This is New York as I remember it, just before I moved to Boston in '72. And what simpler times - small shops and restaurants, quality Broadway shows, people bunching together unafraid of COVID-19. And what groovy music! Thanks for posting!
its weird but I sometimes wish I was a teen or grown up in that time because there's something special, about it. they had more dirt roads.... the cars some of the fashion. it just looked like you can literally smell and feel that era. I like watching movies from this era I can't articulate it but it just seemed a special unique time.
I graduated from high school in 1976, 2 years after this was filmed. I had my heart set on going to NY and would have arrived there just as the punk scene was beginning to take off. I would have been able to see the 'real' NY before it was cleaned up and had much of it's character sucked out of it. Unfortunately life got in my way and I never did make it there. Maybe in the next life.
This was great. It's funny how some old footage makes you realize how far off that time was, and others feel like they could've been taken yesterday. I'd say this falls into the latter.
This is heaven. I was 14 years old that year and just starting to hang out in the village. As a kid from Brooklyn I thought that was super glamorous! Or 42nd street to watch King Fu movies! So fun! I miss this New York everyday. Dirty, gritty slightly dangerous and totally real New York. This film is great because in my mind I see New York in this color. Almost a sepia tone but not quite.
What part of the Village did you use to hang out in? The East or the West? How different was it from today? It was still before the 80's gentrification...Amazing!
There used to be an older man, in his 70s, who used to walk from his luxury home on E60thSt and 5th Avenue (near the SE corner of Central Park) along Central Park South, over to 6th Ave (aka Avenue of the Americas), and then south a couple of blocks to his office in the "Burlington House" skyscraper. His name was Daniel Keith Ludwig and he owned the biggest privately-owned oil tanker fleet in the world and was one of the richest men in the US and the world. In fact, after the death of JP Getty and Howard Hughes in 1976, he indeed was the richest man in America. And yet, almost no one had heard of him. He lived until age 95 and died in 1992 in that luxury co-op, also known as Park Cinq.
this is too amazing. i wonder if its because were always nostalgic about the past . they could've used some funk music thou. BTW the woman eating at the bar looks like a complete boss.
First time in NYC was in 1972. Yeah it had real problems with crime but overall I loved it. I think what the young generation of today probably don´t realize is that cities, particularly in the U.S. in those days, had their own identity unlike the bland multi national corporate look of today. NYC maybe a safer place now but it´s fucking boring by comparison with the past.
Back in the 60/70 Times Square was a mess greffida all over the subway and buildings.mayor Geliona helped clean up the city.Then something happened to him🤷♀️
I SOMETIMES WANT IT WAS THE 1980'S AGAIN, BUT I TAKE 1990's ANY DAY . I SOMETIMES WISH I WAS A LITTLE CHILD OR TEENAGER IN THE 1970's BCAUSE APARTMENT WERE WAY WAY CHEAPER I MISS THIS NYC, WHY CAN THERE BE A TIME MACHINE YET. I WANT GOD TO ALLOW THAT.
Agreed with the other comments. The music wasn't a good choice. I suggest the full-length album version (9 minute duration) of Deodato's "Also Sprach Zarathustra," with about a minute of intro edited out and coda faded out a minute early. It would still be long enough and being a funky hit from 1973, would be appropriate for 1974 footage. I just played this video with audio muted and ASZ in the background. It was a much better match, especially in the second half of the video.
SCHMUNZELTV The music is "Trips" from; Topher Mohr and Alex Elena. ua-cam.com/video/hTsHd5-8lMk/v-deo.html The same music in this other New York video of 1972 ua-cam.com/video/dtRI7CdNyZQ/v-deo.html
I was in my late twenties early thirties in the '70's. NY was hated and feared by non-New Yorkers, which suited me fine because I knew we possessed a treasure, albeit deeply flawed: New York without many tourists and with very few suburban transplants. Of course, NYC has always been a city of transplants, but only the few and the hardy and the greatly blessed and blessedly gifted came here then. Fifth Avenue & the Upper-Eastside were for the rich, their "reservation." The East Village for the hardiest bohemians/beatniks/junkies and the West for the more affluent bohemians, kids from Queens clogging the streets looking for liberated nightlife, also gays galore, and gay life was resplendently sordid and right out there! Loft life was in its incipience, and there were tens and tens of no-man's-lands where factories, warehouses, abandoned or marginally extant stood, more or less stood. The World Trade Center was considered an atrocity by most loves of NY. The city was at rock bottom and yet I thought it was ineffably glamorous. I did, however, escape from the East Village and moved to Brooklyn Heights & however many rich people lived here--where I still live--even Bklyn Hghts was funky. There were old hotels that were little better than brothels. One of them, around the corner from me, had an excellent piano bar, Cole Porter and Rogers and Hart abounded, and there were at least four gay bars within a five-block radius. Still, we all knew then, what I know now: The 'sixties were the great decade, not the 1970's!
Then why have the suburban kids rushed in, paying mega-rent, and pricing out everyone else? Why do flocks of f-ckin' tourist ruin my morning walk? From your mouth to God's ear, believe me!
There's this 50 min vid about New York Tourism much like This but in the 70s through 90s, and it had songs like 'Native New Yorker' and 'New York Theme' by Frank Sinatra and many others it was just nice songs But I cant find it Any where ! If anybody know what Vid I'm taking about please let me know !?
I've never been to NYC and while I'd still like to visit someday I can't help but be sad that this nyc is gone according to what I've read. The real new Yorkers, everyday average Joe's, have largely been priced out of the city. Ironically I know a couple here in Florida bc so many move here lol. Not only that but the local businesses and what not have largely moved out or shut down as well,taken over by corporate stores and restaurants that exist here as well. The whole country,hell the world, is going that way and its sad. I'm visiting London in December and I'm discovering thru research that it's no exception and much of central london is as gentrified and corporatized as anywhere else.
Lived on 2nd ave and 32th? a year as a teen. 28th ? and lex ( hotel beechwood the cleaning staff or. Management stole my first electric guitar) E 6th st and ave A. About 1980-81.
I've put together a remix of this video with music that's much more appropriate for 1974 than "Ride of the Valkyries." In spots, it feels like the editor cut the video specifically for that particular piece. For instance when the ocean liner goes up the Hudson and some of the Midtown, Times Square and Central Park scenes. ua-cam.com/video/6uWJxad7WSs/v-deo.html The description includes attribution and a link back to this video, but I understand if ThamesTv/Fremantle feels it has to be taken down to protect copyright.
+RoyKnable gotta tell ya Roy, I much prefer the very strange original music here to Deodoto. I think this music is much more in tune with the footage that I see, which to me is characterized by ethereal and weird, otherworldly imagery.
+Markus You didn't watch the video when it was originally uploaded with Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." That's why older comments said it was inappropriate. Deodato's tune is not only appropriate to the period, being released the previous year, it was also a big hit, not that I expect you to know that. It won a Grammy and just missed the top spot on the Billboard chart. The current obscure music was chosen because it's free, not because it has any connection whatsoever with NYC or the 1970s. And if you think New York City is "ethereal and weird" and otherworldly, you obviously have never been there and certainly didn't live there in the 1970s. New York was and is definitely not slow and plodding like the current music.
+Markus That's not what you wrote. You wrote it was the imagery. There's nothing weird or ethereal about the imagery if you are an actual NYer. Unless you're a Millennial who wasn't even born when this footage was taken, like the people who wrote the music. In which case, little wonder you prefer the less interesting music of your generation.
+RoyKnable I was born in 1966, Lenox Hill hospital. Just drop it...I'm not interested in arguing. The idea that stock footage from the past can look ethereal and dreamlike is not something I'm interested in defending. You either share that impression, or you don't...if you don't, so what?
hahah thank you, all these people romanticizing this era that didn't actually live it. It seemed like there was a building fire every day from someone trying to collect insurance money. The days before rampant litigation.
You're right Mohammed, you don't need other people to have fun in this life..... & you sure don't need to have other people suffer so you have that 'edginess' to your daily routine!! 🤔
Great footage, totally incongruous/silly musical choice (whose arbitrariness is further underscored by its cutting out a few minutes early). Try again -- it can only get better.
Nope that's before my time I'm sure it was ok for it's time but it's gone now time moves forward not backwards so why would i wish i was there no thanks
![Harlem, New York 1930s in color, [60fps, Remastered] w/sound design added](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/zyD3HbpvTNs/mqdefault.jpg)
This is New York as I remember it, just before I moved to Boston in '72. And what simpler times - small shops and restaurants, quality Broadway shows, people bunching together unafraid of COVID-19. And what groovy music! Thanks for posting!
Old school New York is a vibe
Very nostalgic. Takes me back to my childhood growing up in the city...
its weird but I sometimes wish I was a teen or grown up in that time because there's something special, about it. they had more dirt roads.... the cars some of the fashion. it just looked like you can literally smell and feel that era. I like watching movies from this era I can't articulate it but it just seemed a special unique time.
It was, I was 9 years old in 1974. We had class trip to Manhattan by Subway. We could by food on the subway platforms in those days.
I feel nostalgia even though I wasn’t alive
The msuic is amazing
Soundtrack amazing !
I graduated from high school in 1976, 2 years after this was filmed. I had my heart set on going to NY and would have arrived there just as the punk scene was beginning to take off. I would have been able to see the 'real' NY before it was cleaned up and had much of it's character sucked out of it. Unfortunately life got in my way and I never did make it there. Maybe in the next life.
I would have loved to have been in the city in the 70's. Unfortunately I was born in 1982. The 70's in the city just fascinates me.
+Ritchiemomitchie I really don't care about that. NYC in the 70's was wild and fun. My kind of place.
+Ritchiemomitchie I prefer the way it was then when compared to the generic way NYC is these days. So fucking bland and stale. NYC back then had life.
me as well!
@Slomofogo it's know as vibrancy
Just finished 2nd grade and would enter the 3rd grade that fall. I vaguely remember going into the city either by train or car a few times that year.
Thank you for uploading this masterpiece
kept thinking i was gonna see oscar and felix walking down the street!
awesome time capsule
That guy with a CB and TV on his bike really rocking!
I always look for my dad in these vids. He worked in the City for many years.
This was great. It's funny how some old footage makes you realize how far off that time was, and others feel like they could've been taken yesterday. I'd say this falls into the latter.
I miss riding those buses.
This is heaven. I was 14 years old that year and just starting to hang out in the village. As a kid from Brooklyn I thought that was super glamorous! Or 42nd street to watch King Fu movies! So fun! I miss this New York everyday. Dirty, gritty slightly dangerous and totally real New York. This film is great because in my mind I see New York in this color. Almost a sepia tone but not quite.
What part of the Village did you use to hang out in? The East or the West? How different was it from today? It was still before the 80's gentrification...Amazing!
it was a different world
Not really there were problems in the 70's as well
Какое-то очарование есть в тех временах... Хотя я и по другую сторону океана.
Still remember going to Chuck Full O'nuts in 1974..I was just a 23 year old man
There used to be an older man, in his 70s, who used to walk from his luxury home on E60thSt and 5th Avenue (near the SE corner of Central Park) along Central Park South, over to 6th Ave (aka Avenue of the Americas), and then south a couple of blocks to his office in the "Burlington House" skyscraper. His name was Daniel Keith Ludwig and he owned the biggest privately-owned oil tanker fleet in the world and was one of the richest men in the US and the world. In fact, after the death of JP Getty and Howard Hughes in 1976, he indeed was the richest man in America. And yet, almost no one had heard of him. He lived until age 95 and died in 1992 in that luxury co-op, also known as Park Cinq.
Wikipedia says that he "maintained a low profile" and "stopped speaking to the press in the 1950s".
this is too amazing. i wonder if its because were always nostalgic about the past . they could've used some funk music thou. BTW the woman eating at the bar looks like a complete boss.
She reminds me of Lilith Sternin from Cheers.
She does look like a boss! I would have liked to talk to her then.
Great video
First time in NYC was in 1972. Yeah it had real problems with crime but overall I loved it. I think what the young generation of today probably don´t realize is that cities, particularly in the U.S. in those days, had their own identity unlike the bland multi national corporate look of today. NYC maybe a safer place now but it´s fucking boring by comparison with the past.
😂🤣 Nobody wants to go back to the boring 70's I'm sure it was ok for it's time but yeah it's over
i agree paul.times square and the movies
Back in the 60/70 Times Square was a mess greffida all over the subway and buildings.mayor Geliona helped clean up the city.Then something happened to him🤷♀️
These videos always show NY in the summer and fall. Never show NY in the cold winter when the beautiful white snow turns to gray sluch!!
I miss my youth on long island and NYC
The movie marquees indicate that much of this footage is from 1973.
NYC 50years AGO! Still NYC today!
I SOMETIMES WANT IT WAS THE 1980'S AGAIN, BUT I TAKE 1990's ANY DAY . I SOMETIMES WISH I WAS A LITTLE CHILD OR TEENAGER IN THE 1970's BCAUSE APARTMENT WERE WAY WAY CHEAPER I MISS THIS NYC, WHY CAN THERE BE A TIME MACHINE YET. I WANT GOD TO ALLOW THAT.
😂🤣🙄
Odd to see the World Trade Center without an antenna, but even more odd to not see them anymore...
Agreed with the other comments. The music wasn't a good choice. I suggest the full-length album version (9 minute duration) of Deodato's "Also Sprach Zarathustra," with about a minute of intro edited out and coda faded out a minute early. It would still be long enough and being a funky hit from 1973, would be appropriate for 1974 footage. I just played this video with audio muted and ASZ in the background. It was a much better match, especially in the second half of the video.
R.I.P. Twin Towers
Oliver Eales never heard of 9/11? If you haven’t, search it up
Why do we no longer have shopping carts full of pretzels?
That's Pretzel Logic for you..
anybody knows about the music? great stuff audio & video!
SCHMUNZELTV
The music is
"Trips" from; Topher Mohr and Alex Elena.
ua-cam.com/video/hTsHd5-8lMk/v-deo.html
The same music in this other New York video of 1972
ua-cam.com/video/dtRI7CdNyZQ/v-deo.html
q-e2 queen Elizabeth ship coming in from sea ,took it to England ,in 79 beyond luxury and kushy...
I was in my late twenties early thirties in the '70's. NY was hated and feared by non-New Yorkers, which suited me fine because I knew we possessed a treasure, albeit deeply flawed: New York without many tourists and with very few suburban transplants. Of course, NYC has always been a city of transplants, but only the few and the hardy and the greatly blessed and blessedly gifted came here then. Fifth Avenue & the Upper-Eastside were for the rich, their "reservation." The East Village for the hardiest bohemians/beatniks/junkies and the West for the more affluent bohemians, kids from Queens clogging the streets looking for liberated nightlife, also gays galore, and gay life was resplendently sordid and right out there! Loft life was in its incipience, and there were tens and tens of no-man's-lands where factories, warehouses, abandoned or marginally extant stood, more or less stood. The World Trade Center was considered an atrocity by most loves of NY. The city was at rock bottom and yet I thought it was ineffably glamorous. I did, however, escape from the East Village and moved to Brooklyn Heights & however many rich people lived here--where I still live--even Bklyn Hghts was funky. There were old hotels that were little better than brothels. One of them, around the corner from me, had an excellent piano bar, Cole Porter and Rogers and Hart abounded, and there were at least four gay bars within a five-block radius. Still, we all knew then, what I know now: The 'sixties were the great decade, not the 1970's!
Then why have the suburban kids rushed in, paying mega-rent, and pricing out everyone else? Why do flocks of f-ckin' tourist ruin my morning walk? From your mouth to God's ear, believe me!
Perry Weiner NYC is the devil's rectum
That's the stuff!
@@jviarruel What prescription does the Devil use for haemorrhoids? 😳
great film BUT what about they other boroughs? NYC aint just Manhattan.
my city my time. go check out Maceo and the Macks 'Soul Power 74' yyeeesss!!!
There's this 50 min vid about New York Tourism much like This but in the 70s through 90s,
and it had songs like 'Native New Yorker' and 'New York Theme' by Frank Sinatra and many others it was just nice songs But I cant find it Any where !
If anybody know what Vid I'm taking about please let me know !?
Brooklyn was my home in the 70s.
Was quite the place!!! Loved it ❤.
Central Park was really different
back then. SCARY PLACE!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍
03:44 Night Court (duuum dum dum dum dum)
I've never been to NYC and while I'd still like to visit someday I can't help but be sad that this nyc is gone according to what I've read. The real new Yorkers, everyday average Joe's, have largely been priced out of the city. Ironically I know a couple here in Florida bc so many move here lol. Not only that but the local businesses and what not have largely moved out or shut down as well,taken over by corporate stores and restaurants that exist here as well. The whole country,hell the world, is going that way and its sad. I'm visiting London in December and I'm discovering thru research that it's no exception and much of central london is as gentrified and corporatized as anywhere else.
When the general public had disposable money.
LOOK NOBODY LOOKING AT THEIR CELL PHONES
Because they didn't exist so your comment is dumb and pointless 🤣
Everything used to be perfect.
No everything wasn´t perfect, no way, but NYC was a real city in those days not a Disneyfied tourist hot spot which has become so boring.
Your delusional 😂🤣
That's all folks !
Lived on 2nd ave and 32th? a year as a teen. 28th ? and lex ( hotel beechwood the cleaning staff or. Management stole my first electric guitar)
E 6th st and ave A. About 1980-81.
Those buildings look like gray tombstones on a graveyard
RIP
I've put together a remix of this video with music that's much more appropriate for 1974 than "Ride of the Valkyries." In spots, it feels like the editor cut the video specifically for that particular piece. For instance when the ocean liner goes up the Hudson and some of the Midtown, Times Square and Central Park scenes.
ua-cam.com/video/6uWJxad7WSs/v-deo.html
The description includes attribution and a link back to this video, but I understand if ThamesTv/Fremantle feels it has to be taken down to protect copyright.
+RoyKnable gotta tell ya Roy, I much prefer the very strange original music here to Deodoto. I think this music is much more in tune with the footage that I see, which to me is characterized by ethereal and weird, otherworldly imagery.
+Markus You didn't watch the video when it was originally uploaded with Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." That's why older comments said it was inappropriate. Deodato's tune is not only appropriate to the period, being released the previous year, it was also a big hit, not that I expect you to know that. It won a Grammy and just missed the top spot on the Billboard chart. The current obscure music was chosen because it's free, not because it has any connection whatsoever with NYC or the 1970s.
And if you think New York City is "ethereal and weird" and otherworldly, you obviously have never been there and certainly didn't live there in the 1970s. New York was and is definitely not slow and plodding like the current music.
Native born New Yorker here. What is weird and ethereal is the passage of time, the fact that it was so long ago.
+Markus That's not what you wrote. You wrote it was the imagery. There's nothing weird or ethereal about the imagery if you are an actual NYer. Unless you're a Millennial who wasn't even born when this footage was taken, like the people who wrote the music. In which case, little wonder you prefer the less interesting music of your generation.
+RoyKnable I was born in 1966, Lenox Hill hospital. Just drop it...I'm not interested in arguing. The idea that stock footage from the past can look ethereal and dreamlike is not something I'm interested in defending. You either share that impression, or you don't...if you don't, so what?
Breakfast was simpler.... People nowadays want sugary and explosive plates.... Addicted to good hormone food.
6:32 ahh haaa
trust me... you didn't. Whole nation was in stagflation and NYC was on the verge of bankruptcy in '74.....
hahah thank you, all these people romanticizing this era that didn't actually live it. It seemed like there was a building fire every day from someone trying to collect insurance money. The days before rampant litigation.
You're right Mohammed, you don't need other people to have fun in this life..... & you sure don't need to have other people suffer so you have that 'edginess' to your daily routine!! 🤔
I’m struck by how little obesity I see back then! Hmmmm
They were sexy looking people in that era and free love society LOL
A lot of more home cooked meals back then and people did more outdoor activities rather than today.
Pre-artificial sweeteners - hmmm...
They used to have really ugly 2 toned green cop cars back then, surprised they didnt show any
1973 & 1974 in g zero kara hajimeru betsu no kodai no sekai de mukashi seikatsu
Mute ! Great video but without the music please.
The music makes it. Turn your volume down
Young thaddeus sivana year but in new york upstate
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I was forced to give a dislike for this video: the music forced me to do it.
That's why NYC in the 70's was not for you. The music was perfect, I wish it lasted through the entire video.
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Great footage, totally incongruous/silly musical choice (whose arbitrariness is further underscored by its cutting out a few minutes early). Try again -- it can only get better.
I love this music. To me, it underscores the nostalgia about that decade.
Great video music remind me of the porno movies back then
6:11 Obama??
Nope that's before my time I'm sure it was ok for it's time but it's gone now time moves forward not backwards so why would i wish i was there no thanks
WALK/DON'T WALK
Yeah this sucks now Nothing is Vintage Any More.
i see the 2 tuning forks standing. man, no offense but they were two ugly buildings
Twins towers hahahaha