My Old New York - Times Square of the Late 1970s

Here is a little movie I made using my old pictures from when I lived in New York back in the late 1970s. I also used some video clips that I found on the web too. I found a couple extra pics I wanted to put in, thus...version two!
NOTE: I originally had the music from Taxi Driver as the background music for this video, but it was removed by You Tube, so I had to select from one of their choices, so I selected A Sad Pathway by Musicshake.

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[TheYaom]

I miss the lower east side with cheap apartments, the music bands playing on the streets.... I miss the street parties all over, the colorful big haired hookers with a loud new york accent wearing fake fur coats on times square.... I miss the enormous array of ethnic areas with delicious cheap homemade food, I miss the mom and pop's stores!!!! the graffiti, the music, the color, the diversity, the smell, it's all replaced now by yuppi and hispter transplants with no links or roots for the city!

[Backlap]

@xxx2397

There was no internet back then.

[rogerrobie68]

NO NYers in NY Anymore 8`(

[beachz101]

I forgot how many peep shows there were around town. Your film

[TheGirlFromCRUSH]

@TheYaom Me too!!! Block parties in the summer with the fire hydrant on, watching some rube get taken at 3 Card Monte on the street (lol), Coney Island hot dogs and spicy mustard, double dutch championships, run catch and kiss, sneaking to go see The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the 8th Street Playhouse, DAMN WE LIVED! We didn't stay in the house all day on a damn computer. We had FUN!

[brainsareus]

@mrdouglas51510 you stupid ass: what difference does it make,if the internet[technically], existed in the in the late 80's as we know it now. how many people were active on the net at that time,and how much of % of the population were into it? it's minsicule. you are making an idiotic point. it's like saying, that there is this great cure for a given illness,but only a handful of people, have ever heard of the doctor who does the proceedure. get off your overly literal,anal,bullshit world view.

[brainsareus]

@mrdouglas51510 u been playn' with the hair on your knuckles too much. your memory is in a time warp. and your assumptions are asinine.

[debgibsonfan]

Life is so boring now.

[mrdouglas51510]

It was the internet, big deal you couldn't look at gay porn like you do with your internet time.. And not to mention the internet as we know was around in the late 80's

[brainsareus]

@mrdouglas51510 c'mon. that["internet"], was used by a very small number of industry and military people. the internet,as we know it,did not exist until the mid-nineties. don't be silly and tell us,that there was anything that could really be called an internet, in 1971. you're just playing around with chronological semantics.

[brainsareus]

i could just imagine the fine chick featured in this vid,opening her mouth, and sounding like a cross between fran drescher and rosie perez.

[brainsareus]

i so do remember the greasy drummer, as i walked along broadway in the mid to late seventies. anyone know his name,or what happened to him ? [i believe he may have had a brief part, in the movie "taxi driver".]