Greenwich Village Sunday - 1960

Take a stroll through the streets, parks and neighborhoods that make up Greenwich Village. Before Washington Square became the NYU undergrad film school back lot, the area was known for it's street art, spontaneous hootenannies, poetry jam sessions and neighborhood fairs. Take a walk around the Village before it became too cool for you.

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• Greenwich
• Village
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• poetry
• coffee
• house
• folk
• music
• hootenanny
• Washington
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• Park
• NYC
• 1960's

[ironduke2000]

I thank you for posting this, but I have to say that, as a former resident of the Lower East Side, the Village stopped being too cool a long time ago. I'm sure those who live there currently see it differently, but bohemia in NYC has moved to Brooklyn, and even there it's largely populated by trust-fund kids with barely an idea to offer. Bohemia itself it largely a thing of the past. Paint-by-numbers hipsterism is another matter entirely.

[freesandwich]

god. i would have loved to live there back then

[PoliticalWeekly]

@ironduke2000 Well, there are no more bohemians today for a reason. During North Beach-Greenwich Village most of these guys were poor, disgruntled and hated society's forced conformity because of what the conformity held. Since Haight Ashbury-East Village, Bohemians got welfare as well as lots of popularity. So it became cool. Honestly, the closest thing to bohemians (and still aren't) are disgruntled mental patients, Autistic kids and the depressed.

[frshproduce]

@ironduke2000 Aren't you fresh.

[chernobylFarms]

Not a word about Greenwich Village at night. Oh, no, the shirtsleeve elite who graze there at night would not have THAT.

Bohemia today, at least in its full spectrum of players and the playing, is most likely found in strip clubs out by the interstate, "health" resorts far away in the woodlands, and in the client lounges of brokerage firms.

Liberals were made to order for the likes of Malcolm Forbes, Jedgar Hoover and other rich cockhounds.

[Rickyrab]

This would've been my native neighborhood had it not been for the practice of giving birth in hospitals. This movie was before my time, though; I was a 1979 baby. Very interesting :)

[mushroomagical]

This is great to see. Although my folks are from San Francisco, they spent some time in the Village before I was born...they said it was great.

[marvy1118]

Someone please remove the recorder player.

[Glinkaism1]

Very nice presentation. I was most fortunate to be in New York in the early 60s, just before and during the folkies trying to change the world. Twas a great idea anyway. Several old hangouts are gone now and so is that spirit. Someone wrote the old village went to Brooklyn. That's right. That is, the east and central village spirit.

[milekrizman]

I like the 1950's and early 60's, prior to Vietnam war escalation, hippies and counterculture.

As we can see in this movie, even bohemians then were cultural, they were not raging maniacs like today.

Beatniks were part of 50's. Of course I am for racial equality and gay rights, but WE NOW HAVE THAT, WHAT WE NEED NOW ARE SOCIAL ETIQUETTE OF 1950's.

I feel nostalgia for this times. Beatniks were part of that mentality. They were not crazy as hippies.

[Gmancrap]

We have hipsters now, times are better.

[Dudethatstrippin]

now it costs a shitload of money to live there and the ones who do are fake.