[truthguy]

If I had a time machine I'd get into it. I not sure I'd set it for NYC 1941-2, but I'd go back to pre 1960 somewhere. It was a much better country in those days. I think most smart people posting here know why.

Three more observations:

1. Notice that there seem to be no fat people.
2. Notice that there is little or no trash on the street.
3. Notice not a bit of graffiti anywhere!

Gee, I wonder why.

[PotatoHeadMick]

Some of the commenters on the site say NYC remained the same up until the late 1960’s. Can anyone with a knowledge of the city say if that is true?

If so it must have been a huge and very sudden change to go from this to the ghastly place which was the site of so many grim TV cop shows and movies in the mid 1970’s.

I suspect the transformation must have taken longer than that.

[Baynative]

"If I had a time machine I'd get into it. I not sure I'd set it for NYC 1941-2, but I'd go back to pre 1960 somewhere."

Without a second thought, or a second to think about it; I'd go back to where I grew up on the California coast in the 60's.

[nodumbblonde]

I always feel like I was born in the wrong time... *sigh*

[rabidralph]

Set it for 1957 and get a couple Chevys and wait around for the Shelby Cobras :-)

[jocon307]

I think NYC in the late 40s and early 50s must have been the bomb! as the kids say today.

I actually do envy my parents, in-laws, etc. that they got to live there in that time as adults.

I was born in NYC in 1958 and up until all the unrest in the 60s it was a great place. The doors of the churches stood open all day, neighborhoods were economically mixed, at least in my middle class neighborhood. I went to both catholic and public school with some very wealthy people, and some very poor ones. Everyone rode the subway together, that is how I liked to put it. Then crime started to really rise and to me it was like they locked every door in the city.

It was just downhill from there, until Rudy Giuliani single handedly pulled it back from the brink. Yeah he did and don’t ever doubt it. All the while the NY Times, et al. called him a fascist pig.

I sure would have liked to live a little before I did, but I guess that was those folks reward for having grown up during the depression and fought in WWII.

[Borges]

Boy, the way Glenn Miller played. Songs that made the Hit Parade.

Guys like us, we had it made. Those were the days.

Didn’t need no welfare state. Everybody pulled his weight.

Gee, our old LaSalle ran great. Those were the days.

And you know who you were then. Girls were girls and men were men.

Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

People seemed to be content. Fifty dollars paid the rent.

Freaks were in a circus tent. Those were the days.

Take a little Sunday spin, go to watch the Dodgers win.

Have yourself a dandy day that cost you under a fin.

Hair was short and skirts were long. Kate Smith really sold a song.

I don’t know just what went wrong. Those Were The Days.

[PJ-Comix]

1. Notice that there seem to be no fat people.

Corn syrup still hadn't entered the food system at that time.