I suppose the same can be said for women.
Posted on 07/14/2017 5:01:38 AM PDT by SJackson
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I suppose the same can be said for women.
You can say that again!
At least his political re-education didn’t require that he be mugged to wake up and smell the coffee. It just really comes down to the fact that it doesn’t take much to reveal the base human nature and its penchant for greed and envy. In NYC in the 70s, just turn out the lights...
I remember watching a TV interview with a looter who maintained with a big smile that the blackout was “God letting us get even with Da Man!” Frightening!
Maybe. Liking ‘70’s cars is kinda like preferring the girl in the lower picture, a taste that trends toward chunky. For my money the most beautiful luxury cars were built in the ‘20s and 30s.
Lived in NYC at the time. Fortunately it was a “safe” neighborhood. The rioting & looting (mostly looting & torching buildings) centered mostly on areas the rioters/looters themselves lived in, and did not expand to other areas that much.
As for riots, I think the 1960s riots were worse.
Note on the ‘70s Lincoln in the picture the trim piece is visibly lower on the door than on trailing edge of the fender. American ‘70s quality control, gotta love it?
Would that have been the same Abe Beame who had served two terms as NYC Comptroller under both Wagner and Lindsay and who, once he became Mayor, decried that he just couldn't understand the City's bookkeeping?
Why yes, yes it was. You see, I remember.
Use to have an ‘88 town car. That Mark 5 is a thing of beauty.
Notice the openwork gates on the looted shops. The looters had been keeping trucks with hook devices on them in garages, ever since the mid-sixties when the last blackout occurred.
When the lights went out, they got in those trucks and promptly tore the gates off of any shop they fancied.
After that, the store owners needed solid gates to get any kind of break-in or riot insurance.
The West Side was a nightmare. A friend and I thought we could visit someone on Amsterdam Avenue safely if we took a taxi both ways.
On our way home, some guys from a Puerto Rican gang tried to get inside the cab with us. I thought fast (or was inspired from above) and made believe I thought they wanted to share the cab, so I started graciously motioning them to get in. Then we heard a shout: “Chico say no!” And they retreated.
My brave escort, who had participated in the Columbia nastiness a couple of years earlier, was shriveled up in the far side of the back seat.
1973 Pontiac Grand Am, with factory sunroof
My parents had a later model version of that car, known to the family as The Batmobile (black interior and exterior).
Love those too.
Cadillac V-16 Roadster 1930-31
1935 Lincoln Model K
And the huge luxury cars from the 1930s weren't (clunky)?
Now you are posting some automotive eye candy.
Two Blackouts and a World of Difference -
www.nytimes.com/1977/07/16/archives/two-blackouts-and-a-world-of...
Jul 16, 1977 · Two Blackouts and a World of Difference. ... 1977, Page 8 The New York Times Archives. ... who was Mayor when the 1965 blackout occurred.
John Lindsay was mayor 1965.
Abe Beame was mayor 1977.
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