New York City -- the 1970's

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[ursa41]

@70sman4ever I DIG IT BABY! I'm on your side. I'm a New Yorker, born and raised and the '70s were kick-ass great from what I remember; NO annoying cellphones, NO assholes texting not paying attention where they're going, PEOPLE spoke to you on a phone, NOT a fuckin' machine; NO yuppies or hipsters; NO fuckin Disneyland on Times Square , and common folk could still buy a nice apartment in Manhattan--those days were GREAT!!! I second a REVOLUTION!!

[Beanz920]

Our real enemy- US corporations. says it all

[PooBah891]

I do believe that at 2:54 you see Peter Yarrow. No comments made about that.

[DuallyDieselFord]

Who is the guy at 2:36? His name is escaping my mind right now but I know the picture.

[EpicTrollzz69]

Ayyy I remember takin the train down to Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to visit Granny...nothing but good memories. Me and my buddies used to play stickball in the streets then walk to Canarsie to get pizza for only 25 cents. Growin up in Brooklyn, I had some fun times, last time I went back some hooligan robbed me. Damn neighborhoods are changing.

[artemis2854]

@ursa41 You took the words right out of my mouth. RIGHT ON!!!

[starguard]

The one main thing I miss from that era, are all the Movie Theaters that were everywhere. Once things like VCR's DVD's and later Cable became avaliable, all the movie theaters and Drive Inn's all but disappeared

[petercrowley41]

- Wrong sound track! Should have been music performed by NY band(s) like The Ramones, NY Dolls or Suicide.

The dangers of '70s NYC were/are highly exaggerated.

NYC now is an archeological site where you can see all sorts of places that once upon a time birthed real American culture that was/is most appreciated overseas.

Want to experience a small taste of '70s NY? Come to the Max's Kansas City Alumni Reunion, May 16 through 20, 2012. Look it up on Facebook.

[winofigments]

Sometimes nostalgia fogs reality and the memory that comes way from it. While the seventies in general contain a lot of great moments and institutions that can be abstracted from it, New York City was a filthy unsafe metropolis. You couldn't take a subway at night and you dare not walk alone late in a questionable neighborhood. Living in the present may not be as romantic (see Midnight in Paris), but I'll take it. In thirty years, someone will be lamenting the loss of New York, the 2000s.

[justwatchingliffe]

@ursa41 oh my a kindred soul I am New Yorker born and raised too!

Still the 70s was a bit dark if i remember son of sam and all that crazy stuff. It was the best and worst of time to quote a line i cant remember who wrote it or where i read it but it so common I dare you will all remind me. Granny moment.

[Antiks72]

@Beanz920 The American people are their own worst enemy.  We keep these folks in office year after year. It is WE who have tolerated the abuse and lies.