mrassbillygunn
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Post by mrassbillygunn on Oct 23, 2018 13:47:05 GMT -5
Has anyone got old photos of this time period in NYC? I miss the old gritty/seedy New York that got cleaned up with all the gentrification over the years. Anyone miss the days when you would see pimps and prostitutes on street corners and the old dirty sex shops and cinemas? I love old films that capture this time period, like Taxi Driver and other movies set in the same area.
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Post by k5 on Oct 23, 2018 17:35:45 GMT -5
check out the book A Walk on the Wild Side, it really delves into those types of characters and setting - and it influenced Lou Barlow to write a well known song based on that era!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2018 17:38:57 GMT -5
I dunno man,I once got stranded there and I just walked around all night. I'm not a New Yorker,but I think the gentrifiers stay in at night.
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Post by mrhoss on Oct 23, 2018 19:25:33 GMT -5
"The Deuce" on HBO is about that time period. The first season was '72 and the current 2nd season is about '77.
Comedian Bill Burr, on his podcast, was recently talking about going to NY in the early 80s to a Yankees game. He's from Mass and I'm from CT. I thought it was funny because he mentioned seeing all these stripped and burnt out cars on the way to the Stadium. I was around 8 or 9 years old around that time and I totally remember seeing the same thing.
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Post by Jack Specific on Oct 23, 2018 21:22:51 GMT -5
Check out the original "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three". Below is the trailer.
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Post by mrassbillygunn on Oct 24, 2018 7:30:11 GMT -5
Check out the original "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three". Below is the trailer. Ive got that film on Blu Ray and many others from that period. You should check out, Hardcore, a film starring George C Scott. His daughter goes missing and gets involved in the sex trade and he crawls around seedy NYC trying to find out what happened to her. |
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Oct 24, 2018 7:52:12 GMT -5
Check out the original "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three". Below is the trailer. Ive got that film on Blu Ray and many others from that period. You should check out, Hardcore, a film starring George C Scott. His daughter goes missing and gets involved in the sex trade and he crawls around seedy NYC trying to find out what happened to her. "Turn it off! Turn it off!" |
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Post by bababooey on Oct 24, 2018 8:10:46 GMT -5
I was born in 1988 and grew up in NY. I grew up in the Bronx, but the more suburban area of the Bronx. Still busy and a little wild, but it was more multifamily houses than apartment complexes and huge buildings. Funny thing is up until like the last 10 years I rarely went to Manhattan. I have tons of old pictures of the Bronx and Yonkers but it doesn’t look like you would expect from that time period. Other than the concrete and bricks, it didn’t really look all that gritty around me.
You look at those same exact places now though and it’s a different story. Nothing was ever replaced or maintained so all that stuff if now torn apart, dented, spray painted, rusted, fallen off, etc.
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Post by ET had AIDS on Oct 30, 2018 21:23:29 GMT -5
Listen to some Johnny Thunders. A lot of his music is influenced by that time and era of New York culture.
Key track backing NY: "London Boys" by the Heartbreakers
I know it isn't lit or a movie, but it's still gritty Nyc.
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Post by ET had AIDS on Oct 30, 2018 21:24:41 GMT -5
this is a crap recording, but exemplifies the dirty NYC feel and sound of that era. Belushi had just od'd, making some sense to that intro... Johnny is not too well.
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Post by rowdy1971 on Nov 7, 2018 14:18:21 GMT -5
Imagine being in the Bowery at that time? Punk rock was young and at its best. The punk fashion, attitude, and everything that went with it. CBGBs was the place to be to see the birth of great bands. I was lucky enough to be there in the mid 90s just before it went all to hell and became a hipster area to be in. I would have love to have been there in 1977.
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Post by theicwguy on Nov 7, 2018 14:21:35 GMT -5
Imagine being in the Bowery at that time? Punk rock was young and at its best. The punk fashion, attitude, and everything that went with it. CBGBs was the place to be to see the birth of great bands. I was lucky enough to be there in the mid 90s just before it went all to hell and became a hipster area to be in. I would have love to have been there in 1977. Anytime I hear 'The Bowery' the first thing that pops into my head is Raven. |
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Post by PJ on Nov 11, 2018 7:46:29 GMT -5
Funny thing is in High school (10-12 grade) my friends and I would go to NYC about 15-20 Friday or Saturday nights a year, but I have always hated the city. In the last 25 years I think I have gone there maybe 10 times with 4 of them being Ringfests.
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Post by Tim of thee on Nov 11, 2018 12:29:53 GMT -5
I prefer the NYC of Home Alone 2
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Post by BØRNS on Nov 13, 2018 3:25:41 GMT -5
I don't know much about NYC, but I think the movie American Gangster gives the right time period for what you're looking for.
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