New York City

[RobNorthampton]

It's that moody cutie-pie again, modelling the season's grey blazer by Gucci! Haha!

Thanks for the trip, Andy. Piers lived in New York for just over a year, and still hankers after returning, if only for a holiday. One day maybe, I tell him....if I can have about a dozen nicotine patches stuck on me for the long flight!

[fehquig]

The jacket was by Ernest... Now why do I remember that after all these years? Cindy also wants to visit New York City in a bad way... We got rid of Nicotine nearly nine months ago now...

[enjoythevoyage]

Wow and OMG! NYC is sooo large, yet we came up with almost identical views! Is that you with the abundant and curly hair? I love your video and thank you for posting it as a response to mine. i live about an hour and a half from the city and never tire of going there and experiencing the excitement--it is a special city! So sad, that the WTC buildings were there for you and not for us! 5 awesome stars!

[fehquig]

The identical views is what floored me too... Yes, that was me back when I still had hair :)

One of these years we will have to visit NYC again. Cindy has never been there...

[enjoythevoyage]

You should go there, it seems to get better as time goes on!

[dagocleo]

pretty artsy and a nice gal starting at 0:40... lol those cabs ... was that you with all that hair,lol ?

[fehquig]

That was me! I haven't changed a bit... mostly :)

[Vespur]

Very nice shots, You had a keen eye for photography even back then.

[fehquig]

I think my eye for photography was keener back then. I used to be very careful about composing my shots, and I think I have become less of a perfectionist and even pretty sloppy nowadays by comparison :)

[cindyjo57]

My fav was the the shot of the cabs, wonder if that influenced your future career? Nic video hon and looking forward to the day we can go together.

[fehquig]

One of these years we should spend a week there... The best time of year in my opinion would be March or April because it's after the cold and before the heat...

[therunningjackal]

Great movie man so that was you?

[fehquig]

Sure was... I got that way by running a lot :)

[therunningjackal]

What part of Montreal did you live in?

I lived in NDG from 1981 till 1997.

I used to own a restaurant on Sherbrooke st, called

"Cafe Castillo"

Do you remember it?

[fehquig]

I grew up mostly in Dollard des Ormeaux, but I had a little apartment between 1984 and 1987 a couple of blocks from Concordia's Loyola Campus where I was studying at the time... Though I lived in NDG for three years I spent a lot of time downtown and on campus... I often used to grab a bite at Monsieur Hot Dog... What was the cross street? I remember seeing Elvis The Tailor and Restaurant Denish as well as DiLallo Burger... I made a video of the neighborhood on a visit a couple of years ago...

[galaxychorus]

Wow... who is that young man at the very end? So handsome!!! :)))

[fehquig]

LOL fehquig

[rexlv2000]

I think you covered just about everything in south Manhatten. I love NYC! Observation Deck from the Empire State Building is good enough for me. To me, it was breathtaking! Nice choice of music!

[fehquig]

Thanks! It was one really great weekend... It would be very interesting to go back nowadays and take the same pictures from the same angles...

[TheBlueFlamingo]

Is that you under all that bushy hair? That was pretty cool, Andy.

[fehquig]

Yep! That was me. I didn't change a bit, eh?

[NiteBlogger]

Excellent photos & tour of NYC - with just the right touch of music!!!

Are you like me & wishing you'd had a cam back then? LOL

[fehquig]

Even Super8 would have been pretty cool, but there's no way that I could have practically covered as much of the trip as I did with five rolls of slide film... I used to shoot a lot of pictures, and I guess the hobby transitioned to video shortly after I discovered YouTube... I don 't even think consumer video camcorders were available at the time, and it cost $4000 for what was basically a word processor. I could not have imagined my digital cameras and laptop back in those days...

[VirtuallyAddicted]

Cool stuff!

[fehquig]

Sure was! I remember getting back to Montreal and marvelling at all the wide open spaces after those long canyons of glass, steel, and concrete...

[PalmOliveSoap]

it was like watching the film the Graduate Dustin one ut you are sur-rounded by so many girlies hehehe

great photos of course

SPRINKLES

[fehquig]

I didn't know how good I had it... We were four guys and eight girls. Of course I took more pictures of the girls :)

[PalmOliveSoap]

i would have followed them like lap dogs snap snap snap *how much is that to develop?

lol

SPRINKLES

[andymooseman]

Look at all that hair!

There's something about that music that conjures up NYC isn't there? I blame Woody Allen personally.

Good photos too. This is like a small time capsule.

The city & skylne have changed a lot since then & not just for the obvious reasons either :)

[fehquig]

I really don't know where the hair went to :)

Yes!!! I was trying to explain to Cindy exactly how "Rhapsody In Blue" conjures instant associations with New York City for the public, and she just didn't get it. I feel validated now...

Thanks for your kind comment... I have been thinking of making this little project come together for a long time :)

[andymooseman]

My pleasure Andy.

Validation is always good :)

[badbearwatch]

Very spiffy collection, even then these show the love of photography- great memories and really well done pictures here!

[fehquig]

I was heavily into still photography since my dad got me my first camera for my birthday in 1979... Just a month later we went to Europe and I shot something like 28 rolls of film in two weeks :)

Many of the pictures that I took were shit. I will work on compiling the best shots from that trip eventually...

The following year I took a photography course in school and it improved my pictures a lot... I think I may have lost some of that in the last several years...

[Evilspartacus]

Quality pics :D.

[fehquig]

Thanks!

[farnk]

Love seeing vintage (who'd have thought the 1980s would be vintage?) shots. Checkered cabs! And pre~Trump 5th Ave from the top of the Rock, which they recently re~opened. Who else could mix the Go Gos with Gershwin? :)

[fehquig]

To me it's like only yesterday... How did I suddenly go from being seventeen to forty-five? I still don't know...

The GoGos were playing on the radio all the time when I went on that trip, and nothing says New York City like Gershwin LOL So the music mix was a natural, at least to me :)

[MrRandomWritings]

I dread to try and remember where I was in 82 - definitely not New York though!

[fehquig]

I remember that weekend in New York as a perfect break from trying to wrap my head around integral calculus... Yeccch!

[1DRock37167]

82 was a long time ago! Is there a young Andy featured in any of theese shots, maybe the last one?

[fehquig]

I appear at the very end and at 3:03 and 4:34... It was five months before my 18'th birthday :)

[1DRock37167]

Great hair and NO MULLET!!!

[fehquig]

Nobody wore mullets in Montreal :)

[1DRock37167]

I call BULLSHIT! Mullets were everywhere in the late 80s and early 90s!

[fehquig]

LOL February of 1982 was earlier than that :)

[imperceptibleme]

I've never been to NYC! I'm sure it's a sight to behold. Just wonderful photos Andy. And that music took me way back to when I was a little girl. My dad used to play that on our old stereo all the time. Very familiar to me. Hugs!

[fehquig]

Gershwin was quite a composer... That was my first trip to New York or actually anywhere without family. I think that trip was the beginning of my love for travels. I bought a ticket for $75 which included the bus ride from Montreal to New York, and a weekend in a hotel. The organizers put me in a suite with the people who appear in these photos... I didn't know them but we all had a great weekend :)

[tommy30507]

This is a work of art.....SO NICE....I enjoyed it very much.

[fehquig]

I had fun making it... I think I might go towards making a few more vids of stills for upcoming projects... Be warned, I have lots of old slides and negatives... I recently acquired a scanner, and I'm not afraid to use it :)

[greggfla]

Wow, great photos! I love the Bernstein song use too! : )

[fehquig]

Thanks! I'm not sure whether or not Bernstein was the conductor on that recording :)

George Gershwin wrote Rhapsody In Blue, of course...

[mymoosejaw]

Well cool - Nice old photos.

[fehquig]

I remember them being exceptional, and I hadn't looked at them in something like twenty years. I think they aged rather well :)

[Maiyanna]

Very nice! Thank you. ;)

[fehquig]

You're more than welcome ;0

[OhCurt]

2:01 - don't think I've seen such an artistic shot of cabs before. Cool.

The skyline shots are perhaps my favorite here. And I always like seeing the twin towers again.

Oh, and totally diggin' the 'fro you were sporting. Very cool early 80s look.

:-)

[fehquig]

Who would have thought that one photograph could so easily seal my fate? I was studying sciences at the time :)

We had the most perfect weekend for taking pictures. I had a new Minolta XG-9 camera, and it took great pictures. I loaded it with 200 ASA Ektachrome... I think I can scan at a higher resolution if I play with the software a bit...

That hair was totally natural! All I did with it was wash and wear. I just kept doing that and I don't know what happened to it :)

[proudyke]

Love the Kodak 110 instamatic @ 3:51 !!

[fehquig]

LOL That was 1970s miniaturization technology at its finest!

[mysteryglo]

Wow, great shots of NYC.. the twin towers.. :((

And look at you with all that long wavy hair! :D Great memories, I'm sure!! Thanks for sharing these!

[fehquig]

I was dreaming of sharing these for a very long time, but it wasn't worth the expense of getting them put on disks just to get digital images... I have so many images in hard copy that it just made sense to get a cheap scanner and be done with it :)

Could I have imagined what would happen to those towers just a bit less than twenty years later? Never!