to back to NYC someday, by far one of the nicest cities I've seen, and a people who should be proud of what they've achieved. Watching such a wide range of complete strangers play basketball together was just awesome. 8)
When NY had that mega power cut way back, and oodles of people dealt with the situation so well, behaving impeccably, I for one was not surprised at all. I'd be interested to know if anyone familiar with these aspects of the people of NY could think of any other US cities which have managed to Get It Right in this way. Boston maybe?
I really must dig out & upload my vids from 2000, there was lots of good footage, the towers of course, all around there, also Central Park, Grand Central, various museums, etc. If any NYer hasn't been to the police museum, you should check it out! :)
The good old days !!! Cant beat the crazy ! Dirty. ! Great big apple !
Nostalgic video and you are very beautiful!!!
Take it as a compliment Cathy, were were SMOKIN HOT in these photos !!
@Ryantravisaol Well, Ryan, as one fellow NYer to another, I have to say those were some good memories, regardless of the surroundings; the average NYer back then knew how to navigate the streets, watch for trouble, while simultaneously making the best of it. I was part of it all: mugging victim & gangmember, pot smoker & party-goer, -you name it! You had to know the "language". NYC then was THE "asphalt jungle". It was a different era altogether from today with a whole different perspective.
A sad pathway indeed for young ladies to go down. God bless.
Great pics thanks for sharing. Reminds me of Taxi Driver.
I was born in 85. I love looking at pics and video from before my time
Love those shots of Times Square.. Reminds me of a the movie Midnight Cowboy...💓
The more I see images of NY back then for some reason I grow more nostalgic. Maybe I’m starting to get old. I was born in 89 so obviously I missed this era. I just never thought one can miss a time one wasn’t even around for.
As a native NYer, born and raised, I miss the old Times Square. It may have been sleazy or low-down ( as the stupid-ass non-NY yuppies and hipsters of today would comment) with platformed hookers,pimps and the like but you know what? At least, the city then had soul, style and the hustle & bustle and, hey, that's what made it New York City in the first place!!! Today, it is unrecognizable (i.e. it sucks!) . Thanks for the posting and the memories.
Cool. This really takes me back. I grew up in West Nyack,NY. About 20 miles from midtown Manhattan. Back in the 70's I was a teen. We were in the city all the time.
really nice, takes me right back.
Great video .I remember those days.
I went through the comments on this vid and saw your comment about trying to use the TAXI DRIVER music theme but having it removed by UA-cam. That answers my 1st question. That said, the music does in fact fit very well with the amazing vintage pics and vid clips.
@Philflash HA! That is the legendary NYC street drummer Gene Palma, who made a brief appearance as himself in "Taxi Driver". i saw him on the street in the early 80's before I was aware that he was a fixture there, and about crapped myself when I later was watching "Taxi Driver" and saw him for a few seconds. He's hard to forget. I got several still pics of him at the time. Slick black hair and red blush on his cheeks. He also wore shirt, vest, tie, and suit, all contrasting plaids! Gotta love
Thanks for sharing this... it goes back to a better time in my opinion.
Thanks for the memories!
I miss those days! 💧
thanks for posting! so much great footage of the times square area the way it used to be.
Tad's Steaks used to be my spot when I was a kid. Loved their garlic bread. Good memories. Thanks
Wow! just amazing footage. Thanks for sharing. dam interesting!
Damn Cathy, you were smoking hot. Lol.
Word
I remember the same NY you do. I'm glad I was around then.
BTW
You look even better now.
from a long forgotten time the way it use to be although i'm 45 some of these places were still around when i was a kid so many good times i miss these days
Thanks for putting this together. so many good old bad old memories from way back when :)
Why this video isn't any one's recomendtion yet. It's 200k views when I'm posting this comment
I'm old enough to remember the automats
im from Cali n yet im virtually obsessed with NY in this era......if i could choose,i woulda liked to experience coming of age in the 1960's-70's NYC
Man Times Square looks much better back then than now. It's so damn expensive and too many snotty people abound the area today. Fucking shame ,long live the 70s! Dig it?!
There was one quick shot of playland in times sq. I used to go there in the 60's.
The guy that was a drummer with the slicked back black hair that looked like he used a can of grease and tar, near the end of the video, claim to fame was being in the movie Taxi Driver, I believe.
I remember going to see westerns on 42nd street movie theaters.