Posted on 01/03/2014 7:11:35 AM PST by Rummyfan
Just to be contrarian, in those days, at least, we could smoke openly in the streets and in the bars, drink soda as much as we wanted, ingest transfats, worship salt, and eat out of Styrofoam containers that kept our food warm. And there were no “hate” or “thought” crimes. Seems like the good old days to me!
PFL
In reading this, one can tell that neither of these guys are New Yorkers! The moaning about Times Square! As my big brother says, today it looks like Mr. Potter from “It’s a Wonderful Life” took it over. In the 1970s, it had human scale. It was raunchy, filthy and it taught me all of my life skills in how to avoid Ratso Rizzo. I can remember watching “Aliens” at the Criterion when a man walked in with a machete and not one New Yorker blinked. We were tough back then. Now everyone is a pansy on DeBlasio scale.
Typical - Dems pillage a city, leave a mess and the Republicans clean it up.
Then when it’s viable again, like Barbarians, the Democrats are ready to sack again.
Every generation has to learn the same hard lessons because history is not taught any more.
I remember the city of the 70’s. These idiots are going to get to experience it again with Mayor Wilhelm.
But you could do those things in the Giuliani New York, yes? It was Bloomberg who banned all that, right?
Back during the campaign, Republican attempts to bring up the days of Dinkins fell flat when it was revealed high many current NYC residents didn’t even live there 20 years ago (Dinkin’s term).
NYC is a one large sanctuary city, filled with an imported underclass to serve the 1%.
I remember traveling to NYC as a kid and arriving in the Port Authority bus terminal. Always walked down 42nd Street to get to Times Square. My father would always get “meow” calls from the prostitutes standing in the doorways.
Today, whenever I smell diesel exhausted from a bus, I get flashbacks to the good old days in New York.
I’ve not been to NYC since it’s been cleaned up, so my memories of midtown manhattan are of dirt, peep shows and people selling fake watches and things on the sidewalk (among other things)
“I remember the city of the 70’s.”
I do as well; as a child I would visit family there. For anyone who has seen “Fort Apache”, it is a very realistic depiction on NYC at the time.
Well, yeah. In Guiliani’s second term, though, he got to micromanaging. He actually tried to reroute PEDESTRIAN traffic. But unlike Bloomberg, when people rebelled, he gave up.
Port Authority led you into a whole other world! The prostitutes on 10th and 11th (who may still be there) were the worst!
Great memories. Don’t forget the movable shell games . . .. ‘Meow,’ now that’s priceless.
My wife’s Niece when there back in the early 1980s. She absolutely HATED IT! Her husband, for years, tried to get her to go back as the city had then been cleaned up, finally she relented and went. She fell in love with NY!
Years later, her daughter moved to NYC so she got to spend lots of time with her daughter there, and learn the city, what makes it tick!
Last year she took ME to NYC for a week. This old country boy from the High Plains, Rockies, and Ozarks, absolutely fell in love with NYC! If given a choice between Las Vegas, Los Angeles, or NYC I would take NYC in a heartbeat.
I saw an old movie about an African King (Eddie Murphy) in NYC. The first thing I noticed in the movie was the subways were covered with graffiti. The subways I rode (N)(Q) were extremely clean.
If people could remember the 70’s, Barry the Arseclown would never have gotten elected.
Coming of age under the failed Presidency of Jimmy Carter made me a Conservative for life.
NYC is a great city. I was in last week and, mistakenly, took a friend to look at the Christmas tree. That was a real mistake because I can’t stand intense crowding. The crowd was almost exclusively American - people probably from all over the country. How different they feel about NYC than most freepers. Makes me sad.
Oh, the 3 card monties! It was fun watching the tourists get taken. Now we’re stuck with the deeply annoying and fake Naked Cowboy.
I was also taught at a young age not to look up at the tall buildings, as that would mark you as a tourist, and make you a target of a pickpocket.
I remember NYC very well, I went there as a naive ‘street-dumb’ kid of 18 in 1973. Before I left to go to my first permanent duty station in Seattle I had learned the following things.
1. If you go out into the ‘city’ you go in groups of at least three. Safety in number y’all...
2. Your wallet goes in your FRONT pocket. It’s much harder to pick-pocket it there.
3. You learn to look straight-ahead and ignore EVERYONE else. Do not smile do not frown, become as faceless as the millions of others walking the streets or using the subways.
4. With Hollywood pushing the ‘racist’ movies along the themes of The Warriors and Assault on Precinct 13, the radio stations and the General lawlessness condoned by the Mayor and the city council, I felt that we were only hours from a full blown race war.
I know many people love NYC and the 24 hour lifestyle that goes with it. But I personally was so damn grateful to get out of that place alive.
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