[SmokingJoe]

Chicago in 1948, the streets with plenty of homeless drunks and losers. Main difference is today the cops don't bother to pick up drunken/drugged out homeless people on the streets in contrast to pack then.

[ClearCase_guy]

I remember Boston in the 1970s. Still had plenty of working class people, with working class bars and working class diners. I lived in boarding houses for a few years ($35 a week). When Jimmy Carter de-institutionalized the mentally ill, the streets got nastier, but for the most part I saw a decent mix of people at all levels of society. Today, a city like Boston has a layer of rich people and layer of losers. The “middle class” is gone and so is the “working class”. It’s no fun anymore.

[SmokingJoe]

12 Harsh Memories from New York's Darkest Years (1975–1981)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_OpfEO-fSI

Terrible now, but all that horror i the video will come back with Mamdani.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

BFL

[DeplorableTrumpSupporter]

In 1948, did Chicago have a mayor like Johnson. If not, I’d hate to see it if this mayor was elected in 1948!!

[KrisKrinkle]

Looked like a lot of nice cars on the street.

All those drunks didn’t keep all the businesses in business.